Unknown Component

Unknown Component is the music & art project of Keith Michael Lynch. Currently based out of central Iowa, featuring Lynch on guitars, vocals, piano and drums. As a musician, a songwriter, and a producer, he plays every instrument on all of the Unknown Component recordings, composing every part of every song in his own independent studio. Unknown Component also consists of Lynch's original artwork in the form of abstract paintings. Working primarily with oil and acrylic on canvas, he creates one of a kind paintings that line the walls of his studio providing inspiration for new song ideas. Born in a small town in eastern Iowa. At the age of 16, he taught himself how to play guitar after discovering an old acoustic guitar hidden in the attic of a Victorian house built in the late 1800s. within a few years he would begin writing and recording songs on a four track tape recorder. Some of these songs would eventually find their way onto the first Unknown Component album.