Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Neil Cain is an interdisciplinary visual artist, musician, movement artist, fabric artist, and composer.
As a performer they have toured as a singer, guitarist, drummer, and movement artist with appearances at Bonnoroo, Deer Creek Music Center, Meow Wolf’s Vortex Festivals as well Santa Fe and Denver locations, The House of Yes, Bellingham Electronic Music Festival, as well as hundreds of other venues throughout the country.
As a visual artist, they started painting in 2002 with their practice expanding into photography, sculpture, and digital art. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has appeared publicly as a municipal commission for the City of Evansville, as well as in murals in Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Winchester, Indiana.
As a poet, they received their first publication in 2005 in Vallum magazine and have since been published in California Quarterly, and The Tipton Poetry Journal, among others. They have been featured in readings at Robert Bly’s Great Mother Conference in Maine, The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis, as well as The Bowery Poetry Club and Cornelia St. Cafe in New York City as part of the New York Quarterly’s reading series.
Trained as a composer, they completed their studies at The Jacobs School of Music in 2020, being the first to receive a joint degree in Composition and Audio Technology. They have had numerous works premiered for a wide range of ensembles. As a performer in the classical realm, they play the Double Bass, have premiered new works for emerging composers on the electric guitar, and sang in the choir for Britten’s War Requiem under Betsy Burleigh and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Cleveland Orchestra. Their popular music has appeared on the radio in New Orleans, Louisiana; Helena, Montana; Davis, California; Rockland, Maine; Bloomington, Indiana, and Indianapolis, Indiana. Their electronic music has been licensed by Meow Wolf and Fuel TV.
Their current work focuses on large-scale canvases, immersive sound environments, and the integration of all of their practices into a theatrical work that will be presented May 15-16 at the Basile Theater in the Indianapolis Opera Center as part of Indy Movement Arts’ Open Stage grant program.
As a performer they have toured as a singer, guitarist, drummer, and movement artist with appearances at Bonnoroo, Deer Creek Music Center, Meow Wolf’s Vortex Festivals as well Santa Fe and Denver locations, The House of Yes, Bellingham Electronic Music Festival, as well as hundreds of other venues throughout the country.
As a visual artist, they started painting in 2002 with their practice expanding into photography, sculpture, and digital art. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has appeared publicly as a municipal commission for the City of Evansville, as well as in murals in Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Winchester, Indiana.
As a poet, they received their first publication in 2005 in Vallum magazine and have since been published in California Quarterly, and The Tipton Poetry Journal, among others. They have been featured in readings at Robert Bly’s Great Mother Conference in Maine, The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis, as well as The Bowery Poetry Club and Cornelia St. Cafe in New York City as part of the New York Quarterly’s reading series.
Trained as a composer, they completed their studies at The Jacobs School of Music in 2020, being the first to receive a joint degree in Composition and Audio Technology. They have had numerous works premiered for a wide range of ensembles. As a performer in the classical realm, they play the Double Bass, have premiered new works for emerging composers on the electric guitar, and sang in the choir for Britten’s War Requiem under Betsy Burleigh and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Cleveland Orchestra. Their popular music has appeared on the radio in New Orleans, Louisiana; Helena, Montana; Davis, California; Rockland, Maine; Bloomington, Indiana, and Indianapolis, Indiana. Their electronic music has been licensed by Meow Wolf and Fuel TV.
Their current work focuses on large-scale canvases, immersive sound environments, and the integration of all of their practices into a theatrical work that will be presented May 15-16 at the Basile Theater in the Indianapolis Opera Center as part of Indy Movement Arts’ Open Stage grant program.
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