“Heart Removal Kit” is a collection of tales from a long and difficult birth.

Track Listing

1. When The Heart Is Sick
2. Stay Safe In The Upcoming Storm
3. Medication Haze
4. I’ll Always Be Your Ghost
5. Keep Your Dreams Secret
6. A Resurrection Letter
7. Self-Surgery Manual
8. An Unreliable Narrator
9. The Redemption In Her Arms / The light At The End Of Her Tunnel
10. The Wasps In The Walls

Credits

All sound: J. Siemasko

Created in Renoise

Released March 7, 2016

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Drones for a season in decay.

Track Listing

1. A Life Without Pain
2. A Letter Written In Blood
3. Is It Snowing Where You Are?
4. Hesitation
5. Change Is Always Painful

Credits

All sound: J. Siemasko
Cover photo: Dan Newkirk

Created with Supercollider, Reaper and Renoise

Released October 22, 2015

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“A Young Person’s Guide To Time Travel” is a 30 minute electronic work based on the classic manual by Bernard Meany (1882 – 1721). Each track is based on a different chapter from the book.

Track Listing

1. Have You Ever Seen A Portal?
2. A Brief History Of Time Machines
3. Your First Wormhole
4. All You Will Need For Your Journey
5. How To Recognize a Closed Timelike Curve
6. Maintaining Personal Continuity
7. Should You Become Lost

Credits

All Sound: J. Siemasko
Additional Art Layout: Kirk Wilson

The album was created using Supercollider, Reaper and a Tascam DR-40.

Released July 7, 2014

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Track Listing

1. Spires In The Garden
2. That Knife You Call A Heart
3. A Silhouette Between Us
4. Making Life
5. The Invader
6. Poisoned By The Sun

Credits

All sound: J. Siemasko
Cover photo: Dan Newkirk

“I Meant To Break Your Will, Never Your Heart” was created using Supercollider, Reaktor and Reaper.

Release May 27, 2014

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A series of songs for those who walked to the edge and walked away.

• “Come On, Ghost.” is for JMS
• “You Are Crystal” is for JB
• “Icarus In Free Fall” is for BG

Track Listing

1. Come On, Ghost.
2. Exit Bags
3. You Are Crystal
4. Who Lit The Match That Set The World On Fire?
5. Those Who Left
6. Computer Take Me Somewhere Else
7. Icarus In Free Fall

Credits

All Sound: J. Siemasko

Cover Photo: Dan Newkirk

Created with Renoise, Supercollider, Reaper, Kontakt and Reaktor

Release April 24, 2014

Thanks to Travis Johnson and Barton Graham for mix advice.

Orchestral samples included in this recording from the Vienna Symphonic Library.

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Track Listing

1. A Month of Dust
2. Use of Orbital Mirrors
3. The Ground Beneath Your Feet
4. Altered Through Artificial Means
5. Magnetosphere Collapse
6. The Hourglass Sea
7. When the First Seed Takes Hold
8. Colonization
9. A New Biosphere
10. The Red and the Green
11. Repeating Northern Annular Cloud
12. Life On Mars. Full Stop.

Credits

All Sound: J. Siemasko

Cover Photograph: Dan Newkirk

Terraform Mars is Schemawound’s 4th full length release and his second for Xylem Records. Terraform Mars is a mixture of organic field recordings mixed with synthesized soundscapes created using Supercollider, Reaktor, Renoise and Reaper.

Released July 10, 2013 by Xylem Records

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Track Listing

1. A Ghost In My Own House
2. A Spoonful Of Honey
3. We’ve given Up On Love
4. Ignore The Man Behind The Curtain
5. If You Can’t Be the Sun, Be The Sun
6. Time Travel Is Possible

Credits

All Sound: J. Siemasko

Cover Photograph: Dan Newkirk

Release May 3, 2013 by Xylem Records

All sound created in Supercollider

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“They want to make your body move. I want to hold you perfectly still.” is an exploration of small events magnified.

