November 2003 Vicki Bennett has made her entire back catalog of commercial CDs available for download here. Also: The Art Box is now available for pre-ordering at ReR Megacorp. All three studio albums by the Art Bears, remastered, a live disc, and a 25th anniversary two disc set of remixes by the following: John Oswald, the Residents, Christian Marclay, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Biota, Otomo Yoshihide, Bob Drake, Jon Rose, Ossatura, Warric Swinney (of the Kalahari Surfers), When, Thomas Dimuzio, Annie Gosfield, Jocelyn Robert, Musci / Venosta/ Mariani, Massimo Simonini, Herb Heinz, Martin Archer, Utsunomiya (of After Dinner), Stevan Tickmayer, Brian Woodbury and myself, even; the piece was completed in August of 2000, although due to a labelling error on my part an earlier rough mix was used for the master. Enthusiastically sending people early versions of your mixes for them to archive: young idea. September 2003 The September 19th episode of Over The Edge featured the latest performance of Thomas Stereo: myself, Don Joyce, and Mark Gunderson of the ECC. Visit the Serpent X Archive. Link to the September edition of the Illegal Art mp3 compilation here. July 2003 Fred Frith's Keep The Dog album is finally out on ReR Megacorp. Fred's best songs from the late 80's ended up distributed across a variety of album projects, and here they all are in one sequence, performed by the following lineup: Fred Frith, Jean Derome, Claudia Engelhart, Charles Hayward, Rene Lussier, Bob Ostertag, and Zeena Parkins. I constructed the original montage from about 20 DATs recorded during their European tour in 1991, and passed it to Fred, who used it as a template for further editing. He went much further than my overly respectful edit, though overall he did keep the parts I was happiest with. I do miss the Schorndorf performance of 'True Love'. Okay. Spasticated's new compilation (featuring a wild why side-effect) has received a cease-and-desist from the Ministry of Sound demanding that the record be withdrawn from sale, and all remaining copies be destroyed. It's always more the cover than the music that gets you in trouble on this scale, and though I admit at first I didn't feel comfortable holding the packaging without a glove, after visiting the Ministry of Sound website, the cover seems kind of appropriate, thoughtful, tasteful even. May 2003 "Wide Open Spaces" is an album length release from People Like Us, Matmos and Wobbly recorded live in concert on October 5, 2002. mp3's of the CD version are still here. New concerts not sure what the solo sets will be yet, may 21st promises a duo with Otomo Yoshihide. Meanwhile I'm busy not working on anything. Les Rita Mitsouko debut/'Bestov'/'Femme Trombone', Goran Bregovic 'Tales and Songs From Weddings and Funerals', Autechre 'Draft 7.30', Renaldo and the Loaf 'It Was What It Was', Max Neuhaus 'Fontana Mix Feed', Glenn Gould's Stowkowski radio documentary, Roland Kayn, Dumitrescu, Henry Jacobs, Jon Hassell (78-87, excluding 'Power Spot'), Deerhoof, Tietchens, Ruth Welcome, Thomas Dimuzio's 72 minute remix of Gordon Lightfoot's "Ode To Big Blue". March 2003 Thomas Dimuzio's excellent 'Mono:Poly' on Asphodel compiles his live performances of the last few years, including track 10 of 2001's album with Yasuhiro Otani and I. Kevin Blechdom's 'Your Butt' ep on Dudini contains a mix of our collaboration 'I Am Nasty'. Soon to be released remixes include my troubling hooked-on-Schoenberg Pidgeon Funk remix for Sutekh & Safety Scissors, and remixes of Pepito and Opopop for on Alku. Meanwhile, okay. www.arabnews.com. Succinct Chomsky. February 27: U.S. Diplomat John Brady Kiesling's resignation letter, and the nice speech by Senator Byrd. Past regardless, this reads right to me. January 2003 The mp3 section has (mostly) been mirrored by Luka at Skylined.org; ten million thanks. Save me downloading surcharges and yourself an insane amount of time by downloading the mp3's from here. Many excellent episodes of WFMU's Re-Mixology Program archived here, including the improv quartet with Evolution Control Committee, People Like Us and Irene Moon and myself. Captain Beefheart's 'Dust Sucker', Mary Margaret O'Hara's 'Miss America', Venetian Snares 'Doll Doll Doll', John Zorn's 'Parachute Years' (Archery Rehearsal), AMM's 'The Crypt', Nina Hagen's 'Fearless', Thinking Plague's unbelievably great 'In This Life'. Room recording mp3 of the January 7th show here, crowd noise helps; thanks to Tim Thompson for hosting. Brian Eno's recent article for Time Magazine Europe & Gore Vidal's 'The Enemy Within'. 9 November 2002 Remember, 'created without a laptop in sight' actually means 'created with two powerful digital audio workstations running on an old PC and a G3 Mac hightower'. Thanks to Jo for taking down the press release from the tb6 site, even though it's already poisonously too late. 17 October 2002 Listened to the tape of the 3 hour version of wild why again, and huh. It's fine. I'll have to do that again some time, especially seeing as I didn't even get through all the main modules -- 4 hour version ok. anyway thanks to People Like Us for a great week of shows. Also: I'll be playing KZSU's Day Of Noise this Wednesday night at 11pm, with M.C. Schmidt and perhaps special guests. 23 Sept 2002 surprised at just how horrible the 3 hour radio version of wild why turned out, I mean some of my friends find this hilarious but it really was supposed to be listenable. I'll admit the concept is a tad self-indulgent, and it's not like I'm doing this for history or anything, but actually I'm not supposed to be joking. in the best of all possible worlds I wouldn't have been on three vicodins, listening to the tapes they clearly had a negative impact on my reflexes, but I'm not taking those things for fun, they're entirely to help me cope with the physical pain. Pepito remixes are no longer here. 20 Aug 2002 "...incontinent..." review of live 99>00, the Wire, May 02 "...a brutalist spade to your skull..." ad for live 99>00, www.boomkat.co.uk "...simply takes too much effort..." review of Wild Why, Vital Weekly #335 Aug 02 "...incontinent..." review of Sonar performance, the Wire, Aug 02 okay