When we asked an array of musicians and artists—including Laurie Anderson, Nels Cline, and Bill Frisell—to share their reflections about John Zorn on the occasion of his 60th birthday, three words kept recurring: “visionary,” “mensch,” “dude.” In a two-part celebration of Zorn’s sixth decade, we share 60 birthday wishes for this celebrated improviser, experimenter, and genre-jumping producer.

In concert (ahem) with the March 31 broadcast of MN Original’s mini-documentary on Rock the Garden 2012, The Current shares a few web-only extras—footage of Doomtree, Trampled by Turtles, and Howler (covering Hüsker Dü’s “Don’t Wanna Know if You Are Lonely”).

To celebrate their marriage on March 20, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their first Bed-In for Peace 44 years ago. Part Vietnam protest, part honeymoon, the in-bed event drew such media attention that they staged a second one in Montreal two months later.

Part experimental music gig, part multimedia rock show, part Happening, Sō Percussion’s Where (we) Live is a freeform investigation of the places—and states of mind—we call home. Performed in September 2012 by the Brooklyn-based quartet along with Minneapolis artists, this Walker-commissioned work is now presented online, exclusively and in its entirety on the Walker Channel.

For electronic supergroup Atoms For Peace’s new video, “Ingenue,” Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke (AFP vocalist) delves into contemporary dance, pairing with dancer Fukiko Takase. Like many a Yorke dance move, this one, too, is now available in GIF form.

Paul Douglas considers himself an “albino unicorn.” A moderate Republican, he’s also a meteorologist who believes climate change is real. Music-theater artist Cynthia Hopkins decided to make art about the crisis after a 2010 Arctic expedition. In a recent interview, the pair discusses global warming and ways that art, science, and spirituality can work together to change minds about a changing planet.

Artist Dinos Chapman is “terrified” how Luftbobler, his debut album of “experimental ambient electronic noise,” will be received. “I can’t hide behind my brother. Jake and I do this thing where I can blame it on him or he can blame it on me. This is just me.”