Polyphonic Will Freyman | |
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Born | Champaign, Illinois |
Origin | Chicago, Illinois |
Genres | Electronic music Underground hip hop |
Occupation | Record producer |
Labels | Anticon Audio 8 Recordings |
Will Freyman, better known by the stage name Polyphonic the Verbose, is an American musician and record producer. Growing up he played classical piano and jazz trombone, and went on to play synths, percussion, and various instruments in noise music bands, Afro-Cuban percussion ensembles, and other groups. While moving between Chicago and San Francisco, he recorded multiple hip hop and electronic albums with a string of different collaborators, including Don't Give Up and Terradactyl with Serengeti, and worked with Ben LaMar Gay on their collaboration Juba Dance. [1] [2]
Polyphonic's first solo album Abstract Data Ark was released in 2006. This was followed by the EP Easy Listening for Empire Building in 2009. His second solo album Post Species Speaker was released in 2012.
Polyphonic lives in Oakland, California. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in computational evolutionary biology and has coauthored over twenty scientific articles. [3]