Ruin Radio 5: Music for Burning Cities (12/08/2014)

this episode has been a work in progress for me. the end result is a clanging, grinding barrage of scrap metal and churning synths. it's intended as a vehicle for anger and fear and pride and release and maybe some things a listener might feel.

Ruin Radio 3: Journey Through a Body (11/24/2014)

this third episode underwent a lot of changes while i was pulling it together. it started as a kind of "dungeon" mix (that's a concept i'd revisit the following week). however, i realized a lot of songs i wanted to include focused on physical bodies -- their functions, boundaries, and statuses within medicine and other systems. physical desire also comes up in a way that felt relevant. so i cribbed the title from throbbing gristle's last studio album and fashioned this as an installment in which the listener moves through a body while they listen. it may not be a linear path from outside to in, but i felt a change here from experiencing explicitly physical manifestations of bodies to something more metaphysical and existential. there's a darkness lurking throughout this mix, and this week's show moves into some noisier territory. i think there's also a dash of real beauty here and there. simultaneously, maybe.