Alan Stanley Soucy Brinsmead, better known by the stage name Sinjin Hawke, is a Canadian-American electronic music producer and DJ.
Career
In late 2011, Sinjin Hawke released his first EP, "The Lights" on the Belgium-based Pelican Fly label[1] and followed it up with tours throughout Europe, North America, and Asia.[2] For this he developed a live hardware performance, which was later broadcast by Boiler Room in Los Angeles.
In mid-2012, he released "Prom Nite" on Pelican Fly and followed that up with a series of remixes for DJ Assault and DJ Funk on Membrane and Booty Call Records respectively.[3]
In 2013, he participated in the New York City instalment of the Red Bull Music Academy,[4] where he collaborated with rap producer Just Blaze on a song called “One”.[5] This came shortly after Sinjin released "Yea Hoe" with Gangsta Boo.[6]
In 2014, Sinjin Hawke and Zora Jones established Fractal Fantasy, christening it with a series of computer graphic driven audio-visual pieces.[7][8] These first pieces featured musical collaborations between them, and MikeQ, Morri$, DJ Taye and L-Vis 1990.[9]
His debut studio album, First Opus, was released on May, 10 2017 via Fractal Fantasy - accompanied by a visual experience that let users interact with different climatic environments via the website.
Live AV
Sinjin and Zora Jones toured the album throughout 2018 and 2019, for this they developed a live audio-visual set which was premiered at Sonar Festival in Barcelona. The set received acclaim for its innovative use of motion capture technology.
Personal life
Hawke was born in New Jersey.[10] His father, Duncan Brinsmead, is a French horn player and computer graphics programmer,[11] and his mother a university administrator.
