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Artist, sound designer, drummer, percussionist, keyboard player, label owner, father, husband, and avid reader
Website:
http://www.myspace.com/virunis
Best album(s) of all time?
Secrets of the Beehive (David Sylvian), Flux & Mutability (Holger Czukay & David Sylvian), OK Computer (Radiohead), Ambient 4 On Land (Brian Eno), Talk Talk Talk (The Psychedelic Furs), Mirror Moves (The Psychedelic Furs), Concert (The Cure), Tin Drum (Japan), Live at the Aquarium (Michael Brook), Night Song (Michael Brook & Nusrat Fati Ali Khan), Plight & Premonition (Holger Czukay & David Sylvian), Revolver (The Beatles), Songs from The Big Chair (Tears for Fears), The Hurting (Tears for Fears), The Pearl (Harold Budd & Brian Eno), Ambient 2 A Plateaux of Mirrors (Harold Budd & Brian Eno), Tryptichal (Ben Neill), Amnesiac (Radiohead), The Top (The Cure), Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian), I/O (The Elf Machine), Cobalt Blue (Michael Brook), Flash of The Spirit (Jon Hassell), Avalon (Roxy Music), Soundtrack for The Piano (Michael Nyman), The Head On the Door (The Cure), Replicas (Gary Numan & Tubeway Army)
Favorite artist(s)?
Brian Eno
Are you a musician? What instrument do you play? Type of music?
All types of music, but primarily considered to be "ambient" or "electronic". I play drums, keyboards, percussion, treatments, samples, programming, the studio, etc. etc.

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miKroNaught.com coming soon....

Folks, just a heads up that I have begun work on a new website for miKroNaught, which is myself (Vir Unis) & MjDawn working together as producers and recording artists. We are currently working on production for Chicago based band, Camera. We also are working on loop libraries and have a new album album coming out this Spring. So, there is a lot going on and what better place to find out about this info than at a brand new website? More info coming soon....

VU

Posted on February 3, 2009 at 8:30pm —

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Stand Still Like The Hummingbird Release date

I'm currently finishing up final artwork for the album. I've gone through some real changes in the artwork, which is really important to me in any release. This has what has been delaying the release date. With the holidaze, I've been sidetracked from finishing this. Now that the blur of the holidaze has passed, I will be finishing this and looking to release on Jan. 16th....After that, it's all Elf Machine for a while. Hummigbird was really a lot of work, but I'm hoping that will pay off.

Posted on January 3, 2009 at 2:53pm — 1 Comment

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MikroNaught featured on Fxpansion!

AtmoWorks' very own MjDawn and Vir Unis, collectively known as MikroNaught is currently featured on Fxpansion. Fxpansion is a company that has produced outstanding progams like BFD and GURU. These are essential tools for both artists and have been used extensively for not only MikroNaught, but solo Vir Unis projects as well as work for Mudvayne's new recordings.

Click below to check out the page and hear a podcast of an interview that MJDawn and Vir Unis did with the AtmoBot. There's also sampl… Continue

Posted on August 29, 2008 at 8:30pm — 5 Comments

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New Maps of Hyperspace

Here's a great transcript of a talk given by Terence McKenna. Really wish I could have seen and heard one of his talks. He was a great speaker.


New Maps of Hyperspace

by Terence McKenna

A talk given at the invitation of Ruth and Arthur Young of the Berkeley Institute for the Study of Consciousness, 1984. (Included as written word because this edited transcription appears in print as part of his book The Archaic Revival—deoxy)


In James Joyce's Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus tells us, "History is… Continue

Posted on June 25, 2008 at 11:46am — 1 Comment

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TERENCE MCKENNA VS. THE BLACK HOLE

I read this interview with Terence McKenna this morning. I was thinking about him, after watching 'Meet the Robinsons' with my son earlier this morning. It's a funny kids Disney movie, but it's about time travel and stuff, so it just kinda morphed into Terence in my mind....-:)

Anyway, him talking about eternal light ala William Blake, shining through plants and insects, was really moving, as he was facing his own inevitable death. Please read. Whether or not you like his stance and philosophy… Continue

Posted on June 25, 2008 at 11:39am — 5 Comments

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At 9:39am on June 8, 2009, John Pedersen said…
Thanks, Vir, for accepting my request. It's a pleasure meeting you here. You have some well-conceived tracks with superb sound design in the player. I also liked your blog posts concerning Terence McKenna, as he has been my favorite philosopher and visionary. Have a fantastic day! ~John
At 3:56pm on June 4, 2009, Jones Gloomy said…
Thanks, great site btw. I really like your works, amazing stuff.
At 11:28am on May 31, 2009, Jewish Jenn said…
Ahhh, thanks!! Its great to be here! *takes a bow*
At 1:39pm on May 26, 2009, Lord Fraybin said…
Of course he does. I planned it that way.

He's already a hit with the ladies, I might add.
Oh to be young again.....
At 7:59pm on May 23, 2009, Virtualman said…
Hi, well well well.I could't agree more with Peter And Doc & Lena Selyanina .I thought ambient music was dead until I heard your albums.
Thank you so much for your Inspiration.
At 3:53am on May 23, 2009, Doc & Lena Selyanina said…
Hi, thanks for the welcome, we're honored to be here!

Like Peter below I (Doc) also want to tell that you have been a major influence and source of listening pleasure for me when I got seriously interested in ambient music. So a heartfelt thank you for all the great music and the associated inspiration you have provided, which later on grew even into an impulse to create some of our own ambient reflections.

with kind greetings from Helsinki, Finland

Doc & Lena
At 9:01am on May 18, 2009, softspace said…
i have listened to your music since you first released i thought then that your atmospheric style was groundbreaking being like no other music i'd heard.now i have learnt the patience and technical knowledge to create similiar sounds.the feelings are the same a quiet awe at the silence we can fill
with warmth and creativity.
At 12:18pm on May 3, 2009, Orb Gettarr said…
So this cosmic ontological event that is supposed to take place during the winter solstice of 2012- some are viewing it as an evolutionary leap forward in human consciousness for those that are 'prepared' for it- just as there was an evolutionary leap in human development aeons ago that allowed us to develop our technological side. I would think this relates to an evolutionary leap in our direct connection with the 'other', or what Castaneda referred to as 'the nagual'- and therefore, our moral and ethical connection regarding the earth and our fellow creatures would automatically follow suit. (Just my opinion).
At 7:27pm on May 2, 2009, Orb Gettarr said…
So what do you think about McKenna's 2012 end-of-the-Mayan-calendar/ novelty theory?
At 5:00pm on April 25, 2009, angela aline black said…
hey dude just thought to say i found the site so im on here now too thanks for telling me about it laters
 
 

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