During its 14-year run, the Experimental Musical Instruments quarterly journal produced a cassette tape each year. Each cassette contained music of instruments that had appeared in the issues of the journal over the couse of the year. The instruments appearing in the Volume 10 cassette, for example, are those that were featured in articles in the four print issues of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume 10 #1-4. On these tapes you will hear some of the most innovative and intriguing instruments created in recent years. The cassettes are on high quality chrome tape, and included with each is an information sheet on the instruments.

Many of these cassettes are now sold out. We recently produced a CD called Early Years which contains selections from the first seven cassettes in the series. A CD with selections from the second seven cassettes, to be called Later Years, is on the way. You can order Early Years (and soon you'll be able to order Later Years) from our catalog on or offline. In the meantime, we're offering the cassettes that we still have in stock at discounted prices. These cassettes contain a lot of material not included in the above-mentioned CDs. Volumes 10 through 14 are available. You can order them individually or, for a deeper discount, order the whole set.

Following here are contents listings for each of the six cassttes that remain available.

• Volume 10 / Volume 11 / Volume 12 / Volume 13 / Volume 14

From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume 10 covers ExMI's tenth year of publication. Eighteen builder/musicians or groups appear.

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From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume 11 covers ExMI's eleventh year of publication. Eleven builder/musicians or groups appear.

Wayland Harman plays his improved mouthbow,

Trimpin's computers play his Liquid Percussion,

Reed Ghazala documents the death of a radio,

John Herron demonstrates his acoustic signal processing effects,

Eric Leonardson plays Spring Board;

the wind plays Richard Waters' bamboo aeolian devices as well as Ken Turkington's aeolian harp of Thoreau,

Susan Rawcliffe plays exotic ceramic wind instruments,

Fred "Spacemen" Long and the Troubadores of the 26th Century play the Jokers,

Bart Hopkin plays rotary rasp, and Michel Moglia plays his fire organ.

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From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume12 covers ExMI's twelfth year of publication. Twelve musicians or groups appear.

Colin Offord plays his mouthbow and eagle feather flute,

Rainer Linz and Alistair Riddell play their synthesizer-control software for gliding tones,

Keith Spears plays his industrial drum set and sampler table,

Angel Sampedro del Rio plays his bamboo saxophone,

tENATIVELY a cONVENIENCE plays the "Terrence Dougherty,"

Grant Strombeck plays his clock chimes plus and other instruments,

Jan Jarvlepp plays his junk instruments,

John Gzowski plays his cat's cradle,

Nelly van Ree Bernard plays the Citara,

Q. R. Ghazala plays his Casio SA-2 "Aleatron,"

Jacob Duringer plays his monolith,

Mitchell Clark plays his shell trumpets.

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From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume13 covers ExMI's fourteenth year of publication. Sixteen musicians or groups appear.

Skip La Plante plays styro-strings and mailing-tube drums,

Scot Jenerik plays fire sounds,

Michael Hearst plays Claviolas,

Paul Rubenstein plays homemade magnetic-pickup instruments, the wind plays Uli Wahl's kite flutes,

Ricardo Arias plays balloons,

Peter Whitehead plays pan-resonated strings,

TakéDaké plays John Kaizan Neptune's bamboo instruments

Martin Riches demonstrates his talking machine,

Frank Pahl's automatic instruments play themselves,

Grant Strombeck plays diverse oddities,

Ellen Fullman plays Long String Instrument,

Niles Hokkanen plays one-foot drumkit,

Neil Feather plays miscellaneous strangenesses, and Will Menter plays slate instruments.

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From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume14 covers ExMI's fourteenth year of publication. Twenty-two musicians or groups appear.

• Barry Hall plays globular horns;
• Jacques Remus plays Mecamusique;
• Reed Maxson plays steel thermal storage tanks;
• Walter Funk subverts Casio Sk-1 sampler keyboard;
• Robert Moore plays flute clock;
• Jacques Dudon plays the photosonic disk;Jhon Miura Hardy plays the bass hyperbiwa;Andy Cohen plays the dolceola;
• John Berndt plays Venetian glass nephew, peasant instrument & dictal robitary;
• Paul Panhuysen plays the machinery of the mind
• Dwin Craig plays Dwinstruments;
• Zeno Okeanos plays the polymorphous percussion;
• Richard Cooke plays Freenotes;
• Richard Waters and others play Bamboo instruments;
• Curtis Settino plays aquaggaswack and galvanophone;
• Linsey Pollak plays clarini;
• Robin Goodfellow plays instruments for children & teachers;
• John Bertles plays classroom-buildable instruments;
• Martin Riches plays motormouth;
• Angel Sampedro del Rio plays bamboo clarinets;
• Jim Schmidt plays reconfigured saxophones;
• Shane Speal plays cigar box guitar and "BB King's Stolen Mailbox" dobro.

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