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Composer Harry Partch

Producer Allison Dean listens to the strange sounds and rousing tunes of the non-conformist American composer and musical inventor who would have turned 100 this month. 

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Searching for Jandek

A secret life provides few clues in the search for the true identity of the cult-musician Jandek.

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Nostalgilator

To produce their upcoming album, underground hip-hop artists Mike Ladd and Nat Gosman looked to avant-garde classical music for their samples and beats. 

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Artist's Choice: Tom Waits

Gritty-voiced legend Tom Waits on multi-instrumentalist Ralph Carney.

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Brian Eno's Self-Writing Music

A musician sets something in motion and watches it evolve beyond anything he could predict. Brian Eno’s been tinkering in his studio in London, trying to launch some music that writes itself.

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Glitch Music

Producer Steve Nelson looks at electronic music taken to the extreme: it uses only computer-generated beeps and hums.(Originally aired: June 9, 2001)

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Different Trains

An excerpt from American composer Steve Reich’s Grammy award-winning composition, performed by the Kronos Quartet.

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Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening

Producer David Krasnow profiles the experimental composer Pauline Oliveros, who built her career on what she calls “deep listening.”

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Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening

Producer David Krasnow profiles the experimental composer Pauline Oliveros, who built her career on what she calls “deep listening.”(Originally aired: April 25, 2002)

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Scanner

Almost all of us, given the opportunity, indulge the eavesdropping urge, especially overheard cell phone conversations. The sound artist known as "Scanner" has been incorporating the frequency band of...

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Microsound

Music made out of tones that you can't always hear — but you can feel. The artists who make microsound think that even minute sonic changes can affect us. We asked three composers — Dan Abrams, Steve...

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pexbaA

A Brazilian band refuses to be stuck in any musical pigeonhole, and lives with the consequences. Produced by Michael May.

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Ken Butler

We'd tell you what instruments musician Ken Butler plays, except you've never heard of them before. Because Ken Butler builds everything he plays.  Produced by Mallory Kasdan.

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Evelyn Glennie on Gareth Farr

Percussionist Evelyn Glennie made her name through playful performances where she would don exotic costumes and bang away at homemade instruments made from automobile exhaust pipes. Glennie introduces...

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Decasia

Technology continues to develop sophisticated recording equipment that allows us to capture and save pictures and sound, perhaps to immortalize them. That sense of immortality is betrayed in a new...

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pexbaA

A Brazilian band refuses to be stuck in any musical pigeonhole, and lives with the consequences. Produced by Michael May.

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The Garden of Earthly Delights

Ruben Ortiz Torres is a Mexican artist living in California. For a performance piece, he took lawn equipment, and customized it. He created a metal-flake magenta lawnmower that danced to music. Sara...

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Garden of Earthly Delights

Los-Angeles based Mexican artist Rubin Ortiz-Torres is inspired by gardeners and their equipment. He customized a riding lawn mower to jump and gyrate and dance by remote control. Oritz-Torres...

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Nancarrow's Player Piano

In the 1940s and ‘50s American composer Conlan Nancarrow used an old-fashioned tool to create music no human could have played or heard before. To write his compositions, Nancarrow used mind-bending...

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Garden of Earthly Delights

Los-Angeles based Mexican artist Rubin Ortiz-Torres is inspired by gardeners and their equipment. He customized a riding lawn mower to jump, gyrate and dance by remote control. Oritz-Torres...

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Ken Butler

We'd tell you what instruments musician Ken Butler plays, except you've never heard of them before. Because Ken Butler builds everything he plays from materials such as shovels, cowboy boots and a...

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Transcribing Radiohead

Two years ago the classical pianist and public radio host Christopher O'Riley released a record of songs by the arty rock band Radiohead. It wasn't a stunt; O'Riley reveres the music of Radiohead. He...

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Bonus Track: Radiator Symphony

Henry and Pejk’s musical composition created from radiator sounds.

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I Am Sitting in a Video Room

In 1969, experimental composer Alvin Lucier designed a simple project with a not-so-simple intention.   He sat in a room and made a short recording of his voice, which he then played back into the same...

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Laurie Anderson

From a car horn symphony, to an artist residency with NASA, to Tuvan throat-singing, the performance artist Laurie Anderson has no boundaries when it comes to making music. Now, with four decades of...

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Gig Alert: Jherek Bischoff

Jherek Bischoff"Secret of the Machines"Playing on Saturday at the Merkin Concert Hall (129 W. 67th St., U.W.S.)Get: Tickets ($25) | Directions Seattle composer and performer Jherek Bischoff is a pretty...

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Gig Alert: Jenny Scheinman

Jenny Scheinman"A Ride With Polly Jean"Playing on Monday at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St., Greenwich Village)Get: Tickets ($15) | Directions Over the past decade, violinist and singer Jenny...

