This is very cool. An old friend just emailed me. Her name is Kasten and I haven't seen her in several years. She left Burlington to attend art school down in Boston and I guess she's in Philadelphia now doing the art thing there.

After exchanging emails, I Googled Kasten and found that she has a MySpace music page for her band, Lacunae. It's very cool ambient trip hoppy stuff that would be right at home on Groove Salad or Deep Mix Moscow Radio. And the band has this great gimmick: they've never met. From the site:

In 1995, Arson found Kasten's postal address on her strange and short lived cable access program. The two have exchanged piles of art and strangeness through the mail ever since.

Though at times Kasten and Arson have been close enough to leave notes or throw sacks of journals at each other, they have only communicated via art and text. This relationship eventually grew to include audio.

Buy their albums! Check out Kasten's art site too. She's a talented woman.