The term “third coast” originated in Houston, Texas, in the seventies to describe growing significant activity in the arts in US southern states bordering the Gulf of Mexico. New and live-electronic music thrives as well in the inland cities of San Antonio, Austin, the Dallas/Ft. Worth “metroplex”, and at the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia in Denton. Alternating with explanatory text is a transcription of an informal conversation between Texas composers Austin and Jerry Hunt, discussing the technology and aesthetics at issue in live-electronic music. They describe their own works, including Hunt's Sur (Doctor) John Dee (1967) and Flund (1987) and Austin's Accidents (1967) and Beachcombers (1983), elucidating the musico-dramatic, technical, and poetic dimensions of each piece.
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