This page is based on the package of a pornographic film that that Tom Phillips' son Leo found titled "Dante's Inferno." Phillips painted elements to the flattened and ripped box changed "minors" to "Minos," and crossed out portions of male anatomy. Phillips writes in his text that he showed the video tapes to Iris Murdoch and Brian Eno who liked it a lot and found it inventive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes neologisms such as malchemy, aneither, and chaorder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

John Walters contributes a lengthy, well illustrated essay, "Sound, code, image," that describes visual musical scores that composers use to liberate their sound from its five-line grid. He claims these scores are graphic designs of music. Steven Heller traces the history of picture magazines from German, Russian, Dutch and finally the American Life magazine. He notes that these visual narratives succeeded until the advent of television. Julia Thrift describes the radical magazines published for political purposes on duplicators, copy machines and now on the internet in her essay, "Do-it-yourself." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lucy O'Brien interviews Phillips and Eno from the time that Tom taught Eno at Ipswich Aart School in 1964 through their artistic and musical relationship of the current times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips did the libretto and Gavin Bryars the music for this piece. On the verso of the jacket, Bryars explains how he composed the musical score. A portion of the libretto is also reprinted on the verso. Brian Eno produced the record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips did the libretto and Gavin Bryars the music for this piece. On the verso of the jacket, Bryars explains how he composed the musical score. A portion of the libretto is also reprinted on the verso. Brian Eno produced the record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mentions homage to Ronald Firbank at Lisson Art Gallery; letter has a sketched concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard writes next to the title," really to be played on 4 foghorns - one each of 4 islands." Other instructions are for playing with variations of the letters cage and two long bars of notes also based on the name cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

All items in this catalogue are 12" vinyl recordings issued in an album jacket -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.