A Different Nature

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Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2025 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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A Different Nature on 02/23/15

Airs at: Mon, 02/23/2015 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Mickey Hart on ADN!

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2015 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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What on Earth is Mickey Hart doing on A Different Nature?! Tonight's show will feature some music by Mickey Hart, former drummer for the quintessential jam band, The Grateful Dead, who has expanded his musical boundaries to become a conservator of traditional rhythms thro... Read more

A Different Nature on 02/09/15

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2015 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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The Music of Edgar Froese/Tangerine Dream

Airs at: Mon, 02/02/2015 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Electronic Ambient music pioneer Edgar Froese passed away suddenly on January 20th. For many years he led Tangerine Dream and released his own albums of ambient electronic soundscapes. Froese was born on D-Day - 6 June, 1944 - in Tilsit in East Prussia, now the Russia... Read more

Noah Howard BLACK ARK; Alexander Von Schlippenbach SUN UNITY; SELWYN LISSACK Friendship Next of Kin

Airs at: Mon, 01/26/2015 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Join us for some Free Jazz from the late 60's, early 70's. Two seminal recordings, and an awesome rare date by South African drummer Selwyn Lissak. Alexander Von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity: SUN, from December 6th and 7th, 1966 at Ariola Studios, Cologne. Personnel includ... Read more

Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic

Airs at: Mon, 01/12/2015 at 12:00am
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The Sinking of the Titanic Tonight we listen to a performance of Gavin Bryars "The Sinking of the Titanic."   Inspired by the story that the band on the Titanic continued to perform as the ship sank, it recreates how the music performed by the band would reverberate thr... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE

Airs at: Mon, 01/05/2015 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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On this installment of A Different Nature, I revisit some of my favorite music from 40 years ago, including selections from King Crimson, Magma, Amon Düül II, and Miles Davis --host: Andy Hosch Read more

Henry Cow/Art Bears and Associates

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2014 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Over the past 1-2 years, A DIfferent Nature has presented, intermittently, a group of individual artists who made up the groups Henry Cow and Art Bears. Fred Frith, Dagmar Krause, Lindsay Cooper, and Chris Cutler--all members of one or both of these bands all later went ... Read more

A Double Double feature

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2014 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Often film soundtrack employs experimental music. Tonight on A Different Nature we go to the movies. Each hour we will hear select audio from a couple different movies from the last coulple years, not just the theme and incidental music, but also bits of dialog and some ... Read more

A Different Nature on 12/08/14

Airs at: Mon, 12/08/2014 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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