Tyondai Braxton is an American composer and performer and ex-guitarist / singer of Americanexperimental-rock super-group Battles, and as a prominently featured artist on record label Warp Records. He has been actively producing and performing music under his name as a solo artist, as well as collaboratively under various group titles and collectives, since 1998.
Raised in Connecticut, Braxton is the son of multi-instrumentalist and avant-garde composerAnthony Braxton. He later studied composition at Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut with Robert Carl and Ingram Marshall. His “orchestrated loops” involve real-time overlaying of guitar, voice and found objects, designed to ...