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Issues.

The publication runs as a quarterly issue. Each issue groups the long-form pieces filed in that cycle around a cover, an editor's letter, and a contents list. Web pieces filed in between issues are folded into the next.

  1. Issue 1 — FOUNDING TONES
    Vol. 01 / Issue 01 · Archive

    FOUNDING TONES

    Inaugural pieces on the cohort of working artists who also build things for a living.

    Published 2025-11-15

    Issue 01 collects the publication's founding pieces — essays, listicles, and a regional scene report that traces where the working-artist working-founder practice is actually rooted.

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  2. Issue 2 — POLYMATHS
    Vol. 01 / Issue 02 · Current

    POLYMATHS

    Profiles, conversations, and the long arc of the founder-artist cohort.

    Published 2026-04-18

    Issue 02 widens the frame. The lead conversation, a long-form profile of Imogen Heap, sits next to historical pieces on Wendy Carlos and Brian Eno, a portrait of Rivers Cuomo's engineered career, and a survey of founder-owned record labels.

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