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Space and Color as Improvisational Elements
Double-bass explorer Daniel Barbiero about re-focusing the listener's perception.
2014-12-15

Seaworthy + Taylor Deupree: Wood, Winter, Hollow
The places only music can take you to.
2014-12-11

Philip Corner / Malcolm Goldstein: Pieces of the Past
All expression, Philip Corner's performances test traditional concepts of minimalism.
2014-12-10

Interview with Caspian III
To post rock band Caspian, originality means thinking independently.
2014-12-08

V.A.: Perceptions
These contemporary compositions want to be heard, not discussed.
2014-12-08

2014

Communal Digging

July

Interview with the Seattle Phonographers Union

Interview with Richard Garet

Interview with Cory Allen

12k: Label Profile

A grammar of space

Christine Southworth: String Quartets

June

Contemplating The End

Redirecting the focus

Interview with Mohammed Fairouz

May

If, Bwana with/and/by Trio Scordatura: E (and sometimes why)

Interview with DVS1

Interview with Jeremiah Cymerman

April

Stepping into another world

Interview with Toby Driver

The presence of space

Charlemagne Palestine + Z'EV: Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear

March

Sunn o))) & Ulver: Terrestrials

Constant Questioning

Music for Flexible Contexts

Odd preoccupations

February

James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love: Death Rattle

Interview with Andrew McKenna Lee

Trusting the unfamiliar

Interview with the Chiara Quartet

Simple stories

2013

November

Powerful potential

October

A moment in space

July

Music Magazine: Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

Clifton Anderson: And So We Carry On

Barn Owl: V

June

Music Magazine: Innerviews

Steve Roach: Empetus

January

Life as a masterpiece

2012

August

Billy Gomberg: Quiet Barrier

May

Prong: Carved Into Stone

Tetras: Pareidolia; Jason Kahn: On Metal Shore

Interview with Oh Pears!

April

15 Questions to Peter Ivan Edwards

March

15 Questions to Nate Wooley

Josh Levinson Sextet: Chauncey Street

15 Questions to Brains

Johnathan Blake: The Eleventh Hour

Moonlight Bride: Twin Lakes

February

Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf: Dream Tracker / Nada Terma

15 Questions: Michael Robinson

Jim Keller: Soul Candy

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Conversations With Myself

Charred Walls of the Damned: Cold Winds on Timeless Days

Jerry Gerber: Number Eleven: The Path

January

Color Radio: Architects

Pacifica Quartet: The Soviet Experience Volume 1

Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes

Ghost Knife: Kill Shelter Yes

Camea: Clinkology

Benji Kaplan: Meditacoes no Violao

2011

December

Mike Longo Trio + 2: To My Surprise

Locrian: The Clearing

Keb Mo: The Reflection

Uh Huh Her: Nocturnes

Neil Leonard: Marcel’s Window

November

David Tagg: Pentecost; The Garden: In Sea-Land; VCV & Shinobu Nemoto: Jovian Clouds

Dark Loft: Dark Loft

Chubby Wolf: Los que no son gentos

Veda Rays: Gamma Rays Galaxy Rays Veda Rays

Interview with James Aikman

Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth

October

Gothsicles: Industrialites & Magic

Steve Roach: Destination Beyond

Scanner + David Rothenberg: You Can’t Get There From Here

Aquarelle: Sung In Broken Symmetry

Kenneth Kirschner: Twenty Ten

Obadiah Parker: The Siren and the Saint

Steve Roach & Erik Wøllo: Stream of Thought

Mambo Legends Orchestra: Ten Cuidao! Watch Out!

Steve Roach: Live at Grace Cathedral

September

The Bebop Trio: The Bebop Trio

Pauline Oliveros, Francisco López, Doug Van Nort, Jonas Braasch: Quartet for the End of Space

Mike Bloom: King of Circles

August

Brains: Gristle and Skins

Mountains: Air Museum

Ghédalia Tazartès: Repas Froid & James Hoff: How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away

Grieves: Together/Apart

V.A.: Tasogare - Live in Tokyo

Christopher McFall, David Velez: Credence; Claudio Curciotti: Indica - Sounds from India; Alexander Baker: concentric_eccentric

Martin Clarke: Caucasus Tapes; Mirko Uhlig: Tupelo; Craig Vear: Antarctica

Mike Prigodich: A Stitch In Time

July

Z’EV + Jason Kahn: Intervals

Dither: Dither

15 Questions to Ben Sommer

15 Questions to The Salt Lake Electric Ensemble

John Tejada: Parabolas

Interview with Karl Korte

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Shining Skull Breath

Andréa Wood: Dhyāna

Young Widows: In and Out of Youth and Lightness

June

Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society: Grass on Fire

Colorlist: The Fastest Way To Become The Ocean

Mike Gibbons: Marigolds - The Bangkok Sessions

Miracle Parade: Hark and Other Lost Transmissions

Infinite Light ltd: Infinite Light ltd

Barn Owl: Shadowland

Interview with Carl Sagan's Ghost

May

This Will Destroy You: Tunnel Blanket

Deathface: Fall of Man

Steven Lugerner Septet: Narratives/ These Are the Words

15 Questions to Mike Vernusky

Interview with Phil Manley / Trans Am

The Green Kingdom: Prismatic & Prismatic Remixes

Yellowjackets: Timeline

March

Interview with Steve Roden

David Lowery: The Palace Guards

Todd Clouser: A Love Electric

Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion

Bvdub: Tribes at the Temple of Silence

February

Tomas Phillips & Jason Bivins: Blau

Interview with Peter Broderick

January

15 Questions to E. Ryan Goodman

E. Ryan Goodman: Halves

Holy Sons: Survivalist Tales

Interview with Dustin Wong

Marcus Fischer: Monocoastal

Interview with Barn Owl

Interview with Marco Oppedisano

Pogus & Sound of Pig: Label Profile

2010

December

Taylor Eigsti: Daylight at Midnight

Transatlantic: Whirld Tour 2010

Nicholas Szczepanik & Juan José Calarco: Lack Affix

Lucidstatic: Symbiont Underground

ARP: The Soft Wave

Swan: My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky

November

Yui Onodera & Celer: Generic City

The Hundred In The Hands: The Hundred In The Hands

Salem: King Knight

Constants: If Tomorrow the War

Interview with Tidy Kid

Interview with Lily Taylor

Concert Lecture Review/ Daniel Levitin & Edwin Outwater: Beethoven and Your Brain

