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.