I've created music for video games, film, dance, and live theater. Every so often, a new Seamonster recording appears.
Latest Release
Virginia Beach’s Seamonster resurfaces after 12 years beneath the waves with "Window Seat", a quietly mesmerizing new single, accompanied by a long-lost instrumental from 2007.
Like the introspective comic strips cartoonist/musician Todd Webb is known for, "Window Seat" is a study in observation, tracing unexpected memories through everyday objects. Inspired by a workshop with legendary producer Brian Eno, the song was written and recorded in a single afternoon - a spontaneous return to the creative process that first defined Seamonster’s lo-fi magic.
The B-side, "Callie’s Dance", was originally commissioned years ago for a dance performance and features a cello contribution from a visiting friend that, in Webb’s words, “brought the song to life.” Long-forgotten until director (and past Seamonster collaborator) Chad Hartigan requested it for an upcoming film, the track emerges at last, bridging the past and present.
official lyric video for “Window Seat” by Seamonster
Finster
My song “Howard Finster, Man of Visions” (from the Seamonster album Baldessari) opens and closes the documentary Finster (formerly Paradise Garden), which you can watch on Apple TV.
I contributed to the film’s original score, and “Bearsuit,” from Seamonster’s Two Birds EP, is also featured.
Having first discovered Howard Finster through Talking Heads and R.E.M. album covers, it was a genuine thrill to contribute to a film celebrating his life and work.
Explore the Music
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Seamonster
active 2005 - present
primary musical outlet - for fans of The Magnetic Fields, Galaxie 500, Yo La Tengo
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OAHU
active 2012 - 2024
ambient improvised electro-acoustic sound project - for fans of Brian Eno, Taylor Deupree, John Cage
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Fox Hands
active 2009-2011
experimental weirdo pop project - for fans of Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Atlas Sound
Praise for Seamonster
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"It was a happy coincidence that brought me into the world of Seamonster’s wide-eyed songs and delicate, homespun arrangements: bedroom folk-pop for day dreamers and sleep walkers alike."
Robert Schneider, The Apples In Stereo
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"Webb paints a musical canvas - elegantly, flaunting a quirky charm - dreamy, strange and consuming."
Gold Flake Paint
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"Simultaneously beautiful and jarring, familiar and strange, occasionally haunting, and frequently whimsical, Baldessari is a fully realized collection of songs representing an artist at his prime."
Variance Magazine
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“A lush orchestra of 'miniature noises' which unfolds most spectacularly in the presence of [Webb's] voice.”
Decoder Magazine
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"A lovingly stitched together [album] of fuzz-toothed and computer-transmuted folk... a crisp and beautiful balance of unique textures."
Turntable Kitchen
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"Sublime and beautiful."
YVYNYL
Every day from October 28, 2015 to October 28, 2020
I posted a video to my Instagram page featuring an ambient score with the hashtag #dailybleeps.
“Todd Webb has, over the past roughly 2,000 days, posted roughly 2,000 #dailybleeps tracks online... bite-size videos [that] feature micro-compositions of what feel like the sonic equivalent of a zine aesthetic: either minor-key chipper, or up-tempo maudlin, and utterly delightful.”
Slow Waves & Simple Sounds
OAHU was my ambient electronics project. The final release, ‘Slow Waves,’ was built around source recordings by John Dieterich of Deerhoof - who also mastered the album - processed and accompanied by modular synthesizers.
The second disc, ‘Simple Sounds,’ collects 40 tracks from four years of #dailybleeps - an audio scrapbook of sorts.
Praise for OAHU
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“Island living encapsulated in multi-tonal ambience… pairs well with stargazing through the slits in the treetops.”
Cassette Gods
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“Sculpted tracks of hypnotic escape… drawn out tropical drones, subconciously evoking vibraphones and chirping birds. The essence of minimalistic ambience.”
Whurk Magazine
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“Breezy, overloaded, blown out beauty. Washed out production, feels like a faded polaroid. Super chill listen. Awesome."
Guide Me Little Tape
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“Gently washes over you like a static shower… Rotating between placidity and near-sensory overload, they create a cycle. As one piece finishes, you yearn for the next.”
Whurk Magazine
Praise for Fox Hands
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"Glistening Panda Bear-esque summer-morning pop from Virginia Beach’s Fox Hands… I highly recommend you run off and grab a copy of the fantastic Peoplenoswan EP.”
Beach Tapes
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“Like Willy Wonka’s Fizzy Lifting Drink, one sip and you will be floating above the ground. Fox Hands manages to take a simple concept and make it utterly sublime… reminds me of good ol’ Panda Bear.”
Cactus Mouth
