M–L–XL Occasional Radio

Playboy: Have you ever taken LSD yourself? Marshal McLuhan: No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant. The episode features: Les Halles, Visible Cloaks, Spirit & Form, Kosmische Keuterboeren, Raju Arara and Hare Akedod.

Pacific City Sound Visions is an experimental and contemporary new age, futuristic record label founded and ran by Spencer Clark (well known for his duo project with James Ferraro, The Skaters). The label releases a multitude of Clark’s aliases such as Fourth World Magazine and Typhonian Highlife alongside a selection collaborations in which he himself takes part in. The episode features: Star Searchers, The Fanfare of the Ascension of Thee Facehugger, H.R. Giger's Studiolo, Fourth World Magazine Volume, Typhonian Highlife, Tarzana and Monopoly Child Star Searchers.

Space Age Recordings and Fierce Recordings are two British independent record labels that not only released music from Spacemen3, but were the godfathers of the shoegazer and drone-rock scenes which blossomed in the U.K. at the end of the 1980’s with obvious affinity with the sounds of The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth and Suicide. This episode features also other bands from their catalogue, including a piece from the controversial album ‘LIE: The Love & Terror Cult’ by Charles Manson. The episode features: Angus MacLise, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Experimental Audio Research, Sonic boom, Octal and Charles Manson.

Hippos In Tanks was a Los Angeles based record label founded in 2010 by Barron Machat and Travis Woolsey. Inactive since late 2015 due to Barron Machat’s passing in a car crash in Miami. The label, named after the novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs ‘And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks’, started as a radio program but became in just a couple of year the benchmark for a new wave of Internet age experimental artists such as Dean Blunt, Laurel Halo and James Ferraro. The episode features: D’Eon, Dean Blunt, James Ferraro, Hype Williams, White Car, Triad God, Bodyguard, Laurel Halo, Sleep ∞ Over.

Bruce Mau wrote this sentence in 1998 in his Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. The rest of the music is composed with sounds collected while browsing the Internet during the week of the incredible high tide that dramatically hit Venice.

Coloursound Library is a Munich based experimental, progressive library label, established in 1979, created by Gunter Greffenius. Artwork paintings were often created by his wife Waltraud Greffenius. Notes on records report intringuing descriptions such as: “Documentary and industrial underlays for current themes of modern life”, “Computer Data Sound, the overture to a new era in music”, “Music suitable for heavy industry, production lines, demolitions, earth movements, biological research, laboratories, mines, oil rigs, light industry including electronics”, “Contemporary synthesizer underscores played by computers; depicting future technologies in today's process”, “Contemporary industrial moods depicting product and fabrication”, “Positive music statements for the commercial creative and business worlds”, "Continuous atmospheric sounds for enigmatic landscapes, metaphysical situations and prehistorical periods". The episode features: Joel Vandroogenbroeck, Eric Vann, Peter Lüdemann, Alessandro Alessandroni, Klaus Weiss and John Tender.

Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart, is the name of the perfectly imperfect dessert by chef Massimo Bottura of the acclaimed Osteria Francescana. The recipe first came about when Kondo Takahiko, Osteria Francescana’s pastry chef, let go of one of the restaurant’s signature desserts at an inopportune moment. Rather than simply ditch the smashed tart, Takahiko and Bottura decided to remake it in a culinary tribute to the thing that defines great art in any sphere — imperfection. “It’s imperfect,” says Bottura, “in a perfect way.” The episode features: Inspired School Of Astral Music, Blue Communion: ISAM and Time Gate: ISAM.

Artist Cindy Bernard initiated sound. at Angels Gate Park in San Pedro, California, in 1998. This concert series eventually evolved into the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound—better known as SASSAS—a small Los Angeles organization fostering exciting new site-based work at the intersection of experimental music and contemporary art. The episode features performances from two CD compilations of early sound. concerts: James Tenney (performing John Cage), Solid Eye, Nels Cline and Gregg Bendian (performing John Coltrane and Rashied Ali), Philip Gelb and Pauline Oliveros, Extended Organ, and Voice of the Bowed Guitar.

