About Me

image credit: Barbara McDonald-Hysniu (feat. Lyra McDonald-Hysniu)

image credit: ESA Tim Peake – “Aurora over northern Canada”
magnetosphere sounds | public domain:
https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/sounds-of-space/

Imposed limitation: composition uses only sine waves.

an atonal ambient meditation about slowing down, stepping out alone, and letting the cold and silence bring things into focus
footage taken from our hotel window during a spring visit (2026) to Whitehorse

Drawn from living beside a dog sled camp in Yellowknife in 2005. In those in-between hours, the dogs would howl and their voices would merge, sometimes answered by my friend’s (Diane’s) own dog. Using these recordings, originally planned as a multichannel surround piece and now only available in stereo, this piece is an attempt to slow and sit inside that collective sound.

source audio contribution: Diane Boudreau – field recording (~2006)
https://www.nwtarts.com/search/artists/diane-boudreau

image credit: Thomas Lipke – scenery of aurora – unsplash (2018)
https://unsplash.com/photos/scenery-of-aurora-oIuDXlOJSiE

Fully licensed as of August 2025 🙂

Recollection of converations with Thomas, October 2024, describing an experience with someone he met. Shortly after, he released Limerence, paired with edits from The Truman Show. This is my attempt to recall those conversations, moved by the track.

This track never came out, and hearing it now brings me back to 2005, when I had just moved to Yellowknife and met Aaron “Godson” Hernandez after word spread that I played music. We recorded this during the lead-up to Arctic Reign Trilogy Vol 3, with Iffer adding some vocal parts, and pieces of the session later landing on the album while this version stayed put. Listening again as a school psychologist changes how the lyrics land. Having been in Calgary twice during my schooling gives me context to what he was talking about. His plain account of growing up in Forest Lawn hits harder now. The instability. The pressure. The learning challenges that students face, aren’t met with adequate support, but shape everything. The long hours indoors because the streets outside were rough, and how that time became the place where he worked on his craft. The track holds that early meeting, that northern period, and the weight of his story in a way I did not fully grasp then. Unreleased until now. Also interesting how my drum’n’bass nerdy (Vibert/Wagonchrist) influences lasted for over ten years by then, and still influential in my mixes.