A Different Nature

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!

Airs every Monday from 8 to 10 PM

Episode Archive

A Different Nature on 10/22/12

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 10/22/2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Sustained Explorations of New, Experimental Music and Sonic Art

A Different Nature on 10/15/12

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 10/15/2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Dance Music on A Different Nature?

Tonight on A Different Nature we mostly focus on DANCE music.. No, this will not be a beat-thudding techno-disco show, but instead we'll delve into experimental and avant garde music composed specifically for contemporary ballet and modern dance, as well as other musical works to accompany theater performance. Hosted by Rolf Semprebon

A Different Nature on 10/08/12

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Mon, 10/08/2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Pionees of Tape Manipulation

On this episode of A Different Nature, who'll explore artists and pieces that best exemplify the manipulation of found sound via magnetic tape.

Tape Manipulation distinguishes itself from similar genres involving magnetic tape such as Tape Music, Musique Concrete or Electro-Acoustic Music in that it utilizes found sound and recontextualizes it, either artistically or to make a counter, ironic statement, rather than something recorded by the artist specifically for manipulation.

It's an art-form that is literally as old as the medium itself, as we'll attempt to demonstrate in this episode.

A Different Nature on 10/01/12

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 10/01/2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Sustained Explorations of New, Experimental Music and Sonic Art

A Different Nature on 10/01/12

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 10/01/2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Spontaneous Music Ensemble "Eighty-Five Minutes" (1974), The Topography of the Lungs (1970)

On A Different Nature: Spontaneous Music Ensemble "Eighty-Five Minutes"

                                    Concert Improvisations, 1974

John Stevens

Derek Bailey

Kent Carter

Evan Paker

Trevor Watts

 

                                     "The Topography of the Lungs", 1971

Evan Parker

Derek Bailey

Han Bennink

A Different Nature on 09/24/12

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 09/24/2012 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm
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JOHN CAGE CENTENARY CELEBRATION: 4 HOUR FINALE

 

A Different Nature on 09/10/12

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 09/10/2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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John Cage Centenary Celebration... host: Alejandro Ceballos

John Cage (1912-1992) was born on September 5, 1912.   Cage was, perhaps, the greatest music radical of the 20th century. He composed using chance procedures. His music honored silence along with sound. He made no distinction between traditional musical sounds and what some call noise. He embraced, rather than escaped from, messy urban life as well as anarchic nature. He was controversial, to say the least, but his influence has been, and continues to be, extraordinary. No one in the last century did more to change the way much of the world now thinks about, makes and consumes art.  In celebration the Cage centenary, A Different Nature is presenting Cage-related programming throughout the month of September.

A Different Nature on 09/03/12

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 09/03/2012 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm
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JOHN CAGE CENTENARY CELEBRATION

  The American composer John Cage was born on September 5, 1912. Cage was one of the most influential musical minds of the 20th century, leaving an indelible mark on future generations of minimalist and electroacoustic composers, and also  in the relams of art rock, avant-jazz, noise, and electronica.  To celebrate the Cage centenary, A Different Nature will present Cage-related programming throughout the month of September.  This first program on September 3rd will be an extended 3-hour show (8-11 pm).   Then tune in on the 10th and the 17th at the regular time (8-10 pm).

A Different Nature on 08/20/12

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 08/20/2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Host Danielle Parks features the work of 20th century avant-garde composer Lucia Dlugoszewski.

Tonight host Danielle Parks features the work of Lucia Dlugoszewski, a Polish-American composer, performer and inventor. She created over a hundred unique percussion instruments, such as ladder harps, closed rattles, unsheltered rattles, tangent rattles, wave rattles, quarter-tone gongs, and square shaped drums - all made from a wide variety of materials including wood, plastic, metal, glass, and paper.  As she wrote in her essay called 'What Is Sound to Music', "In 1954, I began the immense journey in search of a Logos for music.  I was also more aware than ever before or since of the fragility of sound when it is music.