Acido is a Berlin based imprint, founded in 2004 by Andreas Krumm AKA Dynamo Dreesen. Initially putting out just one record per year, the label was born as the result of impulse, gut instincts and a laissez-faire approach to business. The episode features: Dynamo Dreesen, Porn Sword Tobacco, 291out, SVN, Convextion, Asis, Dresvn, SW., DJ Sotofett

John Giorno died last week, at age 82, at his home in Lower Manhattan, were he was living with his partner Ugo Rondinone. Poet and performer — a strong and suffering voice belonging to New York’s avant-garde milieu — in 1965 has founded the not-for-profit record label and organisation Giorno Poetry Systems with the aim of connecting poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, audiovisual materials and experimental recording techniques. GPS released albums regularly until the late 1980s featuring recordings by artists such as Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass as well as unique performances by Frank Zappa, Diamanda Galás, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Brion Gysin, Giorno himself and William S. Burroughs. The episode features: John Giorno, Rose Lesniak, Anne Waldman, Cabaret Voltaire, Lydia Lunch and Clint Ruin, Richard Hell, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Brion Gysin with Ramuntcho Matta and Psychic TV.

Em:t has been a cult UK ambient record label, managed by Chris Allen & Dave Thompson, active between 1994 and 1998. It became recognized for its CD releases with animal-themed covers designed by The Designer's Republic. Conceived as the ambient sublabel of t:me, em:t shut down in 1998 when t:me succumbed to financial troubles. In late 2003, em:t was reformed as a brand new company (em:t Records Ltd.) and began releasing new music, but then again business problems forced its closure in late 2006. The episode features: A Small, Good Thing, Lucid Dreams, Qubism, Carl Stone, Hywel Davies and Beatsystem.

Intentionally left blank. The episode features: Erik Wøllo, Akira Ito, Tim Story, Popol Vuh, Roedelius, Japan, The Durutti Column and Music From The Penguin Cafe.

Tiago is a brilliant designer, craftsman and friend based in London. "Music has always been a very important element in my work, from being an inspirational source to the most dedicated assistant. I carry it with me all the time. This episode compiles a selection of tracks straight from my pocket (portable music player) and represent a sample of my daily listening." The episode features: Juana Molina, Liars, Beak, Battles, Clinic, The Octopus Project, Tyondai Braxton, Suuns, Brightblack Morning Light, The Beta Band, Animal Collective, Tortoise, Brian Eno & David Byrne, Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, Darkside and Vincent Gallo.

Foster Reed launched New Albion Records in 1984’s San Francisco. It was a record label centred on a variety of styles that belonged to pioneering contemporary music, releasing aroud five titles a year. The label was named after what Sir Francis Drake named the San Francisco Bay after being the first European to see the area, which was near where the label was founded. Reed decided to close the label in 2012, after 25 indispensable years. In his goodbye note, Foster Reed wrote: "Our audience has always been artists, musicians, composers, dancers and all those who like to stare out of the windows of perception.” The episode features: Stephen Scott, Ingram Marshall, John Adams, Daniel Lentz, Morton Feldman and Joan La Barbara.

Cold Blue is a label active since the early 80’s, started by Jim Fox. It has been launched through a series of 10-inch EPs with a focus on West Coast minimalism and post-minimalism (sometimes defined as the New California School). The label featured works such as Daniel Lentz’s minimalist choirs or the abstract Clay Music by Barney Childs — a project commissioned by Susan Rawcliffe as a vehicle for the challenging variety of ceramic instruments she has designed and made for years. Even though there is a common avant-garde approach that connects all the releases, every single record has its own peculiar personality. The episode will be performed as soundtrack of the show “Masters of Disguise”, curated by M–L–XL for Seeds Gallery London. The episode features: Daniel Lentz, Read Miller, Chas Smith, Barney Childs and Rick Cox.

Séance Centre is a label, a publisher and a distributor of timeless music from the past, present and future. The trio behind the project (a musician, a filmmaker and a graphic designer) have teamed up to discover new and old records to publish through finding original vintage stocks of books, vinyls and cassettes or distributing music from labels and projects that they appreciate. Séance Centre is dedicated to taking their evangelical mission seriously, contextualising their releases with interviews, essays and photos of the musicians and the cultures that generate them. The key to their work, as they declare, is ‘Playing out of time'. The episode features: Shabason and Gunning, Organizatsiya, Short-Term Memory, Playdate, MJ Lallo, Vito Ricci, Massimo Del Corpo, A-TEAM, Michel Banabila, Joanne Forman, Oren Cantrell, Philip Sanderson and Playdate.

