Tyler Friedman’s music vacillates between cosmic impulses and analytical inclinations. Escaping the rift between post-club experimentalism and the theory-driven partition of contemporary art, his output spans numerous releases, soundtracks, installations, collaborations and performances and draws on an unwieldy arsenal of divergent references and tactics. Friedman’s solo output focuses on a lysergic strain of dubbed minimalism, equally indebted to late-00s techno and the downtown avant-garde. Created largely in a feedback loop with modular synthesizers and Max/MSP, his sequences and generative patterns are infused with an intuitive complexity and alchemical formalism. Current trajectories point further away from the strictures of club music and have been increasingly oriented towards alternative tunings and uncanny harmonic interactions. His music has been released on Sweden’s Kontra Musik, Arjuna Records and Tokyo-based Protection. In the context of contemporary art, Friedman works to manifest conceptual constellations in sonic form. He has been responsible for the sonics of collaborative projects that have been commissioned and presented worldwide, including at dOCUMENTA(13), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Manifesta, Cycle Music & Arts Festival and the Yokohama Triennale among others. Recent authored installation works have included A Sphere of Water Orbiting a Star, a large-scale multichannel piece with long-term collaborators the Otolith Group wormholing the speculative aqua-physics of the Drexciyan mythos, and The Molecular Ordering of Computational Plants, a quadrophonic science fiction narrative — made alongside artist Andreas Greiner — charting the post-human evolutionary conclusion as a biological return to seaborne algae.
His forthcoming album METLASR, a double LP of microtonal idiophones and fm sythensizer geometries will be released in March of 2026 on Radicant_Editions. In April 2026 he will present his debut solo exhibition at Gallery Gudmundsdottir in Berlin.
Friedman is currently based in Venice, Italy. 
