RTQE is a Sunday evening program of electronic/classical/ethnic/improvised /experimental work hosted by Gregory Taylor which has aired since 1987 on Sunday from 9:00-11:00 PM on WORT-FM 89.9, Madison WI.

Click here to listen to 2 weeks' worth of archived RTQE programs at a time more convenient to you. RTQE is also available as a live streaming webcast in either high bandwidth (96 kbs) or low bandwidth (32 kbs) streams during the broadcast.

Recent releases are indicated with an asterisk (*). Gregory's radio blog Remember Those Quiet Evenings is a (very) occasional source of pointers, enlightenment, and ranting.

05.03.09 - May Oui/Mais We

John Zorn Uluwati The Dreamers Tzadik
Carlos Libedinsky* Gente Que Sí Narcotango 2 (bonus disc to The Rough Guide to Tango) Rough Guide
Scanner* Pietas Ilulia Rockets, Unto The Edges Of Edges BineMusic
Saul Stokes* Stories Reflect In Those Eyes Metacollage Saul Stokes
John Luther Adams* At The Still Point The Place We Began Cold Blue
John Zorn Anulikwutsayl The Dreamers Tzadik
Last Days* Fracture
Life Support
The Safety Of The North N5MD
Jonathan Nangle* winter tells lies unreleased -
Gavin Bryars* The Summons Silva Caledonia GBR
Terry Pender* A Gentle Man Unreleased -
Bill Laswell* Darkness After Invisible Design II Tzadik
Wendy Carlos Winter (Out-Take) Sonic Seasonings ESD

05.10.09 - Recent Experimental Releases form the 60s/70s (and some La Monte!)

Tonight's show features a number of wonderful new recordings of groundbreaking experimental work from the 60s and 70s.

Curious about graphic scores? A Young Person's Guide to Treatise is a great place to start.

Interested in La Monte Young's work? Kyle Gann's page on La Monte Young is a good place to start. I am also enjoying This book as a way into the various threads of NY Minimalism that orbit around La Monte Young and Tony Conrad.

If you're interested in La Monte's more recent activities, the MELA Foundation site is the place to go.

Here's a little more information about Human Being. This is an amazing recording.

So you liked "In C"? Here's a copy of the score. Here is a Village Voice article about a recent performance of the piece.

Cornelius Cardew* Treatise (excerpt) QUaX Ensemble: Treatise Live in Prague 1967 Mode
La Monte Young 19-10-71 6:52-7:43 PM NYC Map of 49's Dream The Theatre of Eternal Music Shandar
Human Being* Live at Zodiac (excerpt) Human Being - Live at Zodiac Berlin 1968 Nepenthe
Terry Riley* In C (reissue of the original recording) In C Columbia

05.17.09 - graduations and other markings

Ambrose Field/
John Potter*
Je Vous Pri Being Dufay ECM
Frits Weiland* Studie In Lagen Impulsen Institute Of Sonology 1959-69 Early Electronic Music (reissue) Sub Rosa
The Electronic Hammer Refractions II How to philosophize with a hammer EMF Media
Another Electronic Musician* Congee Five N5MD
Frank Rothkamm* La Vie Frank Genius is Star Struck Flux
Last Days* Nothing Stays The Same, Nothing Ever Ends The Safety Of The North N5MD
Fennesz The Colour Of Three Black Sea Touch
Chas Smith* The Ghosts on Windows Nakadai Cold Blue
Arve Henriksen* Blue Silk Chiaroscuro ECM
Banabila* Suma 4 Blue Mix Precious Images / Datafiles 1999-2008 Steamin’ Soundworks
Jon Hassell* Aurora Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street ECM
Mehmet Can Ozer Nefs (Laptop impro) Unreleased -
Banabila* Voiz Recycled Precious Images / Datafiles 1999-2008 Steamin’ Soundworks
Saul Stokes* Atom Metacollage Binary/Stokesmusic
Sweet Billy Pilgrim* Joy Maker Machinery Twice Born Men Samadhisound
Terry Pender 53 Chords Unreleased -

05.24.09 - a vegetarian stir-fry with fresh bamboo shoots

Larry Hancock/
Tom Hamer/
Tom Lachmund
untitled solo
untitled solo w/mbira
unreleased -
U Srinivas/
Michael Brook
Dance Dream Real World
Ikue Mori* Master of Deception Class Insecta Tzadik
HASYMO Rescue EX MACHINA Original Soundtrack Avex Trax
Bill Laswell* Gulf Of Stars Invisible Design II Tzadik
Cluster* Imtrerion
Lerandis
Qua Nepenthe
Peter Garland* String Quartet No 2 Apartment House: String Quartets Cold Blue
Mountains Add Infinity Choral Thrill Jockey
Ambrose Field/
John Potter*
Being Dufay Being Dufay ECM
Deathprod A Dream For Ted Greene But the Music Goes on Forever Rune Grammophon
Susanna* Can't Shake Loose Flower Of Evil Rune Grammofon
Graham Richardson Clutching at Straws St. Kilda N5MD
Richard Bohringer/
Susan Deihim
Lettre Au Directeur Des Messageries Maritimes Sahara Blue Sony

05.31.09 - let us sing the praises of Mr. Hamer....

Scanner* Yellow Plains Under White Hot Blue Skies Rockets Unto the Edge of Edges Bine Music
Bill Nelson Spinning Planet Practically Wired Gyroscope
Nels Cline Singers The Angel of Angels Draw Breath Cryptogramophone
Max Roach/
M'BOOM
A Quiet Place Collage Soul Note
Bugge Wesseltoft MIMby IM Jazzland
Gavin Bryars* Cuisine A Listening Room GB
K. Leimer Teeming Solitude The Listening Room Palace of Lights
Arve Henriksen* Migration Cartography ECM
Scanner* Pietas Llulia Rockets Unto the Edge of Edges Bine Music
Electric Masada Yatzar 50 Tzadik
Ikue Mori* Hemiptera/Fatal Weaver Class Insecta Tzadik
Mayo Grout's Known Universe* I'm a Cockroach; Adapt Adapt - part two pfMENTUM