Gregory Taylor
Gregory Taylor hosts RTQE, a weekly radio/webcast program of electronic and experimental music in Madison, Wisconsin and has done so since 1986. He was involved in the cassette culture movement in the 1980s as both a composer and writer/critic (OP, Sound Choice, and Option), and has written more recently for Recording Magazine and Wired. He studied electronic music at the Instituut voor Sonologie in the Netherlands, and studied Central Javanese gamelan with Martin Hatch, Andy Sutton, Sumarsam, and A. L. Suwardi. His current musical work includes solo performance as well as collaborations with laptop virtuoso Brad Garton, extended Mandolinist Terry Pender, trumpeter Jeff Kaiser, percussionist Tom Hamer, and visualist Mark Henrickson. Gregory works with Cycling '74, a company that creates and distributes Mac OS and Windows software for audio, video, and multimedia innovators.
The interview can also be downloaded as a video podcast (130 MB) or as an audio file (.mp3 - 55 MB).
Although Taylor's 1980s cassette-only releases on Art Level recordings are all out of print, you can find a brief selection from them here. Four early recordings from the USENET cassette projects, several of which he organized and curated in the 1980s, are online here. Some of Taylor's other work includes Dust Theories (2003), From the Diary of Dog Drexel by The Scott Fields Enseble includes the remix "Medicated" (2004), Voiceband Jilt (c74 recordings - 2006), there(after), with Tom Hamer RTQE Recordings (2006), Remixes of various live performances by Brad Garton (2004-2006), Amalgam Edits/Gamma Details and Amalgam: Aluminum / Hydrogen (Palace of Lights, 2007), The Desert Fathers: Coptic Icons w/ Jeff Kaiser (pfMENTUM, 2007), PGT: Temporary Habitations w/ Brad Garton and Terry Pender (Loochtone, 2008), and a wide variety of PGT live performances are available here and here.