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Metamorphosis Ecologist
Joshua Halpern
digests
unbearable
unknowns of
climate collapse


excretes
embodied and embedded
songs of
absurd and sincere
solastalgia


learning to
dance our
disasters


shimmy
the fascism
off our fascia


put the
boom-chicka-boom
in our
doom-gloom-bloom


music
Home Howls
hopes could
encourage you
to not
avoid dance ~

Esalen, Laniakea, Covert Claremont Canyon Concert


Origins:

In the ‘90s and ‘00s, Josh co-created with bands Dorothy’s House, Bake a File in the Cake, The Tragic Events, and It’ll Come, all blips on the Central Jersey/NYC scene.

Arriving in the Bay Area in 2010 for a masters degree in Integral Ecologies, Josh longed to learn how to hold the scariest environmental lessons in ways that weren’t paralyzing, and move those transformations through our bodies better.

With the last decade’s hardest questions unresolved, and our climate tipping points unraveling, Josh smelled something on the edge of overripe, just out of reach ~

~ and on the last Winter Solstice before 2020, harvested home-produced tracks for his debut album A Void Dance

Sharing our souls while we can, Home Howls’ 2nd album Collapse Claps looks likely with 2026, but you know, depends on the collapse.

This Banyan tree in Laupāhoehoe, on the Big Island of Hawaii 
outlived the April Fools Day 1946 tsunami triggered by an
earthquake in Alaska, which destroyed the school that stood around the tree at the time, and killed 20 students and 4 teachers.

Home Howls was musically doula’d

through the sonic supernovae of grunge and riot grrl,

chronologically something like ~

Paul Simon, Aretha, Leonard Cohen, Michael Stipe, Weird Al, Kurdt, Trent, Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell, Sleater Kinney, Thom Yorke, The Pixies, Nina Simone, Missy Elliot, Outkast, Chaka Khan, Bowie, Queen, Le Tigre, Talib Kweli, TV on the Radio, Animal Collective, The Lonely Island, Reggie Watts, Beth Ditto, Zap Mama, Fela Kuti, Brittany Howard, Sylvan Esso, Das Racist, The Coup, Stromae, Barbatuques, Combo Chimbita, Tierra Whack.

Deeply appreciated nudges from our friend Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs.

Home Howls’ cosmology

is woven with “end of the world” witches and wizards like ~

Joanna Macy, adrienne marie brown, Bayo Akomolafe, Donna Harraway, Carolyn Casey, Stephen Jenkinson, Elizabeth Allison, Brian Swimme, Sean Kelly, Jem Bendell

along with countless accounts
from the front lines of
climate chaos
and bioreavement.

Josh’s other offerings include

Ecocourageous curriculum, events, art and media can be explored at climatecourage.org,

drinking water eco-educational immersion tours can be reached via watershedwitness.com.

EcoPsychedelic Vortex Integration Series seasonally through expandedecologies.com

Feel free to reach out to josh@homehowls.com

Nine-Anus’d Compost Monster, The Final Fish

Fukushima Building 4, #danceyourdisaster

The entire debut Home Howls album

~ A Void Dance ~

was recorded with just a Spire Portable Studio,
a KORG Mini Kaoss Pad, and a Kaossilator.

~ COLLAPSE CLAPS ~

Home Howl’s sophomore offering
will rely on an SP404, and lotsa live instruments.