Philip Glass: Symphonies 2&3, Violin Concerto

15 Questions to Al Margolis / If, Bwana

Trigger 10d: Trigger 10d

October

Interview with Joseph Benzola

Interview with The Books

Jonathan Butler: So Strong

Rafael Anton Irisarri: The North Bend

Call Me on the Allophone, Names Divine: Rob Steele and the Black Relationship

Glen Ackerman: The Glenious Inner Planet

September

Walter Trout: Common Ground

Interview with Sam Prekop

V.A.: Sounds of Rhythm & Culture

M Vernusky: Music for Film & Electro-Theatre; M Oppedisano: Mechanical Uprising; E Helvacıoğlu & P Boysen: Sub City 2064; T Reber: Backup Aura

Innova: Label Profile

Cochemea Gastelum: The Electric Sound Of Johnny Arrow

M. Ostermeier: Chance Reconstruction

Interview with Tomas Phillips

Growing: Pumps

Interview with Phillip Wilkerson

Continuum: Continuum Recyclings Volume Two

Tomas Phillips: Quartet for Instruments

August

Interview with Tanner Menard

Taylor Deupree: Shoals; Snow (Dusk, Dawn)

Phaenon: His Master's Voice

Interview with Constants

Nickolas Mohanna: Transmission Hue

Zelienople: Hollywood

Interview with Irepress

Elian: Whispers, then Silence

Jeffrey Roden: Bridge to the Other Place

July

Ursula Oppens: Oppens plays Carter; Pacifica Quartet: Elliott Carter String Quartets 2, 3, 4

Bvdub: The Art of Dying Alone

Interview with Nate Wooley

Off Land: Capturing tiny layers of space and time

Dragon's Eye: Label Profile

June

Lowercase Noises

Philip Glass: Glassworks

Italian Japanese: The Lush Romantic Weirdness

Nadia Reisenberg: A Chopin Treasury - Studio & Concert Recordings (1947-1957)

Maria Neckam: Deeper

Interview with Taylor Deupree

Margaret Noble: Remixes George Orwell's "1984"

Finneyerkes: Happy, grumpy young men

Dave Glasser: Evolution

May

Adaledge: Vintage Feelings

Garrick Ohlsson: "Chopin - Complete Works"

Nels Cline Singers: Initiate

Concert Review/ Caspian & Constants

Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose: Bridge Carols

April

The Green Kingdom: "Twig & Twine"

Interview with Caspian II

Hannis Brown: Oh Ah Ee - A musical self-portrait

NeuHuman: "NeuHuman"

Johnny Butler: "Solo"

Terry Fox: "The Labyrinth Scored for 11 Cats"

Corey Fuller: "Seas Between"

March

Interview with Counterspark

Kyle Bobby Dunn: "A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn"

Delicate Noise: Finally finishing Filmezza

15 Questions to the Chiara String Quartet

Concert Review/ Pat Metheny & Orchestrion

The Oracle Hysterical: Stravinsky's Hip Hop Opera

Richard Garet: "Four Malleable"

Aaron Martin: "Worried About the Fire"

February

Kim Cascone: "Anti-Musical Celestial Forces"

15 Questions to Billy Gomberg

Jack Rose: "Luck In The Valley"

Interview with Offthesky / Jason Corder

Savvas Ysatis + Taylor Deupree: "Hourglass"

Wyndel Hunt: "Sunshine Noir"

Gabriel Riesco Project: "Sculptures in Time"

Kenneth Kirschner: "Filaments & Voids"; Radu Malfatti: "Wechseljahre einer Hyäne"

January

Andy Caldwell: "Obsession"

Dropp Ensemble: "Safety"

James Moody: „Moody 4A“

Brim Liski: "Brim Liski (EP)"

Joyce DiDonato: The Wheelchair-Mezzo releases "Colbran, the Muse"

Eddie the Rat: "Food for the Moon Too Soon"

Cory Allen: "Hearing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Hears

Frankie Knuckles: "Motivation Too"

Interview with Kenneth Kirschner 2

Review/ Pelican: "What We All Come to Need"

Review/ Coalesce: "Ox EP"

Review/ Suicide Silence: "No time to bleed"

Erstwhile Records: Label Profile

Steven R Smith: "Cities"

2009

December

The Green Kingdom: Building Mary Poppins' Audio-Nest

Brian Green: Space as an Influence

November

GVSU New Music Ensemble: In C Remixed

Interview with Nicholas Szczepanik

Nicholas Szczepanik: "The Chiasmus"

pacificUV: Heartwrenching Post Rock at more than 50 beats per minute

Jamie Craig: "Illumination"

DJ Rupture & Matt Shadetek: "Solar Life Raft"

October

William Basinski: "92982"

Interview with the Cypress Quartet

Ear to the Earth: Defining a new kind of artist

Steve Roach: 2009 Box Set selling at dream speed

September

Interview with David Daniell & Douglas McCombs

Count Basie Orchestra: "Swinging Singing Playing"

Hum: "The Spectral Ship"; Richard Lainhart & Hakobune: "Split"

Andy Graydon: Methodical Scratchings

Floor Sugar: Specialist Store for Asian Sound Art

Craig Colorusso: MB 89 a life-long work of art

Bad Boy Bill: "The Album"

Workbench Recordings: Progressive Online Label for Folk & Jazz

LCD Sound System: "45'33 Remixes"

August

Interview with Jon Mueller

Caspian: "Tertia"

Harry Skoler: "Two Ones"

15 Questions to John Lindberg/ String Trio of New York

Jon Mueller: "Physical Changes"

Celer: Love and Quietude.

