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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Arturo Meza: Los Cantos de Eloiel, Hanassmussen, Persiatanis Om Luit Magiat,

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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This Monday, on A Different Nature, we will be playing some unedited, never released recordings by Arturo Meza: prolific author of cult. These hyper-rare eperimental recordings are from the late 1970's, and conform Meza's discography : Los Cantos de Eloiel (The Chants of E... Read more

"The Well-Tuned Radio" --A Different Nature presents LaMonte Young's "The Well-Tuned Piano"

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2013 at 8:00pm - Tue, 12/31/2013 at 1:00am
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"The Well-Tuned Radio" A DEEP LISTENING experiment-- 8:00 PM til 1:00 AM A DIFFERENT NATURE presents LaMonte Young's minimalist classic, THE WELL-TUNED PIANO--- KBOO invites YOU to participate in a DEEP LISTENING experience--THE WELL-TUNED PIANO tune your radio into an "ai... Read more

A Different Nature on 12/23/13

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2013 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature on 12/16/13

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2013 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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GO: ORGANIC ORCHESTRA

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2013 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Adam Rudolph's Go: Organic Orchestra ranges in size from 18 to 54 instrumentalists. Large woodwind and percussion sections, augmented by brass and sometimes strings. Go: Organic Orchestra employs an original music notation and conducting system developed by Rudolph.   Fr... Read more

TWO SIDES OF THE SAME LOU

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2013 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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TWO SIDES OF THE SAME LOU : The Experimental Sides of LOU REED Tonight on A Different Nature, we present, in it's raw entirety, Reed's controversial and intense METAL MACHINE MUSIC from 1975. Upon it's initial release, the album caused nothing less than an uproar-- the roc... Read more

Dagmar Krause

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2013 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Dagmar Krause is a German singer, mainly known for her work in the 1970s-80s with avant-rock groups Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, and Art Bears. More recently she has covered the music of Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weil, and Hanns Eisler. Krause's distinctive voice has been called ... Read more

A Different Nature: pianistic meditations (& eruptions)

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2013 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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TONIGHT at 8 pm on A Different Nature: a preview of the upcoming (every Jan) San Francisco Tape Music Festival  and three very different nature explorations of The Piano: ~LaMonte Young's "the well-tuned piano" ~Steve Reich's "Piano Phase"  ~ Cecil Taylor's "Air Above Mountai... Read more

Kuupuu, Lau Nau, Islaja and Hertta Lussu Assa

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2013 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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     Tonight on A Different Nature: we go to Finland as we listen to the improvisational experimentalism of HERTTA LUSSU ASSA,  as well as material from solo projects from the three women who make up this group: KUUPUU (Jonna Karanka), LAU NAU (Laura Naukkarinen) and ISL... Read more

Cultures Electroniques/ Bourges

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Founded in 1970, the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (France), or IMEB, was a force for the recording and dissemination of new electroacoustic works.  Sadly, IMEB lost it's funding in 2010.  Prize-winning works from the Bourges Internationa... Read more