the static between the airwaves…
As names fade from stone, forests quietly reclaim the stories we leave behind.
A midnight escape and a secret undertow — one last eye cast toward the Ely Sky.
A song sung to someone who can no longer hear it — grief, tenderness, and a broken violin with one string.
Five song-stories from Charlottesville, thirty years in the making — loss, longing, and flashes of joy. [2022]
Three alt-rock collabs — a transpacific love story, a dictator satire, and a Nugent homage.
HeadRush vs. Mission expression pedal — one clear winner, and a tech support email that says it all.
A farewell for Brian Johnston — IReverend Brainskan XIII, doubt-leader, and one of the strangest geniuses around.
Thirty years between high school and this collaboration — four goth/ambient songs and a David Bowie ghost story.
A synthwave collaboration set in the lost decade of the 19A0s — and a rare interview with Luscious-235.
A funked-up acid jazz collab about the music we find rather than force — and an avant-garde alternate version.
TapeOp #132 co-review of Studio One 4.5 — on leapfrogging Cakewalk, Humanize, and software that disappears.
A pandemic-era conversation with Gryflet’s Nuno Tavares — on origins, dark times, and the beauty in the darkness.
Two alt-pop collaborations with a Madrid composer — memory, erasure, and the light that stays the same.
Four bossa nova songs for the breaking heart — love, loss, pets, and the impossibility of language. [2017]
March 13 — a dark industrial collaboration with CRPT and TRNAH about the demise of a Virginia coal-mining town
Written in elementary Korean — a song about the impossibility of language and the possibility of connection.
A prog rock collaboration on dementia, memory, and music that exists as an event in time and space.
Eight heavy rock collaborations across three continents — addiction, climate, democracy, and walls of guitar fuzz.
A song about a cat who knew his person before they knew themselves. R.I.P. Mu, 2017.
A fretless bass that looks perfect and sounds almost right — less than the sum of its parts.
A dreampop bossa nova song about the mirrors that stand in the way of true empathy.
Retro-future funk and the existential crisis of the clean desk
A bossa nova song about taking a leap of faith — and the fall when you hit the ground.
