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!
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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.
- Length: 119:47 minutes (164.51 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
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Interview with Homer Flynn/Residents
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.
- Artist: Rich Lindsay & Erin Yanke
- Title: Interview with Homer Flynn/Residents
- Album: Homer Flynn/Residents Interview 02/14/13
- Length: 28:44 minutes (65.78 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 320Kbps (CBR)
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ADN 9/17/2012 CAGE CENTENARY PROGRAM 3
ADN 9/17/2012 CAGE CENTENARY PROGRAM 3 / host: dj what the!@#%*!
- Length: 119:30 minutes (109.41 MB)
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A Different Nature 4/30/2012 featuring Derek Ecklund
- Artist: Derek Ecklund
- Title: 12.04.30 ADN1
- Genre: Natural Soundscapes
- Length: 124:16 minutes (170.66 MB)
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Interview with Edward Ka-spel of the Legendary Pink Dots
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.
- Title: Edward Ka-spel interview
- Length: 23:31 minutes (21.53 MB)
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Playlists
A Different Nature playlist for 11/14/2011
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
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| Iva Bittova | Ne Nehledej | Ne Nehledej | Ariola Germany |
| Iva Bittova & Vladimir Vaclavek | Moucha | Bile Inferno | Indies Scope Records |
| Bittova & Fajt | Kamen | Bittova & Fajt | Bonton |
| Iva Bittova & Vladimir Vaclavek | Je Tma | Bile Inferno | Indies Scope Records |
| Iva Bittova | Melodiarium | Classic | Supraphon |
| Iva Bittova | Kapitulni Sin | Ne Nehledej | Ariola Germany |
| Iva Bittova | Blazen | Ne Nehledej | Ariola Germany |
| Iva Bittova | Cekam Te (Waiting for You) | Classic | Supraphon |
| Iva Bittova | Quatuor Pour Cora (Part 3) | Classic | Supraphon |
| Iva Bittova & Vladimir Vaclavek | Huljet | Bile Inferno | Indies Scope Records |
| Iva Bittova | In the Barren Land | Divna Slecinka | Ariola Germany |
| Iva Bittova | Napevky/Speech Melodies I | Classic | Supraphon |
| Iva Bittova | Funny Miss | Divna Slecinka | Ariola Germany |
| Iva Bittova | Lullaby | Classic | Supraphon |
| Iva Bittova/Bang on a Can | Zapiskej |
A Different Nature playlist for 10/24/2011
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
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| Un drame musical instantane | The phantom of liberty | Rideau! | Grrr |
| Un drame musical instantane | Nemo | Sous les mer | Grrr |
| Helene Sage | Un coup de des... | Comme un image | Grrr |
| Birge/Gorge/Shiroc | Le Reveil | Defense De | Grrr/Mio Records |
| Un Drame Musical Instante | Crimes Perfaits | a travail egal salaire egal | Grrr |
| El Strom | Lover Man | Fresh 'n chips | Grrr |
| Birge-Oshima-Risser | Aieitho Nippon Blues | Birge avec Donkey Monkey | Grrr |
| Pied de Poule | Hermione | Indescretion | Grrr |
| Helene Sage | Les Confessions | Les Araignees | Grrr |
| Un Drame Musical INstantane | L'Invitation au voyage sara Matao et | Les bons contes font les bons amis | Grrr |
| Un drame musical instantane | Le spectacle est dans la salle | L'homme a la camera | Grrr |
| Michelle Buirette | Le Devis de l'amour | La mise en plis | Grrr |
| Sage/Vitet | side 2 | Supposons le Probleme Resolu | Grrr |
Tonight we heard various releases from the Grrr label, out of France, which was started by Jean-Jacques Birge in 1975 with the release of Birge/Gorge/Shiroc's LP DEFENSE DE. The next year Birge and Francis Gorge formed UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANE with free-jazz trumpeter/multi-instrumentalist Bernard Vitet, and Grrr put out several of their records, along with those of like-minded musicians, some-times collaborators like Helene Sage, Michelle Buirette and others. This music blended free jazz, rock, and new music/modern classic into highly creative ways. For more on Grrr you can go to thier website, where they also have over 80 hours of unreleased music for free download: www.drame.org
Show was hosted by Rolf Semprebon
A Different Nature playlist for 10/17/2011
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
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| Cluster | Plas | II | Spalax |
| Cluster | Halwa | Sowiesoso | Sky |
| Cluster | Rosa | Zuckerzeit | Spalax |
| Harmonia | Dino | Musik von Harmonia | Brain |
| Cluster & Eno | The Belldog | Begegnungen | Sky |
| Roedelius | All Jahre Wieder | Selbstportrait Vol II | Sky |
| Cluster & Eno | Light Arms | After the Heat | Sky |
| Harmonia | Ueber Ottenstein | Live 1974 | Water |
| Roedelius/Tim Story | The Persistence of Memory | The Persistence of Memory | Seventh Chance |
| Harmonia/Eno | Almost | Tracks & Traces | Ryko |
| Roedelius | Adieu Quiclotte | Gift in the Moment | Bureau B |
| Cluster | 1 | Cluster 71 | Sky |
| Cluster & Farnbauer | Live at the Weiner Festwochen Alternativ | bonus track on Kluster - Klopfzeichen | Hypnotic |
| Harmonia | De Luxe | De Luxe | Brain |
| Kluster | 2 | Eruption | Marginal Talent |
The music of Joachim Roedelius, Cluster, Kluster, Harmonia and related stuff to celebrated Reodelius's appearance next Sunday. Hosted by Rolf with thanks to Dr. Zhomb for providing some of the material...
