e. jason gibbs

a shot from lauren tosswill's set at @opensystemsstudios.bsky.social studios the other night

Stuff one sees on the georgia florida line

Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

In five days, this brand new tape from @angelhair0.bsky.social and I will be released on the fantastic @tracedobjects.bsky.social label.

I encourage you to listen to this music when it is made available. I am biased, but I think it is enjoyable.

up in phippsburg listening to the winter woods

a fox in the snow at work yesterday

Erstwhile (@erstwhile.bsky.social) is having a sale that ends this Sunday (20% off with code 2026). I snagged this Vanessa Rossetto album which I had my eye on last year

excellent night at space gallery. thanks aftersound, everyone at space and all who came out on a really cold night

thanks to everyone that came out for this show

Tonight at Space Gallery! Come hear us make sounds from multiple speakers

this saturday, january 31st at space gallery in portland, maine. playing with grace bedwell and id m theft able. come out, listen, say hi

Next show: 1.19.2026

Kiran Arora
JHK
Slow Hymn
Varroa

Hi, all Open Systems is kicking off our education program in Sonic Art Technology. We are looking for suggestions/requests from the community as to what you might be interested in learning.

This Saturday, Tom Borem of Baltimore Maryland performs in Quad with local support from Chrissy Armstrong and Seda/Kanevsky

‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels

if you have ever heard the sound of a ship recorded with a hydrophone, you can imagine how horrendous it is for marine animals.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? - Inside Climate News The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications. Lawyers think the discoveries could galvanize the world to recognize whales’ ...

insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...

43.65°N 70.251°W., by E. Jason Gibbs 6 track album

my latest release 43.65°N 70.251°W. is out today as a cassette and download on the german label Frenetic Magic Sounds.
These are all working waterfront and shipping recordings collected in and around Portland Maine.
freneticmagicsounds.bandcamp.com/album/4365-n...

Reminder: “30×N — LRJ1”, a new video and release is available on www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @earlabs.bsky.social

Weston Olencki at Open Systems Studios the other night

i'm overdue for a trip to new orleans

In 1972–73, Gordon Matta-Clark snapped hundreds of rolls of photos of NYC graffiti, a fairly new phenomenon at the time. This new book collects every single frame he shot. It's a huge cinder block of a book, 1000+ pages. Published by OM Books.

02_Listening at the Limits April 2014

"Schafer’s environmentalism (an environmentalism which, as David Toop notes, risks romanticizing the pre-industrial soundscape in a version of primitivism that would have potentially disastrous social effects"

David Grundy April 2014 issue of surround
www.surround-journal.net/02_listening...

Feature Creep by type/token is officially out today. Thanks for listening and supporting TO.

offline assembly offline assembly is a digital imprint documenting live performances at open systems studios in portland, maine.

Offline Assembly is a new digital imprint documenting live performances from Open Systems Studios in Portland, ME. First batch out today. All sales go directly to the studio. First batch Patrick Carey, Gibbs/Tamirisa duo, Kanevsky/Fireman duo
offlineassembly.bandcamp.com

the always inspiring christina kubisch.

The Female Picaresque: Jan Kerouac’s Baby Driver by Amanda Fortini October 24, 2025 – “Jan Kerouac’s darker and more extreme brand of mischief make her father’s On the Road high jinks seem tame and even a tad dilettantish by comparison.”

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...

Rare North Atlantic right whale grows population to 384 Scientists have reported an encouraging trend in the population growth of the North Atlantic right whale.

a small bit of good news in an increasingly grim world.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...

exceedingly happy to announce this new addition to the forthcoming queue, two longtime powerhouses who will be working together for the first time.

Kevin Drumm/Taku Unami (Erstwhile 113)