Track Listing

1. Hello World, I Am Lonely Too
2. The Same Color As Your Skin (Extended)
3. The Crawl (Extended)
4. Hymncycle (Second Phase)
5. Dawn
6. Sound Check (Exteneded)
7. Fall Asleep Walking
8. Dusk
9. Any Moment
10. Please Hold (Extended)

Credits

All sound and visuals: J.Siemasko

Released August 21, 2012 by Waxen Wings

All sound generated using Supercollider

Track 1 uses includes some code written by Carl Testa (carltesta.net)

Original mix of track 2 appears on SIGNALVOID (signalvoid.tumblr.com)

Original mixes of tracks 3, 6 and 10 appear on Se7en Seconds In Hea7en (waxenwings.bandcamp.com/album/se7en-seconds-in-hea7en)

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What you hear on this recording is a man who was sick and is trying to get well.

These are the songs of my recovery.

Track Listing

1. (missing information)
2. The Operating Theater
3. Point of Failure
4. Ethidium Bromide
5. Datapump
6. Broken Body Schema
7. Do None Harm
8. Number Form Synesthesia
9. Between Phase
10. Wet Hands
11. Self Encoding Sequence
12. Further Analysis Required
13. Knife Technique
14. Unexpected Results
15. EOF

Credits

All Sound: J.Siemasko
Photography: Dan Newkirk

Released May 5, 2010

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“Occupy Dreamland” is an attempt to step outside my usual methods and create a work purely from the unconsciousness. Most of my audio work is created by writing computer programs. Everything is carefully laid out and planned, even my tracks using random numbers are tested to the point where I have little chance of being surprised. Absolute control can be a heavy burden. When you have the option to change every decision you can lose whole days second guessing yourself. Constant refinement can sand down the rough edges that gave the track its initial charm. In an attempt to subvert this I decided to step away from the computer. I borrowed a looper from a friend and read approximately 1/4 of the manual before I began recording. Over two hour long sessions I assembled the source material that was to become “Occupy Dreamland”. The tracks were created live, no do-overs, no time to second guess or perfect. The final results were edited down to its current form with a minimum of cuts and mastered by Cinchel to give the album its final sound.”

Track Listing

1. Not Asleep, Not Dreaming
2. Occupy Dreamland
3. Through a Glass, Darkly
4. Parasomnia
5. If You Want To Sleep, Then Sleep
6. Now That You Are Still

Credits

All Sound: J. Siemasko

Mastering: Cinchel

Released October 30, 2013 by Vuzhmusic

Hardware: EHX 2880 Looper, Rat Distortion Pedal, Microphone, Kalimba, Bodhrán, HVAC unit. 

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This release is part of Subterranean Tide’s Haiku Project: Each artist has contributed a three track release in increments of five minutes, seven minutes, and five minutes accompanied by a Haiku poem. Each song represents the line of the poem including title and reflection.

Autumn moonlight-

a worm digs silently

into the chestnut.

Basho Matsuo

Track Listing

1. Autumn Moonlight
2. A Worm Digs Silently
3. Into The Chestnut

Credits

All Sound: J. Siemasko

Released July 14, 2013 by Subterranean Tide

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Track Listing

1. BEASTS(Homunculus-Basilisk)

Credits

Code: J. Siemasko

Art: J.Siemasko

Photo: Dan Newkirk

Contains samples from:
“Llais-saL” by Alan Morse Davies
“A Strange Seed” by C. Reider
“Swamp Monsters, Secret Prisons” by Cinchel
“A Brief Compendium of Silence” by Phillip Wilkerson

This track is created almost entirely from 9 snippets taken from the 4 tracks listed. These are resequenced, repitched and run through a number of effects using Supercollider.

Released January 13, 2013 by Dystimbria

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After my own attempts to change a world, I decided to give others the opportunity to dig in this red dirt and see what they found.

Track Listing

1. Bassling – Terra Nullis
2. Meson – Hymn Cycle Remix
3. The Atlas Room – Arid Haze
4. Travis Johnson – Cell Changes In Low Gravity
5. Cinchel – Water Found On Mars
6. Diogenes In Hell – Indigenous Lifeforms
7. Meson – Life On Mars Remix
8. Bassling – The Red And the Green (Buttock Implant Mix)

Credits

Track 2 remixed from the Schemawound album “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still.”

