Ausect rehearsing / inaugurating sounds in the new space which will soon be a fully functioning art space . Come see us perform on Sunday at Golden Saguaro here in Tucson

It’s been very excellent to just be playing bass clarinet with others, removing a lot of the technology that I have tended to tether into my acoustic playing for over a decade, and have some exciting recordings that I’m making with John Melillo that I can’t wait to share

Round 1 Day 1 Halftime Scores: Britney 181, Matt & Kim 32 Ke$ha 111, The Knife 41 Gorillaz 95, Robbie Williams 66 Robyn 80, Cupid 71 Read, listen, vote by 9am tomorrow at marchxness.com

I had to say some things… writing with “Agenda Suicide” for March Danceness. Read and vote!

Tonight!

I also very much enjoyed the March Second Chanceness 2025 piece by John Melillo on the Faint, which... y'know, kind of sums it up, right? "Ladies" was a tough Round 1 draw, but however this goes we'll have John's essay as a navigational aide for the rest of March. Don't miss it!

Shout out to today's defeated: Kyle Simonsen, John Melillo, ontological flop wrote a book, and a beast of an essay by Megan Culhane Galbraith. You showed up. You took your shots. No shame in a loss here when you wrote the way you did. Well done. We salute you:

Excerpt from my score Fog Khora No 02 that I wrote specifically for this arrangement between myself, Andrew Weathers, Chelsey Trejo, and John Melillo, thanks to my pal and bandmate Beck for filming this at my feet 🦶

Time space togetherness

So excited that the Golden Saguaro crew here in Tucson is hosting marcissistdaticket tonight to discuss cassette culture and tape history! 7 pm tonight if you are in town!

To work today is to be asked, more and more, to do without thinking, to feel without emotion, to move without friction, to adapt without question, to translate without pause, to desire without purpose, to connect without interruption. —Stefano Harney/Fred Moten, The Undercommons

Read/Listen/Vote. Definitely synced in with Ander Monson 's Q: "How can I transform my anger into joy"? We are all/have to be angry because we know there is joy, some other-than-this, possible. Art = little glimpses of and gigantic feelings for other-than-this-es...

My favorite panel this year so far! We're excitedly "assembling" sounds this week! #acla2024 John Melillo Sounding Out! (we're done here folks, it's awful)

Songsounds next week:

Excited to be hosting friend and percussion maestro Tatsuya Nakatani next Saturday here at golden saguaro in Tucson. Only a couple more events for this season and summer sets in

Here is 47 minutes of Unwound feedback. youtube.com/watch?v=z1TBGg…

Someone who calls professors “enemies” & openly advocates for an authoritarian takeover of colleges & universities (despite benefiting from both public & ivy league educations) is now on a presidential ticket. Drop everything & organize like hell now. #defendhighered

I’m really not on here much anymore but I started co-running a new experimental venue with my great friend John Melillo called Wave Archive, our inaugural event is one week from today here in downtown Tucson with Asheville based Okapi