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Palm Reader 15: Matt Sussman @ Ambient Hike 2025

"sidereal, blasted, pool"

Aired on VPN Radio, virtualpublic.net, on 11.21.25

Recorded live at the Ambient Hike in Joshua Tree, October 2025

Palm Reader 15: Matt Sussman @ Ambient Hike 2025

Have I been to Amara? Like anyone who has, I’ve no way of knowing for sure. 

I am told she is wrapped in a blue-grey fog that extends like an aura for miles in all directions. As certain kinds of fog have a way of doing, it only makes itself known to you when you are already well within its grasp. At best, the traveller may remember entering and exiting the hazy periphery of this city, but whatever comes to pass within is impossible to recall, and one can only recognize signs in the traces it leaves behind in the mind and body. This may be as subtle as a change in the way you speak, as disquieting as an unaccountable bruise or scrape on the skin, or as drastic as a sudden change in the length of your hair. 

Recently, lovers have told me that my way in bed has somehow changed, that the color of my eyes has grown cooler and softer. Flavors that I once detested are now among my most cherished. Certain objects or images — a marble figurine, a drop of blood hanging from a small cut on my finger, a glass bowl shot through with broken sunlight — have stirred up in me the faintest and most curious ecstasy. It is as though, by some association conjured in these moments, I behold not a memory in itself but the effects it has on everything around it, the lines of sentiment that ripple across the waters of my mind from the invisible impression of an unknown stone.

A city will change you, slowly in time, in ways you may not notice as they set in. But what if the city that changes you is not so much a place as a strange and beautiful void, one that quietly haunts the heart, and from which no memory can escape?

Words: Devon Hansen
Image: Mike Midnight

Invisible Cities II:  ​🇦​​🇲​​🇦​​🇷​​🇦​

a hull in the know

NFS guests on this episode of Kiernan Laveaux’s Sweet Abyss, shaping an hour of fogged circuits and low-end weight—shoegaze noise, downtempo throb, post rock arcs and doom ambient. 

https://www.instagram.com/catlauigan
https://www.soundcloud.com/coneshapetop

Sweet Abyss with NFS @ The Lot Radio 12-02-2025

"A hush settles over the winter landscape as shadow and melody intertwine. Field recordings drift in like cold air through a cracked window, grounding each passage in a world both distant and near. Darker currents move beneath the surface, yet something gentle keeps breaking through — small motifs, brief clearings, moments of quiet lift. An abstract, atmospheric journey shaped by contrast, restraint, and a kind of beauty that thrives in low light."

William Selman (@wselman) is a Portland, Oregon-based multi-disciplinary artist whose sound work uses field recordings, synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and digital processing techniques to explore themes such as place and non-places, embodiment, atmosphere, and the dialectic between the real and the artificial. He co-manages the Critique of Everyday Life label with Chris Miller (Gunnar Haslam) and plays in the improvisational trio Wild Card of Cascadia with Paul Dickow (Strategy) and Marcus Fischer. He has released works on Old Technology, Hausu Mountain, Mysteries of the Deep, Digitalis, and Critique of Everyday Life.

https://williamselman.bandcamp.com
https://critiqueofeverydaylife.bandcamp.com
https://old-technology.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-moves-between

Tracklist:
Incantation - Jean-Claude Eloy - Reminiscences (hors territoires)
Cave Calls - Mariolina Zitta - Concert for Bats, Voices and Natural Sounds (Black Sweat)
at eric ericsonhallen - Daniel M Karlsson - Towards a Music for Large Ensemble (fonstret)
Glass Bits - Chloe Alexandra Thompson - They Can Never Burn the Stars (SIGE)
Lyren - Jen Reimer and Max Stein - Sonic Topologies (Institute of Landscape Architecture)
Üzias - Bart De Paepe - Zürahümnah (La Scie Dorée)
Score for Rhythm Clusters with Accents Pt 1 - Chandler and Dickow - Play Fischer (Critique of Everyday Life)
Mount Mansfield - Sam Boston/Shawn O'Sullivan - Mount Mansfield (Critique of Everyday Life)
Sumatra Method - Émile Zener - Sumatra Method (Critique of Everyday Life)
Sanctioned Departures Pt 1 - William Selman - Sanctioned Departures (Critique of Everyday Life)
Passages - Octavian Nemescu - Passages... À Travers Le Temps (Metaphor)
The Willow Bends and So Do I - Magnus Granberg and Skogen - The Willow Bends and So Do I (Another Timbre)
then, silence - Bernhard Günter - then, silence (trente oiseaux)
Errant Ear - Brunhild Ferari - Errant Ear (Persistence of Sound)
I[0] = I[1] - Christophe Charles & Kozo Inada - i[] (Gestalt)
Everything Nice 1 - BJ Nilsen, Ragnar Jónsson, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson - Everything Nice (Some)
L'expérience caustique - Elsa Justel - L'ombre du pont (empreintes digitales)
Chant d'ombre - Michèle Bokanowski - Musiques de concert (Sonoris)
The Clear Observatory - Massimo Toniutti - The Clear Observatory (Klang Gallerie)
Katko - Ø - Sysivalo (Sähkö)

HOCast #270 - William Selman

DanielNeumann_ToneFieldHorizon-WaveFarm2024

entelequia (2m53s)

Malzof at Chillits 2025

Recorded live from within Black Oak(or khotishohol) Ranch in Mendocino County, California - in the historic land of the Northern Pomo, Coastal Pomo/Miwok, Cahto, and Yuki Peoples from 4:10 AM - 5:40 AM PST on Sept 13, 2025 - right after Neonlichter and before Kiernan Laveaux.

Coincidentally this slot time would coincide with 1-year since my dad’s funeral of September 13, 2024. After his passing, I would recover all of the records from his and my mom’s joint collection. Filled with folk music, pretty guitar and instrumentals, classical and comedic sketches, and more. 

To my joyful surprise, one of the records I would encounter in the collection, is one I recognized from my own collection of records: Environments Disc 1: The Psychologically Ultimate Seashore / Optimum Aviary, one of the pinnacle records of the Environments field recordings series. This one presents ocean sounds from Brighton Beach, Coney Island and birds from the Bronx Zoo. Before I left for Chillits, I tossed this record in my tote. I didn’t want to travel with too many records for this trip, but I knew this one had to make the cut.

read more about this mix on my substack: 
https://malzof.substack.com/p/grieving-with-music?r=3f4hsk

Malzof at Chillits 2025

reek room

25 Years

Piano and String Quartet

Live at Dokzaal, Amsterdam
May 6th 2016 

Daniel Boeke, clarinet
Mariana Hutchinson Siemers, violin
Raphaella Engelsberg, violin
Lidwine Dam, viola
René van Munster, cello

Clarinet and String Quartet, excerpt (1983) by Morton Feldman (1926-1987)

The Sinking Of The Titanic (1969- )

The Sinking Of The Titanic

The Almond

Clara Nostra

If, Bwana was born on New Year's Eve 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. A recent review of Margolis's work says: "Let it be declared that Al Margolis/If, Bwana is some sort of evil genius working with raw materials which are never adapted to a genre or a context, because they create one in that very moment. Those sources are radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination." (Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes).

Al Margolis has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette underground through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music; was
co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions, which he continues to run. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition.

Clara Nostra

If, Bwana

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