Josh Mason

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	<title>Josh Mason</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:26:06 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Josh Mason</dc:creator>

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		<description>Project Management: &#38;nbsp;All &#38;nbsp;Solo&#38;nbsp; Collaboration &#38;nbsp;Primitive Coastal Electronics</description>
		
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		<title>Kicking A Dark Horse</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:48:14 +0000</pubDate>

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	Kicking A Dark Horse
Jun&#38;nbsp;2026Unincorporated 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 GardenProgram
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.”&#38;nbsp;

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Label Greyfade (US)
Edition&#38;nbsp;300
Sound, Text and Layout by Josh MasonTechnical Assistance from Joseph Branciforte
	Filed under:
Book,&#38;nbsp;Digital

NA DistroGreyfade (US)︎︎︎Forced Exposure (US)︎︎︎

EU DistroSoundOhm︎︎︎

	
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		<title>Wave Salt</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:20:54 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Josh Mason</dc:creator>

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	Wave Salt +7
May&#38;nbsp;2026Wave Salt / Untitled / Titled / Untitled /
Untitled / Untitled / Untitled / Untitled&#38;nbsp;
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&#38;nbsp;Students Of Decay (US)
Edition 100Art and Sound by Josh Mason
	Filed under:Cassette,&#38;nbsp;Digital
EU Distro
Students Of Decay︎︎︎

NA DistroForced Exposure (US)︎︎︎

	
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		<title>An Anxious Host</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 14:55:47 +0000</pubDate>

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	An Anxious Host
Aug&#38;nbsp;2023An 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&#38;nbsp;Students Of Decay (US)
Edition 300—BlackMastered by Kassian Troyer
Art and Design by Josh MasonPhotography by Carolyn Mason
	Filed under:
Vinyl,&#38;nbsp;Digital

EU Distro
Students Of Decay︎︎︎UK DistroBoomkat︎︎︎
Juno︎︎︎NA DistroForced Exposure (US)︎︎︎


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		<title>A Reliquary</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 15:27:30 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Josh Mason</dc:creator>

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	A Reliquary
Oct 2022Relic / Relic / Relic / Relic / Relic / Relic
Program
22:18


 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
	Filed under:
Digital


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		<title>Utility Music</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:45:29 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Josh Mason</dc:creator>

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	Utility Music
Sep 2021Newport, 5 July, 1969 / Juan-les-Pins, 25 July, 1969 / New York, 20 August, 1969 / Copenhagen, 4 November, 1969 / San Francisco, 9 April, 1970Program
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 MasonTechnical Assistance from Andrew Weathers
	Filed under:
CD, Book,&#38;nbsp;Digital


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		<title>Recreación Segura</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 14:10:07 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Josh Mason</dc:creator>

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	Recreación Segura
Feb 2021Water Closed To Public / High Hazard / Medium Hazard / Low Hazard / Stinging Marine Life&#38;nbsp;Program
20:40


I needed to eat breakfast, and I needed to get home—except I can't actually go home anymore. It's all been carried away, and the voice of mind trembles upon recital of this certitude.

And so I find myself itinerant and uncertain; a foreign body. An Idiot, combing a new coast for shards of that old one that may have washed ashore, no matter how woolly salt and separation have left them to be.

But back in the city, accounts of the hour jitter and diverge: Big Jim bellows, signaling St. John's to toll, and when a plastic wristwatch chimes, it occurs to me, and only then, that this new dialect—does actually have a familiar cadence.

︎Art and Sound by Josh Mason
	Filed under:
Digital
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		<title>The Computer Has Been Drinking</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 14:30:06 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Josh Mason</dc:creator>

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	The Computer Has Been Drinking

Sept 2020Boot / Opinions Of An Ocean Based On Experiences In A Pool / FPS Cloth / The Computer Has Been Drinking / Symbol For Number / Casualty Of The Edit Wars / Segment / SOL Chair / F Chair / SOC Chair / Fun With Heresies /~1 / Screen Job / Jones&#38;nbsp; / The Number You Have Dialed Is ImaginaryProgram
32:28


A spiritual companion, that no one asked for, to Nathan McLaughlin's The Refrigerator Is Emotional︎︎︎

The computer has been drinking, And we let it. 
It cradles our historiesIn however many millions of colors,And we forgive. 
It hears us, though we do not hear ourselves, And we forget. 
It groans under the weightOf our petulance, And we simply do not care. 
It cries for help (remind me later.) 
It screams for a surge (go to sleep.)
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Edition 50Mastered by Andrew WeathersArtwork and Design by Josh Mason

	Filed under:
Cassette, Digital

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		<title>Aumakua</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 14:50:25 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Josh Mason</dc:creator>

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	‘Aumakua
Feb 2020Program
20:00

	
My grandmother passed away in the afternoon on July 24, 2016. (which is also my wife’s birthday) I lost my grandfather two years later on February 21st. She was born in the morning on June 5 (which is the day before my birthday) in 1921 and he on April 27th of that same year. After growing up in a small town in South Carolina, where most of the population at the time never left home, they were married when my grandfather, who was a lieutenant in the Air Force, returned home in November of 1945 – and from then till 1971, the traveled from duty station to duty station, all around the continental US, the Panama Canal Zone, and most importantly, The Pacific Rim.

The sounds presented here are a loose take on a Hawaiian vamp (also thought of as a turnaround in jazz music) in C. This usually small section of music is often used as a staging area between one section of music and the next. For me, this serves as a connecting bridge between the time I knew with them and the time I’ll spend without them. The length of the piece follows the timing of a typical progression of this sort, in that the first two chords span an equal amount of time and the third spans the same time as the first two combined. So, instead of 2 counts + 2 counts + 4 counts, it's expanded and interpreted as 5 + 5 + 10 minute sections respectively, to allow one time to live in each.

My family fostered my creativity, spurred on my imagination. They taught me which tools were right for which jobs. They were the embodiment of generosity – and they were my friends.

For John and Elsie, whom I loved.
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Label Longform Editions (AUS)Mastered by Seth ChrismanArtwork and Design by Mark Gowing

	Filed under:
Digital

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		<title>Coquina Dose</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:03:45 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Josh Mason</dc:creator>

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	Coquina Dose
Mar 2019Crack The Juice Code / Clock In / Key Blight / Pollen Lung / m751 / Condos / Hermitic Chime / Skate Case / Pelagic Scout Badge / (jason drumming)Program
37:00

	
Coquina Dose is the book on your nightstand under a lamp with a 40 watt bulb. It’s driving alone at night up and down the strip looking for a pool to crash. It’s the endless lights of luxury, hotels, oceanfront dining. It’s dogs barking, the wind off the water, dead friends, and sunsets that are no longer free. Everything humming, everything buzzing. It’s a new day, in the same circuit. Short interesting rides, followed by a loss of momentum. Notes of grass, lychee, pineapple, burnt sugar.
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Label Florabelle (NY)Edition 150—BlackMastered by James PlotkinPhotography by Josh Mason

	Filed under:
Vinyl,&#38;nbsp;Digital


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