A Different Nature on 08/13/12

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 08/13/2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Mills College - Incubator of New Music

The common thread linking the composers on tonight's edition of "A Different Nature" is Mills College in Oakland, California. For more than 80 years, Mills has been at the forefront of contemporary music, dramatically and consistently expanding the frontiers of sound and theory. Among the ranks of those who have taught at Mills are such luminaries of 20th century music as Luciano Berio, John Cage, Henry Cowell, and Iannis Xenakis. This evening we will hear music from Mills-associated composers including  Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnik, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, Joelle Léandre, Miya Masaoka, Gordon Mumma, Maggi Payne, Annie Gosfield, and James Tenney --much of it in an electronic or electroacoustic vein. host: Andy Hosch.

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richard's records

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 03/25/2013

This time on A Different Nature, we delve into the program's past, and play gems from founder Richard Francis' own record collection.  It's KBOO's spring membership drive, so A Different Nature listeners will have the opportunity to pledge their support for the station during the program. We have special thank-you gifts to offer new or renewing members: copies of the CD "Hendrix Uncovered: New Music Inspired by Jimi Hendrix", donated by March Music Moderne & Bob Priest.

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Interview with Homer Flynn/Residents

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 02/18/2013

 For forty years, the San Francisco Avant-Garde band The Residents have basked in relative obscurity, much of it self-imposed. Their earliest modus operandi had them creating works under their 'theory of obscurity', first coined by N. Senada, who may or may not be an actual person. One aspect of the theory is that a work is created with the intent of never releasing a work until every participant has forgotten about it - or something like that.

Another aspect of the Residents is that they've kept their real identity a secret for many decades, with a few people speaking on their behalf in a business capacity who may or may not be Residents themselves.. Hmmm..

We did, however, manage to get Homer Flynn, The Resident's creative director and visual Major Domo on the phone, while he was, uh, helping the band on the Eastern leg of their Wonder of Weird 40th Anniversary tour.

Homer was more than generous with his time and lots of questions get answered, including a long-time rumour around KBOO's history.

But I'll let you listen to that yourself.

 

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ADN 9/17/2012 CAGE CENTENARY PROGRAM 3

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A Different Nature
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Mon, 09/17/2012

ADN 9/17/2012 CAGE CENTENARY PROGRAM 3 / host: dj what the!@#%*! 

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A Different Nature 4/30/2012 featuring Derek Ecklund

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Mon, 04/30/2012
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Interview with Edward Ka-spel of the Legendary Pink Dots

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Mon, 11/22/2010

Kathy, Dr Zomb & Rolf interviewed Edward Ka-Spel of the Legendary Pink Dots for A DIFFERENT NATURE. We conducted the interview at the Doug Fir a couple hours before they performed and aired it on ADN that night. Also thanks to Crystal for digital audio editing before the interview aired.

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Playlists

A Different Nature playlist for 12/01/2008

Program name: 
A Different Nature
Air date: 
12/01/2008
ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
Francis Dhomont--8:02--Frankenstein SymphonyFrankenstein SymphonyAsphodel/Sombient
9:06--ChiaroscuroAcousmatrix VIII-IXBVHaast
9:23--Meteores
9:36--Lettre de SarajevoJalonsEmprientes DIGITales IMED
9:57Studio de Nuit

A Different Nature playlist for 11/24/2008

Program name: 
A Different Nature
Air date: 
11/24/2008
ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
8:02Dadayama!!!Walter MehringCD#2
8:16Dada DisgustTristan TzaraCD#3
8:19Sketch of the Human BodyPaul NougeNA
8:22Dada News BulletinPer FarerengCD#1
8:23Such A Divine SoulLouis AragonCD#2
8:34Among The Happy FewPaul EluardCD#3
8:35Free UnionAndre BretonCD#3
8:38Dada News Bulletin RemixCrystal Leighty & Broken HoursCD#1
8:42The Swallow's TesticleJean (Hans) ArpNA
8:49Kid's Spam404 & Georgia HoskinsCD#1
8:52 -- performer Petr KotikSculpture MusicalMarcel DuchampDOG W/A BONE
9:00KBOO Dada Newsvarious & Ani HainesCD#1
9:30The General Suicide AgencyJacques RigautCD#1
9:32Free Union RememberedAndre Breton &n Broken HoursNA
9:35Dada Spam Remix404 & Georgia Hoskins & Broken HoursCD#1
9:36EuphorismsJulien TormaCD#2
9:45Dada Spam Remix404 & Georgia Hoskins & Broken HoursCD#1
9:55This Heart That Hated WarRobert DesnosNA

With one exception, all of the material on this show was performed and produced by KBOO volunteers.  Some of the material is available on three CDs which are available as gifts when you contribute to KBOO membership, 1 CD for each $40. 

