'An Experimental Music Sampler Vol. 2' is a re-release of the 2022 sampler, reworked after my first year of DMA studies at California Institute of the Arts from 2024 - 2025.

To support this release through the Diggers Factory 7-inch vinyl pre-order campaign, please visit: https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/328240/jeffrey-cobbold-an-experimental-music-sampler-vol-2 

Vinyl pre-orders are $20.00 including a digital download & bonus items. Production of vinyl will begin after the pre-order campaign ends on December 1, 2025. Thank you for your consideration regarding the making of a vinyl pre-order :)

Bandcamp & Diggers Factory digital bonus items include:

1. Two versions of the digital poster for "You Smiled And Showed Me...", A Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) Concert Recital at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) created by graphic designer Rodrigo Vasquez Callo.

2. Live performance video of "You Smiled And Showed Me..." at California Institute of the Arts - February 25, 2025

3. "Durham Park - Live Performance Audio Visualizer" from the 'Tuesday at Noon Concert' (Main Gallery at California Institute of the Arts - March 4, 2025). *This particular bonus item will be emailed separately for Bandcamp purchasers. Diggers Factory purchasers will receive it along with the other bonus items*

All sounds gathered and electro-acoustically performed by Jeffrey Cobbold (drum machine, effects, field recording, samples, synthesizer).

Field recording on "Durham Park" captured in the summer of 2023 at Durham Park in Piscataway, New Jersey (U.S.A.)

Guest vocals on "You Smiled And Showed Me..." by Jeffrey Cobbold & Sara Spatz, sampled from 2010 recording Ms. Disinterested (https://jeffreycobbold.bandcamp.com/track/ms-disinterested) 

Recording engineering by Stuart Evans in the Winter of 2025 in Valencia, California

Mastering engineering by Johnny O'Hagan in the Summer of 2025 in Brooklyn, New York

Recorded in the Analog Mixing Studio (AMS) at the Herb Albert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

Album cover photograph by Jeffrey Cobbold taken on December 30, 2024 at California Institute of the Arts

An Experimental Music Sampler Vol. 2

Spiritual Machines

Made To Heal (Acoustic Live)

Right Behind You (Mafia) (Acoustic Live)

Life (Acoustic Live)

Enemy of the World

Tonight We Feel Alive (On a Saturday) (Re-Recorded)

Weird Faith

God Person

OOZING
 
Format: 8-channel sound installation
 
Is an 8-channel sound installation exploring the porous boundaries between body and environment.
 
The work explores feminist and oceanic imaginaries, tracing the sonic paths of fluids and forces that traverse the membranes separating internal from external. 
 
The composition is built from field recordings captured by hydrophonic microphones placed inside the artists’s own body and in bodies of water — rivers, seas, swimming pools, showers, tap water. Tidal in nature, the piece emerges, swells and recedes, emphasising the tension between the intimacy of the body and the vastness of the ocean with the addition of environmental textures and vocal fragments recorded with omnidirectional and shotgun microphones. 
 
Listeners are invited into a visceral, meditative space where sounds leak, bleed, seep, and ooze, blurring the line between self and sea, voice and liquid, water and breath.
 
Special thanks:
Soprano voice: Vida Matičič
Field recordings from: Heike Vester, Félix Blume, Pablo Desirens and Natalia Domínguez Rangel

For Mario Merz Prize Edition 5

OOZING

OOZING (2.0 mixdown)

Fatal Optimist

Ambivalence

Feel Something

Lyrics: "You smiled and showed me...."

All sounds gathered and electro-acoustically performed by Jeffrey Cobbold

Guest vocals on "You Smiled And Showed Me..." by Jeffrey Cobbold & Sara Spatz, sampled from 2010 recording Ms. Disinterested (jeffreycobbold.bandcamp.com/track/ms-disinterested)

Recording engineering by Stuart Evans in the Winter of 2025 in Valencia, California

Mastering engineering by Johnny O'Hagan in the Summer of 2025 in Brooklyn, New York

Recorded in the Analog Mixing Studio (AMS) at the Herb Albert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

"You Smiled And Showed Me..."

All sounds gathered and electro-acoustically performed by Jeffrey Cobbold (drum machine, effects, field recording, samples, synthesizer).

Field recording on "Durham Park" captured in the summer of 2023 at Durham Park in Piscataway, New Jersey (U.S.A.)

Recording engineering by Stuart Evans in the Winter of 2025 in Valencia, California

Mastering engineering by Johnny O'Hagan in the Summer of 2025 in Brooklyn, New York

Recorded in the Analog Mixing Studio (AMS) at the Herb Albert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

August 2, 2025

Durham Park

02 All The Best Dreams

Brain Pain

Get Out of My Head

Artistic researcher (music & sound) + multimedia artist + New Jerseyan + DMA Lecturer

Durham Park

Jeffrey Cobbold

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