Digipack CD. The longer electroacoustic and orchestral works of Martin Bartlett, a composer who has stayed almost unknown. What separates him is that he built aleatoric behaviour into electronic music instead of treating the machine as something to be brought under control. He designed open interactions between instrumental players and computer-controlled synthesizers, made his own devices, and worked extensively on the Buchla 400 alongside Don Buchla himself. He studied with Pauline Oliveros, John Cage and David Tudor, and also Carnatic vocal music with V. Lakshminarayana Iyer in Madras, South Asian music with Pandit Pran Nath, and gamelan with K.R.T. Wasitodipuro. He founded the Vancouver Community Gamelan in 1986.

His performances were often collective and often literal. For the Western Front's second anniversary in 1975 he made One Piece for Everyone: he prepared and cooked a cauliflower curry on a table wired into a synthesizer he had built, reading aloud from texts about food while he worked. When the curry was done the piece ended and everyone was fed.

He wrote well too, on the barrier between a performer and a black box, and on what organic systems might mean inside electronic music. In one manifesto-like text he hoped that electronic music might carry "organic codes of growth and metamorphosis" so that he could "pluck elegant and fleshy electronic sound fish from the frothy algorithmic sea of possibilities".

Why he stayed obscure is not clear. His work remained largely inside the academy, and much of it was live and communal and therefore hard to keep hold of. His archive shows that rejection from labels was a source of real personal distress, and that he put out his final work through the Western Front shortly before his death. He died young, of AIDS-related causes, in 1993. Compiled and edited by Luke Fowler with Jennifer Lucy Allan, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.