Olin Caprison, better known as Violence (stylized VIOLENCE), is an American experimental musician, composer, performance artist, and producer.

[1][2][3][4] Caprison was not seriously interested in performance while growing up in Baltimore, but began experimenting with making music while learning to edit video.

[3] The first Violence release was REPTILE/Hand Me Downs from Heaven (Steak Au Zoo Records, 2012).

[6] In 2016, artist collective NON released Violence's A Ruse of Power,[7][8] and the following year artist collective PTP (aka Purple Tape Pedigree) released Human Dust to Fertilize the Impotent Garden.

[9] Violence has toured with Mykki Blanco and Yves Tumor,[9] performed at the Brooklyn Museum,[10] and was a 2019 MacDowell fellow in music composition.