During rehearsals for the upcoming Spanish language version of Robert Ashley's groundbreaking "television opera" Perfect Lives (now Vidas Perfectas, Dec. 15-17, 2011 at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn), musicians Sublette and Villafranca spoke about

Kai Althoff is a Cologne, Germany-based artist who makes installations, videos and drawings often involving invented stories and has a long-running musical project with Stephan Abry and other occasional collaborators called Workshop. Neo-Krautrock.

A double bill of electronic music from Berlin: Hegenbart presents his "musicforclouds", a live performance utylizing synthetic sound of meteorological beauty and Straebel premiers two of his "sound observations." Recorded December 2010 in New York.

An interstellar multi-character audio operetta involving a multitude of human, alien, and machine voices, in a mash-up of primal and classic sci-fi, electro-acoustics and lo-fi video communications created by Dafna Naphtali and Chuck Bettis.

A rebroadcast of a Christian Marclay interview and music honoring his Golden Lion award at the 2011 Venice Biennale (for his 24 hour film, The Clock). With musical tracks by Marclay and duos with Elliott Sharp and Otomo Yoshihide.

Part 2 on the 70s German band Popol Vuh and composer Florian Fricke focuses on the Prog Rock period in which electronics and psychedelia give way to more spiritual and global influences. See Part 1 also for the remixes and Werner Herzog soundtracks.

Composer and sound artist John Hudak's collection of electroacoustic miniatures inspired by European folk melodies, Asian street songs, and the inflections inherent in the speaking voices of various peoples of the world, recorded at EIF in 2010.

The sound artist demonstrates his method for creating a tactile feedback signal using acoustic pressure waves: airborne ultrasound generates a force field that can be touched and manipulated. Recorded live at EIF in 2010. Headphones recommended.

Composer and director of the S.E.M. Ensemble Petr Kotik and pianist Joseph Kubera talk about the music on their April 13, 2011 concert at Zankel Hall and reveal anecdotes and wisdoms from their time working with John Cage and David Tudor.

In this segment we feature the musical soundtrack from Terri Hanlon's video doc with works by David Behrman, Jacques Bekaert, Barbara Held, John King with the ETHEL String Quartet, Laetitia Sonami, Maria Ludovici, and Jon Gibson: In Good Company.

A randomly selected hour of tracks curated by and then shot from a canon by artist Bruce Pearson. From Kraftwerk and Rammellzee to Terry Riley and Terry Fox.

New York artist/music collector Bruce Pearson provided a suitcase full of CDs from his eclectic, adventurous archives. He made one stipulation. Find a way to construct playlists that grab tracks from the entire set totally by random. Extreme shuffle.