@epgundel.bsky.social
Music therapist and experimental sounds
erikgundel.bandcamp.com
erikgundel.bandcamp.com
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Erik Gundel "red cradle of the night (ft. Will Skarstad)"
YouTube video by Dear Life Records
youtu.be
I animated this music video for the ambient/black metal centerpiece of my 2022 album Level One Mage. It sums up my artistic sensibilities as well as anything:
youtu.be/4JaSmZEyqnQ?...
youtu.be/4JaSmZEyqnQ?...
Playing an improvised ambient set in Ridgewood with immersive nature photography, tonight at 6pm!
dadabar.nyc/event/625179...
dadabar.nyc/event/625179...
AMBIENT / ART INSTALLATION - Cocoon: A Collaboration Between Eric Gundel & Florencia Alvarado - Nov 22, 2025, 6:00PM
Cocoon is a collaboration between photographer/visual artist Florencia Alvarado and musician/music therapist Erik Gundel. Through hyper-detailed environmental images and abstracted soundscapes, the du...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Playing an improvised ambient set in Ridgewood with immersive nature photography, tonight at 6pm!
dadabar.nyc/event/625179...
dadabar.nyc/event/625179...
Feel grateful for older brothers who introduced me to the Stone Roses at a young age (maybe rare for an American?). Magical band, but the basslines really made it for me. Too many great ones to name. And he played on XTRMNTR?! RIP Mani
youtu.be/VEOEIo0DxgM?...
youtu.be/VEOEIo0DxgM?...
The Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums (Live In Blackpool)
YouTube video by StoneRosesVEVO
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Feel grateful for older brothers who introduced me to the Stone Roses at a young age (maybe rare for an American?). Magical band, but the basslines really made it for me. Too many great ones to name. And he played on XTRMNTR?! RIP Mani
youtu.be/VEOEIo0DxgM?...
youtu.be/VEOEIo0DxgM?...
Ok, I want all the actors to look exactly like me, and the script to include references to what I had for breakfast and inside jokes I share with my wife. That will be, at last, true cinema (i.e., something to have on in the background while I look at my phone).
David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:
“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ok, I want all the actors to look exactly like me, and the script to include references to what I had for breakfast and inside jokes I share with my wife. That will be, at last, true cinema (i.e., something to have on in the background while I look at my phone).
RIP D’Angelo. One of the greatest musicians of my lifetime, a heartbreaking loss. He was a genius, and as his interviews in the Sly Stone doc express, he paid a price for putting his art into the world. Eternally grateful for that.
Greatest album closer of all time? Tears
youtu.be/MTAnBM0ZdVI?...
Greatest album closer of all time? Tears
youtu.be/MTAnBM0ZdVI?...
D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Another Life (Audio)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
RIP D’Angelo. One of the greatest musicians of my lifetime, a heartbreaking loss. He was a genius, and as his interviews in the Sly Stone doc express, he paid a price for putting his art into the world. Eternally grateful for that.
Greatest album closer of all time? Tears
youtu.be/MTAnBM0ZdVI?...
Greatest album closer of all time? Tears
youtu.be/MTAnBM0ZdVI?...
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YES !!! new ava luna
avaluna.bandcamp.com/track/frame-...
avaluna.bandcamp.com/track/frame-...
Frame of Us, by Ava Luna
from the album Ava Luna
avaluna.bandcamp.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
YES !!! new ava luna
avaluna.bandcamp.com/track/frame-...
avaluna.bandcamp.com/track/frame-...
Man, I love Jaws. Noticing how great the first scene with the mayor is: static camera, just guys talking, but because it's on a ferry, you get this dynamic moving background. Smart stuff!
July 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Man, I love Jaws. Noticing how great the first scene with the mayor is: static camera, just guys talking, but because it's on a ferry, you get this dynamic moving background. Smart stuff!
