Lands End is a solo ambient and field recording project. 

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

Over the course of 2019, Pentary Th' Mos is recording a new album called "Aires". Singles and EPs from the sessions are being released on a semi-monthly basis, the first being "The January Working".

ABOUT PENTARY TH' MOS

Pentary Th’ Mos is an American electronic music project led by Shelly Blake-Plock (b. 1974). A past member of the Red Room Collective and the High Zero Foundation, Blake-Plock has a deep background in experimental and free improvised music and has shared the stage with Joel Grip, Eve Risser, Dan Deacon, John Dierker, Thomas Dimuzio, Kenta Nagai, Wobbly, Jon Rose, Jennifer Walshe and many other leading avant-garde artists including at festivals and on tours in North America and Europe.

In the studio, he is known for employing a reductive approach honed over 25 years. Here, he has chipped away at the tracks methodically to identify what is essential on over a dozen albums and various singles and digital releases. With Pentary Th’ Mos, Blake-Plock fully leverages his method — blending the more conceptual aspects of experimental music with ambient soundscapes and beat-driven electronica. 

Often propelled by complex chords, dissonance, compound time, and compositional devices based on Hermetic and alchemical ciphers, Pentary’s music incorporates computer synthesizers and programmed minimalist beats to produce exquisite, if sometimes difficult, new music.

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