Stereo Embers The Podcast 0184: Todd Goldstein (Harlem Shakes, ARMS, TG)

“Closing Out 2020 With Todd Goldstein”

“I like to think of music as an emotional science,” the composer George Gershwin once said. Keeping that in mind, Todd Goldstein has been spending a lot of time in the lab. The musician’s new album under his TG moniker is called Memory Foam and it’s a textured long player whose innovative soundscapes bring to mind the work of everyone from Brian Eno to Martin Kennedy’s All India Radio. In this year-ending interview, Goldstein talks to Alex about how moving from the east coast to the west affected his notion of sound, his love of rave culture and what it was like to move from his old bands (Harlem Shakes, ARMS) into such broad compositional territory.