An evening of durational music comes to Wood Street Galleries on Friday, May 29th during the Gallery Crawl.
Forest Management is the long running ambient project of Chicago musician, John Daniel. His prolific output has been featured on labels such as No Rent Records, American Dreams, Vaknar, and numerous others. John’s music is exactly the kind of tonal and patient sound I seek in drone and ambient music and I am overjoyed to bring him back to Pittsburgh.
Local support from long player veterans: Estelle, Nick Breinich, Gusto, and Bed Load
A veritable feast of moving image mysteries will be projected for the duration of the event by film archivist Steven Haines of Flea Market Films
Third installment of my @mutantradiotbilisi residency tonight 🧢
Welcoming Pittsburgh-based @slopmachine aka 'nonsite' as my third guest.
I met Dana through my dear friend @suz.pol.pod.blotz during this memorable six weeks tour in the US last fall.
I stayed a full week in Pittsburgh and absolutely loved this town (a huge thank you to the sweetest @googlecalendars once again).
Its softness, the warmth and kindness of the people I met there, a slower pace, the combination of both industrial architecture and beautiful pennsylvanian countryside all around. Hills, rivers and trees intertwinied with bricks and steel, old factories everywhere.
Dana and I played a rave in a dark basement in town and his live set really impressed me.
How can so little can make some much music. A radical and unpretentious approach to rhythmical noise and how techno can still be this raw cathartic, chaotic force.
How with only a few machines techno can still feel like free jazz.
He recorded a special live set for this radioshow and its wild.
On my side the usual blend of sad machine blips and blops, of anger and melancholy, of strange moves for strange thoughts.
I hope you will enjoy it.
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wow, 2025, where do I begin? It feels like we’ve lived a dozen different lifetimes since the calendar flipped in January, doesn’t it? There’s something so visceral about the way a year—just 365 days—can dismantle the architecture of who you thought you were and rebuild you into someone entirely new.
This year has been a testament to the fact that life isn’t a straight line; it’s this winding, confusing trajectory that pushes us into corners we never expected to visit. It’s in those moments of friction that we find our real substance. The setbacks of 2025 weren’t just obstacles; they were teachers. They taught us about resilience, about the power of a “pivot,” and about the quiet strength it takes to keep showing up when the “plan” goes totally out the window.
But through all the introspection and individual growth, the thing that anchored me this year was connection. It’s so easy to get lost in our own internal narratives, but 2025 reminded me that we are much more than our singular experiences. There is something so profoundly healing about finding common ground with another human being.
Honestly, I’ve been thinking so much about how lucky we are to have spaces like this—right here on Instagram—to keep those threads of connection alive. In a world that can feel increasingly fragmented, this little digital square has been a lifeline. It’s where we share the highlights, the “era” shifts, and the quiet moments that would otherwise be lost to time. It’s more than just an app; it’s this collective scrapbook where we get to say “I see you, and I’m going through it too.” Whether it’s a DM that hits just right or a story that makes you feel a little less alone in your specific brand of madness, these digital footprints are how we find our people.
So, here’s to the lessons learned, the versions of ourselves we’ve outgrown, and the incredible people who walked beside us through it all. 2025, you were a lot. You were a masterclass in becoming. And while I don’t know what the next chapter holds, I know I’m entering it with a fuller heart and a deeper understanding of what it means to truly connect.
Just threw a digital version of this album of harsher cloning tracks on the web. Got a couple tapes left too (released via @petitesoles5.55 ). Link in bio 🧌
