Essays by Composers

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Jacques Bailhé:
- Process Compositional
Klarenz Barlow:
- 50 Jahre Avantgarde: Der Weg von Klangprägung zur Klingenden Münze
Gary Barwin:
- Defrosting Disney
- Snow Princess
- The Fabulous Brain (You Can Have Any Colour You Want -- As Long as It's Gray): Words for Young Composers About Musical Ideas
- Why There Should Be a Rock on Every School Desk
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz:
- I Don't Know How -- Or Why: Night Thoughts on the Process of Composition
- Your Music on the Web -- Ways, Means, Rights, and the Old West
- Our Demented Therapeutic Culture
- On Being Overwhelmed
- How Not to Prepare for a K&D Guest Appearance
- Partch on His 99th
- War ... and Peace
- Gilles Yves Bonneau: An Appreciation
- Everybody's Gotta Trust ... But Verify?
- The Final Year of K&D
- Our Community Radio
James Bohn:
- The Compositional Importance of 'Huh?'
- Moloch Series (Photo Essay)
Rhys Chatham:
- Composer's Notebook 1990: Toward a Musical Agenda for the Nineties
- Pierre Boulez: Sonate I-III pour piano vs. Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstucke I-IV
- Is Rock Dead?: Essay and Public Exchange
Noah Creshevsky:
- On Borrowed Time
- On Hyperrealism
Rocco Di Pietro:
- Dialogues with Pierre Boulez
Barry Drogin:
- Being Your Own Worst Enemy
Matthew Fields:
- Ancient Irrelevance
David Alarcón Folgado:
- Con Pentagramas en las Gafas Todo es Música
- No quiero éste, quiero el otro
Kyle Gann
- We Are Living in the New Soviet Union
David Gunn
- The Wingback Tokamak [from to(roidal'naya) kam(era s) ak(sial'nym magnitnym polem)]
- Essays for the Bazaar
William Harris:
- Music for the Day and the Year
- On Analysis
- Soundpieces 2: A Brief Look
- Personal Music in an Impersonal Age?
- Music and the Nine Deadly Perils
- Music as Ambiance, Music as Mind
- Brain and Mind: A discussion of some of the modes of the thought processes
- Metrics in Music and Poetry: The Cramping of Free Expression and Talent
- The Kryptic World of Mind Drawing
Zeke Hecker:
- On Composing for Woodwind Quintet
- I Am an Autodidact
Scott Johnson:
- The Counterpoint Of Species, 1997
- Hybrids, Thoroughbreds, and Survival
Tom Johnson:
- The Voice of New Music: New York City 1972-1982. A collection of articles originally published in the Village Voice (MS Word format)
- Narayana's Cows and Delayed Morphisms
- Review of Self-Similar Melodies by Tom Johnson
- Automatic Music
- Explaining my Music: Keywords
Kalvos:
- An Editorial, June 1, 2002
- The Golden Bruce Award 1998
- Vanity: When Artists and Money Mix
- The Golden Bruce Award 2004
Steve Layton
- The "Movement" in Contemporary Art Music: Opinions and Questions
John McGuire:
- An Electronic Music Project: The Composition of Pulse Music III
Adrienne Redd:
- A Genius in the Family: Profile of the Bertoias
Andrew Schulze:
- Muppets Revisited -- Teletubbies Regurgitated
- 4'33": The Sound of Silence
- Hit Me Baby One More Time
- The Three R's
- Snowflake: A Theory of Composition
Laurie Spiegel:
- Music and Media
John Trubee:
- Please Refute This!
- Essay in Illustrations
Gwyneth Walker:
- Yes, This is a Business!
- Living by Your Craft
Batya Weinbaum:
- Making Music with Matriarchal Consciousness

