John Gullak

A founding member of San Francisco’s infamous art-punk band The Mutants, Gullak (b. 1953), was first a painter with several exhibitions in Bay Area galleries during the 1970s. He founded Another Room Magazine in 1978 with Lucy Childs and graphic designer Michael Mallery [+], apparently one of the first magazines designed using a MacIntosh computer. Another Room was a zine devoted to SF’s underground culture and arts to which Greil Marcus, amongst others, was a contributor. In 1982, the editors also organized Public Hearing events, during which they mixed various cassettes on a PA system installed on the roof of a building in an industrial area in Oakland, CA.. Gullak co-founded A.R.P.H. Tapes (for Another Room Public Hearings) in 1982 with Jeff Brogan, and released a dozen of compilation cassettes and solo works from a network of (principally Bay Area) contributors, including XX Committee, Big City Orchestra, Johanna Went, or The Problemist aka Unsound magazine publisher William Davenport. Founder of "The No Other Radio Network" program on KPFA, Berkeley, CA. in 1981, a radio show focused on underground, experimental, electronic and industrial music.