There’s a point where an idea stops being something you are making and starts becoming something you are listening to. the line began in a simple place — a visual motif from a new logo. An eyes/ears figure. Something halF-symbol, halF-presence … err, halF unusuaL. At first it was just an image: a way of suggesting perception, attention, awareness. They’re also my eye and ears - in all the wrong places - that puts me more personally on the line … But it didn’t stay still as an

That was the joke. After No Man Is An AI-land — an experiment feeding John Donne’s words into an AI voice, AI-generated imagery, and AI-generated music — a friend offered the perfect response: “Great graphics, but AI should never be allowed to read poetry.” Which, naturally, felt less like criticism and more like an instruction. So I fed that back in. This time the poem itself was written by AI: AI Should Never Be Allowed to Read Poetry And then the same process repeated. The

Grewve is out now. The track, the video, the finished loop. If you’ve followed the build-up this week, this is where it all lands. Or doesn’t. Listen / watch.

Patreon file drop notice! Free downloads … Help yourself! 🤗 What happens if you take the sound of a gushing fountain … and then slice and filter that sound in a virtual modular synth ... then use THAT sound to create a twitching video of the original fountain? This little experiment connects two playful workflows: ⛲️ Part 1: Generative cutting and filtering in VCV Rack ⛲️ Part 2: An audio-reactive animated fountain in TouchDesigner If you watch the YT video: You can see the

There’s something really deceptive about loops. They promise repetition. Return. The same thing, over and over. Guaranteed. But of course, the loop just doesn’t deliver. The trouble is, nothing repeats. Not exactly, anyway. Heraclitus said you can’t step into the same river twice. Which is awkward news for anyone making loop-based music. There’s a Jamune experience, released today; hyper-minimal, a clear demonstration of what I’m talking about … All it is is an increasingly l

new unusuaL streaming release: grewve drops this Friday, 26 June 2026 pre-save now on your favourite service ... #newrelease #grewve #halFunusuaL #unusualaural

It started, as these things do, with … a capybara. It actually wasn’t the animal at first, although maybe that’s unavoidable now. It was more the word itself. Capybara. What a strange sound. Heavy, rounded, slightly lumpy. The sort of word that feels like it belongs to something larger than itself. I’ve been orbiting it for a while without really noticing. I first met the word a while back. Capybara was also the name of an extraordinary digital audio system in the nineties —

So, we’re at the end of week 3 of Jamune! 🔥 Just over one more week to go … 🙃 Hope you’re enjoying the sonic (and visual) fun so far! ✨ Here’s a mini compilation video, so you can check out any you might have missed just in case you’re missing out on something that deserves a bit more exploration … or not! 😁 This coming Friday also sees the dropping of a new streaming release … and a bit of a crazy video to go with it! 🤫 Pre-save a link on your favourite listening service

So, incredibly, we’re halF way through Jamune already! As you know, at the centre of the whole halF unusuaL project is a fascination with sound — and the question of under what conditions we might allow it to manifest itself as music. Today’s Jamune offering — number 16 — takes a really simple idea: exploring how sound lives and breathes inside a video editor. Our eyes and ears are governed by very different mechanisms, physically and mentally. But under certain circumstances

So, ASMayR is now finished! Thanks for taking part 🙏🤗 And this video is a collation of all of the triggers released on Paintbrush ASMR in one big grab bag of snippets 😁 ☑️ This 'All 31 Triggers' video might be a good index, or starting point, to check out videos you might have missed but would really want to see/hear ... You're totally allowed to revisit any day any number of times! 😉😜 Here's the full playlist ... feel free to dig deeper ... 🪏 You could put the playlist

I just released this video on YouTube ... Take a look 👀 Below is copied what AI understood by it ... It seems clear to me that the YouTube AI thing didn't seem to really 'get' the video it was analysing. In a way, I guess there's the obvious question of, "How could it?" - It doesn't have the sensory apparatus and nervous system we humans do. So, even if it can totally nail the metrics; how long human beings spend with a particular video, when they stop watching, and so on, i

To pre-celebrate Jamune just around the corner, here's a special bonus ... Today's streaming release of a new track. Enjoy! It's inspired by those final chords in Sibelius Symphony No.5 ... Well, who wouldn't be?! One of my favourite software tools, GRM Tools Atelier, provides much of the weirdness and delicious mangling ... You can find other crazy sonic explorations using Atleier (including some tutorials) on the YT channel ... Have a great day!! 🤗🙏

Starting Monday, I’ll be taking part in Jamune — a month-long creative challenge built around making and sharing something new every day throughout June 2026. I’ve already been quietly posting in the run-up across various places, but I thought it might be useful to say a little more about what I’m actually doing — and perhaps why. On one level, Jamune is simple: each day begins with a shared prompt or starting point. Everyone interprets it in their own way and makes something

🎉 It’s been 10 years since halF unusuaL first sent a signal into the world. It's a decade to the day when the first ever track to the...

So, congratulations are in order for Paintbrush ASMR, our sibling YouTube channel!! Today saw their subscriber count hit that magic 1,000...

The 250 subscriber celebration vid on the Paintbrush ASMR YouTube channel has just been set free 👏 ... You can see/hear it on the...

You'll no doubt have noticed that Paintbrush ASMR has recently been posting a few longer videos specifically designed to help you drift...

The first halF unusuaL streaming release of 'thinking music' - the first of a series - busy calm is out today ... designed to ease you...

c-r-a-f-T is now out there and you can hear it on any of the streaming services ... c-r-a-f-T is the fifth in a set of four cat-friendly...

OK, so it was a set of 4 cat-enabled tunes released over the past couple of months ... but I couldn't resist adding another ... c-r-a-f-T...