Tyondai Braxton

Tyondai Adaien Braxton (born October 26, 1978) is an American composer and musician. He has composed and performed music under his own name and collaboratively since the mid-1990s, until his departure from the group in 2010. Early life As a teen, Braxton took musical inspiration from alternative rock bands like Nirvana and Sonic Youth, as well as from electronic music. He studied composition at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, where his teachers included Robert Carl, Ingram Marshall, and Ken Steen. He is the son of composer Anthony Braxton and has cited early exposure to recordings by Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Coltrane as being influential. Career Early solo work and Battles (2000–2009) After receiving his degree, Braxton moved to New York City in 2000. He became active in New York City’s experimental music scene, developing a solo practice centered on guitar, voice, effects pedals, and live looping. His performances used layers of recorded and processed sound to create dense, evolving textures, establishing an approach to electronic composition and sound design that would remain central throughout his career. During this period he