Table of the Elements
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Table of the Elements is an avant-garde record label created by Jeff Huntcite-ref-1[1] and co-owned by Hunt and producer/writer Paul Williams.cite-ref-2[2]
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,cite-ref-3[3] La Monte Young,cite-ref-4[4] 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.cite-ref-5[5] 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.cite-ref-6[6]cite-ref-7[7]
Contents
• Artists
• See also
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Artists
• AMM
• Arkansaw Man
• Art Kane
• Ateleia (James Elliott)
• Badgerlore
• Belong
• Ben Vida
• Faust
• Gate
• Jackie Higgins
• KK Null
• Lichens
• Megafaun
• Melissa St. Pierre
• Neptune
• Patrick Nickelson
• R. Keenan Lawler
• Radio Guitar
• Rafael Toral
• RLW (Ralf Wehowsky)
• San Agustin Trio
• Terri Kapsalis
• Text of Light
• Thunderboy!
See also
References
cite-note-11. ↑ Patrick Nickleson, The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute, University of Michigan Press 2023, p. 72
cite-note-22. ↑ [1] TOTE-Catalog-2025, page 14
cite-note-33. ↑ Patrick Nickleson, The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute, University of Michigan Press 2023, p. 73
cite-note-44. ↑ Patrick Nickleson, The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute, University of Michigan Press 2023, p. 140
cite-note-55. ↑ [2] Within Things Table of the Elements Archive
cite-note-66. ↑ [3] TOTE-Catalog-2025
cite-note-77. ↑ [4] 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
External links
• Table of the Elements official site
• Within Things Table of the Elements Archive
• Table of the Elements publishing catalog at MusicBrainz