In 1842 Francisco Lopez discovered gold while foraging wild onions near an oak tree in Placerita Canyon, initiating the California gold rush. In 1965 Don Buchla introduced his 100 series modular synthesizer at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. These histories are entangled and ongoing. The episode has been curated by Michael Ned Holte, a writer, curator and educator living in Los Angeles and occasional columnist of Occasional Radio.

This episode features: Harold Budd, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani, M. Geddes Gengras, Steve Roden.