All others remixed from the Schemawound album “Terraform Mars”

Track 1 and 8 remixed by Bassling ( bassling.blogspot.com )

Track 2 and 7 remixed by Meson ( soundcloud.com/withoutamap )

Track 3 remixed by The Atlas Room ( theatlasroom.bandcamp.com )

Track 4 remixed by Travis Johnson ( trvsjhnsn.tumblr.com )

Track 5 remixed by Cinchel ( www.cinchel.com )

Track 6 remixed by Diogenes In hell ( diogenesinhell.bandcamp.com )

Released December 11, 2013

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Body movements is a remix album based upon the album “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still.” as well as several non-album compilation tracks created during the same time period. The remixers were given full access to the completed tracks as well as the Supercollider source code and were allowed to do anything they pleased with it.

Track Listing

1. Nicholas Starke – The Same Color As Your Skin (Audiolet Remix)
2. Katie Gately – Hymncycle
3. Schemawound – Hymncycle (First Phase)
4. Lackthrow – Identity Operation
5. Lackthrow – A Bad Name For A Good Girl
6. The Icarus Descent – Perfect Still Body (Short Edit)
7. Lackthrow – Bluster barrow Combod
8. Nicholas Starke – Sound Check (Audiolet Remix)
9. Lackthrow – The Disc (Schemawound Edit)
10. Andiluvian – Weather Sickness
11. Lackthrow – The Air Up There
12. Lackthrow – Indolence
13. Lackthrow – Dusking Schema (Schemawound Edit)
14. Clayton Alpha – Crawl back
15. Bassling – Dawn Dub

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Released February 14, 2013

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”@@ENTROPY” is an EP of Schemawound’s work for the Disquiet Junto, compilation tracks and unreleased material.

Track Listing

1. Poverty
2. Abandonware Jazz
3. Within My Means
4. A History of Invisibility
5. In an Abundance of Caution
6. She Blinded Me With Silence
7. A Touch of Silence
8. Rush Toward The Flame
9. A Breakdown in Negotiations
10. Consider it A Message

Credits

Track 1 Originally released on Poverty Electronics Vol.2 compilation by Poverty Electronics

Track 2 Originally released on the datewithdeath album Last Date. All sounds sourced from loops provided by datewithdeath.

Track 3 Created for Disquiet Junto 0194. All sounds sourced from a ticking clock.

Track 4 Created for Disquiet Junto 0161. Samples: “Dog Kiss” by Chtin Mara, “Qif Kiff” by Ayato & Natalia Kamia and “Espasmo” by Lingering Last Drops

Track 5 Created for Disquiet Junto 0485. All sound sourced from windchimes created by Chris Kallmyer

Track 6 Created for Disquiet Junto 0450. All sounds created from field recordings made at Carlo Bernasconi AG utilizing stone working tools.

Track 7 Non-album track. Created in Reaktor.

Track 8 Created for Disquiet Junto 0354. All sounds created from samples of instruments built and recorded by Nathan Moody.

Track 9 Non-Album track. Created with tuba recordings created by Nate Trier

Track 10 Created for Disquiet Junto 0142. Created using the sounds of phone calls.

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”@@IDENTITY” is an EP of Schemawound’s work for the Disquiet Junto, remixes and unreleased tracks.

Track Listing

1. Merge Conflict
2. The Dogs Of Corporate America
3. Midnight, Wherever You Are
4. The Heart Is A Hideous Machine
5. 24 Hours In Your Heart Of Darkness
6. Bassling – Gossamer Park (Schemawound Mix)

Credits

Track 1 samples from Juan Manuel Castrillo “Horizontales,”, J. Surak “Improvisation for Prepared Autoharp” and Maddame Cell “Auto Tempo 1“

Track 3 is from Disquiet Junto 0131

Track 4 samples from Erissoma “The miracle in the human brain”, Kayaka “O” , D’Incise “Graphein”. From Disquiet Junto 0124

Track 6 remixes Bassling’s track “Gossamer Park“

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”@@VERSION” is an EP of Schemawound’s work for the Disquiet Junto and compilations.

