Asher Levitas

Through These Red Windows is a collaboration between musicians and sound artists Asher Levitas and Margaret Fiedler McGinnis. Composed by Asher in response to a recurring childhood nightmare, the music is channelled through Margaret’s Sabine sculptures - working instruments inspired by the EMT 140 plate reverbs of the 1950s. Named in honour of Wallace Sabine, father of architectural acoustics, the Sabines are both sonic objects and industrial steel sculptures, designed to reclaim the physicality of reverb. They stand at the intersection of music and materiality, sound and steel, function and art. Here, reverb is not only an acoustic phenomenon but also a metaphor for experience, memory, and the echoes that shape us. Through These Red Windows will be released in digital formats on Beyond The Valley on 13th February 2026. Limited Edition Transparent Clear Vinyl 7" Lathe Cut Edition featuring RW5 and RW4 will be available on Sleep Fuse via the amazing Reverb Worship! You can listen to the first track on bandcamp now. By Asher Levitas and Margaret Fiedler McGinnis Mastered by Stephan Mathieu Artwork and photograph by © margaret fiedler mcginnis

Peripheral Lands is out now!  Limited Edition Cassette Tape and Digital available via Bandcamp (it's also Bandcamp Friday!) Available on all streaming platforms. Peripheral Lands hones in on sound ecologies; zooming in on the mingling of static electricity, fish respiring and nesting birds heard from deep under a port, phone interference in concrete walls, bat calls through an echo locator and the easing pitter patter of a coastal storm. It traces the attack and decay of sonic landscapes and resonates these patterns through the bodies of instruments, both virtual and analog, shaping the composition's textures, melodies and rhythms. The record draws inspiration from Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain, which quotes W.H. Hudson: “To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience, it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields—these are as much as a man can fully experience.”

I Wish We Could Tell You Everything   A message, a fiction, a meditation. How would you introduce yourself to someone (some being) who knows nothing of humanity? What would you say? What would you leave out? How could you express the things that are important to you, so they would understand? The history of addressing messages to extraterrestrials is full of bizarre (sometimes surreal) choices, and always an exclusive practice.. Thus far, the objects and radio waves that we have sent out into the universe have all been crafted by individuals or small groups, speaking on behalf of all of humanity. Conceived as an installation by Mary Pedicini with sound by Asher Levitas, this fictional exercise attempts to imagine a democratic messaging practice: A ‘reflecting pool’ in the guise of a circular mirror, positioned on the floor, offers direct access to some as-yet-uncontacted alien species. The audience is invited to sit with the transmitting device and engage with a guided meditation that offers subjects for contemplation. IWWCTYE will be released in Limited Edition Cassette Tape and Digital formats on Beyond The Valley on 6th June 2025. By Mary Pedicini and Asher Levitas Mastered by Stephan Mathieu Pre order now via Bandcamp (link in bio)

Friday 13th, unlucky for those who don't appreciate the hottest new sculptural ambient gear, amirite?! Through These Red Windows by @asherlevitas and @margaretfiedlermcginnis out now! Digital out on Beyond the Valley Vinyl out on Sleep Fuse via @reverbworship ✌️

@margaretfiedlermcginnis @reverbworship coming 2026

I have something new out today on @label.re.natura as part of a new compilation called Crescere. 🐸 Evolutionary memory lives in the body. In The Lateral Line, Asher Levitas listens through hydrophones and contact mics to tadpole swarms in Scottish waters, translating squelches, clicks, and stream vibrations into resonant drone textures. These sounds evoke the shared ancestry of fish and humans, both reliant on hair cells to detect fluid vibrations. Growth here is framed as continuity: the survival of a sensory lineage stretching across species and epochs. Chaotic aquatic noise gradually coheres into resonance, revealing how perception itself is a form of interspecies connection. The composition mimics the sensitivity of the lateral line system, transforming biological sensing into sonic meditation. In doing so, it invites listeners to inhabit a submerged perspective, to remember the water still vibrating within human bodies. Growth is not only cellular or ecological, but sensorial: an expansion of awareness that ties terrestrial life to its aquatic origins.

It’s Like Last Time But This Time You’ve Got A Gun out today on @mortality_tables . Artwork and photo by the amazing @karolinalebek PS: second slide is an audio clip.

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A Soundwalk for Classrooms is a resource for teachers to introduce children to the concept of a soundwalk, adapted for a classroom environment. Download via PDF via my website. Link in bio.

I Wish We Could Tell You Everything out now!

@asherlevitas and I are releasing cassette tape & digital versions of IWWCTYE! More details and pictures to follow, watch this space!! For now, join us for the open studio at @platform1gallery at 7pm this Thursday to experience IWWCTYE as a communal meditation. What would you say on behalf of Earth?

1. One of the remaining Peripheral Lands tapes 2. @electronicsoundmag review 3. @thewiremagazine review Also wanted to give thanks to @jezrileyfrench his excellent microphones, his phenomenal Murmurations residency and introducing me to Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain - without these things I wouldn't have been able to make the record, so thanks very much Jez!