Paintings for Animals is the vocal electronic music of Pær Svn. Started in 2001, live collaborators have included Bryce Aguirre, Bryxan Amsterdam, Jackie An, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Ryan Converse, Brooke Gillespie, Evan Gilman, Arsen Gogeshvili, Nur Greene, Colin Hearn, Brendon Hohmann, Derek M. Johnson, Duncan Marsh, Noisepoetnobody, Costi Parvulescu, Derek Repsch, Aslan Rife, Jon Sargent, Michaud Savage, Scott Tipton, Lucien Walker, Oryx White, and Greg Zukauskas.

Svn is also a member of electronic duo Thee Source ov Fawnation, and records noise under the name Paints of Anima, and techno under the name HOM. Svn was a performing and/or composing member of groups Is Root, Yawning Treeether, and New Red Sun. Svn is the founder and director of the Seattle Occultural Music Festival.

Purchase releases in physical form or audio files at our Bandcamp.

     

RELEASES
Thee Dance ov Ecovitus (forthcoming, Sacred Phrases)
Apocraphonia (forthcoming, Keben)
Thee Body ov Worship (2012, House of Alchemy)
Kristeater (2011, available from Debacle)
Whale Hunter EP (2011, Kim Dawn)
Thee Forrest ov Psalms (2010, Painted)
Sleep's Keeper ov thee Sea (2009, Painted)
Cistern Air (2008, Aphonia)
Live at Chickenhed Church (2008, Soccer Mom Ebonics)

SPLITS/COLLABORATIONS
vs. Big Scientists - A Vibratory Cosmology (forthcoming, Rainbow Bridge)
vs. James Nielsen - Totemic Invocation (forthcoming, Moribund Tree)
Paints of Anima vs. Moon Mother Maya Mayhem - Moon Walls EP (2011, Painted)
vs. Technicolor Yawn - 16 OSC 16 (2011, Yes & No)

RELATED
Thee Source ov Fawnation - I Missed You Black Diamond (2012, available from Healing Light)
Thee Source ov Fawnation - This is Psydust (2011, Psydust)
Paints of Anima - Moon Worship (2011, available from Dokuro)
New Red Sun - Book of Sand & Moss (2010, Featherspines)
New Red Sun - Slow Wave EP (2009, Painted)
New Red Sun - Pemmican (2009, Painted)

APPEARANCES/COMPILATIONS
AR MMXI - Somniferous Whisper (forthcoming, Aphonia)
Winter Solstice - Thee Antler Horn ov Halseatlh (2010, Vita Ignes)
Autumn MMX - Nowhere Stair (2010, Featherspines)
Summer Solstice - Boundary Water (2010, Vita Ignes)
Droning Earth Vol. 34 - Behind an Unwatching Eye (2010, EBG)