I’m Karl Ward. Permanent Dust is the online archive of my works.
Permanent Dust occasionally releases extremely limited physical editions of music, as well as extremely unlimited digital editions of everything else. If you have a Permanent Dust lathe cut—dude, hold on to that.
I am a musician and engineer working in and around New York City. I get really excited when music crosses over into literature or technology. I have been releasing music solo and with a bunch of bands, most recently declu, Ghost Ghost, and Ninth Street Mission.
I studied English Literature at Columbia College, where I spent my days reading poetry and my nights making computer music at the Columbia Computer Music Center. I should have seen it coming that I would end up studying at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where I was also a musician in residence.
There’s a small chance you’re hear to read about the 2016 Hoboken train derailment, an accident I survived and wrote about.