The columns indicate time, title, author, CD designation (#1, #2, or #3) if available on CD.

The three CDs are:

#1 -- NEWS, NEWS BULLETINS AND ADVERTISING

#2 -- PLAYS AND GROUPS READINGS

#3 -- INDIVIDUAL VOCAL PROSE AND POETRY

NA -- Not Available

A Different Nature playlist for 11/17/2008

Program name: 
A Different Nature
Air date: 
11/17/2008
ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
Benjamin Lew and Steven BrownCrammed Disc
8:02 (BL & SB)Les Autres, TousDouzieme Journee: Le Verbe, La Parure, L'Amour
8:08 (BL & SB)EtenduA Propos D'un Paysage
8:13 (BL)La Magnifique AlcooliqueCompiled Electronic Landscapes
8:16 (BL)Regardez EncoreComp. Elect. Landscapes
8:19 (BL & SB)Qu Sujet D'un PaysageA Propos D'un Paysage
8:23 (BL & SB)Aveugle, DepuisDouzieme Journee
8:28 (BL & SB)De L'autre Cote du FleuveDouzieme Journee(also on Lew's Landscape)
8:32 (BL & SB)Profondeurs des Eaux des LaquesA Propos D'un Paysage(also on Lew's Landscape)
8:35 (BL)Ce Qu'elle Voulait Que J'entendeComp. Elect. Landscapes
8:39 (BL)Les Traces D'un PontComp. Elect. Landscapes
8:42 (BL & SB)Une Telle RichesseA Propos D'un Paysage
8:46 (BL & SB)Nouvelles ObservationsA Propos D'un Paysage
8:51 (BL)Joyeux Regrets ImprecisComp. Elect. Landscapes
8:54 (BL & SB)MomentsA Propos D'un Paysage(also on Lew's Landscape)
8:58 (BL & SB)Face a Ce Qui Se DerobeA Propos D'un Paysage
9:02 (BL)Le Sentiment de La CouleurComp. Elect. Landscapes
9:06 (BL)Tori, Pres de La SoierieComp. Elect. Landscapes
9:09 (BL & SB)Elle AvancaDouzieme Journee
9:12 (BL & SB)Il, Les Quitta a L'aubeDouzieme Journee
9:18 (BL & SB)Bamako ou AilleursDouzieme Journee(also on Lew's Landscape)
9:22 (BL)Comme Tout Embue, Tout DanseComp. Elect. Landscapes
9:26 (BL & SB)Les Enormes Et Pourtant InvisiblesA Propos D'un Paysage
9:30 (BL & SB)S'IgnorerA Propos D'un Paysage
9:34 (BL & SB)I'Ile, L'HotelDouzieme Journee
9:37 (BL & SB)Dans Les JardinsDouzieme Journee(also on Lew's Landscape)
9:45 (BL & SB)Le Vie AussiA Propos D'un Paysage
closer (BL)Partout de SableComp. Elect. Landscapes

A Different Nature playlist for 11/10/2008

Program name: 
A Different Nature
Air date: 
11/10/2008
ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
Philip JeckTouch
8:04I Just Wanted to KnowSurf
8:11TiltingSurf
8:17Now You Can Let Go7
8:251986 (Frank Was 70)Surf
8:32Wipe7
8:36Wholesome7
8:44Veil7
8:53Museum7
9:00Spirits UpSurf
Philip Jeck & Janek SchaeferSongs for EuropeAsphodel
9:11Kerameikos
9:20Acropolis Now
9:30Istanbul Drift
9:38Song for Europe
9:41Aegean Tea
closerTaxim

A Different Nature playlist for 11/03/2008

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A Different Nature
Air date: 
11/03/2008
ArtistTitleAlbumLabelLink
Andrew HoschEpitoniumwww.timbuktunes.com
8:04Birds of the Minds OceanElectro Acoustic Biomes
8:12Lost In Migration #1Lost In Migration
8:26Lost In Migration #2
8:51In The Mists
9:18Les Grands OiseauxBicycles & Birds

