So the other day I was delirious from post-vaccine (both flu and covid) side-effects and decided to just... get the laser nebula light and go crazy in my room. my partner currently has covid so part of it was meant for her, but also to make some promo shots for "all the dead" which is out next friday (27th), the day before IL...
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An old dark ambient song originally ... placed ... only on soundcloud - from all the way back in 2016-17 (8 years ago!) as part of the 'filaments' series. Apparently I've never uploaded it here, which is odd. I could only find an mp3 (again, lu...
2025-06-02 20:46:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! Here is a song rejected from the final version of Impossible Light, "You Did This to Me". Sadly I don't think a complete version of this song will see the light of day due to no longer being on spe...
2025-05-29 15:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a complete remake of an old song "Montauk" (which I apparantly never uploaded here, and no longer seems to be on soundcloud...) done for a charity compilation for trans youth with most of my mates in the noise scene down under. The song... is a spooky one.
2025-05-23 07:10:50 +0000 UTC
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Hi everybody, here is my new 32-minute, 5-song mini-LP, All the Dead Melt Down as Rain. Paid patreon subscribers (and those too broke to subscribe) get this a few weeks before I pop it on bandcamp/spotify.
1 - Cleanse...
2025-05-20 06:32:14 +0000 UTC View PostI will be making horrible sounds, mixing (likely collective noise diary stuff!) and maybe going through new songs! See you all there
edit: thankyou! it went well and I will do more! u can follow me on twitch here!
https://www.twitch.tv/uboa_t...
2025-05-10 08:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, here is another track off All The Dead Melt Down As Rain, specifically the finale.
As the title suggests, here is the spiritual sequel to detransitioning, as it share a lot in common with it both instrumentally and structurally. Both start with soft vocals and piano, have an ambient choir buildup into no...
So over the last two weeks, in desperation, I made a thing - "All the Dead Melt Down As Rain".
Cover by me - collage (magazine cuttings, knife scrapes, incense ash, pen, whiteout + digital colouring/editing/text post-scan)...
2025-04-28 19:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostYes, more annoying sounds! By far the biggest sample pack I've done to date - everything from cut-ups, drones, melodic warbles, effected speech and semi-rhythms. All made using the laptop microphone and an extrermerly large amount of LFO-controlled effects (and OTT). Since there are so many samples, the quality is not quite a...
2025-04-23 08:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I was going to put more up from the photoshoot with Taran I'm still looking for where I actually saved them on my HDD/email and I am tired. Anyway, here are some photos from the photoshoot with Frankie Pan (or effpan). We shot these at Mag...
2025-04-20 19:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been thinking of other posts, and I think since some other folk with Patreons are posting photograph archives, I might as well do the same, even though I am perpetually confused why anybody would like to look at me (my self esteem really never recovered from growing up as a closeted nerd). These were done with my long-...
2025-04-18 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Another collaboration song finished recently, with the inimitable Bulgarian dark ambient artist fashiongore. She sent me only about 2 minutes of drones to work with, and we manage to expand it to a full 8. Featuring - drones, choirs, pedal noise, s...
2025-04-16 00:23:46 +0000 UTC View PostAnother WIP, using... the tin whistle! Another collage-y one (started in 2024), with a big Sludge Section. I got stuck with this one around the heavy section with the baritone guitar, and wasn't entirely happy with the length (the crescendo it feels too short) and the guitar tone used (I have a better amp now). However I thi...
2025-04-13 07:21:05 +0000 UTC View Posthey! finally, another sample pack - this time with my drummer Lulu (Serene Ailment). We recorded these for future uboa songs (indeed you'll hear them in things I am working on) but she suggested we also pop the samples up here. Basically - two trash c...
2025-04-12 03:22:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey, sorry for the gap. As y'all know my health has not been the best recently - I am officially diagnosed with POTS. Despite being mostly housebound while I rest and wait for medications/lifestyle adjustments to wo...
2025-04-12 02:40:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, I finally tried my hand at "harsh noise wall", a genre I have previously publically disparaged on the internet. I think HNW is ok now, I guess I am older and less of a hater. I think I get its meditative nature now. Plus, this is for a good cause - trans mutual aid, organised by none other than Desdemona of 2025-03-21 15:19:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Recently, Kaho Matsui asked me to collab on a song with her, and it turned out great. It is on her upcoming release "Life Lover", which is a stunning work blending twinkly emo, noise, ambient, electronica and glitch. She did most of the song and com...
2025-03-10 17:26:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, sorry I didn't get around the collective noise diary. I didn't do it immediately, lost momentum and the pressure of getting it done 'in time' while having the worst POTS flare up of my life was a little overwhelming. I also needed to vent about my health ... more.
Here is a song I've been working somewhat inspired...
Here are some spooky, liminal space silent hill skibidi drones made with a yamaha PSS-170, chase bliss generation loss, strymon nightsky, boss DD-7. Did it about a week ago when bored and out of compositionally creative ideas for the collective noise diary. Besides, you all gave me some samples, here's some back (so they are ...
2025-02-07 07:38:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a redux of an old song made originally just for 2025-02-02 02:21:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: 3/6/25 - this is still going! now multiple songs worth! please keep sending things through!! first song coming soon when throat is repaired!
Announcing an idea I've been wanting to try for a long time - making sound collages out of what you send me. I did this ages ago with my old discord serv...
2025-01-25 05:41:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for nothing for a bit. Been (surprise!) unwell again. Anyway, have a 15+ minute long song.
I was originally just planning to do a noise diary entry for some comps i've been asked to do but it kinda ... got a little out of hand. It's still a WIP with only minimal vocals. Was originally jammed out on my gear noise...
merry xmas/Hanukkah. Here is another Iconoplast WIP - based on a recording of violet and orchid jamming and me laying stuff on top - a lot of stuff, so much that I need more from them! We have an album's worth of jams I am slowly editing (before sending it off back to violet and orchid to add to it).
It's also to raise...
Preview of the Meltdown set (or EP), now entitled "Every Reactor Four a Friend", recorded at RB and (nearly) remastered. The set was recorded in full and I've remastered it, awaiting feedback from my label if they are interested in releasing it. This song is much more 'traditional' death industrial in the style of Pharmakon a...
2024-11-28 12:08:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. been a while again, and we have chronic fatigue to thank for that. Here are some little noises to use royalty (but not credit) free for your music. Lots of granulator glitches, cut ups, eerie drones and strange sounds in general. Hope you dig it. New song hopefully soon after some good health days. 24bit 48k,...
2024-11-18 16:36:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is an audio-only preview of a new project with (one of) my gf(s) Orchid, aka Twinsoul . It's atmospheric harsh noise (this song is much more on the atmospheric side), and we'...
2024-11-05 09:02:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is another song for the same thing as Banksia Grave, likely the first song on the record/ep/whatever. Using a VST based on the Federation Bells for the first half, an...
2024-10-16 13:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Another noise diary song, this time a little more quiet/subtle, and produced in a more plain/lo-fi way more reminiscent of my older 2019-era work (like The Origin and The Absolute).
It uses also synth jams - the first part from 2020 (using a minilogue) and the second half from 2015 (!) using a MIDI keyboard as a ...
https://newnoisemagazine.com/interviews/interview-xandra-metcalfe-of-uboa-talks-impossible-light/
Another interview because I can't seem to shut up. This time for New Noise magazine (...
2024-09-28 15:56:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a WIP of a song written around the same time as Impossible Light (2018). I recently made a second attempt at recording vocals and gave it a complete remix. An older mix was posted on soundcloud years ago, where my voca...
2024-09-22 09:24:47 +0000 UTC View Post
