Two great links from Eye magazine editor John Walters’s moving small talk at the AIGA National Conference in Denver a few weeks ago. The first is Walters’s own magazine Unknown Public, a subscription-based music “magazine” of sorts. Walters’s comment on the name—”I felt there was an ‘unknown public’ out there that would respond to these things”—is as good a reason for starting a magazine as any I’ve heard. The box format of UP reminds me a bit of some of the later issues of Neville Brody’s font subscription ‘zine FUSE. Walters’s talk also introduced me to early electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott, who is quite a fascinating character. Contemporary proponents of Scott’s eccentric commercial scores include Gorilliaz, Soul Coughing, Mark Mothersbaugh, and The Kleptones. Scott: “The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through a microphone, amplifiers, transmission lines, radio transmitter, receiving set, and, finally, the loud speaker apparatus itself.”