K&D Show Essays by David Gunn

2010
Playlist	Essay	Date

560	Stayin' Alive	April 9
559	Ten Uto	February 5
2009
Playlist	Essay	Date

558	Olives à la Dalí	November 13
557	The Brick Elephant	October 3
556	Collecting Sound	September 26
555	The Joke	August 14
554	Rosenthal and Guidenstern are Dead	June 16
553	What is a Chippewa?	June 16
552	Way Up There	June 5
551	Defenestrationism	March 9
550	Les grands artistes volent	February 15
549	Esophageal Singing	February 9
2008
Playlist	Essay	Date

548	Just a Heck of a Lot	December 13
547	Finlaaaawwwnnxxxggxxxd!	December 5
546	Tent City	November 28
545	The Whistlers of Uxbridge	October 3
544	House Music	August 23
543	Beware the Ookpik Bird	September 6
542	Hizz and Hirs	July 23
541	The Sixty-by-Sixties	July 19
540	Texas T-Bird	July 9
539	Call Waiting	June 16

2006
Playlist	Essay	Date

538	The Beat Generation	September 17

2005
Playlist	Essay	Date

537	Whodunnit	September 17
536	Trocadero's	September 10
535	Project Mr. Potato Head	September 3
534	Beano Burr and Weasel Hamilton	August 27
533	Thawing the Wolverine	August 20
532	Days of Dog	August 13
531	The Land of Satan's Dancing Cows	August 6
530	Thumb Music	July 30

529	Punjab Patel	July 23
528	Dada Vinci	July 16
527	Inharmonic Convergence	July 9
526	The Bumpkinses	July 2
525	Battle of the Bands	June 25
524	Why Nature Abhors a Vacuum	June 18
523	Coiffurniture	June 11
522	Harpy Marks	June 4
521	Black Bart	May 28
520	Boomwhackers	May 21

519	The Museum of Jackhammers	May 14
518	Scavengers	May 7
517	Pinocchio's Nose Job	April 30
516	Superconductor	April 23
515	The Day of Collisions	April 16
514	The Cryptozoological Solution	April 9
513	The Perils of Prometheus	April 2
512	The Sage of Chelmsford	March 26
511	Locksmithereens	March 19
510	El culto de la Piraña	March 12

509	The Stern and Exacting Miss Sebastos	March 5
508	L'homme de l'amiante	February 26
507	The Hypermusicians	February 19
506	The Gates	February 12
505	Tuber Animato	February 5
504	The Theory of Finite Height	January 29
503	Hippocrates	January 22
502	Bassoonami	January 15
501	Melophobia	January 8
500	The Day of the Leopard	January 1

2004
Playlist	Essay	Date

499	Oregon Donor	December 25
498	Miss Aminata Kabba Needs Your Help!	December 18
497	Concert Survival	December 11
496	The World's Biggest Instrument	December 4
495	Janitoria	November 27
494	How Hungry Are You?	November 20
493	The Sherlock Holmes Principle	November 13
492	M. tete de la pomme de terre	November 6
491	le grand garçon	October 30
490	Nancy's Bloomers	October 23

489	Procrastinates	October 16
488	Charm Quark	October 9
487	Clam Chador	October 2
486	Bluenogginism	September 25
485	Wisdom	September 18
484	Double-ble Vision-ision	September 11
483	Borborygma	September 4
482	And now, Blasto	August 28
481	The Lozenges of Possibility	August 21
480	The Road to Helminth	August 14

479	The Taobots	August 7
478	Raoul MacDowell	July 31
477	The Mushroomians, Part II	July 24
476	The Mushroomians, Part I	July 17
475	Rain Dance	July 10
474	The Equinians	July 3
473	il dogpera	June 26
472	The Wayward Pianola	June 19
471	Thor Throat	June 12
470	The Yuman Condition	June 5

469	Vegemite	May 29
468	Return of the Überpuppets	May 22
467	The Quartet	May 15
466	Handling Pan	May 8
465	The Other Buckminster	May 1
464	The Crown Jewels	April 24
463	Burrito Boy	April 17
462	The Deadly Sins	April 10
461	la vengeance de Mars	April 3
460	The Unanswerable Question	March 27

