Ladies and Gentlemen, for your entertainment and enlightenment enjoyment, sit
right down, still your alpha waves and prepare to be enveloped by the
quietest music in the world! In the center ring, two (count them two) triple
pianissimo pieces by Morton Feldman, “For Samu...
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A late evening jazz special featuring composer Jon Jang and his Pan-Asian
Arkestra. Jang is a strong advocate for Asian cultural and political identity
and his music often features Chinese poetry and traditional instruments in a
jazz setting. A two-hour in-depth listen t...
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If you need to chill after New Year’s Eve, on Monday, the very first of
January at 10:00 pm (PST), we will finish off the evening with harmonious
environmental recordings (plus a little electronic “tweaking”), with some
desert cricket thunder frog music by Spanish artist...
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SOFTLY FALLING RADIO – Or: “The next best thing to silence” (whatever
that means). Given two more hours this evening we will present a few
musicians playing really really quietly (personally, I blame Manfred Eicher).
Featured artists include: Enrico Rava, Fred Hersch, Pa...
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We present part three (the grand finale) of November's Art Ensemble of
Chicago tribute. Tonight features four hours and forty years of "Great Black
Music, Ancient to Future" with Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Famadou Don
Moye, Malachi Favors Maghostus, and Lester Bowie...
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Our three-part tribute to the Art Ensemble of Chicago continues with an extra
hour of the orchestral music of saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell. A perfect
mixture of “jazz” improvisations and “chance” compositions, we will
hear large orchestral pieces of music. And stay tuned...
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A birthday salute to electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick (ninety years
young). Using analog signal modules (little boxes, lots of wires) Subotnick
created an epic array of cool, dry, and sympatico synthesizer pieces with
lovely names (Silver Apples of the Moon, Fou...
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You know what’s great about water? It sounds fantastic. You love hearing
rain, streams, water over mossy stones, the spume of sweet ocean surf. Why
not kick back this evening and listen to all these amazing forms of
precipitous riverine sound. Bonus: we have geysers! We ...
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ADN presents a tribute to the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. Though
little known in the U.S. she was greatly admired in Europe for short chamber
pieces and song cycles. We will play one full hour of various lovely pieces
for flute, harp, female chorus, and sample...
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KBOO kicks off Black History Month with a special featuring extended
orchestral compositions by four extraordinary jazz musicians: the “Ptah and
Mantra” songs by Alice Coltrane, “Afrika Rising” by Nicole Mitchell and
the Black Earth Ensemble, “Occupy the World for Life, ...
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