Tim Ferguson

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.

Fixation on a coworker... Not sure why, but I've always loved the artwork on this great breaking album...

Always loved this album... thoughts.encosion.com/2026/02/06/f...

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...

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.

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...

Yeah, Reynolds was one of his bands! (Phew, I'm not going crazy... Yet)

Didn't you work together at Red Bee or something? (I'm old...)

@shrinkwrapped.bsky.social Can you believe that Kevin (Reynolds) hadn't heard of Faraquet?

I've been enjoying reflecting on my past media consumption... So let's talk about Marvel superhero comics for a minute!

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Amazing, thanks. Picked up one for myself too! Phew

Noooooooooo!

15 years ago I was lucky enough to witness the album 'Hadestown' (which became a West End show) performed live at the Union Chapel.

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...

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.

Such a good series!

In other news... Holy Fuck are playing in Brighton on my 50th birthday... So that'll be my birthday plans sorted!

20 years ago I went to this show by the talented Puente Celeste in BsAs thanks to some super friendly strangers that became friends

I'm not sure this post said anything... Sorry, completely lost.

“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

Well played @letterboxd.social ! Just got this 'captcha' when logging Bugonia

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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

15 years ago. What a privilege to see and shoot Marnie Stern: photos.encosion.com/Music/2010.1...

It's April first right?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

MP3s are old. Opus is here, loud and clear! thoughts.encosion.com/2025/10/31/w...

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...

Reflecting on my 7 years of gig photography between 2009 and 2015. I documented over 300 live performances across London's most celebrated venues...

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At this point... I need a little more context of @bennjordan.bsky.social's post. Did something happen?

What motivates me as a product designer? I asked it...

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Many years later and I'm still building websites... Cursor, as a designer, has made me feel the excitement of the earlier days again ...when everything was new and exciting.

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