Jeremy Young – Analog Oscillator Wielder

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Jeremy Young is a maker of concrète electronic tape music from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Quebec. He is a member of the poetry_sound duo Cloud Circuit, the electroacoustic modern classical trio Sontag Sh**un, and library music waveriders Associated Sine Tone Services. His latest full-length recordings are Cablcar, issued by Halocline Trance, and Masses, issued by We, Here, & Now Recordings.

Making use of a sine and square wave oscillator system, analog 1/4″ tape and open reel loops, filtered radio and EMF signal, and foley-inspired sound treatments from amplified surfaces and objects, Young’s improvisational and compositional techniques are influenced by Cagean reel and unreel tapes, pure and unpure tones. royal edits. “eye” image by the late Paul Clipson.

Visit: jeremyyoung.bandcamp.com/album/cablcar

Young’s long-evolving solo practice makes use of a sine and square wave oscillator system, 1/4″ magnetic tape, filtered radio and EMF signal, and foley-inspired sound treatments from amplified surfaces and objects. Taking cues from his reverberant, cyclical live performances in flow and texture, the works that make up Cablcar each derived from scraps of found reel-to-reel tape material sourced on eBay and sampled by splicing; leaning into Cagean chance processes and adapted collage techniques influenced by the Fluxus expressionism of Joseph Beuys. This elemental tape matter is supplemented with tone clusters, ostinati, and legato melodic phrases sputtered out by very cranky hardware machines.

Because Young’s “Studieau Royale” is outfitted with monophonic oscillators, every note on Cablcar was tuned by hand and employed by attenuation. No keyboards, no synths, no digital plugins or VSTs — all frequency dials, voltage cutoff knobs, tubes and magnets; pure electricity. This tactile praxis combined with a haptics-sensitive deep listening ethos, anchors his McLuhan-esque credo that the tonal content of a musical work is equally as meaningful as the auditory medium on which it was recorded, edited, and played back.

Thus, Cablcar won’t sound like most electronic music served up via the nearest algorithm — this music is lo-fi on every level. Berlin-based engineer (and curator of the Morphine Records label) Rabih Beaini mixed the entire record on an analog board, linearly with hands roaming the faders throughout, while Guillermo Pizarro’s mastering explicitly emphasizes tape hiss and forgotten auditory artefacts in the signal. In this way, the music also perfectly matches the visual artistry of filmmaker Charles-André Coderre, who contributed chemically-deconstructed 16mm celluloid imagery to both the album’s artwork and the video for the primary single, “Judy.”

released April 5, 2025

cablcar CREDITS

JEREMY YOUNG 1/4″ magnetic tape, sine/square wave oscillators, guitar, wurlitzer, piezo amplified objects & surfaces, “the” radio, grief, lightning, self-doubt, & bourbon.
DEANNA RADFORD words on tape on A3.
YLANGYLANG voice on B2.
RABIH BEAINI analog mixing.
GUILLERMO PIZARRO mastering.
CHARLES-ANDRÉ CODERRE 16mm celluloid experiments.
AUDREY LEGEROT portrait photography.
LÉON LO layout & design.
DAVID PSUTKA & ANNA MAYBERRY executive production.
PRECISION RECORD PRESSING vinyl production.
SRD distribution.
Photograph of TITLIS cable car found somewhere, at some time. Most tape reels sourced blindly in bulk via eBay. This record is dedicated to the memory of JUDY YOUNG (1923-2023).

HALOCLINE TRANCE 2025.

Running time: 23 minutes.