Two hours of recent listening, including reissued classics from the cassette underground and lo-fi sounds from across time and space, running the gamut from unlistenable to transcendent. Follow the links below to hear more. Playlist Start Time | Artist | “Title” | Album | Label (Year) 0:00 | Frieder Butzmann | “Tonight’s Musik” | Vertrauensmann Des Volkes | Zensor […]
Photo by Yinyin Ma I performed as If / When at the Sunny High Club in Stuttgart – Bad Cannstatt on Friday March 21. The set was made of mostly new sounds I’ve recorded over the last couple of years, including field recordings, synthesized sounds, and moments captured from web-based shortwave radio. While preparing, I […]
A one-hour mix of recent and not-so-recent experiments in murky abstraction. Often lo-fi, but not always. Starts with a scream and ends sweetly. Playlist Start Time | Artist | “Title” | Album | Label 00:00 | Henning Christiansen | “Wolf Song” (excerpt) | Den Røde Skov | Penultimate Press 01:55 | Plus Instruments | “Ecctr” | 79/80 | Dead Mind Records 03:32 | Aaron Dilloway & Lucretia Dalt | “Tender Cuts […]
A continuous mix of recent listening that traverses borders and suits the darker season. At times the sounds are cold and icy, at others as warm as your favorite blanket. Playlist Start Time | Artist | “Title” | Album | Label 00:00 | Incipientium | “Caltes” | Belastning | Förlag För Fri Musik 05:23 | Amateur Hour | “Utan […]
A collage of recent listening, featuring obscure articulations, corroded tapes, twee beats, artists as musicians, a chorus of bells, solitary late night doodles, fuzzed loops, and chance meetings.
For several years now, I have been intending to start an imprint for releasing the results of projects I’ve completed. The forced solitude of the COVID-19 pandemic last year provided the time and inspiration to finally get started. I am pleased that today marks the launch of Smooth Space Editions. Smooth Space Editions is intended […]
As the year comes to an end, here is some music that accompanied me through 2020.
During the recent COVID lockdown, an old friend who lives in Portland celebrated his 45th birthday. As a gift to honor the occasion, I put together this mix of 45 tracks from records that have caught my attention over the last few years and won’t let go. The result is some 3 hours and 41 […]
I’ve spent a substantial amount of coronavirus-enforced home office worktime writing, editing, managing translations, etc., for the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart’s latest annual report, which I’m now pleased to be able to share. You can find links below to several new articles I wrote for the report, along with some other recent pieces. Check them […]
In a rare situation that enabled the convergence of several very distinct interests of mine, I had the opportunity to interview photographer Armin Linke and historian of photography Estelle Blaschke last spring about their show “Image Capital” at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Read the interview here.