Moving Parts Audio

Moving Parts Audio contains multitudes, just like you. All we want to do is help. We are a live sound company. We are a rehearsal and demo studio. We record dulcet tones at Treespeak.

We encourage you to reach out via the information below. We would love to chat.

holler@movingpartsaudio.com

(612) 504-0588

movingpartsaudio

Working on an album for Mr Small Midwestern Towns

Working on an album for Mr Small Midwestern Towns himself.

We did a mix session last night and things are stupid good. AS YOU CAN SEE, the fun meter is almost topped out. We are approaching maximum fun.

I took a couple pictures but it's just lights and knobs and people listening intently with their eyes closed. This is better content.

Keep your ears peeled to the ground for this one, folks.

#recordingstudio #studiolife #audioengineer #minneapolismusic

STUDIO RICKY PHOTO DUMP STOP TOUCHING THE ROOF OF

STUDIO RICKY PHOTO DUMP STOP TOUCHING THE ROOF OF YOUR MOUTH WITH YOUR TONGUE.

Another place I do the work of building and maintaining community is at @treespeakstudios. You can do this with me, if you ain't a busta.

So does Randy Masterson, @immortalaudiompls. He just did some stuff with THICC LIZZY, @sparrowhawk.mn and I crashed the party - it's real good, pals. Real good. Keep your ears peeled to the ground on that one.

1. We grind our beans fresh and brew them in the future. #thatcoffeelife.

2. We have a Wurlitzer Electric Piano. Wurlitzers are a bit more square-wavey than your Rhodes. They sound punchier.

3. We have a Hammond M-111. It ain't doin' that B3 thing - it does its own thing and you won't be disappointed.

4. We have a Harmophone. It is from West Germany and thus it is steeped in Cold War rhetoric. But it sounds good, too.

5. We have a control room with a whole bunch of lights and knobs and a console from the 1970's that is "AMERICAN TRIDENT." It sounds really good and there is one fader with a Darth Vader head on it - so that means it has a Darth Fader. Congratulations, I am sorry.

6. We have a live room and it has #vibes. We can take you to outer space.

7. We have a kitchen. You need to eat!

8. I have the entirety of Friday Night Lights on DVD. No photo, that's just a flex. I am Team Riggins and I will die on that hill.

9. @mariette_amp_labs is in the basement. You'll see it in time.

#recordingstudio #studiolife #audioengineer #minneapolismusic

Saturday was in the lot, and it was indeed lit! H

Saturday was in the lot, and it was indeed lit!

Had a blast doing the work of building community @fairstatecoop , with help from @ahem.mpls , @lifestyleshakes1 and @cultvibesbandproper.

Thanks to Ma Naytch for juuust enough good weather!

If you need a sound system and/or a sound tech, tell me about it!

Hope Is Not A Bird, Emily, It's A Sewer Rat by Cai

Hope Is Not A Bird, Emily, It's A Sewer Rat
by Caitlin Seida

"Hope is not the thing with feathers
That comes home to roost
When you need it most.

Hope is an ugly thing
With teeth and claws and
Patchy fur that's seen some shit.

It's what thrives in the discards
And survives in the ugliest parts of our world,
Able to find a way to go on
When nothing else can even find a way in.

It's the gritty, nasty little carrier of such
diseases as
optimism, persistance,
Perseverance and joy,
Transmissible as it drags its tail across
your path
and
bites you in the ass.

Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird,
Emily.
It's a lowly little sewer rat
That snorts pesticides like they were
Lines of coke and still
Shows up on time to work the next day
Looking no worse for the wear."

We are the only ones who will take care of each other. The only way out is through.

Brush teeth, shoes on, go help.

the Hilltop Pines (@thehilltoppines)in the control

the Hilltop Pines (@thehilltoppines)in the control room at Treespeak (@treespeakstudios) working on their upcoming full-length debut from their sessions this weekend.

PLUS an appearance from the one and only Jeffrey Robert Larson (@jeffrey_robert_larson).

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Yes, I work at Treespeak now! Hire me to record you! Reach out here, send an email eric@movingpartsaudio.com, call me at 612-504-0588, or send a carrier pigeon! No wrong way to reach out!

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Dear Hilltop Pines,
Incredible work this weekend!
Love,
E.

@thehilltoppines came in and did basic tracking on

@thehilltoppines came in and did basic tracking on 14 songs over the weekend and we had a lot of fun!

you didn't hear it from me… but rafters MAY or

you didn't hear it from me...

but rafters MAY or MAY NOT have merch:

fanny packs
a USB drive containing our discography
Friday nightlights
DIY Carl Sagan paper dolls
Possibly Liarbirds' "Cut the Slack" on CD

Only way to find out is to get your self to @cloudlandtheater on Friday at 7:30 PM.

