It's hard to be virtual.

August 2009 – Thaylon is taking a break for a while. He needs to make more time for his First Life. ...

Screen shot from Phorkyad's side, showing some of the tech

July 12, 2009 – Thaylon Singh and Phorkyad Acropolis team up to collaborate on a new performance; connected via Skype and streaming into SL they experiment with words and improv music. Phorkyad used poetic material from a poem cycle. Thaylon employed his bank of acoustic instruments and electronic gadgets. Some ...

Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music

Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music The journey continues with more research into the history of experimental and electronic music. This is a real gem of a combo CD/DVD/Booklet. ...

This is part five of a series on noise, experimental and electronic music. Each volume has two disks and a very informative booklet that gives clues to how the sounds were made. It’s a lot to get through, but well worth it for those interested in this ...

Experimental/Avant Garde research My current musical interests have strayed somewhat from my acoustic past. I am studying electronic, ambient and experimental music in a number of forms. This is not likely to surface on an album for another couple years, but I have started posting some of my experiments via ...

Humble beginnings... July 1988

My early music production experience (12-13 yrs old) consisted of a Casio keyboard, $50 Randix dual cassette deck boom box, Radio Shack DJ mixer, hand-me-down short-scale Telestar bass and a Harmony acoustic guitar. My father also built a number of effect boxes and gadgets that I’d play with ...

The Fragmented Orchestra - (project photo)

One of the electro-related concepts that I have been studying… The Fragmented Orchestra is a huge distributed musical structure modelled on the firing of the human brain’s neurons. Twenty-four sites around the UK are connected to each other to form a “neural” network. The sonic information captured at these sites ...

World Music Explorer with Thaylon Singh playlist 9/18/08 Name    Artist    Album 1    BBC RINGTONE 55sec 2    Partisan’s Bella Ciao    Modena City Ramblers    Bella Ciao [Italian Combat Folk For The Masses] 3    Taranta Power    Eugenio Benato    Taranta Power 4    Tu Vuò Fa L´americano    Renato Carosone    Bar Napoli 5    Juke Box    Fred Buscaglione    Italian Cafe 6    That’s Amore    Dean ...

Thaylon all dressed up

Saturday, September 13th, 2008 – Multi-user collaboration. ...

Thaylon Singh

Friday, August 29th, 2008 – My experience in Second Life (SL) has yielded a number of observations about audiences, venues, performers and music in general. As both a presenter and a performer in real life, I think that these insights may be worth while for those looking to explore SL. The ...

World Music Explorer with Thaylon Singh playlist 8/21/08 Name    Artist    Album 1    Amassakoul ‘n’ténéré    Tinariwen    Amassakoul 2    When the Levee Breaks    Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha    Re-covers 3    Narigón    Daniel Melingo    Santa Milonga 4    Touba    Issa Babayogo    Toussoumakan 5    Wene U N´ga Yale    Orchestra Marrabenta Star    Marrabenta Piquenique 6    Believe    Ozomatli    Street Signs 7    Samara    Salamat    “Rough Guide To ...

Thaylon at Muse of Fire

7/30/08 – Thaylon pictured here re-hearsing for his debut at Muse of Fire, a venue operated by Phorkyad Acropolis. ...