Citizen Sleeper 2 is so sick

In a surreal turn of events, one of my favorite musicians of all time, @maxtundra.com, has remixed a song by my band Gemma. It came out amazingly, and I felt compelled to create a music video for it (learning TouchDesigner along the way). Please check it out! youtu.be/SDCCwS_7S-E?...

My band Gemma (a long-term collaboration with Felicia Douglass of Dirty Projectors and Ava Luna) releases our third album today! So proud of how it came out! Contributions from Katie Von Schleicher and Simon Hanes. #bandcampfriday gemmanyc.bandcamp.com/album/be-abo...

My band Gemma (a long-term collaboration with Felicia Douglass of Dirty Projectors and Ava Luna) releases our third album today! So proud of how it came out! Contributions from Katie Von Schleicher and Simon Hanes. #bandcampfriday gemmanyc.bandcamp.com/album/be-abo...

My band Gemma (a long-term collaboration with Felicia Douglass of Dirty Projectors and Ava Luna) has an album out May 1st. So proud of how it came out! There’s also a remix in the pipeline by a true musical hero of mine… gemmanyc.bandcamp.com/album/be-abo...

fascists can’t really grasp the power of minimal techno

Playing an improvised ambient set in Ridgewood with immersive nature photography, tonight at 6pm! 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?...

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?...

YES !!! new ava luna 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!

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

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...

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...

Is there a better guitar solo in the last ten years? Gets me every time youtu.be/Ri-pr4Egzng?...

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!

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...

This is good clean fun

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?...

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