Can "Khan" Oral, born of Turkish-Finnish parents in Frankfurt/Germany works and lives as a music- and film-music producer, performer, actor and visual artist in Berlin since 2002. Living in NYC from 1992-2002 he owned the electronic record shop Temple Records Soho/NYC, hosted downtown art events and parties, run three record labels and produced and performed with a variety of artists and projects such as: Captain Comatose, Diamanda Galas, Julee Cruise, Kid Congo Powers, Little Annie or Brigitte Fontaine with whom he won the Qwartz Award for best song 2010 in France. In 2012 Khan worked on an opera piece with Stereo Total, a theatre production for Hau 3 called Wir sind ein Bild aus der Zukunft and released the photo book/box set Angels of Disguise published by Fantome Verlag/Berlin which was presented live at Import/Export at Kassel's documenta13. He is currently acting in Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung in Bremerhaven and finishing his up coming album The Enlightenment Machine for Album Records.