Another blog post, this one about music for plants (by way of a Venezuelan arts collective). Includes some original music too, check it out!
www.erikgundel.com/post/music-f...
#ambientmusic #musictherapy #wolfgangvoigt #fuckICE
www.erikgundel.com/post/music-f...
#ambientmusic #musictherapy #wolfgangvoigt #fuckICE
Music for Plants
Living in New York City can sometimes be a bit of a slog. There's the noise, the generally high cost of living, the big crowds, and the intermittent realization that you probably haven't walked on gra...
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June 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Another blog post, this one about music for plants (by way of a Venezuelan arts collective). Includes some original music too, check it out!
www.erikgundel.com/post/music-f...
#ambientmusic #musictherapy #wolfgangvoigt #fuckICE
www.erikgundel.com/post/music-f...
#ambientmusic #musictherapy #wolfgangvoigt #fuckICE
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Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
December 14, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
A long-delayed reboot of my blog, including an original 17-minute ambient track. Proud of how it came out!
www.erikgundel.com/post/free-so...
www.erikgundel.com/post/free-so...
Free Sound Meditation Download
Hello! It has been some time since I've updated my blog, and for that I apologize. I think that, aside from life generally getting busier after coming out of the pandemic, my fundamental conception of...
www.erikgundel.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A long-delayed reboot of my blog, including an original 17-minute ambient track. Proud of how it came out!
www.erikgundel.com/post/free-so...
www.erikgundel.com/post/free-so...
Blake Mills - Skeleton Is Walking (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by BlakeMillsVEVO
youtu.be
March 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The devil, or often "diablo", is consistently associated with spicy foods. I think this is misguided. The devil's food would be flavorless, and certainly wouldn't jack up your endorphins like a nice habanero hot sauce!
January 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The devil, or often "diablo", is consistently associated with spicy foods. I think this is misguided. The devil's food would be flavorless, and certainly wouldn't jack up your endorphins like a nice habanero hot sauce!
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For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
December 18, 2024 at 7:58 PM
For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
This is good clean fun
my first new episode of pretty good in seven years, now free to watch for everybody:
THE HISTORY OF SLIPPING ON BANANA PEELS
THE HISTORY OF SLIPPING ON BANANA PEELS
The history of slipping on banana peels | Pretty Good, episode 14
YouTube video by Secret Base
youtu.be
December 8, 2024 at 2:05 AM
This is good clean fun
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Let the bodies keep the score, let the bodies keep the score
May 13, 2023 at 5:08 PM
Let the bodies keep the score, let the bodies keep the score
I animated this music video for the ambient/black metal centerpiece of my 2022 album Level One Mage. It sums up my artistic sensibilities as well as anything:
youtu.be/4JaSmZEyqnQ?...
youtu.be/4JaSmZEyqnQ?...
Erik Gundel "red cradle of the night (ft. Will Skarstad)"
YouTube video by Dear Life Records
youtu.be
November 27, 2024 at 10:11 PM
I animated this music video for the ambient/black metal centerpiece of my 2022 album Level One Mage. It sums up my artistic sensibilities as well as anything:
youtu.be/4JaSmZEyqnQ?...
youtu.be/4JaSmZEyqnQ?...
Is there any way to pre-schedule YouTube comments? I've got to get "who's listening to this in 2025?" on several thousand songs at midnight on new year's day.
November 20, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Is there any way to pre-schedule YouTube comments? I've got to get "who's listening to this in 2025?" on several thousand songs at midnight on new year's day.
I've played guitar for a long time, and I think I understand how to make most sounds on it. Seeing Raphael Roginski was magical to me, no idea how he does it. Sounds like 3 people, so much nuance. Bewildering and inspiring
November 19, 2024 at 2:19 AM
I've played guitar for a long time, and I think I understand how to make most sounds on it. Seeing Raphael Roginski was magical to me, no idea how he does it. Sounds like 3 people, so much nuance. Bewildering and inspiring