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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pleased to report that the old Panasonic still sings!
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting theme night. 4 acts, all of whom, coincidentally or not, used tape measures & harmonicas in their sets.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hiding in the bleeps on.soundcloud.com/JxI9Y3SZCYhj...
soundcloud.com
lhnkgt
Schlogs and flops and scrapes and cholks and fokes and two lips in which to pursue (hairsuit)
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
for RRRon cranksturgeon.com/6O26/reypu.mp3
cranksturgeon.com
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The venerable Daniel Menche. youtu.be/IBDm00M8bTQ?...
youtu.be
4ms Podcast Ep. 4: Daniel Menche
YouTube video by 4ms Company
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Heading back to the Nostromo …
Photo of a greenish yellow puff ball having released its spores; vaguely resembling the xenomorphic pods from a certain Ridley Scott film
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JS @cranksatori.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Noise fans have it so much easier.. other kinds of music, someone says your favorite artist is terrible you immediately gotta like go full apoplectic rage, poor little vessels in your brain popping all over.. Noise, someone says wow that's horrible, ya just smile and say Hell Yeah, buddy! Hell Yeah.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Recounting the time before the invention of the wheel - when folks used magical circular wands to wiggle square waves on their synthesizers.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Breathalyzer. cranksturgeon.bigcartel.com/product/mint...
cranksturgeon.bigcartel.com
Minty Maw Repurposed Vocal Microphone
Minty Maw is a curiously strong peppermint voicing device, featuring the same components used in our Barky Box verbalizer: clicker switch, quarter inch output, and handy dandy large mouthed micro-phon...
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
PSA: mind the sweep
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chik white @darcyspidle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
disposable microphone
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tamarack. Gotta love a tamarack. Accompanying soundtrack? Not a tamarack. But it was nearby… cranksturgeon.com/6O26/REAKY.mp3
It’s a photo of a tamarack, a kind of tree that features into the northern Maine landscape, all needley and rather strange, majestic, stoic, and in some way… immortal.
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Peter J Woods @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Crank Sturgeon- Idle Hands Peak @cranksturgeon.bsky.social in this one. All the hallmarks at a real peppy pace. cranksturgeon.bandcamp.com/album/ides-h...
cranksturgeon.bandcamp.com
Ides Handled, by Crank Sturgeon
27 track album
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Mic of the Month Subscription! Check it out: cranksturgeon.bigcartel.com/product/mic-...
a grid format photo featuring 9 of Crank’s top shelf contact microphones - subscribers get to pick and choose some of the options, receiving a mic in the mail once every two months. Dig it.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
What’s the worse thing that could happen. cranksturgeon.bigcartel.com/product/plug...
A red toilet plunger cup has a 1/4” jack fixed to where the plunger’s stick should go. The plunger is held by Crank’s old man hand against a green backdrop of birch and pine trees. Apparently this implies nature has no use for plungers, so take that with a head scratching metaphorical grain of salt or maybe the red plays nicely on the green backdrop. Dunno.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Hellllll yeah.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Nail soldered to XLR. Yup. on.soundcloud.com/ItdKTL7aKb0g...
A nail is soldered to an XLR connector in hopes of not only increasing headroom for said nail but also to look cool. In sum, fools errands.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Found footage of two guys performing avant floorcore, before the invention of the belt. youtu.be/6zZy7b_qcNE?...
youtu.be
VideoZine#2 (07) Crank Sturgeon & PCRV - Excerpts
YouTube video by Blasphuphmus Radio
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Onomatopoeia poem, brought to you by our neighborhood mechanic.
A photo of a sign that lists pricing for auto repairs based on the noises a car makes.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
youtu.be/F3lpHboecX0?... Ample grits, mit Fritz!
youtu.be
A BETTER NOISE @ THE MINING INSTITUTE - Fritz Welch & Crank Sturgeon - 27 OCT 2014
YouTube video by doxology
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bad finger painting featuring our favorite 99¢ sampler.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New pitch and earwigs, freshly minted on Subvert: www.subvert.fm/crank-sturge...
A photo of a food service employee glove discarded on the sidewalk, the kind of glove we used to wear, and occasionally hoarded during bouts of plague. The picture is an advertisement for our recording called, Ides Handled.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Old friends send us pix of even older friends - and so here’s Herman. Disclosure below: cranksturgeon.com/6O26PIX.html
It’s a photo of Herman the Sturgeon, resident acipenseridae at the Bonneville Hatchery. Our pal Mike Shiflet was there a while back and forwarded us this pic. We were there in 2oo4.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Social media errorism.
A transformation depiction, PSA, sort of a before and after fable… noting the evolving nature of contact mic usage and their often game changing and face melting transmogrified testimonies. The top picture is your usual white guy tryna sell you shit; photo number two is a warning to those who may partake in contact mic use and the detrimental effects to skin, eyes, and headwear.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ahoj friendlies, we are here on Subvert, as well as Bandcamp, SoundCloud, Podbean, and… Ello. www.subvert.fm/crank-sturgeon
A depiction of his nibs, advertising a decisive move to feel included.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Piezoelectric choking hazard in an easy gum ball cat toy. Checkit. cranksturgeon.bigcartel.com/product/bobb...