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Gig Alert: Oneohtrix Point Never

One Oh Trix Point Never"Power Of Persuasion"Playing on Thursday at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights)Get: Tickets (Free with museum admission) | Directions Oneohtrix...

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Grey Reverend: Songs, Skateboards, and Heroes' Lies

Composer and singer L.D. Brown records as Grey Reverend, and his songs display his reverence for the grey areas of emotion and musical style. It's not easy to pigeonhole Grey Reverend, but it's easy to...

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The Subtly Experimental Indie R&B of Bernice

Bernice is a band from Toronto, the project of imaginative songwriter and acrobatic singer Robin Dann. Dann says of the band, "We play indie R&B - songs that breathe, sometimes dance, and have...

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Liturgy Live and Loud

The band Liturgy creates music that's visceral and virtuosic, offering transcendence and affirmation through volume, intensity, and complexity. They uplift while they overwhelm. This Brooklyn-based...

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GABI and 'Sympathy'

John Schaefer sits down with experimental composer and singer Gabrielle Herbst aka GABI to discuss her striking music. Enter an immersive vocal world as we listen to some songs from her just released...

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Gig Alert: The Cellar and Point

ARTIST: The Cellar and PointGIG: Sunday with Build at Rockwood Music HallOver the last few years, there’s been no shortage of bands being labeled as “post-rock” or “post-jazz…” Well, the ensemble known...

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Gig Alert: RighteousGIRLS

ARTIST: RighteousGIRLSGIG: Friday night at Joe's PubNew York experimental duo known as RighteousGIRLS is flautist Gina Izzo and pianist Erika Dohi. Their latest album is called Gathering Blue, named...

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Weekly Music Roundup: The Ridge, The Waiting Room, and Wabi-Sabi

Rescue your Tuesdays with our weekly roundup of music news, videos, and songs that just might help you get through the rest of the week. This week, an early look at some promising albums from 2016,...

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#3716: GABI and 'Sympathy'

John Schaefer sits down with experimental composer and singer Gabrielle Herbst aka GABI to discuss her striking music. Enter an immersive vocal world as we listen to some songs from her album Sympathy....

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Edgard Varèse: The Most Epic Interview You’ll Ever Hear about the Ultimate...

*** Above audio may take a few moments to load. ***Edgard Varèse is one of the most visionary and influential musical mavericks of all time. Arriving in the United States from France in 1915, Varèse...

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Algiers Live In-Studio

The four piece band Algiers fuse eclectic musical influences with radical politics to form their revolutionary sound. You can hear traces of punk rock, soul, and even Italian horror film soundtracks in...

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#3716: GABI and 'Sympathy'

John Schaefer sits down with experimental composer and singer Gabrielle Herbst aka GABI to discuss her striking music. Enter an immersive vocal world as we listen to some songs from her album Sympathy....

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Wally de Backer, aka Gotye, and the Ondioline

Somebody that we used to know, Wally de Backer, Belgian-born Australian multi-instrumentalist, self-admitted “tinkerer,” and singer-songwriter (aka GOTYE), digs unusual instruments – like the rare...

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New Show 'Wavelength' with Experimental Composer and Pianist Kelly Moran

For my first Wavelength episode, "Piano Party," I wanted to share favorite piano works that have impacted me as both a composer and a performer. This episode surveys a wide range of contemporary...

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“Interspecies Smalltalk” Smalltalk: David Behrman on New Sounds

David Behrman, New Sounds, March, 7, 1985Minimalist composer David Behrman is in town this week, playing  ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn on July 20 and 21 with the Sonic Arts Union. On March 7, 1985,...

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Ka Baird at National Sawdust

Ka Baird at National Sawdust, Fri., July 20Tickets $15. Show at 10:30 pmThe singer and multi-instrumentalist Ka Baird used to be in a trippy, psychedelic band called Spires That In The Sunset Rise. But...

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An Evening with György Ligeti

In November 1986, Hungarian composer György Ligeti paid a rare visit to New York to receive the prestigious Grawemeyer Award, the largest composition prize awarded at the time. (In a New York Times...

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Cybersecurity, Baseball Physics, Opioid Trial. May 21, 2021, Part 2

Americans’ Online Security Needs An UpdateLast week, all eyes were on the shutdown of a gas pipeline that delivered fuel to large portions of the Southeastern US. The shutdown was not due to a leak or...

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Weekend Arts Planner: A concert for Ukraine and a Valentine's Day roundup

We start the Weekend Arts Planner this time with a benefit concert for Ukraine taking place on Sunday, Feb. 12. Plus, since Valentine's Day is just around the corner, we have some events for those who...

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Wally de Backer, aka Gotye, and the Ondioline (Archives)

Somebody that we used to know, Wally de Backer, Belgian-born Australian multi-instrumentalist, self-admitted “tinkerer,” and singer-songwriter (aka GOTYE), digs unusual instruments – like the rare...

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