DR ALI RENNIE | Paranormal + Electrical 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 North of Scotland and beyond. In “Electrosferics”, he explores the sonic potential of Scotland’s electrical infrastructure and the electromagnetic phenomena of its biological environment and 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 world-renowned dark ambient record label, Cryo Chamber. He is also the creator of the podcast, Hauntropy, which combines spoken word cosmic horror and science fiction with dark ambient music and sound design.

As Alistair Rennie, he has 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, including 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.

Concerts

METASFERICS - Audiovisual live performance at “Music or Sound: sonADA”, King's Pavilion, Aberdeen (January 2023).

THE GALVANIC CADAVER REANIMATIONS OF DR SKENE AND DR EWING - Live audio performance at “407 Moments of Daylight” (part of the UNESCO week of sound), Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen (January 2024).

STATION 44 - Audiovisual fixed work shown at “Paradise, Paradise”, Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen (October 2024).

THE CREAKING MAN - Fixed ambisonic work played at “Syntopia: the 3rd International Symposium on Media, Arts and Design by Media Arts and Design program”, at Chiang Mai University, Thailand (July 2025).

Radio Broadcasts

FLOOD WARNING - Radiophrenia 2022

THIRD KIND CLASSIFICATION TYPES (as Ruptured World) - Radiophrenia 2023

HAUNTED RADIO - Radiophrenia 2024