A Different Nature

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Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2025 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Every Monday from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

Sustained Explorations of New, Experimental Music and Sonic Art

A Different Nature Mission Statement: A Sustained Explorations of New, Experimental Music and Sonic Art
A Different Nature is a curatorial program of genre-defying avant garde music and spoken word that champions historic and modern sound art and spotlights, new, emergent experimental music and audio art generally not heard anywhere else.
The program's format provides the space for deep listening to pieces not confined to pop song lengths and shows are generally focused on an artist, school of music or discipline, record label or art movement.

 A Different Nature is a collaborative effort of the ADN Collective, who each curate a show every week on an informal rotating basis, or a group show,     depending on the subject at hand.

A Different Nature was founded in the late Seventies by Richard Francis, who fearlessly championed new music and the unheard Avant Garde. His programs went into exhaustive detail on individual artists, labels and musical disciplines. He also spearheaded many important events on the air, such as the 2001 and 2008 Dada and Surrealism festivals that dominated the airwaves for days on end and involved many in the local avant garde community as well as many KBOO programmers.

Richard passed away in 2009 but it's our hope to carry on with his mission of introducing listeners to unheard new music as a collective of his collaborators and listeners.

Long live Papa Dada!

 

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Program status: 
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Freeform Guest Hosts!

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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On this episode of A Different Nature, we're excited to invite fellow avant garde/experimental musical enthusiasts from Freeform Portland to share some of their current earworms and favorite soundscapes. We'll be joined by: Dr. Fuzz, host of Dr. Fuzz's Heavy Psychedelic ... Read more

A Different Nature on 05/21/18

Airs at: Mon, 05/21/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature on 05/14/18

Airs at: Mon, 05/14/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature on 05/07/18

Airs at: Mon, 05/07/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Decibel: Fiat Lux

Airs at: Mon, 04/30/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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 On A Different Nature we will be listening to selections of the legendary mexican cult pioneer experimental band Decibel. A 3 CD box set: Fiat Lux, with recordings from 1977-2000, produced in a limited edition of 700 copies by MIO records.   We can find alternate takes... Read more

Cecil Taylor 1929-2018

Airs at: Mon, 04/23/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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This month we lost one of the great creative forces to emerge from the free jazz movement, so we'll be listening back to music of the virtuostic & inconoclastic pianist & composer Cecil Taylor on this week's A Different Nature. We will hear Cecil solo and in different gr... Read more

A Different Nature on 04/16/18

Airs at: Mon, 04/16/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature on 04/09/18

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature on 04/02/18

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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THE QUEEN MAEVE SHOW

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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The Legend of Queen Maeve (cf: The Tain) re-imagined as 21st century light operetta in Irish gaelic and “downtown” slang, book by Paul Muldoon, performed by Chicago’s Eighth Blackbird Ensemble.  Re-Joyce to John Cage’s unfathomable Roaratorio, 2,293 discrete elements of ... Read more