- As a reminder, expect a physical newsletter in 2026. If you’d like to get semi-regular mail, please email or DM me your address.

- Alex Jacobsen is mixing and mastering Recanning & Printshift. Look for these sometime next year.

- A new (old) project is gaining momentum. Those who’ve heard me discuss the mundane sound recordings of an average morning will be interested to know that fresh developments are happening.

While reflecting on winter and darkness, I continued working on Being Unformed. This weekend, I completed 8 paintings for a related zine.

Other happenings:

- I remastered Northern Lights. Now available on Bandcamp, the remastered tracks will be streaming on other platforms soon.

The discourse focuses on according with the four seasons.

“[In Winter]… Let the mind enter a state as if hidden {as if shut in}…”

- Translated by Paul Unshuld.

“[In Winter]… It will seem as though you have only personal concerns, as though you are self-contained.”

- Translated by Louis Komjathy.

December 21st 2025
Happy Winter Solstice!

A timely reading today came from Discourse 2 of the Yellow Emperor’s Classic on Internal Medicine.

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November 2025 Newsletter
@subvert.fm is in alpha testing
With few exceptions, my new releases will be exclusive to Subvert. I will let everyone know when Printshift (re-recorded) and Recanning — a new release featuring the infamous 28 oz tin can, plus a couple smaller cousins — are available.

#experimentalmusic #fieldrecordings #electroacoustic #musiqueconcrete

Northern Lights is out now

CDr’s available on Bandcamp

castoffform.bandcamp.com/album/northe...

Newsletter for July

Northern Lights is out now

castoffform.bandcamp.com/album/northe...

The music video for Geomagnetic One was animated with Pinnacle Studio 26

#electroacoustic #experimentalmusic #dronemusic #musiqueconcrete #fieldrecordings

northern lights comes out 7/25/25 on @bandcamp.com and all streaming platforms. This album includes field recordings from the solar storm of May 2024

cast off form - geomagnetic one [official music video] YouTube video by cast off form

youtu.be/iKde2Pzafzs?...

June Newsletter

#musiqueconcrete
#electroacoustic
#experimentalmusic
#noisemusic

cast off form - onset [official music video] YouTube video by cast off form

youtu.be/PkuzFU-bsyo?...

northern lights
07.25.25

Out on all streaming platforms

Flower Moon Newsletter

Can we get @bandcamp.com allowed as an external player so people can play Bandcamp links inside Bluesky just like YT or Apple Music?

#experimentalmusic
#noisemusic
#newmusic
#modularsynth
#noinput

Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind "I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole."

New Insights on Black Holes

www.space.com/space-explor...

cast off form x zwian, by cast off form x zwian 3 track album

New Release with ZWIAN

castoffform.bandcamp.com/album/cast-o...

Newsletter

Thank you @marcissist.bsky.social for including Strings on February’s Best of Experimental Music on @bandcamp.com

Hello Friends & New Followers

It’s that time - Newsletter Time

Thank you Vital Weekly / Frans de Waard for the review of Strings

#experimentalmusic #electroacoustic #noisemusic

Strings is a percussive and droning album for fans of electro-acoustic improvisation, offering an immersive listening experience.

Strings, by Cast Off Form 2 track album

publiceyesore.bandcamp.com/album/strings

Strings is out now on Eh?

Thank you to @bryanday.bsky.social

Time for the Monthly(ish) Newsletter

New things coming out soon

For some inspiration, listen to this audio replication of the big bang by John G. Cramer of University of Washington of Seattle

faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSo...