SOUND ART: Announcing “Coterminus,” A Limited Edition Bridge Audio Flexi-Disc Album

Announcing “Coterminus,” A Limited Edition Bridge Audio Flexi-Disc Album

ANNOUNCING A NEW BRIDGE LIMITED EDITION SOUND ART ALBUM: COTERMINUS.

COTERMINUS, the first album in the new Bridge Audio Flexi-Disc series, follows on the artistic history begun with the publication of the third volume of the Bridge Journal, released in 2001. Presented in a slipcase on the inside back cover of V1N3 with a cover by Marcel Dzama, the Bridge CD included audio by TV POW, John Barthes, Negativland, Joshuah Bearman, Eiren Caffal and others for a total of 29 entries. This inaugural in the Bridge Audio flexi-disc series establishes a precedent for new sound art practices, including durational works existing outside traditional recording ranges, innovative composition techniques, and new minimalisms. Each recording samples a moment from a full -length recording available only in the online Listening Room using a password unique to physical copies of the album. Coterminus is a limited edition run of 150 copies total.

CURRENTLY PRE-ORDER ONLY. Ships upon receipt (estimated March 22, 2025).

CONTENTS
NAT BALDWIN — Fields: Chapter 01
ERIN FUSSELL — No Movement sound for FM radio broadcast, 2021
TAVARUS BLACKMON — Secret Embrace
TRINA ROBINSON — Encoded
MICHAEL WORKMAN — T-Minus

BIOS
Nat Baldwin is a composer and double bassist from Maine currently living in Western Mass. He’s released several solo and collaborative works across genres and runs the experimental music label Tripticks Tapes. His previous collection of short fiction, The Red Barn, was published in 2017 by Calamari Archive. His first publication of hybrid non-fiction, Antithesis, will be released with Bridge Books in 2025. 

Erin Fussell is an artist based in Los Angeles working across disciplines that include installation, performance, video, dance, and sound. With an emphasis on process and time-based art, she mines her internal landscapes with the possibility of mediums and their relationships to each other, space, and ideas to spark wonder in everyday living.

Fussell’s work has shown internationally including at SITE Santa Fe and Tamarind Institute in New Mexico, CoCA Seattle, Stone + Water in Seoul, Korea and screened by Open Media in Portland, Oregon, with The One Minutes Series in the Netherlands at the 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Reykjavík International Film Festival and The Holy Art in Athens, Greece. Her sound work has been broadcast on SoundArt Radio in the U.K., Lookout FM, and Materials & Applications architectural radio in Los Angeles.

Currently, she digitally preserves audiovisual materials and special collections at the Getty Research Institute.

Tavarus Blackmon, also known by the Anglo-Saxon, Blackmonster, is a devoted, Black, Father and Partner with three children in the City of Trees, Sacramento, California. He earned his MFA as Provost Fellow at the University of California Davis and his MA in Studio Art at CSU, Sacramento. He has been under Fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts and is the recent Parent Artist Fellow at the Kala Art Institute. His is the recipient of the 2020-2021 Kala Art Institute Fellowship and the Curatorial Fellowship at Root Division. His practice is interdisciplinary and intermedium. His site, BlackmonsteReview hosts his thesis, The Politics of the Cartoon and Contemporary Art. Additional and substantive video and audio can be found under the profiles Tavarus Blackmon and Black Audio Monster on Vimeo and Soundcloud, respectively. His current body of sound art, Lock Down, is released through Spinnup, a Universal Music Group platform. tavarusblackmonart.com

Trina Michelle Robinson is a San Francisco-based visual artist. Her work has been shown at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia, the San Francisco Art Commission Main Gallery, ICA San José, Minnesota Street Project, New York’s Wassaic Project, the triennial Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and an upcoming group exhibition organized by For-Site opening June 2025. Her work is also included in “Paper is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures,” a traveling exhibition co-curated by Tia Blassingame and Stephanie Sauer, which was at San Francisco Center for the Book in 2024 and will be shown in Atlanta in 2025. She had a solo exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), a Smithsonian Affiliate, as part of their Emerging Artist Program 2022-23. Robinson is a 2024 SFMOMA SECA Award finalist and  was recently nominated for the 2024 Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) Award. Her print series Ghost Prints of Loss is included in the book “Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?” published in 2023 by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. She previously worked in print and digital media in production at companies such as The New York Times T Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Slack before receiving her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in 2022.

As a storyteller, she traveled the country and telling the story of exploring her ancestry with The Moth Mainstage at Lincoln Center in New York, in addition to touring with them on stages in San Francisco, Portland, OR, Omaha, NE and Westport, CT. Her story aired on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour in October 2019. She received her MFA from California College of Arts in Spring 2022. trinamrobinson.com

Michael Workman is a visual artist, writer and reporter, choreographer, dance, performance art and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, Workman is also Director of bridge-chicago.org, a 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization. His visual art has been featured in the Terrain Biennial and Sixty, choreographic writing in Propositional Attitudes, published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries by StepSister Press was released in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art and SITE/less Chicago. michaelworkmanstudio.com

The cover art is an untitled collaboration by Michael Workman and Maura Walsh, maurawalshstudio.com