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The intense drone work “Shmulikipod vs. Mishipizhiw” was released in July, 2018 on a split CD with Christian di Vito called Supernatural Creatures on TIBProd Italy.		3 tracks of drones and noises available on Bandcamp.
Fuck yeah there will be lemurs is a 2017 collage of 400 animal sounds, and fuck yeah there will be lemurs. 18 different species of lemurs, in fact. Also included is a short Fluxus text score “Animal Charm (For Lisa Kucharski)” performed by the audience of No Shame Theater in Austin, June 2017. Available as .mp3 download via Off - Record Label.		Collage Works collects three different approaches of organizing disparate sound sources, composed from 1996 to 2017. Available as .mp3 downloads via Off - Record Label.
Drone Works is a new collection of acousmatic electro-acoustic works, available as .mp3/.flac download via Earthlier Records. Featuring contributions from Bill Thompson, Vanessa Arn and James Eck Rippie.		tips for the space tourists documents the 2016 collaboration between Josh Ronsen and Jeff Dahlgren with Will Soderberg. Using electronics and voices, the trio creates a perplexing soundscape evoking the the industrial cassettes of the late 1980s. Available as .mp3/.flac download and CDr via Bandcamp.
Sudden Empire of Tears is a collection of acousmatic electro-acoustic works, available as .mp3/.flac download or CD in deluxe box filled with art works from Bandcamp. Certain boxes also contain a bonus CD, ANTI-JAZZ.		eliminal CD by the Unpopular Scientists (Reed Altemus and Josh Ronsen) (Fluxus Montana); prepared guitar duos performed live in Boston and Lowell, Mass., May 2013
The Doukipudonktian is a work of live electronics, first released as .mp3s on Bremsstrahlung Recordings in 2008, now available on BandCamp. Features Josh Ronsen and Vanessa Arn.		The CD i manage to get out by a secret door was published by eh? / Public Eyesore records. Features creative improvisation contributions from Jason Pierce, Jacob Green, Genevieve Walsh and Glen Nuckolls and electro-acoustic works by Josh Ronsen. Cover photo by Josh Russell.
split CD with Fred Lonberg-Holm available from Cohort Records — Features a quartet improvisation from Jacob Green (oboe, organ, percussion, electronics), Genevieve Walsh (flute, drums, vocal), Glen Nuckolls (electric guitar, banjo, violin) and Josh Ronsen (electric guitar, clarinet).		“we used to be such good friends” CD (hushroom records), features contributions from Bill Thompson, Jacob Green, Vanessa Arn, Glen Nuckolls and Genevieve Walsh. Cover photo by Seth Tisue. Available from: End of an Ear (Austin), Eclipse (USA); streaming/download on bandcamp.

Compilations: “Fanfare For Max T. Cat” on SERGE, a compilation for a hungry cat “Sorewa Torikkudesu” on Dissonance Index Vol. 1 — a collage of rough and tumble noises. “Dugmahrak” on Ears have Eyes radio program — a collage of kitchen sounds that starts at 17'40". “I wanted to read more novels from Mexico” on Sonic Heritage project — you have to search for brekekekexkoaxkoax to find track “Povosoro” on “TLM presents...” Vol.2: To Be Discontinued (Thirsty Ears) online compilation “I Understand It’s A Giant Insect” and “Distasteful Adbunerakes” on The Best of Contemporary Electronic Music (TIBProd Italy) online compilation “Simulated Walk Through Garden Using Even Tracks” and “Simulated Walk Through Garden Using Odd Tracks” on Escardrone (Hushroom Records) online compilation “This Space of Time” on Ö-Bits on (BandCamp) & CD — voice and violin samples “No Pipeline for Standing Rock” on Noise Against Racism (Blackened Death Records & HNM Records) online compilation “Why Animals Avoid Munching On Ferns” on Two Halves : Volume Two on (BandCamp) & CD — analog synthesizer, collaboration with Xathax “Note: The Demon At 5 O’clock Has Another Demon For A Butt” on Austin Noise 2016 (Instincto Records) CD/CS compilation “Cognianalogytion” and “Report All Obscene Mail To Your Potsmaster” (a collaboration with {AN} EeL) on {EeL?}?~ Ixer - Vol 1 :?:?Performance Relic on (BandCamp) “Kokopelmana” on Master Cactus Issue #3 (Master Cactus) CS compilation — Moog synthesizer “Galaktoboureko” on Austin Noise 2015 (Instincto Records) CD/CS compilation “Tender Dirt, On the Floor” on Austin Noise 2014 (Instincto Records) CD compilation “Nephelokokkygia” on Austin Noise 2013 CD (Instincto Records) CD compilation “Paper May Say” on 1 Minute Autohypnosis Sex War Noise Faith CDR (Mute Sound) — electro-acoustic music “Bombalobombax” on Node Pajomo Summer 2012 CD (Node Pajomo zine) “Aspidochelone” & “Rumor Narcosis Factor” on One Minute ((CT) Collective) online compilation untitled on RRR-500 Locked Groove LP (RRRecords) — viola solo “for Gerard Klauder” on lowercase 2CD (Bremsstrahlung Recordings) — computer-processed prepared guitar untitled on Phantom Train CD (éditions Suicide Commercial) — electronic music “for Michael Northam” on Rendering of the Veil CD (Beta-Lactam Records) [listed as brekekexkoaxkoax for legal reasons] — computer-processed bowed cymbal tape piece #1 in Fluxlist Box 1 “Distinguished Gentleman in Chicago” on USA/USB CD (Shadow Puppet Recording Company) [listed as Brekekexkoaxkoax for legal reasons] — prepared guitar with Jason Pierce (drums) “Storage Shed” on phonography.org 1 CD (phonography) — location recording “Scion” on Tensile CD (Labile Music) — acoustic prepared guitar “Arksheer” on Grain CD (Dot Dot Dot) — electro-acoustic music “a.Lift” on Fluxations CD (XEXOXIAL EDITIONS) — electronic music 2 pieces on Intersect 3 CD (Pale Disc) — live solo prepared guitar and bowed bass guitar “goats” on Quiet American web site — field recording “Sof Olam” on Ten Below CD (Petite Sono) — electronic music sample material on Nevermet Ensemble CD (Rudimentol Records) — clarinet, electronics sample material on Grapple with Inertia Systems CD by Masters of the Ungentlemanly Art “magyar rakevet tatyamee” on phonography.org 6 CD (phonography) “ma’vet o’lam (Asiyah)” [label remix] on The Last Signal CD (Independent Opposition) “for Christian Wolff” on Fluxus Anthology 2005 CD — crushed rock “Zahav M’mutsah” on Golden Mean CD Bremsstrahlung Recordings — electronic music “Zamzem” on Countdown 2012 CD-R (Invasion)

