JOSH MASON

Josh Mason is a musician & sound artist based in Florida, known for a deeply personal approach to modular synthesis, guitar, and electronics. Since the early 2010s he has released solo work on labels including Longform Editions, Dauw, Eilean Records, and Florabelle.

Highlights from his discography include L+ (2018), an austere and meditative work for solo electronics; Coquina Dose (2019), a richly textural album suffused with a sense of place; and Utility Music (2021), a landmark book + CD project documenting a yearlong engagement with a Doepfer A-100 modular system.

He also designs custom circuits under the Primitive Coastal Electronics banner, extending his compositional practice into the design of instruments themselves—and shaping the unusual timbres and chance inflections that animate his work.

His debut for Greyfade in the FOLIO series, forthcoming in 2026, opens a new direction, translating the sensibility of his music into a book-length work of experimental writing. Mixing memory, observation, and surreal imagery, the text unfolds in fragments that echo the disjunctive, textural logic of his sound pieces—part diary, part landscape study, part fever dream—and extends the FOLIO format into literary and narrative terrain rarely inhabited by a music edition.