Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish Live On July 1, 2006 in Cedar Rapids

Next confirmed live appearance is:

Saturday, July 1, 2006 - as Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish

Emerald City Ballroom, Cedar Rapids, IA - "Experiment 2" show - featuring Mark Rushton on laptop, loops, and improvisational mixing. Jon Harnish on bass guitar and effects. We'll be on about 11pm.

New Mark Rushton Framed Prints

Greenscrape (LARGER image - Link to image's art store)



Red Orange Yellow Mass (LARGER image - Link to image's Art Store)



Red Hill Slide With Blue Sky (LARGER image - Link to image's art store)



Fieryscape (LARGER image | Link to image's art store)

New Mark Rushton / Jon Harnish Music Podcast - Issue #13

Mark Rushton Podcast #13 - Brine - released. (15 minutes, 18MB file, 160kb-encoded MP3).

Bass player Jon Harnish and I met up at the Ambient Matyk Cafe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday, June 10th. We had planned to do improvisational ambient soundscaping in public in Iowa City, but it had been raining all day and the temps were about 50 degrees with 20 mph winds, unseasonably cool for mid-June, so we thought it would be better to play indoors.

Jon and I created a lot of great music from this session. Here's a track based on a piece of music I created called "Brine" - this is a live 14 minute version featuring Jon on bass guitar and effects box and me on laptop and loops.

Bound Off Short Story Podcast #5

I read a story, provided music for, mixed, and provided other audio engineering feats for Bound Off Short Story Podcast #5 (19 minutes, file size 13MB, 96kb-encoded MP3)

Mark Rushton's CDs at BuyIowaArt.com

My CDs are now available at BuyIowaArt.com. (press release)

Ambient Podcast Pioneer Mark Rushton's latest album, Hum And Drift, is now available via Apple's iTunes® in electronic download format.

Mark Rushton's latest commercial music release, Hum And Drift, is now available via Apple's iTunes® as a digital download for $9.99. Individual tracks can also be purchased for 99 cents each. See more at ituneshum.markrushton.com

The album was recorded between 2001 and 2005 at his East Highlands Studio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and features a range of instrumental music from the meditative ambience of "The Hum Of Antique Machines" and "National Championship" to rhythmic electronica in pieces like "Minus Eleven" and "Blizzard Symphony."

"Hum And Drift" also finds a way to blend acoustic instruments and sounds with electronic influences, such as the multi-layered field recordings within "Movement", the orchestra-meets-electronics of "A Gift Of Life", and the electronically-processed acoustic guitars and orchestrations of "Sunday's Drift."

Rushton believes this music works well in background situations, whether it's cleaning the house on the weekend, going for a drive down the highway, or listening to something while being on the computer at work during the day.

Because of the 12 and a half minute length of the final track on Hum And Drift, called "Cherry Building," it is not available on iTunes. Rushton has offered to send a free MP3 of this track to anybody who buy a download of the entire album via iTunes. It is a long and drifty piece of ambience.

A review of the track "Sunday's Drift" at Disquiet.com last year went like this: "With its snatch of acoustic guitar providing an earthy, if distinctly computer-enabled, rhythm, "Sunday Drift" couldn't surprise more if it took a sudden pause for a glorious break of fog-splitting shimmer — which is exactly what it does. A free download off Mark Rushton's recent Hum and Drift album, the song uses that self-evident contrast (between pedestrian folksiness and heavenly aura) to its advantage, overlaying 'em for effect but playing them against each other as well."

Hum And Drift is now available via Apple's iTunes as a digital download for $9.99. Individual tracks can also be purchased for 99 cents each. See more at ituneshum.markrushton.com

If you prefer the CD version, it's available direct from Mark Rushton at MarkRushton.com, or via more traditional outlets such as Amazon.com, Tower Records, CDBaby.com, and CafePress.com.