Discography
Five albums of techno-Sufic free-jazz across eras; a sixth in arrival — Abraxas Download, 2026 — closes the trilogy.
The new cycle first. Click any to play.
Iman & Asel as an art collective — performance, installation, cybernetic ritual. A precursor to ICRA. Asel embodies the Matronita Minor.
Every Friends of Design video, in roughly chronological order.
Frame-stills from every film cycle, regen'd from the originals — debut-era art-rock, the EGO and Divisions of Love period, the Verandah Vanguard installations, the live recordings, the Abraxas Download cycle. The band's visual register has shifted again and again. These are the surviving traces.
Browse the gallery →The Friends of Design is the techno-Sufic free-jazz project of Iman & Asel Poernomo, working since 2009. The music draws on gamelan, Central Asian song, machine improvisation, occult cosmology, and the kind of art-rock that thinks it might be scripture.
Five albums. A trilogy closing in 2026 with Abraxas Download. Films, live recordings, unreleased material spanning fifteen years.
