Devon Turnbull, HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2025; courtesy Devon Turnbull/Lisson Gallery; photo: Mark Waldhauser
On view, DECEMBER 12, 2025 — JULY 19, 2026
I’m short of words to describe the honor of presenting this new work at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. This has been one of my favorite places in the city for as long as I can remember, and one of my favorite museums in the world.
I can’t wait to share the journey of creating this work. It feels like a breakthrough moment on all levels; sonically, aesthetically and contextually. Who would ever have thought that we could turn Andrew Carnegie’s personal library into a public listening room?
We have a ton of programming coming together, and lots of stories to tell while the system evolves over the coming months. I will be there for most of December, tweaking, programming, etc. Hope to see you there.
5月18日–29日
月–金 12:00–18:00
Dedekind Cut と Ryuichi Sakamoto による未発表コラボレーション作品を、Karimoku Research Center のサウンドハウスにて上映します。
近日発売予定のアルバムより3曲を、12分間のループ形式で会期中繰り返し再生します。
入場無料・先着順着席。
🙏🩶🧎
May 18–29
Mon–Fri 12–6pm
Unreleased collaborative works by Dedekind Cut and Ryuichi Sakamoto will be presented in the Sound House at Karimoku Research Center.
A 12-minute loop of three tracks from the upcoming album will be played continuously throughout the exhibition.
Free admission. First come, first seated.
The second release from Ojas Music—Elyria Sound is a solo guitar album from Michael A. Muller, recorded and mixed via analog tape during a winter storm.
Each piece was captured live in single passes to a one-inch tape machine, the most direct path from fingertip to magnetic oxide.
Elyria Sound was developed with experimental guitar tunings, yielding a relearning the instrument’s language. The outcome moves between lullaby and lament: spare, cyclical compositions where motifs recur at differing angles and tempos, variations on a central thread.
Recorded and mixed by the multi Grammy award-winning engineer Jonathan Low, the album was mastered to tape with lacquer cut in Germany by Frederic Stader. The release partners with The Vinyl Factory; plated and pressed at the former-EMI plant on the outskirts of London.
Hi-Res streaming, download, limited deluxe vinyl, CD and reel-to-reel tapes available via link in bio.
Thank you for your patient ear,
M
Artwork @finessedobson
Studio Photos @eastdillonradio
To celebrate Jazzmatazz, first released in May 1993, next Thursday in New York Skate Muzik together with Keith Elam will host a special listening session inside Devon Turnbull’s HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No.3 at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
The session will celebrate the legacy of Jazzmatazz through a selection of music experienced on Turnbull’s large-scale handmade sound system inside the historic Carnegie Library.
A rare opportunity to hear Jazzmatazz in a space designed entirely around deep listening, texture, emotion and natural sound.
Tickets available via the link in bio.
Photo of Guru by @tdoteric
New release: Elyria Sound by Michael A. Muller
Ojas Music, the imprint co-run by Michael A. Muller and Devon Turnbull, has partnered with The Vinyl Factory for a vinyl pressing of its second release.
Elyria Sound is a solo guitar album from Muller, recorded to analogue tape during a winter storm in Brooklyn in January 2026 and available now as a limited edition vinyl pressing of 500 hand-numbered copies.
Order now from the link in bio.
ELYRIA SOUND is out today.
I’m so happy to finally share this collection of solo guitar music with you.
The endeavor here was to find the most-direct path from instrument to ear; the simplest / deepest connection and expression possible.
Great care was taken with every step of creating this music—an attempt to capture the physicality and emotion of sound within a space.
Elyria Sound was tracked live to tape in single passes. Mixing and mastering were all-analog through tube-based components. The lacquer cutting, plating and pressing of the vinyl all occurring on vintage equipment.
The limited vinyl pressing is now available worldwide via The Vinyl Factory.
US vinyl, reel-to-reel tapes & CD orders from Bandcamp ship early June.
Digital/Streaming now via all platforms.
Links in bio.
Thank you for your ear,
M
Produced, Composed & Performed by Michael A. Muller
Recorded & Mixed by Jonathan Low
Engineering Assistance by Baxter Ellard
Mastered & Cut by Frederic Stader
Tape Operation by Andy Bauer
Cover art by Dennis Foster
Portrait by Valerie Chiang
Special Thanks to Sean Bidder, Neal Birnie, Alex Flowers, Kara Holekamp, Wes Katzir, Richard Levengood, Rob Lowe, Kyle Muller, Leigh Patterson, Chris Pereira, Helen Rogers, Devon Turnbull
Ojas Music 002 / VF459
