Since Thomas Edison's first effort in 1877 through to vinyl emulation software like Serrato, the mechanical spinning disk and stylus have endured to provide an ever expanding vocabulary for artists in sound. Through scratching, beat matching, montage, looping, and other techniques the turntable matured to something far beyond the "sound writing machine" that Edison introduced, Alexander Graham Bell improved, Emile Berliner perfected, Pierre Schaefer re-invented, Kool Herc manipulated, Grandmaster Flash elevated... then Marclay found Bambaataa who listened to Kraftwerk who followed Stockhausen who heard Cage who knew Schaeffer who studied Edison.

With selections by: Thomas A. Edison, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, Grandwizzard Theodore, Peanut Butter Wolf, Marina Rosenfeld, Martin Tétreault & Otomo Yoshihide, John Cage, Christian Marclay, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, and Massimo Simonini. Originally compiled by David Weinstein for the Art Sound Lounge of Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 (excerpt).

"Experimental Composers" is produced by Clocktower Radio and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. Writes Clocktower Radio, "Performances from new and established musical innovators. The unfortunate and unintended messages that come attached to a title like Experimental Composers are many. Still it is one of the few labels to come out of the world of music that has not been co-opted by promoters, corporations, journalists, or lawyers. This one just seems to have anti-market goo on it. Hooray. It's also just bad English (as if to imply that these poor souls are themselves, in their flesh and blood, some kind of experiment and, perhaps, even expendable). And then there is the spectre of defying the wisdom of the great Edgar Varèse who said something like, 'I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment."