A misty, foggy, rainy day. High enough above to hear it, far enough away to be above it, close enough to smell it, vague enough to float away into wherever your thoughts take you, then you center yourself, back, back, again, don't lose yourself, don't lose focus, it returns.

Submission for Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast - https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/41553

*Gear*

* Tascam DR-40X (field recording)
* Ableton Live 10 Standard
* Magix SOUND FORGE Audio Studio Pro 13 (mastering)
* Native Instruments KOMPLETE KONTROL S61 (input)
* Novation Launchpad MK2

*Instruments*

* Kilohearts Phase Plant - Arpeggiating Effectous
** Native Instruments Raum - Yellow Memories
* Native Instruments Lo-Fi Glow - Detuned
** Output Portal - Ambient Lake
* Field recording of rain, drain and traffic (myself)
** Output Portal - Heaven Reveal
** Kilohearts Reverb - Ambience Dark
* Native Instruments Lo-Fi Glow - Lullaby Blips
* Native Instruments Lo-Fi Glow - Simp Le Church

*Attribution*

* Original cover photo by Robert Boyd in Houston, Texas, used with permission.

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Welcome to halF unusuaL, an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity. Listen freely, explore deeply, and for the sounds to live for your eyes as well as your ears, please stop by the YouTube channel. Thank you for joining this journey! Your support helps keep this afloat ... and is HUGELY appreciated 🥰

Neddal Ayad + others: Guitar, Drone, Effects, Broken Wires, Sad Songs.  With other people: the does, the goslings, the desolation singers.

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Annoyingly pretentious shmuck.



(header image rendered in POV-Ray; human figure model by Ben Houston; TRS plug model by Søren Peo Pedersen; speaker model by Laurent Glodt)

During the early 1990s I studied Mathematics and Computer Science. The world wide web was still largely text-based and mostly empty. Today things are obviously different, though I still thoroughly enjoy art, design, cinema and music in all its forms. I have traveled all over the world for nearly two decades, visiting just over 140 countries. Japan is my favorite. All of this I attempt to incorporate into my music and art.

Abstract sample sculptures, minimal/maximal, weird beats, broken ambient.

Latest: "Clique Plaisir" on BC: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/clique-plaisir

"Crown Shyness" by encym & Wodwo: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/crown-shyness

Electronic Musician, Percussionist, Guitarist and Composer. Modular Synth Enthusiast
http://rupertlally.bandcamp.com 
http://www.rupertandespen.com

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