



FOTU is essentially a solo endeavor, with occasional assistance from a fluctuating cast of like-minded artistic colleagues.įerrara Brain Pan is a windplayer whose instrumental abilities range from Western orchestral woodwinds such as flutes, saxophones, bass clarinet and recorders to such ethnic instruments as the didjeridu, shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), and kangling (ritual Tibetan trumpet made from a human thighbone). Forms of Things Unknown is an acoustic/electronic project dedicated to pan-idiomatic explorations beyond the pale of sectarian orthodoxies, being the brainchild and primary creative enterprise of San Francisco composer/multi-instrumentalist Ferrara Brain Pan.
