Toop discusses meeting John Oswald in 1979 (NYC) and falling in with a group of musicians who practice "instant jump-cut improvising"
"Oswald, John Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne, Polly Bradfield, Charles K. Noyes, Bob Ostertag, and Toshinori Kondo" (261)
"Zorn has explained it as a generational thing of growing up with a diverse record collection"