Roland Kayn (born 3 September 1933 in Reutlingen, Germany; died 5 January 2011 in Nieuwe Pekela, Netherlands) was a composer of electronic music.
[2][3] From 1952 to 1955 he studied composition and organ at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.
Beginning in 1970 he worked at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, (which later moved to The Hague) and lived in the Netherlands until his death in 2011.
[1][3] His 14-hour composition A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (2009) was released on 16 CDs in October 2017 by the Finnish label Frozen Reeds.
[4] Since May 2020, the Kayn estate has released a recording every month on the digital distribution platform Bandcamp.