Tycho performs at The Independent in San Francisco on July 16, 2019. Photo: Joaquin Cabello/Staff. For all the talk about how San Francisco ambient electronica producer Scott Hansen’s music as Tycho has expanded wider than ever with the addition of vocalist Hannah Cottrell on new album Weather, Hansen views one…

Tycho performs at The Independent in San Francisco on July 16, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — Tycho celebrated his new album, Weather, with an intimate show at the Independent Tuesday evening. Over the course of two sets, Scott Hansen and his bandmates evolved from a delicate solo showcase into a powerful…

Weather, the fifth album from San Francisco electronica artist Tycho, is a departure from his previous work in one big way: It has words. Weather Tycho Mom + Pop/Ninja Tune, July 12 This isn’t the first evolution of Tycho. It began as a solo project by Sacramento native Scott Hansen. He…

Photos: Jason Demetillo OAKLAND — With a colorful collage of ambient video backdrops and instrumentation, NorCal visual artist and ambient electronic music composer Scott Hansen kicked off the world tour supporting Grammy-nominated album Epoch at the Fox Theater. The album is the fifth for Hansen, who goes by Tycho. He set the sold…

Photo: Roman Gokhman Sacramento-born, San Francisco-grown musician and graphic artist Tycho (Scott Hansen) is preparing his next album, and today released the first song off the forthcoming work. “Division” swaps out his sunrise/sunset color scheme for something bordering more on the abstract, but the song retains his thinker’s mood…

Tycho performs at the Independent in San Francisco on Jan. 19, 2013. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. There may be a misconception floating around that San Francisco’s Tycho, a graphic designer cum rising electronic ambient musician, has only two interests. Those people wouldn’t know about Scott Hansen’s other pursuit: cycling. “I’ve done…