OUT NOW: MEDS-52
Landon Caldwell - Strategic Light
Cassette / Digital
Link in profile
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How do you share your glow? What circles in the gravity of your existence?
Focus the binoculars, fuzzy plein-air. Squint and the world reveals itself an assemblage.
@landonscaldwell returns as your guide through moments of pulsing and buzzing utopia, scattered percussion, and organ drones from deep within the church of memory. Like nine deep breaths in a world of distraction, find solace and intention in the improvisational compositions herein. Folks, here is Strategic Light.
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Listening party today 11/28 at @takecarerecordshop at 4pm / Release show tonight 11/28 at @statestreetpubssp
Cover art by @chrisvorhees
Excited to share this new, in-depth interview with Landon Caldwell that's up on Foxy Digitalis today. We talked about his excellent new album "Strategic Light," early sound memories (throwing rocks at a neighbor's gutter, the ringing silence of fresh drywall), and how sound works as a shortcut to the psychic spaces at the core of memory. There's something special about the sonic world he's built here. Nine deep breaths in a world of distraction.
"Strategic Light" is out Friday, but check out an exclusive stream of the full album in this interview at Foxy Digitalis. You know where to find it.
OUT NOW: MEDS-51
Rob Funkhouser - Respiratory Cycle cassette / digital
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Indianapolis composer, musician, instrument maker and artist Rob Funkhouser returns to Medium Sound with Respiratory Cycle, containing two new, immersive long-form suites in the form of EXHALE and INHALE. The EXHALE side collects a mesmerizing suite of music composed by @funkoftherob and performed by Charissa Garrigus, Brenna Green, Jesse Wittman, Maya Nojiri Sutherland, Gavin Waggoner and the Sound Ecologies Chamber Orchestra; with Funkhouser himself occasionally sitting on on Gravity Harp and Glass Organ. EXHALE’s 6 pieces open up vast and seemingly endless sonic plains for the ears to explore. New aural zones, at first tucked away but slowly revealed on each new listen.
The INHALE side is made up of 8 hypnotic parts performed by Funkhouser, showcasing new electronic, aural zones; at first tucked away but slowly revealed on each new listen. Bound together with the more acoustically-inclined pieces of the INHALE side, Respiratory Cycle reveals Funkhouser at possibly his widest sonic scope yet. Plant your ears in these vast worlds of sound..
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Release show tomorrow Saturday 11/22 at Tube Factory @camimuseum from 4pm-7pm
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Rob Funkhouser 📸 by @amylentzphotography
Head over to our Bandcamp (linkinbio) to hear two new singles:
‘Inhale: Part 1’ from ‘Respiratory Cycle’ out this Friday, November 21.
‘No Caves Here’ from ‘Strategic Light by Landon Caldwell out next Friday, November 28.
Both digital and cassette are available for preorder.
‘Respiratory Cycle’ album release is November 22 at Tube Factory artspace at 4 pm with Rob Funkhouser, Ciaaattt, Mojoalit, and Caldwell/Funkhouser.
‘Strategic Light’ listening party is November 28 at Take Care Records at 4 pm with Mark Tester & Santa Claus.
‘Strategic Light’ album release is November 28 at State Street Pub at 4 pm with Landon Caldwell, Lee Lloyd, and Rob Funkhouser’s Respiratory Cycle.
Rob Funkhouser’s ‘Sharing Sacred Space’
Full video available now on YouTube
Link in bio
Album out next Friday, November 21
Cassette available for preorder on the Medium Sound @bandcamp (link also in bio)
PREORDER ALERT: Hear the single ‘Watershed’ from @landonscaldwell new album Strategic Light. Available on cassette & digital November 28. Link in bio.
Cover art courtesy of @chrisvorhees
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How do you share your glow? What circles in the gravity of your existence?
Focus the binoculars, fuzzy plein-air. Squint and the world reveals itself an assemblage.
Journey through moments of pulsing and buzzing utopia, skattered percussion, and organ drones from deep within the church of memory. Like nine deep breaths in a world of distraction, find solace and intention in the improvisational compositions herein. Folks, here is Strategic Light.
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TAKE CARE RECORDS BLACK FRIDAY PARTY
featuring performances by Mark Tester, Santa Claus, as well as a listening session of the album and a DJ set by Landon.
