I was digging around in the riverbeds this morning-- it's been a while. #foundobjects

Thrilled to post our RFP for 2027's Sound Scene 20: Sounds of the City. Are you a #fieldrecordist, #soundartist, #newartist in the domain of sound? We'd love to hear from you. www.soundscene.org/rfp

“Anderson imagines the noise in the cockpit, the heat of no ventilation, the likely mirages that Earhart saw as she grew more and more tired.” New Sounds #4918, With Laurie Anderson, on ‘Amelia’:

#4918, With Laurie Anderson, on 'Amelia' | WNYC

Composer and artist Laurie Anderson presents her latest – a retelling of Amelia Earhart’s final flight, with orchestra and soloists (including Anohni) and text taken from her pilot log.

wnyc.org

zzzahara's fourth album trades the romantic preoccupations of earlier releases for something harder-won — a tender, analog meditation on grief, mixed identity, and the strange clarity of sobriety. The Tonearm's Damien Joyce captures a melody. Tape Hiss and Tenderness — zzzahara's 'Distant Lands':

Tape Hiss and Tenderness — zzzahara's 'Distant Lands'

zzzahara's fourth album trades the romantic preoccupations of earlier releases for something harder-won — a tender, analog meditation on grief, mixed identity, and the strange clarity of sobriety.

thetonearm.com

I co-organize a sound festival called Sound Scene in Washington DC-- we are preparing to open our RFP for 2027. Each year Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is kind enough is host us, and I am really looking forward to a new class of artists. Follow along! @soundscene.bsky.social

"I've got customers who are in their 50s and 60s coming in with their teenage and tween and younger kids, shopping together. . . . I've even had goth grandmothers with their goth moms and the goth kids come in." Goth's not dead — How a subculture survived over 40 years in Texas:

Goth’s not dead: How a subculture survived over 40 years in Texas | Houston Public Media

As Austin's Elysium celebrates 25 years, a community reflects on goth's roots and future.

houstonpublicmedia.org

leaving her to patch the modular

“Archival videos of the performance serve as a reminder of just how ready, willing, and able Irish crowds were for batshit local sounds once they were given the place to hear them. It’s an idea that’s worth holding onto, and running with, three decades later.” Revisiting The Fourth Dimension:

Revisiting The Fourth Dimension

Some unearthed words on '90s Kerry's answer to The Prodigy

anoisosard.substack.com

Two eurorack modular duos for Sam's benjolin compositions. I am playing in one at Baltimore's Red Room this Thursday. Here is my cat and I in a polaroid. Here is a show flyer/flier.

Oh hi, just wondering what we think of the kids listening to one Merzbow album a day. They've reached 90 records.

↑↑↑ ✨ interview/article by @tangentuniverses.bsky.social ✨ St. Silva on Bluesky → @bcooley.bsky.social ✨ 'Forager' is out now on @akprecordings.bsky.social

Forager, by St. Silva

12 track album

stsilva.bandcamp.com

“What I love is that the drawing stops being just a drawing. Once it becomes attached to a record, it starts a conversation with the music. People no longer encounter it in silence. They encounter it through listening.” The Playful Aura of a Spanish Ambient Label:

The Playful Aura of a Spanish Ambient Label

Exploring the holistic identity of Balmat as crafted by José Quintanar and Josep Basora

theartofcoverart.substack.com

"'Do you have a chainsaw?' That's not a question I ever expected to ask during an interview, but when Arc Iris gave me a tour of Glass Hill, their open-air venue nestled in the hills of northeast Los Angeles, it's the first thing that came to mind as we passed a massive pile of decimated trees."

Arc Iris Built An Art-Pop Sanctuary In Their Own Backyard (Literally)

Constructed in the duo's backyard with minimal assistance, Glass Hill has hosted WILLOW, Reggie Watts, and many others.

daily.bandcamp.com

Full disclosure Hatchy (Burnt Toast Vinyl) is my dude, but he's releasing Velour 100's Fall Sounds on vinyl for the first time this autumn and I am pretty excited about it. lostinohio.com/products/vel...

