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Instruments of Flight is an electronic musician currently based in Northern California, she produces tracks that are suffused with a halcyon, west-coast sensibility. The sound, like the artist, is suspended somewhere between southern California suburbia and cosmopolitan leanings. It’s the sound of British new wave half-remembered from a childhood spent in Long Beach. Or maybe it’s the house-fueled soundtrack of the Castro, transplanted to the lonely stretches of beach north of Santa Cruz. 

Born to a tenor and oboe player IOF was definitely subjected to piano lessons growing up.  She's played a variety of other instruments as well but always favored effects laden instrumentation.  4AD, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel are cited as deeply influential to the point of being unable to separate the sounds from the experience of growing up.  As a producer, she brings to the studio a discriminating ear and an uncompromising approach to sound quality. The music she grew up listening to on iconic LA stations, such as KCRW and KROQ, kindled what became an obsession with sound design and synthesis. The elements of pop, dance, and ambient will be immediately familiar to anyone with an ear for electronica, no instrument or source is off limits though clearly favoring synthetic sources she also draws from found sound and field recordings.   Instruments of Flight reworks them and fashions them into something evocatively different.  It’s as if you’re hearing things you thought you knew, only to discover that they sound somehow better filtered through salt air and Pacific sunsets.

I am a collaborative lyricist/singer/songwriter who has been working with various artists from abroad & near for 8 yrs here on soundcloud and its been quite an experience that will carry on for the years to come. I started out very early as a light opera singer and again very late as a contemporary singer working within the Electronic Underground Scene in primarily Europe. My first band was one other artist who was a Minimal Darkwave/Synthpop composer from Belgium named Frank Reynders of Devil Shy in whom I wrote with for approx 1 year in 2011. We released an album in 2012 that had some success and we released a couple of videos on YouTube. Thereafter I started working with 2  artists whom I had met here on soundcloud, Stephen Surreal of UNUNE who is a Dark Ambient/Dark Media composer in which I did primarily spoken word for him as well as an another Belgian Dark Minimal/Industrial artist. This is when I was approached by more & more artists. In 2014 I met Gary Watts of Nature Of Wires and to make a long story short this is where it all began to unfold with tons of airplay over various internet radio stations to some more undergrounds physical radio stations such as The BBC in Herefordshire UK which was a regional station. We then released "Cyber Rendezvous" in 2016 which had great success in most of Europe. In 2015 prior to the physical album release, one of the tracks entitled " Perfect Menagerie" was No 5 on the Top 30 Pop Charts in most of Europe on SOL Radio stationed in Israel-A program with Oren Amram & "Synthesize Me". We have since then in 2017 released a digital remix album of all the  original tracks from the physical release simply entitled "Cyber Rendezvous Remixed". We have aalso released 3 official videos on YouTube for the tracks entitled "Perfect Menagerie", "Dance With Your Own Skeletons" (remixed by Lloyd Price of Massive Ego)& "we Kill All" (remixed by Cosmo of My Cosmo). I have also released my own Collaborative work independently on Bandcamp as well as a physical release of a 9 track album entitled "Collaborations Vol. 1" by CountessM in 2015 which also had some viral success. There have been misc digital releases of my collaborative work with such artists as In This Mode, Denovomutans, DROID SECTOR DECAY  and many other artists.

I am open to collaborations.