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sione

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idk why this is so funny to me

December 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

for this week's "you can just do things" i'm entering my lexicographer era

December 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

hello it's the last bandcamp friday of 2025 and this year i released my debut album 🌩️

written + produced + mixed + artwork by me 🫀

my musical influences while making it were Arca, Oklou, sleep paralysis, Linkin Park, SimCity 4, Perfume Genius, Halo 2

lonelyspeck.bandcamp.com/album/crown-...

December 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

btw people in Naarm

the whole FAMILI collective is playing a show at northcote social club on the 27th of this month

please come!!! the shows we did in july were very special

tickets.melbournetickets.com.au/outlet/event...

FAMILI: Bloodfire Encore
guest performance by Kira Puru
DJs: Nicholas Currie + Tiaki
27 November at Northcote Social Club

November 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

just another one for the Sony UK admin experience

November 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

thought i'd post my little blender doppler effect experiment because last year it went viral on twitter among a demographic who i imagine have moved here lol

each speaker is playing the same C tone, pitched only by movement relative to the camera #b3d

October 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

i got bumble bff because my social life is dire and it could only find 3 people within 160km of me between the ages of 25-80 ❤️

October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

The temple is the earthly residence of an ancient deity who tends to the cycles of nature and fate like a farmer tends to a harvest. My name for this character in my notes has simply been ‘Time’.
Its pitch black appearance was initially inspired by the ‘shadow entities’of my sleep paralysis experiences, which were an important influence on the album and have profoundly shaped the way I think about sound and reality. Throughout Polynesia, ʻuli (black, darkness) also has associations with spirits, divinity, and earth.
I originally envisioned Time as a more human-like figure wearing a robe and black taʻovala (Tongan formalwear), a feathered headdress inspired by the Tuʻi Tonga’s palā tavake, and ornamentation inspired by ceremonial wear from around the Pacific, including the Tahitian heva tūpāpāʻu (chief mourner costume). I wanted it to feel cosmic and impersonal but also like a guardian connected to the earth, full of nods to rituals of life and death.
Some other inspirations included the black dress from Legend (1985) and the works of Trevor Henderson and Andrew Thomas Huang.
I felt my original designs needed something more and I’m incredibly blessed that Solomon Enos (one of the true OGs of Pasifikafuturism) was up for fleshing them out. He came back with this beautiful interpretation of Time that perfectly synthesises the cosmic/earthy dynamic of the character. From there I sculpted it in Blender to create the version seen in the video.

October 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

1. the time deity
2-3. my early sketches + inspos
4. redesign by Solomon Enos 🙏

October 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

this 1845 tongan dictionary (compiled by an english missionary) has a word for when the whole neighbourhood is fist-fighting 😭 what did this guy see

Fuhu, v. To box; to fight with the fists.
Fuhuloa, v. To box, applied to a whole family or neighbourhood.

October 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM

sione

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posting for posterity this image i made a few years ago of how i see the apple when i imagine an apple

October 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

The visual world of Crown of My Spirit

'The Temple'

some references + notes

I wanted to share a bit about the visual world of Crown of My Spirit 🗿 My goal was to envision a high fantasy world grounded in Polynesian & Pacific concepts instead of the Eurocentric tropes typical of the genre.
The stepped pyramid ‘temple’ that appears in the Wishing video is based on the ceremonial structures of ancient Polynesia such as Tongan langi and Tahitian marae. Its top is lined with stone sculptures that took inspiration from the megalithic art of Te Fenua Tane (the ‘Marquesas’) and Rapa Nui (‘Easter Island’), and at its head is a trilithon, referencing Tonga’s famous Haʻamonga ʻa Maui (its flared silhouette was also partially inspired by roofing styles from other regions of Austronesia such as Sumatra and Sulawesi). There’s a relief sculpture of a serpentine tail on its columns which was a bit of an homage to Hikuleʻo, the Tongan god/dess who ruled Pulotu.
I’m interested in this not just as a way of exploring and learning about my own Tongan heritage, but also as a way of trying to reclaim these references from thoughtless exoticisation and appropriation. There’s a long history of Western designers lifting Pacific styles for their ‘tribal’ and ‘primitive’ qualities, which continues today through revivals of 90s trends like neotribal aesthetics and tiki bars. I want to challenge this by using Pacific references with care and intention, and experimenting with ways of reappropriating the contemporary aesthetics that came from appropriation.

September 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

this lastfmstats chart of all my listening over all time is indirectly an amazing record of my 10+ years of inability to maintain a normal sleep schedule (see how it always slides later and later 😭)

September 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM

sione

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my pfp is the solar analemma as viewed from kaurna land btw

August 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM

sione

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i love john cage enough to know that he had a deep appreciation for the sound of cars honking

August 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM

sione

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10. Wishing
11. Trust

August 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM

sione

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6. Wear Me Down
7. Cycles
8. Breaking for the Mend
9. Amulet

August 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM

sione

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3. Fossil
4. Drawing Flesh From Stone (feat. BAYANG (tha Bushranger))
5. Tether

August 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM

sione

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CROWN OF MY SPIRIT

lyrics

1. Estuary
2. The Way It Is

August 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM

sione

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went for an 18km seaside walk today 🚶

August 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

it's bandcamp friday and for the first time ever i have an ALBUM to share!!!

my debut full-length CROWN OF MY SPIRIT dropped a week ago, after five years of work

it's about 🌕🌊🦑💀🗿💎☄️🫀👻🌀♾

please check it out

lonelyspeck.bandcamp.com/album/crown-...

August 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM

sione

@lonelyspeck.bsky.social

my debut album CROWN OF MY SPIRIT is out now 🩷☄️

took 5 years to get here. it's fittingly an album about finding trust in the cyclical arcs of time and life, through the inevitabilities of darkness and light.

lonelyspeck.bandcamp.com/album/crown-...