Josh Mason
Selected Works ︎︎︎
Selected Works ︎︎︎
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
Filed under:
Vinyl, Digital
Artist Copies︎︎︎
EU Distro
Students Of Decay︎︎︎
UK Distro
Boomkat︎︎︎
Juno︎︎︎
NA Distro
Forced Exposure (US)︎︎︎
Vinyl, Digital
Artist Copies︎︎︎
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
Utility Music
Sep 2021
Newport, 5 July, 1969 / Juan-les-Pins, 25 July, 1969 / New York, 20 August, 1969 / Copenhagen, 4 November, 1969 / San Francisco, 9 April, 1970
Program
32:12
Sep 2021
Newport, 5 July, 1969 / Juan-les-Pins, 25 July, 1969 / New York, 20 August, 1969 / Copenhagen, 4 November, 1969 / San Francisco, 9 April, 1970
Program
32:12
Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple hours in the library.
Utility Music is the result of a year long exploration of a Doepfer A-100 modular synthesizer system of my own planning, beginning on January 1, 2019 and ending December 31, 2019. It was my attempt to learn more about the foundational building blocks of synthesis and to explore the idea that interesting and compelling synthesizer-based music can be realized without the aid of modern DSP and "shiny" hardware within the format.
The final audio portion of the project is a mosaic assembled from these weekly stems. Accompanying the CD is a 72 pg. perfect-bound book containing further information on the project as well as weekly point-to-point patch notes and insights into process.
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Edition 4 (50, 50, 75, 25)
Artwork, Writing and Design by Josh Mason
Technical Assistance Andrew Weathers
Utility Music is the result of a year long exploration of a Doepfer A-100 modular synthesizer system of my own planning, beginning on January 1, 2019 and ending December 31, 2019. It was my attempt to learn more about the foundational building blocks of synthesis and to explore the idea that interesting and compelling synthesizer-based music can be realized without the aid of modern DSP and "shiny" hardware within the format.
The final audio portion of the project is a mosaic assembled from these weekly stems. Accompanying the CD is a 72 pg. perfect-bound book containing further information on the project as well as weekly point-to-point patch notes and insights into process.
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Edition 4 (50, 50, 75, 25)
Artwork, Writing and Design by Josh Mason
Technical Assistance Andrew Weathers
