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How Things Are goes to Baltimore! Yes, @guaguanco127 and @david.bernabo are How Things Are and will play Baltimore. Purdy / Pluta / Schmidt opens. Sunday October 12, 2025 | 8:00 pm The Red Room at Normals books *** "Hellllllo, Martin here, your friendly and FEARFULLY creative member of the High Zero / Red Room collective. I played recently in (in another record store venue) Pittsburgh and this group opened for us and they were GREAT. I asked them to play at the Red Room sometime. How Things Are is a contemporary electroacoustic band featuring composer Brian Riordan and filmmaker David Bernabo. The duo plays acoustic objects, synthesizers, and custom electronic software that allows for real-time composition and processing. 'Emergent Godlike Global Brain,' released on Ongoing Box in 2025, is their debut release. The duo is a subset of the trio How Things Are Made, which was formed in 2016 with Matt Aelmore. As a trio, the band has released 86 records, produced five durational concerts events, and commissioned 50 compositions from the likes of Sarah Hennies, Helen He, and Jonghee Kang. Opening for them will be a group of locals. This group includes myself. It is Shelly Purdy (percussion), Sam Pluta (self written software sampling and processing) and M. C. Schmidt (amplified objects, SAMPLR)."

More Ongoing Box LPs leaving the station.

Watererer's Flower to the Mind LP arrives this Friday. This is the music video for "Frightened by Revelations." ongoingbox.bandcamp.com for vinyl and pre-release listening. #music #video #musicvideo #videomusic #revelations #currentevents #pastevents #futureevents

Watch here: /watch?v=Kxbu6bQ6RwU ANNOUNCING: Counting Steps to Infinity: In the Studio with Brent Nakamoto The short film (20 min) documents artist Brent Nakamoto's studio practice, as it relates to his Almost Perfect Press, a micro-publisher specializing in hand-bound, small-batch publications featuring emerging writers and artists. The film is directed by David Bernabo and is co-produced by @ongoingbox and @brightarchivespgh . The premiere of the film will be included in an event called "Almost Perfect Press Book Launch + Reading + Film Screening" on August 30th at @bottom.feeder.books See information below. *** Please join us for the Almost Perfect Press Book Launch + Reading + Film Screening Saturday, August 30, 6-8 pm. We’ll be celebrating the release of two new books: “What is your work?”, a selection of micro-hybrid-fictions-short unclassifiables-by Catherine Gammon, and “My Dreams”, a collection of dreams and stories about dreams by Brent Nakamoto. These and other books will be for sale, including a new chapbook edition of “The Thirty-Two Physical Characteristics of the Buddha”, an homage to Brent Nakamoto’s dog in thirty-two photos. The Book launch will also feature short readings from Ari Moline, Brent Nakamoto, Catherine Gammon, Jenna Peng, and Varun Ravindran, and a short film by David Bernabo. @almostperfectpress

Packing up and shipping vinyl copies of Watererer's new album Flower to the Mind! Get a copy at ongoingbox.bandcamp.com or at Attic Records @atticrecordstore Here's sound from the lead off track "Putteth Forth."

Basic tracking for Watererer's Flower to the Mind LP, 4/20/2024. Available now for pre-order at ongoingbox.bandcamp.com

Yes, Watererer. Yes. ongoingbox.bandcamp.com

New WATERERER lp! Listen/order at ongoingbox.bandcamp.com .-. .- -.. .. .- - .. --- -. On their eighth record, Watererer, the studio band led by filmmaker David Bernabo, examines post-decline survival with their most abrasive (though the ceiling is high) record to date, Flower to the Mind. Joining up with Mirakler's Daniel Gene (@__mirakler__ ), the band recorded initial tracks with engineer Nate Campisi (@natecampisi ) at Mr. Small's Recording Studio (@mrsmallsrecording ) in Pittsburgh. Additional recordings were made at Bernabo's Woolslayer Traveling Studio, and composer Brian Riordan (@guaguanco127 of How Things Are Made) mastered the record. Across six pieces, the band (@pjroduta @what_musik ) worked through structural devices—riffs, stereo bass loops blasting through two bass cabs, games involving time and time signatures—with an interest in evolving a group dynamic, having never played together in this configuration before the initial recording session. Certain constraints were decided upon, i.e. the drums should be muted but recorded in a room where a natural reverberance could be captured. And the kit should include metal items. . .- - / --- ..- - / --- ..-. / - .... . / .-. .. ...- . .-. The album is released by Pittsburgh label, Ongoing Box, and arrives in a vinyl edition of 50 (with a two-plate letterpress print and lyric card insert), a second vinyl edition of 50 (sans letterpress print), and a digital version. This record will not be available on overly exploitative streaming platforms. ..-. .-.. --- .-- . .-. / - --- / - .... . / -- .. -. -.. “paterson is not a task like milton going down to hell, it’s a flower to the mind” – Allen Ginsberg in a letter to William Carlos Williams

If you missed it on Tuesday, HOW THINGS ARE released a new piece titled "Emergent Godlike Global Brain." It's a piece for laptop/Max, modular synths, plastic packaging, found paper, violin, and balloons. Recorded on 5/15/25 at The Government Center during Tough Pill #46. Refigured and remixed by @guaguanco127 and I a little later. We're 2/3rds of @how_things_are_made . Enjoy/listen at ongoingbox.bandcamp.com

The HOW THINGS ARE duo’s first release is out today. “EMERGENT GODLIKE GLOBAL BRAIN.” Beware! A duo subset of @how_things_are_made featuring @david.bernabo and @guaguanco127 . We performed this live on 05-15-2025 for the Tough Pill series at @thegovernmentcenter . We edited it down, refigured, and remixed it in the studio(s) and now present this new version. Out now on @ongoingbox #maxmsp #modularsynthesis #modularsynthesizer #electronic #improvisation #soundsculpting #brain #brainwealth #liveprocessing #acousmatic #musiqueconcrète #pittsburgh #pittsburghmusic #liveelectronicmusic

Summer vinyl.

Sunny Ox Newland is a questionable person, but we released his record today. ongoingbox.bandcamp.com