Heavy drones, overtone melodies, and the sound of the land - Paintings for Animals is the vocal electronic music of composer & multi-instrumentalist Pær Svn. Started in 2001, Live collaborators have included Bryce Aguirre, Bryxan Amsterdam, Jackie An, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Brooke Gillespie, Evan Gilman, Nur Greene, Brendon Hohmann, Costi Parvulescu, Derek M. Johnson, Derek Repsch, Aslan Rife, Jon Sargent, Michaud Savage, and Scott Tipton.

Svn is also a member of the vocal electronic duo Thee Source ov Fawnation (w Bryxan Amsterdam) and records under the name Paints of Anima. Svn was a performing and/or composing member of groups Is Root (w Nur Greene, Elizabeth Chamberlin), Yawning Treeether (w Brendon Hohmann, Michaud Savage, Scott Tipton) and New Red Sun (w Jackie An, Evan Gilman). He is the founder and director of the Seattle Occultural Music Festival.

Purchase releases in physical form or audio files at our Bandcamp.

     

RELEASES
Thee Dance ov Ecovitus (forthcoming, Sacred Phrases)
Apocraphonia (forthcoming, Keben)
Thee Body ov Worship (2012, available from House of Alchemy)
Kristeater (2011, available from Debacle)
Whale Hunter EP (2011, Kim Dawn)
Thee Forrest ov Psalms (2010, Painted)
Sleep's Keeper ov thee Sea (2009, Painted)
Cistern Air (2008, Aphonia)
Live at Chickenhed Church (2008, Soccer Mom Ebonics)

SPLITS/COLLABORATIONS
vs. Big Scientists - A Vibratory Cosmology (forthcoming, Rainbow Bridge)
vs. James Nielsen - Totemic Invocation (forthcoming, Moribund Tree)
Paints of Anima vs. Moon Mother Maya Mayhem - Moon Walls EP (2011, Painted)
vs. Technicolor Yawn - 16 OSC 16 (2011, Yes & No)

RELATED
Thee Source ov Fawnation - I Missed You Black Diamond (2012, available from Healing Light)
Thee Source ov Fawnation - This is Psydust (2011, Psydust)
Paints of Anima - Moon Worship (2011, available from Dokuro)
New Red Sun - Book of Sand & Moss (2010, Featherspines)
New Red Sun - Slow Wave EP (2009, Painted)
New Red Sun - Pemmican (2009, Painted)

APPEARANCES/COMPILATIONS
AR MMXI - Somniferous Whisper (forthcoming, Aphonia)
Winter Solstice - Thee Antler Horn ov Halseatlh (2010, Vita Ignes)
Autumn MMX - Nowhere Stair (2010, Featherspines)
Summer Solstice - Boundary Water (2010, Vita Ignes)
Droning Earth Vol. 34 - Behind an Unwatching Eye (2010, EBG)