Sometimes, a memory catches you unawares.

A moment returning

I see a forest so majestically alive and changing, never sleeping, always nurturing and providing.

Image taken by me and edited by me.

A Breathing Forest

Driftfields pt.I.

Here, somewhere. 

A collaboration with Our Forgotten Future, who also provided the cover art. 

He laid down these wonderful ambient textures as a canvas to build on, then it took me 2 months to figure out how to take this sense of movement and progression and elevate it. I've been experimenting a lot with low-pass gates as a way to make rhythmic elements from drones and textures and this was natural way to build up this piece, by processing the source materials in multiple ways - rhythmically, through resonation, harmonization, and a little distortion. 

The pulse track took so many takes to get the balance of punch and motion without overloading everything else.

Somewhere, moving

The Eternal Dance

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Driftfields pt.V.

The all consuming space.

This track started as a wickedly fun live jam with a harp sample fed from Multigrain into the Instruo Lubadh, with bass from the incredible Serge Medusa and the Vhikk X. 

Just a few ornaments added in post to clean it up. Ok, a whole lot of cleaning up. It had to be done.

Image credit:  https://pixabay.com/photos/fireworks-particles-powder-abstract-6963152/

Expander

Nostalgia

An energized remix of the wonderful Learning to Say Goodbye, by Our Forgotten Future.

Say something.

I love how Our Forgotten Future's work builds up slowly into these emotionally saturated scenes - and I find this form lends itself perfectly to these kind of driving, layered pieces that add rhythmic energy to take these textures into new directions.

I processed the whole tonal layer (minus the field recorded parts) through a resonator, distortion, saturator, and through multiple reverb layers to get this slightly gnarly polyrhythmic element with some scattered snares - initially random then meticulously edited and placed ... and the bass drum was kind of inevitable. 

(The whole track is not quantized at all, I'm sure it will annoy any drummers out there and if anyone did ever try to mix this they would have a challenge :D)

I am hopeful for more collabs like in 26, it's so satisfying and rewarding to work with other artists whose music resonates. Here's to the producer community.

Say something (a remix)

AVAILABLE ON VINYL VIA DOKI DOKI BEATS: dokidokibeats.bandcamp.com/album/go-until-you-are-gone-201304-07
GO UNTIL YOU ARE GONE 2013.04-07
arranged, recorded and produced from January 2025 to September 2025
a collaborative effort with artist chocoa

artwork by chocoa, arranged for front cover by static.grl
photography on front cover taken by Delores Bird
track 8 by simvlacrvm and static.grl
track 1 recorded at NMPAT Northampton and engineered by Delores Bird and static.grl
all other tracks composed and produced by static.grl
album mastered for digital and physical by Majestic 12 (open.spotify.com/artist/7cc8HnZSfkmdL0PTev0xNE)

special thanks:
Yoshiyuki, Delores Bird, Lane Arcane, Emma Wheeler, Megan Wheeler, Ian Hutchinson, Webster Shadden, Alexis Bishop, Franco Santangelo, Maiko Irokawa, the team at NMPAT Northampton, and all trans people the world over. 

cocoon (mind with whom you speak)

Speed It Up (Instrumental)

Intensive ambient explorations and other stories.

Expander

Bleeptwig