I got to chat with Briana Marela about synthesizers, wearable instruments, working at Buchla-- and her latest gorgeous release for AKP "My Inner Rest" which merges technology with soft introspection. This my first interview for @thetonearm.com ✨

www.thetonearm.com/the-untether...

www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2... tickets are sliding scale~

I have a Rhizome show coming up next week-- quadraphonic, outdoors, full projections thanks to Oms. I am playing as part of Weathering, and Reign of Ferns (1/2 of the pair) will join us from Taiwan. ✨

I also made this collage. :) 🍄

I interviewed Shigeto for @tapeopmagazine.bsky.social ahead of the Cherry Blossom Baby tour-- out now in issue #168 and yes, subscriptions are still free ✨

tapeop.com/interviews/1...

In other news, have been on a Zammuto bender (is that a thing IDK) why do I like "Good Graces" so much? This whole Anchor album is great.

Matt and I playing our second gig as Weathering-- a beautiful night in the Emerald Wildflower Garden adjacent to The Perch in Fishtown. We brought our own birds. Thank you to composer June Bender for organizing. I wanted to sleep for a week in this spot. #fieldrecording #ambient #philadelphia

Now listening for Kim Gordon's birthday -- Body / Head - The Switch

#vinyl

Playing synths at U Penn Music on Wednesday evening because MUSICA PRACTICA / ELETTRONICA VIVA knows how to hang:

sound
conversation
performance
action
practice
music
voltage
audio

Free / open to the public, 8 pm

web.sas.upenn.edu/electronicmu...

Oh hi! I am hosting this with pal Dag who is a member of our Creative Advisory Committee @soundscene.bsky.social -- come hang out!

“I believe in creating your own universe where you are in charge. Whatever that needs to look like. Block out the many voices in marketing, branding, stats, and go be the unique kids you still are.“ new cc up with tangent universes!

open.substack.com/pub/cloudcol...

Here I am scowling next to a modular synth because I am great at photos-- thank you cloud collecting / @marineeyes.bsky.social for chatting about hydrophones and waterfalls.

cloudcollecting.substack.com/p/cloud-coll...

I am completely charmed by this unearthed cassette collection from the Tove Jansson archives:

tovejansson.com/tove-jansson...

Drone Hive Returns on 2/23 at Wax Atlas Records in Baltimore! Be there or b ◻️

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"There were reports that were starting to be declassified, from the 1950s or so... the early Navy hydrophones, that complained about biological noise..."

And-- the Jacques Cousteau series titled "The Silent World", "which confirmed the human bias that ocean sound wasn't really a thing."

I am currently working through "Sing Like Fish: How sound rules life underwater" by Amorina Kingdon--

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"In the late 1990s, as Simpson was pondering fish senses, a new awareness of sound underwater was getting marine biologists excited..."

Two records I am listening to today:

New Moon
arc rae
via Mystery Circles

Recycled Soundscapes
Joshua Marquez
self released
field recordings via RAIR residency Philadelphia, PA

How about you?

I’m excited to share that one of the field recordings from my artist residency at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory has been released on the French tape label Presque Tout. Side 2 contains a recording by fellow American recordist Gregory McGreevy.

presquetout.bandcamp.com/album/tape-s...

Same feels, I was trying to get a Neptune filter <3

Hello out there-- I thought for a first post I'd tell you the most recent books I purchased--

Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Underwater
Amorina Kingdon

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You
Neko Case

Ghosts of My Life
Mark Fisher