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Artist
Stephan Whitlan
12+ albums
new ageelectronicberlin school
about
Stephan Whitlan, who hails from Ireland, began playing piano at the age of 5. By his early teens he had realized that the sounds he was hearing from his radio of 70's pop & prog music came from altogether different instruments. It was the start of a quest, which got him to his first synthesizer, a Korg MS-20, in his final years at school. Whilst studying architecture at Sheffield University during the ‘80’s, many more instruments joined the Korg, including a Mini-Moog. Eventually, it didn’t take long before Stephan got in touch with the so called 'Sheffield Mafia', and this lead to working with John Dyson en Shaun D'Lear. Over many following years, Stephan became part of Shaun & John's live band. It was also through John Dyson's encouragement that the cd “Map Reference” was recorded and released in 1996. In 1998, Stephan moved to Ireland, and as work on a second solo album had not come to fruition, he started a collaboration with local Irish musician Keith Corbett, which ended up as the cd “K2Project” in 2000. Although the album was fairly well received, it also confirmed Stephan's worries that using computer sequencers lead to a particular type of composition which was not quite what he wanted to say. So he began to acquire an analogue modular system which would help explore programming in the area which the Korg MS-20 & VCS III had initially started him, allowing to play entire gigs of improvised music, rather than playing to backing tapes. After Steve Jenkins began wha