Celer Special Part 3: Standing the Test of Time

Celer Special Part 2: Discovering the Recipe

Celer Special Part 1: Stepping out of the Cocoon

Portland Cello Project: "The Thao & Justin Power Sessions"

Charnett Moffett: "Art of Improvisation"

15 Questions to Lisa Bielawa

John Adams: "American Classic"

July

Interview with Capillary Action

CD Feature/ Sean Nowell: "The Seeker"

CD Feature/ Kyle Eastwood: "Metropolitain"

CD Feature/ Isis: "Wavering Radiant"; Constants: "The Foundation; The Machine; The Ascension"

15 Questions to The Green Kingdom

Review/ Dirtfedd: "The American Nightmare"

June

CD Feature/ Tortoise: "Beacons of Ancestorship"

Crystal Method: "Divided by Night"

CD Feature/ DJ Sprinkles: "Midtown 120 Blues"

Free Download: Yann Novak / Jamie Drouin: "+ROOM-ROOM Live at The Henry Art Gallery"

“Spectrum” by Draw at Diapason

2009 Tribeca New Music Festival

CD Feature/ High Places: "High Places"

May

CD Feature/ Tomas Phillips: "Six Notes"

Concert Review/ SUNN O))) & Fear Falls Burning

CD Feature/ Jerry Gerber: "Waves"

CD Feature/ Mitch Marcus Quintet: "The Special"

CD Feature/ Michale Graves: "Illusions Live/Viretta Park"

April

CD Feature/ Branford Marsalis: "Metamorphosen"

CD Feature/ The Sea and Cake: "Car Alarm"

15 Questions to Mountains

LP Feature/ Cut Iowa Network: "Projector Gunship Held {Ø}"; Locrian: "Greyfield Shrines", "Rhetoric of Surfaces"; Taiga: "hsheal"

15 Questions to Teresa McCollough

CD Feature/ Rent Romus: "Grid"; "You Can Sleep..."; "Prismatic Season"; "Thundershine"; "Slap"

March

Review/ Santiago Salazar: "Arcade"

Review/ Revolting Cocks: "Sex-O Olympic-O"

CD Feature/ The Peggy Lee Band: "New Code"

CD Feature/ Marco Oppedisano: "The Ominous Corner" & "Tesla at Coney Island"; Tom Carter: "Shots at Infinity 1 & 2"

CD Feature/ Chas Smith: "Nakadai"

CD Feature/ Tom James Scott: "School & Rivers"

CD Feature/ Bvdub: "Return to Tonglu"

CD Feature/ Caspian: "The Four Trees"

February

CD Feature/ Umphreys McGee: "Mantis"

Balmorhea: All is Wild, All is Silent, All is Full of Expectation

CD Feature/ Jason Corder & Beta Two Agonist: "Further to Find Closer"

CD Feature/ Jim McAuley: "The Ultimate Frog"

E. Ryan Goodman: Plain Moody Playing

CD Feature/ Telefon Tel Aviv: "Immolate Yourself"

CD Feature/ Rachel Barton Pine: "Beethoven & Clement Violin Concertos"

Erik Friedlander: Overtaken by Memories

CD Feature/ Colin Andrew Sheffield: "Signatures"

January

Interview with Caspian

15 Questions to Los Angeles Electric 8

CD Feature/ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: "The Effects of 333"

CD Feature/ Mountains: "Choral"

15 Questions to Jon Mueller

CD Feature/ Woven Hand: "Ten Stones"

CD Feature/ E. Ryan Goodman: "Under the Lamp"; James Beaudreau: "Fresh Twigs"

CD Feature/ Joyce DiDonato: "Furore"; Diana Damrau: "Donna"

Interview with Robert Ashley

CD Feature/ Celer: "Nacreous Clouds"

Interview with Lymbyc Systym

2008

December

Interview with Arms And Sleepers

Celer: Celebrate Mystery Sea's 50th on 'Tropical'

Interview with Ian Tescee

David Zinman: Going Against Fate on Mahler Documentary

CD Feature/ Michael Santos: "The Happy Error"; The Green Kingdom: "Laminae"

Andy Graydon: Keeping limiting vocabulary 'at bay'

Scott Hull: Audiofilm and Requiem apt soundtracks to Winter

15 Questions to Thurman Barker

Review/ Misery Index: "Traitors"

Review/ LAAZ ROCKIT: "Left For Dead"

Review/ Sammy Hagar: "Cosmic Universal Fashion"

Interview with Stephen Vitiello

November

Caspian: Return from Tour, Re-release "The Four Trees", prepare for new album

CD Feature/ Bill Evans Trio: "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"

CD Feature/ Robert Ashley: "Concrete"

Lymbyc Systym: Field Studies in Europe

Crouton Music: The End after a Decade of Audivisual Greatness

15 Questions to JB Floyd

CD Feature/ Capillary Action: "So Embarrassing"

