Brian Simalchik (b. 1988, Danbury, CT) writes music for a wide range of performers, instruments and ensembles. His music embraces emotional nuance and directness, evocative sounds and structures, and the expressive potential of silence and space.

He has had premieres by Roomful of Teeth, the Slee Sinfonietta, Wild Shore New Music, the Berkshire Symphony, UVA Percussion Ensemble, Williams Percussion Ensemble, I/O Ensemble, Opus Zero Band, Foot in the Door, Performance 20/20, Matthew Gold, Andrea Violet Lodge, I-Jen Fang and Casey McLellan. His music has been presented by organizations such as the Talea Ensemble (at The Stone in NYC), June in Buffalo, Yarn/Wire, nief-norf, Wild Shore New Music, Close Encounters with Music, the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, the I/O New Music Festival and Mass MoCA. His piece Seven Songs was a winner of the nief-norf Summer Festival 2016 International Call for Scores. His piece Overlooks was a winner of the Wild Shore New Music 2016 Call for Scores and was performed in Alaska, New York City and Washington, D.C. on a program celebrating the National Park Service's centennial. He has been in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (in 2013 and 2020) and at Mass MoCA, and has participated in June in Buffalo and the Yarn/Wire International Institute.

He has degrees from The Hartt School (M.M.), where he studied composition with Robert Carl, and from Williams College (B.A.), where he was the recipient of the Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship in Music and studied with David Kechley and Ileana Perez-Velazquez. He has also studied with Jennifer Higdon and Judith Shatin at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. He currently lives in Charlottesville, VA, where he hosts A New Sound, a radio show on WTJU focusing on contemporary classical music.

EaselMouth is an Oregon-based duo making genre-blurring alt music that blends psych-folk, indie rock, and sound-design-driven production. Their debut album Sock Puppet Theater explores addiction, spiritual unrest, false identities, and surreal dreams—all through a poetic lens. Their songs are honest and hallucinatory, packed with metaphor and emotion. This is music for the emotionally alert, the misunderstood, and the seekers of strange beauty.

Some audio demos from instruments we make

A collaboration of engineers, designers and musicians dedicated to making powerful and accessible instruments.

documenting since 2020

new record out now! link below (free to listen, support welcome)

all tracks were living performances, usually with acoustic bass and electronics, sometimes other things like guitar, synthesizers, voice, piano, mixers, fx, field recordings; usually single takes, no overdubs.

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