In 1842 Francisco Lopez discovered gold while foraging wild onions near an oak tree in Placerita Canyon, initiating the California gold rush. In 1965 Don Buchla introduced his 100 series modular synthesizer at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. These histories are entangled and ongoing. The episode has been curated by Michael Ned Holte, a writer, curator and educator living in Los Angeles and occasional columnist of Occasional Radio. This episode features: Harold Budd, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani, M. Geddes Gengras, Steve Roden.

Under the direction of artist and curator Matthew Higgs, White Columns gallery of New York City gave life to its record label ‘The Sound of White Columns’ to publish the organization’s longstanding collaborations with musicians that has included such as Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Meredith Monk and many more. In between the highly referenced artists present in this episode, there's an intruder, a very prolific composer, that released more than ten thousand songs on Youtube and Spotify, but this is another story. The episode features: Martin Creed, Tussle, Ikue Mori and Julianna Barwick, Kim Gordon, David Robbins, The Hungry Food Band, Malcolm Mooney, Karl Holmqvist, David Van Tieghem, Meredith Monk and Christopher Knowles.

Sun Ark, the name that Cameron Stallones has given to his record label, is most likely derived from the synthesis of two mythical stories: Black Ark, the Jamaican recording studio built and owned by reggae and dub producer Lee Perry, and Sun Ra, the afro-american free-jazz-cosmic composer. Although the Californian label leaded by Stallones — also known for his artistic alias Sun Araw — is undoubtedly not devoted to reggae-dub and neither to free-jazz, but for sure derived its experimental, freak, curious and avant-garde approach to its predecessors. The episode features: Galaxy Express 555, Aylu, Samuli Tanner, Sun Araw, Visible Cloaks, Randall McClellan, SK Kakraba, Rob Magill, High Wolf and Samuli Tanner.

“Two Negatives Make a Positive” is a famous math slogan that perfectly fits the humorous and nonsense name of the Los Angeles based enigmatic label explored in episode 78: Not Not Fun Records. Even if this law is not universal and we can all think of many, many cases where two negatives don’t make a positive — for example rain on your wedding day plus grand larceny on your wedding day does not make for a winning combination, despite what “two negatives make a positive” would suggest — the pretty unknown music published by Not Not Fun can be the perfect soundscape for your relaxing afternoons while reading your favorite novel in the countryside. The episode features: Channelers, Unknown Me, Atariame, Dravier, X.Y.R., Les Halles, Dreamers Cloth and Wave Temples.

Ziggy Devriendt, AKA Nosedrip, is the Belgium based DJ and visionary founder of Stroom, which is at various times a record label, an audiovisual radio station and an eclectic brand. Ziggy launched Belgium’s first online radio station, Stroom.tv, that later became a proper record label, inquiring the liminal zone between wave, ambience, post-punk and exotica. "Not thinking professionally. Being naive. Being disappointed in the music industry”, is how Ziggy defines himself. The episode features: Pablo's Eye, Kyoto, Benjamin Lew, Jason Kolàr, Cold, Sonoko, Ingus Baušķenieks, 48 Cameras, Dj Bert & Eagle and Aponogeton.

48 Cameras, often simply called 48C, is a musical and international collective in a format that varies according to circumstances. Formed in 1984 by both musicians and non-musicians (the line-up frequently varies), some living in Belgium, while others in Netherlands, United Kingdom, etcetera. To date, 48 Cameras recorded 13 albums, the work being done frequently via the Internet (some of the members have never met), allowing the collective to welcome various guests from diverse cultures and a wide range of disciplines. Due to the characteristics of the collective, 48 Cameras has only performed on stage eight times in its 33 years of existence. This episode features only 48 cameras pieces from 1985 till today.

Yoga for hangovers is an unusual cultural mesh between a contemporary occidental culture and an ancient oriental meditative tradition. This episode can be used to meditate and to relax, but also to heal your body from headaches and illness that result from the posthumous effects of an amazing night. Just lay down your yoga mat, follow the instructions of the voice-over and focus on your breath. The episode features: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Lee Rosevere, Aloe Vera, Neon Menhirs, Chuck Pereda and Natalia Szendro with Pulse Emitter, Steve Roach and Netherfriends.

