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.

08.02.09 - oh ate owe too

John Zorn* Po'o'uli O'o Tzadik
Paavoharju Valo tihkuu kaiken lapi Yha hamaraa Fonal
Jonsi + Alex* Howl Rice Boy Sleeps XL
Nathan Halverson Nurse / Shark pt.1 Nurse / Shark Peapod
Esbjorn Svensson Trio Still Leucocyte Spamboolimbo
Moby* Jltf
Slow Light
Wait For Me Mute
Alva Noto/
Ryuichi Sakamoto*
Plateaux 2/End UTP_ Raster-Noton
Rene Uijlenhoet De Voorzienighied ICMC 2007 Immersed Music ICMA
Biosphere* Warmed By The Drift Wireless - Live At The Arnolfini, Bristol Touch
John Foxx/
Robin Guthrie*
Mirrorball Mirrorball Metamatic
Greg Davis* Hall of Pure Bliss Mutually Arising Kranky

08.09.09 - mind the gap

Mary Halvorson Trio* Screws Loose (No. 8) Dragon's Head Firehouse13
Jeff Gburek* Kreuzberg-Neukolln-Kleve Remote Provinces Aural Terrains
Clifton Cameron Petal Bloom unreleased -
Barun Kumar Pal Raga Piloo - Apal And Dhun (Sitarkhani Tal) Ragas On Slide Guitar Simla House
Snd* Track 14 Atavism Raster-Noton
Scanner* Anna Livia Plurabelle Rockets, Unto The Edges Of Edges Bine Music
David Grollman/
Valerie Kuehne
Diatribe Grollman/Kuehne at Orion DePress Records
Paul Ellis The Last Hiding Place Of Beauty The Last Hiding Place Of Beauty Groove International
Jon Balke/
Amina Alaoui/
et. al.*
Itimad Siwan ECM
Brad Garton Counterdrift unreleased download
Oneida* I Will Haunt You Rated O Jagjaguwar
Mysterybear* Herald of Air Elementals download
Jody Diamond* Hard Times In That Bright World: Music for Javanese Gamelan New World
Keith Rowe/
Oren Ambarchi
Treatise (excerpt) Treatise CCCPlanum

08.16.09 - et maintenant, M. Hamer a la mic!

Rain Tree Crow A Reassuringly Dull Sunday Rain Tree Crow Virgin
mum Will the Summer Make Good for All Our Sins? Summer Make Good Fatcat
Snd* Track 2 Atavism Raster-Noton
The Future Sound of London Amoeba Far Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman Virgin
Jonsi and Alex* Indian Summer Riceboy Sleeps XL
Ubiet The Art of Dying Music for Solo Performer Musikasi
Eric Friedlander Haseha Volac: Book of Angels Volume 8 Tzadik
John Surman/
John Abercrombie/
et al.*
Kickback ECM
Polwechsel/
John Tilbury*
Field (excerpts) Field HarArt
Greg Davis* Hall of Pure Bliss Mutually Arising Kranky
Robert Henke* Indigo Transform (excerpt) Indigo Transform Imbalance Computer Music

08.23.09 - A Week in Montreal

I'm back from the annual conference/festival of the International Computer Music Association, held this year in Montreal Canada. Tonight's show is a mix of work I heard and/or acquired. The festivities included an interesting keynote address by someone who faithful RTQE listeners will recognize right away - Paul Lansky. He looked back on his own work, the technology, and his decision to move to composing exclusively acoustic music. The keynote address makes for a fascinating read, and tonight's program includes an early piece of Paul's from the early days that Radiohead fans may recognize parts of....

Paul Lansky Mild und Leise Electronic Music Winners Columbia
Mathew Adkins Abstract / Ambient
Concrete / Instrumental
[60]Project Empreintes DIGITALes
Asha Srinivasan Bapu_Studio_Mix unreleased -
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay/
Stefan Schneider*
La_rage_2 La rage Empreintes DIGITALes
Sever Tipei Decaf Funktasia Centaur
Natasha Barrett Deep Layer Trade Winds Aurora
Hans Tammen Machine Code - Storungen
Give Him The Gate
Stuttering Backwards
Endangered Guitar Nur/Nicht/Nur
Ned Bouhalassa* Morpheus_20_4824 Gratte-cité Empreintes DIGITALes
Jonty Harrison Afterthoughts Environs Empreintes DIGITALes

08.30.09 - the road to get there...

Paul Lansky NotJustMoreIdleChatter More Than Idle Chatter Bridge
Paul Lansky Threads unreleased -
Mike Frengel Slinky ICMC 2009 ICMA
Sweet Billy Pilgrim Joy Maker Machinery Twice Born Men Samadhisound
Alex Cline Submerge Continuation Cryptogrammophone
Tetsu Inoue Hi-Fi Static Waterloo Terminal Caipirinha
Ikue Mori Ephemeroptera Class Insecta Tzadik
Arve Henriksen Recording Angel (Featuring Trio Mediaeval) Cartography ECM
Ubiet WI En Te, 2002 Music For Solo Performer Musikasi
Christopher Bissonnette A Touch Of Heartbreak In Between Words Kranky
Cluster Xanesra Qua Nepenthe
autechre 9013-2 Quaristice.Quadrange.ae.ep Warp
Dwight Ashley Withdraw Of The Many Ataxia Nepenthe