Testimonial by Grimalkin Artist (is)

“I first reached out to the label in 2021 cause I was a big fan of the music they’d been releasing, and I needed help organizing a tape release for my album Light Play. I’m usually pretty insistent about doing everything myself, but working with Grimalkin let me expand my vision for the record while keeping the level of creative control I’m used to. We ended up putting out some really beautiful handmade tapes and raising a little money for a Philly sex worker relief fund. Everything about the process was transparent, and I felt respected as an artist throughout.

Beyond just releasing my work, Grimalkin put me in touch with a community of like-minded artists and gave me new ways of connecting, collaborating, sharing knowledge, and making music. I’ve been really fortunate to be part of Grimalkin’s production network, and to have had the opportunity to collaborate with other Grimalkin artists. I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do together in the future!” -(is)

Isobel Bess (she/her) aka (is) has been releasing experimental music under her own name and various others for the last two decades. With a varied palette of bass, synthesizers, field recordings, spoken word, and electroacoustic sound manipulation, her output maintains a hazy focus on texture, spatiality, and the possibilities of deep listening. She is the author of several books of poetry, the most recent of which is called anyway i saw a light there.

(is) resonates beyond and between the temporal boundaries of truncated futures, a discorporate signal encoding the unrealized. They are received in our present moment as a psychoacoustic phenomenon most closely approximated by digital Frequency Modulation synthesis.