120 Years of Electronic Music

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Great article! It was a pleasure to read it. Very informative. Thanks.
I have a few links to contribute to this awesome project, that i think relevant to the independent and experimental, open expression/source, art movement.

In January 1996, coincidentally, i have co-founded Idiosyntactix Strategic Arts & Sciences Alliance, with a series of what we called the IDIO-AUDIO Mighty Mono 99.1 FM Pirate Radio shows broadcast live on 25 watt transmitter setup on the rooftop of the TransForum gallery (Queen St. and Bathurst) in downtown Toronto. The IDIO-AUDIO Independent and Experimental Music Online email list was set up by Dmytri Kleiner at that time followed by a series of first in Toronto live webcasts from different venues by the IA team. Eventually the Industry Canada, after three and a half months, has shut the pirate radio party down. However the community formed during that time has moved on to host and broadcast more IA shows on other SW/FM/AM frequencies and online, including the licensed stations. http://archive.groovy.net/idio-audio/ also later http://archive.groovy.net/groovy/

The Idiosyntactix Strategic Arts & Sciences Alliance has created its own art manifesto, rather, the Incidentalist Manifestos, plural, the reason being since it is always in a draft version, the latest being Draft 11. http://archive.groovy.net/syntac/

In 1997 Idiosyntactix has organized a three-day festival of cultural appropriation and intellectual property freedom, culminating with the live concert at the Lees Palace attended by David Bowie. http://archive.groovy.net/plunderpalooza/
photos: http://archive.groovy.net/partypix/

While Plunderpalooza ’97 was widely reported in the Toronto and Canadian media, the New York Times has also mentioned Idiosyntactix once thus far in connection with our hosting of the Italian art group online project.

As a web designer, since the beginning of it in 1993, i have designed all the above websites, at a time the ASCII design elements were essential for fast download, i have also designed the first website for a great experimental musician from Winnipeg, Canada Diana McIntosh. http://archive.groovy.net/dianamcintosh/ She performed on a few occasions, from what i remember, in the Music Gallery concert series organized by Ron Gaskin. It was great!

Anyway, that’s my two incidentalist cents. God Speed! Live! Prosper! Be Well! Happy Trails! Cheers!!!