Alex­ander Ruden­shiold

Researcher, writer, musician, audio engineer, and designer based in Irvine, California.
Ph.D. student researching internet & material sub/cultures; online community; podcasting & livestreaming; left politics; memes; and video games in the Film & Media Studies program at UC — Irvine.

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☆ Infant Island Obsidian Wreath out now via Secret Voice Records (link).

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 "Twitch’s 'C-word': CrackerGate, mass-flagging, & right-wing 'slurs'" Under review.
 "Theorizing the After-Human in Videogames: Flesh and Intersubjectivity Against Residual Humanisms through Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology." Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism 51, no. 3 (September 2024). Co-authored with Justin Keever. [DOI]
 "Furries Built the Internet: pre-2000 Community Computing." SPIR: Selected Papers of Internet Research (March 2024). [DOI] [pdf]
 "'Like the Burning of the Library of Alexandria': The Death and Deletion of Yahoo! Answers." Spectator 43, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 9–18. Co-authored with Parker Bach and Harry Hudome. [ProQuest] [pdf]
 ‘“Live” and Leftist: Twitch, Political Livestreaming, and Hasan Piker.’ M.A. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2022. [DOI Permalink]
 "A look back on AJJ’s ‘People Who Can Eat People…’ for its 15th anniversary" in BrooklynVegan
 "Majority Rule’s trailblazing screamo classic ‘Interviews with David Frost’ turns 20" in BrooklynVegan
 "No Genre, No Gender: LGBTQ Music Thrives in Richmond" in RVA Mag
 "The Real Reasons Why Richmond Is A Great Underground Music City" in RVA Mag
 Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly, from One Signal / Simon & Schuster.
  2022. Bibliography writer.
 In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality by Elizabeth Ellcessor, from NYU Press.
  2022. Copy editor, research assistant.
 Volume 24, Issue 2 of The Communication Review
  2021. Peer reviewer.
 Music, culture, & politics articles for RVA Mag
  2019. Editorial intern.
 Issue 6.1 of The Rappahannock Review
  2018. Lead poetry editor.
 Whurk Magazine
  2016. Music editor.
 Infant Island (Website|Bandcamp|Spotify|Apple)
 Mattachine (Bandcamp|Spotify|Apple)
 Sylph (Bandcamp)
 Maidenhair (Bandcamp)
 Cerbe (Soundcloud)
 Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath
  Pitchfork 7.6!
  Songwriting, performance.
  Released by Secret Voice.
 Infant Island - "Dayvan Cowboy"
  Arrangement, recording, performance.
  Released as part of the Grave Neighbors Vol. 7 compilation on Middle Man records.
 Infant Island - "Aurora"
  Songwriting, performance.
  Released as part of the Balladeers, Redefined compilation on Secret Voice.
 Mattachine & Mikau - Eject Modernity, Erase Tradition
  Songwriting, performance.
 So Badly - Lemon Blue
  Production (engineering, recording, mixing).
 Infant Island - Collections 1
  Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering), remixing.
  Released by Hidden Sound Collective (US) & Dog Knights Productions (UK, EU).
 Mattachine - Isolation as a Form of Torture
  Songwriting, performance.
  Released by Zegema Beach Records.
 Infant Island - Beneath
  Pitchfork 7.9!
  Songwriting, performance.
  Released by Dog Knights Productions.
 Infant Island - Sepulcher
  Songwriting, performance.
  Released by Acrobat Unstable Records (US), Zegema Beach Records (Can), & Left Hand Label (UK, EU).
 So Badly - Someone Better / Blue
  Mixing, mastering.
 Sylph - Sylph
  Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering).
 Infant Island - "Death Portrait"
  Songwriting, performance.
  Released as part of the Hymnes aux Désarrois de la Peau 4-way split.
 Infant Island - "A Preoccupation (Reprise)"
  Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing).
  Released as part of the Sordid States V.2 compilation on Middle Man Records.
 Raw Feels - I Feel Fine
  Mastering.
 Infant Island - "Ugly Brunette/July 5th (Horse Jumper of Love cover)"
  Re-arrangement, performance.
  Released as part of the Grave Neighbours V.2 compilation on Middle Man Records.
 Infant Island - Infant Island
  Songwriting, performance.
  Released on Middle Man Records (US), Conditions Records (US), Dingleberry Records (DE), & Zegema Beach Records (Can).
 Infant Island - "Where There Is Ruin"
  Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering).
 Maidenhair - Charlie's Song
  Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering).
 Sorority Boy - Friends / Enemies
  Production (engineering, recording, mixing).
 Infant Island & Smallhands - Split
  Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering).
 Maidenhair - "Fall"
  Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering).
Coming soon.
This section is a work in progress.
 "HitPiece Wants to Make Every Song in the World an NFT. But Artists Aren’t Buying It" in Rolling Stone
 "Angry, noisy, powerful, hardcore queer music" in Xtra*
 "Infant Island: Beneath | Album Review" in Pitchfork
 "Stream Infant Island's New Album Beneath" in Stereogum
 "Mattachine - 'Sisyphus'" in Stereogum
 "As the world shrivels in front of our eyes, all we can do is scream" in The Washington Post
 "Infant Island Carries the Torch for Virginia’s Proud Screamo Legacy" in Noisey
 "Virginia Is for Screamo Lovers" in Noisey
 "Stream Infant Island’s Thrilling Self-Titled Debut Album" in Stereogum
 "All The Best New Rock Albums That Dropped This Week" in Uproxx
 "Hundreds of Artists Help Launch ‘Bands Take A Stand’ to Combat Sexual Assault" in Bandcamp Daily