November 28 4pm, FREE, all ages
@takecarerecordshop@mark_tester
Album Release Party at State Street Pub
with performances by Rob Funkhouser’s Respiratory Cycle, Lee Lloyd, and Landon Caldwell performing work from the album and more.
Between acts hear Record Selections of Mere Man.
November 28 9pm, $10, 21+
@statestreetpubssp@funkoftherob@leelloyd.fr leelloyd.fr @jordanallen666
PREORDER ALERT: Announcing MEDS-51.. Rob Funkhouser returns to Medium Sound with his new tape, Respiratory Cycle, which features two vast and immersive suites of sound titled INHALE and EXHALE.
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Today we share the track “Shared Sacred Space - Mvt 1 The Open Space” from the EXHALE side of the tape. This piece is a @funkoftherob composition performed by Brenna Green (harpsichord), Jesse Wittman (bass), Maya Nojiri Sutherland (cello) and Gavin Waggoner (vibraphone). Follow the 🔗 in our profile to hear & preorder the tape (releasing November 21, 2025).
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Album art & layout by @mark_tester
Rob Funkhouser 📸 by @amylentzphotography
OUT NOW: MEDS-50
Caldwell/Tester - ‘Homes’
LP + digital
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Very excited to drop our 50th release and first LP on Medium Sound in the shape of ‘Homes’, courtesy of MEDS heads @mark_tester and @landonscaldwell
Like an easy aural breeze blowing softly from the speakers, Caldwell/Tester return with ‘Homes’, the Indianapolis duo’s proper full-length follow up to 2020’s ‘Little Flower’.
For this outing, Landon Caldwell and Mark Tester have conjured up a patient and fanciful world that seamlessly blends the organic with the electronic. Brief visions of piano, flute, clarinet and trumpet provide sparse passages amongst often barely-there sequences, which whimsically sputter melodies amongst serene synthesized pastures. Thoughtful, intuitive sound gestures and auditory broadcasts from the musical subconsciousness encompass a warm embrace of the utopian elements of the natural world. In other moments, the vibe becomes more wistful, stark, and sometimes ominous, suggesting a direct gaze at the world outside from these oblique, and sometimes imagined, inner sonic plains.
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Link in profile to order LP / stream anywhere
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Release show tomorrow (Saturday 3/29) at @statestreetpubssp
NEXT SATURDAY MARCH 29 join us at @statestreetpubssp for the release of @landonscaldwell and @mark_tester new LP ‘Homes’.. our 50th release (and first vinyl release) featuring performances by Caldwell/Tester and AKA ( @snappypea@tomlageveen & more)
Head on over to @mirrorindy to read more about the release and stream the track “A Catalogue of Seeds” from the album. “Three Pianos” and “Hypnagogic Navagator” also available to stream along with LP preorder via our Bandcamp page (link in profile)
‘Hypnagogic Navigator’, the dream-moving second single from ‘Homes’, is now available to stream anywhere you might do so.
Preorder now at the Bandcamp — link in bio.
Full album drops on March 28.
Release show March 29th at @statestreetpubssp with very special guests
Things have been a little quiet over here. And for good reason.
Medium Sound is happy to announce MEDS-50: ‘Homes’ by Caldwell/Tester.
Like an easy aural breeze blowing softly from the speakers, Caldwell/Tester return with ‘Homes’, the Indianapolis duo’s proper full-length follow up to 2020’s ‘Little Flower’.
For this outing, Landon Caldwell and Mark Tester have conjured up a patient and fanciful world that seamlessly blends the organic with the electronic. Brief visions of piano, flute, clarinet and trumpet provide sparse passages amongst often barely-there sequences, which whimsically sputter melodies amongst serene synthesized pastures. Thoughtful, intuitive sound gestures and auditory broadcasts from the musical subconsciousness encompass a warm embrace of the utopian elements of the natural world. In other moments, the vibe becomes more wistful, stark, and sometimes ominous, suggesting a direct gaze at the world outside from these oblique, and sometimes imagined, inner sonic plains.
‘Homes’ is the 50th release (and first LP) on the duo’s label Medium Sound, a fitting connection of the circle for the imprint that initially began as an outlet for the pair’s prolific output.
Check out the first single ‘Three Pianos’ at the link in the bio.
C/T 📸 by @aprilknauber