Josh Ronsen also appears on the following recordings: With DISENSEMBLE: Tableaux Vivants is the first CD from Disensemble is now available for purchase or download on Bandcamp. The Irreversible Time of the Melancholy of the Demise of a World, a new track from Disensemble (Josh Ronsen, Vanessa Gelvin, Matt LaComette is now available as a split cassette release with En Fer on Bandcamp. With BRICOLEURS: Strands of Wire 3-song single “The Semaphore and the Adjective” on midnightradio compilation 108 “The Southern Boundary” on Shadowlands #1 (Owlripper Recordings) “A felt sense of anticipation, ambivalence, anxiety, or foreboding; in poems, found...” on Valentne's Noise 2022 (Otcrah Records) False Friends of a Translator, CD from here “Encouragement for Plants to Abandon Animals” on Botanica Fest compilation (Camembert Électrique) With KOAX CHOIR: “The First Campfire Song” on Origins (Camembert Électrique) “The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even or The Large Glass” on Museums (Camembert Électrique) “S = Screams, Sighs. Suffocation” on Monolithic Blocks (Camembert Électrique) “The Clifford Simak Project” performed by at Northern-Southern, September 2023, piece starts Ears Have Eyes radio program until about 3'45" and starts again at 54'18". With LSJ: Misty Nights cassette by LSJ (Eh?) “Tracks of My Slime” on Escardrone compilation (Hushroom) “False Roses” on Austin Noise 2014 CD (Instincto Records) CD compilation With ABRASION ENSEMBLE: Music for the Same 50 People CD by the Abrasion Ensemble (Beta-Lactam Records) [reissued as Music for the Same 500 People] With ERG/OROGENETICS/N D collective: Geosynclines CD w/ ERG, MSBR & DSM (Flenix) [now available at Public Eyesore] From Cloud to Seed LP by Seth Nehil (Alluvial Recordings) Stria CD by Seth Nehil/jgrzinich (Erewhon) Confluence CD by jgrzinich/Seth Nehil (Intransitive Recordings) With GATES ENSEMBLE: Rehearsal CD by the Gates Ensemble (Spectral House) 3 October 2003 CD by the Gates Ensemble (Spectral House) Live @ the Church of the Friendly Ghost recorded in 2003 With FREQUENCY CURTAIN: Intersect 4 comp CD by Frequency Curtain (Pale Disc) Frequency Curtain CD by Frequency Curtain (Elevator Bath) “Axi-OHM” recorded in Houston, 2003 (Austinnitus) Two Days in May CD by Frequency Curtain (TIBProd Italy) duet 2000 on Rick Reed career compilation With UNPOPULAR SCIENTISTS: eliminal CD by the Unpopular Scientists (Reed Altemus and Josh Ronsen) (Fluxus Montana) With AUSTIN NEW MUSIC CO-OP: “Untitled” composed by Keith Manlove for the Austin New Music Co-op, recorded at Church of the Friendly Ghost, 2004 Auscultation CD by Jeph Jerman and the Austin New Music Co-op () “As Far From Away” composed by Brent Fariss for the Austin New Music Co-op “Drift” composed by Andrew Stoltz for the Austin New Music Co-op “Kinship Collapse” composed by Arnold Dreyblatt for the Austin New Music Co-op As sample source or field recording: “Thousands of Bees in a Box” on Phonography Austin Volume 1 sample source on Ilya Monosov's Music for Big Band, with additional notes sample source on Michael Frank's Silence Project sample source on “Mosley Bog Bird & Tynemouth Waves, Eastern New York Cave Sequence Walking Music” on Elemental Landscapes, Vol. 1 compilation with Wilfried Hanrath, Olli Smith, Pendro & {AN} EeL “Pip Pip Pip on the Way to Wolf Mountain” on Phonography Austin Anual Report 2018 “Hill Country Blues” on Phonography Austin Anual Report 2019 “midnight ice storm from porch, Austin, 2021” on Phonography Austin Anual Report 2021 “East Austin, June 2023, Daytime Owl” on Phonography Austin Anual Report 2023 “Leaf Action” on Phonography Austin Anual Report 2024 “2025 Chicano Park WLD” on Phonography Austin World Listening Day 2025 WONDERFUL, RANDOM APPEARANCES: Original CD by Steev Hise (illegal art) The Allegoric Misanthropical Orchestra .mp3 album by The Allegoric Misanthropical Orchestra (Heterodox Records) Destroy // Austin by Marina Peterson, Christopher Petkus, and Josh Ronsen for dance performance by Leyya Mona Tawil. A video is posted here.

“There’s a place for abstract and there’s a place for noise, and there’s a place for every kind of sound, so come on now and tell me why there’s a void.” —Felt, “Ballad of the Band”