Ruaridh Law // Art & Music   email ruaridh@gmail.com
further_in / Sonic Commune / BrokenSonics (2015-)

Events, online and in the real world
Collaboration with David Coyle, Dave Donnelly, Max Bacharach and many others
further_in was a browser/mobile based streaming channel, conceived to support artists, performers, writers, dancers, DJs and musicians an opportunity to have a platform for their work, in the COVID-19 epidemic which effectively shut down live art overnight.

It launched with a program of films and music, with the hosting of the DaDark Outside festival (originally scheduled for Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn in Cumbria) in the launch weekend attracting thousands of viewers; ironically many times more than would have seen it in real life.


As of April 2021, in collaboration with Max Bacharach/AOTCI, it evolved further into a weekly online event (Sonic Commune Season 1) and irregular real-world event (Season 2), then a radio show for Resonance FM (Season 3)





Ruaridh Law is an artist and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

Over 20 years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist. His mediums include sound and installation art, film and writing. His works have ranged from intimate audio performance and gallery installations to large-scale outdoor works combining sound walks, improvised performance and experimental storytelling.

His artistic focusses are on data-visualisation, human voices and their stories, unusual paradigms for performance and composing, and marrying abstraction to a beating human heart. These have manifested themselves in a tarot deck that generates music, sequential stories told over film and radio, right-wing propaganda twisted and sanitised into more worthwhile content and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night – as well as countless CD, DVD, vinyl and other music releases.

He runs several record labels and, more recently, No Roof Only Sky, a small press publisher.