In the current era of festivals that curate their line-ups adhering to gender equality policies, 'me-too' social campaigns and a booming feminist literature, we decided to pay tribute to female music dedicating an entire episode to the female pioneers of electronic music, following their works with those of their contemporary successors, revealing an accurate fil rouge that connects the two generations. The episode features: Ellen Arkbro, Kali Malone, Laurie Spiegel, Caterina Barbieri, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith with Suzanne Ciani and Eliane Radigue.

'Anthem' is a collection of artistic and musical creations curated by US-based producer Total Freedom released as a series of limited edition 12″ records and is the soundtrack to the 9th Berlin Biennale, published by The Vinyl Factory. The purpose of 'Anthem' is to bring together artists and musicians in an environment that testifies the importance of collaboration and sharing. The episode features: Amalia Ulman with Carles Santos, Patricia Satterwhite with Jacolby Satterwhite and Nick Weiss, Trevor Jackson, Kelela Elysia Crampton with Not Adrian Piper, Ryoji Ikeda, Fatima Al Qadiri with Hito Steyerl and Juliana Huxtable, Isa Genzken with Total Freedom, Jamie Lidell, Jeremy Deller.

It is difficult for us to talk about Shelter Press without feeling a hint of nostalgia. Shelter Press is a French publishing platform founded by Bartolomé Sanson and artist Félicia Atkinson. Shelter Press publishes books and records, experimenting with the spheres of contemporary art, poetry and experimental music. Starting from photocopied and stitched zines a decade ago, they have contributed to the revolution in independent publishing. The episode features: Félicia Atkinson, JAB, Eli Keszler, Meyers, Gabriel Saloman, Matt Carlson, Jefre Cantu, Native Instrument, Keith Fullerton Whitman and Bulbs.

Roberto is a vinyl collector, a dj and a friend, who has developed his work and practice in the Venice area. In the last twenty years Roberto has diffused the culture of avant-garde and experimental electronic music, engaging with the pre existing and new communities of listeners and dancers. This episode reflects Roberto’s wide and heterogeneous record collection, that covers different decades, genres and styles revealing his personal capacity in creating unique and captivating connections between different worlds. The episode features: O Yuki Conjugate, Asis, Andrew Ashong, Sw, Theo Parrish, Living Ornaments, Alvin Currran, Nico Vascellari, Thomas Baldischwyler, Madteo, Sparky, Pepe Bradock, Davy Kehoe, Hydrus, Lanark Artefax and Minako Yoshida.

Spain, late 80's, Antonio Dyaz, leader of the mutant electronic music project El sueño de Hyparco, found the visionary record label Hyades Arts, defining the New Music milieu in the Spain of the first half of the nineties by releasing records by artists such as Iury Lech, Francisco López, Luis Paniagua, and Suso Sáiz. Hyades Arts is a heterogeneous mixture of New Age synths with Ambient landscapes, Free Jazz rhythms seasoned with a unique Spanish flavour. The episode features: Satori, Iury Lech, El Sueño De Hyparco, Miguel A. Ruiz, Consuelo Díez, Oriol Graus, Adolfo Nuñez and Amordiscos.

This episode is an ode to collaborations and their importance in the everyday creative practice. The first and most significant treated in this episode is the life-long partnership between Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, the two prolific pioneers of teutonic electronic music and fathers of Krautrock. They’ve been working together, since the early 70’s, making music as a duo as well as teaming up with Conrad Schnitzler (under the name Kluster), Michael Rother (forming Harmonia), Conny Plank, Brian Eno (in Harmonia 76), Gerd Beerbohm, Karl Renziehausen and many more. The sonic heritage that they created influenced the subsequent generations of german artists, including some who are featured in this episode. Last but not least, this tracklist is a brief extract from the rich catalogue of the defunct Hamburg based label Sky Records, born from the experience of Brain that today evolved into Bureau B. The episode features: Dennis Young, Eno Moebius Roedelius, Hearts No Static, Roedelius & Schneider, Asmus Tietchens, Conrad Schnitzler, Cluster, Moebius & Beerbohm, Harald Grosskopf, Vono, Faust and Qluster.

