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Sam Wenc: The Experimental Language Of The Pedal Steel Guitar
by Lawrence Peryer
Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on guitarist and composer Sam Wenc. Wenc is a Philadelphia-based artist who has spent nearly a decade building one of the more distinctive bodies of work in American experimental music, mostly under the name Post Moves. Now he's released his first album under his own name. ...
Zeena Parkins: Invention, Loss, And The Living Harp
by Lawrence Peryer
Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Zeena Parkins, composer, improviser, and one of the most singular forces in experimental music.Zeena has spent four decades dismantling what the harp can do: through electronics, object preparations, and a series of custom electric instruments she built herself, she's turned a concert hall fixture into something alive ...
Michael Graves: The Patient Philosophy Of Audio Restoration
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Michael Graves, a five-time Grammy-winning mastering engineer and the founder of Osiris Studio in Los Angeles. Michael's work is restoration as archaeology--pulling performances off deteriorating tapes, damaged acetates, and obsolete formats, then deciding how much intervention is too much. He's done this for recordings by Hank Williams, ...
Erik Hall: Multitracking The Minimalist Aesthetic
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on musician and composer Erik Hall.Based in Michigan, Erik Hall has spent the last five years doing something that sounds simple but definitely is not: recording landmark works of contemporary classical music entirely on his own.Erik's 2020 solo reconstruction of Steve Reich's “Music for 18 Musicians" won ...
Patrick Smith: Bebop, Brass Bands, And A Bookstore
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on Toronto saxophonist Patrick Smith. Patrick has become a key player in the city's creative music scene. His album, Words Underlined, came out in December on Lit Soc Records, the first release from the new label started by Sellers & Newell, a Toronto bookstore that moonlights as a music ...
Stephen Vitiello: The Punk Attitude Of Collaborative Sound Art
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Stephen Vitiello. Stephen is an electronic musician and media artist. His sound installations are in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon. He's worked with Pauline Oliveros, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Joan Jonas. By day, he teaches Kinetic Imaging at ...
Lawrence English: Capturing The Impossible Trio
by Lawrence Peryer
Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on artist, composer, and curator Lawrence English.Australian composer Lawrence English has spent over two decades treating sound as something that occupies your body, not just your ears. Putting The Tonearm's needle on Lawrence English means entering a sonic world where you're never quite sure what you're hearing or ...
Noah Franche-Nolan: Music-Making As Spiritual Practice
by Lawrence Peryer
Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on pianist and composer Noah Franche-Nolan. Noah's latest album, Rose-Anna, is named after his Acadian great-grandmother, a church organist from Grand Falls, New Brunswick. The Acadians are French-speaking people with deep roots in Canada's Maritime provinces. The Acadians were expelled from their land by the British in the ...
Michael Hallsworth: Escaping The Hypocrisy Trap
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on author and behavioral scientist Michael Hallsworth. Michael has spent the last two decades applying behavioral science to real-world problems at the Behavioural Insights Team. He's held positions at Princeton, Columbia, Imperial College London, and the University of Pennsylvania. Michael's book, The Hypocrisy Trap, takes on ...
John Mlynczak: Why Namm Still Matters In 2026
by Lawrence Peryer
We're putting The Tonearm's needle on John Mlynczak, President and CEO of the National Association of Music Merchants. NAMM is the trade association for the music, sound, and event industries. Basically, NAMM represents the companies that make the tools your favorite music artists use to create their work. John has spent years ...
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