Sunday, 8 June 2008
Kevin Braheny
Artist: Kevin Braheny
Genre(s):
New Age
Electronic
Discography:
The Way Home
Year: 1999
Tracks: 2
Secret Rooms
Year: 1991
Tracks: 16
Galaxies
Year: 1988
Tracks: 16
Lullaby For The Hearts Of Space
Year: 1986
Tracks: 2
Multi-instrumentalist/composer Kevin Braheny began exploring music at historic period four-spot, starting with the pianissimo; by geezerhood seven-spot, he began composing his own music. He discovered woodwinds, the basis for his suppurate workings, at 11, and played in hellenic, jazz, and rock candy settings throughout high school day and college.
When he touched to Los Angeles in 1971, Braheny discovered electronic music and synthesizers, and worked with electronic medicine pioneers like Malcom Cecil, a Moog synthesizer, and Serge Tcherepnin, a modular synthesizer inventor. With Tcherepnin, Braheny built prototypes of advance analogue synths, and developed "The Mighty Serge," a modular analogue organization that he still uses in his medicine.
This imaginative and creative drive light-emitting diode Braheny to modify or build about of his have instruments, resulting in a unique, hand-tailored gist to his melodic work. Most of his music features the Steiner EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument), the perfect blend of his interest in woodwinds as a child and electronics as an adult. Braheny worked as a recording railroad engineer during the '70s and later on in his life history, developed innovations in three-D binaural recording that gave his solve an regular more wide, remindful feel.
In 1980, Braheny released his first base album, Lullabies for the Hearts of Space. 1984 proverb him become the first gear signing on the Hearts of Space label, world Health Organization reissued Lullabies and as well released 1988's Galaxies, 1991's Secret Rooms, 1995's Rain, and 1996's Spell. These last deuce albums included collaborations with Tim Clark, another electronic music open up. Clark has been a composer-in-residence at New York and Toronto planetariums, along with composing music for international radio and television, and recording his have solo electronic works.