Artist Bio

"I am improving... I can sit and forget... I smash up my limbs and body, drive out perception, cast off form, do away with understanding, and make myself identical with the Great Pervasion (datong). This is what I mean by sitting-in-forgetfulness." - Zhuangzi Ch. 6 (Translated by Burton Watson)

Emerging from Omaha’s noise scene, experimental act Cast Off Form draws from a diverse palette, blending organic and electronic elements including electroacoustic improvisation, field recordings, and off-label uses of (non)instruments.

The resulting sounds can be both abrasive and ethereal. Known for thematic releases with densely layered textures, Cast Off Form invites listeners to a place deep within themselves. It is a one-of-a-kind experience.

Cast Off Form has developed a reputation for live performances where the audience is often part of the noise-making. These performances are visceral and transcendent experiences.

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Press Coverage

Strings - "Both tracks are dense and busy, with side A’s “strings one” starting in near-silence before launching into whirrs, whines, and crashes, while side B’s “strings two” is more crackly and disruptive... Both pieces are united by an intense focus that treats even the smallest sounds as something worth examining up close." - Marc Masters, The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, February 2025

Strings - "This guitar isn’t played in any conventional way. I enjoyed this interaction between the guitar and the electronic part quite a bit, mainly because it stays away from the more apparent approaches that could have been taken, like droney ambient music. At the same time, it’s not always a conventional noise release, going off in a brutalist form of electro-acoustic music." - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

Strings - "Here he performs a happening with unrecognizable guitar... which escalates into harsh noise as a wall of sound and in impulsive spurts and thus gains the upper hand. The second, again buzzing and humming, varies this with extreme maltreatment of the woody, spiky, skeletal acoustic guitar, reminiscent of Eugene Chadbourne's Rake." - Rigo Dittmann, Soundohm

Strings - "Organic experimental noise. Sounds improvised, recorded live, very organic; stringed instruments and analog synth LFO sources, ebow feedback type tones... (Track 1) begins w LFO idling engine drone, slow sloppy percussion beat slowly joins, ~8m in glorious brutal noise crashes in, evolves to lovely noise riddled rhythmic balm... (Track 2) low fi rather subliminal noise cacophony beneath waves of lovely feedbacky low drone" - Your Imaginary Friend, KZSU

Resonance - "(The album) drifts between every possible texture one could hope to get out of an extremely distorted acoustic guitar, as layers of piercing feedback waft in and out of foundation shaking scrapes and crudely banged out rhythms. Over and over, these sonic elements become subsumed by the static, oppressive walls of distortion, which gives Cast Off Form just enough cover to keep the surprises coming..." - Peter Woods, Means Magazine

Ruach (2023) - "Hyperventilating is a favorite of mine as the breathing pattern is is accompanied only by hand percussion playing in rapid and sporadic rhythms. It accurately reflects the sensation of hyperventilating, complete with the panic and disorientation that accompanies it." - Lars Haur, Fringes of Sound