.618 is the sonic alias of Haitian-Canadian sound artist Nick Rony—a project where sound doesn’t just travel, it remembers. Blending field recordings, electronic textures, and organic instrumentation, .618 crafts emotionally charged, genre-defying compositions that drift somewhere between excavation and ritual. Their work is rooted in the concept of geotrauma: the idea that land holds memory, and that memory lingers—unsettled, unresolved—within us.
Drawing from their Ayisyen heritage, .618 interrogates how history seeps into identity, shaping perception, experience, and the quiet spaces in between. Their sound becomes a conduit for ancestral memory and diasporic storytelling, where Afro symbolism, exile, and terrain intertwine. Performances carry a spectral weight—each set less a show, more a summoning; less entertainment, more emotional archaeology.
Their debut EP, Goodbye Ony, marks a deliberate shedding of skin. Across six tracks, .618 traces the fault lines between past and present, weaving a visceral narrative of land, displacement, and transformation. It’s not just a farewell—it’s a reckoning. A confrontation with buried histories. A passage through the emotional cartographies that shape who we are, whether we like it or not.
