Recorded in an off-grid Spanish farmhouse during a brutal La Niña winter, ‘The Exit Diaries’ is the sound of a musician who scrapped an entire album’s worth of dark orchestral music, listened obsessively to Alice Coltrane, and arrived somewhere he hadn’t expected.

Inside the VP Records vault, restoration engineer Billy Polo is in a race against the physical lifespan of tape — and the even shorter lifespan of the people who know what to do with it.

With ‘ITERAE,’ a collaboration with Belgian pianist Jozef Dumoulin, electroacoustic composer Joseph Branciforte turns his live-editing system into an instrument for slowing time.

With a cast of Nashville heavyweights and a philosophy borrowed from improv comedy, Burlington-based guitarist and songwriter Bob Wagner makes his long-overdue case for the front of the stage.

The ambient composer on her cassette release ‘Yarrow,’ frog taxis, the power of dormant seeds, and the dread of leaving one’s recorder out overnight in the rain.

Ora Cogan discusses her Sacred Bones debut, protest music, collective activism, and the shifting meaning of “Katie Cruel” over a decade.

VP Records engineer Billy Polo on restoring reggae’s rarest tapes, archiving Jamaican music history, and the art of mastering for digital.

Dutch composer Stephen Emmer discusses Asymmetrical Dot, Indonesian heritage, hearing loss, and four decades of learning which clichés to reject.

Critic George Grella discusses his book Minimalist Music, arguing that Reich, Glass, and the genre are really about one thing: time.

Canadian violinist Meredith Bates discusses her new album The Observer Effect — improvisation, quantum physics, and feminine intuition.