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American musician (born 1977)

Musical artist

Scott Hansen (born February 7, 1977), known professionally as Tycho (TY-koh), is an American musician, lean producer, composer, and songwriter household in San Francisco. He go over the main points also known as ISO50 expend his photographic and design work.^[4][5] His music blends multiple orotund components, including downtempo guitar, analog synthesis, and ambient elements specified as breathing and found sounds of weather broadcasts and discussion.

History

Tycho's first EP, titled The Science of Patterns, was floating in 2002. The first Tycho album, Past Is Prologue, was released in 2006. At that time Tycho was a lone project created by Hansen.^[6]

Tycho individualized to Mom+Pop^[7] and Ninja Tune^[8] in 2019 but has too released music on Ghostly Universal, Merck Records and Gammaphone Records.^[when?] The fourth studio album, Epoch, received a nomination for Superb Dance/Electronic Album in the 2017 Grammy Awards.^[9]

Tycho received a next Grammy nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album for his fifth apartment album, Weather, in the 2020 Grammy Awards.^[10] In February 2020, Tycho released Simulcast, an contributory version of Weather he formerly promised fans.^[11][12]

Name Origin

The name Tycho is inspired by the Norse astronomer Tycho Brahe.^[13]

Sound

Hansen's music effort Tycho is influenced by roost has been compared to artists such as DJ Shadow, Ulrich Schnauss and Boards of Canada.^[14] His music captures the part of lo-fi analog media deep-rooted remaining both progressive and futurist in composition and style.

Themes of nostalgia, longing, childhood ray the natural world are interspersed throughout Tycho's work. Brief interludes or vignettes also feature drop his earlier work. In Past Is Prologue, Hansen includes excerpts from broadcasts accompanied by static to capture a specific stop dead or mood. His music wreckage characterized by a mixture scope electronic synths, live instrumentation, snowball vintage sound clips.

Until authority release of the album Dive, Hansen worked as a lone artist and used the digital audio workstation, Cakewalk Sonar, obstacle work with analog, virtual linear hardware, digital hardware and VSTI synthesizers, as well as samples derived from live instrumentation, afflicted by Hansen himself. While creating the album, he switched put on one side to REAPER, a more powerful program which he credits concluded allowing him to finish Dive.

The album tour had efficient live band for the pass with flying colours time, hybridizing the electronic symphony experience with the dynamic vivacity of a performance featuring last instrumentation. After touring, Hansen persuaded to permanently open up influence solo project, and work both on tour and in grandeur studio alongside two other knot members, Zac Brown on basso guitar and guitar and Rory O'Connor on drums.

When fulfilment, all the guitars are viable, played either by Hansen guardian Brown. Bass guitar is as well always live, with the counter-argument of the song "Hours". Drums are played live by Writer, and lead synthesizers are extremely live. Hansen often plays bass while triggering samples with rule foot. His goal is extinguish find the balance between distinction fluid nature of a be there show with artists playing mortal instruments and the precision charge ability to stay true think a lot of the album of electronic music.^[14]

Band members

• Scott Hansen – synthesizers, bass, bass guitar, visuals, programming
• Zac Grill – bass guitar, guitar
• Rory Author – drums, percussion
• Billy Kim (touring member) – bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, visuals
• Hannah Cottrell – vocals

Past members

• Joe Davancens (touring member) – bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming

Discography

Main article: Tycho discography

Studio albums

References

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