(The below manifesto was published in Manifesto I, the first official publication of Mutable Press, now Mutable Sound. The author is Harry Polkinhorn. For more information go here, or visit him at harrypolkinhorn.org.)

1. Prescript: I have nothing to say.

2. Nothing counts any more; nothing ever did.

3. Culture is dead. It committed suicide because it had become successful.

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With guest Marshall, the man behind the experimental venue, AV-aerie. The great Bee Gees’ tragedy discussed, while Marshall defines biological life, and Gabriel wants to go on a search for the fountain of youth in the sewers of Chicago, but Studs Terkel’s passed away so how could he? How Malcolm and Marshall met, which transitions smoothly into a consideration of doom metal, those who play it, and what wonderful people they are. All this gingerly interspersed with melodies from out the leaves of the scrapbook, as well as another episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies, and many more mystical moments. Listen to Gabe smoking very loudly while Marshall is speaking…

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Here we are in our third week of operation. A new podcast comes out tomorrow and with it the third episode in the ongoing exploits at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies. A Survey of my Failures This Far is at the printer’s, and Animal Hospital is ready to spring his latest musical melodrama on the ears of all the listeners out there in dreamland. Black Friday has come and gone, and how was it? Was it as good for you as it was for us? We were sitting by the stove in our kneesocks, debating the appropriate shading to express our ingrown contentment at so much frosty indolence made physical fact in music and book form, but these are only the limbs of a larger creature, the outward signs of life while we build the organs from scratch.

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Live at the AV-aerie and sounding like some sort of smooth jazz dj, only to then let loose some orchestral maneuvers and discuss zeppelins covered in sequins. Gabriel is most obviously drunk and perhaps twinkling with hidden knowledge, the question for this week being when will this stuff kick in, and breast implants for George W., ultimately making it to episode 2 of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies, then on to amateur victorian beat-boxing, to symbols of human hubris, to the sexiest industrial corridor, to where we have been, the past and the future, imagining our lives as graphs or pie charts, and everywhere in between.

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Jean-Baptiste Oudry - Swan Attacked by a Dog, 1745

Welcome to the new and revitalized Mutable Sound, formerly Mutable Press. There are old projects and new ones on the way. It’s cold here in the windy city, but there are some tunes on the stereo, and hope breeds like licking snakes everywhere you look. This may be the beginning of the new depression but one company is going to rise out of the ashes with an indeterminate glow and occasional flickering, and that company is Mutable Sound. We got podcasts, and radioplays, books from before and books on the way, albums of our own and albums that have been plucked from out the surrounding void. This is the time of the season.

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Imagine you forgot how to speak, but got to address the local planning committee. You test the microphone, look off to your left, but eventually some sound must be emitted. This is us.

We played records and made small-talk. A cover of a Syd Barrett original caused Gabe to sputter and coo. Malcolm wanted to showcase other lights, of both yesteryear and today, though as to tomorrow he was reticent about making any definitive statement. We did, however, make mention of our upcoming releases, such as a A Survey of My Failures This Far, and what friends are for, and also introduced Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies, episode one.

This was in the Kinsey Industrial Corridor, and the two of us were smoking furtively, attempting to work the other up into a frenzy so as to awaken interest in an otherwise bored and (at the time at least) nonexistent audience. Marshall popped in to clean up from a private party of the evening previous, occasionally stopping to listen when something funny was said, or a choice side brought silence and admiration.

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Artist Philip Jeck's "Vinyl Pond" - Bruges, Belgium 2002

A weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.

Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.

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