A Different Nature playlist for 09/11/2008

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A Different Nature
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09/11/2008
ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
CassetteboyFly me to New YorkThe Parker Tapes`Barry's Bootlegs
Ure ThrallPremonition 9/117"Drone
Zbigneiw Karkowski/tesuo FurudateConsolidated WorldWorld as WillStaalplaat
SandHelicopterUltrasonic SeraphimWorld Serpent
Daphne OramIncidental Music for InvasionOramicsParadigm
Pierre BouchetHopscotchSale TimbaleSuicide Commercial
Jacques BerocalConsiel des MinistiresAn Afflicted Mans Musica BoxUnited Dairies
Nurse With WoundSwansongA Missing SenseWorld Serpent
Lily GreenhamCirculationLingual MusicParadigm
Wim Mertens/Soft VerdictWhisper MeMaximizing the AudienceLes Disques Crepsecules

Filled in for Richard for a surprise night on A Different Nature... started off with a 9/11 theme and then went somewhere else

A Different Nature playlist for 08/06/2008

Program name: 
A Different Nature
Air date: 
08/06/2008
ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
Alvin Curran--composer; Daan Vandewalle--pianistInner Cities #4 (in memoriam Lou Harrison)Inner Citiesharmonia mundi--LONG DISTANCE
Inner Cities #6 (for Jed Distler)
Inner Cities #10 (for Daan Vandewalle)
Inner Cities #7 (for Trisha Brown)

A Different Nature playlist for 07/24/2008

Program name: 
A Different Nature
Air date: 
07/24/2008
ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
Alvin Curran--composer, Daan Vandewalle--pianoInner Citties #1 (for Ernstalbrecht Stiebler)Inner Citiesharmonia mundi -- LONG DISTANCE
Inner Cities #8 (for Eve Egoyan)
Inner Cities #2 (in memoriam Steve Lacy)
Inner Cities #11 Aglio, Oglio, Peperoncino Blues (for Frederic Rzewski)

A Different Nature playlist for 07/24/2008

Program name: 
A Different Nature
Air date: 
07/24/2008
ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
Alvin Curran--composer, Daan Vandewalle--pianoInner Citties #1 (for Ernstalbrecht Stiebler)Inner Citiesharmonia mundi -- LONG DISTANCE
Inner Cities #8 (for Eve Egoyan)
Inner Cities #2 (in memoriam Steve Lacy)
Inner Cities #11 Aglio, Oglio, Peperoncino Blues (for Frederic Rzewski)

A Different Nature playlist for 07/17/2008

Program name: 
A Different Nature
Air date: 
07/17/2008
ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
Monteverdi/Wendy CarlosDOMINE AD ADJUVANDUM (from the 1610 Vespers)4-CD SWITCHED-ON BOXED SETSerendip/ESD
J.S.Bach/Wendy CarlosBRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 1 in F Major -- II--Adagio
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 5 in D Major -- II--Affettuoso
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 2 in F Major -- II--Andante
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 4 in G Major -- II--Andante
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 6 in B-Flat Major – II—Adagio ma non tanto
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 6 in B-Flat Major -- III--Allegro
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 1 in F Major – IV—Memuetto, Trio I, Polocca, Trio II
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 6 in B-Flat Major -- I
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 5 in D Major -- III--Allegro
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 4 in G Major -- I--Allegro
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 2 in F Major -- I--Allegro
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 1 in F Major -- I--Allegro
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 3 in G Major -- I--Allegro
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 5 in D Major -- I--Allegro
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 1 in F Major -- III--Allegro
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 2 in F Major – III—Allegro Assai
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 3 in G Major -- III--Allegro
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 4 in G Major -- III--Presto
BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 3 in G Major -- II--Adagio

Comments

Your writing is so refreshing

Your writing is so refreshing compared to the most other writers and this time also. I like your view of Different Nature Mission Statement. Really this is a curatorial program of genre-defying avant garde music. Thanks mate and keep it up. online contest

A Tribute to PANDIT PRAN NATH

 

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A Different Nature playlist for 08/22/2011

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08/22/2011

 

 

 

A DIFFERENT NATURE presents

 A TRIBUTE to PANDIT PRAN NATH --

A 3 HOUR special on A Different Nature (To read more about Pandit Pran Nath and the American avant-garde underground, here is an excellent article -- http://www.bidoun.org/magazine/20-bazaar/lord-of-the-drone-pandit-pran-nath-and-the-american-underground-by-alexander-keefe/.) 

