Outside Time

Flutist Rachel Beetz returns with Tone Keepers, on February 6. The album track “Reverb” explores an “alien harmonic orbit” built from spacious multiphonics and cyclical breath. Beetz treats sound as physical touch—a transduction of energy through air to the eardrum. Experience the album in full at Rhizome DC on February 4, featuring a large ensemble including Animal Collective’s Geologist and Alma Laprida.

Broadsides is Weston Olencki’s sound diary of a grand tour through the southern United States. Drawing on the long history of the broadside as social commentary, Olencki blends traditional folk forms with experimental sound art. From the timeless prelude of a railway station to an epic, transformative, post-minimalist take on “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” this album is a bracing crystallisation of that journey.