My interest in ambient music (or new age, as the genre was often referred to at the time) began in earnest during the early summer of 1990 when I was […]
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Top 5 Ambient Tracks
Last month I was driving through Pittsburgh and remembered when I first became aware of ambient music as a specific genre. It was the summer of 1990 and I was […]
Three Years of Drone
This past weekend I made my 3rd annual pilgrimage to Basilica Hudson, a repurposed 19th-century factory turned arts and performance venue in Hudson, NY, for the 24-Hour Drone, an immersive […]
Formlessness Tines
On January 5, 2019 I had the pleasure of heading over to Phoenixville, PA, a 45 minute drive northwest of Philadelphia, with my friend Josh to experience an evening of […]
My Favorite Instrumental Album of 2018
I have friends (you know who you are) that pay a lot of attention to new music that comes out every month, week, or even day. For a time I […]
ETF006: DJ Olive Listens to Fir
Gregor Asch is DJ Olive. He’s an electronic and ambient musician, and a visual artist, now living in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. He helped create a fresh experimental […]
Pearl Season
For as long as I can remember there has been a single album that acts as my annual soundtrack to the three month stretch from mid-August through mid-November. It comes […]
ETF005: Two Sides of Jason Sloan
Jason Sloan is an electronic musician, composer, and sound artist currently residing in Baltimore, MD. His work explores immateriality and its relationship to memory, systems, and the virtual world. He’s […]
ETF004: James Plotkin Does What He Wants
In the mid 1990s, guitarist and producer James Plotkin was exploring and experimenting. In this episode, my old friend and collaborator Dave Bellard chats with Plotkin about what he was […]
Who Is Jason Sloan?
Jason Sloan is an incredibly accomplished electronic musician, composer, and sound artist from Baltimore, Maryland. Over the past two decades he has recorded dozens of ambient/electronic solo albums and collaborations, […]