Track Listing

1. Exit Music (For A Solar System)
2. Give Up The Ghost
3. WYSINWYG
4. Make This Sound And She Will Love You Forever
5. We Can’t Tell You That
6. A Landscape In Ruin

Credits

Photo: Dan Newkirk

Track 1 source audio courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa. From Disquiet Junto 0089

Track 2 samples Marc Pastco “Dark City”, Digital_Me (Shay Librowski) “Zamenhof Blues” and PlotKA “Archean”. From Disquiet Junto 0093

Track 3 from Disquiet Junto 0097

Track 4 from Disquiet Junto 105

Track 5 from Disquiet Junto 0083

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”@@ERROR” is an EP of Schemawound’s work for the Disquiet Junto as well as unreleased material.

Track Listing

1. The Bottom Of The Well
2. Half Past Nothing
3. A Map To Everything
4. Drunk And Hungry And Not At All In Love
5. Test Tone
6. ThreeSixes

Credits

Photo: Dan Newkirk

Track 1 samples Ioflow “Glimpse”, Clayton Alpha “I Hate Therefore I Am” and 6&8 “Halo of the Moon”

Track 2 from Disquiet Junto 0056

Track 3 from Disquiet Junto 0062

Track 4 samples Kirill Platonkin and Jarguna “Materia Lucida”, Exuviae “With a Wimper” and Illuminoscillate “02”. From Disquiet Junto 0058

Track 6 from Disquiet Junto 0059

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@@TRANCOUNT is an EP of Schemawound’s work for the Disquiet Junto as well as unreleased material.

Track Listing

1. Unloop Antidote
2. The World Won’t End
3. Radio Silence
4. If You See Nothing, Say Nothing
5. The Illusion Of Protection
6. Telegraph Incantation
7. Knife Technique (TID Remix)

Credits

Track 1 samples Alex Charles “Unloop Hullaballoo”, Richard Sanderson “Etude” and Jérôme Poirier “04:54AM”. From Disquiet Junto 0048

Track 2 samples Aguas Tonicas “Bongo”, Gridline “Broken Robots” and Pics Frunk “The Cat in the Ocean”. From Disquiet Junto 0052

Track 4 from Disquiet Junto 0053

Track 6 from Disquiet Junto 0050

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My Time As A Rat collects the recordings of my previous project entitled Szczur. The project was based around manipulations of the human voice. These were mostly sourced from answering machine messages, recorded phone calls and discarded vocal takes.

While some of this material is a decade old at the time of this release I still feel that it is some of my most intriguing. Regrettably I never properly promoted the material at the time of original release and it is unlikely more then a handful of people have heard it. I have decided to re-release it under my Schemawound moniker to attempt to give these tracks a new lease on life.

Track Listing

1. F9
2. The Plane Crash
3. Sugar
4. @Now
5. The Prettiest Girl That Can’t Breathe
6. Bring a Gun
7. Stem Cell Research (Return)
8. Omit (First Mix)
9. WEKNOWWHEREYOUAREENGLISHDOCTOR
10. Perscription06 (Someone Cut A Hole In The Ground Beneath Me)
11. After The Prom (The Outcome)
12. Eigenstate 1
13. Something Has To Change
14. The Man With The Gun Seems Like An Angel To Me
15. We Of The Ever Growing Teeth
16. Deus Ex Machina
17. The Skyline Has Changed
18. Scission – Stilllife (Yellowone mix by Schemawound)

Credits

Tracks 1-9 were released as “Prelude to a Fire EP” on a/b HNT records in 2002.

Tracks 10 – 17 were released as “We Tried To Reach You” in 2009.

Track 18 is a remix I did for the band Scission. It has never been previously released.

Programming: J.Siemasko

Voices:

• S. Sartarelli 1-4 + 6-9
• K. Wyland 3 + 9
• J. Siemasko 2 + 9
• B. Turechek 4
• J. Arsan 5

Tracks 1-9 were released as “Prelude to a Fire EP” on a/b HNT records in 2002.

Tracks 10 – 17 were released as “We Tried To Reach You” in 2009.

Track 18 is a remix I did for the band Scission. It has never been previously released.

Released September 7, 2011

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