Alan Courtis (aka Anla Courtis) was born in 1972 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he still lives. He was a founder member of Reynols, a group with many albums on labels from the USA, Europe, Japan and New Zealand, including conceptual and/or absurd projects such as 10,000 Chicken Symphony, Blank Tapes and The Whistling Kettle Quartet.

His music always has a strong experimental sense and is usually based on high-skilled techniques of prepared sound, tape manipulations, processing of field recordings, live electronics, objects, cymbals, synthesizers, computer tools, playing traditional (both acoustic and electric) instruments as well as self-built, strange and unusual instruments (unstringed guitar, for example).

He has also issued more than 100 solo releases and collaborations, toured extensively in Japan, Europe, the USA and Latin America, and has made live/studio/mail collaborations with musicians such as Pauline Oliveros, The Nihilist Spasm Band, Lee Ranaldo, Damo Suzuki, Makoto Kawabata, RLW, Eddie Prévost, Mattin, Mats Gustafsson, KK Null, Rick & Alan Bishop, Yoshimi, Masonna, Toshimaru Nakamura, Solid Eye, Thomas Dimuzio, Rudolf Eb.Er, Kouhei, MSBR, The Moglass, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yoshida Tatsuya, Tabata, Tetuzi Akiyama, Rapoon, Lasse Marhaug, Ashtray Navigations, Michael Snow, Uton, Birchville Cat Motel, Culver, Dan Warburton, Dylan Nyoukis, MSBR, Andrey Kiritchenko, Stylluppsteypa, L'autopsie a revele que la mort etait due a l'autopsie, The New Blockaders, Kaffe Mathews, Jaap Blonk, Jazkamer, C Spencer Yeh, Okkyung Lee, Aaron Moore, Avarus and Kemialliset Ystavat.

Alan Courtis