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About Tommy Perman
Hometown
Edinburgh, Scotland
Born
1980
Genre
Electronic
Tommy Perman is a Scottish artist, designer, and musician whose work fuses traditional techniques with digital technologies. Much of his work is themed around the urban environment, documenting the growth and decay of cities. He is a co-founder of the artist collective and experimental pop group Found, and has created several award-winning installations, including Cybraphon (2009). He has also collaborated with indie folk group Modern Studies, radically transforming their music on the 2019 release Emergent Slow Arcs.
Perman was born in Edinburgh in 1980. He co-founded Found as an arts collective with fellow students at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, and continued with the collective after graduating in 2002. Perman produced Secrets of the Soul, an EP of downtempo electronic music, under the name ESC in 2003. Perman and fellow collective members Ziggy Campbell and Kevin Sim established Found as a band in order to play an art opening in 2005, and their debut album, Found Can Move, was released in 2006. Found continued releasing music and creating installations, including Cybraphon, an interactive robot band that premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in August of 2009, and won a Scottish BAFTA a few months later.
Following the release of Found's first album for Chemikal Underground, 2011's Factorycraft, Perman left Found in 2013, and worked with other artists such as Eagleowl and Woodpigeon. In 2015, Perman collaborated with Simon Kirby and Rob St. John for Concrete Antenna, which was installed in a triangular concrete tower at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. The installation's soothing, atmospheric music was released as an LP by Random Spectacular. Emergent Slow Arcs, Perman's electronic reconstruction of Modern Studies' album Welcome Strangers, was released by Fire in 2019. ~ Paul Simpson
Tommy Perman has also released music as a member of Found.
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