459	Kono-sabi	March 20
458	Nostrildamus	March 13
457	Musique du ballon	March 6
456	The Order of the Refulgent Convolution	February 28
455	Rando, the Wolf Boy	February 21
454	le fluff	February 14
453	Pipe Dreams	February 7
452	Bitterns of the Apocalypse	January 31
451	Beethoven's Trousers	January 24
450	Too Cold for Music	January 17

449	Panland	January 10
448	The Slowest Composer in the World	January 3

2003
Playlist	Essay	Date

447	The Salt Mines of Taoudeni	December 27
446	The Dint of Moore	December 20
445	Gunung Santubong	December 13
444	Orono Madcap Pies	December 6
443	E-5	November 29
442	Wholly, Mackerel	November 22
441	Theremindynamics	November 15
440	The Maroon Inferno	November 8

439	The Holes of Calcutta	November 1
438	Slybersonic Tromosome	October 25
437	Oddus Appetitus	October 18
436	Señora del dolor	October 11
435	Shortening	October 4
434	Mendocino Cappuccino	September 27
433	Das Wozzeckende	September 20
432	Humpty Dumpster	September 13
431	Banned Music	September 6
430	The Acousticophibians	August 30

429	In the Fiefdom of Highmore	August 23
428	What is Hyperreality?	August 16
427	Blastbusters	August 9
426	The Bosendorfer Hammerlock	August 2
425	Billy Argus	July 26
424	Pantaloom Chigwell Bengaze	July 19
423	Field Trip	July 12
422	Almond Music	July 5
421	The Garden of Grog	June 28
420	Benny the Bee	June 21

419	Genetically Modified Music	June 14
418	12 Monkeys	June 7
417	The Audible Red Tide	May 31
416	Battle of the Bands	May 24
415	Hyde Center Desserts	May 17
414	Saint Blanche	May 10
413	Remembering	May 3
412	Who's Minding the Music?	April 26
411	Zogard, Son of Wheezle	April 19
410	The Beano Counters	April 12

409	The Repelicans	April 5
408	Jabberwonk	March 29
407	Oneirocriticism	March 22
406	Violinics	March 15
405	le Fromage	March 8
404	Who done it	March 1
403	Frogooxi	February 22
402	Les rêves du Hector	February 15
401	Trenchermania	February 8
400	bots	February 1

399	Sisyphus, King of Corinth	January 25
398	Clown Day	January 18
397	The Butterfly Effect	January 11
396	MADMAN	January 4

2002
Playlist	Essay	Date

395	Prophet Karma-Ears	December 28
394	The Crypts of Lieberkühn	December 21
393	Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear	December 14
392	The School for Scoundrels	December 7
391	Lamb Brains	November 30
390	Weapons of Mass Deconstruction	November 23

389	The Great Poet	November 16
388	Futontology	November 9
387	Abeanogo	November 2
386	Talking Drums	October 26
385	Colonel Sanders' Worst Nightmare	October 19
384	Desert Jitters	October 12
383	Tautalus the Tuba Player	October 5
382	Microchiroptera annoyinglata	September 28
381	The Frog, the Snail and the Topical Anti-Infective	September 21
380	Jailhouse Tongue	September 14

379	The Tongue of Elvis	September 7
378	The Beanolator	August 31
377	Überpuppets	August 24
376	Teec Nos Pos	August 17
375	Cabin Physics	August 10
374	TIPS	August 3
373	Bubbles	July 27
372	War Tug	July 20
371	Resolution	July 13
370	Happiness	July 6

369	Atoka	June 29
368	Seas Annoy Seeders	June 22
367	Zingo	June 15
366	No essay (partly pre-empted).	June 8
365	Yangtze and the Turtle	June 1
364	Titanic Dreams	May 25
363	The Titanium Gherkin	May 18
362	Gammagong	May 11
361	Ursanola	May 4
360	The Widow Ululator	April 27

