Angus Tarnawsky


Angus Tarnawsky is an Australian artist and musician who currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. He was awarded a Bachelor of Music Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009, specializing in electro-acoustic improvisation. He relocated from Melbourne to Brooklyn, New York in 2010 to join the motorik influenced rock band, Apache Beat.
As a solo artist, he creates electro-acoustic/electronic music and exhibits sound-installations. In 2014, his debut EP was released by the Berlin-based record label Inner Surface Music. That same year the Melbourne Next Wave Festival premiered his first installation project "Artifacts," with pianist Nathan Liow. Between 2015 and 2017 he was the drummer and recording engineer for the punk band Flowers of Evil, recording two full-length albums. He has collaborated on a wide range of projects, including work with visual artist, Stanislava Pinchuk, musician Brian Chase, and choreographer Duane Cyrus. As a session drummer he has toured and recorded with Crocodiles, Haunted Hearts, Devin Therriault, Temples, Au.Ra, Cleopold, Splashh, and Ballet School. In addition, he is the curator of the experimental record label In Context Music.