(VANCOUVER, BC) December 20, 2013 – A new compilation of dark ambient electronica by Vancouver BC musician Kaden Harris, “The Tao of Chaos,” is now available on Amazon.com Released by the Brazilian label Schtum Logic Records, the six-track EP features “Advent of the Hand,” “Black Market Arithmetic,” “Prayer to Mother Logic,” “Four Thoughts Channeled,” “Gollum’s Cyberdelic Breakfast” and “Choc Lit.” Harris is joined by Vancouver guitarist Devon Saintsbury, who is heard on “Gollum’s Cyberdelic Breakfast” and “Four Thoughts Channeled.” North Carolina poet Sophia Grayland contributed the lyrics and vocals on “Choc Lit.” The 34-minute EP is available on Amazon.com and at http://www.KadenHarris.com/music.

Harris is a fixture in Vancouver’s dark ambient music scene, having played in a succession of fully improvisational ensembles including Cable Bomb, WetWare, and DVOA with Mark Spybey. “I’m known for a technologically overachieving hybrid electro-acoustic drum set so large that it can be seen from space,” says the multi-instrumentalist, but for the past three years he has devoted himself to developing a “close personal relationship” with the Korg WaveDrum. “The WaveDrum is an electronic percussion instrument that has changed the way I think about music,” Harris says. “It is a startling instrument that sounds like nothing else on Earth, yet is just as organic and responsive as a vintage acoustic hand drum…with a timbral palette from a parallel universe.”

The Hastings Sunrise neighborhood resident is also known as a eccentric “improvisational fabricator.” Though he has a reputation for creating executive gifts such as desktop trebuchets, cigar guillotines and hypno-disks out of industrial castoffs and found objects, Harris’ most recent work involves the freeform fabrication of otherworldly musical instruments, including electric kalimbas (finger pianos), a one-string upright bass, and a hammered dulcimer variation he calls a Pseudo Psantur.

His finger pianos are constructed of walnut, with salvaged brass and copper, and tines cut from Zildjian B20 cymbal bronze. He electrified the instruments with handmade pickups built from deconstructed electronic window alarms. The upright bass and Pseudo Psantur are still in the prototype phase, but Kaden Harris’ electric kalimbas are now available for purchase at www.KadenHarris.com/instruments.

About Kaden Harris

Kaden Harris is a writer, musician, and visual artist living and working in the Hastings Sunrise neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Eccentric Cubicle: Projects and Ideas to Enhance Your Cubicle World, a how-to manual for improvisational fabricators. Kaden Harris' kinetic sculptures, musical instruments and otherworldly mechanisms are included in the collections of Gemini award winner Celine Godeau, Canadian science fiction writer Cory Doctorow, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, and in the permanent collection of The Exploratorium in San Francisco.