Irida Records: Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979–1986 Format:7xLP + Book

Irida Records: Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979–1986 Format:7xLP + BookIrida Associates U. S. A., an obscure and short lived record label formed by composer performer Jerry Hunt, offers a glimpse into the revelatory world of new music and composition in the artists native Third Coast. Based first in Dallas and later in Hunts home outside the rural town of Canton, Texas, Irida presented the innovative and daring experimentsinto aleatoric methods, environmental acoustics, improvisation, homemade technologies, and

and room tone) and the community that holds it (sirens

with Palestine recording some of Conrad’s work on the carillon and contributing music to his film Coming Attractions

a new cassette box set by Áine O’Dwyer

and others

” Steve Cannon’s first and only novel

dubbing their mix of communal art

its sound ever-shifting while remaining unmistakably his own

” This publication gathers all issues of the magazine with an introduction by poet and scholar David Grundy

scarlet blood

homemade technologies

and coincides with both Blank Forms’ publication of Poësy Matters and Other Matters

“Polyphonies I