Plus or Minus
No lyrics. No instructions. Just sound, and room for your own story. We've spent a lifetime making music - this is the part where we finally make it for ourselves, instrumental and open-ended, written to exist alongside visual art.
Listen & License
Mog, Why?
When music and visual art meet, something new opens up. This is what that looks like.
More. Less. Always both.
Instrumental music leaves room. No lyrics to tell you what to feel, no words to get in the way - just sound and room for your own story. We've always believed that visual art doesn't just explain that space, it expands it.
Plus or Minus is how we explore that - a Boston-based trio writing and playing music built for the space between sound and image. Everything is live-played and overdubbed, never programmed.
We're Eliot Hunt and Jon Bistline - longtime collaborators, formerly of the Boston-based band, Chauncey - alongside drummer Mike Piehl, formerly of Expanding Man and Reverse.
Visual Collaborators
Each release invites a visual artist into the process. The music doesn't stop at sound.
Designer of the Signal album artwork. Sarah's geometric collage work mirrors the album's structural, layered quality — each composition fitting together like the music itself.
Signal — Album ArtMax is a European artist whose work spans tech, fashion, sports, and editorial - clients include Google, Amazon, Fortune, and Nature Journal. The artwork we chose for our Binary EP captures something we'd been trying to articulate about the music for a long time.
Binary EP — Cover ArtWe've been fans of Dusty's work for a long time, so getting to make something together felt like a full-circle moment. An Albuquerque-based animator, filmmaker, and director - and a senior animator on Richard Linklater's Apollo 10 1/2 - his psychedelic, hand-made approach to our Mog, Why? video feels as alive as the track itself.
Mog, Why? — Music VideoReady to place your next cue
Instrumental music works harder on screen because it leaves room - for characters to develop, a scene to resolve, a story to unfold.
That's not an accident, it's the whole idea.
All tracks are fully cleared for sync licensing across film, television, advertising, and digital media. We work directly and turn inquiries around fast. Reach out and let's find the right fit.