The Mountain Fold

Scandinavian Toilets is a collection of over 100 toilets as seen and used by myself while living and traveling in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, and Denmark). There are 12 editions in total, and each is hand bound using the coptic binding technique.
The front cover is made of a relief print based on two separate toilets, [...]

My latest instrument or rather control surface is the Blipronome. It’s a combo of two technologies put together by Wil Lindsay at /* straytechnologies  */ namely, the arduino and the bliptronic. The whole idea of the monome is haptic feedback and it’s engine is buttons and leds. Making an array of switches is easy enough for sure, I [...]

Collected Rocks: By Paul Sobczak
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Iowa a Day has now been realized into a post card book. Only a short run is being made so if you haven’t expressed that you want one and you do, I suggest you do so quickly.
The post card book includes all of the photos from Iowa a Day plus one extra. Each of the [...]

My mix, Three Moon Shoes in Scandinavia, has been completed and is available if you are so interested. The mix includes songs that I have listened to and shared with people along the last 15 or so months, and it is quite good if you ask me.
The first version of this mix tape circa June [...]

Short picture book, only available online.

I have been meaning to start a book binding project for quite some time, and I finally made some headway and completed my first book. I picked up “How to MAKE BOOKS” at a book store, it’s not the best book a tad bit too arts and crafts, and the author does not comply with [...]

Scandinavian Toilets a collection by Paul Sobczak
This is a collections of toilets that I collected while living in Oslo, Norway in 2007. I traveled around Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) and took pictures of the toilets that I used. There are 116 images in this collection spanning the following cities: Oslo, Fjærland, Tromsø, Kristiansand, Stockholm, Gothenburg, [...]

I just released Seven Sedimenting Backgrounds over on Canada Goose Records, the record is a collection of soundscapes or drones that I have created this year, at Canada Goose you can listen and or download the whole thing. The cover of the record uses the picture above which I shot in just outside of Fjærland, [...]

I Can Eat Glass Project:
The I Can Eat Glass Project lets you discover how to say the phrase “I can eat glass, it doesn’t hurt me” in different languages.
The project was inspired by Ethan Mollick’s I Can Eat Glass Project. Mollick discribes his project with the following:
The Project is based on the idea that [...]

 
Early 2009, I traveled to San Francisco on a trip that took me coast to coast across North America. Here is a short introduction to that trip, and to the city of San Francisco.
This recording starts out with two binaural recordings of the Fisherman’s Wharf on the edge of city, where I sat on a [...]

On January 6th I launched Twin Cities Maker, a website dedicated to realizing a high-tech maker shop in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
The goal of the website is to find people interested in creating a maker shop, and give them an avenue to start talking about it.
A maker shop as I have coined it is membership [...]

My instrument collection circa 2008. 29 in Total. Here>

I have been working on an acceleration compensated tilt sensor for awhile now and plan to make the whole thing open source and share all of it in the future, but I have a few things to finish before then. So while you are waiting take a look at this video I put together explaining [...]

Yes it is true I took apart my Dave Smith Prophet 08. Below you can see that the internals are quite a bit different than “traditional” analog synths being that the Prophet 08 used integrated circuits insted of discrete components. For information on the Prophet 08 check here.
all of the knobs removed (Bonus points if [...]

Down The Line
Call 763-210-2074/Hear a message/Leave a message
Operational until December 2008
This project was realized for an exhibit at the Plains Art Museums annual L.I.V.E event, it will be on display 9/12/08.
A compilation of selected messages will be made available at www.themountainfold.com/DownTheLine in the future.

Announcing the Banjo In Fridge Project
To submit you images you must place a banjo in a refrigerator and take a picture.
For all of you who would like to participate the “Banjo in Fridge” photo collection is now accepting submissions, please send your pictures to:
banjoinfridge@gmail.com

Kudos to the person who can get the most banjos in [...]

I started a photo journal of interesting things that I see in Iowa. The subject matter changes, it’s basically a collection of things that you should look at that I have already seen. Also I am working on a wind farm, so you will see lots of photos relating to the construction of wind turbines.
One [...]

There is now a gallery of some of the prints that I did in 2008.

Inside you will find several different techniques (Screen, Intaglio, Lithography, and Relief). Also the stories behind each image created and some pictures of the process that went into making each them.
Prints By Paul Sobczak

The first part in a collection of mixes called My Collection. The mixes will take a look at some of the music that I have in my musical collection. For the first installment April 2008, I have included stuff from the following artists as well as some field recordings.
In no particular order:
Kim Chi, They Might [...]