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Tim Ferguson

@encosion.bsky.social
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Low-key musician, full time product designer, used to photograph gigs. Heathfield, East Sussex. encosion.com

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-Year-Old Mia Heller From Virginia, USA, Invents a Water Filter That Eliminates 96% of Microplastics From Drinking Water
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Did anyone else see/capture the 'rocket' towards the tail end of the solar eclipse in the UK?
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Looking forward to this: totality666.bandcamp.com/album/termin...
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Terminal With Benefits, by Ritual Error
12 track album
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@shrinkwrapped.bsky.social you headed to Faraquet tonight? I'm on the train in... Looking forward to saying hi. (and the release of the new @ritualerror.bsky.social )
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I've just pulled my family tree out of Geni and rebuilt it as something I actually own. thoughts.encosion.com/2026/06/30/f...
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Freeing my family tree
I've just pulled my family tree out of Geni.com and rebuilt it as something I actually own. I wanted a copy of it that wasn't dependent on any platform's contin...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I once saw Fantomas and Techno Animal together... Noice
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
So Suno bought Songkick recently... My Subject Access Request finally came back... All my gig photos posted between 2009 and 2012 smooshed together – and some posters. R.I.P. Songkick
All my gig photos posted between 2009 and 2012 smooshed together – and some posters with the old Songkick logo and the letters R.I.P. overlayed
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"The most courageous choose peace" – Dr. Ted M. Ross. Paraphrasing: Instead of investing in weapons or offence and defence, what about the silent enemy – viruses like COVID that caused between 15 to 20 million direct and indirect deaths?
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
15 years ago today I saw Nedry & Anchorsong at the Lock Tavern, London (May 22, 2011) photos.encosion.com/Music/2011.0...
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2011.05.22 Nedry live at the Lock Tavern - Encosion Photos
Photo album by Tim Ferguson • 2011-05-22 • 16 photos
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
15 years ago today, I shot The Rural Alberta Advantage at the Bush Hall, London. photos.encosion.com/Music/2011.0...
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2011.05.17 Rural Alberta Advantage live at Bush Hall - Encosion Photos
Photo album by Tim Ferguson • 2011-05-17 • 34 photos
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I saw a pretty amazing line-up 15 years ago...
Hauschka / Eighth Blackbird / David Cossin at LSO St Luke's. Then later: Steve Reich / Max Richter / Eighth Blackbird / Britten Sinfonia / Bang On a Can / Clogs / Owen Pallett / so percussion at Barbican Centre.
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When your sister swims 1,153 km for ocean conservation, you build something that amplifies the mission. Sarah founded Breathe Conservation (Marine Org of the Year 2025) to eliminate ocean plastic. Her One Ocean Swim makes the scale of her task clear: encosion.com/sarah-swims/
Map of South Africa showing the sheer scale of Sarah's epic open water ocean swimming
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
In the 90s I wrote The Aural Encosion Theory – the idea we'd build a "universal cross-species transcoder" @projectceti.bsky.social is doing exactly that. Researchers deploying sensors to decode sperm whale communication. We're about to understand another species for the first time in history!
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the aural encosion theory...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Suno bought Songkick? {Fires off Subject Access Request before deleting account} ...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Love that "accessibility" — a word so unwieldy everyone avoids spelling it — got shortened to "a11y", a numeronym that itself is inaccessible.
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So excited for this album... They are so my cup of tea horselords.bandcamp.com/album/demand...
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Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, by Horse Lords
12 track album
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I was inspired by this post back in 2020: www.wired.com/story/loose-...
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Loose Ends: A Literary Supercut of Sci-Fi Last Sentences (Annotated)
Miles grinned sleepily, puddled down in his uniform. “Welcome to the beginning.”
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Last lines... Structural Sampling: AKA Bricolage, cento, or hip-hop writing ;) The last line from all my favourite graphic novels, rearranged to make nonsense thoughts.encosion.com/2026/01/26/l...
Comic panels of the last line from all my favourite graphic novels, rearranged to make nonsense
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
First lines... Structural Sampling AKA Bricolage, cento, or hip-hop writing ;) ...the first line from all my favourite graphic novels, rearranged to make nonsense: thoughts.encosion.com/2026/01/26/f...
Comic panels of the first line from all my favourite graphic novels, rearranged to make nonsense
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Spotify requires a minimum of 1,000 streams in 12 months to qualify for royalty payments. Independent artists collectively missed out on an estimated USD$47 million in royalties in 2024 as a result.
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Always loved this album... thoughts.encosion.com/2026/02/06/f...
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Fixation on a coworker...
Not sure why, but I've always loved the artwork on this great breaking album...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
What if we 'retuned' bird speech into a more human-perceptible domain? A very rough demonstration of slowing down and altering pitch to a more human-like register: aural.encosion.com/theory/#stra...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
So sad... Dawn of Midi are unlikely to make another album together. "Dysnomia" is a firm favourite of mine. www.hearingthings.co/dawn-of-midi...