359	Making Rain	April 20
358	The S/V Cromwell	April 13
357	les trois morts amigos	April 6
356	Diego Garcia	March 30
355	Ga-Jing!	March 23
354	Johnny Bumpkins	March 16
353	ShavedHeadBangBoondock	March 9
352	Doodyville	March 2
351	History repeats itself; so do echolalicists	February 23
350	la musique corpulante	February 16

349	Fantastic Voyage II	February 9
348	Axis of Evil	February 2
347	Xenon A. Bagbee vs Aviation Security	January 26
346	Adopt-a-Composer	January 19
345	The Boy Whose Teeth Sang	January 12
344	The Drone	January 5

2001
Playlist	Essay	Date

343	Shoe Bomb	December 29
342	Lexann	December 22
341	Beyond Bondo	December 15
340	Who's In Charge Here?	December 8

339	National System of Defense Music	December 1
338	Karaokology	November 24
337	The Surreal Accommodation of Angst	November 17
336	The World of the Leisure Weasel Slayer	November 10
335	Weasel Slayer: The Wiggers	November 3
334	Anthra...	October 27
333	Weasel Slayer, Part II	October 20
332	Weasel Slayer, Part I	October 13
331	Heather	October 6

330	Homeland Security	September 29
329	Blackmoor's Open Letter	September 22
328	Pavanne des ailes	September 15
327	Smackover	September 8
326	Like a Brick	September 1
325	The Coordinator	August 18
324	Stayin' Alive	August 11
323	The New Muzak	August 4
322	Chicken Bus	July 28
321	The Human Ululation Module	July 21

320	Large Coddle Dog	July 14
319	Terminal Island	July 7
318	Dentro de la casa	June 30
317	La casa de cinco ventana	June 23
316	Water Music	June 16
315	L'ispirazione	June 9
314	Dance of the Coelacanths	June 2
313	Calendar Nexus	May 26
312	Zapotés	May 19
311	Borraka B. Who?	May 12

310	A Sinkful of Mayonnaise	May 5
309	Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	April 28
308	A Long Overdue Recap	April 21
307	Whither Warbler?	April 14
306	The Premiere	April 7
305	Contraptionology	March 24
304	Sandy "St." Patrick	March 17
303	Bomb Grants	March 10
302	Deadline!	March 3
301	Elmer Diney's Adobe Hat	February 24

300	The SS Napster	February 17
299	Le fourneau du bois	February 10
298	Zenon A. Bagbee	February 3
297	Parrots of the Moon	January 27
296	The Mesoamerican Connection	January 20
295	The Blues	January 13
294	Bob and Alice	January 6

2000
Playlist	Essay	Date

293	Time Sheep	December 30
292	In the Beano Cabin	December 23
291	Playing Peekaboo With Reality	December 16

290	The Khatchaturian Konnection	December 9
289	Saturday, 1 a.m.	December 2
288	The Carruthers Curse	November 25
287	Chads and Jeremys	November 18
286	Veterinarians Day	November 11
285	Thai Hotmouth	November 4
284	Fez	October 28
283	The Black Mass	October 21
282	Merv and the Mellotones	October 14
281	Time Hiccups	October 7

280	Another Conspiracy Theory	September 30
279	Sitting in Judgment	September 23
278	Nanomusique	September 16
277	Ipecac Music	September 9
276	Spatially Disorienting Music	September 2
275	The Canal of Schlemm	August 26
274	The Festival of Disturbing Music	August 19
273	Musicam	August 12
272	Radioing Headquarters	August 5
271	Somewhere Off in the Distance...	July 29

270	In Search of an Unbouqueted Clime	July 22
269	In Line in the Busy Cafeteria	July 15
268	Swallowing an Idea	July 8
267	Les passereaux dangereux	July 1
266	Revenge of the Boo	June 24
265	"The Gulls are Very Graceful..."	June 17
264	Petit Saint Elmo	June 10
263	Mineral-Based Music	June 3
262	Ontological Wellness	May 27
261	Oh, Those Eyes!	May 20

