Summer 2024//I Scream for Cleveland, a whole season of Sounds Coming Out of the Land, the debut of Terminal City

I have survived my most physically and emotionally exhausting and stressful summer in at least 13 years, and I finally have the energy to share its fruits with you!

Hello everyone,

I know I have not sent a newsletter for five months, but I did create my greatest work yet in that time, and it will explain why in extremely thorough detail. It’s called I Scream for Cleveland and I am very jazzed to finally share it in its fullness with everyone. It was part of the basis of an application for an audio artist grant to help me focus more on my research, so send good vibes on that front, please.

The extraordinary demands of this summer meant that while I continued making monthly episodes of Sounds Coming Out of the Land for Echobox Radio in Amsterdam, I did not have the capacity to update my website or notify people of them in the newsletter. But as of last night, the radio show page of my website is updated with three more episodes made with Jim Ellis of CLE Magazine, including a memorial tribute to John “Johnny Dromette” Thompson and Drome Records; and a traversal through a mixtape Cleveland underground legend, Jim Jones, sent Pere Ubu on tour in 1990.

Next up is the first action of my new art activist terrorist organization, Terminal City. We just returned from our first road trip to DC, which is already setting the tone of the next seasonal mixtape, fall 2024//new roots. We went there to see the legendary underground duo, Kicking Giant. It was a much needed treat after such a grueling summer, but it seems going on a 36 hour road trip on our two days off from work is something we may be becoming too old for, considering that I fainted on the balcony of the 9:30 Club and it completely wiped us out for a solid week. We think we’ll probably do it again anyway, however!

Now back in the Land, we set our sights on our first action at home, which will be totally secret until it unravels in real time at an upcoming concert! The central idea of Terminal City is that Cleveland is the beginning and the end. The future of music culture must be forged in the fire and smoke shooting out of its skyline still, perpetually. The show must not go on. Only what is truly necessary should continue. If it could be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be—and it will be. Very soon.

We are working on a Terminal City zine, so get at us if you want to write about dying forms that need to end abruptly as soon as possible. That’s our focus.

Here are some pictures from our first trip to DC!

More soon,

EMD <3