LINKS:
updated March 15, 2010
LABELS:
Gift Tapes of Seattle, WA - experimental/new age/noise/weird tape label
Börft - RULING Swedish label, run by Jan Svensson (includes UFO MONGO/Djuring Phonogram)
Digitalis - Tulsa, OK tape label run by Brad Rose
Aguirre Records - Belgium startup label focusing on underground experimental music
Freedom to Spend - PDX label run by Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans)
Deception Island - Philadelphia label run by Chris Madak (Bee Mask)
DSQ - Tulsa, OK super limited run tapes by Brad Rose
The Offices of Moore & Moore - NM tape label, Nicholas Longworth
House of Sun - Laurel, Ontario tape label, Mike Pouw
Stunned Records - Portland label, Phil French
Taped Sounds - Belgium label, Lieven Martens (Dolphins into the Future)
Cylindrical Habitat Module - Cleveland label, Julian Gulyas
Midnight Star Media - Chicago label, Josh Burke
Relax with Nature - Danish label, Jonas Frederiksen (Dreamer's Cloth)
Cabin Floor Esoterica - Mansfield, OH tape label, Jordan Spencer
Vanishing Hour Revival - Gainesville, FL tape label, Evan Galbicka
Jugular Forest - Altadena, CA tape label, Alex Twomey
Anathema Sound - Brooklyn, NYC tape label, Franklin Teagle
Irma Vep Tapes - Chicago label, Madalyn Merkey
Houscraft Records - Vermont label, Jeffrey Astin (Xiphiidae)
Upstairs CDR - Brooklyn label, Daniel Lopatin (OPN, IW)
Muscleworks Inc Blog - blog/label, James Ferraro (Skaters)
Gneiss Things - Cleveland label, Steve Hauschildt
Arbor - NYC label, Mike Pollard (Treetops)
Root Strata - SF label, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
NNA Tapes - Burlington Vermont label run by Toby Aronson
Wagon - Cleveland tape label, John Elliot
Pizza Night Tapes - Cleveland tape label, Sam Goldberg
Zen Enthusia - PDX tape label run by Levi Berner
Locust Music - Chicago-based label, released BNSF's Object 6
LOCAL:
Seattle Improvised Music - 501c3 Non Profit, hosts SIMF
Wayward Music Series Seattle music series at Chapel Performance Space
Gallery 1412 - Independant music gallery/collective
12 Hour Play - 12-Hour improvisation performance series
No West - Festival of Improvised Music from the Northwest
Jackstraw - 501c3 Non Profit, audio arts center
Nonsequitur - Seattle-based organization that presents experimental music & sound art
Dissonant Plane - Seattle-based music store
Wall of Sound - Seattle-based music store
Sonarchy Radio - Jackstraw & KEXP host Doug Haire's hour-long, live, experimental music show
MUSICIANS:
Spare Death Icon - Seattle solo synth project, Jason E Anderson
Brother Raven - Seattle synth duo - Jamie Potter & Jason E Anderson
Pulse Emitter - PDX-based, solo synth project of Daryl Groetsch
Matt Carlson - Portland-based musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, synth dude
Zaimph - NYC-based, Solo electronics project of Marcia Bassett
J. Hanson - Portland-based modular synth composer
Witchbeam - Brooklyn-based synth and visual artist, member of Telecult Powers
Helga Fassonaki - LA-based sound artist (yek koo & metal rouge w/ Andrew Scott)
Magneticring - Vancouver BC, solo synth project of Joshua Stevenson
Oneohtrix Point Never - NYC-based, solo synth project of Daniel Lopatin
99 Cent Dreams - NYC experimental hiphop/jazz, Adam Diller & Matt Crane
Jonathan Sielaff - Portland-based musician, clarinets
Jean Paul Jenkins - Portland-based musician, guitar & electronics
Corrie Befort - Dancer/Improviser
Hideo Ikegami - Tokyo-based improviser, musician, double bass
Hayato Kurosawa - Tokyo-based improviser, musician, computer/guitar
Takahiro Kawaguchi - Tokyo-based improviser, sound artist
Tim Olive - Osaka-based improviser, bass/electronics
Chris Delaurenti - Seattle-based experimental musician & writer
Kamran Sadeghi - Seattle & NY-based, electronic musician/visual artist
Gust Burns - Seattle-based improviser, piano & electronics
Chris Cogburn - Austin-based improviser, drums
Jefferey Allport - Vancouver BC-based improviser, drums
Gregory Reynolds - NYC-based improviser/composer, multi-instrumentalist
DISTRO:
Tomentosa Records - SC
DNT Records - SF
Discriminate Music - OR
FRIENDS:
Ian Halloran - Philosopher friend of mine's website
Michael Clements - Photographer's Flickr site
MISC:
Bay Improviser - San Francisco Bay Area Creative Music Community
Resonance Radio - London-based radio
WFMU - NY-based radio
Pilota - Norway-based radio
Free103point9 - NYC-based radio
UbuWeb - Independent resource for avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider art
