"Irisarri creates music that can be both epic and subdued, with dreamy textures floating effortlessly and dissolving into one another...The listener can only bask in its shimmering beauty." - Angry Ape

Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist artist based in Seattle, Washington, mostly associated with the post-classical and ambient genres of electronic music .

He is also known as the main member of shoegaze/techno act The Sight Below (on Ghostly International).

His placid compositions consist for the most part of repetitive motifs containing submerged melodic lines performed on the piano, glockenspiel and melodica. Reverb-drenched guitar textures, drones, field recordings, strings and minimal electronic counterpoints all contribute and converge equally in the music to create an oceanic experience that can be both epic and subdued. His music has been described by The Wire contributing writer Jefferson Petrey as "a dual perspective close-up focus on the micro textures of rustling static-filled sonic surfaces with the wide-open distant tree lined horizons of sunset at dusk."

His debut album, Daydreaming (on Norwegian label Miasmah) was very well-received by the press and music community. He is currently finishing a full-length sophomore album to be released in the Autumn of 2010.

Iisarri has performed extensively (either solo or with The Sight Below) throughout Europe and North America, including electronic music festivals DEMF (Detroit), MITO (Milan), MUTEK (Montreal), NODE (Modena), UNSOUND (Krakow) and SONAR (Barcelona). His concerts are mostly centered around the piano, glockenspiel and electric guitar, utilizing real-time signal processing to achieve the textural density of his recorded works. Irisarri emphasizes the absence of pre-recorded sounds during his live performances, focusing instead on creating new sounds by chaining together a series of custom-made looping software and DSP effects to manipulate the sonic timbre and characteristics of the instruments being played.

A side project of Rafael Anton Irisarri: The Sight Below