Build Buildings and Molly Gochman — Continuum

The Brooklyn-based Build Buildings, the project of sound researcher Ben Tweel, has long operated at the intersection of deep ecology and sonic experimentation. His instrumental work—released through labels like Laaps Records and Audiobulb—often foregrounds minimal acoustic gestures, morphed objects, and carefully controlled ambience. On Continuum, Tweel teams up with Molly Gochman, an intermedia artist whose installations engage with abstract and musique concrète elements, for a collaborative album that feels like a logical extension of both practices.

Gochman’s vocabulary of fragmented memories and tactile sound emerges through glitch-esque looped vignettes and micro-electronic detail. The eight pieces are built from shimmering textures of manipulated string instruments—harmonics, guitar lines—layered into looped forms that never quite settle. There’s a sense of natural space interacting with timbre, giving the electronic fabric an organic, almost breathing quality. The result is a set of drone movements that unfold in slow motion, where tiny events shift the atmosphere without breaking the spell. The album’s quiet logic sits alongside the work of Zane Trow or offthesky without mimicking them.

Issued on vinyl with a digital version by Unending Loop, Continuum skirts the line between post-ambient drift and micro-compositional density. It doesn’t demand attention so much as reward it, the way a landscape changes only for those who stay long enough to notice.