Composer Michael Kowalski, and his co-librettist Helena Soares Hungria by phone from São Paulo, discuss the creation of their bi-lingual opera and show how to samba with a soprano with post-industrial flair. Lots of music, stories, wisdoms, history.

An audio mix produced by artist David Linton from the soundtrack to his 2011 installation. The intense sensory experience of the audio and video driven installation was triggered by shifting, pulsating, synchronous sound and colored light. Trippy.

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.

David Weinstein sits down with composer and instrument builder Ellen Fullman and the two play tracks and discuss the history and practice of her extraordinary instrument consisting of hundreds of strings stretching over one hundred feet in length.

Composer and multi-media artist Gordon Monahan talks about rethinking the piano, how to swing a speaker, how to animate a theremin, how to make a tomato sing, and how to make a pickle glow. With audio illustrations.

Why can't you see in outer space and why can't you hear in a rainforest? A conversation, with sound illustrations, with the composer and sound artist in advance of his performance at EMPAC in Troy, New York on April 28, 29, 30, 2011 with 90 speakers.

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 scrambled eclectic hour of adventurous listening curated by artist Bruce Pearson (and then shuffled in harmony with the multiverse paradigm). 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.