“The way that music’s written about, it’s all about what an individual is doing and how you can relate to them,” says Leeds artist and promoter Theo Gowans, taking to Abi Bliss in The Wire 468. “Whereas I think it’s a lot more rewarding creating these spaces and a sort of music where it is super-flattened and there are zero expectations,” he continues. “It’s really DIY in the sense that you don’t even need to have gear; you can just cobble something together.”

Although Gowans has a long list of recordings and live appearances credited to his solo project Territorial Gobbing, his focus and objectives go beyond his own fluxus inspired absurdist sound practice; he's just as concerned with booking and promoting gigs at his local co-operatively run venue Wharf Chambers, for which he'll also create visual art for posters and flyers, engineer the sound and work on the door – activities that form what Bliss refers to as one big “no-audience underground ecosystem.”

This playlist – compiled by the noisenik musician and improvising performer himself – includes collaborations with fellow Leeds artist Pressure Cooker Relief Valve and Bristol's Carnivorous Plants, plus a live recording from a recent solo show at London's Cafe Oto.

Read Abi Bliss's interview with Territorial Gobbing in full in The Wire 468. Wire subscribers can also read the article online via the digital library.