Tycho

Scott Hansen

Tycho is the project of Scott Hansen, born on February 7, 1977, who comes from Sacramento and is based in San Francisco; he also works as a graphic designer and photographer under the name ISO50. The name is Tycho Brahe's, the Danish astronomer, though Hansen says he studied astronomy in college and the name was arbitrary and unconnected to the music. He calls it an audio-visual project. He released the EP The Science of Patterns in 2002 and Sunrise Projector in 2004 on Gammaphone, reissued in 2006 as Past Is Prologue. Nearly seven years passed before Dive, because, as he told Riff, the last one took so long because I was focused on other things, mainly design.

Dive (Ghostly International, 2011) was the first Tycho album with a live band on tour. Awake followed in 2014, Epoch in 2016 (Grammy-nominated for best dance and electronic album), Weather in 2019 on Mom + Pop and Ninja Tune (nominated in 2020), Simulcast in February 2020 and Infinite Health in 2024. A 2014 KEXP session had Hansen with Zac Brown, Rory O'Connor and Joe Davancens; Hansen explained his approach to Song Exploder in December 2014 by taking apart "Awake". A Hohokum soundtrack in August 2014 and a Boiler Room set in June 2014 featured the music.