Leon Dewan is an American artist, inventor, and musician. He collaborates with Brian Dewan

Brian Dewan

Brian Dewan is an artist who works in many media, including art, music, audio-visual performances, decorative painting, furniture design, poetry and musical instrument design. He has produced three albums of songs and concertized extensively as a solo artist, as well as having performed in various...

 on Dewanatron

Dewanatron

Dewanatron is a family of experimental electronic instruments.Cousins Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan collaborate on the creation and performance of these instruments...

, an electronic music instrument project. The son of an inventor, Dewan received a degree in physics from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 1989. His musical career draws on this background in physics, and heavily incorporates electronic and experimental instruments.

Music

Leon Dewan has performed and recorded music with several bands spanning over a decade. Bands include Radeesh, The Happiest Guys in the World, Shaumgummi, Dangerspoon, Flaming Fire

Flaming Fire

Flaming Fire is an American arts collective and experimental rock band from Brooklyn, New York, USA, which formed in 2000.Other projects include live performance, film, comics and the Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible .The band is on avant rock label Silly Bird Records, home to bands like Autobody and...

, and collaborative work with The Philistines Jr. Dewan sings and plays a variety electronic instruments including electric guitar, the Theremin

Theremin

The theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...

, and Dewanatron instruments.

Albums & Collaborations

• The Happiest Guys in the World (as The Happiest Guys in the World) (1996)
• The Tarquin Records All Star Holiday Extravaganza (as The Happiest Guys in the World) (1997)
• Dewanatron (as Dewanatron) (2005)

Music Videos

• Hey! Hey! It's the Vegetable Man! (as The Happiest Guys in the World)(1999) Directed by Paul Yates
  Paul Yates
  Paul Yates is an American filmmaker, artist, and musician.Paul Yates has worked in the film industry since he was nine. Despite losing his family and becoming homeless at 15 Yates has made music videos or shot footage for Moby, R.E.M., The Dandy Warhols and others. Yates attended NYU for...
  
  

The Happiest Guys in the World

Dewan performed and recorded with the band The Happiest Guys in the World from 1991 through 2001. The band's music video Hey! Hey! It's the Vegetable Man! was screened at the 2004 International Surrealist Film Festival.

Dewanatron

Leon Dewan and his cousin Brian Dewan

Brian Dewan

Brian Dewan is an artist who works in many media, including art, music, audio-visual performances, decorative painting, furniture design, poetry and musical instrument design. He has produced three albums of songs and concertized extensively as a solo artist, as well as having performed in various...

 collaborate on Dewanatron

Dewanatron

Dewanatron is a family of experimental electronic instruments.Cousins Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan collaborate on the creation and performance of these instruments...

, an electronic music instrument project. The instruments have been performed and exhibited at the Pierogi 2000 gallery in Brooklyn in January 2006, Pierogi Leipzig (Germany) from April thru July 2006 and at Another Year in LA gallery as well as Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles in August/September, 2007.

External links

• Dewanatron site which describes many of the Dewan cousins' recent musical inventions
• IMDB page for the film Shadowbox, in which the Dewan cousins perform the musical score
• Pierogi Review of installation and performances at Pierogi Gallery
• Images of Dewanatron performing live at radio station WNYC