At Wave Archive, Tucson, Arizona - Nov 14, 2025

At Beaver St Theater, Flagstaff, Arizona on Nov 17, 2025  |  At SONAR,  Tempe, Arizona on Oct 19, 2025  

Bridgeport by Jeph Jerman & Steve Jansen - mastered by jimmy peggie 2025

Radiophrenia radio art festival runs from April 7-20th 2025 in Glasgow, Scotland. jimmy Peggie has a 30min sound program included on April 20th. 

Climatic Voices 2024  30:00min

Climatic Voices is a sound art observation of meteorological themes. It is a sound collage made using treated environmental recordings, radiophonic transmissions, infrasound and electromagnetic frequencies.  These types of sound waves are obtained from the atmosphere that surrounds our planet.  

The use of atmospheric acoustics plays an important function within modern meteorology and is used to predict weather patterns and other meteorological phenomena. This helps with many things including improving weather forecasting, aiding climate change studies as well as safeguarding lives and property.

Noise Radio

The Sound Art Hub & Radio Station

Noise-radio.com was founded with a passion for sound art and a vision to create a platform for experimental and artistic audio. From our small but dedicated team in the Netherlands, we started as a non-commercial, independent radio station focused on broadcasting unique sound art related content.

Artist currently on board: Jimmy Peggie

Avant Music News

AMN Picks of the Week: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters / Jimmy Peggie / Trollslottet / Atrium Carceri & Kammarheit / Cameron & Cunningham

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters – Live at Cafe Oto (2024)
Jimmy Peggie – Book of Erosion (2024)
Trollslottet – Sorgeberget (2024)
Atrium Carceri & Kammarheit – Apparatus (2024)
Lisa Cameron / Alex Cunningham – Chasms (2024)

Avant Music News - Feb, 2024

Avant Music News : Honorable Mention - Best of 2024 for Book of Erosion

Review of Dusted in Darkness by Sun 13 Magazine 

Jimmy Peggie first dropped onto our radar last year with the excellent Book of Erosion release, and late last year, the Arizona producer followed it up with Dusted in Darkness.

Peggie is the engineer of stark, grainy minimalism. The backdrops of his native Arizona can’t really be traced throughout his works, including the compositions on Dusted in Darkness. Minimalism that feels like a set of field recordings from an industrial estate melted down in some eerie, post-apocalyptic wasteland.

It’s minimalism for dark times. Does it make Peggie’s latest works a political statement? Maybe, for the sounds on Dusted in Darkness feel eerily attuned to these times.

Sun  13 Magazine - Feb 2025

Jimmy Peggie - Dusted by Darkness 

Review:

Music that slowly rots away is one thing I particularly like; I like this idea of the music just dying as it moves forward, not because it’s some kind of philosophical metaphor for something, not because of the concept behind it, but just because it sounds cool to me. You may think of plenty of records like that, most of them likely being conceptual, and to that list you may want to add Dusted in Darkness, which does not seem to have much of a concept from what I’m able to extrapolate—it does sound cool, like I like ’em.

I’m not even really sure if the goal of the music is to get more and more desolate as the album progresses, but the titles do seem to slowly slide into more unpleasant territory; I mean, you begin with “Mists” and end up being able to see nothing with “Blackout,” and the tracks “Dusk” and “Nightfall” are ordered like that, with “Desolate” right in between them, it doesn’t seem like it’s much of a coincidence to me. Whether it is or not and whether my detective sense is or isn’t lacking doesn’t really matter though, because that’s how the music goes anyways; it starts off with some pretty spacious tracks, and slowly but surely you get more ominous noise and more minimalistic sound palettes.

For example, the closer “Blackout” is kind of just that, a repeating wall with pretty much nothing else added to it; the previous tracks have more body to them, but they’re also dark and unnerving, just not as endlessly repeating as the closer, so it’s pretty clear how you gradually get into more unnerving tracks as the album proceeds.

The music never sits still:

This record is overall very homogenous, as you may expect, but more or less every track has its own distinctive feature. It also helps that the music never sits still, it’s almost like a constant and smooth gradient, as each piece slowly morphs into a different atmosphere; it’s hard to really tell what changes and when, and it’s also hard to tell if there’s actually something happening if you aren’t paying a bit of attention, but this never-ending flow of sound pulls me in very effectively. This is definitely one of the most engaging ambient records I’ve heard in quite a bit, despite its lack of memorability; the spaciousness of the music is great, it’s what ultimately makes it so immersive. The continuity of it also aids a lot, as I don’t zone out until the last few tracks, which are kind of meant to be zoned out to, I suppose, given how bareboned everything starts to become.

Even if you could sum this album up as an emulsified grey pulp, there’s certainly moments that stick out. The first two tracks are definitely in that list, “Shadowland” especially, which is also my favorite piece on the record. I love this looped pulse at the beginning, it’s really really unsettling to listen to because it mimics some kind of alarm, something you do not want to listen to repeatedly—in real life scenarios mainly because it’s annoying, here it’s because you can’t really do anything about it and it’s constantly stressing you out. What I mostly love about this track is how it completely switches in its second half, suddenly becoming almost ethereal. The atmosphere throughout this entire piece is fantastic, but it works so great because it still works as one whole work.