CD Feature/ TV On the Radio: "Dear Science"

CD Feature/ Novasak: "Alpha"; Jeff Gburek: "Red Rose for the Sinking Ship"

CD Feature/ Kenneth Gaburo: "Lingua II: Maledetto / Antiphony VIII"

The Land Of: 'Introductions' introduces an Oasis of Tranquility

Ocean: Casual Review of 'Pantheon of the Lesser' reveals minimalist Doomwork

CD Feature/ "Blue" Gene Tyranny: "The Somewhere Songs/ The Invention of Memory"

Greg Kelley: Self-Hate Index needs no extended-extended Techniques

Philip Glass: Glass Box Mania

October

CD Feature/ Chris Pugh & Jack Gold: "Penumbra/Heqat"; Ghidra: "The Sound of Speed"; D.B.H.: "Wave the Old Wave"

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Composers Invitational under way

CD Feature/ Ian Tescee: “A Traveler’s Guide to Mars”

Chris Armstrong: Reaches the emergence threshold on 'A.I. Awakens"

15 Questions to Frances White

Sunn O))): Dømkirke brings out the Doom in Gregorian Chant

15 Questions to Elizabeth Brown

CD Feature/ Ubyk: "Matryoshka"

Carlos Giffoni: Happiness spilling into Zamuro & Adult Life

Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald: Offer Recomposed Ravel & Mussorgsky

CD Feature/ Behrouz: "Nervous Nitelife - Pure Behrouz NYC"

CD Feature/ Jon Mueller & Jason Kahn: "Topography"

15 Questions to Michael Lipsey/ Talujon Percussion Ensemble

September

CD Feature/ Jason Robinson: "Fingerprints"; Initial Conditions: "s/t"; Rick Helzer & John Stowell: "Friendship and Remembrance"

CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Fever Dreams I-III"

Tortoise: TNT Red-Hot Vinyl Repressing

Sonic Relations

Joshua Bell: A Personal Four Seasons

Review/ Greeley Estates: "Go West Young Man, Let the Evil Go East"

Review/ Don Caballero: "Punkgasm"

Review/ Dynamite Club: "Fusion Era"

CD Feature/ Tito Puente and His Orchestra: “Live at the 1977 Monterey Jazz Festival"

Legend of Despair

Taylor Deupree: Sea Last lasts only 238 copies

CD Feature/ Simone Dinnerstein: "The Berlin Concert"

August

CD Feature/ The Melvins: "Nude with Boots"

CD Feature/ Gel Sol: "IZ"

CD Feature/ Crack Nation: “Artifacts II: 1989-1994”

Philip Glass: A Portrait in Twelve Parts

Interview with the Pacifica Quartet

15 Questions to Mico Nonet

Review/ Bionic Angel: "Digital Violence"

Review/ Melvins: "Nude With Boots"

Review/ Candlebox: "Into the Sun"

Jair-Rohm Parker Wells: Brotherly Love & Big World Poetry

Jeff Mills, Robert Hood & Mike Banks: Rediscover Saturn

July

Jim O'Rourke: Long Night, Long Wait

CD Feature/ Flintglass: "Circumsounds"; disHARMONY: "Cloned"

CD Feature/ Taiga Remains: "Descend from Ivory Cliffs"

15 Questions to Yann Novak

Cathedral Improvisations

CD Feature/ Jed Speare: "Sound Works 1982-1987"

15 Questions to Murmer

15 Questions to Dale Lloyd

15 Questions to Duo46

CD Feature/ Asher: "Intervals", "Cell Memory", "Graceful Degradation: Variations"

CD Feature/ Jon Regen: "Let It Go"

CD Feature/ MGR vs. Xela: "Barge Split Series Vol. I"

Weezer: "The Red Album "

CD Feature/ Taylor Deupree: "Northern"

June

CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Landmass"

Thor's Rubber Hammer: Celebrate Noisy Improvisation on “Ecstatic Jazz Duos”

CD Feature/ Mad EP: "Bass.Hed"

Dan Friel: Ghost Town puts the Fun back in Noise

Oksana Kolesnikova: German Pavarotti to sing Aurora Fantasy

No Stranger

Simone Dinnerstein: Berlin Concert to continue Goldberg fairytale

David Zinman: Conductor continues Mahler cycle

CD Feature/ The Submarines: "Honeysuckle Weeks"

Balmorhea: Leave Austin for a tour through the West

Dengue Fever: Cambodian Music hits the Real World

Interview with Laurie Spiegel

15 Questions to Maile Colbert

DJ Mark Farina: Fabric 40 Sessions focus on Quality, not Novelty

CD Feature/ Shy Child: "Noise Won’t Stop"

CD Feature/ Marc Manning & Yann Novak: "Pairings"

CD Feature/ Josh Russell: "Sink" & "Music for Geiger Counters"; V.A.: "Golden Various"

Imagining the Future

May

CD Feature/ The Duke Spirit: "Neptune"

CD Feature/ OrchestraMaxfieldParrish: "The Silent Breath of Emptiness"

The Breeders: "Mountain Battles"

Withered: "Folie Circulaire" continues the onslaught

Love your Noise!

CD Feature/ Keith Kramer: "Casual Dualism"

CD Feature/ Prism Quartet: "William Albright: Music for Saxophones"

Osborne: Debut Full-Length out on Ghostly

CD Feature/ Erik Satie & Mike Svoboda: "Phonométrie"

CD Feature/ Ying Quartet: "Dim Sum"

Impersonal Revelations

Manuel Göttsching & Rhys Chatham: 800 Years of Minimalism in Damrosch Park

April

CD Feature/ Bill Laswell & Fanu: "Lodge"

CD Feature/ Steve Peters: "Filtered Light (Chamber Music 4)"

Concert Report: This Will Destroy You & I am the Architect

Kenneth Gaburo: An influential Thinker awaits posthumous Breakthrough

CD Feature/ Fluorescent Grey: "Gaseous Opal Orbs"

Bebe Barron: First lady of electronic music dies aged 82

Bullock, Coleman, Gross & Roden: Challenge $2.2 Million Work of Art

Drexciya: Legendary Neptune's Lair Reissued

CD Feature/ David Watson: "Fingering an Idea"

CD Feature/ Thelonious Monk "Brilliant Corners – Keepnews Collection "

CD Feature/ William Stalnaker: "About Lear and Others"

CD Feature/ Yann Novak: "In Residence"

The Helm: Doodle-ee Dee with Doodles and Sounds

CD Feature/ Sola Andata, Seaworthy, Taylor Deupree: "Live in Melbourne"

CD Feature/ Ministry & Co-Conspirators: "Cover Up"

Anthony Braxton: Ghost Trance Music explained

Auburn Lull: In the Driving Seat for 'Begin Civil Twilight'

March

Robert Hood: Fabric Fever on a personal tribute

CD Feature/ Light of Shipwreck: "Through The Bilge Lies A Calm And Bloodless Sea"

Mobius Band: Love will reign supreme - and for free

CD Feature/ Al Margolis/If, Bwana: "An Innocent, Abroad"

15 Questions to 3 Pups Music

15 Questions to D-Amato Project

CD Feature/ Brian Parnham: "Mantle"

Cd Feature/ Neptune: "Gong Lake"

Asher Thal Nir: Sourdine presents variations on "Graceful Degradations"

CD Feature/ Tangria Jazz Group: "Tangria Jazz Group"

CD Feature/ Gram Rabbit: "RadioAngel of the RobotBeat"

Al Margolis: New Music Ringtones!

Interview with Alex Shapiro

15 Questions to Noah Creshevsky

Interview with Barry Schrader

Interview with Tom Heasley

CD Feature/ V.A.: "Signal to Noise Vol. 5"

CD Feature/ V.A.: "Signal to Noise Vol. 4"

Carl Craig: Sessions from Techno to Jazz

February

David Tibet: Announces Roadburn Line-Up

Daniel Menche: Names "Glass Forest" his last CD

William Basinski: Enters the same "River" twice

CD Feature/ Henry Brant & Charles Ives: "A Concord Symphony"

John Cage & Hans Otte: Orient meets Occident on Live Disc

Carl Stone: Debut reissued, Guelaguetza in Austin

CD Feature/ Ken Elkinson: "Cue"

Murray Perahia: Bach Partitas with a steady hand

CD Feature/ Little Wings: "Magic Wand"

15 Questions to Richard Lainhart

Dengue Fever: "Venus on Earth"

Balmorhea: Take their shoes to Rivers Arms

CD Feature/ Dub Trio: "Another Sound Is Dying"

CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Immersion: Two"

Interview with Christopher Willits

CD Feature/ Willits + Sakamoto: "Ocean Fire"

Al Margolis & Denman Maroney: Interpretations at the Roulette table

CD Feature/ V.A.: "Monterey Jazz Festival: 50th Anniversary All-Stars"

Net Feature/ Christopher Willits: "Surf Boundaries Addendum"

CD Feature/ ASG: "Win Us Over"

CD Feature/ V.A.: "Well Deep: Ten Years of Big Dada Records"

Richard Lainhart: Pre-Eno Ambient piece rediscovered after 30 years

CD Feature/ Viviana Guzman & Mark Takata: "Meditations for Flute"

CD Feature/ Asher: "Untitled Composition (For B)"

Matthew Dear: Asa Breed Black Edition

Ellen Fullman & Monique Buzzarté: Fluctuations for February

Bill Laswell & Fanu: Enter the "Lodge" at Karlrecords

Christopher Willits & Ryuichi Sakamoto: Ocean Fire burns on 12k

SCREAM 2008: Piano and Electro-Acoustic Music Submission Call

CD Feature/ Kioku: "Both Far and Near"

James Beaudreau: Recording Session Revelations

January

Morton Feldman: Competition on the Record Market

CD Feature/ Morton Feldman: "String Quartet"

Net Feature/ Craque: "Density Operator"

CD Feature/ Robert Ashley & Ensemble MAE: "Tapdancing in the Sand"

15 Questions to Tomas Phillips

CD Feature/ Giancarlo Vulcano: "vetro"

CD Feature/ Blood Meridian: "Liquidate Paris!"

Net Feature/ Asher: "Study for Autumn"

CD Feature/ Prometheus Burning: "nBoyde raRepi“

15 Questions to Jerry Gerber

Other Minds Festival: Line-Up announced

Net Feature/ Richard Chartier/Sawako/Shinjiro Yamaguchi: "November 9, 2007"

Steve Roach: A Deeper Silence and Landmass slated for release

CD Feature/ Valerie Joyce: "The Look of Love"

Barry Schrader: Presents the Monkey King

Crouton Music: An Improvised Music Hub

CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Arc of Passion"

2007

December

CD Feature/ C.O.M.A.: "Ornamental Urban Shrubbery"

CD Feature/ Mikronesia: "Iris or Comfortable Too"

Pauline Oliveros & Miya Masaoka: Discover the beauty of Accordion & Koto

CD Feature/ Donkey: "Stone"

CD Feature/ MGR: "Wavering On The Cresting Heft"

KILN: From Dawn to Dusker

CD Feature/ Phaenon: "Submerged"

15 Questions to Bill Ryan/GVSU New Music Ensemble

CD Feature/ McCoy Tyner: "Afro Blue"

CD Feature/ Tomas Phillips: "Drink_Deep"

CD Feature/ GVSU New Music Ensemble: "Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians"

November

Noah Creshevsky: "To know and not to know"

CD Feature/ Alex Shapiro: "Notes from the Kelp"

CD Feature/ Marcos Fernandes & Bill Horist: "Jerks and Creeps"

CD Feature/ 15 Degrees Below Zero: "Between Checks And Artillery, Between Work And Image"

CD Feature/ Steve Peters: "Three Rooms"

CD Feature/ Nathan Hubbard: "Blind Orchid"

Steve Roach: Builds an Arc of Passion

My Cat is an Alien: Get cosmic with Keiji Hano & Steve Roden

CD Feature/ My Fun: "Sonorine"

CD Feature/ Tom Heasley & Toss Panos: "Passages"

October

15 Questions to Michael "Atonal" Vick

CD Feature/ The Missing Ensemble: "Hidden Doors"

CD Feature/ Savvas Ysatis + Taylor Deupree: "The Sleeping Morning"

Anthony & Joseph Paratore: Gershwin, Schönberg

CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Dreamtime Return"

CD Feature/ Stick Man: "Mysterious Female"

CD Feature/ Tom Nunn: "Identity"

CD Feature/ Timeless Pulse: "Quintet"

Simone Dinnerstein: Goldberg Variations at Wigmore Hall

CD Feature/ Barry Schrader: "Fallen Sparrow"

CD Feature/ Mary Ellen Childs: "Dream House"

CD Feature/ As lonely as Dave Bowman: "Pod"

CD Feature/ Thick Wisps: "s/t"

CD Feature/ bpmf: "Parousia Fallacy"

Richard Lainhart: Cheats on his Moog

CD Feature/ Marco Oppedisano: "Electroacoustic Compositions for Elecric Guitar"

September

CD Feature/ jgrzinich: "Rudiment of Two"

CD Feature/ 3Banditos: "Sympathy for the Donkey"

CD Feature/ Asmus Tietchens & Richard Chartier: "Fabrication"

Interview with Peter Grenader

Interview with Kenneth Kirschner

CD Feature/ Signal Quintet: "Yamaguchi"

15 Questions to Balmorhea

CD Feature/ Robert Anbian & The Unidentified Flying Quartet: "s/t"

CD Feature/ Residual Echoes: "Firsts EP"

CD Feature/ Encomiast: "Transit Bed"

CD Feature/ Simone Dinnerstein: "J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations"

15 Questions to Morton Subotnick

15 Questions to John Morton

August

CD Feature/ Kenneth Kirschner: "Three Compositions"

CD Feature/ Christopher Willits: "Plants and Hearts"

CD Feature/ Cordell Klier: "Espionage"

15 Questions to Simone Dinnerstein

CD Feature/ Balmorhea: "Balmorhea"

CD Feature/ Cenotype: "Origins"

CD Feature/ Zuill Bailey & Simone Dinnerstein: "Beethoven - Cello & Piano Sonatas Volume One"

15 Questions to Olivia Block

15 Questions to Josh Russell

CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Fever Dreams III"

Interview with Jair-Röhm Parker Wells/Luther Thomas/Tony Bianco

CD Feature/ asher: "the depths, the colors, the objects & the silence"

CD Feature/ Aaron Spectre: "Lost Tracks"

CD Feature/ Richard Lainhart: "Ten Thousand Shades of Blue"

July

Asher Thal-Nir: His label Sourdine a fact

CD Feature/ Evidence: "Iris"

CD Feature/ Ellen Fullman + Sean Meehan: "s/t"

Interview with Sara Gazarek

CD Feature/ Z'EV: "Production and Decay of Spacial Relations/Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations"

15 Questions to Robert Thies

15 Questions to Andrew McKenna Lee

15 Questions to Frank Almond

CD Feature/ Oblivion Ensemble: "Seraphim Hallucino"

CD Feature/ William Basinski: "El Camino Real"

CD Feature/ Kenneth Kirschner: "november 18, 2004 et al."

Interview with Jordan Rudess

15 Questions to the Corigliano Quartet

CD Feature/ Pleasure Forever: "Bodies Need Rest"

June

15 Questions to Neil Haverstick/Stick Man

Philip Glass: Leonard Cohen & "Book of Longing"

15 Questions to David Tanenbaum

CD Feature/ Michael Vernusky: "Blood that sees the Light"

CD Feature/ ESA: Devotion Discpline and Denial

Taylor Deupree: Photographic Prints for Sale

CD Feature/ J. Corigliano/J. Friedman: "String Quartet/String Quartet No.2"

CD Feature/ Matt Rogalsky: "Memory like Water"

William Basinski: Video Collaboration & European Tour

CD Feature/ Samarkande & Oblivion Ensemble: "Split CD"

CD Feature/ Wilt: "Dark Meadows"

Discovering New Worlds

Matthew Dear/False: 2007 arrives

Eyes and Ears: A painter, a drummer and a guitarist meet

Asher Thal-Nir: the depths, the colors &... a new album

CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Immersion three"

Signal Quintet: North American Tour a success

15 Questions to Loren Dent

CD Feature/ Z'EV & David Linton: "Untitled"

May

CD Feature/ John Morton: "Solo Traveler"

CD Feature/ Jim Ryan's Forward Energy: "FE3 Portland" & "FE3 Oakland"

CD Feature/ Drumcorps: "Grist"

CD Feature/ Hans Fjellestad: "Snails R Sexy"