Velour 100 – Fall Sounds

Velour 100’s Fall Sounds comes to vinyl for its 30th anniversary, remixed, remastered, and pressed on Fall Sky Blue vinyl.

lostinohio.com

I don't know how this has been out a month, I thought this published last week. Summer! Thank you @patriciawolf.bsky.social for chatting.

The Tonearm@thetonearm.com · 3mo ago

↑↑↑ ✨ article/interview by @tangentuniverses.bsky.social ✨ Patricia Wolf on Bluesky → @patriciawolf.bsky.social ✨ 'Yarrow' is out now on Music To Watch Seeds Grow By → patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

I enjoyed discussing cinema with Félicia. ⭐

MDonaldson →@8sided.blog · 3mo ago

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Carolyn Zaldivar Snow (@tangentuniverses.bsky.social) speaks with French artist and Shelter Press founder Félicia Atkinson about live scoring a classic horror film, the trial of Gisèle Pelicot, and how she inserts her voice in music's negative space →

Happy Birthday Arthur Russell. <3

✨ article by @tangentuniverses.bsky.social ✨ 'Sunbeam of No Illusion' out now on @akprecordings.bsky.social ✨ Ben Seretan on Bluesky → @benseretan.bsky.social

My cat wants to track your lo-fi project. Four fish per track.

My friends were nice enough to let me visit the David Tudor exhibit in Philly during the uninstall. Hosting organization is Bowerbird which is full of great people. Philly Inquirer has a nice article on Tudor and the exhibit this week, I'll link below.

I really enjoyed getting to know Olive and Michael aka Green-House. Congrats on your release.

The Tonearm@thetonearm.com · 6mo ago

Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan of the LA-based electronic duo Green-House talk imaginary video games, Sanibel Island shells, a stuffed sloth named Flanby, and the gentle stubbornness behind their new album on Ghostly International. Plush Life — The Soft Resistance of Green-House:

What are we listening to this week to cope with things?

While conducting an interview today, we had a nice we forever respect the grand pageantry of Danielson moment. Here is Cornerstone 2001 / Danielson Famile / Sufjan is in the back of the band. youtu.be/hEMy9S1Z5yQ?...

Danielson Famile: Live at Cornerstone 2001

YouTube video by Brimstone Chronicles

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Our quadraphonic hydrophone project TidalPrism (formerly Wooder) will regroup March 22 at The Perch in Philadelphia, which just feels weird to type given current global conditions.

"It was the kind of label that gave you releases you had no idea you needed... a revelation machine." A celebration of the late Portland-based label owner John Whitson's uniquely eclectic vision. Dave Segal acts as our psychedelic explorer, guiding us through highlights of Holy Mountain's catalog:

Requiem For Holy Mountain Records

A celebration of the late Portland-based label owner John Whitson's uniquely eclectic vision. Dave Segal acts as our psychedelic explorer, guiding us through highlights from Holy Mountain's catalog.

thetonearm.com

Current reads: Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records James Nice Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words Boel Westin (translated by Silvester Mazzarella) Exhibiting for Multiple Senses: Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies Eva Fotiadi (editor)

Hey Zach! I just saw this! Pleased to also share Fred will be at the Black Mountain College [RE]happening! We will do the whole thing again for a day.

“Oh it can be a miserable machine in the context of certainty.” 🩷🩷🩷

Carolyn Zaldivar Snow@tangentuniverses.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I answered a few questions about eurorack modular synths for 15 Questions last week, where I try to hard sell you on double Maths. :) www.15questions.net/interview/ca...

I answered a few questions about eurorack modular synths for 15 Questions last week, where I try to hard sell you on double Maths. :) www.15questions.net/interview/ca...

From squat parties to a cottage on a wildflower common, Loula Yorke has built a practice around beauty, ecological dread, and the feminist history that 'Hydrology' quietly carries forward. The Tonearm's Carolyn Zaldivar Snow digs into the soil. Loula Yorke's Electric Commons:

Wildflowers and Waveforms — Loula Yorke's 'Hydrology'

From squat parties to a cottage on a wildflower common, Loula Yorke has built a practice around beauty, ecological dread, and the feminist history that 'Hydrology' quietly carries forward.

thetonearm.com