Adam Forkner is a musician from Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

 who, since 2003, has performed as White Rainbow.

as White Rainbow

• "Humidifier Plaza" digital, self-released via whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com 2011
• "From Now On Let's" digital, self-released via whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com 2011
• "Lays the Boogie Down" digital, self-released via whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com 2011
• "White Rainbow Gnarchives Volume One" cassette/digital via Gnar Tapes 2011
• "Dr Pizza's Spectral Retreat and Event Center" digital, self-released via whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com 2010
• "Escapades: Live in Brooklyn" digital, self-released via whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com 2010
• "Ægis" digital, (self-released via whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com 2010)
• "Night Tracer" digital (self-released via whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com 2010)
• "Boring Guitar Music" digital (self-released via whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com 2010)
• "Sea Thru" Cassette/digital (gnar tapes/ self released via whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com 2010)
• New Clouds 2XLP / CD (Oct 19th 2009 Kranky Records)
• Summer Boogie Breezers CDR/digital release (Yarnlazer 2008, free digital version 2009)
• Prism Of Eternal Now
  Prism of Eternal Now
  Prism Of Eternal Now is an album by electronic artist White Rainbow. Unlike Sky Drips Drifts, this album is not one continuous track, but rather a collection of shorter works that show the more recent loop-based phase of White Rainbow's music. Also, unlike ZOME, the album has no title tracks,...
  
  (CD on Kranky Records, 2xLP on Marriage Records, October 2007)
• Sky Drips Drifts
  Sky Drips Drifts
  Sky Drips Drifts is an album released in 2007 by White Rainbow. The album is one continuous track split into five sections for easy tracking of sections/movements. Like Sun Shifts, Sky Drips Drifts is a representation of the current White Rainbow live experience, complete with loops, shakers, and...
  
  CD (States Rights Records, July 2007)
• Sun Shifts
  Sun Shifts
  Sun Shifts is a limited edition of 100 CDR handmade and hand-drawn by White Rainbow. Recorded in one continuous session of 30 minutes only to be overdubbed with a full hour long second sitting, the album saw an MP3 only re-release via States Rights Records in November 2007 as a bonus to purchasers...
  
  CDR (Yarnlazer, March 2007)
• BOX 5CD/1DVD (Marriage Records, 2006)
• ZOME CD (States Rights Records, 2005)

as VVRSSNN

• VVRSSNN
  VVRSSNN
  VVRSSNN, released on K Records in 2003, is the only full-length album made by musician Adam Forkner under the band name VVRSSNN . While it was promoted as Forkner's debut solo outing, the album features many collaborations with other artists....
  
   CD/LP (K Records, 2003)

split 7 inch w/ Greg Weeks

Greg Weeks

Greg Weeks is an American singer-songwriter based in Philadelphia. His music has been described as folk, acoustic, psychedelic and experimental. He is best known as a founding member of the psychedelic folk-rock band Espers. Weeks has released four solo albums and has guest-recorded with many...

 (Spirit of Orr, 2003)

with Yume Bitsu

• Wabi Morning one-sided 12-inch vinyl EP (Burnt Toast Vinyl, 2003)
• Dryystonian Dreamscapes CD (States Rights Records/Yarnlazer, 2002)
• Dryystonian Dreamscapes Volume II CD (States Rights Records, 2003)
• The Golden Vessyl of Sound CD/ double-LP (K Records, 2002)

split 12-inch vinyl EP with Elf Power's Andrew Reiger (Planaria Records, 2002)

• Auspicious Winds CD/LP (K Records, 2000)
• s/t CD (Ba Da Bing!, 1999)
• Giant Surface Music Falling to Earth Like Jewels From the Sky CD (Ba Da Bing!, 1998)

with Surface of Eceon/Surface of Eceyon

• Dragyyn w/ John Barlow CDR (Spirit of Orr, 2004)
• Tussyan Ruins CDEP (Three Lobed, 2003)
• Dragyyn CD (Strange Attractors Audio House, 2003)

Surface of Eceon/Kinski/Paik 3-way split CDEP (Music Fellowship, 2003)

• The King Beneath the Mountain (Strange Attractors Audio House, 2002)

Collaborations

Forkner has collaborated with many notable artists - both live and on record - as a session musician, producer, engineer, re-mixer, etc. including:

• Dirty Projectors
  Dirty Projectors
  The Dirty Projectors aka David Longstreth includes Amber Coffman , Angel Deradoorian , Brian McOmber , Nat Baldwin , and Haley Dekle during live performances...
  