The title of this episode is deliberately taken from a video shot in 1997 by Francis Alys, that involves the artist pushing an ice block through the streets of Mexico City until it melts into nothing; a Zen-like attitude that Jonny Nash or Diego Herrera — also known as Suzanne Kraft — very likely embrace in their music production for Melody As Truth. The episode features: Suzanne Kraft, Palta, Jonny Nash, D.K. / S.K. and Tourist Kid.

The highlight of episode 67 — which is a wander through the catalogue of Telephone Explosion Records — is Chandra. Chandra is the daughter of the late conceptual artist Dennis Oppenheim, and has been frequently included in his works. As a young girl she has been immediately exposed to artists like Steve Reich, Gordon Matta-Clark and Philip Glass (known to the family as Phil). Aged eight, she was delivering performance pieces at the Kitchen, the infamous downtown arts space; by 12 she was the leader of the post-punk band Chandra. Now she continues to tour the music of Chandra with new band members. Schedule permitting, her 11-year-old daughter sometimes performs with them. The episode features: Charles Ditto, Fist Of Facts, Teenanger, Chandra, Bruce Haack, Freak Heat Waves, Moss Lime, Bob Bell, Badge Époque Ensemble, Melodic Energy Commission, Chandra and Deliluh.

“A sample of what we could be listening to at any given moment” is a brief but exhaustive description of the eclectic and refined episode curated by the team behind the Toronto based Telephone Explosion Records. We warmly recommend a visit to their record collection (instragram: telephoneexplosionrecords) and their online catalogue (www.telephoneexplosion.com). The episode features: Don Cherry, JAB, Badge Époque Ensemble, Ricardo Sinigaglia, Omar S, Gamelan Son Of Lion, Lena Platonos, Virna Lindt, Nate Young, Lifetones and Ronald Langestraat.

While searching through the pages of Discogs (the biggest online database of music releases) more information about the enigmatic project called 1958 – 2009, two dates that refer to years of birth and death of Michael Jackson, we discovered the obscure label Amethyst Sunset. We immediately needed to speculate the connection between the tribute to the king of Pop and the music produced by the duo (Matthew Sullivan and Alex Twomey) that is instead a mixture of nostalgic, dreamy and hazy guitar loops and synths. The episode features: Mark McGuire, Everyday Loneliness, Outer Space, 1958–2009, Aaron Dilloway and Sean McCann.

Episode 64 explores the calm and meditative production of Sound of the Dawn, a project devoted to distributing unknown or almost forgotten ambient music. While digging through their releases we’ve been impressed by the description provided by Matthew Barlow regarding the production of his ‘sound meditations’: “Everything was improvised live and recorded in one take with no overdubs. Once the track was exported and posted online, the original master was deleted. This method was a practice of ‘calm abiding’ with sound in the present moment, allowing what would arise to come and go. It wasn’t about creating a piece of music but rather about practicing a particular state of mind. It was one of my most freeing and rewarding experiences in making music.” The episode features: Rod Hamilton & Tiffany Seal, Inner Travels, Sunmoonstar, Alex Crispin, Matthew Barlow, Lunaria and Ruven Nunez.

Koki Emura established EM Records in southern Osaka in 1998. Since then this independent Japanese record label has divulged more the 140 border­crossing releases with no limit of genre, shifting from Experimental Electronic,to Jazz, Classical Music, Rock, Reggae, Dance and Ethnic. This episode reflects Koki’s wide and wild selection of artists, in term of style and origin. The episode features: YPY, Mari Sekine, 7FO, Synth Sisters, Finis Africae, Roland P. Young, Steel An' Skin, Takao, Kizaki Ondo Preservation Society, Kōhei Amada.

SunPath, the artist appearing in this episode, was the pseudonym of the outsider composer Jeff Berry. He self-released and privately distributed Ambient Music from Northern New Mexico between 1980 and 1984. Each one of his compositions was meant to be a thirty minute journey into a different space and reality. The title of the episode is instead a quote from Joseph Albers, taken from his book "Poems And Drawings" expressing his interest towards a Zen approach to life. Probably, if Albers would have been living in the 80's, he would have been also interested in Ambient Music. The episode features: SunPath, Laraaji, Matthewdavid's Mindflight, Cool Maritime, Gifted and Blessed, Carlos Niño & Friends and Plum.

