Biography
Oneir0naut began after a near death experience and grew quickly into a musical amalgam of often contrasting ideas in order to create a continual sense of idiosyncrasy throughout. The intent of this concept that wasn’t a concept at all was to hold a mirror up to modern society, living, and culture through a sort of anti-music that exposes the modern world’s primary weaknesses as well as the fleeting aspects of it’s positive nature in as vague and trans-personal a way as possible, while emphasizing a need for return to a more primitive or simplistic way of communal living. Over the course of two years and ten releases the project developed a “style” of emphasizing ritualism and spirituality through the noise, allowing the listener to use the music as a tool of perception rather than listening for pure pleasure per say. Each album takes an entirely different direction than any of it’s counterparts, but they all serve to inform each other in one way or another. Oneir0naut means “dream traveler”, and based on this overarching symbolism is the listener is informed of the ideology of the project itself, which is to replicate the shared dream space within the physical environment by creating gateways into this imaginary realm of consciousness and “true” reality. This allows the listener to travel. Oneir0naut ended on September 7th, 2014 and was composed of Ryan Rock with contributions from his wife Sarah.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.