  
• Atlas Sound
  Atlas Sound
  Bradford James Cox is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of Atlanta, Georgia-based psychedelic and ambient band Deerhunter. He also pursues a solo career under the moniker Atlas Sound. Cox formed Deerhunter with drummer Moses Archuleta in 2001. The band has released...
  
  
• Jackie-O Motherfucker
  Jackie-O Motherfucker
  Jackie-O Motherfucker is an American experimental music group that formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994.-Biography:Jackie-O Motherfucker began as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Tom Greenwood and saxophonist Nester Bucket. The group has had more than forty members drawn from the U.S....
  
  
• Devendra Banhart
  Devendra Banhart
  Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
  
  
• Yellow Swans
  Yellow Swans
  Yellow Swans were an American experimental electronic noise band from Portland, Oregon. The duo are renowned for their improvisional approach to music, creating a unique experience for each live performance. They describe their music as "a constantly evolving mass of psychedelic noise that is both...
  
  
• Calvin Johnson
• Little Wings (aka Kyle Field
  Kyle Field (musician)
  Kyle Field is the artist behind the band Little Wings.Field was born in Alabama, the son of a college football coach, but his family quickly moved to California where he grew up to love surfing.-Music:...
  
  )* Lucky Dragons
  Lucky Dragons
  Lucky Dragons is an experimental music group consisting of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara. Based in Los Angeles, California, the band are noted for their unusual sound, described as having the ability to make "'everyday sounds' become alluringly other"....
  
  
• The Microphones
  The Microphones
  The Microphones was a lo-fi band based in Olympia, Washington, and fronted by Phil Elvrum. Elvrum is the principal member of the band, but he has collaborated with many other musicians on his records....
  
   (aka Mount Eerie
  Mount Eerie
  Mount Eerie is an Anacortes, Washington-based band fronted by Phil Elverum. Elverum is the principal member of the band, but he has collaborated with many other musicians on his records.-History:...
  
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• Yacht
  YACHT (band)
  YACHT is an American band from Portland, Oregon, Marfa, Texas, and Los Angeles, CA. The core group consists of Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, but expands to include musicians Rob "Bobby Birdman" Kieswetter, Jeffrey Brodsky and Katy Davidson as touring members.YACHT has released albums on...
  
   (aka Jona Bechtolt
  Jona Bechtolt
  Jona Bechtolt is an electronic musician and multimedia artist based in Portland, Oregon, United States. He is a former member of The Badger King and The Blow, and has released solo records under the name Yacht since 2003...
  
  )
• Bobby Birdman
  Bobby Birdman
  Bobby Birdman is musician Rob Kieswetter's stage name. Kieswetter is originally from Nevada City, California, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He has released albums on Hush Records, Not Not Fun, Fryk Beat, States Rights Records...
  
  
• The Watery Graves
• Honey Owens (aka Valet)
• Thanksgiving
  Thanksgiving (band)
  Thanksgiving, AOK, and A.O., are the names under which Portland, Oregon singer/songwriter Adrian Orange performs. Officially adopting the "Thanksgiving" moniker around 1999–2000, Orange played experimental folk music, often accompanying himself on electric guitar...
  
   (aka Adrian Orange)
• Wolf Colonel (aka Jason Anderson)
• The Blow
  The Blow
  The Blow is the moniker of Brooklyn, New York-based musician Mikhaela Yvonne Maricich, who has recorded several albums for K Records. Jona Bechtolt, aka Yacht, was also a member of The Blow from 2004 to 2007....
  
  
• Stag Hare
• Grouper (musician)
  Grouper (musician)
  Grouper is the solo project for electro-acoustic ambient/noise musician Liz Harris, of Portland, Oregon. Harris' music is a mixture of softly-strummed guitar, Wurlitzer keys, and delicate vocals...
  
  
• Panther (band)
  Panther (band)
  Panther were a band founded in 1983 by vocalist Chris Rodd, guitarist Manny Swan, bassist Craig Neilsen, and drummer Rik Walters. Their start was in the college town of Sacramento, Ca...
  
  

Other Projects

• Purple & Green - An electronic funk duo with singer Justin Leon Johnson
• Rob Walmart - An anarchic improvised electronic music collective
• We Like Cats - A dub influenced collaboration with Honey Owens (of Miracles Club, Valet, etc.) and Eva Salens (aka Ina Ore)

External links

• Best New Bands 2006 Willamette Week article
• Best New Bands 2011 Willamette Week article
• Feature article on White Rainbow at treblezine.com
• feature article on White Rainbow at thefader.com
• interview with Forkner on Pitchforkmedia.com
• article on White Rainbow in the Portland Mercury
• White Rainbow Tumblr (White Rainbow blog)