audio-visual composition
for single screen video projection and sound amplification

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Kynan Tan’s commissioned work consciousness is a feast of devastating digital audio and stunning computer-controlled visuals, exactly synchronised into jarring, sudden pulses and fluidly drifting cascades. The work portrays the links found between different human beings that are exhibited during unconsciousness. By analysing sleeping brain waves and using this data to control variables of the computer-generated audio and vision, the artist attempts to connect the real and surreal while allowing the computer to partake in the chaos, playfulness and wonder of unconscious thoughts.

The work ties Carl Jung’s idea of a collective unconscious to the autonomous re-arrangement of materials found within the vast expanse of the internet – using archived sounds and images that are decimated, processed and manipulated beyond recognition into new shapes and forms, all held within a framework of new, computer-generated imagery. Performed live on dual screens and making full use of the extremes of the sound spectrum, the performance transcends normal performance relationships to move into simultaneously physical and surreal spaces.

This work was commissioned by Tura New Music through the 2010 Tura New Music Commission Prize, awarded to the most outstanding final year composition student at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

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08052012 / The Bakery, Perth, Western Australia / Club Zho 99 presented by Tura New Music

Performance is coming up on Tuesday 8th May, 8pm at The Bakery, with support from local super-group The Uncanny Valley.

Tuesday 08-04-2012 at The Bakery, presenting new major 30-minute audio-visual work consciousness. This work was commissioned by Tura New Music after I won the award for ‘Most Outstanding Composition Student’ while studying at WAAPA in 2010. Supporting on the night are improvising trio The Uncanny Valley on modular synths, laptop processing and percussion. Info from Tura:

Kynan Tan’s commissioned work consciousness is a feast of devastating digital audio and stunning computer-controlled visuals, exactly synchronised into jarring, sudden pulses and fluidly drifting cascades. The work portrays the links found between different human beings that are exhibited during unconsciousness. By analysing sleeping brain waves and using this data to control variables of the computer-generated audio and vision, the artist attempts to connect the real and surreal while allowing the computer to partake in the chaos, playfulness and wonder of unconscious thoughts.

The work ties Carl Jung’s idea of a collective unconscious to the autonomous re-arrangement of materials found within the vast expanse of the internet – using archived sounds and images that are decimated, processed and manipulated beyond recognition into new shapes and forms, all held within a framework of new, computer-generated imagery. Performed live on dual screens and making full use of the extremes of the sound spectrum, the performance transcends normal performance relationships to move into simultaneously physical and surreal spaces.

01. Dorine Muraille // Triviana, nuire ! (Mani, 2003)
02. Grischa Lichtenberger // 1205_10 (ununbium/~treibgut, 2010)
03. Death Grips // Cut Throat (Exmilitary, 2011)
04. Robin Fox // Godspeed (A Handful Of Automation, 2010)
05. Icarus // MD Skillz (Fake Fish Distribution [iteration 246], 2012)
06. Otomo Yoshihide // Shichinin No Keiji (plot 1) (Otomo Yoshihide Plays The Music Of Takeo Yamashita, 1999)
07. Thymolphthalein // Quince (Ni Maitre, Ni Marteau, 2011)
08. Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason // Cruel Miracles (SÓLARIS, 2011)
09. Keith Fullerton Whitman // Disingenuousness (Disingenuity / Disingenuousness, 2010)
10. $.99 Dreams // 200 million miles away (voyage to the prehistoric planet, 2010)
11. Pimmon // Yicco (The Oansome Orbit, 2011)
12. Marcus Schmickler // Altars Of Science 3 (Stereo Mix) (Altars Of Science, 2007)
13. gel: // mekeless (-1, 2001)
14. Sebastian Rochford & Pamelia Kurstin // Ouch [Ii] (Ouch Evil Slow Hop, 2011)
15. _motion // I Heard It Before — Part II (feat. Gian Slater) (Presence, 2010)

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Live improvisation – surprising, playful and unpredictable.

Featuring:
The Uncanny Valley [percussion & modular synthesizer]
Kynan Tan [laptop]
Brett Smith [saxophone & electronics]

Poke The Box is a series featuring improvised music and sound performance with no particular focus on any one idiom, genre, or instrumentation.

Poke the box and see what happens!!!

Entry $5

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Now for anyone who didn’t pick up a copy of the album at the launch, you can order physical copies or purchase the download from the listen/hear collective bandcamp.

Big thanks to RTR FM community radio for making the album the RTRFM feature for the past week. I’m really grateful to all the RTR presenters who have chosen to play the record, said nice things and supported the project!