The first 2 hours were dedicated to 4 compositions --4 Portland area composers offering their piece in tribute to or inspired by Pandit Pran Nath

1.  Air Objects by John Berendzen   24:30

2.  Planetary Sine Wave Organ by Derek Ecklund  30:30

3.  Referent  by Scott Goodwin  24:00

4.  Raindrop Garden by Matt Carlson  10:00     

The last hour of the broadcast was indeed very special, even historic, as Michael Stirling sang/performed a raga live in the KBOO studios with accompaniment from Derek Ecklund and Kelly Jennings, each playing a tambura, and Aran Adams on tablas.

Here's what Michael had to say about this raga:  "i dedicate my offering to Shamsudin Faridi Desai, a music family friend from Dehli who passed on 8/16 - one of the last living masters of the Binkar in the tradition of Mian Bande Ali Khan - the great Binkar of the Kirana tradition.  He and sarangi virtuoso and Khalifa of the Kirana Gharana, Ustad Hafizullah Khan were inspiriations and their classical music will never be duplicated - as Terry Riley said of Faridi, a Ghandarva!

To listen, enjoy, and paint the inside of your mind with peace and the walls of your home with a deep resonant ommmmmmmmmmmm, click on this : http://www.soundmaps.net/pandit_pran_nath.html

have a nice trip.

A Tribute to PANDIT PRAN NATH

 

http://www.soundmaps.net/pandit_pran_nath.html

A Different Nature playlist for 08/22/2011

Categories:
Program name: 
A Different Nature
Air date: 
08/22/2011

 

 

 

A DIFFERENT NATURE presents

 A TRIBUTE to PANDIT PRAN NATH --

A 3 HOUR special on A Different Nature (To read more about Pandit Pran Nath and the American avant-garde underground, here is an excellent article -- http://www.bidoun.org/magazine/20-bazaar/lord-of-the-drone-pandit-pran-nath-and-the-american-underground-by-alexander-keefe/.) 

The first 2 hours were dedicated to 4 compositions --4 Portland area composers offering their piece in tribute to or inspired by Pandit Pran Nath

1.  Air Objects by John Berendzen   24:30

2.  Planetary Sine Wave Organ by Derek Ecklund  30:30

3.  Referent  by Scott Goodwin  24:00

4.  Raindrop Garden by Matt Carlson  10:00     

The last hour of the broadcast was indeed very special, even historic, as Michael Stirling sang/performed a raga live in the KBOO studios with accompaniment from Derek Ecklund and Kelly Jennings, each playing a tambura, and Aran Adams on tablas.

Here's what Michael had to say about this raga:  "i dedicate my offering to Shamsudin Faridi Desai, a music family friend from Dehli who passed on 8/16 - one of the last living masters of the Binkar in the tradition of Mian Bande Ali Khan - the great Binkar of the Kirana tradition.  He and sarangi virtuoso and Khalifa of the Kirana Gharana, Ustad Hafizullah Khan were inspiriations and their classical music will never be duplicated - as Terry Riley said of Faridi, a Ghandarva!

To listen, enjoy, and paint the inside of your mind with peace and the walls of your home with a deep resonant ommmmmmmmmmmm, click on this : http://www.soundmaps.net/pandit_pran_nath.html

have a nice trip.

A new song for your show

 http://www.boyjah.net/music/LoveMe2.mp3

Archived shows?

I loved the show today and read about the history of the show and about Richard.  Are there any archived Richard Francis shows?  I feel bereft i am so late to this party!

 

Ben

Thank you!

Tuned in on my way home from work. I don't usually get to listen but tonight I did and I'm sooooooo glad I found this show! I love gamelan. Love love it. Thank you!!!!

 

 

Experimental music show

Hello, I am a portland experimental music artist and would like to know how to get my music on Kboo. Thanks

-Electriqu Quid

Program submission forms are

Program submission forms are available at the station, 20 SE 8th Ave. You can also call Program Director Chris Merrick at (503) 231-8032. This is assuming you've already gone through volunteer orientation and FCC training....

music submissions

Is this the official KBOO music submission
"protocol"?
-OR-

Can I send a cd with some music on it ?

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