← Unsound 2026/warszawa-krakow

Ambient duo with Hashtag Ensemble strings
Based in Portland, United States
Visible Cloaks make glassy, gently refracted ambient pieces: digital tones, tuned percussion-like detail, and soft-focus harmonic drift. For this set, the Hashtag Ensemble collaboration points toward a chamber-scale version of that language, with strings and acoustic color sitting inside their synthetic haze.
Ryan Carlile and Spencer Doran come out of Portland’s experimental electronic scene, with a long thread of releases built around Japanese kankyō ongaku, new age, and archival listening. Their 2018 work with Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano on FRKWYS Vol. 15 and the more recent Paradessence keep them tied to that Japan-to-Portland exchange of ambient reference points.
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