Table of the Elements

Table of the Elements is an avant-garde record label created by Jeff HuntPatrick Nickleson, The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute, University of Michigan Press 2023, p. 72 and co-owned by Hunt and producer/writer Paul Williams. TOTE-Catalog-2025, page 14

Begun in 1993, the label’s 150-plus releases form a significant contemporary chronicle of American experimental music. Table of the Elements numbers its releases to correspond to symbols from the periodic table in increasing order of atomic weight, rather than using the traditional numerical system.

Table of the Elements concentrates on releases and re-releases of art music, experimental music and minimal music, including many avant-garde musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as John Cale, Tony Conrad,Patrick Nickleson, The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute, University of Michigan Press 2023, p. 73 La Monte Young,Patrick Nickleson, The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute, University of Michigan Press 2023, p. 140 Loren Mazzacane Connors, Derek Bailey, Rhys Chatham, Fushitsusha/Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Angus MacLise, Mats Gustafsson and Thurston Moore.

The label’s archive, housed at Within Things, contains over 15,000 CDs and LP records. Within Things Table of the Elements Archive The Table of the Elements Archive publishes the estate of Tony Conrad. Table of the Elements has also hosted multiple-day music festival. It re-launched in 2025 with a catalogue of new and re-releases. TOTE-Catalog-2025 Table of the Elements to Relaunch With New Platform and Publishing House The influential label associated with Tony Conrad, Thurston Moore, and many more avant-garde artists returns with a new modus operandi, Pitchfork, Jazz Monroe

Artists

9 Beet Stretch (Leif Inge) Agathe Max Alastair Galbraith Alison Chesley AMM Angus MacLise Anthony Moore Arkansaw Man Arnold Dreyblatt Art Kane Ateleia (James Elliott) Badgerlore Barbara Ess Belong Ben Vida Bernhard Günter Birchville Cat Motel BC Gilbert Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band CM von Hausswolff Charlemagne Palestine Christian Fennesz Collections of Colonies of Bees Davey Williams David Daniell David Grubbs Derek Bailey Eliane Radigue Erling Wold Faust Francisco López Fushitsusha Gastr del Sol Gate Hans Reichel Hal Rammel Helen Money Henry Kaiser Jack Rose Jack Smith Jackie Higgins Jean-Marc Montera Jennifer Walshe Jim O'Rourke John Cale John Fahey Jon Mueller Jonathan Kane Joseph Nechvatal Keiji Haino Keith Rowe KK Null La Monte Young LaDonna Smith Laurie Spiegel Lee Ranaldo Lichens Loren (Mazzacane) Connors Marian Zazeela Mats Gustafsson Matthew Welch Megafaun Melissa St. Pierre Mike Kelley Neptune One Umbrella Oren Ambarchi Patrick Nickelson Paul Panhuysen Pauline Oliveros Peggy Ahwesh Presocratics R. Keenan Lawler Radio Guitar Rafael Toral RLW (Ralf Wehowsky) Rhys Chatham Richard Youngs San Agustin Trio School of Seven Bells Hubcap City Stephen O'Malley Terri Kapsalis Text of Light The Dream Syndicate Thunderboy! Thurston Moore Tony Conrad Transmission William Hooker Zeena Parkins

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