Can there be hard meaning in the abstract understructure? Music is, after all, totally abstract. Yet, we characterize musical content as happy, sad, lively, turgid, martial, romantic. How do we arrive at such information identification, which is rather universally held? Some meanings attached to musical composition are associations to reality, some are drawn from man's own psychophysical structure, his kinesthetic relationship to the music. So we say of music: it is totally abstract, but there are aspects of it which may be interpreted with reference to shared meaning. The abstract conveys the essential meaning, cutting through the conscious to the unconscious. Donis A. Dondis, A Primer Of Visual Literacy. The episode features: Inspired School Of Astral Music, 1958 – 2009, Porn Sword Tobacco, Daniel Schmidt and M. Geddes Gengras.

Composers Recordings, Inc (also known as CRI) was founded in 1954 by Otto Luening, Douglas Moore and Oliver Daniel. The label's mission was the discovery, distribution and preservation of the finest in contemporary American music. Hundreds of American composers had their first recording released on CRI, making the label a mainstay of career development for several generations of composers — over 600 full-length recordings were released by CRI on LP, cassette and CD. CRI was also particularly successful in recording important talents early in their careers: of the thirty-seven Pulitzer Prize-winning composers on the label, twenty-seven were recorded by CRI before they won the prestigious award. The episode features: Charles Dodge, The Serpent, Space Guitars, James Tenney, Alice Shields, Priscilla Mclean, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and Frederic Rzewski.

A few months after Episode 37 'Explanation and Interruptions of a Normal State of Consciousness', we kept on digging into the incredible archive of the meditative cassette label Valley Of The Sun — now easily available online — spotting hours and hours of New Age, Fourth World and Ambient meditative music, originally composed for the purpose of concentration, relaxation and mental healing. The episode features: Robert Martin, Steven Cooper and Robert Slap.

“What is M.O.O.T.? A fair question. The very fact that you have this record in your hands means that you are curious and aware that something is happening. M.O.O.T. will show you what it is and where it is.” M.O.O.T. — which stands for Music of Our Time — was a series of records released by Columbia, established by its enlightened president Goddard Lieberson and was intended to be a guide to the electronic music revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The episode features: Morton Subotnick, Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Terry Riley, Richard Maxfield, Pauline Oliveros and Harry Partch.

This episode is a focus on Table Of The Elements, an obscure american record label. It was founded by music producer and graphic designer Jeff Hunt in 1993 and has released the work of experimental and avant-garde musicians such as John Cale, Tony Conrad and La Monte Young,  Loren Mazzacane Connors, Derek Bailey, Rhys Chatham and Mats Gustafsson. Each catalogue number is composed by a symbol taken from the periodic Table of the elements associated with its atomic number. "Table of the Elements are to the 21st century what CRI was to the 1960s and Lovely Music to the 1980s — fearless purveyors of the wildest stuff around." The episode features: John Cale, Faust, Lee Renaldo, Henry Kaiser, Paul Panhuysen, Loren Mazzacane, Jim O’Rourke, Bruce Gilbert and Rhys Chatham.

Obscure Records was a British record label created and curated by Brian Eno with the specific purpose of publishing a series of ten albums that traced the path of ambient music’s birth. The label has been active from 1975 to 1978 issuing works from artists such as Harold Budd, Michael Nyman, David Toop and the seminal Discreet Music album by Brian Eno himself. Most have detailed liner notes on their back covers, analyzing the compositions and providing a biography of the artist, in a format that is typical of classical music albums, and as a matter of fact much of the material can be regarded as 20th century contemporary music. The episode features: Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Harold Budd, John Cage, David Toop, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, John Adams, Max Eastley and Brian Eno.

Audio Arts Cassettes was a British magazine documenting contemporary artistic activity interviewing artists and curators, publishing sound performances or sound-based artworks. Audio Arts has been active from 1973 to 2006, issuing 25 volumes and now is part of the Tate Modern collection. The episode features: Uniform, Glenn Branca, Susan Hiller, Yura Adams, Dan Graham, Ann Lee, Charlie Hooker and Lawrence Weiner.

Studio Morra, Edizioni Morra, Edizioni Lotta Poetica, everything began in Naples, in the south of Italy at the end of the Seventies. Behind the curtains there's the Giuseppe Morra, fascinated by the subversive potential of the avant-garde and one of the first in Italy to promote artists coming from Concrete Poetry, Fluxus, Viennese Actionism and Body Art. Fondazione Morra is still active today, promoting and researching, developing and spreading the culture of visual communication. The episode features: Jackson MacLow, Charlemagne Palestine, Sarenco, Max Eastley, Lyn Hejinian and Charles Bernstein, Giampaolo Guerini, Henry Flynt and C.C. Hennix.

