really thrilled to announce the release of Vanessa Rossetto’s latest killer double CD on ErstSolo, ‘The Professional’, the saga of her first ever European tour. check it out!! erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...

brunswick, georgia

my new release working waterfront is out now on cd and digital on the polish label saamleng. check it out on their bandcamp or you can gets cds from me saamleng.bandcamp.com/album/workin...

Wonderful to see this feature on composer Annea Lockwood in @theguardian.com this week @room40.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

Derek Bailey & John Stevens - live in London - August 1, 1994 youtu.be/fpDSDovXh-Q?...

while i rarely post to my soundcloud account, here is a new thing i'm working on that i have uploaded there. soundcloud.com/ejasongibbs/...

victoria shen

Lauren Tosswill

yesterday at open systems

sometimes scott walker is the answer

A piece on Eliane Radigue by Nate Wooley came out in The Nation. (Apparently I got a mention as a “‘historian, raconteur, and custodian of strange music.”) www.thenation.com/article/cult...

20 minute microtonal Tashi Wada piece being played on solo bassoon PLUS Charles Curtis doing some combination of shorter pieces by Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, and Alvin Lucier? I'm seated

Dalbergia Retusa by Hans Reichel blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/dalber...

a shot from lauren tosswill's set at @opensystemsstudios.bsky.social studios the other night

Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

In five days, this brand new tape from @angelhair0.bsky.social and I will be released on the fantastic @tracedobjects.bsky.social label. I encourage you to listen to this music when it is made available. I am biased, but I think it is enjoyable.

up in phippsburg listening to the winter woods

a fox in the snow at work yesterday

Erstwhile (@erstwhile.bsky.social) is having a sale that ends this Sunday (20% off with code 2026). I snagged this Vanessa Rossetto album which I had my eye on last year

excellent night at space gallery. thanks aftersound, everyone at space and all who came out on a really cold night

thanks to everyone that came out for this show

Tonight at Space Gallery! Come hear us make sounds from multiple speakers

this saturday, january 31st at space gallery in portland, maine. playing with grace bedwell and id m theft able. come out, listen, say hi

Next show: 1.19.2026 Kiran Arora JHK Slow Hymn Varroa

Hi, all Open Systems is kicking off our education program in Sonic Art Technology. We are looking for suggestions/requests from the community as to what you might be interested in learning.

This Saturday, Tom Borem of Baltimore Maryland performs in Quad with local support from Chrissy Armstrong and Seda/Kanevsky

if you have ever heard the sound of a ship recorded with a hydrophone, you can imagine how horrendous it is for marine animals. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

my latest release 43.65°N 70.251°W. is out today as a cassette and download on the german label Frenetic Magic Sounds. These are all working waterfront and shipping recordings collected in and around Portland Maine. freneticmagicsounds.bandcamp.com/album/4365-n...

Reminder: “30×N — LRJ1”, a new video and release is available on www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @earlabs.bsky.social

Weston Olencki at Open Systems Studios the other night

i'm overdue for a trip to new orleans

In 1972–73, Gordon Matta-Clark snapped hundreds of rolls of photos of NYC graffiti, a fairly new phenomenon at the time. This new book collects every single frame he shot. It's a huge cinder block of a book, 1000+ pages. Published by OM Books.

"Schafer’s environmentalism (an environmentalism which, as David Toop notes, risks romanticizing the pre-industrial soundscape in a version of primitivism that would have potentially disastrous social effects" David Grundy April 2014 issue of surround www.surround-journal.net/02_listening...

Feature Creep by type/token is officially out today. Thanks for listening and supporting TO.

Offline Assembly is a new digital imprint documenting live performances from Open Systems Studios in Portland, ME. First batch out today. All sales go directly to the studio. First batch Patrick Carey, Gibbs/Tamirisa duo, Kanevsky/Fireman duo offlineassembly.bandcamp.com

the always inspiring christina kubisch.

a small bit of good news in an increasingly grim world. www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...

exceedingly happy to announce this new addition to the forthcoming queue, two longtime powerhouses who will be working together for the first time. Kevin Drumm/Taku Unami (Erstwhile 113)

Interview with Hildegard Westerkamp, courtesy of Conscient Podcast #war #activism #rebellion #crisis #resilience #freedom

We're happy to announce the new album by Emiter, a work that explores how cities are submerged in feedback, impulses, discharges, and harmonies of noise. “Electromagnetism of the City” is now available as a limited release CD, stream or download. www.cronicaelectronica.org/241/

working with Keith Rowe so extensively and deeply on Erstwhile is the professional achievement I’m most proud of in my life, we put out 24 releases containing 39 CDs from 2000-2021. the great Marc Medwin has written about all 24 in a newly posted epic piece on ‘surround’, please check it out.

Some things are perfect

Its that kind of Saturday