BICEPHALIA: Tyler Friedman

Tyler Friedman’s music vacillates between cosmic impulses and analytical inclinations.  Escaping the rift between post-club experimentalism and the theory driven partition of contemporary art, his output spans numerous releases, soundtracks, installations, collaborations and performances and draws on an unwieldy arsenal of divergent references and tactics. Friedman’s solo output focuses on a lysergic strain of dubbed minimalism, equally indebted to late 00s techno and the downtown avant-garde.  Created largely in a feedback loop with modular synthesizers, his sequences and generative patterns are infused with an intuitive complexity and alchemical formalism.  Current trajectories point further away from the strictures of club music and have been increasingly oriented towards alternative tunings and uncanny harmonic interactions - to render the familiar strange and the strange beautiful. As a serial art world collaborator, Friedman works to manifest idea based constellations in sonic form.  Recent installation works have included A Sphere of Water Orbiting A Star, a large scale multi-channel piece with long term collaborators the Otolith Group wormholing the speculative aqua-physics of the Drexciyan mythos, and The Molecular Ordering of Computational Plants, a quadraphonic science fiction narrative — made alongside artist Andreas Greiner — charting the post-human evolutionary conclusion as a biological return to sea born algae.

He is currently based between Venice and Berlin.