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welcome to the Garden State

for Bill Nobes

ROOM 122 | Trenton, NJ | JUNE 2026

You are entering Welcome to Garden State in real time—
a living-room build session where sound, story, and strategy are becoming the work.

PART LISTENING ROOM. PART DOCUMENTARY. PART ALBUM RETURN

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ROEBLING LOFTS | NEW JERSEY | ROOM 122

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THE ORIGIN

Years ago, Bill and I recorded the a cappella version of Welcome to Garden State through the spirit of Trenton analog.

At the time, I knew the piece mattered — but I had not yet lived enough, built enough, lost enough, survived enough, or designed enough to understand what the full project wanted to become.

Now the work has returned with a larger architecture:

an album,
a listening room,
a live performance,
a physical release,
a documentary process,
and a series of access objects that let people enter the world beyond the stream.

This page is not a finished pitch.

It is a real-time doorway into the build.

I’m inviting you back into the project from the place where it began — not just to record songs, but to help think through what this album wants to be sonically, physically, and strategically.

  • What should remain analog?

  • What should become hybrid?

  • What does the first serious recording phase require?

  • What would a full-length album budget look like?

  • How do vinyl, CDs, NFC cards, and live listening rooms become part of the release?

  • What role would make sense for you in this next phase?

this weekend, I learned about “slates”

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this weekend, i learned that a slate
is not just a proposal.
it is a door left open
for someone brave enough
to keep building…

so i’m leaving this here —
not as a finished thing,
but as an invitation.

to read.
to imagine.
to question.
to enter.

and if something in this room speaks back,
maybe the next slate
is one we build together.