Ever wondered who comes up with this stuff? What were they thinking? Find out each week on Alive and Composing: the Wonderful World of Innova where Philip Blackburn opens the Composer Interrogation Manual and fires a series of questions at artists on the label to get at the humans behind the music. It's a great way to catch up with some of America's most productive and visionary citizens and put the sounds they make in some kind of personal context.

We recommend subscribing to the show at iTunes and joining the American Composers Forum discussion group at Gather.com to share some feedback. Of course you can buy the featured music from your favorite innova supplier by using the Menu bar above.

Please note that if you subscribed to the first version of the series on iTunes and haven't received any updated shows recently you will need to delete that subscription and resubscribe through the link below.

Here's how:

1. Download and install the free iTunes player

2. Click HERE to subscribe to the series

[If that fails try this: On the top iTunes menu bar go to Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast... Cut and paste this link into the window: http://acfmusic.org/innova/podcasts/xml/showinfo.xml

And if iTunes just ain't your thing you can always go the the artists' page and follow the linked .mp3/quicktime show directly in your browser.)

Or, indeed, go HERE to pick and choose)

3. Listen to the show on your computer or synch up your iPod to carry it with you wherever you go.

4. New episodes will automatically download to your Podcasts folder in iTunes each week. (Repeat #3)

6. Join the Composers Forum group at gather.com and share your view of the featured artist's work (who knows, they may even be online to answer your questions).