who?

My name is Erik Schoster. I spent my formative years playing the trombone and photocopying marxist zines in Madison Wisconsin. Under the golden bake of the Midwest I've spent my time with clicks of the trackpad, scrapes on metal, and twists of knobs. I alternate my time between carving beats for Cedar AV, pulling drones as He Can Jog, and collaborating with laptop-guitarist Bryan Teoh.

my other web haunts

luvsound i run this netlabel with my buddy kev.
cedar a.v. i play the laptop with nick sanborn (decibully) and nate zabriskie (nomad palace).
lovely media a blog co-op that I write for.
dreamlife of letters this is my blog.
del.icio.us my bookmarks.
em411 a usually nice co-op of electronic musicians.
myspace i post live dates here.

friends and compatriots

sebastian krueger / inlets just about the best thing coming out of guitars and throats this 21st century.
nosordo records lovely music from spain and sweden. a home to gregg kowalsky, ljudbilden, tsukimono, and other fine musical craftspeople.
audiobulb exploratory electronic music from sheffield and beyond. dear friends.
bryan teoh my man - mad guitar and max/msp science for heads and cochleas.
ryan francesconi multi-instrumentalist composer programmer renaissance man.
allthatfall digital splicing and pandas! o_0b
calika simon makes beats that call me on weekends from distant and exotic locales, drunk on rum and quoting foucault. brilliant stuff.
nomad palace nate zabriskie gots some computer chip soul - and is one third of the milwaukee super-group, cedar a.v.
made of oak aka nick sanborn - long haired sandwich-making sweet sweet guitar harmonic birdsong. also 1/3 of cedar a.v.