“Nothing Is a Mistake, There’s No Win and No Fail. There’s Only Make” is the sixth rule of the “10 Rules For Students And Teachers Manifesto”, a list of advices compiled by Sister Corita Kent in 1968. John Cage was delighted with it and did everything he could to popularize the list. Cage’s life partner Merce Cunningham reportedly kept a copy of it posted in his studio until his dying days. The episode features: M. Zalla (Piero Umiliani), Futuro Antico, J.D. Emmanuel, Chaino And His African Percussion Safari, Wayne Siegel, Piotr Kurek, Eden Ahbez, Telaio Magnetico, Archie Shepp & Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio.

Freedom To Spend is an american label run by Pete Swanson and Jed Bindeman that “examines fully realized yet under recognized sonic statements from other eras when accessibility to technology did not always equate to accessible music”. This episode features: Rimarimba, Michelle Musser, Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton, Pep Llopis, Richard Horowitz, Marc Barreca andMichelle Musser.

India Navigation was an American independent record label specialized in avant-garde jazz between the 1970s and 1980s. It was founded by Bob Cummins, a corporate lawyer who helped jazz musicians with legal matters. Its visionary catalogue shifted between avant-garde jazz — Arthur Blythe, Hamiet Bluiett, Chico Freeman, Cecil McBee and the Revolutionary Ensemble — and minimal music — such as Arnold Dreyblatt, Phill Niblock and Joseph Celli, or Tom Johnson. The episode features: Chico Freeman, Phill Niblock, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jay Hoggard, Yoshi Wada and Pharoah Sanders.

Music today is mainly distributed through digital platforms that use algorithms to advise people what to listen to. This episode has been compiled combining pieces from records suggested by Discogs, the biggest record marketplace, that sends algorithm-based suggestions through its daily newsletter. The episode features: Babyfather, David Behrman, Iury Lech, David Rosenboom, Lori Goldston, The Lost Jockey, Laurie Spiegel , Insiememusicadiversa, The Durutti Column, Chris & Cosey, Gregor Schnitzler and Conrad Schnitzler, Wire and Joseph Beuys.

The concept of this episode, compiled by our friend Stefan Rotter, can only be described by matching the artists' list with the explanation he provided us: “Constantly four tracks running (85%), it's like acoustic LSD and I never took it”. The episode features: Roberto Musci, Hanno Leichtmann, Vladislav Delay, Platform, Jon Hassel, Andrew Hill, Muta, Nick Mott, Eloping with the Sun, Luigi Nono, Chris Watson, The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Giuseppe Ielasi, Andrew Pekler, Jingzi Li, Luc Ferrari, Muslimgauze, Terre Thaemlitz, Rapoon, Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples, Jan Bang, Jay-dea Lopez, Takeshi Ueno, Kozutoki Umezo, Triorganico, Groupshow, Pierre Bastien, Akosh S Unit, Arthur Russell, Demdike Stare, Sun Ra, Philip Jeck, Janek Schaefer, Mike Cooper, Barbara Buchholz, Annette Vande Gorne, Moondog, Garry Bradbury, Marcel Duchamp, Bellows, Tim Hecker and more.

This episode is an homage to Foom, an obscure label that recently published original and unreleased works by Peter Gordon, Rhys Chatham and the mesmerizing tapes recorded by Peter Zummo with Arthur Russell, Bill Ruyle and Mustafa Ahmed. The episode features: Archangel & Dean Blunt, Oliver Coates, Peter Zummo & Arthur Russell, Peter Gordon & David Van Tieghem, Love Of Life Orchestra and Rhys Chatham.

Audiographics — or New Wilderness Audiographics — was a New Wilderness Foundation project of the 1970s. Audiographics offered a number of sound artists the opportunity to record a variety of works — experimental and traditional music, poetry, storytelling and other sound and language art — in a professional recording studio. His closest collaborator, however, was the poet Jerome Rothenberg, with whom, in 1964, he founded and co-directed The New Wilderness Foundation, which explored the avant-garde in all its dimensions, presenting concerts, issuing cassette recordings and, with another major collaborator, RIP Hayman, publishing EAR Magazine, which chronicled new and unusual composition as had no magazine since Minna Lederman’s legendary “Modern Music” in the years before the World Wars.    The episode features: Tom Johnson, Phillip Corner, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low and Pauline Oliveros, Charlie Morrow, R.I.P Hayman, Richard Schechner and Joan MacIntosh and Ocarina Orchestra.

This episode is a selection of works recorded at The Kitchen, a New York City based music center, between 1971 and 1986. During that time and under the wise direction of Rhys Chatham, Garrett List and Arthur Russell, The Kitchen was the meeting point for several generations of avant-garde artists and the fulcrum of the revolution going on in these days. The episode features: Arthur Russel, Yoshi Wada With Richard Hayman And Imani Smith, Dickie Landry, Robert Ashley, The Raincoats, David Tudor, Garrett List, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman and Dinosaur L.

This episode has been compiled by Fabrizio Vatieri, a great artist, photographer and friend, born in the chaotic Naples and based in the busy Milan. Besides his interesting artistic practice, Fabrizio is a profound music connoisseur. City of Lagoons — as Fabrizio says — is  a compilation made imagining a continuous and cyclic tension between spring and autumn. The episode features: The Residents, Ariel Calma, Don Cherry with Latif Kahn, Todd Rundgren, Oil XL, Carioca, General Strike, Electric Prunes, Pheeroan Ak Laff, Hawkind, LNRDCROY, Piero Umiliani, Psychic TV, Sun City Girls and The Residents.

Launched in 1983 as a subscription only bimonthly publication, the Tellus cassette series took full advantage of the popular cassette medium to promote cutting-edge downtown music, documenting the New York scene and advancing experimental composers of the time. Tellus was in activity for the ten years of 1983–1993 from the Lower East Side, Manhattan, publishing audio art, new music, poetry and drama, avant-garde, post-industrial music, NY no wave, Fluxus sounds, noise, sound poetry, radio plays, electroacoustic music, sound collage etcetera. The episode features: Ikkoh Mine, Kirby Malone, Linda Fisher, Disband, A Leroy, Nicolas Nowack, Verge Piersol, Isaac Jackson, Lee Ranaldo, David Weinstein, Paul Dresher, Jody Harris and Tom Lopez.