As far as merch goes we're just asking for donations to @southsideharmreduction . Sliding scale, NOTAFLOF and all that rigamarole.

If you buy merch from @night_jobs or @thedrevlow or @tightwhips.mpls or @cloudlandtheater you can have some of our stuff, too.

Basically it's free as long as you cool.

#dontbeajerk
#thereisnowayofknowing
#whatifwearejusthydrogenatomsthinkingaboutourselves
#notaflofmerch

I don't use instantgram on my phone, I use it on a

I don't use instantgram on my phone, I use it on a web browser. There are a lot of features I don't have access to, one of them being that I'm not able to re-post anything from other people. Another is that I can't add music to anything I post.

That's okay, because instantgram is really stupid. But it also sucks, because instantgram is really stupid.

I'd repost things from rafters, because we are playing on Friday at Cloudland, but instantgram is stupid. Dare you to go check out our instantgram, though, I've got some absolute bangers in the feed.

Friday 10-4, my band @raftersmpls is playing - a VERY RARE event.

We are playing in support of @night_jobs who are releasing their EP "Shop Dog"

We are playing in support of our friend @thedrevlow, who is traveling from Georgia the State, not Georgia the Country.

We are playing in support of @tightwhips.mpls to help them improve their grip on lions (previously loose grips, but we have a concept of a plan)

We are releasing our full length record, which we are very proud of, called "Competitive Grief."

Would love to see you there, but if you prefer, I will wear sunglasses so dark I fall asleep instead.

#bradandmarenscenterforthehearts
#legalfun
#callyourmom
#doubledogdare

@cloudlandtheater Friday 10/4/24 Night Jobs (@nigh

@cloudlandtheater Friday 10/4/24
Night Jobs (@night_jobs) "Shop Dog' EP release
rafters "Competitive Grief" LP release
Benjamin Drevlow (@thedrevlow ) HONKY and IN PRAISE OF THE SWAYZEE release
Tight Whips (@tightwhips.mpls) playing in support
Adv tickets available via DICE app for $12
Tickets at the door for $15

Moving Parts Audio "Hand Sewn Audio" == Reel Music

Moving Parts Audio
"Hand Sewn Audio"
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Reel Music: "Love & Dopamine" by @trustysnakes
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Always humbled to be a part of your project. Reach out if we can help!
Find us at movingpartsaudio.com
holler@movingpartsaudio.com

Bands we've recorded with recently appearing in this reel include:
@iceeverlasting
@carspiders
@tylerhaagmusic
@thehilltoppines
@betterdevils_mn / @smallmidwesterntowns (not pictured)
rafters
(Thank you wall for letting us feel like we're in your band while you shared your time with us.)

E sometimes runs sound locally wherever he is needed and also from time to time you can catch him @treespeakstudios running the controls.

Jake runs @mariette_amp_labs with his wife @mallorzz and a couple other key players they employ, and you can catch him out at shows (probably @cloudlandtheater), probably smiling and hollering along to the words of the song being played in front of him.

E and Jake have been kicking around Northeast Minneapolis since around 2014, playing in bands together and taking on construction projects while always keeping their approach in mind towards the situation at hand to, "Jam Econo." @oosambeeroo recently asked them during his visit recently to their HQ, "What, are you guys brothers?"

Thank you so much for your support!

Carl Saggin' I contain multitudes. Hit me up if

Carl Saggin'

I contain multitudes.

Hit me up if you want to make your own.

Night Jobs/Tight Whips/rafters, 10/4 good buddy, at Cloudland, squares don't exist.

#cosmos
#sciencefriction
#notyourcheese

I don't think I've ever had a bad time @dustysbigg

I don't think I've ever had a bad time @dustysbiggreenbooth and Saturday was no exception.

@dustysne is an exotic animal you'd assume only lives in Madagascar, some sort of knot in spacetime, forever in the every god's blind spot. Stay golden.

Thanks to @betterdevils_mn, @natocoles and @therighthere for providing the soundtrack.

1. @gregvolkermusic 2. John Loo & the Breakers 3.

1. @gregvolkermusic
2. John Loo & the Breakers
3. Reflection of emerging voice, E. Leonard Frame*
7/7/24 @tasteofmn running sound by request of both bands.
Thank you for the excellent opportunity to be a part of this special event!

Email, DM me or use my other methods of contact listed at MOVINGPARTSAUDIO.COM for inquiries on recording and sound teching.

