DR ALI RENNIE
Paranormal Sound Artist

Artistic Mission

Rennie’s research and compositions explore the weird and the eerie in soundscape practices and the manifestation of the paranormal and electromagnetic phenomena in the medium of sound.

His work “Ghostloristics” captures and conveys the auratic and atmospheric conditions of various haunted spaces in the Northeast of Scotland and beyond. In “Electrosferics”, he explores the electrical infrastructure of Scotland and the electromagentic phenomena in Scotland’s atmosphere.

Biography

Dr Ali Rennie is a musician and writer from the Northeast of Scotland who has a PhD in Music from the University of Aberdeen (pending 2025), a PhD in Literature from the University of Edinburgh (2001), and an MSc in Sound Art and Audiovisual Practice from the University of Glasgow (2021).

He is known for his dark ambient music project, Ruptured World, and has released several albums with the renowned dark ambient record label, Cryo Chamber. He is also the creator of the podcast, Hauntropy, which combines cosmic horror and science fiction with dark ambient music and sound design.

As Alistair Rennie, he has also published works of weird horror and science fiction, including a novel (BleakWarrior), a short story collection (Hardweird), and various short stories in anthologies and magazines which include Weird Tales magazine and the New Weird anthology.

Rennie has Italian citizenship and lived in Bologna, Italy, for ten years. He is a time-served painter and decorator and a veteran climber of the mountain ranges of the Cairngorms and the Italian Dolimites.