A Different Nature playlist for 10/03/2011
This week's host Dr. Zomb was joined in the studio by Heather Perkins and Christi Denton from the upcoming "Electrogals - Girls Gone Wired" electronic music and digital art festival at Disjecta this October 10 - 15. We talked about what they have planned and when and played a lot of material by the musical artists - all women! For more info go to http://www.electrogals.org
Playlist:
portable morla arctocephalus gazella
marisa anderson nebulae
momilani ramstrum running ahead
stephanie rearick oh no
anna rubin caliorisma
cecilia castra flashback
hutch demoulpied somniac
lowell hutcheson cold hard cash
yamila rios cello reflexions
zhao xiaoyu dews on bamboo leafs
heather perkins one shot
la pump roll me over
silk and olive easy on the other
laurie anderson radar, sharkey's night home of the brave live lp warner brothers
heather perkins choctaw ridge
la pump hendrix
cheetah finesse I'm not playin'
stephanie loveless variations
pauline oliveros bye bye butterfly new music for electronic and recorded media v/a lp arch records
christi denton manifestation
marisa anderson electricity
heather perkins wolves
A Different Nature playlist for 09/26/2011
This week on A Different Nature, we featured Dutch Ambient and Soundscape artist Arno Peeters.
"Arno started tape music in the early '80's and evolved to electronic music. First as the EBM-duo Voltage Control (2 EP's and one CD-album on Antler) and later as one of the first techno-artists in The Netherlands with some EP's on Djax-Up-Beats, as part of Random XS and Urban Electro and solo as Spasms. He turned away from techno to more experiMental stuff on his album 'Fuzzy Logic' and migrated to the German Mille Plateaux-label which released the award-winning AeroSon and two tracks on compilations. Nowadays he composes in 5.1 surround and makes a living with producing a weekly radioshow on electronic music (Folio on Dutch National Radio 6) and (as the one-man company Tape TV Productions) editing, mixing and mastering all kinds of projects from the no-budget fine art to the high profile and the cutting edge."
Play list: (all tracks Arno Peeters - Song - Album)
"If You Have a Girlfriend" Tape (not released, 1984) - Peeters Principle (Mix compiled by Peter van Cooten, 2011)
Voltage Control - Yatiyana To An Undefined Public (1991) - Peeters Principle
Amunite Int. Email Audio Art Project Volume 4 (2010) Compilation - Peeters Principle
Spasms - World on Prozac Fuzzy Logic (1995) - Peeters Principle
Don't Breathe a Word Electro-acoustic Music From NL (2001) - Peeters Principle
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As Death Passes By - As Death Passes By (Tape 1988)
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Woeshipping DOT Matrix - AeroSon (1996)
SW Itch - AeroSon
Duesday - AeroSon
AM orph - AeroSon
Aud Entity I - AeroSon
Uncanny - AeroSon
Aud Entity II - AeroSon
AeroSon - AeroSon
Commercial Menace I - AeroSon
Try To Be Very Zen About It - AeroSon
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Intro - Stars of the Sky - Live interpretation of "Tierkreis" (Zodiac) by Karlheinz Stockhausen
Aquarius - Stars of the Sky
NVDK Soundcape - The Night of Dance and Art - 5.1 surround Soundscape for "The Night of Dance and Art" in commission of Podium Twente, 2009.