260	Backfires	May 13
259	Love Bugs	May 6
258	Whither Darmstadt?	April 29
257	The Party of the First Part	April 22
256	R-Veemglotry	April 15
255	Evadio in Bunyip Country	April 8
254	The New Musical	April 1
253	The Intermissionaries	March 25
252	Le jour effrayant de premiere	March 18
251	The Seven Hypotheses	March 11

250	Customs	March 4
249	The Eyes Have It	February 26
248	Emitex	February 19
247	A Habsburg Redux	February 12
246	Sayonara, Cyanora	February 5
245	The Benefits of Eating Nuts	January 29
244	A Novena of Nomadic Noses	January 22
243	Reinventing IRCAM	January 15
242	Subway Music	January 8
241	Meanwhile, on the Gauley	January 1

1999
Playlist	Essay	Date

240	Kinkajoul's Dumpster	December 25
239	Quintessential Inconsequentiality	December 18
238	Oh Woe is Us	December 11
237	The Good Old Days: 430,000 BC	December 4
236	The Tournament	November 27
235	Initus non abeat	November 20
234	Jerome in the Body of a Ferret	November 13
233	Adhesive Creep	November 6
232	Clippity Clappity Clop	October 30
231	PCAs	October 23

230	Base Ball	October 16
229	Code Sniffing	October 9
228	Audient Surveillance	October 2
227	Violence/Violins in Music	September 25
226	Rounds and Floyds	September 18
225	Tombox and the Typewriter	September 11
224	Waltz Supremicism	September 4
223	Musique Critique	August 28
222	Automatique Écriture	August 21
221	Agriglyphs	August 14

220	Saint Vitus' Envelope	August 7
219	Order vs. Chaos	July 31
218	Danny's Algorithmic Oxymoron	July 24
217	Extreme Musicians	July 17
216	Music Therapy	July 10
215	Dragons Dancing Theatrically	July 3
214	Bad Music	June 26
213	The Perfect Gift	June 19
212	Easy to Play	June 12
211	Illegal Allities	June 5

210	Concatenation of the Species	May 29
209	The Phantom Matinee	May 22
208	PETCom	May 15
207	Clusterers	May 8
206	Green Up Day	May 1
205	Like Minds, and Not Many of Them, Huddling Together for Protection	April 24
204	The State Song	April 17
203	Ethnic Musicmongering	April 10
202	Coughmongering	April 3
201	wymminsong	March 27

200	The Decamillennium Show	March 20
199	Danger Music	March 13
198	The Troubled March	March 6
197	The Pavlov Digestive Orchestra	February 27
196	A.M.T.R.C.	February 20
195	Musical Usury	February 13
194	Holey Moses Lutoslawski	February 6
193	Double Hearing-ing	January 30
192	A Cephalopod at Death's Door	January 23
191	Die Musikalische Schreibmaschine	January 16

190	Carhorn Hobo	January 9
189	Music Synthesis	January 2

1998
Playlist	Essay	Date

188	Musical Unsaleables	December 26
187	Impeachable Musical Acts	December 19
186	The Aging Process	December 12
185	Floozy Time	December 5
184	The Great Inoculator	November 28
183	Pheasant Feathers	November 21
182	Monotograms, Pulmonary Hexachlorophene, and Other Types of Electrical Music	November 14
181	Chiropractice	November 7

180	The Ward of the Whorls	October 31
179	The Circus	October 24
178	Squirreling	October 17
177	The Acme Death Machine	October 10
176	Carl A.'s Todestagundflockefeier	October 3
175	Susurrus, Gurgle & Boom	September 26
174	Not in the Biblical Sense	September 19
173	Transparent Subsidiary Code	September 12
172	The Bulimarexia School of Radio Listening	September 5
171	The First Cybercast	August 29

