Sounds
I make music under the moniker Endash. My music explores loss, landscape, memory, science fiction, ambient, and techno.
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Coldbrook Creek (2024)
Coldbrook Creek is an urban stream in Grand Rapids, MI, that flows northwest from Reeds Lake to the Grand River. Most of the creek is currently underground in culverts, but it wasn’t always that way. Hundreds of years have transformed the creek into a "ghost river"—a flowing body of water that once flowed above ground but has now been covered by human urbanization, roads, and infill.
Coldbrook Creek (2024) is also a public artwork by Kate Levy, where a series of public markers and audio installations draw attention to the existence of and histories surrounding Coldbrook Creek. Levy invited artist Daniel Sharp (Endash), born himself in Grand Rapids, to transform sound recordings of places where the Creek currently flows underground—through pipes, sewage, and more—into a soundscape for the public installation. The soundtrack, now available for the first time as a digital release on Bandcamp, considers what happens when liquid is forced underground; what happens, for example, when tears become veins, floodplains become floor plans, and cracks become geysers?
When Coldbrook Creek is paired with audio from community members including Mary and Peter Lewandoski, Keely Moriarty and Lauren Davis, and Ron Yob (Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians), the work becomes The Sound Underground, installed across five locations in Coldbrook Creek’s watershed. Each site contains audio and visual information pertinent to the location.
To download Coldbrook Creek, head here.
To learn more about The Sound Underground, head here.
For more about the recording of Coldbrook Creek, head here.
All images and maps courtesy Kate Levy, 2024. Album artwork courtesy Daniel Sharp, 2026.
Credits
Kate Levy, GVSU Padnos Distinguished Artist in Residence, 2023-24
Kate led this project with her artistic vision and attention to detail.
Mary and Peter Lewandoski, Coldbrook Creek Community Co-Chairs
Keely Moriarty and Lauren Davis, Friends of Grand Rapids Parks
Ron Yob, Chairman of the Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians
Daniel Sharp, sound engineer
Also, the cooperation of many other institutions:
Grand Rapids Department of Parks and Recreation
Grand Rapids Department of Environmental Services
Kent County Drain Commission
Fulton Street Market
Lower Grand River Organization of Watersheds
Where
Public Parks throughout Grand Rapids. Though mostly underground now, the markers follow where Coldbrook Creek historically flowed above ground and include the following locations:
Wilcox Park
Fulton Street Market
Highland Park
Mary Waters Park
Canal Park/Coldbrook Pumphouse
Prednisone (2024)
Acid Camp announced an extended release by Detroit-based artist Endash, Prednisone, available digitally on Bandcamp today, November 25, 2024.
A limited edition of 25 signed records by DISC_ARCHIVE are available for preorder, estimated to deliver March 2025.
The 23-minute extended play is a score from the artist’s film of the same title recently shown at the Mike Kelley Homestead via the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (MOCAD) in the show Word of Mouth (June 28-October 6, 2024).
The score is a collection of four new works that distort, slow, and layer the Gaelic folk song Dúlamán and Scottish-based Ossian’s Rory Dall's Sister's Lament (1984). Dúlamán sings of the tradition of gathering seaweed for food, bathing, and fertilizer. Rory Dall’s Sister’s Lament was originally published in 1778 by Daniel Dow as a Scottish hymn.
The film (17 minutes 15 seconds) explores how bodies translate anxiety into physical infections. It considers “narrative medicine” as a tool for healing psychosomatic pain and places it in conversation with Western medicine, which has often suppressed people’s—often queer people’s—ability to identify the roots of their wounds. It combines footage of landscapes with rotating horizon lines, pictures of a stress rash that appeared on the artist’s body in 2023, and childhood ephemera.
Prednisone (album, 23 minutes 11 seconds), 2024.
Prednisone (album, 23 minutes 11 seconds), 2024.
Come Home (2019)
My first full-length record that solidifies my style of combining sharp and technical percussion, atmospheric synths, and spoken word from my life and the visual art world. It captures my thoughts on moving from Michigan to New York, finding work, making friends, getting dumped, then coming back to what kept me grounded all along. It is about coming home to myself. The music video to Charlotte Street is here.
Cyclical Tendencies, or Round and Around (2017)
My third release is a six-track exploration of rhythms outside of house and techno's traditional 4-4 time signature. An array of 5-4 melodies, 7-16 hi hats, 6-4 bass lines, and 3-4 triplet synths are layered over standard or non-standard rhythms. Some songs lack any pattern at all. The result is something cyclical: moments of alignment and clarity lead to dissolving and chaos as sounds rotate on their own time. The work ultimately aims a critique at contemporary house and techno's assumptive reliance on the 4-4 time signature, expected drops, and monotony. It is algorithmic and technical. It channels the summertime.
Damp (2015)
Damp is my sophomore EP. Exploring darker, earthier, and angrier territory than its self-titled predecessor, Damp negotiates the line between natural and unnatural in an electronic environment. It was made directly after two men dumped me in order to get back with their exes. It is about what being “Option B” feels like. It channels the spring.
Tether (2014)
This is my first release as Endash. Four tracks. The start of a journey. It channels the winter.