ioflow
rain artist. makes music, reads books, writes words, talks with birds.
site/blog: https://wavelight.ws
music: https://ioflow.bandcamp.com
video: youtube.com/c/ioflow
mastodon: sea.wavelight.ws/@ioflow
- i've been reviving and reevaluating my old thinkpad and mac mini, which meant working through many hardware and software issues after years of being shelved. wavelight.ws/blog/2026020... #thinkpad #linux #archlinux #macmini #macos #sysadmin
- a quiet midnight migration: soft starshine, gentle moonglow, stippled cloudshapes, constant companions, pale-capped mountains, and forest-ringed lakeshore. wavelight.ws/blog/2026013... #nature #birds #secondpersonbirds #indieweb
- musical instruments are pathways to inner uniqueness.
- an ethereal transformation. a hushed, diffuse world of light. soft, close-wrapped timeless moments in nature.
- my new song and video, "chromadrops," and a detailed look at the process of creating it. ambient piano improvisation and ppooll. created for @disquiet.bsky.social junto project 0732, "color drenching." wavelight.ws/blog/2026011... #ambient #piano #ppooll #dsp #disquiet0732 #disquietjunto
- my review of "bedrock and paradox" by @tteejj.bsky.social on @auralcanyon.bsky.social. moments of tranquility unfold as ephemeral soft-grained memories. wavelight.ws/rev/20260107... #ambient #ambientmusic #pinyonpine #auralcanyon
- an exceptionally smooth, lush, late-night journey into deep space (dub space). 🌌 #dubtechno #dubambient #ambient
- nature walk for the new year. a hushed forest in between rains. a world transformed, reshaped, renewed. wavelight.ws/blog/2026010... #nature #rain #moss #forest #newyear
- calm moments at the edge of the world, beneath gentle rains. quiet morning tides. hope and light in the new year. wavelight.ws/blog/2025123... #nature #ocean #rain #newyear
- twelve field recordings of birds as an audio journal, a sonic journey into joyful memories and beautiful nature spaces. an avian advent calendar. created for @disquiet.bsky.social junto 0730, "calendar advent" wavelight.ws/blog/2025122... #fieldrecording #birds #nature #disquiet0730 #disquietjunto
- hello, friends. happy christmas. i've released my song "tanagers in paradise" as a free/PWYW single. it was originally released on the "Friends: An Ambient Compilation" tape on @seilrecords.bsky.social. ioflow.bandcamp.com/album/tanage... #ambient #fieldrecording #birds #piano #modular #synthsky
- quiet riparian woodlands and luminous chaparral scrub bring peace in the waning sunlight, as winter solstice gently draws near. wavelight.ws/blog/2025122... #nature #winter #solstice
- my first project with the sewing machine: i made a dust cover for it. wavelight.ws/blog/2025113... #sewing #diy
- after recent rains, the appearance of moss is a small seasonal joy. mosses renew and soften the contours of the world. wavelight.ws/blog/2025112... #nature #moss #rain #autumn
- cloudmoon // fullness. i looked up as i was returning from yesternight’s walk, and saw the overcast darkness open up for just a few wispy moments. and tonight, the moon was even more piercingly luminous; a silvershine disc ascending the eastern horizon. #nature #moon #supermoon
- quiet, ephemeral autumn moments. sunset and evening walks beneath fields of silver diamonds that became rain in the darkness. wavelight.ws/blog/2025101... #nature #clouds #rain #autumn #fall
- poignant words on a last enfolding of nature. a loss that my own heart knows each time that it happens here. and in this moment, this presence, is the remembrance of life: growing upward, spreading outward. the providence, blessing, and grace that have flowed into so many.
- a small companion piece in addition to my contribution to this month's indieweb carnival theme, second person birds, hosted by @fractalkitty.com. a perspective: gatherings at the end of a day. wavelight.ws/blog/2025092... #secondpersonbirds #nature #birds #crow #indieweb #indiewebcarnival
- a small companion piece in addition to my contribution to this month's indieweb carnival theme, second person birds, hosted by @fractalkitty.com. a perspective: sable, sapphire, chorus. wavelight.ws/blog/2025092... #secondpersonbirds #nature #birds #redwingedblackbird #indieweb #indiewebcarnival
- drifting through an afternoon of iridescent colors and ever-shifting radiance. my contribution to this month's indieweb carnival, hosted by @fractalkitty.com: second person birds. wavelight.ws/blog/2025092... #secondpersonbirds #nature #birds #hummingbird #indieweb #indiewebcarnival
- to be a bird in the last moments of twilight, when painted sunset skies are flecked with star droplets, and feathers gradually blend with quiet darkness.
- impressions from walking through a season of colors; gorgeous hues at the end of the day. my contribution to this month's indieweb carnival: colors. wavelight.ws/blog/2025082... #nature #birds #colors #indieweb #indiewebcarnival
- i wrote a guide to installing, configuring, and running a single-user mastodon server. highlights: local disk, subdomain redirect, improved config files, security and performance, privacy and safety considerations. ⁂ wavelight.ws/blog/2025080... #mastodon #fediverse #mastoadmin #indieweb #smallweb
- nature walk through summer mountain forests, each trail revealing new joys and wonders. #nature #birds #mountains #forest #summer wavelight.ws/blog/2025073...
- my review of "almost an island" by kenneth james gibson, @marineeyes.bsky.social, and @jamesbernard.bandcamp.com on @pastinside.bsky.social . serene ambient textures in a quiet mountain wilderness. #ambient #ambientmusic #pastoral #nature #soundscape #almostanisland wavelight.ws/rev/20250730...
- marvelous longform nature poetry. an essay on embodying terrestrial glory, a cloudscape all the more wondrous for its impermanence.
- recent nature reads: braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer wild soundscapes - bernie krause ocean - david attenborough & colin butfield the wild places - robert macfarlane gathering moss - robin wall kimmerer #nature
- my review of "hrafnamynd" by @patriciawolf.bsky.social on balmat. a wondrous sonic journey into icelandic wildlands, raven imagery, and scenic memories. #ambient #ambientmusic #nature #soundscape #soundtrack #iceland #ravens #patriciawolf #balmat wavelight.ws/rev/20250711...
- the process of reworking my site's underlying code, focusing on semantic html, embedded media, styles, accessibility, and security. #web #smallweb #html #css #hugo #staticsite #digitalgarden wavelight.ws/blog/2025063...
- 🌿🎶 genres: 🪴 microhouseplant 🌺 four to the flora 🌱 seedcore 🥀 black petal roots rockgarden 🌻 flower metal 🪷 botanica
- thoughts on a website as a place for growing good things. a tiny bouquet of phlox blossoms in a vast montane meadow is still a beautiful thing, and it can make all the difference. #nature #web #smallweb #digitalgarden wavelight.ws/blog/2025061...
- vivid nature writing by @fractalkitty.com . journeys into primeval forests; time and distance marked by changes in birdsong and shadow. slowly unfolding renewal. #nature #birds toground.link
- nature walk through fragrant chaparral hills, descending into a scrub oak forest, alongside a meandering hidden creek. refreshing, quiet, slow. a peaceful, wondrous late spring. #nature #birds wavelight.ws/blog/2025060...
- an overview and notes on the process of migrating my site's hosting from digitalocean to hetzner. wavelight.ws/blog/2025053...
- walking in a rainstorm. breathing cold winds, refreshing petrichor, the sweet honey scent of star jasmine, blooming into innumerable pale points. a crow, northern mockingbird, mourning dove, and house finch quietly perching together, fluffing feathers after the downpour. #rain #birds #flashesapp