Since 1976, a variety of concerts by the S.E.M. Ensemble, with guest performers John Cage , David Tudor , Jackson MacLow , Dick Higgins , Christian Marclay and Pauline Oliveros , among others. The S.E.M Ensemble, founded by Petr Kotik in 1970, is dedicated to the performance of experimental and avant-garde music. In the last thirty years, S.E.M. has collaborated with an impressive array of composers, including Brown , Cage, Leroy Jenkins , Rhys Chatham , Christian Wolff , David Tudor , Phil Niblock , La Monte Young and Elliott Sharp . In 1992, The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, an extension of the chamber music group, debuted at Carnegie Hall with an 86-piece ensemble, performing Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis with Tudor as soloist. Since then, S.E.M. has performed regularly in major New York concert halls and has appeared in various European and Asian venues, including Tokyo's Oji Hall in 1997.
Cooper hopes to use the new label to branch further out into new music.
Currently, there are no plans to post the actual music online, but she thinks they will at least use the Internet to promote the label.