Joe Potts was hailed by The Wire (UK) as “something new and revolutionary”.

Though he holds degrees in Fine Arts he studied electronic composition at the California Institute of the Arts dropping in on classes taught by Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and working in the Buchla equipped electronic music studios. He has composed electro-acoustic music exclusively since 1973 creating Art/Sound installations and performing in the U.S., Italy, Japan Germany, Belgium and Norway.

A founding member of The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) a seminal experimental music collective he is also the “man behind the curtain” in Airway, an art/sound collective that combines walls of sound with subliminal treatments and treats live musicians as electronic signals which are processed and manipulated. For the past 25 years he has been composing for the “Chopped Optigan” a Seventies optical sampling console organ that he has customized and rewired in order to create dense undulating chords of up to 64 notes at a time.

Recordings of his music can be found on LAFMS, Birdman, Cause and Effect, Staalplaat, Organ of Corti, Boudisque, Vinyl On Demand, Important and other labels. Musical collaborators include Director David Blum, Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle), Paul and Damon McCarthy, John Duncan, Mike Kelley, Thurston Moore, David Toop, Yoshihide Otomo, Don Preston and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto.