Semi-Conducting: Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket

Chapter 12: Planes, Trains and Step-Down Transformers


1: A Hidden Switch

2: I am Sitting in a Classroom

3: Worlds of Music

4: Four Ridiculously Large Speakers

Interlude: Multitrack

5: Playing with Chips

6: The Infinite Amplification of Silence (or I Ching for Dummies)

7: Old Guard Avant Garde

8: Newcastle to Narvik

9: The Eden Before Apple

10: A Bright Red Electric Guitar

Interlude: 33 1/3

11: Devil's Music

12: Planes, Trains and Step-Down Transformers

13: A Computer Walks into a Bar

14: We Were All Seated Around the Campfire

Interlude: Soundcheck

15: Still Lives

16: STEIM -- IRCAM with a Human Face

Interlude: Silence

17: Whistling in the Woods

18: Strange Heaven

19: Art School

Interlude: How Things Work

20: Hardware Hacking

21: Salvage

22: The Missing Switch

Interlude: Things I'd Like to Own

23: Surprise Me

Touring Europe before smartphones with map apps.

Life could be worse: post-concert dinner, Musique Action 91 festival, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France, May 1991. Left to right: the author, Tom Cora, Laura Seaton (Soldier String Quartet), Leslie Vosshall, David Soldier (Soldier String Quartet). Hidden: Ron Lawrence and Mary Wooten (Soldier String Quartet). Photographer unknown, probably Samm Bennett.