My records are somewhat scattered but here are some.

I started giving occasional talks and participating in Symposia in the early eighties and became active in the then newly formed IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music). Since then such public talking and writing have been an intermittent but regular aspect of my work.

• IASPM, Dartford College: 'Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms'.
• IASPM, University, Montreal: Studio Composition and Visualisation - a case study
• IASPM. University of Leeds: Improvisation: Motives and Methods.
• Pomeriggi Musicali do Milano: On The Impact of Recording Technology on Popular music.
• Academy of Science, Berlin: Rock In Opposition, a case study.
• Dissonanten, Rotterdam: Punderphonics and Postmodernism
• Union of Composers, Moscow: Electrification and Experimentation, the Development of New Musical Resources in the Popular Field.
• British Council, Belgrade: Composing with Other People's Music - Creativity or Theft?
• The Royal College of Art, London: The Recording Studio as a Compositional Instrument.
• The Royal College of Art, London: Sonic and Structural Convergence at the Fringes of Musical Genres.
• University of Trondheim: Plunderphonia.
• Chile - various locations, a series of talks on Memory and Forgetting in the evolution of musical forms.
• Mexico - various locations, as above.
• Buenos Aries - ditto.
• Museum School, Boston: Sampling and Plunderphonics, Meet the Composer.
• Yale, Newhaven: Electrification and Performance Issues.
• USA, various Meet the Composer sessions and panels.
• Big Ear Festival, Budapest: Looking Back, 2011
  
• AudioArt Festival, Krakow: Memory Systems and the Limits of Musical Form
• Brighton University: Experiments and Investigations as a Musical Method. 2011
  
• Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw: Music as Social Theory.  Talk and discussion.
• Sala Kameralna. John Cage: The Man, the work, the paradox Symposium: I Have Nothing To Say About Cage. 2012
• ASMIM (Japanese Association of Study of Musical IMprovisation) annual meeting      Hiroshima University, Keynote speech: Practice as Research. 2013.
• Espace Pousseur Conservatoire Royal Liège and Ancienne Belgique:  Loops, Memories and Meanings. 2013.
• Indefatigable Residencies, Novy Sad, 7 day workshop, talks, discussions and performances, including pages of Treatise. 2016.
• Networks: Performance as negotiation, Audio Arts Festival Conference, Krakow, 2018 
  
  

• Institute of contemporary Arts, London, Static and Interference: The Cultural Politics of Alternative Music.
• European Symposium on Experimental Music, Barcelona.
• LMC festival, London - Improvisational Strategies.
• Belo Horizonte, Brasil - Independent Label Management.
• Uplink Factory, Shibuya, Tokyo. File under Popular event organised by Eureka magazine. Screening of p53 concert video and Cassiber documentary followed by panel discussion with Shuhei Hosokawa, Toshimaru Ogura and Osamu Sakamoto. (Published in Eureka Dec 1998 issue. English translation here.
• The Wire, Whitstable: Off the Page (Copyrights and Wrongs)  with David Toop, Vicky Bennet, Robin Rimbaud, Kiran Sande and Tony Herrington. 2012
• JASMIM (Japanese Association of Study of Musical IMprovisation) annual meeting Hiroshima University, Similarity and Difference in Performing Improvisation and Existing Composed Material: What texts bring about and not, with Yumi Hara, Akiko Ochi, Kazuya Ishigami, Yasushi Sakai. 2013
• FUEL (Festival of performing arts at University of East London), London. Panel with Yumi Hara and Kengo Sakamoto Music Culture in Okinawa, the southern-most islands of Japan, and Rock in Opposition movement. 2015.
• Goethe Institute, Lisbon. Umsceet conference and festival on Underground Music in the Eastern Bloc.
  

Apart from numerous articles and papers on all manner of subjects published in Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Britain, Denmark, Holland, France, Hungary, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Canada & America I have published:

• The Henry Cow Story - a history (November Books, London, 1980)
• File Under Popular: theoretical and critical writings on music (November Books/ Autonomedia 1984/ new edition 1992) Translated and published also in Japanese, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and German.
  

Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms - in Popular Music Studies Vol. 1 IASPM  1984

Politisierung von Music kontra Vermarktung - in Musik und Gesellschaft, Berlin DDR, 1984

Sun Ra: The Realm of Lightening - in Rocksession 7, Rowohlt, Hamburg 1983

Plunderphonia - in MusicWorks 60, Toronto, 1994.

Republished in

Resonance Magazine, 1995.                     
Sounding Off: Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, ed Ron Sakolsky  and Fred Wei-Han Ho, Autonomedia, New York, 1995.    
Musica/Realta 48, Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, 1995                                          
Classic Essays on 20th Century Music, ed. Kostelanetz, Schirmer Books 1996            
Audioculture, Readings in Modern Music, ed Christopher Cox and Daniel Warner, Continuum Books, New York, 2004         

Music Electronic Media and Culture, ed Simon Emmerson,  Ashgate Publishing, 2005   

Teorie Vedy/Theory of Science, Centrefor Science Technology Studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences, Czech republic,                                                   
Od Analogoveho k Digitalnemu, Nove Pohlady na Nove Umenia V Audiovizualnm Veku, ed Josef Ceres, Michael Murin, Faculty of Fine Arts Akedemie Arts, Banská Bystrica, 2010.                                                                                       

The Residents - in Studium Nr 6, Ministry of culture and art, and the Culture Department of the City of Krakow,1995                  

Scale - in The Gramophone, London, 1998
republished in

Magyar Muhely (Hungarian Workshop) Arts magazine, Vol 39. 118th issue.

Phil Ochs and Elvis Presley -

in Rocksession 8 Rowowhat, Hamburg 1985

republished in

Nagros No 18/19, Ministry of Culture and Art, and the Culture Department of the City of Krakow, 1997

Looking Back

Big Ear Festival Programme, Budapest, 200o

republished in
Unearthing the Music, Umsceet.eu, 2018

Locality - in Angelica Festival Programme 1999.

Republished in
Resonance Vol 10, No.2, ed Caroline Kraabel, LMC London, 2006
Republished in full in

Arcana IV, Musicians on Music, ed. John Zorn. Tzadik Hips Road, 2009

Thoughts on Music and the Avant garde – Considerations of a term and its public use - In Musik-Avantgarde Zur Dialectik von Vorhut und Nachut,  Carl Von Ossietzky University Oldenburg Press,  2006                                                                  

Republished in
The Idea of the Avant Garde, ed Mac James Leger, Manchester University Press, 2014 

The Road to Plunderphonia - in Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona: Quaderns d'àudio, 2011                                                        

Collateral Damage, a Response to Kenneth Goldsmith -  in The Wire, 2011

The Multiple Politics of Henry Cow in Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc, ed Robert Aldington, The British Academy, Oxford University Press, 2013                                                                                                     

i have one thing to say about cage, and I’m saying it - in John Cage, Man, Work, Paradox, ed Marek Choloniewski and Barbary Boguni, Academy of Music, Krakow, 2014.

Practice as Research - in JASMIM Journal Vol.1, Japanese Association of Study of Musical IMprovisation, 2015.  

Exhibition

• Photo exhibits for Extended Play: Between Rock and Art Space exhibition, Photographic Resource Centre at Boston University, Boston, USA. Some photos here.

Short Biography

Long Taxonomic Biography with abbriviated form of list of performances

Detailed List of Performances since 2009 (under construction)

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