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Danni Rowan
@dannirowan.bsky.social
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Musician and composer. Ambient/ noise/ electronica. I wrote music for The People's Joker. AuDHD. She/her
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Danni Rowan @dannirowan.bsky.social · May 8
Here's a thread with all my music and mix/ podcast features etc. First up, my recent EP Untether:

dannirowan.bandcamp.com/album/untether
Untether, by Danni Rowan
5 track album
dannirowan.bandcamp.com
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I made a video. It was meant to be a TikTok/Short but ended up running far too long. So come with me on a spooky ambient tour of Queen's Park, Glasgow!

youtu.be/WwVTYAs6XMs?...
I went for a spooky walk around Queen's Park, Glasgow.
YouTube video by Danni Rowan
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November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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weather update
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I just went ahead and made some noise!

Right, night.

youtu.be/1pX5_YCsHas
Watch me turn the sound of a rainy pond into an atmospheric soundscape in Ableton
YouTube video by Danni Rowan
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November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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trying to get back into reading by returning to an old favorite!
hardback copy of Psychogeography by Will Self
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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making noise out of rain sounds is harder than it sounds because rain is already pretty noisy! Anyway, here's 15 minutes of me doing that.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_c6...
Watch me turn rain sounds into ambient noise crunchiness!
YouTube video by Danni Rowan
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November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Visited the wonderful NIGERIAN MODERNISM show at the Tate Modern.
Me, a middle-aged white man with spiky red hair and glasses, standing in front of Obiora Udechukwu's gigantic 1993 painting "Our Journey." Museum description: In Our Journey, a bold yellow spiral unravels across the canvas symbolising the sacred python, a divine guide in Igbo cosmology. To create layered designs, Udechukwu used sgraffito, a technique in which a sharp implement is pulled through wet acrylic paint. Shadowy figures embedded in the yellow band evoke wartime displacement and national crisis. Udechukwu references the Nigerian Civil War - in which he served as a member of the Biafran Propaganda Unit - and perhaps the political unrest which followed Nigeria's 1993 election. Widespread protests erupted in June 1993 after the government refused to release the election results. The election was supposed to return Nigeria to democratic civilian rule after a decade of military government. Military rule finally ended in 1999. Erhabor Emokpae's 1963 painting "Struggle between Life and Death." Museum description: 1963 Oil paint on canvas board In Struggle between Life and Death, the black and white palm prints signify both being and nothingness. 'I see in life and death a dialogue between the womb and the tomb', said Emokpae. 'They are the parentheses within which we love and hate, laugh and cry, grow and decay.' Emokpae grew up among the Guild of Carvers in Benin City, and adapted traditional Edo-Benin carving in his wooden sculptures. As a member of the Society of Nigerian Artists and the Nigeria Arts Council, he influenced government policy and helped shape the public perception of Nigerian art. The cover of ~1963 Nigerian magazine BLACK ORPHEUS." A gorgeous abstract block print in red, black, and white. Museum description: Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature was a major Nigerian literary and artistic journal. Founded by German scholar Ulli Beier in Ibadan in 1957, Black Orpheus provided a vital platform for contemporary African writers and artists. It featured poetry, art, fiction, literary criticism, and commentary. The journal was committed to publishing translations from writing in French, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as oral histories. A digitised archive of Black Orpheus is available via the online publication OlongoAfrica. Yusuf Grillo's 1963 painting "The Seventh Knot." Museum description: Oil paint on board In these paintings Grillo creates stylised figures, some of which recall the African mask forms that influenced cubist art. Grillo was drawn to the colour blue, influenced by the deep indigo tones of traditional Yoruba adire textiles and the sombre works from Picasso's Blue Period. Initially intending to study mathematics and architecture, Grillo ended up training as a painter at NCAST. His exploration of volumetric form reflects his interest in mathematics, architecture and the work of early European modernists.
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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weather update
November 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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ambient noise flashback!
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Dude is gonna learn so much about Skyrim and alternate tuning systems.
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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bee79.bsky.social Beth Fuller @bee79.bsky.social · 14d
I left the biggest voluntary donation ever at Bristol Cathedral a) because it was voluntary and b) they had the most gorgeous welcome message by the door. I loved my visit there and their whole approach to their slavery connections was just perfect
Welcome message at Bristol Cathedral showing how inclusive their approach is
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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By the end of this month I’ll have done 16 live shows in November and so far it’s been bloody ace. I’m onto the second half now and I expect by the end I’ll be a shell of a human, but a happy one…
jamesadrianbrown.bsky.social James Adrian Brown @jamesadrianbrown.bsky.social · 14d
Tour with @sulkrooms.bsky.social is WILD fun so far // Manchester is close to sell out 🫶 Leeds and Preston tickets are also moving fast. Then we finish tour in Dublin and Belfast with the mighty @kaylapainter.bsky.social // Come along xxx

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November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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watch me making spooky horror noise in Ableton! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJnM...
Watch me turn the sound of a rainy park into a nightmarish horror soundtrack
YouTube video by Danni Rowan
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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thanks, this is noise music to my ears! 🤩
ihcilon.bsky.social Ihcilon @ihcilon.bsky.social · 14d
I have been playing this once a day as a brain reset.
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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check out this cool rhythmical audio effect I got using Guitar Rig and Ableton
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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apparently all the guitar kids are into tapping these days!
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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noisy, impending noise track up on my YouTube! #noise #horror #drone
November 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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fuuucking around
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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and now, my darling boy, we must part.
an empty Chucky-branded Fanta bottle
October 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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here's a clip!
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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If you are going to listen to one Halloween radio show, you oughta make it mine. If you aren't completely terrified by the end, I will eat my hat.

kaosradio.org - 4pst - kaos 89.3 fm in olympia
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I've been learning classical movie composition techniques for a while now alongside my noise music, and here's the first fully formed track I wrote. It's a tribute to John Carpenter's Halloween soundtrack. I hope you enjoy. Please subscribe to my YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J83f...
two carved pumpkins, glitchy and colour-distorted
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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CABARET VOLTAIRE LIVE – it’s the Final Tour and Gazelle Twin is the tour support. 🙀 Tickets go on sale Friday 31st October, 10am. Thank you Mal for the invitation. Cannot wait to tour with the loveliest gents in music. 🩵
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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my buddy joins me for tonight's Night Jam in Ableton! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4pT...
me jamming in Ableton with a shot of the back of a grey cat's head
October 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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I love the sound of leaves in the Autumn!
October 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM