Index of Articles & Archive
NEW WORLD RECORDS AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL TRADITION PART II
FOLK ART, COMMERCIAL ART, and the AVANTGARDE: AN ARTISTIC TERNARY
SATURN'S BARDS: DEPRESSIVE EMO LYRICISM & MELANCHOLY ROMANTIC POETRY
THE ARTIST AS SOMETHING ELSE
NEW WORLD RECORDS AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL TRADITION: Part I
IN SEARCH OF LOST SLACK
CULTS OF MUSIC
JAMCON '26
Favorite Reads of 2025
Music Favorites from 2025
The Downwardly Mobile Dandy and the Trailer Park Quaintrelle
The Situationist Intergalactical: A Brief Introduction
Dream Foraging
A Complexity of Spectacles
Stream Foraging: Mudlarking for Found Objects and the Geinus Loci
The Dead Mall Report: Cult of the Eternal Trucker (flash fiction)
Oracle, Andúril, Palantír
Finding a Home with Minor Threat & Running away with Hüsker Dü: (Our Band Could Be Your Life Part II)
The Power of Three: Ternary Logic, Triolectics, and Three-Sided Football
Three Freaky Folk Favorites for the Fall
The Divine Drudgery of Chores and Art
The Birth of Free Form Radio and the Crazy Wisdom of Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Minding the Generation Gap: Gen X as Bridge
The Art and Pleasure of Letter Writing
Bohemian Discipline
Adapt, Adopt, Adept (poem)
Our Band Could Be Your Life (Michael Azerrad's book as DIY manual part I)
The Ballad of the Oakley Hotel (poem)
Harvey Pekar: Working Class Intellectual and Everyday Visionary
A Cleveland Adventure
Is Techno-Optimism a Mentally Illness?
Weird Weather with David Wills
Running Off to Join the Circus with Jim Tully
Dwelling on the Fringe with the Hubbards
Brother Blue: The Butterfly Bard
Raymond Thundersky: The Cincinnati Construction Clown
Tiny Tim: The Goodhearted Troubadour of Popular Song
Joy Bubbles and the Church of Eternal Childhood
Ray Hicks: Bard of the Blue Ridge Mountains
On A Pilgrimage with Peace
The Long Memory of Utah Philips
The Iconoclastic Shenanigans of Henry Flynt
Unafraid to Fail: The Power of Action in the Face of Anhedonia and Apathetic Catatonia
The Resuscitation of the Compact Disc
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Alone in Old Dayton (Poem)
Bray of the Cleveland Thug (Poem)
The Lamentation of Generation X (Poem)
The Ballad of Boxcar Clayton Jones (Poem)
This Carnie Trash Life (Poem)
The Managerial Caste and the Knowledge Worker
The Detroit Squatter (Poem)
The Priesthood of Prestige and the Hatred of the Uneducated
May I Take Your Order (Poem)
Hawthorn Highway (Poem)
Stew Pot Families in a Stew Pot Nation
Gary Warne, Communiversity and the Suicide Club
A Slow and Steady Guide to Decelerationism
On Active Imagination
Glitching the Circuit
Reptillian Road Kill: Post-Post Punk in the 90s
Memories of An Aspiring Phone Phreak
The Voice in the Well (Flash Fiction)
Apocalyptica, CliFi and Deindustrial Fiction
Who Was Matokie Slaughter?
