Joseph Byrd has been played on NTS in shows including Yem Gel, featured first on 17 December 2017. Songs played include Four Sound*Poems, In Dulci Jubilo and E La Don Don Verges Maria.

Composer Joseph Byrd (credited as Joe Byrd on his two Columbia releases with The United States of America and Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies) studied modern composition with John Cage among others. He was an early proponent of "minimalist" composition, and was involved in the academic avant-garde in the early 60s. After getting a teaching appointment at UCLA, he relocated to the West Coast and began to study Indian and…