Neonautica is a New Orleans-based voice/sax duo renowned for their work in EDM, avant-pop, and experimental classical music—as well as their mind-bending collisions of those styles. Since 2017, singer/songwriter Megan Ihnen and saxophonist/composer/producer Alan Theisen have performed across the United States, combining live vocals and saxophone with groovy tracks to create one-of-a-kind genre-bending events.
Neonautica’s EDM originals fuse dubstep, blue-eyed soul, funky horn lines, art rock, and emotional orchestral sounds that melt minds and shake behinds. What do they sound like? Imagine GRiZ, Björk, and Meredith Monk all jamming together in a sparkly sci-fi fever dream.
For almost a decade, Neonautica has also collaborated with composers of contemporary classical music, specializing in pieces with theatrical elements. Their stage show Black Meridian is an nonstop, hour-long, two-person abstract opera telling a story of love and black holes through music by ten different composers/songwriters.
The duo (formerly known as MIATp) has performed at numerous festivals and venues including Oh My Ears Festival (Phoenix), NEXTET (Las Vegas), Soulful Sessions (Peacock Room - New Orleans), Zeitgeist Halloween Festival (St. Paul), UT Contemporary Music Festival (Knoxville), and more. Neonautica has joined forces with numerous musicians and artists such as composer/producer Andrew Rodriguez (PASTPREY), singer/actress Gelsey Bell (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812), composer Jennifer Bellor, performer/video artist Nick Zoulek (Rushing Past Willow), composer Neil Anderson-Himmelspach, and saxophonist Scott Johnson (Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra). Neonautica is a partnered ensemble with ADJective Composers’ Collective as well as a fiscally sponsored project of Bang on a Can.
Minds Go Higher - original single by Neonautica - official lyric video
Black Meridian - Teaser Trailer #2
Neonautica performing their song “Hey You!” with producer SkyFaux
“Voice, saxophone, and electronics mesh art song with synth pop, blurring the lines of genre or perhaps shrugging off those confines entirely.”
“From the first note to the last, [Neonautica] suspends time and transports their audiences into a new enrapturing world.”
“...particularly gifted at their craft.”
