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Roland Kayn (born 3 September 1933 in Reutlingen, Germany; died 5 January 2011 in Groningen, Netherlands) was a composer of electronic music.[1] He is known for his lengthy works of cybernetic music.[2][3]

From 1952 to 1955 he studied composition and organ at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. From 1956 to 1958 he studied with Boris Blacher and Josef Rufer in Berlin. After 1960 he lived in Rome and then in Venice. In 1964 he co-founded the free improvisation group Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. Beginning in 1970 he worked at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, and lived in the Netherlands until his death in 2011. In 1995 he created the label Reiger-records-reeks to release his own works.[1][3]

Kayn died in Nieuwe Pekela, the Netherlands.

His 14-hour composition A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (2009) was released on 16 CDs in October 2017 by the Finnish label Frozen Reeds.[4]

Discography

• 1977 – Simultan (Colosseum, 3 LPs)
• 1977 – Elektroakustische Projekte (Colosseum, 3 LPs)
• 1981 – Makro I–III (Colosseum, 3 LPs)
• 1981 – Infra (Colosseum, 4 LPs)
• 1984 – Tektra (Colosseum, 6 LPs)
• 1994 – Keyboard-Works 1 (Reiger-records-reeks, 2 CDs)
• 1995 – Works for Orchestra / Ensemble (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 1995 – Cybernetic Music (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 1997 – Cybernetic Music II (RRR, 1 CD)
• 1996 – Cybernetic Music III (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 1997 – Electronic Symphony I–III / Equivalence Sonore II–III (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 1998 – Electronic Symphony IV / Frottage – Minimax (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 1998 – Electronic Symphony V / Emissioni trasformati I–II (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 1999 – Electronic Symphony VI–VII / Frottage II (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 2000 – Electronic Symphony VIII–X (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 2000 – Gärten der Lüste (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 2003 – Ultra / Redunancy TR / Megaphonie (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 2004 – Requiem pour Patrice Lumumba / Interations / Composizione AD / Prismes Reflectes (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 2005 – Etoile du nord / Ghyress für Ilse-Emily Kayn (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 2006 – Invisible Music / Hommage à K.R.H. Sonderborg (RRR, 2 CDs)
• 2017 – A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (Frozen Reeds, 16 CDs)
• 2019 – Scanning (RRR, 10 CDs)
• 2020 – The Man and the Biosphere (RRR, digital)
• 2020 – Music for the Isle of Man (RRR, digital)
• 2020 – Made in the NL After the Sixties and Beyond (RRR, digital)
• 2020 – Sound-Hydra (RRR, digital)
• 2020 – November Music (RRR, digital)
• 2020 – Dino Concerto (RRR, digital)
• 2020 – A Pan-Air Music (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Electronic Symphony I–III (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Matego I–II (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Electronic Symphony IV (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Accumulation (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Electronic Symphony V (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Xutus (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Electronic Symphony VI & VII (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Spectral (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Reflets du Spectral (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Extensity (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Zone Senza Silenzio (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Remake A (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Remake B (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Transit (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Cybernet AS & TLS (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – Agila (RRR, digital)
• 2021 – An Algorithm MA 71 (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – Impactions (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – The Art of Sound (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – Triades (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – Contra-Compositie (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – De-Compositie (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – Atix (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – Reversioni Comprimati (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – Abstracta (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – Mutenaces (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – Cyber Panoramical Music (RRR, digital)
• 2022 – Sonority ERT (RRR, digital)

References

External links

• Roland Kayn official website
• List of compositions at kayn.nl
• Roland Kayn discography at Discogs
• Roland Kayn discography at MusicBrainz

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[de] Roland Kayn

Roland Kayn (* 3. September 1933 in Reutlingen; † 5. Januar 2011 in Nieuwe Pekela, Provinz Groningen, Niederlande[1]) war ein deutscher Organist und Komponist.

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