Name: Wait by Jonathan Beckenstein in The Donor List - Vol. I
Duration: 5 min 2 s
Description: live looping improvisation later re-composed and augmented in studio

🎸✨ Jonathan, this soundscape is such a captivating journey, each guitar pluck and subtle sound feels like a story unfolding in layers. Really appreciate the unique textures you’ve woven here. Can’t wait to see where your creativity takes you next! 🌌🎶🙌

A stroke of genius Jonathon, this track will stay with me for the rest of my life.

This is something extra! The beginning is a treat - developing into a great instrumental interlude

12 years ago and needed just as much as then as it is now - we wait for that call

Nicely done my friend - This track blends genres with finesse, delivering vibrant energy and immaculate sound. Each note sparkles, and the overall sound is lush and warm - big like.

Quite a musical banquet!  Love this part!

Do you have unused or undesirable audio kicking about? Demos, outtakes or loose ideas that don't seem to go anywhere? Give them second life by sending them over to me and my little side-project... these artists have, so why not join them.

Contact me: wouwouandthewormling@gmail,com

More info: wouwouandthewormling.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02…in.html

The Donor List - Vol. I

written and recorded 2014 by andrew salvner (aka pretzels malone)

puddlejump

14 Atoms

Recorded and Produced in a South Korean apartment by Language of Shapes.

Mastered in Canada by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering.

The last time you stumbled over these shores
The dawn seemed so far from your grasp but now it's all yours
Some lessons we learned from our time in the darkness seep through
And even the same stupid bullshit behaves as if new

The last time you stood without turning away
The corpse of your conscience floated on past
But you couldn't reach out right away
Lucky for you it grows back like the shards of your soul
That you traded for whiskey and cheap finite thrills to distract you from taking your throne

The light fires down on the lost

The first time you knocked on the otherworld door
Your brain flood with yellow you quaked in your robes and backed out from completing the call
And all of those angles they flooded your brain from within
A straightforward message from the ancient of days burst out from the eye to your skin

Love is blind

The first time you knocked on the otherworld door
The dawn seemed so far from your grasp but now it's all yours.

Download!

Light On

A Circle Around Time

YELLOW LEMONADE

morons

They sang not with voices, but with the memory of shape.
Beneath the shattered pane, echoes gathered
fragments of forgotten rites,
lit by the flicker of a candle that never cast heat.
Each note a reflection,
each silence a scream caught in glass.
An homage to the room that remembers you,
long after you've past.

Canticles for the Dead Mirror

Tsy-fact

Bezkwit, emerging from the Polish underground, started as a trio inspired by free jazz, noise rock, and krautrock. The band/collective plays free improv music on a rock canvas.

“Performatively BEZKWIT is undoubtedly a fascinating phenomenon, carrying echoes of Miles Davis's electric period, the harmonies of King Crimson and the unpredictability of John Zorn.” - Muzyka na Widelcu, 2024.

released May 27, 2025

Kacper - trumpet
Fryd - alto sax
Michał C. - electric guitar
Michał S. - electric bass
Kamil - drums

mastering - Michał C.
cover - Fau-Fau.Design

https://winoiwinyle.bandcamp.com/album/question-marks

Railway Rails (from "Question Marks" by Bezkwit)

The world's largest iceberg, A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island- is endlessly spinning near the South Orkney Islands, about 375 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Its dance is caused by a phenomenon in fluid mechanics known as a Taylor column. It's essentially a rotating cylinder that forms when there's an obstruction in a flow. The A23a is trapped in a kind of ocean vortex, a Taylor column.
There are many paths a collaboration can take you down. Although the typical one tends to be shaped as a kind of dialog or turn-taking, I like the most those that, instead, become as sawing a seed and watching what happens then, including some active intervention: somebody tells an idea, or provides some materials or tracks to you and they start a self-organizing process in one's DAW. That's what happened here: @user-737426987 Ambient Annie provided some tracks that made some musical sense by themselves, but I used them as seeds for something different though related. Another of Ambient Annie's relevant contributions to this track has been in providing a concept, even though this was originally unintentional: some of our email conversations deal with natural phenomena, and therefore Antarctica, its fauna and icebergs gracefully popped up. Some months later, the seeds swelled, stems grew and leaves appeared, giving way to the flowering that you can now listen to.
During the final mixing rounds, Nyarlathotep, the three-lobed burning eye creature from Lovecraft's cosmogonies, passing his crawling chaos through the throat of @lhtrah Lht (another SC artist you should listen to), unexpectedly contributed with some primordial chants to this track: my degree in Miskatonik studies allowed me to decode the singing as "I will die and nobody will remember me", which is quite appropriate for an iceberg that is slowly melting. As far as I could find out this song was first featured in a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Fando y Lis" (1968).
Ship bell by Mateusz_Chenc @ freesound.

A Taylor column

A Taylor column - part 2

Another snippet from Caligo Paean, darker in tone to evoke the power Of Caligo, who wasn't just in charge of mist but ruled the domain of chaos. 

Caligo Paean is a 1 hour long sound piece installed on river front property in the town of Franklin, Tasmania as part of the exhibition "When The Fog Clears". It formed part of the Ten Days on The Island Festival March 2025.
The work was installed in several locations across the property including a stack of subs under an old bus, in the main exhibition space and in an abandoned shed some 40 metres from the main area . The speakers were 'tuned' quite differently depending on their location and the sound was not delay corrected with the result of each mini-installation merging with each other in odd sonic ways - kind of calling the listener from one spot to another. The the work features field recordings, percussion, piano, bass guitar and Intonarumori as well as this special one off choir : )

Caligo is the Ancient goddess of Chaos. Born of the fog she controls the darkness, dwells in the void and is as old as the primordial matter that created the universe. This work is a tribute to the goddess as she continues to influence our lives and, in the case of this installation, the site and concept informing the show.