The aptly titled “Subzero” reminds me of some sleepresearch_facility works, with its freezing atmosphere and mechanical noises, while the following “Dusk” is the first of the doom tracks of this record, commencing the slow walk into the dark. Its atmosphere drags on until the end of the album, with “Desolate” emphasizing a bit of minimalism—who would have though from the title—and “Nightfall” being one of the most unpleasant tracks on the record, like a black grimy wind blowing in your face.

Texture is most certainly this album’s ambassador, but it’s not just experimentation with noise. There’s a lot of subtlety and continuity, both of which make the album work as well as it does in the end. While it does start to get a bit redundant by the time it’s over, Dusted in Darkness has a super captivating atmosphere, an atmosphere of which I was prey, because I really got lured into this LP thanks to how nicely assembled it is. It’s got chops!

 Review by Benci for Igloo Magazine Jan, 2025

Review of Dusted in Darkness album 

Jimmy Peggie - Dusted in Darkness

Jimmy Peggie is an experimental audiovisual artist from Phoenix/ Arizona. His work focuses on minimalist experimental sound and radio art, combining dark ambient sound with black-and-white photography and video. In addition to numerous solo releases, Jimmy Peggie actively participates in collaborative projects. His audiovisual installations have been exhibited in art spaces around the world.

He is the creator of the radio series “Sound Across Distance,” focusing on environments, atmospheres, and transmissions, which airs monthly on CAMP radio. “Dusted in Darkness” is his new album, self-released on December 6, 2024. Announced with a quote from Stefan Zweig: “How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!”—the quote encapsulates the album’s aesthetics, emphasizing the paradoxical beauty hidden in darkness and the unknown.

Peggie is inspired by the idea of constant movement and transformation in nature—decay, dispersion, cracks, and damage—processes that lead to the emergence of new patterns. Within this cycle of transformation, he finds a hidden, mystical beauty. This aesthetic is reflected in the dark yet gentle drone sound, whose particles continuously dissipate, vanish, and take on new forms, much like the ever-changing sands of Arizona’s deserts shaped by the wind.

The album delves into quiet, minimalist landscapes, reconstructed and reduced from environmental recordings with elements of randomness and repetition. The result is a soundscape of soft drones, blurred murmurs, and gentle noise, creating monochromatic ambiences that invite contemplative listening.

Review by Booko in Drontology

I have a short film included in the Melting Walls exhibit at Murmur Contemporary, Montreux - Switzerland on November 23, 2024.

More information via Experimental Cinema

I have a short film included in the Edmonton Underground Film Festival - Canada taking place on October 19 & 20 2024.  

Jimmy Peggie - Book of Erosion

jimmy peggie is a sound artist that operates in the minimal realm of experimental sound and radiophonic art (often along with still and moving images) with a focus on environments, atmospheres, and transmissions.

'book of erosion' in his latest album. It begins with some kind of stuttering muted noise, which instantly creates a dark atmosphere of abstract tension and subtle dread. This is accompanied by waves of whooshing noise that gradually becomes more prominent, intense and menacing as the track progresses - swirling around this barren soundscape like a strange ominous wind...

Throughout the rest of the album you will hear haunting sounds of destruction and decay - brooding noisescapes, lonesome drones, undulating layers of dark ambience, stuttering swells of distortion, singular howling tones, manipulated radio transmissions, gurgling water, low ominous rumblings and plenty of eerie spectral frequencies...

'book of erosion' is a highly atmospheric and darkly beautiful album of industrial dronescapes and minimal sound art. It's great repetitive music to soundtrack your slow drifting thought patterns, and makes for a quietly captivating and meditative listening experience.

Fletina - Audiocrackle Sept 2024

I have a sound and visual piece included in this exhibition at Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ.  Exhibition runs June 29 – September 28, 2024.

Additional information via Creative Flagstaff

Review of Book of Erosion by Drontology 

Sound artist from Phoenix, Arizona, Jimmi Peggie, operates in the minimal realm of experimental sound and radiophonic art. In addition to sound, he incorporates video and photography, and his installations have been exhibited in galleries worldwide.His latest album, "Book of Erosion," explores themes of inevitable decay and change in all things, as well as the continuous creation of new objects and patterns for observation. The artist utilizes sounds from natural and urban environments, transforming them into dark ambient filled with deep atmospheres of soft murmurs. If you enjoy the 70-minute transmission, you can also indulge in his monthly sound art radio show entitled "Sound Across Distance," broadcast via Camp Radio from France.

Drontology

Jimmy Peggie - Book of Erosion

Review:

While there has been a lot of environment based experimental artists to emerge from the shadows over the last 18 months, Phoenix, Arizona's Jimmy Peggie remains firmly entrenched in them.

