Andy Bieman
@subsumed.bsky.social
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
Music: http://subsumed.bandcamp.com
Drone/noise/ambient duo active from 2014-2016: http://inneraether.bandcamp.com
Weekend reading: The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind (1988 Penguin edition translated by John E. Woods. Originally published by Diogenes Verlag in 1987.)
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Weekend reading: The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind (1988 Penguin edition translated by John E. Woods. Originally published by Diogenes Verlag in 1987.)
Now playing: The Red Krayola - Introduction (Drag City, 2006)
Revisiting this album which I somehow haven’t listened to all the way through since like 2010. One of my favorites by them along with Hazel and Soldier-Talk.
Revisiting this album which I somehow haven’t listened to all the way through since like 2010. One of my favorites by them along with Hazel and Soldier-Talk.
December 6, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Now playing: The Red Krayola - Introduction (Drag City, 2006)
Revisiting this album which I somehow haven’t listened to all the way through since like 2010. One of my favorites by them along with Hazel and Soldier-Talk.
Revisiting this album which I somehow haven’t listened to all the way through since like 2010. One of my favorites by them along with Hazel and Soldier-Talk.
Recent listening: Pat Thomas - Hikmah (TAO Forms, 2025)
December 6, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Recent listening: Pat Thomas - Hikmah (TAO Forms, 2025)
My next album, Jiaogulan, is finished! 171 tracks in 3 hours and 24 minutes of 100% improvised solo piano in the form of short, free jazz instant compositions inspired by Ahleuchatistas, Minutemen, and the Rock in Opposition movement, w/ lots of mod wheel pitch bending. Mastered by Andrew Weathers.
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My next album, Jiaogulan, is finished! 171 tracks in 3 hours and 24 minutes of 100% improvised solo piano in the form of short, free jazz instant compositions inspired by Ahleuchatistas, Minutemen, and the Rock in Opposition movement, w/ lots of mod wheel pitch bending. Mastered by Andrew Weathers.
Today’s listening: Whit Dickey, William Parker, and Matthew Shipp - Village Mothership (TAO Forms, 2021)
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Today’s listening: Whit Dickey, William Parker, and Matthew Shipp - Village Mothership (TAO Forms, 2021)
Today’s listening: Dream Unending & Worm - Starpath (20 Buck Spin, 2023)
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Today’s listening: Dream Unending & Worm - Starpath (20 Buck Spin, 2023)
Morning hike listening: Nels Cline - The Inkling (Cryptogramophone, 2000)
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Morning hike listening: Nels Cline - The Inkling (Cryptogramophone, 2000)
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
David Grubbs - Act Five, Scene One (Blue Chopsticks, 2002)
David Grubbs - Act Five, Scene One (Blue Chopsticks, 2002)
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
David Grubbs - Act Five, Scene One (Blue Chopsticks, 2002)
David Grubbs - Act Five, Scene One (Blue Chopsticks, 2002)
Currently reading Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press, 2025)
This takes me back to the Pynchon reality I’d been missing! Bleeding Edge was my first read by him back in 2019, and this continues with the format of short, punchy chapters, but within a Milwaukee gumshoe story (so far).
This takes me back to the Pynchon reality I’d been missing! Bleeding Edge was my first read by him back in 2019, and this continues with the format of short, punchy chapters, but within a Milwaukee gumshoe story (so far).
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Currently reading Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press, 2025)
This takes me back to the Pynchon reality I’d been missing! Bleeding Edge was my first read by him back in 2019, and this continues with the format of short, punchy chapters, but within a Milwaukee gumshoe story (so far).
This takes me back to the Pynchon reality I’d been missing! Bleeding Edge was my first read by him back in 2019, and this continues with the format of short, punchy chapters, but within a Milwaukee gumshoe story (so far).
Recent listening: Tim Barnes - Inside Energy (Island House Recordings, 2025)
November 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Recent listening: Tim Barnes - Inside Energy (Island House Recordings, 2025)
Currently reading Dreams Under Glass by Anca L. Szilágyi (Lanternfish Press, 2022)
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Currently reading Dreams Under Glass by Anca L. Szilágyi (Lanternfish Press, 2022)
Recent listening: Worm - Bluenothing (20 Buck Spin, 2022)
October 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Recent listening: Worm - Bluenothing (20 Buck Spin, 2022)
Now playing: Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion (Factory Benelux, 2016)
October 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Now playing: Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion (Factory Benelux, 2016)
Today’s listening: Lathe of Heaven - Aurora (Sacred Bones Records, 2025)
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Today’s listening: Lathe of Heaven - Aurora (Sacred Bones Records, 2025)
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.
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.
October 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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.
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.
Tonight’s listening: Rangda - Formerly Extinct (Drag City, 2012)
October 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Tonight’s listening: Rangda - Formerly Extinct (Drag City, 2012)
Recent listening: Keiji Haino & Sumac - Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never (Thrill Jockey, 2022)
September 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Recent listening: Keiji Haino & Sumac - Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never (Thrill Jockey, 2022)
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.)
(1979 Penguin edition pictured. Originally published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 1937.)
September 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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.)
(1979 Penguin edition pictured. Originally published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 1937.)
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!
September 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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!
Recent listening: Shalabi Effect - S/T (Alien8 Recordings, 2000)
September 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Recent listening: Shalabi Effect - S/T (Alien8 Recordings, 2000)
Now playing: Eno • Hyde - High Life (Warp Records, 2014)
September 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Now playing: Eno • Hyde - High Life (Warp Records, 2014)
Weekend listening: Wendy Eisenberg - Bloodletting (Out of Your Head Records, 2021)
September 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Weekend listening: Wendy Eisenberg - Bloodletting (Out of Your Head Records, 2021)