string theories
New music defining Pacific Northwest Emo-Breaks
String Theories is a nocturnal pop atlas—threads of melody pulling signal from static, heart from halogen. Built on shimmering guitars, glitchy breakbeats, and quiet-violent hooks, the record maps how small vibrations become tidal: memory, desire, the hum between analog hiss and digital ghosts. Pacific Northwest noir at its warmest, it’s music for late trains, wet streets, and the moment a thought snaps into resonance. Pull one strand; the whole web sings.
String Theories is the first collaboration from Systim with vocalists Vashyn and JosephK — a rain-slick, PNW-noir suite where intimate voices meet granular beatcraft.
Sparked by friendships forged during the COVID shutdowns and sharpened with new AI-driven tools, these songs were crafted with an incredible amount of iteration exploration, building late-night textures, confessional hooks, and haunting duets.
Building on the keystone track, "String Theories," the entire String Theories album documents three artists finding one shared voice — and letting it resonate like halogen on gleaming wet brick reflecting like jewels and glass.
featuring
Tim Aidlin (aka "systim")
executive Producer and artist
Systim is the moniker for Tim Aidlin, a Seattle producer, fine artist, and designer making experimental, rain-slicked alt-pop since 2000. A founding member of Brooklynhaus (the archetype collective behind today’s SystimAI ethos), he has been recently collaborating with Vashyn and JosephK since early 2025. Influences: DJ Shadow, U.N.K.L.E., Chemical Brothers. Past: DJ residency at Marcus’ Martini Heaven (2001–2002, with DJ Johnny Mayday). Current focus: remixing his early catalog into The Brooklynhaus Era — breakbeats, chemical fuzz, poetic/ethereal vocals, and apocalyptic grit.
Vashyn
Vocalist, keyboards
Vashyn is an emotive alt-pop vocalist and writer whose pink-violet dream tones and jungle/breakbeat edges define SystimAI’s newest work. Active with Systim since early 2025, she threads confessional hooks and Seattle-noir surrealism through songs like “A New Kind of Feeling.” Influences: Halsey, Portishead, Billie Eilish; poetic roots in Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Wordsworth; technical inspiration from Eminem, Harry Mack, Wu-Tang, and Biggie.
Josephk
vocalist, turntables
JosephK is a Seattle vocalist joining SystimAI in early 2025 at Vashyn’s enthusiastic invitation. A longtime friend and bandmate from the West Seattle trio Saturnine, he brings warm leads, layered harmonies, and a crate-head’s sense of rhythm. Influences span The Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutie, The Shins, Radiohead and others — balancing cinematic restraint with underground bite.