170	Those Wacky Stockhausens	August 22
169	The Trencherman's Limpet	August 15
168	Trowler the Weasel	August 8
167	The Beaver Baffle Bill	August 1
166	The Dungsmith's Dilemma	July 25
165	Beano Bengaze	July 18
164	Dream of the Antisocial Composer	July 11
163	The Baying of Bunyips	July 4
162	Adopt-A-Composer	June 27
161	The Whole Mouse	June 20

160	Cooties	June 13
159	The Algonquin Hole	June 6
158	Whiskers Six-Draw	May 30
157	The Wingback Vanishes	May 23
156	Pie, Song, and Doggerel	May 16
155	Ninkota? A Zontari!?	May 9
154	Out of the Trunk of the Hudson	May 2
153	The Story So Far	April 25
152	The Pontiac and the Plantains	April 18
151	The End of the Road for Ed Loudlegg	April 11

150	Episode No. 150 Celsius	April 4
149	The Musical Decency Act of Vermont	March 28
148	Analogue vs. Digitale	March 21
147	Bifurcability	March 14
146	The Art of Grant Writing	March 7
145	The Suction Algorithm	February 28
144	Les Ecolé Boulanger	February 21
143	Olympic Baton Competition	February 14
142	The Band Instruments Winter Olympics	February 7
141	Puce 'n' Lanimous	January 31

140	The Day-Old Jello of Humus Krill	January 24
139	The Visual Equivalent of a Hiccup	January 17
138	Attack of the AnHui URL	January 10
137	Alien Life Forms, P-Q-R	January 3

1997
Playlist	Essay	Date

136	Beezer's World	December 27
135	Ant Farms: The True Story	December 20
134	A Loaf of Halva	December 13
133	Pastels and Pointillism	December 6
132	The Theory of Disputational Distortion	November 29
131	La Doorbuster du Sandovac	November 22

130	The River Styx Motel	November 15
129	Mythology 101a	November 8
128	Mesopotamian Physics	November 1
127	The F Region	October 25
126	Suffixic Perturbation	October 18
125	Day of Atonalment	October 11
124	Misplaced Etiquette	October 4
123	The Drool Chute	September 27
122	The Transformation of Chulkalongkorn to Chuck Longhorn	September 20
121	Blood, Water, and Neil	September 13

120	Oleo Nation Scrapple	September 6
119	The Catbox Café	August 30
118	Int'l Scty of Contemusic, The	August 23
117	Player Again, Conlon	August 16
116	The Mysterious Madame Vestris	August 9
115	Hermit Lice	August 2
114	The Earwig and Other Hairpieces	July 26
113	A Klegmore Redux	July 19
112	Meanwhile, Back in Klegmore	July 12
111	The Klegmore Tokamak	July 5

110	Alias Smith and Roswell	June 28
109	Fürbletterplatz und Solstits	June 21
108	Orlando's Historical Context	June 14
107	The Real Manhattan Project	June 7
106	The Great Unknown of Mismanaged Data Transference	May 31
105	The Mesmer Pocus	May 24
104	The Skull of Mantovani	May 17
103	Babbittronics	May 10
102	Axiomatic Chaosphonics I	May 3
101	101 Squarely Rooted Synergies	April 26

100	Occult Dabbling	April 19
99	The Wicker Wars	April 12
98	Mice Brains and the Chromosome Theory	April 5
97	Sidereal Time and the Kidney	March 29
96	The Behemoths	March 22
95	March 1924's Singular Adventures	March 15
94	The Portugalian Influence	March 8
93	Carl Castaneda and Don Cortisone	March 1
92	More Musical Diseases	February 22
91	Gimpel the Fool	February 15

90	The Pluperfect State of Chaos Theory	February 8
89	The Uncertainty Principle	February 1
88	Scarface Al	January 25
87	In the Quemby Building	January 18
86	Bolero vs. Glière, Round 1	January 11
85	Beware the Macareña!	January 4