The Sacred Music of Mary Lou Williams
The Pantonality of Arnold Schoenberg
Radio Shows I've Known and Loved (WAIF edition)
Songs of the Nine Planets
The Radio Phonics Laboratory: Epic Playlist
Music of the Five Elements
Knocking on the Door (short story)
Zimoun, "Modular Guitar Fields I-VI" (review)
Music for Sleep
The Springs of Castalia and the Oracle of Apollo
Epic Bardcore Rap
A 30-Year Old Piece of Dookie Gets Boxed
Fresh Cut Flowers (Flash Fiction)
DOWN HOME PUNK
SQUATTERS RITES
Slan Shacks & Dial House
Hippie Druid Punks
The Birth of Crass
THRIFTSTORE CHIC
The Henry Rollins Workout Plan
Sacred and Profane: The Tattoo Body
Needles and Pins: The Pierced Body
Tuning the Terrestrial Monochord: Music with Roots in the Aether
The Musical Telegraph
Sounds of the Arc
The Wireless Organ
The Audion Piano & Vladimir Ussachevsky's Wireless Fantasy
The Voder & Vocoder
AUDREY: Speech Recoginition
A Bicycle Built for Two
Charles Dodge: Speech Songs
From a Clockwork Orange to DMR
Linear Predictive Coding: Itakura, Schroeder, Atal and Lansky
Games of Dice and Games of Glass
Information Theory: When Data become Dada
Stockhausen, Information Theory & Cycles
Cybernetic Systems
The System of LICHT
Data Sonification: From Mographs to Codes of Soil
Imaginary Landscapes: John Cage part 1
Water Walk and Variations: John Cage part 2
Gesang der Jungline, Telemusik & Hymnen: Karlheinz Stockhausen part 1
Kurzwellen & Other Shortwave Works
Holger Czukay: Radio Wave Surfer
Takeisha Kosugi: Wave Catcher
William Basinski's River of Shortwave
Eavesdropping with Scanner
Trawling the Megahertz
Musician of Sounds: Noise, Pierre Schaeffer and Musique Concrete
The Sound-Houses of Daphne Oram
The Spherical Vortices of Delia Derbyshire
The Bell Sound: From Alice to Amy
The Bell Sound 2: Taking it to the Max
The Bell Sound 3: Grooving with Laurie Spiegel
John Chowning: Audio Hacker and FM Synthesist
The San Francisco Tape Music Center: Part I
The San Francisco Tape Music Center: Part II
The ONCE Group: Midwest Origin Stories
ONCE Upon A Time in Ann Arbor
The Sonic Arts Union: Part I: The Sonic Poetry of Alvin Lucier
The Sonic Arts Union: Part II: David Behrman's Melodious Electronic Systems
The Sonic Arts Union: Part III: Mumma Drifts: The Cunningham Circus and Cage Reunions
The Sonic Arts Union: Part IV: Robert Ashley at the CCM
The League of Automatic Music Composers
The HUB
Q. Reed Ghazala Gets Bent
Heil Sound Systems
The Strange World of F. C. Judd G2BCX
Telstar: The Bird and the Birdsong
Going Over the Edge: Don Joyce
Teletouring Across the Timezones
The Crystal Psalms of Alvin Curran
The Lunar Phases of St. GIGA
Voice of the Aether
Ylem: Music for an Oscillating Universe
A Brief History of Radio Astronomy
A Brief History of Space Music
On the Unknown Pleasure of Pulsars
The Acoustic Astronomy of Dr. Fiorella Terenzi
Dark Matter with Lustmord
Echoes from the Moon
Sferics
FOLK ART, COMMERCIAL ART, and the AVANTGARDE: AN ARTISTIC TERNARY
SATURN'S BARDS: DEPRESSIVE EMO LYRICISM & MELANCHOLY ROMANTIC POETRY
THE ARTIST AS SOMETHING ELSE
NEW WORLD RECORDS AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL TRADITION: Part I
IN SEARCH OF LOST SLACK
CULTS OF MUSIC
JAMCON '26
Favorite Reads of 2025
Music Favorites from 2025
The Downwardly Mobile Dandy and the Trailer Park Quaintrelle
The Situationist Intergalactical: A Brief Introduction
Dream Foraging
A Complexity of Spectacles
Stream Foraging: Mudlarking for Found Objects and the Geinus Loci
The Dead Mall Report: Cult of the Eternal Trucker (flash fiction)
Oracle, Andúril, Palantír
Finding a Home with Minor Threat & Running away with Hüsker Dü: (Our Band Could Be Your Life Part II)
The Power of Three: Ternary Logic, Triolectics, and Three-Sided Football
Three Freaky Folk Favorites for the Fall
The Divine Drudgery of Chores and Art
The Birth of Free Form Radio and the Crazy Wisdom of Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Minding the Generation Gap: Gen X as Bridge
The Art and Pleasure of Letter Writing
Bohemian Discipline
Adapt, Adopt, Adept (poem)
Our Band Could Be Your Life (Michael Azerrad's book as DIY manual part I)
The Ballad of the Oakley Hotel (poem)
Harvey Pekar: Working Class Intellectual and Everyday Visionary
A Cleveland Adventure
Is Techno-Optimism a Mentally Illness?
Weird Weather with David Wills
Running Off to Join the Circus with Jim Tully
Dwelling on the Fringe with the Hubbards
Brother Blue: The Butterfly Bard
Raymond Thundersky: The Cincinnati Construction Clown
Tiny Tim: The Goodhearted Troubadour of Popular Song
Joy Bubbles and the Church of Eternal Childhood
Ray Hicks: Bard of the Blue Ridge Mountains
On A Pilgrimage with Peace
The Long Memory of Utah Philips
The Iconoclastic Shenanigans of Henry Flynt
Unafraid to Fail: The Power of Action in the Face of Anhedonia and Apathetic Catatonia
The Resuscitation of the Compact Disc
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Alone in Old Dayton (Poem)
Bray of the Cleveland Thug (Poem)
The Lamentation of Generation X (Poem)
The Ballad of Boxcar Clayton Jones (Poem)
This Carnie Trash Life (Poem)
The Managerial Caste and the Knowledge Worker
The Detroit Squatter (Poem)
The Priesthood of Prestige and the Hatred of the Uneducated
May I Take Your Order (Poem)
Hawthorn Highway (Poem)
Stew Pot Families in a Stew Pot Nation
Gary Warne, Communiversity and the Suicide Club
A Slow and Steady Guide to Decelerationism
On Active Imagination
Glitching the Circuit
Reptillian Road Kill: Post-Post Punk in the 90s
Memories of An Aspiring Phone Phreak
The Voice in the Well (Flash Fiction)
Apocalyptica, CliFi and Deindustrial Fiction
Who Was Matokie Slaughter?
The Sacred Music of Mary Lou Williams
The Pantonality of Arnold Schoenberg
Radio Shows I've Known and Loved (WAIF edition)
Songs of the Nine Planets
The Radio Phonics Laboratory: Epic Playlist
Music of the Five Elements
Knocking on the Door (short story)
Zimoun, "Modular Guitar Fields I-VI" (review)
Music for Sleep
The Springs of Castalia and the Oracle of Apollo
Epic Bardcore Rap
A 30-Year Old Piece of Dookie Gets Boxed
Fresh Cut Flowers (Flash Fiction)
DOWN HOME PUNK
SQUATTERS RITES
Slan Shacks & Dial House
Hippie Druid Punks
The Birth of Crass
THRIFTSTORE CHIC
The Henry Rollins Workout Plan
Sacred and Profane: The Tattoo Body
Needles and Pins: The Pierced Body
Tuning the Terrestrial Monochord: Music with Roots in the Aether
The Musical Telegraph
Sounds of the Arc
The Wireless Organ
The Audion Piano & Vladimir Ussachevsky's Wireless Fantasy
The Voder & Vocoder
AUDREY: Speech Recoginition
A Bicycle Built for Two
Charles Dodge: Speech Songs
From a Clockwork Orange to DMR
Linear Predictive Coding: Itakura, Schroeder, Atal and Lansky
Games of Dice and Games of Glass
Information Theory: When Data become Dada
Stockhausen, Information Theory & Cycles
Cybernetic Systems
The System of LICHT
Data Sonification: From Mographs to Codes of Soil
Imaginary Landscapes: John Cage part 1
Water Walk and Variations: John Cage part 2
Gesang der Jungline, Telemusik & Hymnen: Karlheinz Stockhausen part 1
Kurzwellen & Other Shortwave Works
Holger Czukay: Radio Wave Surfer
Takeisha Kosugi: Wave Catcher
William Basinski's River of Shortwave
Eavesdropping with Scanner
Trawling the Megahertz
Musician of Sounds: Noise, Pierre Schaeffer and Musique Concrete
The Sound-Houses of Daphne Oram
The Spherical Vortices of Delia Derbyshire
The Bell Sound: From Alice to Amy
The Bell Sound 2: Taking it to the Max
The Bell Sound 3: Grooving with Laurie Spiegel
John Chowning: Audio Hacker and FM Synthesist
The San Francisco Tape Music Center: Part I
The San Francisco Tape Music Center: Part II
The ONCE Group: Midwest Origin Stories
ONCE Upon A Time in Ann Arbor
The Sonic Arts Union: Part I: The Sonic Poetry of Alvin Lucier
The Sonic Arts Union: Part II: David Behrman's Melodious Electronic Systems
The Sonic Arts Union: Part III: Mumma Drifts: The Cunningham Circus and Cage Reunions
The Sonic Arts Union: Part IV: Robert Ashley at the CCM
The League of Automatic Music Composers
The HUB
Q. Reed Ghazala Gets Bent
Heil Sound Systems
The Strange World of F. C. Judd G2BCX
Telstar: The Bird and the Birdsong
Going Over the Edge: Don Joyce
Teletouring Across the Timezones
The Crystal Psalms of Alvin Curran
The Lunar Phases of St. GIGA
Voice of the Aether
Ylem: Music for an Oscillating Universe
A Brief History of Radio Astronomy
A Brief History of Space Music
On the Unknown Pleasure of Pulsars
The Acoustic Astronomy of Dr. Fiorella Terenzi
Dark Matter with Lustmord
Echoes from the Moon
Sferics