Nilan Perera has been an active member of the Canadian creative music and performance scene since 1983. He has been involved in some of the most forward-looking, influential and radical ensembles of the past 19 years including NOMA, Bill Grove’s Not King Fudge, Handslang and the Excalceolators. He has also performed and recorded with Vinnie Golia, Don Preston, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Glen Hall, John Oswald, Vinx, Al MacDowell and Michael Ondaatje.

His decade long association with guitarist/composer and iconoclast, Rainer Wiens has led him into the world of Dance/Theatre as a composer/performer/instrumentalist with Wiens and Jan Komarek in Sound Image Theatre‚ and most recently, with Susanna Hood’s hum dansoundart.

He is currently a member of trip-hop group Lal‚ prepared guitar trio Ferrobaci (with Wiens and Bill Parsons), electroacoustic/improv duo Smash and Teeny (with Sara Peebles),Susanna Hood’s hum dansoundart and radio art duo FaMished AMerica (w/Susanna Hood) as well as performing and composing as a soloist on guitar.

Nilan is featured on several recordings.

He can also speak in sentences and can nearly dress himself.