What does a story sounds like? Is it possible to imagine a movie by listening to its soundtrack? Between the image in movement and the audience you can find Gianluca, a sound designer that tweaks your emotions and sensations creating soundscapes that let plot happen (@jean_soundesignstudio). The episode features: Jan Jelinek, Nadine Byrne, Visible Cloaks, Sun Araw, Simple Affections, Abyss X, Brinstaar, Ekkehard Ehlers, Pierre Bastien, Lucrecia Dalt, Solo Operator, Protect-U, Pilar Zeta, Objekt, Seth Graham, Holly Herndon, Miyako Koda, Benoit B, Kareem Lotfy, Autechre, Robert Wyatt and Mads Emil Nielsen.

In 1979 Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, and Heman Pathak — three fervent record collectors — released their first album under the name Nurse With Wound. They included a list of artists on the album's cover, which represented a homage to musicians that influenced the band. Since then, the so-called NWW List has become a sort of 'shopping list' for collectors of outsider and avant-garde music. The episode features: John Cage, The Residents, This Heat, Art Zoyd, Robert Wyatt, Ash Ra Tempel, Throbbing Gristle, Philippe Doray Asociaux Associés, Ghédalia Tazartès, Lawrence Weiner with Richard Landry and Neu!

Recently — and by chance — we purchased two american compilations on vinyl, one entitled ‘10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces’ (1975) and the other ‘New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media: Women In Electronic Music’ (1977). While the first record is focused on american sound poetry, the second one is a careful introduction to the heroines of mid Seventies electronic music milieu. After this coincidental buy we discovered that both records were published by 1750 Arch Records, an American avant-garde music label, founded in the sixties in the homonymous recording / archival studio located at 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, California. The episode features: Aram Saroyan, Laurie Spiegel, Beth Anderson, Ruth Anderson, John Giorno, Megan Roberts, Clark Coolidge, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Johanna M. Beyer, Anthony Gnazzo, Laurie Anderson, Charles Dodge, Annea Lockwood and Charles Amirkhanian.

Editions Blume is an obscure Milan based record imprint that publishes avant-garde gems packed in a radical monochromatic color coding. The label's laconic website declare, in a form of manifesto: "Blume explores the relation between performers and solo instrument. Solely sound and color. One." The episode features: Bruce Nauman, John Butcher, Jocy de Oliveira, Mary Jane Leach, Sarah Hennies and Julius Eastman.

The story of 99 (pronounced “nine nine” and not “ninety-nine”) it's basically the story of Ed Bahlman, a born-and-bred Brooklynite with a strong work ethic and an intense passion for music, especially new and underground music that wasn’t wholly embraced by the mainstream or even alternative establishments. Everything started from a punk clothing store called 99, that later Ed transformed in the infamous record shop, thanks to his incredible selection of obscure and independent rock, reggae and punk music, that later became the ideal launching pad for the homonymous independent record label. The episode features: Y Pants, Liquid Liquid, ESG, Vivien Goldman, Bush Tetras, Maximum Joy, John Cage (in an interview about Glenn Branca) and Glenn Branca.

Michael Ned Holte is a writer, curator, and educator living in Los Angeles. Deep listening to the voices in your head. The episode features: Poetics, Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada & Friends, Steve Roden, Lucky Dragons, Derek Bailey, Pauline Oliveros, Simone Forti, Nathan Bowles & Scott Verrastro, Robert Ashley.

“Nothing Is a Mistake, There’s No Win and No Fail. There’s Only Make” is the sixth rule of the “10 Rules For Students And Teachers Manifesto”, a list of advices compiled by Sister Corita Kent in 1968. John Cage was delighted with it and did everything he could to popularize the list. Cage’s life partner Merce Cunningham reportedly kept a copy of it posted in his studio until his dying days. The episode features: M. Zalla (Piero Umiliani), Futuro Antico, J.D. Emmanuel, Chaino And His African Percussion Safari, Wayne Siegel, Piotr Kurek, Eden Ahbez, Telaio Magnetico, Archie Shepp & Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio.