Field Lines Cartographer
Advertisement
Advertisement
Top Related Artists
Biography
Field Lines Cartographer is the recording alias of ambient composer, synthesist and sound artist Mark Burford, crafting immersive sonic landscapes that explore the intersection of memory, nature, and the uncanny. Rooted in the traditions of hauntology, pastoral ambient, and radiophonic experimentation, his music blends analog synths, field recordings, and subtle tape textures to evoke both the physical and psychological terrain of rural Britain. Drawing inspiration from abandoned places, lost futures, and electromagnetic phenomena, Field Lines Cartographer creates music that is as much about listening as it is about feeling. His compositions are meditative yet mysteriousâat times comforting, at others eerily unsettledâoccupying the liminal space between nostalgia and deep time. With releases on labels such as Signal to Noise, his work has become a touchstone within the UKâs modern hauntological movement, often compared to artists like Pye Corner Audio, The Advisory Circle, and The Caretaker. Each album, from 2023's Phases of This and Other Moons to 2025's Resplendent in the Light of the Universe, is a cartography of mood and memory, mapping out invisible landscapes where sound becomes both signal and story. Other albums include Magnetic Anomalies (2016), Groundwaves (2018), Three Phases of Improvised Synthesizer (2019), The Ferric Landscape (2020), The Glimmering Plane (2020), Formic Kingdom (2020), Superclusters (2022), Dreamtides (2022), This Vibrating Earth (2023), and Tone Maps (2023). In 2025, Field Lines Cartographer released the albums Solar Maximum and Apeiron Anxiety.
Read All
Read Less
Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Scattered Light
- Collapsable Mantra
- Fog Warning
- Ascending Waves Of Consciousness
- Interference Patterns
- Kozyrev's Mirror
- The Sun In Splendour
- The 7th Transfiguration
- The Lime Kiln Serpent
- Through the Caves
- Barrow Wights on the Nook
- From Within the Dream
- In Scalar Waves
- Black Gulls over the Headland
