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Official account for the German composer Roland Kayn. www.kayn.nl https://rolandkayn.bandcamp.com/
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Fractals 1, Part 1 of 7 Music by Roland Kayn Paintings by Bill Maerklin www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VYF...

REVISIO: Roland Kayn | Elektroakustische Projekte & MAKRO obladada.com/2025/02/20/r... I wrote about Roland Kayn's new mind fizzing boxset - "the birthplace of the highest quality warp out." #avantgarde #cybernetic #electronic #experimental @rolandkayn.bsky.social

If the expansive amount of amazing music from German composer Roland Kayn overwhelms you, here's a guide to his work from a very personal perspective, as I talk about his music and ideas here in a podcast for Reina Sofia Museum @rolandkayn.bsky.social radio.museoreinasofia.es/en/sonic-gen...

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Sonic genealogies Scanner on Roland Kayn. radio.museoreinasofia.es/en/sonic-gen...

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instantly monumental - instantly obsessed thank YOU! @rolandkayn.bsky.social

Roland Kayn receives the first prize for best work by a foreigner at the Karuizawa Festival in Japan( 1958). At this time, Kayn also decides to pull all compositions written until 1955.

Roland Kayn’s Elektroakustische Projekte & Makro: Incomparable and formidable examples of Kayn’s radical feel for electro-acoustic mystery, including work realised as early as the mid ‘60s and out-of-print ever since - all sensitively remastered by Jim O’Rourke ✨ bit.ly/4aPVwVF

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Roland Kayn, Aggregate (1958) Premiere: Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, 1959 Commissioned by: Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt Performed by: Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester des HR Frankfurt Conductor: Bruno Maderna ( 1958) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuLA...

January is usually slow for new releases, but 2025 has been awesome. Anti-clockwise figure 8: Cold Blows the Rain - Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions Eusexua - FKA twigs Cybernetic Music - Roland Kayn Re/Frost, Slow Shit - Ashtray Navigations

Old vinyl Lp boxes, new cd box. We are shipping now. Elektroakustische Projekte & Makro 5 cd box set. kayn.nl/shop/cds/ele...

The dialogue draws upon the figure of Roland Kayn, focusing on O'Rourke's effort to restore the unpublished archives of the late German composer, a project being published on Bandcamp. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Interview with Ilse Kayn for the music magazine 'Luister', by Mark van de Voort, about the Ortho -Project.

Roland Kayn's 'The Ortho-Project' is now within a hair of being sold out at source. Last chance saloon. frozenreeds.com

The Ortho-Project artwork contains a visual riddle of sorts, that no one appears to have yet solved.

Galaxis (1962) Open graphic score full of guided improvisation elements, put Roland Kayn on the path of cybernetic, self-organizing music. Performed once by a student orchestra In America.

Old&new cd’s Roland Kayn (1994/2025)

Roland Kayns score for Cybernetics sign memory and controle system, reproduced on the insert of the LP box Elektroakustische Projekte.

picture of Studio di Fonologia, RAI Milano, where Roland Kayn realized Cybernetics I,II,III (1966-1969)

Today, January 5, is the anniversary of Roland Kayn's death. In 2011 he died at the Reigerhoeve, where he created 244 electronic works in his home studio and archive, which are now largely released monthly via Bandcamp.

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“The cybernetic composer does not resort to a preordained program. Instead, he must continuously rebuild his field of action out of a primordial chaos.” (Roland Kayn)

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🚀 Check out the OBLADADA end-of-year list: obladada.com/2024/12/18/c... @orenambarchi.bsky.social @rolandkayn.bsky.social @frozenreeds.com #CCHennix #France #TanzMeinHarz #MoineauÉcarlat #RichardTeitelbaum #DeadLuke #RafaelToral #RobertoLaneri #BlankFormEditions #BlackSweatRecords

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So weird when an old piece shows up in a new google alert. Here's this thing I wrote about Roland Kayn in 2017 when @frozenreeds.bsky.social released that first big Kayn box.

Derek Bailey Albert Ayler John Coltrane Roland Kayn Inspiration for surviving the coming darkness.

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Down to the last copies of Roland Kayn’s incredible ‘The Ortho-Project’ 15CD set, as showcased in Boomkat’s inimitable video below. Order at frozenreeds.com with shipping worldwide included, before they’re gone. No repress.

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Elektroakustische Projekte & Makro (2025 remaster) - 5 CD With joy we announce the release of 5-CD box set dedicated to Roland Kayn’s Cybernetic Music, which were sensibly remastered by Jim O’Rourke. Pre-orders December 1, Expected shipping date 2-25-25 Order & info: kayn.nl/shop/cds/ele...

annoucement tomorrow