Metalanguage Festival of Improvised Music 1980, Volume 2: The Science Set
Album by Derek Bailey & Evan Parker & Henry Kaiser & Larry Ochs & Jon Raskin & Greg Goodman & Toshinori Kondo & Andrew Voigt
Metalanguage Festival of Improvised Music 1980, Volume 2: The Science Set is a live album by English free-improvisation guitarist Derek Bailey, recorded at the Metalanguage festival in 1980. It documents Bailey's avant-garde approach to free improvisation, emphasising abstract, non-idiomatic guitar textures, extended techniques and spontaneous interaction that reflect his work within the experimental improvised-music scene of the period.
First released: 1981

Tracklist
- 1.Cumulus4:32
- 2.Gabbro Scoops5:20
- 3.Lexeme7:08
- 4.Xenon7:41
- 5.Realgar4:47
- 6.Carpus7:45
- 7.Basalt7:54
- 8.Applied Ions6:42