Official press release below for The Fog Clears

Every day, the mists of the Huon Valley perform a seductive dance, gently obscuring and revealing contours of the fertile land and waters. Situated in The Watershed Franklin, When The Fog Clears features six artists from lutruwita / Tasmania exploring the region’s iconic mists through a variety of mediums including installation, sculpture, illustration, sound, and video.

Developed exclusively for Franklin, this exhibit extends from the waterfront itself into the chambers, kilns, and rafters of the shed, inviting visitors to consider fog as an atmosphere that can cloak us in unexpected ways.

Caligo Paean (The Abyss Calls)

Solo Piano.  Created in Real-Time at the Midwest Music Conservatory, St. Louis MO.

Photo by Greg Carr, my brother.

Year of Music: September 29, 2025

This is a spontaneous home recording, lo-fi, now mastered recording

It is a song i made for my wife, it was started a long time ago and i just decided to finish it

Andrew Napoli - Guitars
Couch King - Production, Lyrics, Vocals
Ill Dub - Final Master 
https://soundcloud.com/ill-dub-productions

Lyrics 

Good morning my sunshine, to thee i lift my spine
My heart to your design, your sweet warm bright sunshine

It's time to live, it's time to pray
Time to say, we choose today
Choose to be now, choose to be here
Time to be present and let your mind clear
A pebble in the water, a ripple in the well
Just trying to catch a wave in that giant swell
Whose to say what your to do, whose to say just who are you
You are my dream, your a radiant being
You are my light, your a source of might
A steady stream in the darkest night
You are the unseen charged particle beam
Scream out loud in a joyful crowd
Ease into the quiet when its time to be private
Wake up to the sun, fall asleep to the stars, Salutations to the heavens and your inner avatars 

Everything is beautiful, beautiful with your smile
Smile to make the world beautiful, beautiful your smile is everything 

The Couch King - Your Smile Is Everything

Maybe self-restraint is the most important kind.

Not much is said about the fear of freedom. Along with exhilaration comes worry: What might we do if unrestrained? If nothing is held back, what then? What will change, what might we lose? How can we predict, control, understand? What if people (including me) do things with their freedom I don't like?! Oh, man....

Maybe, as a group especially, we'd rather put up with something we know is wrong than face the fear of the unknown. Are we ready for a little healthy fear for the sake of freedom? I'm not sure, we seem to be going the other direction-- giving up so much freedom for the illusion of security.

I dunno, Ralph... getting a little preachy there.

Restraint

live looping improvisation later re-composed and augmented in studio






Wait

Yeah flip back to, fro and through
watch this machine... hypnotize you

Reach into this box where are enclosed 
some dirty secrets I propose 
to unvail and to decompose

So before you make it to the door
I’ll squeeze your doubts 1234
I’ll show you how this story goes

Honey Honey
Reach into your own mind
Bunny Bunny
What will we find
Honey Honey
Bunny Bunny
Take the burdon off your soul
Honey Honey
you may sleep I’m in control
Bunny Bunny

Yeah flip back to, fro and through
This clean machine is gonna hypnotize you

I can make you dream, I’ll get you high
on all the things that you can’t buy
the big cars and these fancy clothes

As I see your face begins to melt 
you loosen down your safety belt
and so drift off into a doze

Yeah flip back to, fro and through
My ear to the wall, I know just what’s good for you
So in this close call, do you still feel false from true ?
Now I catch your fall and thus it looks like you’re screwed
This bling machine just hypnotized you

mOag - hOney hOney bunny bunny

Do you have unused audio collecting dust and clogging up your hard-drive? Give it second life by sending it over to my side-project - wouwouandthewormling@gmail.com

Audio donators to date: @a-white-kid, @angelakerfoot, @augenmerk, @butch-tandy, @butipreferrominapower, @couch-king-presents, @crankyfox, @esemanolain-ruizzo, @esuyamagishi, @exner, @falloon, @g-c-ess, @guitarwizardsofthefuture, @janineandtheproblem, @joerxworx, @jonathan_beckenstein, @languageofshapes,@lemonadelove, @man-on-a-grill, @midipunk, @moduspony, @nealretke, @pretzelsmalone,@richard-blaine-3, @robotbattles, @russell-sinfield, @soundwanderer, @spicy-invalid, @stormthepalace, @theweightytree, @wizardshoes and @zeroplusplacebo

Artwork by:
Eleanor Adair: www.instagram.com/eleanor_adair/ 
Ghadah Alkandari: www.instagram.com/prettygreenbullet/ 
Kate Grutman: www.instagram.com/kate.grutman/ 
Jim McElvaney: www.instagram.com/jimmcelvaney/ 
Lizzie Badger: www.instagram.com/patchouli_people/ 
Matias Mendoza: www.instagram.com/matiasjmr/ 
Matthew Green: www.green-marine.co.uk 
Sarah Orchard: www.instagram.com/sezzzzle/ 
Silas Field: www.instagram.com/silasfield_/ 

- Wou-Wou & The Wormling

A laboratory with an open bar and floating altar. Come on in! 

Here are various solo and collaborative projects - songs, soundscapes, live looped solo guitar improvisations. 

This project used to be called "imaginary friends", but it became too real for that name, as did many of you.

I hope you enjoy something you find here. Do feel free to be in touch, you never know what might happen.  

I also invite you to attend @hypnopompetus, a duo project with the illustrious Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley https://soundcloud.com/sel-sync, and Fictive Sisters, a transatlantic band with  the incomparable Wheelwright https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction.

Wait

Jonathan Beckenstein

Recent comments

Marin Gale

Frans Beelaard

•ZEMANDAN•

taRka

Related tracks