Month: September 2021

Blank Expressions, October 1986“Charred Blossoms” 12″ LP Cyrnai, former member of TRIAL and A STATE OF MIND, made this record nearly a year ago, but the reverberations of looming darkness and mysteriousness that have remained in my mind since first hearing it have compelled me to write about it today. ...

CYRNAI Transfiguration CD / 80 Page Book KEYBOARD Cyrnai’s latest, Transfiguration (Titanium), fuses diverse electronic styles, and is supplemented by 80 pages of surreal prose and painting. For music that seems uncategorizable, she devises her own designation: a “musaic,” a non-linear artform “where all senses dominate. So if I were ...

CYRNAI – 6LP BOX SET, Dark Entries Records AllMusic Review by Paul Simpson  [-] 1980-1990 is a colossal box set containing everything Cyrnai (Carolyn Fok) officially released during those years as well as previously unissued material. While Fok might be an obscure name to all but the most devoted fans of D.I.Y. cassette culture, she is a ...

PERFORMANCES & PODCASTS 2022 – ‘CineChamber’ San Francisco event with CYRNAI music in development. CineChamber is a large, but intimate surround-screen apparatus, a 10-screen installation lab site for trailblazing panoramic performance, built by Recombinant Labs / Director, Naut Humon. CYRNAI’s history with similar innovative collaboration with Naut goes back to her ...

MEMOIR OF SOUND The anticipated 100+ archive of Carolyn Fok aka CYRNAI, memoirofsound.com officially launched September 2018.