Just one glance at the artwork to his latest release, Book of Erosion, and it tells you that Peggie is inspired by the darker aspects of experimentalism.  Simply put, this is greyscale ambience that grows darker and deeper into the vortex you go,

While some may expect this to be a harsh slab of noise, Book of Erosion is anything but.  Soundscapes to let wash over you, Peggie doesn't ride against the decay that inspires his music; instead he's completely immersed in it.

Moonbuilding Magazine

Jimmy Peggie - Book of Erosion

Review:  Based in Phoenix, Arizona, experimental/radiophonic artist Jimmy Peggie dropped us a line about his new album, ‘Book Of Erosion’. Nice connection here, he curated and co-produced the film ‘Experimental Arizona’ with Iklectik in 2020, which showed the work of 20+ artists from in and around Arizona. Anyway, I’ve had ‘Book Of Erosion’ on several times this week, just humming and pinging and whirring in the background. It’s the perfect accompaniment to the rain hammering on my windows as it has been for most of the week.

Moonbuilding Magazine - Issue 6 - Feb 23, 2024

Jimmy Peggie & British Sports Car - Limiting The Frame

Review:  Jimmy Peggie is a sound artist based in Phoenix, AZ who uses sound and moving image in his creative practice. His artistic work is focused on atmospheres, transmissions, fragments, particles and decay.

British Sports Car is an experimental artist from Colchester, UK. He creates an array of complex and disturbing soundscapes, music and textures inspired by minimalist composition and independent arthouse cinema.

'Limiting The Frame' is their collaborative album - a sound project about analog film, and its connection to memory and nostalgia. In this album you will hear the mechanical clunking of old film projectors, decaying film reels, broken transmissions, rhythmic glitches, motorized whirring sounds, ghostly swells, grinding machinery, metallic resonances, sweeping industrial noise, heavily-processed audio abstractions, sinister drones and dark fragile ambience. The sonic treatment and electronic manipulations of all the old film sounds heard in this album makes it difficult to pinpoint exactly what you're hearing at any given moment, but this happens to heighten the mysteriousness and vagueness of it all.

'Limited The Frame' is an emotional and atmospheric album of haunting noisescapes, fractured ambience, cinematic drones and abstract sound art. Its dark audio environments, intricate textures and intriguing sound phenomena makes for a highly immersive and evocative listening experience.

Audiocrackle - Oct, 2023

The Quietus - Gardens In Glass / Frozen Waste

The spirits of Lustmord, Zoviet France, and Jimmy Peggie haunt the chilling desert of ‘Earth Tone’, which vibrates along the thumps of a desolate, half-forgotten beat and provides no escape from the expansive sheets of noise that consume all in their path. 

Album review by Antonio Poscic in The Quietus

Jimmy Peggie - Yeseros de Piscina

Compositions made from recordings of workmen refinishing swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona.  The crews were Latino/Mexican who worked together using a mixture of signals and whistles chipping the plaster down to the concrete.  Mexican radio songs were playing as the crew laid the wet plaster while cement mixer trucks were stationed nearby preparing and transporting it via a system of wires.  On occasion the workers burst into song while they worked as sounds echoed and reverberated off the walls of the pool.  It's a sonic portraitof a location, a time and a culture.  

Radiophrenia Festival 2023

Experimental Art

Sound and visual artist Jimmy Peggie curated videos by more than 20 performers for a film called Experimental Arizona, which you can watch online at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31. The film includes sound art, video art, and interdisciplinary installations — including work by Christine Cassano and a collaboration between Scottish improviser and sound artist Lauren Sarah Hayes and Kendra Sollars, a Tempe-based artist specializing in video art. The screening is free.

Phoenix New Times - Lynn Trimble - Mar, 2021

'Experimental Arizona' Film Interview with Jimmy Peggie

A movie premiering March 31 aims to highlight Arizona’s arts scene — specifically, its experimental arts scene.

" Experimental Arizona" goes live March 31 and includes 20 Arizona-based artists.

The film was commissioned by the U.K.-based art collective IKLECTIK, which asked Scottsdale-based sound artist Jimmy Peggie to curate and put it together.

The Show spoke with Peggie for more about the project.

KJZZ Public Radio - Mark Brodie

Jimmy Peggie - Ghost Towns of Arizona 

Jimmy Peggie narrows the scope further, contemplating questions of abandonment in Ghost Towns of Arizona.This is music of static and decay that waits at the end of the journey; sonic silhouettes of empty spaces and vestiges of souls imprinted in forgotten artifacts. On "Land of Opportunity" tubular synths dance alongside barbed noises, before getting lost amid synthetic growls that split the earth underneath.  Then a closed door creaks, a disconnected telephone rings, but will never be answered.  Dormant machinery squeals and moans.  An old TV flickers unseen.  Ghosts of past life inhabit and breathe through these vignettes, hinting at their fates and asking us to fill in the voids.  To complete these visions of America.

By Antonio Poscic - 'Ambient Americana' in The Wire 442 - Dec 2020