We have a pretty big website, that we keep up to date. The website contains the main catalog (by medium and by artist), an artist page for every artist (where we list everything of that artist in Frog Peak), a score catalog by instrumentation, some pages for special projects (Frog Peak produced CDs, books, etc.), this FAQ page, and other stuff. Frog Peak accepts credit cards over the web, and has its own domain name (frogpeak.org). Our stuff is carried by Amazon.

Frog Peak Music is a composers' collective, devoted to the availability of experimental works. Mostly musical, but not entirely. Frog Peak member artists have more or less complete control of which of their works are in Frog Peak, and how they are reproduced. We're interested in innovative, appropriate uses of technology to get works out cheaply, and in staying organizationally small and sustainable.

To lots of people, libraries, performers, new music lovers, collectors, distributors, stores, and so on, all over the world. A number of important, major libraries have and maintain nearly complete collections of scores and books carried by Frog Peak. We also take credit cards and institional purchase orders, so just about anyone can order from us.

Call us, email us, or contact us in any way, and send us some examples of your work. Joining is informal, but selective. We are very interested in experimental, innovativeart and music, and we take the considered recommendations of member artists pretty seriously. Also, we like to work with nice, cooperative people, who are as much interested in the benefits to everyone in the collective as they are to their own work. Many Frog Peak artists are invited.

Hundreds. Along with its many single member artists, Frog Peak has taken on the complete remaining inventory of several like-minded projects in American (and elsewhere) experimental independent publishing (for example, Soundings and Lingua Press), as well as distributing nearly complete collections of periodicals like Xenharmonikon, furnitures and Feedback, we include a great many artists who do not have a "single" listing in the catalog.

In one of two ways. You can send us multiple copies, that you make yourself in exactly the way you want, and we will distribute those (until we run out, and ask you for more). Or, preferably, you make one clean master copy (we don't do paste up, editing, parts extraction, etc.) and we keep that on file as a copy master. That's better for us. We never run out, we don't have to store multiple copies, and we are set up to print things on-demand pretty easily.

We've done concert series, endowed a small prize (at Mills, for the most "community minded graduate student composer"), served as design consultants for member artists, functioned as an umbrella organization for member artist projects, resurrected the works of a number of older composers (Johanna Beyer, Ruth Crawford Seeger), and generally been amenable to any whacky notion a member artist proposed.

Around 1982, in the San Francisco Bay Area, along with its "sister" institution, the American Gamelan Institute, which shares administrative resources. Some of its earliest members and cohorts include James Tenney, Anthony Braxton, Lou Harrison, David Rosenboom, David Mahler, Alexis Alrich, Anne LaBerge, Carter Scholz, Chris Mann, Eric Richards, Dan Goode, and a number of others. Practically, not much; philosophically a great deal.

List it in the catalog (print and web), and often announce new members and works over email lists. We don't have enough money to advertise (except occasionally). We send out postcards occasionally to our very large mailing list, usually when we produce a new CD or book. We also have a "new additions" list that we send out regularly, plus we have an extensive press, reviewer, radio and "comp" list, which we use.

Over the years we've learned a lot about clean, cheap, simple (to us, elegant) design, and that's been a motivating factor in what we do. We're interested in clarity and simplicity, consistency, and in doing things in a sustainable fashion. There are a number of very good designers associated with Frog Peak, whose ideas we draw on frequently, and who are involved in various ways in various productions.

Well, we like to think that all the artists, by their commitment and passion, are working for it, and that is pretty much true. Aside from that, we have one half-time, salaried Administrative Director named Paul Schick who does most of the office work, and two directors who are non-salaried and do a lot of work as well.

Anything, once an artist becomes a member. Our main interest is in experimental stuff, but we don't really have a clear organizational definition of what that means. If stuff is interesting to us, or argued for by one of the active member artists, that's an important factor.

We don't demand performance royalties, we don't make any money, we don't choose some pieces and not others, and we don't exercise editorial control. The best of the big publishing companies are labors of love and economic ventures. We're just a labor of love. Also, we have a garage full of books, scores, records, and CDs. Good question. There are two very different ways in which Frog Peak operates. The first is as a publishing and CD company of its own.

Any Frog Peak artist can make her own work, and put it in Frog Peak as part of her catalog. We have no say about what that CD looks like, sounds like, etc. When FP artists do CDs on our label, we take a considerable degree of control over production, design, sound, liner notes, etc., in the same way that a more conventional label would.

Peak hours refer to the hours of highest wireless phone usage. Typically peak minutes are billed at a service plan's highest rate. Conversely, off-peak hours refer to the hours of the lowest wireless phone usage and off-peak minutes are billed at lower rates. Peak hours are typically between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. Off-peak hours include the weekends, some holidays, and the hours of 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. during the week. However, some service plans may vary.

Estimating the peak is a daunting prospect but since the whole season in any given area only lasts about three weeks and the middle of that being roughly around the second week of October in this southwestern part of the state one could pretty comfortably say the peak will be then, although there may be splendid colors in late September and even the third week of October.

Make a frog in a restaurant. Make the legs first and offer 'em frog legs for dinner. It's a little more expensive since it's not on the menu. And they're a bit rubbery...but they taste just like chicken!

With the Emailer Frog, you simply add a link. If you don't provide an email address to send a notification email to, then we will search our own records and spider the site looking for the best contact email address. Once we have an email address to send to, we send an email to them informing of your link and asking for a reciprocal link. If we haven't heard back, we keep track of how long ago you sent the email and send a second request / reminder.

The Link Checker Frog will continually recheck the reciprocal links to make sure that they are still reciprocating. We will then send a request to the site for an update if we don't continue to see your link. We will also send you notification of what we found and what we are doing about it.

The Link Builder Frog will look at your categories and find relevant links for them. We will build links at a steady pace so you don't suffer from Google thinking you are link spamming. We use human decisions as to the quality for your links.