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

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
MUSIQUE CONCRETE:  LUC FERRARI  (Paris, 1929-2009) began his musical career as a pianist but after a battle with tuberculosis, participation in the "Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt" and an overwhelming exposure to Edgard Varese's "Deserts", he developed a keen inter... Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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SURPRISE NIGHT. Our traditional monthly night for listeners who don't want to know what's going to emerge from their radio next.   Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL with JAAP BLONK.  Tonight A Different Nature celebrates its 29th Anniversary with our yearly call-in show where listeners (especially long-time listeners) are encouraged to call in to discuss on-air any suggestions for the next programming year or to... Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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CLASSICS, ANTIQUES & CURIOS:   DAVID BOWIE GOES AVANT.  In the late 1970's British rock legend David Bowie began to shift his theatrical and driving rock music into a more musically-experimental phase in collaborations with such artists as Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 05/04/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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MUSIQUE CONCRETE:  WOMEN'S WORKS.   An evening of rich and engaging musique concrete and electroacoustic music realized by both top and lesser-known women composers from around the globe.   Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE

Airs at: Mon, 03/23/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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THE PALM COURT: CAB CALLOWAY.  For this Spring Solstice we present the  master of scat singing and bandleader of one of the most popular African American big jazz bands during the 1930s and 40s which also served, along with Duke Ellington's band, as one of the Cotton Clu... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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CLASSICS, ANTIQUES AND CURIOS: EARLY ENO.  After exploring Rock as both a Roxy Music member and as a brilliant solo artist,  the then British avant-garde darling Brian Eno began to explore compositions and realizations which moved in an increasingly minimalist, discrete ... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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SURPRISE NIGHT -- An unscheduled evening for people who don't want to know what's coming, usually but not always featuring new material which has arrived in KBOO's music library. Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE

Airs at: Mon, 03/02/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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MUSIQUE CONCRETE: WATER MUSIC.  A liquid and relaxing evening of electroacoustic music and musique concrete from a variety of international artists using the myriad sounds of water as their sound source. Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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CLASSICS, ANTIQUES & CURIOS: ERIC SATIE'S VEXATIONS, composed for piano in 1893 but not publically performed until 1963, contains a short chordal passage and a bass line repeated twice in each of the required 840 repetitions, usually taking 18-24 hours. Satie wrote ... Read more