Edinburgh-based musician and sound artist Harry Bongo creates music that moves fluidly between lush soundscapes, melodic fragments, and rhythmic interplay. Drawing on electro-acoustic practice, minimalist techniques, electronica, and post-rock, his work ranges from contemplative ambience to euphoric crescendos, always with a focus on atmosphere, mood, and scene-setting. Using live sampling, improvisation, and tactile processes, Harry sculpts evolving textures, sometimes drifting as ‘clouds of sound,’ other times resolving into more grounded, melody-driven pieces.
His immersive live audiovisual performances invite listeners into shared, ecological listening experiences, where music emerges in real time through interaction with instruments, technology, audiences, and place. This practice seeks to create not only sound but environments for reflection, imagination, and collective encounter.
Open to collaboration, recording, and live performance.
Available for interdisciplinary and site-responsive projects.
For media-based work – see ‘Sound for Media’.
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“meditative, arresting, shocking, peaceful…never a dull moment from start to finish with the listener’s mind consistently pulled in opposing directions.”
“…intense, cinematic swirl of computerised arpeggios and throbbing drums.”
“layers of lush strings and field recordings creating a warm sense of space.”
“…twists and turns, weaving samples over frantic drum loops, distorted pianos and wild, echoing synth bleeps.”
Releases
Hang On To Each Other (2024) [Single]
Released 17th August 2024.
For Dan. x
Iglu (2021) [Album]
Released 2nd April 2021.
My second full-length album Iglu expresses the comforts of home, and what ‘home’ can mean to people. Recorded in the winter of the pandemic lockdown, Iglu covers a wide range of the spectrum of ambient music, being more melodic and rhythmic in the first half and becoming more freeform and meditative in the second half.
Satsuma (2020) [Compilation-exclusive]
Released 4th December 2020 as part of Bonnie Tropical 5 by Paradise Palms Records.
Exclusively released in the fifth instalment of Paradise Palms Records’ ‘Bonnie Tropical’ compilation, ‘Satsuma’ is a sunsoaked citrus-fest made specifically to be played at Paradise Palms.
Devito (2020) [Compilation-exclusive]
Released 6th November 2020 as part of Audiokartographie by Dead Hound Records
Recorded especially for the ‘Audiokartographie’ compilation by experimental/noise label Dead Hound Records.
Break Species / Parallel Dad(2019) [Single]
Released 20th December 2019.
Along with its B-side ‘Parallel Dad’, ‘Break Species’ is a dark, conflicted web of different textures, contrasting minimalistic electronic pulses with cathartic crescendos.
Leith Waterworld / Your Cool (2019) [Single]
Released 13th December 2019.
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee *SPLASH*
Papa Jaffa (2019) [EP]
Released 16th June 2019.
An EP of three experimental sample-based recordings.
pod (2019) [Single]
Released 15th March 2019.
A 15-minute continuous composition in 4 parts, ‘pod’ has been described as “meditative, arresting, shocking, peaceful…never a dull moment from start to finish with the listener’s mind consistently pulled in opposing directions.”
Three in Four (2018) [Single]
Released 21st September 2018.
“millions and millions of little screens…”
Elvis Is Alive And He Lives In Dumbiedykes (2017) [Single]
Released 24th November 2017
“I always had hopes of being a big star…”
Harry Bongo (2016) [Album]
Released 1st July 2016
My debut album emphasises cinematic and contemporary classical styles, ranging from Glass/Reich-inspired minimalism to lavish orchestral crescendos.