A black and white photo of a bench with glasses, a program and an employee badge
My husband @robert.takahashinovak.com is performing alongside Sarah Davachi at @thebroadmuseum.bsky.social this Saturday!
www.thebroad.org/sarah-davach...
"[T]he duo construct the kind of radiant tableau that is ahead of its time."
Album review: Cleared's 'Lustres' (ft. Michael Vallera and @stevenhess.bsky.social) - out Friday via @room40.bsky.social.
sun-13.com/2026/03/04/c...
Le 6/03 @room40.bsky.social
Cleared
🎶 Lustres
clearedreleases.bandcamp.com/album/lustre...
Naarm/MEL friends....next weekend Makino Takashi and I are headed your way for a very special performance!
02.03.2026 23:56 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cleared ‘Lustres’ CD/dL will be released March 6 on @room40.bsky.social
Preview two tracks and preorder at:
clearedreleases.bandcamp.com/album/lustres
Thanks for listening.
Literally one ticket left for @merzbow.net and I in Brisbane....no door sales possible folks....
22.02.2026 00:59 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
@room40.bsky.social @touch33.net @discreetarchive.bsky.social @sirr-ec.bsky.social @fieldswefound.bsky.social @movingfurniturerecords.com @dragonseyerecordings.com @muterecords.bsky.social @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social @chitrarecords.bsky.social #soundart #dronemusic www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonic...
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Next week I join @merzbow.net for my first solo concerts in AU in a decade. See you out there!
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Today’s listening is this beauty on @room40.bsky.social room40.bandcamp.com/album/and-al...
20.02.2026 22:03 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
behold — a handy recap of the past week on The Tonearm in newsletter format (Liam Kazar! KMRU! Fausto Romitelli! wavepool! Stephen Vitiello!), plus some bonus nuggets from our interview with @room40.bsky.social
(click it) → www.thetonearm.com/r/82608e36?m...
A black-and-white profile photo of Lawrence English and the quoted text: "I'm one of these people that cannot make work from nothing. For me, the boundary, if you like, or the frame, the vines, are actually what make the work."
Lawrence English on Bluesky → @room40.bsky.social
13.02.2026 06:26 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
After spotting him last year alongside Ojerum, we now find Peter Knight flying solo, weaving his trumpet notes into electronic layers and granular textures. It’s surprising, stunning, and available on @room40.bsky.social
#ambientmusic #peterknight #room40
www.etherreal.com/spip.php?art...
we've been lucky to have many fantastic conversations published on The Tonearm thus far, and this one between the two Lawrences — @lawrenceperyer.com and @room40.bsky.social — is a top fiver no doubt about it 💥
12.02.2026 21:57 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0SYD folks...Makino Takashi is coming to visit....the show at Art Gallery NSW is already almost sold out....don't sleep!
12.02.2026 06:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Gotta say that @room40.bsky.social has been a remarkable label to learn about more over the years. A generous range of artists in a shared sphere, steadily expanding possibilities.
09.02.2026 14:06 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
a photo of Lawrence English doing field recording out in the wilderness
… Among the many topics discussed, English shares his theories on "acid nostalgia," the tension between space and place in field recording, and why he stopped performing for eight years.
Be sure to tune in to this fascinating conversation: podcast.thetonearm.com/lawrence-eng...
On today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, we're joined by Australian composer and sound artist Lawrence English to discuss his philosophy of relational listening, the 25th anniversary of his label Room40, and his new collaborative album, 'Trinity', with Stephen Vitiello …
@room40.bsky.social
This was honestly a joy. Lawrence at @thetonearm.com , was open to covering some wide terrain including my proposal of Acid Nostalgia, listening and weight lifting, surprise, and the joys of collaborating with people like stephen vitiello.
09.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A note from Lawrence English In late 1975, Annea Lockwood realised her composition World Rhythms. It represents one of the first creative works exploring the potentials of field recordings in a multichannel setting. It is a landmark work and a composition that, on its 50th anniversary, has gently carried forward over the decades, but arguably now is only starting to come into true focus, and be understood for exactly how revolutionary it was. World Rhythms was a work concerned with a practice of sustained listening into the world, and beyond. It expanded outward from many of the compositions and themes Annea Lockwood had been exploring since the 1960s. It sought to take those learnings and apply them to a new set of terrains and circumstances. Moreover, it suggested a sensing of sound that was drawn from profound curiosity, matched only by patience. In 2019, I reached out to Annea and started a conversation about a revisitation of World Rhythms. My initial proposition was a simple one: a re-issue that was remastered and touched up, reflecting Annea’s thoughts on the piece in this moment. The conversation quickly spun outward though, and before long Annea had asked if I might be interested to revisit the master tapes with the thought that the work could be revived and prepared for performance presentations going forward into this century. On listening to the materials, during the period of restoring the audio from the original master tapes, I was struck by the profound dynamism of the recordings. Each of the sound-fields held an attentive flux, a rhythmic pulse that was breathing. Each one a story of the pulses of the world, and our universe, that spoke to a possible reading of reality that sits in excess of our everyday capacities. A poetics of pulse if you like. Here then is the result of those conversations and also the presentations of the piece that followed - several of which Annea has overseen herself. On this newly rendered imagining of World Rhythms
World Rhythms
by Annea Lockwood
(@room40.bsky.social 2026)
room40.bandcamp.com/album/world-...
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#soundart #musiqueconcrete #darkambient #dronemusic www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonic...
starting in a moment @foxydigitalis.bsky.social listening party!
05.02.2026 00:22 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Trinity by @room40.bsky.social & Stephen Vitiello
music.apple.com/us/album/tri...
#experimemtalmusic
Composed with field recordings take on Jan 7 2025 (the day of the Eton Fires) it’s a humbling work.
The sound quality of my iPhone is not doing it justice — please listen at ianwellman.bandcamp.com/album/partic...
Mastered by Lawrence English @room40.bsky.social
@ianwellman.bsky.social
Lustres CD/dL will be released on March 6, 2026 on @room40.bsky.social
Preorder includes the title track. Thanks for listening.
clearedreleases.bandcamp.com/album/lustres
particularly dangerous situation is out now via @elevatorbath.com. the album is a meditative document of the 2025 Southern California wildfires. Massive thank you Colin for really putting in the care to make this edition sound and look the best it can!
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