Robert Turman

 

Robert Turman

Robert Turman is an experimental, noise, and industrial musician originally from San Diego, California, who over the decades has been releasing tapes, LPs and collaborative works.

Turman first came onto the underground experimental scene in the late 70s. Shortly after, Turman pursued his own unique vision as a solo artist, fusing together every possible influence at his disposal and laying those ideas down on numerous self-released cassettes like Flux (1981) and the prolific Chapter Eleven (1988) cassette box set. One of Turman’s most noted works, Way Down, came in 1987. It was a creation that utilized synthesizer arrangements and drum machines alongside guitar solos, piano chords, tape loops, and early sampling to create a whole new brand of danceable minimal synth blended perfectly together with the experimental soundscapes he was mostly known for.

In 2021, Chapter Eleven was given proper reissue treatment via his collaborative associates, Aaron Dilloway and John Wiese ( Hanson Records / Helicopter ). Way Down, another recent noted reissue, was originally released as a small run cassette in 1987, only to fall into tape label obscurity. Now Robert Turman’s industrial genre-bending masterpiece album Way Down has finally been excavated for a proper vinyl reissue after twenty-three years in the shadows. These works solidify Turman as a cut above the rest with respect to his talent and his natural ear for experimental composition.

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Lowlands

Lowlands (StL) is an electronic music project created by Hannah Mihulka. Her work is primarily composed of found sound, digital synthesis, and piano composition. The effect is a bricolage of musical textures that can range from industrial to melodic. She employs songwriting to create lyrical vignettes that reflect on images she receives in dreams or meditation. Lowlands, she says, is the place you go to in between sleep and waking.

She is currently owrking on an EP titled Miscellaneous Tracks for Tony. Set to be released early 2025.

   

Bex Bissell (guest DJ)

DJ Bex Bissell, known alternately as Trust Image, Optimist International, Lovers Mood, Inner Self, et al, is St. Louis native Andrew Stefano, a producer, performer, and selector of electronic music.

   

Kevin Harris

Kevin Harris (b. 1975, Oklahoma City) lives and works in St. Louis as an artist and electrical engineer, working with sculpture, sound, and electronics. His latest body of work uses kinetic installation to explore communication through the development of a universal symbolic language. Harris is the founder of Afterlife Laboratories, an organization that develops analog video synthesizers. In addition, he serves as the director of the Center for Aesthetic Research (CAR), Program Manager of the St. Louis arts non-profit HEARding Cats Collective, and Electronics Engineer at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.