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Andy Bieman
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Musician, infrequent writer, after school program worker. Debut novella Brocken Spectre forthcoming from Galileo Press. he/him Music: http://subsumed.bandcamp.com Drone/noise/ambient duo active from 2014-2016: http://inneraether.bandcamp.com
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Apr 26
Subsumed - Gdod Ma'i Gzhi [live at Bon Ton L'Roy's Lighthouse Smokehouse, Monterey, CA, 4/24/25]

Hi, everyone! On Thursday I performed live for the first time in about four years, debuting a new piece of music I wrote between September '23 and April '25. The video is up on my YouTube channel now.
Subsumed - Gdod Ma'i Gzhi [live at Bon Ton L'Roy's Lighthouse Smokehouse, Monterey, CA, 4/24/25]
YouTube video by Subsumed
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 4d
Recent listening: Worm - Bluenothing (20 Buck Spin, 2022)
Worm - Bluenothing CD with CD shelving unit, stacks of CDs, and white wall in background.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 4d
Now playing: Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion (Factory Benelux, 2016)
Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures / Compulsion 2CD with CD shelving unit and stacks of CDs in background.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 6d
Today’s listening: Lathe of Heaven - Aurora (Sacred Bones Records, 2025)
Lathe of Heaven - Aurora CD with CD shelving unit and stacks of CDs in background.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 18d
Currently reading Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press, 2022. Jonathan Cape UK edition from the same year pictured.)

I’m utterly absorbed and can already tell this will be in my top five reads of the year. I bought this edition because I liked the forgoing of “A Novel” on the cover.
Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh hardcover book on wooden park table, with grains of sand on the table above the book.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 22d
Tonight’s listening: Rangda - Formerly Extinct (Drag City, 2012)
Rangda - Formerly Extinct CD with CD shelving unit and stacks of CDs in background.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 23d
Recent listening: Upright Forms - Blurred Wires (Skin Graft, 2024)

New project from Nick Sakes (Dazzling Killmen, Colossamite, Sicbay)!
Blurred Wires, by Upright Forms
10 track album
uprightforms.bandcamp.com
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 23d
Pavement - Greenlander
Greenlander
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 24d
Phantom Tollbooth - Over the Pipes [live at Atak, Enschede, Netherlands, 2/15/1988]
Phantom Tollbooth "Over the Pipes"
YouTube video by Dave Rick
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 25d
Today’s listening: Natural Information Society - Since Time is Gravity (Eremite Records, 2023)
Since Time Is Gravity - Album by Natural Information Society
Listen to Since Time Is Gravity by Natural Information Society on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 26d
Subsumed - Ruins

From my 2023 album Palimpsest. I've always liked it when bands/artists used bits of live performances in their studio work, like This Heat on Deceit. The first half of this is from a live performance at East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey from either 2014 or '15.
Subsumed - Ruins
YouTube video by Subsumed
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 26d
It's Bandcamp Friday again! Here's my album Palimpsest from 2023!
subsumed.bsky.social Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Sep 6
For this Bandcamp Friday, here's my 2023 album Palimpsest! It's mostly instrumental piano music—dark and murky but also driving. All of the tracks are composed except for "Chamomile." Recommended listening for: wandering through the misty mugwort forests of memory.
Palimpsest, by Subsumed
16 track album
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 27d
Recent listening: Lucy Liyou - Welfare / Practice (American Dreams, 2022)

Compilation of two albums from 2020 and 2021.
Welfare / Practice, by Lucy Liyou
12 track album
lucyliyou.bandcamp.com
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 29d
Recent listening: Keiji Haino & Sumac - Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never (Thrill Jockey, 2022)
Keiji Haino & Sumac - Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never CD with CD stand and stacks of CDs in background.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Sep 29
Selfie in forest with trees, blue sky, and playground in background. I’m wearing a Don Slepian - Sea of Bliss shirt and a Blue Note Records baseball cap.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Sep 28
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Sep 28
Currently reading Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz, translated by Celina Wieniewska.

(1979 Penguin edition pictured. Originally published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 1937.)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass paperback on patio table alongside a ceramic pot and glass coffee mug. Concrete and stone patio flooring in background.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Sep 27
Just finished Divine Days! That was a wild ride. It was one of those books that “taught” me how to read it as it evaded narrative conventions for a more meta and conversational approach, interweaving stories about stories. The frenetic yet measured flow of the sentences is nonpareil!
Divine Days by Leon Forrest on patio table with ceramic pot, tea glass, and concrete/stone patio flooring in background.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Sep 27
Recent listening: Klaus Schulze - X (Brain Records, 1978)
Klaus Schulze - X - YouTube
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Sep 27
R.E.M. - Bad Day
R.E.M. - Bad Day (Video)
YouTube video by remhq
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Sep 27
The Church - Just For You
Just For You (2002 Digital Remaster)
YouTube video by The Church - Topic
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · Sep 26
Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...
ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts
Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.
www.bleedingheartland.com
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 26
As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
This morning, Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations — an institution which has concluded his government is committing a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He arrived in New York after a flight that added hours to its path to circumvent the airspace of countries which might enforce the International Criminal Court's warrant for his arrest. During the course of his speech, another Palestinian child will undoubtedly be killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, as they have been every single hour for nearly two years. Eric Adams will greet Netanyahu as a friend. Andrew Cuomo proudly served on his legal defense team. Both have jockeyed for the approval of Donald Trump, who has sent billions of our taxpayer dollars to support these war crimes. A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 26
A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Sep 26
Beauty Pill - Instant Night
Instant Night
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · Sep 25
Recent listening: Shalabi Effect - S/T (Alien8 Recordings, 2000)
Shalabi Effect - S/T 2CD with stacks of CDs and CD shelving unit in background.
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