Josh Mason
Selected Works ︎︎︎
Selected Works ︎︎︎
Kicking A Dark Horse
Jun 2026
Unincorporated Community Fight Song / Traumahawk (Volunteer Corps.) / Would Go / A Tomb / Hellified Ire / No Vacancy Loose And Violent In The Socket / Repair 22,000,000 / Live, From Behind The Power Curve / A Garden
Program
54:11
Jun 2026
Unincorporated Community Fight Song / Traumahawk (Volunteer Corps.) / Would Go / A Tomb / Hellified Ire / No Vacancy Loose And Violent In The Socket / Repair 22,000,000 / Live, From Behind The Power Curve / A Garden
Program
54:11
A multi-modal work articulated across sound and text: a 9-track electronic album alongside a book-length work of experimental writing.
Across both forms, Kicking A Dark Horse is governed by controlled instability—chaotic structures that cohere without repetition and evolve without resolution. The text unfolds in fragments—part diary, part landscape study, part fever dream—extending the disjunctive, textural logic of the music into literary terrain rarely inhabited by a music edition.
“ To observe “Florida” (both the physical space and my on mental state) is to watch someone who refuses to tie their shoe and then proceeds to trip and fall down the stairs. it is a place so full of promise and possibility, but also one that seems incapable of getting out of it’s own way, or even acknowledging what it’s hurtling towards, which is at once both stupefying and predictable.”
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Label Greyfade (US)
Edition 300
Sound, Text and Layout by Josh Mason
Technical Assistance from Joseph Branciforte
Across both forms, Kicking A Dark Horse is governed by controlled instability—chaotic structures that cohere without repetition and evolve without resolution. The text unfolds in fragments—part diary, part landscape study, part fever dream—extending the disjunctive, textural logic of the music into literary terrain rarely inhabited by a music edition.
“ To observe “Florida” (both the physical space and my on mental state) is to watch someone who refuses to tie their shoe and then proceeds to trip and fall down the stairs. it is a place so full of promise and possibility, but also one that seems incapable of getting out of it’s own way, or even acknowledging what it’s hurtling towards, which is at once both stupefying and predictable.”
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Label Greyfade (US)
Edition 300
Sound, Text and Layout by Josh Mason
Technical Assistance from Joseph Branciforte
Wave Salt +7
May 2026
Wave Salt / Untitled / Titled / Untitled /
Untitled / Untitled / Untitled / Untitled
Program
20:34
May 2026
Wave Salt / Untitled / Titled / Untitled /
Untitled / Untitled / Untitled / Untitled
Program
20:34
In 2025, while diving in a hard drive for something totally unrelated, I stumbled into a folder that was labeled Wave Salt. Upon further inspection, I discovered a cache of untitled audio files, as well as DAW project files that were missing plugins and other media that would have been necessary to reconstruct a multi-track project in totality. I had little to no recollection of recording any of [...] vocoders [...] I did for An Anxious Host, and was either what I was working on before that and abandoned, or it was material meant to be utilized in a collaborative project that never got off the ground. Whatever the reason, in reexamining the sounds years later in this context, I found the material to be much more engaging (and in alignment with ideas I was currently exploring in other ways) than it must have been to me at its inception, and thought it might be worth presenting as-is, confused and fractured though it may be.
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Label Students Of Decay (US)
Edition 100
Art and Sound by Josh Mason
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Label Students Of Decay (US)
Edition 100
Art and Sound by Josh Mason
An Anxious Host
Aug 2023
An anxious host is described / A grift is detailed / One man’s trash is another man’s garbage / Skull of Cortázar / The aftermath of post office arson is described / The sunken cost is detailed / Goes reptile / The other side of the coin of the confession of the medievalist / Cart dog / Tired to the bone / Spanish House is described
Program
38:55
Aug 2023
An anxious host is described / A grift is detailed / One man’s trash is another man’s garbage / Skull of Cortázar / The aftermath of post office arson is described / The sunken cost is detailed / Goes reptile / The other side of the coin of the confession of the medievalist / Cart dog / Tired to the bone / Spanish House is described
Program
38:55
Late one night, in a dimly lit supper club, down some one-way street of the mind, a gathering takes place: a broken painter, a magical realist, a wayward anthropologist, a burgeoning essayist, an exhausted musician—they sit together, for what is likely the first time in a history, to discuss all manner of antagonistic positions toward mechanism, protean natures, tyrannical temperaments and, perhaps above all else — What is value?
For Norm.
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Label Students Of Decay (US)
Edition 300—Black
Mastered by Kassian Troyer
Art and Design by Josh Mason
Photography by Carolyn Mason
For Norm.
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Label Students Of Decay (US)
Edition 300—Black
Mastered by Kassian Troyer
Art and Design by Josh Mason
Photography by Carolyn Mason
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Vinyl, Digital
EU Distro
Students Of Decay︎︎︎
UK Distro
Boomkat︎︎︎
Juno︎︎︎
NA Distro
Forced Exposure (US)︎︎︎
Vinyl, Digital
EU Distro
Students Of Decay︎︎︎
UK Distro
Boomkat︎︎︎
Juno︎︎︎
NA Distro
Forced Exposure (US)︎︎︎
Careless approval without examination, and a subsequent deception for want of warning. Honors rendered to sampler detritus—the bones and dust of pilgrims and martyrs; of thieves and asses—enclosed in a vessel with candles lit before it.
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Art and Sound by Josh Mason
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Art and Sound by Josh Mason
