Chuck Bettis was first played on NTS on 25 February 2025. Songs played include Secret Thumbs of a Tortoise.

Chuck Bettis was raised in the fertile HarDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore's enigmatic avant garde gatherings, and currently blossoming in New York's downtown musical tribe. He has performed with John Zorn, Fred Frith, Jamie Saft, and Afrirampo to name a few. Some of the musicians Bettis has recorded and played live with are as follows; Ikue Mori, Nautical Almanac, Audrey Chen, Yellow Swans, Toshio Kajiwara, Mick Barr, etc, plus a long history of punk bands he was in (most notably the experimental punk band Meta-matics as well as the enigmatic All Scars). Currently he is working on many of his experimental projects such as Brown Wing Overdrive (amorphous group with Derek Morton and others), Mudang Rouge (quartet with Jerry Lim, Evan Rapport, Josh Blair), Period (quartet with Mike Pride, Charlie Looker, Darius Jones), Pretty Clicks (duo with Berangere Maximin), Hell Hoarse (duo with Brendan Murray) and Chatterblip (duo with Dafna Naphtali), in addition to improvising, recording, or composing with an array of musicians from around the world.