Cyrnai

Cyrnai is the solo project of Carolyn Fok, an award-winning multimedia artist and musician from California. Using an array of analog and digital instruments, Fok builds textured electronic music that is experimental while remaining deeply personal. Her first official release was 1985's Charred Blossoms, a 12" EP of dark, dubby post-punk/industrial recorded at her parents' house. Following several tapes and compilation appearances throughout the '80s, Fok began embracing digital technology, producing works such as 1996's Transfiguration. Starting with 2001's The Listener, she began recording more meditative work under her given name. She continued recording and sporadically performing in the years to follow, eventually archiving her life's work on her Memoir of Sound website beginning in the late 2010s. Calamity of Beauty, the first Cyrnai studio album in nearly 30 years, arrived in 2025.