Aunia Kahn's creations of audio and visual performance started from a young age. As a child she engaged in the artful activities that all children do, however her musical constructions showed very few limits, as she would perform songs she had written for anyone that wanted to listen, and sometimes to those that didn't. Being a teenager, Aunia found solace in the continued pursuit in the mediums of Pen & Ink, drawing and singing. Through the trials of being a teenager Aunia always felt that she was able to express even her deepest emotions through art; during this time she found another form of expression that would only enhance her talents, the world of tattoos. At the young age of 14 Aunia was apprenticed in the skills of tattooing and tattoo flash design, trusting her skills of the pen, Aunia designed her first tattoo and was soon marked for life on her body with her own art.
For the next few years Aunia spent her time continuing her mostly self-taught artistic endeavors and maintaining her skills, not only with the art brush but through her need to express here life and feelings through song and text. Aunia's continual evolution through almost every aspect of art had her flowing through a see of ink, paper, music, song and color until 2001 when her direction became to a focal point in a small loft in Detroit, MI as Aunia Kahn took pieces of magnetic poetry and placed them on a refrigerator door to form the word AfterChain.
Incorporating the core definition that a chain can be broken if only one link shatters, but new links being added offers a greater and higher endurance, Aunia's musical project AfterChain has come to represent straight soul gripping music with a varying grasp of vocal assortments streaming from angelic harmonies to brash in-your-face choruses.
The first completed work for Aunia came in 2000 with the completion of the 'Void' track before the formation of her identity as AfterChain, since that time 'Void' has come to represent the past, present and future of AfterChain as she prepares for her first CD Single release, fittingly naming the Single in honor of the song 'Void'. Since its inception Aunia and AfterChain have made their mark on the Industrial and Electronic scene being one of the few female solo projects in the genres; producing, writing, programming and developing every aspect of her project as only she can.
Throughout Aunia's career she has consistently taken raw emotion, disturbing subject matter and wandering thoughts as building blocks for her unique sound. Without holding back, AfterChain's music has resulted in becoming some of the most intimate and energetic Electro/Industrial music available. Taking pride in the development of her groundbreaking use of vocals not only as a projection of thought and emotion but incorporating them as a musical instrument; cutting, breaking, arranging and destroying them into something more unique than any physical instrument giving her a feel all her own.
Although the development of AfterChain has shown us a glimpse into Aunia's life and emotions through her own voice; she has not neglected her outreaching expression in art. Aunia continues to express her will, heart, and pain through mediums that do not require words. Within Aunia's photo manipulations, paintings, drawing and photography we are shown a compete and different world; one of tireless charity, healing, understanding, and self-discovery.
Literally thousands of onlookers have seen and felt the expression within Aunia's world through her visual works in the physical world of an art galleries wall to the electronic network spanning hundreds of countries. Aunia continues to receive notes and emails of thanks, encouragement, and appreciation from countries all over the globe. What will the next day bring for her art and vision, only Aunia knows, but wherever her next image, painting, poem, or song takes her, her fans know without a doubt that they will be on that journey with her as they gaze and listen to her creations.
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Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Fektion Fekler, The Dead Can Dance, Helium Vola, X Marks the Pedwalk, Gridlock, Daniel Myer, Cleen, Haujobb, HMB, Jennifer Rush
