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Carl Ritger
@heavywarmth.bsky.social
cultivating noise & the space in-between ::: sound artist & composer ::: host of This Green Earth for Great Circles internet radio ::: 1/3 of @onestraw.bsky.social

https://linktr.ee/c_ritger
Big time seasonality:

There's a new episode of TGE airing tonight at 6pm ET via www.greatcircles.net. Honestly can't believe it's spring already, but we're leaning into it w/ this program, all warm & coming back to life-like.

Enjoy.

🌱
March 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Gearing up for a few days out w/ buds from far & wide as we host our first-ever @onestraw.bsky.social events! These 3 dates all ft. ambient king Chihei Hatakeyama, which is a damn rare treat here in CO. 🎟️ are still available for all dates, but they won't be for long...
One hell of a BIG weekend coming up, as we host Japanese ambient guitar maestro Chihei Hatakeyama for a run of shows here in Colorado. Details threaded below, w/ tickets for all shows available here: cached.media/onestraw
March 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Tonight!

TGE's mid-winter program hits www.greatcircles.net.

Expect crackle, frizzle, & dust, all glazed over w/ that particular shade of white befitting of the season.

The show ends w/ a tribute of sorts to the recently departed Susan Alcorn, madame of the pedal steel guitar

Hope you enjoy.

💚
February 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"media arts"
A tape release where inside the norelco case, there's a cassette-sized slab of halloumi that you play by eating to enjoy its squeaky music against your teeth.
February 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
+++ this slice of mild chaos...
Here’s another clip. Thanks Lynette for filming this.
February 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Constructed a major zone w/ @mjsage.bsky.social over the weekend, exploring imagined ecosystems & notions of cultural erasure. This was our inaugural collab & I hope we get to do it again real soon!
Some documentation of @heavywarmth.bsky.social and I duo set from last night. I’m reading from a digital poem I built in 2016 created by a randomized erasure function being performed on the EPA climate change text the 1st Trump admin wiped back when. felt right to bring this back out from the vault
February 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
+++ TOMORROW in Fort Collins, CO: come peruse an assortment of sonic detritus...
Fort Collins, Colorado. Next Saturday the 8th at 6pm. All ages. $12. Weathers / Reeder / Seward trio. Ritger / Sage duo. WGFY opens the night. Wolverine Farm Publick House. Cathartic exploratory sound for questioning everything.
February 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Once more, for the people in the back! Once this sale wraps up next month, physical media will no longer be available direct from FS. We're down to last copies on a lot of what remains...
get 50% off everything at the FS Bandcamp with the code “nomoreice”

please get these tapes (and CDs and records) out of my house for the last time.

Today Bandcamp is giving their portion of sales to LA wildfire relief, the code will be good until next month

fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com
Full Spectrum Records
Full Spectrum Records released the works of experimental musicians and sound artists, with an ear towards idiosyncratic tones, extended time frames and unique compositional approaches. 2008-2024
fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Via @lizpelly.bsky.social's excellent 'Mood Machine.' Did you delete yr #Spotify today?
February 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Big drone action coming up Saturday in Fort Collins, CO w. the lovely Reeder / Seward / Weathers trio, WGFY, & the inaugural duo performance ft. Matt Sage & myself. Expect pastoral brain fry, glitched air, & ripped words.

CC: @mjsage.bsky.social, @andrewweathers.bsky.social, @koryreeder.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Another deep loss...

I never got to see her live, but I've held a special place for Susan's recordings for a long time now. The intimate resonance defines her work is a wonder, as well as her mastery of a rather arcane instrument not typically used in improvised contexts.

Spend time w/ her world.
And I Await the Resurrection of the Pedal Steel Guitar, by Susan Alcorn
from the album And I Await the Resurrection of the Pedal Steel Guitar
susanalcorn1.bandcamp.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Reposted by Carl Ritger
On-air tomorrow night for the February edition of The Satin Tuning Fork at GreatCircles.net from 5-7MT with a smattering of tracks- old, new, borrowed, blue- that have been giving me joy. 🔊
February 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Today’s spin:

Infinite Future Band - Endings

fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/endings

Amazing release to go out on. Congrats, @andrewweathers.bsky.social , @heavywarmth.bsky.social , and co.
January 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The 1st TGE of the 2025 airs tonight at 8pm ET on www.greatcircles.net.

This one is a sort of quiet meditation for a world [literally & figuratively] on fire, keying in on slowly elaborating sounds & dreamy shadow mosaics for the quiet hours.

Tune in & take care of each other.

💚
January 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Gearing up for the first meat-space edition of THIS GREEN EARTH in quite some time, ft. performances from the Reeder / Sawyer / Weathers trio, Isaac Linder, & myself.

No advance tickets on this one. Bring yr ears.

CC: @tharpa.bsky.social, @koryreeder.bsky.social, @andrewweathers.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
An axiom for living. Travel well, Mr. Lynch.
January 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Reposted by Carl Ritger
The tragedy unfolding here in Los Angeles from the fires is devastating. From now until the end of January, I will be donating all sales from my Bandcamp to:

Habitat for Humanity Los Angeles
www.habitatla.org

Pasadena Humane Society
pasadenahumane.org

—> richardchartier.bandcamp.com
richard chartier
Sound artist / composer considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and ...
richardchartier.bandcamp.com
January 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
January 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Reposted by Carl Ritger
Ok, turns out I had other things to listen too.

Infinite Future Band- Endings

A beautiful, honed in, and subtly joyful way to bring this absolutely essential label to a close. Pretty much a perfect ending.

fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/endings
Endings, by Infinite Future Band
7 track album
fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com
December 30, 2024 at 12:38 PM
FYI //

2024 marked the end of Full Spectrum Records, the imprint I collaborated on w/ @andrewweathers.bsky.social for many years. We still have inventory, on which we've lowered prices in the interest of "commerce." Grab a lil something & own a piece of the magic...
Full Spectrum Records
Full Spectrum Records releases the works of experimental musicians and sound artists, with an ear towards idiosyncratic tones, extended time frames and unique compositional approaches. 2008-2024
fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Revisiting this lovely work today; a portal to another [perhaps more perfect] synthetic world.
A Song For Two Mothers / OCCAM IX, by Laetitia Sonami / Éliane Radigue
2 track album
blacktruffle.bandcamp.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Good morning.
January 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Once more into the breach, eh?
January 14, 2025 at 3:34 AM