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.

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.

A special segment on the German Prog Rock band Popol Vuh and its founding father Florian Fricke takes us through the astages of his explorations from early electronic rock, soundtracks for Werner Herzog, ambient, fusion, psychedelica and new remixes.

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.

David Weinstein hosts composers Elliott Sharp, Steve Horowitz and Luke DuBois at the Clocktower studios to discuss the computer and solenoid driven Yamaha player piano that was the focus of a 2011 mini-fest at the White Box Gallery. With examples.

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.