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Every Friday from 10pm to midnight, DJ Tarik Moody redefines the urban sound with a mix of jazz, hip-hop, soul, electronic, and everything in between.
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: :00
Jazz fans and artists value originality. And originality is the very thing that the Post-Atomic Trio hangs its collective hat on. The group’s drumm...
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 05:00
The World Jazz Trio combines interests in varied musical forms, with a goal of synthesizing multiple styles into something new. The members of the ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2015
- Length: 07:47
Imagine electronic music onstage without being welded to a keyboard. Imagine if a gesture could trigger a string section, a melody, a drum riff. No...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 58:55
Dreams are slick, dreams soar over the candlestick. Dreams are here then dreams are gone, yet I wonder from where they spawn? Does a stone dream, t...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 01:49:38
Throughout history, composers who have been known for championing a particular musical style have shocked their fans by radically and suddenly chan...
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- Length: 58:29
In recent years composers have become interested in the fact that the performers can do things on stage other than just play their instrument: stom...
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- Length: 58:29
This week's Relevant Tones focuses on composers who have tried to step outside the box, redefine their definitions of music, and start over without...
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- Length: 58:37
“Back Beat” is used as a reference to Rock & Roll denoting the 2nd and 4th beats, however, in this case, it fits for the pioneer percussionists of ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
One of the leading composers of our time and an ardent promoter of new music throughout the world, Augusta Read Thomas is an artistic force to be r...
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- Length: 58:27
It's essentially just a conveniently placed grouping of popular percussion instruments and yet, the drum kit is often cited as the diving line betw...
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- Length: 58:26
As astrophysicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson learn more about the cosmos and present their often strange and wondrous findings to the public, the cr...
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- Length: 58:30
When harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg asked Bach to write pieces for him to play to help a Saxon count get to sleep at night he could hardly...
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- Length: 58:30
CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.
- Added: Nov 11, 2014
- Length: 01:00:00
Episode one explores how circuit benders, hackers and artists are building teaching and education into their practice.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Episode 8 of 3-hour electronic music show with featured guest DJ Warren Peace from Las Vegas.
- Added: May 10, 2014
- Length: 02:58:21
Prolific poet and winner of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Anne Waldman is younger than the Beat Generation, but she did know many of its pro...
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
He is considered the first great tenor saxophonist in jazz. The first signs of Coleman Hawkins’ potential began to show when he was still a child.
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 3
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- Added: Aug 23, 2011
- Length: 03:26
Language and songwriting are bringing teenagers together from all over the world. The Young Writers and Leaders Program is the latest project from ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, KUOW, WMPG, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2011
- Length: 07:14
- Purchases: 5
A look at a fast-changing China through the lens of youth culture and rock music.
- Added: May 03, 2010
- Length: 06:59
These are interviews Radio K collected from the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas in March of 2010. The interviews are with Midni...
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 10:15
English electronic musicians Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy perform in a pair of cockpits of keyboards and gear. They specialize in a sound that has r...
- Added: Mar 09, 2010
- Length: 03:30
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 2
