Midwest Sound Forge

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Retro futurism at its best

Only the finest blends of analog, digital, electric, and acoustic. Where else can you find a vintage 1936 National Duolian paired up with a 1990 Nintendo Gameboy?

Retro futurism

Based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Joe has been exploring the interactions between information, sound, and visual arts through electronics since the early 1990’s. A co-founder of North Coast Modular collective, Joe blends an academic and open source approach to physical and digital tools and techniques, often using instruments built or coded himself.

His musical style blends acid house, trance, glitch, electro, and experimental. 

Award winning finger-style guitarist Rollie Tussing performs timeless classic and country blues, dewey-eyed tunes of the 20s, as well as godforsaken songs of the nineteenth century. His own compositions are influenced by those same lonesome, haunted and abandoned melodies that we all forgot to remember.

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MIDWEST SOUND FORGE