Various Artists: Let Nothing You Dismay! (2024)

Ruining Christmas annually since 1993.

Mystery Fix: Life to Life (2024)

Mystery Fix’s debut album, after a long string of singles. Synth-pop featuring indie-rock legend Anton Barbeau on lyrics and vocals.

Mystery Fix: The Great Equation (2023)

Do the math.

Mystery Fix: Blown Away / The Needle (2022)

Two songs about strange travel.

Shalmaneser: Vierhebigkeit (2021)

Rainy-day activity music for your inner robot child.

Tim Walters: Stricture (2021)

Tim does with Eurorack what he used to do with SuperCollider, with surprisingly unsurprising results.

Shalmaneser: Maybe Face (2020)

A return to the Shalmaneser identity, with a more melodic focus.

Tim Walters: Shatter in Place (2020)

For this lockdown-friendly album, I asked some of the Bay Area's finest experimental and improvising musicians to record some of their solo playing at home and send me the result for use as electroacoustic source material.

Tim Walters: Neither Here Nor There (2019)

SuperCollider etudes composed on the bus.

Tim Walters: Fission Cuisine (2019)

Electroacoustic musician Tim Walters gets back to his roots with this set of melodic analog synthesizer tracks.

Tim Walters: Austerity Measures (2018)

A set of short etudes featuring self-driving feedback networks.

Mystery Fix: The Magpie (2018)

Two songs that came out of Karelian Skies, featuring Polly Springhorn on voice and flutes.

Usufruct: Windfall (2017)

Plundering the public domain for fun and profit.

Tim Walters: Kilgrimal (2017)

On the sands near Blackpool, out at sea, once stood the church and cemetery of Kilgrimal, long ago submerged.

Tim Walters: The Difficult Third Wish (2017)

A collection of electroacoustic works realized between 2010 and 2017, with particular emphasis on complex aggregated modulation systems.

Reconnaissance Fly: Off By One (2016)

Quirky, melodic progressive rock.

Difski: The New Improved Moon (2014)

Improvisation featuring members of Different Skies and Usufruct.

Reconnaissance Fly: Flower Futures (2014)

Settings of spam poetry, with RFly’s distinctive brand of avant-rock.

Shalmaneser: The New Prime (2013)

IDM with plenty of surprises.

Mystery Fix: Beloved (2011)

Mystery Fix’s first single, with an uncharacteristic soft-rock vibe.

Mystery Fix: Syllogismobile (2010)

Love and horns on the A-side, death and strings on the B-side.

Shalmaneser: Ticker (2008)

Shalmaneser’s sophomore release adds recorder and crumhorn to the mix.

mind6Spiral: The Redundancy of Suicide (2008)

The sixth in Mike Metlay’s series of duo collaborations, in this case with Tim Walters.

Shalmaneser: Feature Wars (2004)

The debut of Artificial Stupidity.

Slaw: Snakes & Ladders (2001)

A bizarre yet fascinating interactive construction with 100 tracks (one virtual) on one CD.

Circular Firing Squad: Oxide (1997)

Four improvising composers embedded in an acoustic/electronic audio ecosystem.

Tim Walters: The Dry Well (1995)

A dark and emotionally charged work of musique concrete, created by extreme digital processing of acoustic sound sources.