2011 Red Bull Music Academy participant Anenon is Brian Allen Simon, a 27-‐year old composer and multi-‐instrumentalist whose passions reside in the ever-‐changing intersection of Heart and Ability in the fields of music and sound. Beyond a strong focus on his own artistic endeavors, Simon is also engaged in encouraging the works of other talented artists as the founder and CEO of Non Projects, a creative music label based out of Los Angeles. In just over one year, the label has seen widely lauded releases from himself, Asura, Ana Caravelle, a.d.l.r. and RareBit. With growing attention paid to his own works and the gifted and unique core of artists on Non Projects, Simon and Non Projects have recently been featured in both XLR8R and on the cover of the LA Times’ Brand X weekly paper. A lifetime resident of Los Angeles, Brian studied Music History and Theory at UCLA with no prior formal musical training.
Within a rigorous academic framework, Simon’s ear quickly picked up on all things music from Gregorian chant to 12-‐tone writing among many other forms, though it was both the inspiring and improvisatory melodic laying
of free jazz musicians such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Keith Jarrett combined with the influence of many outer milieu current electronic composers that compelled Simon to make his own music. A saxophone and much electronic equipment were soon acquired and the guise Anenon (a fragmented take on his own name) was born. As Anenon, Simon’s music envelops the listener’s entire body with ethereal audio imagery. Rhodes piano, synthesizers, saxophone playing and other found sounds combine to create worlds of driving dream-‐like evocations in which listeners can get lost. Anenon has been featured on the Silver Trees / Damiel split EP with Asura (Non Projects), Only Mountain: The Remixes by Take (Alpha Pup), Basic Climb Re-Imagined by Ana Caravelle (Non Projects) and most recently Brownswood Electr*c 2 on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label. His full-‐length debut is currently in the works.