Spool was a recording label from 1998–2008 started by Vern Weber and Daniel Kernohan. During its life it put out 41 CDs primarily of improvised music, but also electro-acoustic music, experimental & new composition and avant-rock. The label divided its releases into 4 series, LINE, FIELD, POINT, and ARC. Roughly, LINE was the improviser series, POINT, the composer series, FIELD, electro-acoustic series and ARC, the avant-rock series.