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
- cloudfire // lastlight while we haven't been able to see the aurora, we were awed by yesterday's sunset. perhaps it was a prelude, or accompaniment, to further celestial glories. vivid firebands stretching across the dark stormclouds. #nature #sunset
- 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
- suddenly, at the end of twilight, a huge flock of turkey vultures streamed silently overhead, intermittently eclipsing the crescent moon. the black cloud spiraled upward in the darkness of dusk, then settled into the trees silhouetted against the hills. #birds #nature
- 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
