Artist Bio

Emerging from Omaha’s noise scene, experimental act Cast Off Form blends organic and electronic elements including electroacoustic improvisation, field recordings, and off-label uses of (non)instruments.

The resulting sounds can be both abrasive and ethereal. Known for thematic releases with densely layered textures, Cast Off Form invites listeners to a place deep within themselves. It is a one-of-a-kind experience.

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NEWS

May 11th 2025

Hello Friends,

I hope all the moms had a Happy Mother’s Day!

Tonight is a Full Moon, the Flower Moon to be precise. For some of you, this marks the beginning of summer.

This week also marked the one-year anniversary of the biggest geomagnetic storm of the last 20 years. Determined to see auroras after missing two prior opportunities, I drove over an hour north. On an isolated gravel road in the middle of sprawling fields of soy and alfalfa, I sat on the roof of my car watching the sky.

When the auroras were their brightest, the insects became deafeningly loud. Every cicada, cricket, and grasshopper buzzed and chirped as waves of white rushed overhead.

Earlier today, I finished mixing and mastering Northern Lights , an upcoming forty-minute release anchored by field recordings of the chorus of tiny creatures. The release also incorporates experiments with acoustic guitar and the East Beast semi-modular synth, the foundations of much of my work last year.

Look for Northern Lights to come out on July 25th on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms.

Besides completing Northern Lights , I continue meditating on my work, imagining what “before the beginning” might’ve looked and sounded like. The opening verse of Huainanzi, Chapter 3, has stuck with me.

“When Heaven and Earth were yet unformed.”

I was struck by a thought earlier this week. The universe is still unformed. It is still reforming itself.

Earth is still unformed, constantly being reformed. Here is a look:

We are still unformed, constantly reformed. Through apoptosis and autophagy, our bodies are reformed over the course of our lives. Some reforming results from aging, some results from our bodies responding to their environments. Through neuroregeneration, our brains are reforming themselves.

In my last newsletter, I compared the human experience to black hole cosmology:

“It is interesting to think that we also seem to be periodically collapsing in ourselves to be reorganized in new and sometimes unrecognizable ways.”

I’ve spent most of my life desiring to be formed.

This week, I am reflecting on being unformed.

Here are some recent releases

Here is a list of things I am working on:

July 25th 2025: Northern Lights (Self-Released)

Fall/Winter 2025: Acoustics (Live) (Self-Released)

2025/2026 - Untitled Can Project

2025/2026 - Rerecording Printshift

2026/2027 - Unformed Art Exhibit / Release