EARCAM is an informal group of composers and performers for whom music is a-muse-ment and playing music as just that – a form of play. Operating from a disused underground nuclear bunker in chic, sophisticated rural Fife, EARCAM blurs the distinctions between music, theatre and conversation.

EARCAM has existed for decades, but mostly not under that name. Beginning as a teenage bedroom project with one person, two cassette recorders and some cobbled-together electronics in the mid-1970s, EARCAM has continued in many forms and with the involvement of various people to the present day. Our noises smear the boundaries between music and noise; conversation and peformance; background and foreground. We sometimes play live gigs, usually as guerilla events in non-traditional venues, but that doesn’t necessarily sound anything like what we put out on our recordings.

EARCAM is also a cassette-based record label, committed to releasing experimental/montage sound recordings on our favourite low-fi, low-volume, low durability format because home taping is killing music and good music is diposable music.