Kynan Tan - Dreamy Space Electronics
Kynan Tan is a musician and sound artist who produces haunting, ethereal music through combinations of acoustic instruments, computer software and electronics. He is interested in the areas of interactive installations, audio / visual works and live electronic music performance. Currently he is using max /msp to create programs for performing with acoustic instruments, analysing images or video and interacting with performers as a method of installation and creating new musical instruments.Recently Kynan traveled to Europe and performed solo on laptop and vocals at the regular concert series Salon Bruit (Noise Lounge) in Berlin.
His music works mainly take on the form of ambient, minimal and atmospheric works, recorded works have provided the soundtrack for many short films and dance pieces. Kynan is an award winning film composer, having been presented Best Soundtrack at the Revel8 Super8 Film Fest as part of the Revelations Film Festival, for his score of “Wrong Birthday Surprise”.
Musical groups have always Kynan’s focus outside of and in addition to his composition. The Vice Chancellors are his own psychedelic band who have released two CD’s and toured Melbourne. Kynan also had a brief stint in Will Stoker and the Embers while they won the National Campus Bands comp, toured Melbourne and played at the Big Day Out. Kynan also sometimes frequents the noise band Versificator, electroacoustic act Gumby and Friends and various other electronic ensembles. Difficult Second Novel is Kynan’s newest electronic collaboration with the enigmatic Brett Murray.
Kynan is now currently in his third year of Bachelor of Music: Music Technology at WAAPA, to diversify and focus his musical wanderings. Kynan now plans to learn more about electronic artistry, development of programs for musical outcomes and collaborations with any interested artists. Any artists willing to collaborate, especially dance, film or video artists, please contact at kynant at student.ecu.edu.au.
Audio Examples
Stretched Limb from Light Stretched Limb from Light
Scored work for laptop and clarinet, and relies on manipulating the clarinet notes to extend them for long periods, forming intricate layers.
Floating Spires (excerpt) http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=QcnmjbvchCFloatingSpiresExcerpt Installation featuring 12 windchimes, 4 microphones and 8 speakers.
All the little Crunches All the little Crunches
Electro-acoustic piece for guitar and laptop.
Prazipan (by Difficult Second Novel) Prazipan
Examples - Collaboration
Dance No.1 - Collaboration for 3rd year dance - DanceNo1
Revel8 film score - “Gold!” - Gold!
Scores to 5 Super8 Films, “Wrong Birthday Surprise”, “All about Ben”, “Gold!”, “Loose Change 2″ and “From Traffic to Tranquility”
www.myspace.com/revel8super8filmfest
Contact Details
kynant at student.ecu.edu.au or
Mobile: 0411 378 475
Webpages
http://kynanmusic.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kynan-Tan/15154465243
Top photo courtesy of Matthew Tompsett
March 9th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Kynan,
Something is going wrong with these streams, they all come up with “error” for me.
February 29th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Hi Kynan, i was wondering if you would like to collaborate to do up a piece of music for an experimental film.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Hi Kynan,
we met on friday at the dance choreography class. I just had a listen to your music and am very interested- I would love for you to compose something for my piece, I especially liked Missing In The Night. I have been re-evaluating the idea of depicting growing up in my dance work and would like it to take on a somewhat darker and more nostalgic feeling which i think your music would be very suited to, if you are interested of course. Look foward to hearing from you
Regards, Molly
March 22nd, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Hey Kynan
Nice photo and good bio layout. Would like to see the info between the headings tidied up, although generally the page works! Great sounds.
Regards
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