Forms Of Things Unknown is an acoustic/electronic musical project dedicated to pan-idiomatic explorations beyond the pale of sectarian orthodoxies, being the work of San Francisco composer/multi-instrumentalist Ferrara Brain Pan.

Ferrara Brain Pan is a windplayer whose instrumental abilities range from more familiar woodwinds such as flutes, saxophones, bass clarinet and recorders to such non-Western wind instruments as the yidaki (Australian aboriginal didjeridu), shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), and kangling or Tibetan thighbone trumpet. The addition of harmonium, bowed psaltery, percussion, and digital/analog electronic elements further enriches the instrumental palette of Forms Of Things Unknown.

Ferrara Brain Pan's checkered musical career includes early collaborations with noise music pioneer Boyd Rice a/k/a NON (1970s), the mercifully short-lived goth-damage fiasco Bad Alchemy (80s), ambient dub project 23 Degrees (early 90s), and a fortuitous uncredited appearance on 1994's Rien by Krautrock legends Faust (produced by Jim O'Rourke). In 1998, Ferrara Brain Pan co-founded the dark ambient duo Darmstadt Pharmacy with Ure Thrall, initiating a collaborative association which persists intermittently to the present day.

Forms Of Things Unknown was launched as an evolving, essentially one-man project in 2002 and made its recording debut the following year with the mini-CD Cross Purposes. After a several-year hiatus, FOTU returned to the scene in 2008 with a remixed Nurse With Wound track (released on the Two Shaves and a Shine Remix Project CD).