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Here are a few more snippets of promo and people saying some nice words about the release:

sixthousand, Perth City Guide:

Drum Media Perth, 22/03/2012:

The first full length album from up-and-coming Perth based sound-artist, Kynan Tan. Traversing a multiplicity of musical ground, Raetina features glitchy beats, shimmering spectral harmonies and constantly shifting textures and employs a vast array of sound sources, from electronic glitches and noises to recorded instruments and field recordings, all of which have been processed and manipulated by Tan’s self-made computer programs.

A rhodes piano is diced up and reformed into a new rhythmic entity, modular synthesisers whiz and whir over the top of guitar chords and voices float hauntingly along an environment of sub-bass thumps and rapid glitches. The resulting eight carefully constructed tracks showcase Tan’s talent as a composer, creating an intensely atmospheric work that also concisely articulates the materials of 21st century digital music.

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track listing

01 – (3:21) – gleichzeitig
02 – (5:02) – skeletal (frame+axis)
03 – (3:58) – woken / under streams
04 – (5:05) – itadakimasu
05 – (4:22) – skeletal (mass)
06 – (4:24) – skeletal (altitude)
07 – (8:14) – sleepy solemn
08 – (7:01) – epiphanic

total length: 41:22
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released 22 March 2012
Composed, performed, mixed and mastered by Kynan Tan
Album artwork and design by Kynan Tan

Available to purchase now on the Listen/Hear Collective Bandcamp as digital download or CD w/ double cardboard gatefold.

<a href=”http://listenhearcollective.bandcamp.com/album/raetina” mce_href=”http://listenhearcollective.bandcamp.com/album/raetina”>Raetina by Kynan Tan</a>

Kynan Tan launches his brand new record on the Listen/Hear Collective at The Bird. On this night, Kynan will be performing his normal laptop wizardry with the assistance of killer drummer Ben Santostefano to create part-human, part-electronic grooves. After a year living in Berlin and an extended hiatus from the Perth music scene, Kynan has come back with a new live set, more zen and a new record of haunting digital glitches and sound explosions.

On a personal note: this album has been a few years in the works and it took an extended break from things to re-assess and figure out how to combine all these new influences and things I had been listening to so that it formed some kind of cohesive music. I have no idea who will like this record – but that is what I find exciting and interesting. I am really happy to be able to share something created by me alone over a long period of time with friends, family, listeners and anyone who has followed the things I have created over the last four or so years. Please enjoy!

Support from:
KUčKA
LEAVING
BRETT MURRAY (DJ)

$10 entry
album available on the night for $10

Thursday 29th March 2012
8:00 – 12:00

From Listen/Hear Collective:
The first full length album from up and coming Perth based sound-artist, Kynan Tan. Traversing a multiplicity of musical ground, Raetina features glitchy beats, shimmering spectral harmonies and constantly shifting textures and employs a vast array of sound sources, from electronic glitches and noises to recorded instruments and field recordings, all of which have been processed and manipulated by Tan’s self-made computer programs. A rhodes piano is diced up and reformed into a new rhythmic entity, modular synthesisers whiz and whir over the top of guitar chords and voices float hauntingly along an environment of sub-bass thumps and rapid glitches. The resulting eight carefully constructed tracks showcase Tan’s talent as a composer, creating an intensely atmospheric work that also concisely articulates the materials of 21st century digital music.

Album available from Listen/Hear Collective in download format and CD w/ double cardboard gatefold, artwork by Kynan Tan.

Really looking forward to playing a short, heavy, low frequency blast of noise with my newly created modular synthesisers and patch.

// from the NoizeMaschin!! #8 facebook:

Free of gimmicks, the February edition of Noizemaschin!! offers up plenty of sustenance for the noise junky and casual surveyor of experimentalism alike!
$10 entry as rent for the not-for-profit space.

Lineup:

Stanier-Black Five (New Zealand) – Visiting New Zealand artist takes us to ground zero with music concrete manipulations of seismic activity from her hometown.

Cat Hope – Takes a break from the demands of Decibel and academia and makes wonderful bass noise for the whole family.

Kynan Tan – His first show since returning from Germany, Perth audiences eagerly anticipate what new musical talents this laptop-er has learned since he’s been away!

Malcolm Riddoch – Electro-acoustic feedback makes a welcome return in the sound-limitless surrounds of The Artifactory!

Leafy Suburbs – Another of Lyndon Blue’s many aliases, this one promises to be a little bit louder than his previous incarnations.

Christopher de Groot – Rejoins the Artifactory family in a solo capacity with a new-found focus into preparted vinyl and turntablism.

Sam Gillies – He might finally be leaving the ambient focus of last last year, which can only mean more aggressive sounds from a laptop set!

Dr Vellocet – Industrial steam-punk as only Dr Vellocet knows how!

Previous NM7: http://www.facebook.com/events/110041745779455/
Next NM9: http://www.facebook.com/events/344456662237952/