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		<title>Memory Without Memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Out now from Machine Tribe, my new album “Memory Without Memory: A Hauntology”. This two track album coming in at just over 30 minutes, is a dark ambient homage of sorts to the great Elaine Radigue using nothing but a Koma Electronik Field Kit and a no-input mixer. Limited edition of 10 printed cassettes with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Notes From The Factory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I hope the new year has been treating you kindly, despite everything unfolding in the world right now. I’ve been logging a lot of overtime in the factory lately, but even with the time drain, I’m staying focused on laying a solid foundation for a productive year. I’m currently shopping a new manuscript, preparing to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Plateaus &#038; Accountability On The Night Shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Driving to the factory for another night shift I spend the beginning of the drive visualizing the “day” that lie ahead of me. Then I gaze into&#160;my accountability mirror — which isn’t a mirror at all.&#160; The practice is simple. Look deep into yourself, find a truth, often an uncomfortable one, and own it. &#160;I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Goodbye 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the surface, it was a year like any other year in my little universe. In fact, nothing much changed at all. And the truth? That’s part of the problem. Plateaus drive me mad. I can roll with the good times and rally against the bad. But the mind numbing, status quo, nothing happening plateaus [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Quiet Erasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce that my poem A Quiet Erasure Among Machines is featured over at Resurrection Magazine. This writing in this issue is absolutely stellar and I am very proud to be a part. Resurrection deserves your attention. Check it out!]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Track, New Comp</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am proud to be part of the new compilation from Argali Records entitled Sixteenth Quarterly Report: Our Just Desserts. My noise track The Eroticism Of Total Collapse is featured alongside 37 other artists. Go support another very cool label putting out stellar comps. Argali Records Netlabel is proud to present the “Sixteenth Quarterly Report [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Audio News</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a 2026 sneak preview, I wanted to give all of you an update on a couple of really cool things on the horizon. Just made official this morning, my very first sound poetry album Process/Operator will be released next year on noise/experimental label Industrial Coast, a very cool project out of the UK. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sisyphus, Vulnerability, And The Alchemy Of Anger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have made some posts recently where I have&#160;let&#160;the usual author/sound artist self-promotion&#160;take a back seat&#160;and bared my soul. Like my last post&#160;When&#160;The&#160;Lines Begin To Blur, imperfect and barely edited, yet these posts have become very special to me. To not cling to this sleek image of author, this shiny social media reality, to bare [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When The Lines Begin To Blur</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve come to realize, that as much as I have spent a lifetime tearing down borders, I have been replacing them with walls. I’ve spent my life since I was a child trying to decondition myself from school, parents, church, state, etc. But what is the point when I replace it with my own dogma [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>And Now A Word From Our Sponsor…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I alluded to in my last post, 2026 holds a lot of projects I’ve been ruminating on endlessly: essays, cut-ups, soundscapes, and experiments with words and sound. Creating this world isn’t just a hobby — it’s my lifeline. A discipline, a ritual, and how I make sense of the world and my place in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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