Hi all! This Tuesday's Signal & Form is a two-hour biographical portrait of one of the most singular bands American music has produced in the last thirty years — Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. I'll be tracing their full arc: from a Berkeley co-op cassette recorded in 1987, through three era-defining alb...

Today we've got a special Saturday edition of Signal & Form! My sons Milo and Paddy are visiting, and I'm dragging them into the studio. Both are musicians — Milo on piano, Paddy on guitar, both deep into jazz — and both grew up with the show's DNA in their ears... whether they asked for it or not. ...

Anybody need boxes? I left ten folded boxes leaning against the fence line on Washington, just east of the Twisp-Winthrop Eastside Road.

Thanks so much, ML — really glad you’ve been enjoying the show! Unfortunately this episode wasn’t recorded, but I do keep a full archive of every episode at the link below, including playlists, show notes, and Apple Music links so you can explore the music on your own time. The San Francisco notes a...

Hi all! This Tuesday's Signal & Form takes a deep dive into San Francisco's experimental music tradition — not as a nostalgia trip, but as a two-hour argument for why this one city kept producing such genuinely strange and ambitious music across six decades. We're talking tape composers, psychedelic...

Hi Elam… thanks for saying hi. I’d love to help you out with your group. I’ll drop you an email to get the conversation started.

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This week’s episode of Signal & Form is for Black History Month — but not in the usual way. Rather than telling a simple story of triumph, I’m exploring “Structure and Access.” How do composers find expression when artistic recognition is mediated by conservatories, orchestras, critics, record label...

I'm hoping to repair a crack in a HDPE tank, and am wondering if anyone in the valley has a hot air welder I might use?

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Tonight on Signal & Form… A two-hour exploration of solo performance, where musical ideas pass through a single body, a single instrument, and a single set of decisions. Experimental guitar, bowed strings, piano, winds, percussion, and harp, all grouped by instrument to highlight how performers crea...