Photo depicts a piezo microphone housed in a gum ball machine plastic orb. The piezo is terminated to a 3.5mm jack. Sturgeon’s fingers give an idea of size… it’s not only quite small, some might deem said object to be a bit odd…. but that’s how we roll.
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Peter J Woods @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
TSA AGENT: Wait, why do you need to borrow our intercom system? BRIAN ENO: Testing a master.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
March poops & April gapes; another lob into mesmerizing obscurity.
cranksturgeon.bandcamp.com
Vacueloesssoh, by Crank Sturgeon
track by Crank Sturgeon
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
A near perfect Fluxus performance was had.
Blue plastic gloves behind an outdoor blue water dispenser at the small mall where my local health food store resides. The gloves are crumpled in a way that implies something happened, transpired - something sinister or gross or even medical. The water dispenser is also a local hang for homeless dudes getting hassled by cops. The mall always has an energy to it - sometimes feeling close to the skin, some confluence or wormhole vortex. For example there’s a crystal shop nearby, a yogurt joint, fish shacks, nameless yoga studios, a tuxedo store. All nearly abandoned in the bad air, angry palm trees… all a still life for late capitalism, on its back like a bludgeoned bit of embattled lore, road pizza, with numb songs about Route 66 (just 
add a six).
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Pocket gobs for interpersonal yodels
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Lip Sibling / Hybrid Vocal Mic Wobble Box
The Lip Sibling is the love child of our stalwart Town & Mouth Report vocal microphone and one of several anonymous donors that could fall...
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Just realized I could charge 200% more per contact mic if I called em “sound art transducers”
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New cutlery session here: youtu.be/YPMxgWUamdg?...
A view looking down on a table, featuring a bunch of kitchen cutlery atop a metal tin that has on its lid a number of soldered alligator clips and springs. It’s a noise session!
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Something from Cody, now it’s for you.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A tribute to yesterday’s blister collection by way of mishandling hot glue on.soundcloud.com/KVgD0i4LsyCg...
soundcloud.com
five alarm liar
Schlogs and flops and scrapes and cholks and fokes and two lips in which to pursue (hairsuit)
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Apologies to Don Henley. on.soundcloud.com/51vA86pi5zPs...
soundcloud.com
Greetings from California (part 3)
Schlogs and flops and scrapes and cholks and fokes and two lips in which to pursue (hairsuit)
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
29 second remix of a 30 second track for a cassette compilation chock full of 29-30 second tracks that may or may not happen (but if it does let me know) on.soundcloud.com/xN61450tMqeZ...
soundcloud.com
trite wheat
Schlogs and flops and scrapes and cholks and fokes and two lips in which to pursue (hairsuit)
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
An astronomical high tide washed away all the ICE. Insert metaphor and repeat.
A beach in Maine, photographed in early January. As a result of astronomical high tides, there is no ice on the beach whatsoever. The author implies that this is a metaphor we can adapt to these times.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This year’s holiday greeting card from id m theft able. More of these in my P.O. Box please!
Collage artist, word salad maestro, and soundmaker extraordinaire, id m theft able sent us a holiday greeting card featuring some of their finest handwriting, letterism, spontaneous sharpie marker goiter, and many toothy grin poems - too many to transcribe here - alluding to one walloping tome of a Xmas cheer oracle.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Glitch & sync with J. @elnadadordelsol.bsky.social
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Revisiting this release, by @cranksatori.bsky.social … a wonderful tribute to Jim Leftwich. cranksatori.bandcamp.com/album/asemic...
cranksatori.bandcamp.com
asemic synthesis (for Jim Leftwich), by J.Soliday
5 track album
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Thank you, Thurston! substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com
350 Best Records of 2025 by Thurston Moore
Best Records of 2025 – Thurston Moore
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Uncertain assertions that have everything to do with jet lag: on.soundcloud.com/ul9zbVatjsXO...
soundcloud.com
R>).)w@h
Schlogs and flops and scrapes and cholks and fokes and two lips in which to pursue (hairsuit)
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Bonnes fêtes loop; snow and palmetto edition, with accompanying denial soundtrack
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Loop for everyone having to travel during the holidays.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Late in the game discovering these fun free apps from Audio Thing. Moon Echo is a nifty collab with Hainbach. Volume up!
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Late night frottage with sandpaper and lint on.soundcloud.com/C0ClAoItpnUZ...
soundcloud.com
reek room
Schlogs and flops and scrapes and cholks and fokes and two lips in which to pursue (hairsuit)
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A trip to Antwerp. A duet with Ludo Mich! Listen here: cranksturgeon.com/5Erp/STURMIC...
Crank Sturgeon stands next to his idol, Ludo Mich, following an evening of performances, poems, and, typified by the link, a fair amount of laughing.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Surveillance footage captured an excerpt from this peculiar book talk. Paris, circa 2osomething.
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Audio diary number something something, circa recently. on.soundcloud.com/51RgT28YOzzL...
soundcloud.com
a hull in the know
Schlogs and flops and scrapes and cholks and fokes and two lips in which to pursue (hairsuit)
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Crank Sturgeon @cranksturgeon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Eyeball fishing captured. Leipzig.
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