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Dawn of Midi's Eternal Return
The legendary experimental band on the making of their opus, 'Dysnomia,' and coming back to its obsessive rhythms 13 years later.
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
@shrinkwrapped.bsky.social Can you believe that Kevin (Reynolds) hadn't heard of Faraquet?
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I've been enjoying reflecting on my past media consumption... So let's talk about Marvel superhero comics for a minute! thoughts.encosion.com/2026/01/26/l...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
15 years ago I was lucky enough to witness the album 'Hadestown' (which became a West End show) performed live at the Union Chapel.
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
My Top 40 Loved Graphic Novels... I love titles that tend to have either (a) genuine emotional resonance beyond genre element, or (b) such committed execution that the craft itself becomes the point. This is all entirely subjective and meaningless of course! thoughts.encosion.com/2026/01/24/t...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Woke up to both sunshine AND this news this morning... Faraquet!?! Live in (almost) my neighbourhood? Hopefully they'll sneak a Brighton or Hastings gig in between Leeds and London shows. This is huge for me.
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In other news... Holy Fuck are playing in Brighton on my 50th birthday... So that'll be my birthday plans sorted!
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
20 years ago I went to this show by the talented Puente Celeste in BsAs thanks to some super friendly strangers that became friends
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold “oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Well played @letterboxd.social ! Just got this 'captcha' when logging Bugonia
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doseone @doseone.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
BUY THE MUSIC YOU WANT MORE OF IN THIS WORLD…
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
15 years ago. What a privilege to see and shoot Marnie Stern: photos.encosion.com/Music/2010.1...
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2010.11.25 Marnie Stern at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen - Encosion Photos
Photo album by Tim Ferguson • 2010-11-25 • 38 photos
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It's April first right?
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Can you hear the difference? Strap on some headphones and give it a try... Can people actually distinguish between different bitrates of modern audio compression? Rather than relying on ego / reddit / forum debates I built a proper double-blind test! thoughts.encosion.com/2025/11/11/c...
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Can you hear the difference?
I've always been curious about audio compression: at what bitrate does Opus become truly transparent? Can most people actually distinguish between 96kbps or 160...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I asked Claude to describe this old mixtape of mine in case people didn't recognise any of the artists. I thought it would come up with a short description, instead it wrote an entire essay... thoughts.encosion.com/2025/11/01/a...
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A cartographer's guide to the experimental underground...
I asked Claude to describe this mixtape for you in case you didn't recognise any of the artists. I thought it would come up with a short description, instead it...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
MP3s are old. Opus is here, loud and clear! thoughts.encosion.com/2025/10/31/w...
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MP3s are 33 years old. Is it time to move on?
When I decided to self-host my music alongside Bandcamp, I needed to choose an audio codec — it matters more than you'd think. It's part of how people experie...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Reflecting on my 7 years of gig photography between 2009 and 2015. I documented over 300 live performances across London's most celebrated venues... thoughts.encosion.com/2025/10/27/p...
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My seven years of gig photography...
Between 2009 and 2015 I documented over 300 live performances across London's most celebrated venues. I had the privilege of photographing some of the most inno...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
What motivates me as a product designer? I asked it... thoughts.encosion.com/2025/10/23/w...
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What motivates me as a product designer?
So out of curiosity, I asked Claude: "Based on all my past chats with you... What do you think motivates me a product designer?" Claude's response: Innovation &...
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Thinking about my late 90's introduction to website building with a 2nd hand copy of an older Photoshop version (3.0?) that my friends and I clubbed together to buy... Building sites with notepad.exe and later HotDog for a local ISP
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Mates of State seared into my brain from many years ago. In a good way. This is a long forgotten venue - the Arts Cafe, London (I remember seeing @davebazan.bsky.social there - I think?)
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I honestly don't recall this show... But I love No Kill No Beep Beep soooo much! #QAndNotU
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
So... Cannibal Ox are coming to town!?! Did not expect that! www.universe.com/events/canni...
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Sell Tickets, Create Events and Discover Experiences - Universe
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Highly recommend catching Hades Town in the West End. They really brought @anaismitchell.bsky.social's baby to life!
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A very much younger me once had tickets to see Samiam. I ditched them after listening to a couple of Oxes MP3s online. I remember thinking it could be a mistake. It wasn't. Still one of my favourites. Even made a life long friend recognising a stranger in an Oxes tee at a greasy spoon in Shoreditch
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Just heard that the guitarist from my first band, many many years ago, past away... Sobering
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This resonates... Years ago I was following similar rules, apart from #4 "if you aren't enjoying a book, stop reading it immediately" ...I got stuck on a book I didn't want to give up on and it ruined all my momentum and joy.
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
22 years ago... What a show, what a line-up: @sagefrancis.bsky.social, Themselves @doseone.bsky.social and Sole. Anticon always brought their A-game to the UK. No filler.
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Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
16 years ago... The mighty Coalesce
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