Har approached building the label with inspiration from the interdisciplinary spirit of RCAH’s Language and Media Center (LMC). He assembled a team throughout the fall semester with members of the LMC in RCAH, fellow professors, student representatives and others. 

“I see this as a really important addition to the college,” RCAH Professor, LMC Director and Board Member of the label David Sheridan said. “It's very consistent with [its] mission, doing community engaged arts. I'm super excited about it. The opportunity to work with artists and to develop an identity for a label from the ground up or from the very start is something you don't get to do very often.”

Named for the street it lives on, Bogue Street Records is focused on artists in the Lansing area and values music that highlights different perspectives and contemporary issues. 

“The Lansing music scene, and a lot of the local shows that go on, I feel like are really important,” BSR Social Media Manager and Arts and Humanities sophomore Cole Carlson said. “But there's a big lack of connection with that sort of local Lansing music scene, and Michigan State University. I think not enough MSU students are aware of the music scene in Lansing and the greater Lansing area as well. And I'm hoping this label will help to bridge that gap a little bit.”

The team hit the ground running with scouting artists, putting up a website and choosing a name and logo leading up to their launch on Dec. 5, 2025. Har attended Lansing events at the Robin Theatre and the New Music Forum to find artists for the label. 

“We're open to all genres,” Har said. “Overarching mission [is] to celebrate local musical diversity. That said, I personally am attracted to interdisciplinary and community engaged projects. If it's engaged with contemporary issues and has some interdisciplinary influence whether specifically, in the music side of things, or more philosophically as well.”

The label currently works with ambient and electronic musician and ecologist Josh Epperly, under the stage name, bioPrism, Poet Laureate Dennis Hinrichsen and owner of Robin Theatre Dylan Rogers under the stage name Worm Moon.

“[Har] said there are two kinds of artists,” Hinrichsen said. “Artists that mirror the world. And then artists that take a more prismatic approach to the world and take the white light to the world and and break it into all these different colors, they find sounds inside the river that weren’t there and that’s the creativity, the energy that [Worm Moon] brings to the ambient world. [bioPrism] as well, playing with sounds and emotions and finding new ways to convey those. They’re in the same zone where you’re trying to hear what’s not there yet and see what’s not there yet. The goal was just to be involved in that and that’s where I want to be as a writer.”

Hinrichsen and bioPrism led parallel lives until meeting at a session of Ambient Annotations at the Robin Theatre. They lived across the street from each other in Lansing and were both drawn to electronica after reading the same book. At the end of their conversation at the theatre, they planned a project and now have produced a six-track album together. 

“With all the crazy things happening in the world right now and all the chaos,” bioPrism said. “I wanted to convey a narrative of moving from claustrophobia and feelings of grief towards interrelationship and spaciousness. I think that was important for me to convey in my most recent album, just helping guide listeners to spaciousness and curiosity and community.”

Hinrichsen covered vocals while bioPrism responded with a mix of acoustic instruments and synthesizers while they worked in his studio. Hinrichsen also worked in Worm Moon’s studio for live recording methods. 

“The poems written in the spirit of what (Worm Moon) does as an artist layering sounds,” Hinrichsen said. “The poems that I put together on the page, try to do some of the looping that (bioPrism) talks about. I like that kind of cross disisplinary connection between me as a writer. I just use words on a page, then I come to these guys and it’s such a rich experience in terms of creating something that’s new, I think. The six tracks we did are really amazing. Came together quickly, came together organically and I think, really pop.”

Another shared interest of these artists is a love for nature and field recordings. bioPrism has even utilized bird calls, frog and insect sounds in his music.

“That’s the next album we’re thinking of,” Har said. “An album of field recordings that kind of reenchants Lansing. Like spots which have some of that interplay between natural and industrial. Shedding light on slightly overlooked areas which also interact with current issues. Like we see with [bioPrism’s] work with ecology.”

Projects from the three artists will be released throughout the spring.

“There is right now a ton of energy around the creation of experimental/electronic/ambient music in Lansing and the piece that’s missing is distribution, coordination,” Worm Moon said. “The label is helping I think, light a fire under artists to produce and get their work finished and get it out there and I think that’s really special and important. I think that [Har] is approaching it with a high degree and a curatorial eye and a tenacity and I really appreciate that about his approach.”