Akira Rabelais

Akira Rabelais is a Los Angeles based composer and software developer. AllMusic Guide describes him as “an intellectual pioneer as much as anything else”. His bespoke software creation ‘Argeïphontes Lyre’, free to the public from his website, is a collection of audio filters and generators predominantly based on time domain morphologies and recombination. Fans of his software such as Aphex Twin, Stephan Mathieu, Scanner and Terre Thaemlitz describe it as “uniquely inspirational” and “transcendently poetic”. Akira’s critics describe it as “irritatingly confusing” and “completely undocumented”. Akira has used this software as his main composition tool since 1997 and has issued several albums on a variety of labels bearing its stamp. Akira’s music, works and words can be further explored through his website, www.AkiraRabelais.com, where he has collected a broad spectrum of obliquely related materials and texts.