1996
Playlist	Essay	Date

84	The Musical Heimlich Maneuver	December 28
83	The Folly of Accounting	December 21
82	Die Zeitgeist von Zipgriffenfeldenmutter	December 14
81	Mighty Grossglockner	December 7

80	Maria Speaks the Truth	November 30
79	The World Cup of Musical Eccentricity	November 23
78	Emorphous Topology	November 16
77	The Kettle Drama	November 9
76	Ezra Pound's Seventy-Sixes	November 2
75	The Battle of the Light Brigade as explained by Soil Merchants	October 26
74	Duking It Out with Brie and Camembert	October 19
73	Zen Haiku in 17th Century Tokyo	October 12
72	Musique Concrete	October 5
71	The Analgesic Altruists	September 28

70	The Disciples of Disproportion	September 21
69	Sleepwalking with Sledgehammers	September 14
68	Grandma Noses	September 7
67	Time flies; Blimps do not	August 31
66	The Algonquin Hole at Grand Coulee Dam	August 24
65	Tulungagung: 1958; 7pm	August 17
64	The Unadulterated History of the New World, Chapter 4	August 10
63	Humor in Music Day	August 3
62	The Bedroom Closet at Arles	July 27
61	A Year in the Fort Wayne Grange	July 20

60	Ein Musikalische Gequiek	July 13
59	Hunter-Gatherers of the Aleatory Culture	July 6
58	The Tunguska Fireball	June 29
57	Wheat Germ, Silicon, & Bowling	June 22
56	Soon is a quaver muscle in a dawn skid hum	June 15
55	Bangle a Neer	June 8
54	The Full Moon Show	June 1
53	Igor Sikorsky's Le Sacre du Helicopters	May 25
52	What is an Accordion?	May 18
51	The Fibonacci Sign for Mother	May 11

50	Biber in the Bull Ring	May 4
49	Failed Concept Day	April 27
48	The Floopner Effect	April 20
47	Forty Face Card Fandango	April 13
46	Inaccurate and Discombobulating	April 6
45	L'avion et labas!	March30
44	A Recipe of Appalachian Squalor	March 23
43	Le Flambeau Oriange	March 16
42	No Outlet, No Gimlet	March 9
41	Whodonit?	March 2

40	O Scintillating Swine of Sacramento!	February 24
39	Mime Appreciation Day	February 17
38	Auto-Critters	February 10
37	The Sea was Full of Murk	February 3
36	A Bag o' Haggis	January 27
35	The International Classification of Musical Diseases, Part 1	Joel Chadabe
34	The Patron Saint of Amusement	January 13
33	Kahlil Gibran's Epiphany	January 6

1995
Playlist	Essay	Date

32	Family Values Day	December 30
31	In the Metrical Idiom	December 23

30	The Early Broadcast Days	December 16
29	Tonsilheim, Sweden: 1620	December 9
28	Acute Ontological Discombobulation	December 2
27	A Heated Hand of Whiskers Six-Draw	November 25
26	Musical Kibble Day	November 18
25	A Free Radiophonic Vaccination	November 11
24	A Special Amalgam of Molecularly Homogenized Tunes	November 4
23	The Unadulterated History of the New World, Chapter 2	October 28
22	The Unadulterated History of the New World, Chapter 1	October 21
21	Alaska Day	October 14

20	Margaret Fox	October 7
19	Music for Golf	September 30
18	Bel Canto ("With Food")	September 23
17	The Prince of Acrylics	September 16
16	The Feast of Things Short	September 9
15	The Galvano-Soddy Theory	September 2
14	Muffins & Marionettes	August 26
13	The Intermuse	August 19
12	Be Kind to Academics Day	August 12
11	War & Peace	August 5

10	The Grammatical Willies	July 29
9	The Pilgrims Leave Holland	July 22
8	The Mukluk	July 15
7	Peter the Hermit	July 8
6	This Was Woodstock?	July 1
5	Music in Spite of Johns	June 24
4	Do It Yourself/Duet Yourself	June 17