A random oddity of tunes put together usually with just acoustic, ukulele, back of said guitar/ukulele, some odd noises and an occasional plastic melodica - using the iPhone App Loopy as recording and mixing device, on whatever room I happen to in at the time.

Its rough, its ready and I typically dont have a clue how to ever play any of them again once recorded, so worth doing regardless of the 'one-take' nature I fink! :-)

https://ogenblik.bandcamp.com/follow_me

"Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs—
To the silent wilderness
Where the soul need not repress
Its music lest it should not find
An echo in another's mind..."
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1822

Ogenblik is a reflective look inward at our relationship with the natural world. A meditative, reflective approach inspired by field recordings and water-stained bird guides.

Debut album released on August 16th 2024

'A glorious slice of left-field pop... channels some of the woozy, inward-looking ambient pop of artists like Panda Bear, Washed Out and Here We Go Magic... gloriously disorienting' TOME TO THE WEATHER MACHINE

'His latest release is a genre-bender... makes this feel wonderfully organic' PODCART

Support from:

RTÉ 1 - Folk On One
RnaG - An Taobh Tuathail
KEXP - Pacific Notions

"Leixlip-based musician Ogenblik's experiments in retrofuturistic production culminate in his debut album, This Used To Be The Sound of The Future. Employing a range of outdated recording techniques, from dictaphones to the ill-fated MiniDisc, Ogenblik splices everything together with environmental acuteness, Frankensteining innocuous acoustic guitar melodies into more pressing statements on the diminishing shelf-life of technology and human interest.... Mixing cute acoustic guitar lines with fractured beats and computerised sonics gives the instrumental music a voice—a voice which seems to be speaking from a graveyard for dead technologies, reminding you that the passing of time always leaves beauty and intrigue in its wake." - Jay Honeycomb (Pop Matters, No Transmission)

New EP, Dúlra is arriving in September 2025


OGENBLIK (DUTCH)

NOUN:
ogenblik (neut.) (pl. ogenbliken, diminutive ogenblikje)
moment, blink of an eye (instant of time)

I'm an Irish composer, sound engineer/programmer and improviser with a research interest in the philosophy of sound, music and aesthetics. 
If you want to collaborate or chat, send me a message here or via email.
Please see my links for more information.
Thanks for visiting, 
Ben

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