R Beny

R Beny is the ambient project of Austin Cairns, a musician based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A former guitarist in industrial post-rock bands, he turned to modular and hardware synthesizers out of frustration with the guitar. He became known through his early self-released cassettes, and he started a YouTube channel to document his work with modular synthesis. Cairns first put out four albums on cassette and digitally through Bandcamp. Saudade, released by the Ghent label Dauw in 2018, followed Cascade Symmetry.