Thanks Greg Volker & gang as well as John Loo and the Breakers!

*indicates: watch out upcoming releases

rftrs is a band. We played shows until we didn't,

rftrs is a band. We played shows until we didn't, and that was before we released our full length record, Competitive Grief.

On 10-4, good buddy, those things won't be true. We intend to play the best set of our lives @cloudlandtheater. We intend to shake one of everyone's hands. We are playing in support of our good buddies @night_jobs, who are releasing their EP of high fidelity sonics. And we will have copies of our own lost record - which you can have for free if you buy one of Night Jobs'ses.

We shall become so absolutely free that our very existence is an act of rebellion. The struggle itself is enough to fill our hearts - run tell that, Sisyphus.

Dang skippy would I enjoy it if y'all made the time, and how.

The world is beautiful, and outside it there is no salvation, good buddy.

@mariette_amp_labs @tdrdrums haul 'em out, @night_jobs thanks a ton, @cloudlandtheater gonna be strange.

#albertcamusquotesformondays
#bradandmarenscenterforthehearts
#nightjobsafterdark
#dontbeajerk
#maybewecangetjoekillemtoshowupbutthenwepretendlikehesnotthere

What are you people doing at rest stops. #onemore

What are you people doing at rest stops.

#onemoresignpost
#ifuckinghopeso

What a weekend of great shows @cloudlandtheater !

What a weekend of great shows @cloudlandtheater !

Friday was a great show with @sammiejeancohenmusic, @diaphane_official and @chokecherrympls!

Saturday was another great show with @dashedmpls, @malamikotheband and @falconarrow_band!

#localmusic #bradandmarenscenterforthehearts
#perfectwrestlingmatches #iykyk #esotERIC

Another great show! Forced Humility came all the w

Another great show! Forced Humility came all the way from Finland to melt faces, and they succeeded.

Big ups to Ice Everlasting for coming through at the last minute! I was so excited I forgot to get a picture of them playing, and for this I shall be regretful everlasting.

Sleeper Cell was super rad, first time seeing them.

#bradandmarenscenterforthehearts
#localmusic
#soundtech

Had a blast on Saturday. Thanks so much to @theslo

Had a blast on Saturday. Thanks so much to @theslowdeathmn, @tiltwheelofficial, @chinesetelephones, A Reasonable Number of Daves, The Gateway District and Dan Padilla. Thanks @cloudlandtheater for hosting another amazing show!

#localmusic #bradandmarenscenterforthehearts
#blistersonmefingers
#countingdaves
#jessegetsomenewjokes

Amen & the Hell Yeahs @theslowdeathmn 15 yr anniv

Amen & the Hell Yeahs
@theslowdeathmn 15 yr anniversary celebration

#buddies
#loveyoududes
#duicore
#mplspunks

🐪HAPPY HUMP DAY!🐫 "All that harms labor is

🐪HAPPY HUMP DAY!🐫

"All that harms labor is treason to America." -Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, unless you ask a capitalist.

In this installment, we zoom out to explore a chapter in the story of the national labor movement.

You could say it's a forgotten chapter, or you could be correct about it and say the history was systematically oppressed by - at the minimum - ensuring it was not included in compulsory education in America. In the same breath you could thank Rockefeller for the library system while blaming Rockefeller for deleting this history from the library system. And you'd be correct to say that's why Rockefeller donated libraries in the first place.

On the heels of World War II, the United States experienced a wave of strikes by workers demanding safer working conditions for the most part. With 10 million service members returning from the war, and workers moving from war time sectors to traditional sectors, industry was a tumultuous mess and employers took every advantage. Labor historian Jeremy Brecher describes this strike wave as "the closest thing to a national general strike of industry in the twentieth century." About 5 million American workers engaged in organized strikes, representing a massive share of American workers.

The cover photo for Labor's Untold Story is a photograph from the 1946 General Electric Strike in Philadelphia. Shown are 8 cops distributing the violence of the State on an unnamed striker.

In response to this strike wave, Congress abandoned Labor and overrode Truman's veto to pass the Taft-Hartley Act, which restricted what a labor union can do. In huge ways. The THA prohibited wildcat strikes and striking or boycotting in solidarity, amongst many other things, like requiring union leaders to sign affidavits declaring they weren't communists. Taft-Hartley paved the way for McCarthyism, defined a lot of the current landscape of American Labor, and is still in effect today.

But don't let anyone ever tell you America didn't love Labor.

@ueunion - thanks for publishing this book.
#unionstrong
#bullsonparade

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