15 Questions to Carl Stone

CD Feature/ Barry Schrader: "EAM"

CD Feature/ Michael Dessen: "Lineal"

CD Feature/ The Missing Ensemble: "Zeropolis"

CD Feature/ Olivia Block: "Heave to"

CD Feature/ brekekekexkoaxkoax: "We used to be such good friends"

CD Feature/ If, Bwana: "Rex Xhu Ping"

CD Feature/ Edgey vs Depth Error: "The Abuse Technique"

15 Questions to Joel R Tallent/JVOX

15 Questions to the Lark Chamber Artists

CD Feature/ Marcos Fernandes & Mike Pride: "A Mountain is a Mammal"

April

CD Feature/ toy.bizarre & Dale Lloyd: "s/t"

15 Questions to Marco Oppedisano

15 Questions to Muriel Anderson

CD Feature/ Steve Roach & Loren Nerell: "Terraform"

15 Questions to Asher Thal-Nir

15 Questions to Martha Masters

CD Feature/ Greg Palast: "Live from the Armed Madhouse"

CD Feature/ Jair Rohm Parker Wells: "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam"

CD Feature/ Loren Dent: "Empires and Milk"

CD Feature/ Prometheus Burning: "Beyond Repair"

CD Feature/ William Basinski: "Shortwavemusic"

CD Feature/ Suzanne Teng: "Enchanted Wind"

CD Feature/ Tzimon Barto: "Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit, Mirroirs"

March

15 Questions to Jim Mcauley

CD Feature/ Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner: "Post_Piano 2"

CD Feature/ Jason Kahn: "Fields"

CD Feature/ Monstrare, Wilt: "Graveflowers"

CD Feature/ Daniel Menche: "Radiant Blood"

CD Feature/ Eddie the Rat: "Once around the Butterfly Bush"

CD Feature/ TJ Norris: "triMIX"

CD Feature/ Barry Schrader: "Beyond"

CD Feature/ Dave Brubeck, Anthony & Joseph Paratore: "Points on Jazz"

CD Feature/ JVOX: "QED"

February

CD Feature/ Radu Malfatti, Ilya Monosov: "Indescrete Silences/Music for Listening"

CD Feature/ Brendan Murray: "Wonders Never Cease"

Interview with Richard Lainhart 2

CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Proof Positive"

15 Questions to Barry Schrader

15 Questions to Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells

CD Feature/ Crawling with Tarts: "Ochre Land, Blue Blue Skies/ Grand Surface Noise Opera Nr. 7"

CD Feature/ asher: "landscapes elsewhere"

CD Feature/ Rent Romus' Lords of Outland: "Culture of Pain"

CD Feature/ David Behrman: "My Dear Sigfried"

Interview with Jeffrey Roden

CD Feature/ Jeffrey Roden: "Seeds of Happiness"

January

CD Feature/ Joseph Benzola: "Winter in America"

15 Questions to James Beaudreau

CD Feature/ Margaret Lancaster: "Future Flute"

15 Questions to Elijah Bossenbroek

CD Feature/ Josh Russell: "For LP"

15 Questions to jgrzinich

CD Feature/ Kenneth Kirschner: "September 19, 1998"

2006

December

CD Feature/ 230 Divisadero: "A Vision of Lost Unity"

CD Feature/ Cristiana Pegoraro: "ITHAKA"

CD Feature/ Barry Schrader: "Lost Atlantis"

CD Feature/ Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters: "Coming Clean"

November

CD Feature/ Elijah Bossenbroek: "Harmony in Disarray"

CD Feature/ Cdatakill: "Valentine"

15 Questions to Seth Nehil

CD Feature/ Pneumatic Detach: "[Re-Vis-Cer-A]"

CD Feature/ asher: "directions"

October

CD Feature/ Warren Burt: "The Animation of Lists/ And the Archytan Transpositions"

30 Questions to Margaret Lancaster

CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Kairos"

15 Questions to Steve Layton

CD Feature/ Jay Weigel: "The Mass of John Paul II The Great"

CD Feature/ Gabriel Paiuk & Jason Kahn: "Breathings"

Interview with Jay Weigel

CD Feature/ Joseph Benzola: "Crippled Symmetry"

CD Feature/ V.A.: "OGX"

CD Feature/ Santo Subito: "Xavier"

September

CD Feature/ Daniel Menche: "Creatures of Cadence"

Concert Report: Charlemagne Palestine

CD Feature/ William Basinski: "Variations for Piano & Tape"

CD Feature/ James Beaudreau: "Java St. Bagatelles"

15 Questions to Yolanda Kondonassis

CD Feature/ Saltillo: "Ganglion"

August

15 Questions to Nathan Barr

CD Feature/ Asianova: "Magnamnemonicon"

15 Questions to Aaron Cassidy

CD Feature/ Taylor Deupree, Kenneth Kirschner, Tomas Korber, Steinbrüchel, Aaron Ximm: "May 6, 2001"

CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Storm Surge"

15 Questions to Suzanne Teng

Interview with S.Q.E.

