January 12th is my 59th birthday & will be the release date for this album, The Rebirth of Freedom Rock, on Personal Archives. Music was recorded on the Eve of July 4th 2025 with Mac Dawg jamming with the #deadairfresheners in #theelusivehangar. Mac Dawg recorded vocals in Olympia afterwards. Ryan Ray mixed it at the Elusive Hangar for a month & spent equally long putting together the #plunderphonic graphics. It features a guest cameo from Chuck Swaim. Really, this is 250 years in the making.

Side Yard Sounds - A Noisy Fundraiser for Compound Yellow

Compound Yellow, Sunday, October 5 at 05:00 PM CDT

Side Yard Sounds
A Noisy Fundraiser
10/5/2025
BYOB

Join us for a wild and noisy event/fundraiser featuring a line up of experimental sound artists and musicians:
Hedra Rowan
NuAm
Tina LaFauve
Melon Sprout
Nicole Alonso
Hedra Rowan:

Hedra Rowan is a computer musician in Chicago. She runs Bodymilk, a concert series and tape label. In addition to solo work, she plays with the band Bimbo Rococo, and the duos Tallulah Bankheist, Hell & the High School, and Squonk. For this set, she will improvise computer sounds on 16 channels.
NuAm:
Origins found in cassette tape loop installations of feedback drone-movement, masks of altered sound, and the hum of a pink horizon.
nu_a.m._
Tina LaFauve:
Tina Lefauve is a Chicago-based
experimental sound artist, motorcycle enthusiast, and “Agitator Gallery landlady” known for her noise busking and performances with the Chicago Noise Free Jazz Orchestra.
Melon Sprout:
Melon Sprout (Chicago) makes amplified ceramic instruments, and electrifies them in high energy performances. Melon and the ceramic are pushed to a sonic and material limit, often leaving both in pieces.

Nicole Alonso:
Nicole Alonso blends sampling, field recordings, electronic manipulation, and live performance to explore themes of space, memory, and identity.

Tickets: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/compound-yellow/side-yard-sounds-presents-a-noisy-fundraiser-to-support-the-trans-empowerment-movement

https://chicago.askapunk.net/event/side-yard-sounds-a-noisy-fundraiser-for-compound-yellow

Sixteen / Nine Frankenstein, by RoobehTunes

29 track album

RoobehTunes

regurgitacions manresanes a Lleida:
🤮
ᴱᵍᵃᵍʳòᵖⁱˡᵃ ᵐᵉⁿᵗᵃˡ ᵈᵉ ᶠᵒⁿˢ ᵉᶠíᵐᵉʳ
dimecres 26, 20.30h
al cafè curt del cafè del teatre

#collagecore #plunderphonic #manresa #cafecurt #cafedelteatre #lleida #memoria

Belligerent Super-Vision, by DJ Donna Summer

14 track album

DJ Donna Summer

ᴱᵍᵃᵍʳòᵖⁱˡᵃ ᵐᵉⁿᵗᵃˡ ᵈᵉ ᶠᵒⁿˢ ᵉᶠíᵐᵉʳ
📽️ https://hiyohiyoipseniyo.hotglue.me/egagropila_mental

#collagecore #plunderphonic #apropiacionismo #cutnpaste #noise #diogenes #memory #archive #manresa

egagropila_mental

DA DAMN PHREAK NOIZE PHUNK - Electric Crate Digger

Just as much of a 'return to the roots' an album as their last, but this time in the #Breakbeat, #Plunderphonic side of things. Most of this isn't much removed from whatever you'd have heard out of the Ninja Tune camps half a decade prior, some of the samples very obvious and well-worn by the late #90s.

Still, Hardfloor work a funky, soulful groove just as fine as anyone, and their odd #Acid solos helps give this album their own identity.

"Bedroom emo goes lo-fi folktronic alt-pop + TSMM in Roma wedding underground dance fusion tip shocker."  Listen to the LP & read my full thoughts in the newsletter, where you can get ALL the tips a day earlier. https://theslowmusicmovement.substack.com/p/kaho-matsui-and-iv-the-sword-kaho

#bedroom #electronic #emo #folktronic #plunderphonic #dance #slowmusic #independentartist

Kaho Matsui & i.v. - the sword (Kaho House) + DjNiraha - KorgMusic2024DemoEL-HELL-EΛ (Heat Crimes)

Bedroom emo goes lo-fi folktronic alt-pop + TSMM in Roma wedding underground dance fusion tip shocker.

The Slow Music Movement

I hadn't put out an issue of This Week in Sound in a few months, but managed one last Friday, then this Tuesday, and now today, which happens to be April 14th, or "Avril 14th" to Aphex Twin fans. Today's issue has three items: select covers of that now classic song; a distinction in anxiety around AI as it pertains to music; and a review of a recent documentary about the band Negativland. The cover image is from Stephen Newhouse’s lovely arrangement of "Avril 14th" for music box, embedded in the issue, which is at thisweekinsound.substack.com.

#aphextwin
#soundstudies
#ai
#artificialintelligence
#plunderphonic