February 2012
1 post
utah, 1869
a few weeks i had the express pleasure to begin working on a record that i’ve had on deck in my mind for while. it’s a return to a traditional “band” environment to some degree, with my good friend and co pilot micah vandegrift behind the drum kit once more. we’ve played heavy music at extreme volumes in the past—but never recorded and arranged it in quite...
January 2012
3 posts
Plant Body-Willits (Josh Mason Remix) →
current actions
above: from a show i played recently at the vault gallery in jacksonville.
current actions: “outcroppings” collaborative tape with smyth available this month. split with nathan mclaughlin in the works. finishing up some audio work started last year as well as a remix. after that will be spending some more time focusing on sunshine related music and activities and less on personal...
December 2011
3 posts
top of 2011
I probably wouldn’t have done this this year had I not had so much downtime at work to think about it. With all the music out there, it seems futile to put something like this down solidly—plus, I spent a good chunk of the year listening to stuff that came out 30-40 years ago. I’m sure there is other stuff that I really enjoyed this year—but this is what stood out to me as I look...
so i found this on my hard drive this morning....
November 2011
4 posts
I HAVE A NEW TAPE OUT NOW—GET IT HERE →
Watchso hey, the very kind futuresequence blog has included one of my track on its new compilation ‘SEQUENCE2.’ pretty cool to be included with lots of artists i really admire. plus, its free—so go get it.
October 2011
4 posts
September 2011
2 posts
temple bell
so, my new record (tape, i should say) ‘temple bell’ is finished. recorded over the course of about 4 or 5 months on and off in florida (and a little in washington state) it should be out in a couple of weeks right here. it’s a new direction for me—something i have never really done before.
a1. temple bell a2. water a2. wood b1. ash b2. obsidian flakes b3. gold flakes
all...
August 2011
3 posts
just spent the last 2 hours splicing and splicing and splicing and looping and splicing for the mason/andree work. when this thing is done it will easily be one of the best things i have ever been a part of.
senescence
we just did a new release for smyth on sunshine ltd — ‘senescence’
here is what fellow monomer/mm-cc contributor josh saddler had to say about it.
A talented multi-instrumentalist and artist, Jared Smyth crafts a wordless dialog with this cassette tape + digital download, released on Sunshine Ltd. Senescence seamlessly blends field recordings (above and below the waves), urban ...
cascadius maximus
back from washington highlights include but are not limited to: seeing old friends, brouwers in seattle, edmonds ferry burritos, acquisition of rare fennesz vinyl at every day music, heliography, nooksack river, lake diablo, pike place market, the woods, organic blueberry ice cream from the cascadian farms, fat tire in a can, mt. baker highway, highway 20, actual wildlife, giant...
July 2011
11 posts
RECORDS FOR RESCUE!
for those of you who don’t know—my good friend rachel’s husband has gone missing during a surfing trip in indonesia. not only is this terrifying and heartbreaking, but it has left rachel on the other side of the planet to organize search efforts with only a few people. due to conditions there this hasn’t been an easy task.
so, in an effort to help ANY and ALL sales made...
starting to flesh out an environment for an...
a clear day and no memories
no soldiers in the scenery, no thoughts of people now dead, as they were fifty years ago, young and living in a live air, young and walking in the sunshine, bending in blue dresses to touch something, today the mind is not part of the weather. today the air is clear of everything. it has no knowledge except of nothingness and it flows over us without meanings, as if none of us had ever been here...
royallen/peat raamur/do tell/ostral/keahota hota
had a great time tonight at the nullspace show. really excited and inspired to see old friends and to make new ones
current actions
at the end of this month i’ll be leaving florida for a week to spend some time recording and spending some quiet time in the cascades.
updates
my receiver stands apart from it’s signal, and i have no reception this record is basically shelved. the more i listen back to the masters, the less i like it—and it’s been cut down from about 5 tracks to 3. so there really isn’t...
June 2011
9 posts
Watchlast 1/2 of ATL set courtesy of jared smyth
<a href=”http://sunshineltd.bandcamp.com/album/josh-mason-jared-smyth-live-in-atlanta” _mce_href=”http://sunshineltd.bandcamp.com/album/josh-mason-jared-smyth-live-in-atlanta”>Josh Mason + Jared Smyth Live in Atlanta by Sunshine Ltd.</a>
foxy digitalis reviews 'otium sanctum' →
Watchmm-cc – 06.12.11
mm-cc.org: a place to showcase what happens at a weekly open invitation to drink copious amounts of coffee and create ambient music/art/video/etc with friends… if you’re interested in participating send me an email at smyth{@}mm-cc.org – - if you can’t be present in person with us in the northern florida area, & would still like to be a part of what we do you are more...
back from atlanta. had a really great time, met some really great people, played a really good set (i thought). its really crazy when lots of people who have never met can come together and produce something that good. both jared and mine’s sets were recorded in their entirety so hopefully those will surface somehow. saw some pretty amazing modern homes design during the MA home tour too.
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atl show
if anyone is coming to theshow tonight it will probably be more like 9 or 9:30. thanks!
Watchprojection visuals by smyth for our show in atlanta next week.
May 2011
10 posts
i should be practicing for an upcoming gig—but...
Six Signifigant Landscapes
IV rationalists, wearing square hats, think, in square rooms, looking at the floor, looking at the ceiling. they confine themselves to right-angled triangles. if they tried rhomboids, cones, waving lines, ellipses — as, for example, the ellipse of the half-moon — rationalists would wear sombreros.
wallace stevens harmonium, 1923
tea at the palace of hoon
not less because in purple i descended the western day through what you called the loneliest air, not less was i myself.
what was the ointment sprinkled on my beard? what were the hymns that buzzed beside my ears? what was the sea whose tide swept through me there?
out of my mind the golden ointment rained, and my ears made the blowing hymns they heard. i was myself the compass of that...
in streams
we (sunshine) just released the first tape release for david andree. david has been an absolute pleasure to work with and this release is just killer.
“45 min of warm ambient drone and analog tape explorations recorded this past winter in real time without overdubs.”
do yourselves a favor, buy it, hit play and drift off.
second take of the as yet untitled ‘temple...
an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not forseen. being unforseen, this action is not concerned with its excuse. like the land, like the air, it needs none. a performance of a composition which is indeterminate of its performance is necessarily unique. it cannot be repeated. when performed for a second time, the outcome is other than it was. nothing therefore is accomplished by...