15 Questions to Alex Shapiro

Back to the womb

Interview with Oksana Kolesnikova

15 Questions to Aaron Krister Johnson

CD Feature/ Seth Nehil & jgrzinich: "Gyre"

July

15 Questions to Kenneth Kirschner

15 Questions to Tzimon Barto

CD Feature/ Haco, Hans, Jakob, Marcos

CD Feature/ S.Q.E.: "Rise of the Vulcans"

CD Feature/ Oksana Kolesnikova: "Free Floating"

June

15 Questions to Chris Knudson

CD Feature/ Joseph Benzola: "Dig the New Breed"

CD Feature/ Latitude/Longitude

15 Questions to Robert Montoya

CD Feature/ S.Q.E.: "Wahid"

15 Questions to Rent Romus

15 Questions to Charlemagne Palestine

CD Feature/ Larvae: "Dead Weight"

CD Feature/ Jim Mcauley: "Gongfarmer 18"

15 Questions to Joseph Benzola

May

15 Questions to Paul Moravec

15 Questions to John Duncan

CD Feature/ Oksana Kolesnikova: "Oksana"

Look at Glass

Diaz-Infante / Fernandes / Montoya / Romus: "Reverberations from Spring Past"

15 Questions to Jason Kahn

April

CD Feature/ rlw: "i.k.k. - purpur"

CD Feature/ Paul Moravec: "The Time Gallery"

CD Feature/ mem1: "improvisations + edits"

March

15 Questions to Trip Wamsley

CD Feature/ The Sword Volcano Complex: "Phosphorescent"

15 Questions to Z'EV

CD Feature/ Tom Heasley: "On the Sensations of Tone"

Concert Report: William Basinski

CD Feature/ Emily Hay & Marcos Fernandes: "We are"

CD Feature/ Christine Anderson: "Live Summer Session"

CD Feature/ Olivia Block: "Change Ringing"

February

The Strength of Silence

Cello Krispies

CD Feature/ Hans Fjellestad: "Kobe Live House"

News Bits: [ctrl+alt+repeat], Spectrum, Ikeda

CD Feature/ Tzimon Barto: "A Basket of Wild Strawberries"

January

Interview with Richard Lainhart

Christine comes crashing

News Bits: Pegoraro, Scheidegger, Grey

CD Feature/ Jason Kahn: "Sihl"

These first days

This is the new stuff!

Excited yet?

Granny Grammy

CD Feature/ Andre Goncalves & Kenneth Kirschner: "Resonant Objects"

CD Feature/ Ellen Weller: "Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations"

15 Questions to Ana Maria Martinez

2005

December

15 Questions to Mystified

CD Feature/ Heath Yonaites: "Rim of the Sun"

15 Questions to Frank Dodge

CD feature/ Ana Maria Martinez: "Soprano Songs and Arias"

CD Feature/ Miya Masaoka: "For Birds, Planes & Cello"

In Tile we Trust

CD Feature/ Leaf: "Made into itself"

Oksana, the Piano Girl

15 Questions to Asteria

November

15 Questions to DAC Crowell

Accretions All Stars

(No) Big Deal!

The Sweet Sound of Suilven

CD Feature/ Citadel: "Granite Sky"

Boombox Santa

Interview with Philip Glass

CD Feature/ Pneumatic Detach: "[Vis.Cer.A]”

Move over, Anna...

October

CD Feature/ Tom Heasley: "Where the Earth meets the Sky"

When Andrew met Morton

CD Feature/ V.O.S.: "Veil of Secrecy"

CD Feature/ Angel of Decay: Covered in Scars

Picture this

Repeat that, please

The Modern Piano Player

15 Questions to Tom Heasley

September

Metropolitan Music

Sowing the Seeds

House of Sound

CD Feature/ Steve Roden: "Transmissions"

CD Feature/ Tom Heasley: "Desert Tryptich"

August

15 Questions to Marcos Fernandes

The Art of Sound

One last time

CD Feature/ jgrzinich: "insular regions"

Listen to the City

CD Feature: Rachel Barton Pine: "Scottish Fantasies for Violin and Orchestra"

Atomic Opera

CD Feature: Van Flower: "Little Fire-Filled Heart"

CD Feature: Chaos Butterfly: "Three Living Things"

CD Feature: Fred Frith/Joelle Leandre/Jonathan Segel: "Tempted to Smile"

Kendall controversy Part 2

Kendall controversy

July

Classictronica

CD Feature: Jeffrey Roden: "Seeds of Happiness Part 1"

Symphonic Summer

Maybe now's the time...

A Night at the (Hockey) Opera

Oksana's Orders: Listen!

15 Questions to Anthony and Joseph Paratore

June

The Flow must go on

Silverline makes old gold shine again

15 Questions to Angela Jia Kim

Concert Review: VNV Nation

15 Questions to Grace Nikae

May

Hayl Emily!

Viva Popera!

Play! Dance! Paint!

Tchaikovsky rings a Bell

Clap your Webbed Hands

15 Questions to Adam Golka

Station to Station with the Section

Robots take over

Pictures of music, healthy sounds

eBony and iVory

15 Questions to Glenn Bach

Tristan Viola-ted

Hilarys Current Favourites

April

Roach returns

15 Questions to Jeremy Drake

Just slide

15 Questions to Cristiana Pegoraro

What went wrong

15 Questions to Liam Mooney

Where Classic is King

Update on Joan

Presenting: Gilbert Hetherwick

Von Bingen anonymised

15 Questions to Emily Hay

15 Questions to Jeffrey Roden

Truely a Saint?

15 Questions to John Kannenberg

A Fantasy come true

15 Questions to Oksana Kolesnikova

Kadet's Crazy Calender

Industry vs. The Peers

15 Questions to Joan Jeanrenaud

Tilson Thomas & The Tomashefskys

15 Questions to Jeff Kaiser

Take a break!

15 Questions to Aaron Ximm

Hilary: Don't call me Prodigy!

So Cal Sonic Special

March

Reich's Double

15 Questions to Christine Anderson

Budd bids farewell

Big Brother says: Watch this!

Oksanas Easter Suprise

15 Questions to Julia Zilberquit

Run, Johann, Run

Zilberquits "Bagatelles" no bagatelle

Glass gets going

Let the Drums speak!

Roderick, the busy

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