Radian is an Austrian expe, post-rock, jazz band that sounds like an electronic act. Experimental music is any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. ... The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. ... Jazz is a musical art form originally characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ...

This trio has been formed in 1996, in Vienna. 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ...

Members are:

• Martin Brandlmayr - drums and computer (also a solo artist, member of Trapist, Kapital Band 1 and Autistic Daughters).
• Stefan Németh - synthesizer and computer (also cofounder of the Mosz label, member of Lokai and working with video artists)
• John Norman - bass

A classic FM synthesizer, the Yamaha DX7. ... Video art, as opposed to television and theatrical cinema, is a subset of artistic works which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data. ...

Discography

• Radian EP (1998) - Rhiz
• tg11 (2000) - Mego / Rhiz
• rec.extern (2002) - Thrill Jockey (recorded by John McEntire)
• Juxtaposition (2004) - Thrill Jockey

Mego is an experimental electronic music record label based in Vienna, Austria. ... Thrill Jockey is an indepedant record label based in Chicago, IL, USA. Home of Tortoise (band). ... John McEntire is the drummer of post-rock outfits Gastr Del Sol, Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, and is affiliated with several other bands. ... Thrill Jockey is an indepedant record label based in Chicago, IL, USA. Home of Tortoise (band). ...

External link

Official website