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Don't Breathe - Plug In, Drop Out (Self Release, rejected by Mille Plateaux)
King Of The Skies - Plug In, Drop Out
Three Of A Kind - Plug In, Drop Out
Rhythem - Plug In, Drop Out
Tone - Plug In, Drop Out
Time - Plug In, Drop Out
To Ivory Towers - Plug In, Drop Out
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Toccata Tantrum - Toccata Tantrum - Reworked version of "Toccata Reger", originally played on church organ by Feike Asma. In commission of Luchtkastelen 2006
Turning to Raseborg - Commissioned by the AIR program of ProArtibus.
OddMusic - Mashup created with samples found at www.oddmusic.com, in commission of VPRO Radio 'Café Sonore'
Hosted by Rich L.
A Different Nature playlist for 09/12/2011
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
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| Karlheinz Stockhausen | Leo | Tierkreis fur 12 Spieluhren | Stockhausen |
| Karlheinz Stockhau | Hymnen (excerpt from Region III) | Hymnen | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Karlheinz Stockhau | Ylem (excerpt) | Ylem | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Karlheinz Stockhau | Kontake (side A) | Kontake | Ecstatic Peace! |
| karlheinz stockhausen | Telemusik | Mikrophoneie I/Krophonie II/Telemusik | Stockhausen |
| Karlheinz Stockhau | Sirius (side 4) | Sirius | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Karlheinz Stockhau | Ceylon | Prozession/Ceylon | Stockhausen |
| karlheinz stockhausen | Samstags-Grus (Luzifer-Gruss) "Saturday Greeting" (Lucifer's Greeting) | Samstag aus Licht (opera) | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Karlheinz Stockhau | Aus den sieben Tangen (1. Fais voile vers le soleil) | Aus den sieben Tangen | Harmonia Mundi |
Rolf & Andy play music of Stockhausen, recalling his controversial comments following the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and paying tribute to what would have been the composer's 83rd birthday (Aug.22)
A Different Nature playlist for 09/05/2011
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
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| John Cage | Williams Mix | OHM: The Early Pioneers of Electronic Music: 1948-1980 | Ellipsis Arts |
| John Cage/Peter Greenaway | audio track from the documentary film: | Four American Composers, Vol. 1: John Cage | ----- |
| Cage works heard in the film include: | |||
| 'Indeterminacy' Story No. 4 | |||
| Music-Tape Track by David Tudor | |||
| 'Indeterminacy' Story No. 4 | |||
| 'Indeterminacy' Story No. 81 | |||
| Living Room Music (1940) | |||
| Double Music (1941) | |||
| Forever and Sunsmell (1942) | |||
| Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947) | |||
| Speech (1955) | |||
| 27 sounds manufactured in a kitchen | |||
| 12 sounds manufactured by the human body | |||
| Aria (1958) | |||
| John Cage/Andrew Hosch | Le Cage Concrète: 52 miniatures to be played in random sequence | Le Cage Concrète | Epitonium |
September 5th is the birthday of the American composer John Cage. He would have been 99 this year. In 2012, to celebrate the centenary of Cage's birth, we here at A Different Nature, elsewhere on KBOO, and in Portland's new music community, will be presenting Cage-related programming throughout the year.
Tonight's Cage birthday celebration brings you the audio track from the 1983 Peter Greenaway film, Four American Composers, Vol. 1: John Cage. This documentary sheds light on Cage's musical philosophy. It was based on a series of performances of music by John Cage to celebrate his 70th birthday at St. James Church Islington, London. If you would like to view the film, someone has posted it on youtube.
The second hour of the show will feature "Le Cage Concrète", a series of 52 miniatures constructed from fragments of performances of Cage's music, averaging 1 1/2 minutes each in duration. These 52 short pieces are intended to be played in random sequence. The possible combinations are astronomical: approximately 80 to the 67th power (80 with 67 zeroes...) "Le Cage Concrète" was constructed in 1998 by Andrew Hosch, currently a host of this program.
A Different Nature playlist for 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 Different Nature playlist for 08/15/2011
| Artist | Title | Album | Label | Link |
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| Vistas Fijas | Ya Parezco Fotografia | Vistas Fijas | Laudano | |
| Vistas Fijas | Gotas | Vistas Fijas | Laudano | |
| Vistas Fijas | Vidrios | Vistas Fijas | Laudano | |
| Vistas Fijas | Arcano | Vistas Fijas | Laudano | |
| Vistas Fijas | Deni | Vistas Fijas | Laudano | |
| Vistas Fijas | Sinfin | Vistas Fijas | Laudano | |
| Vistas Fijas | Dias de Margarita | Vistas Fijas | Laudano | |
| E. Hambersin | Alejandra | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Fernando Escarcega | Improvisaciones | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Klimperei | Sous la Veranda | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Luis Flores | Vals Cuadrado | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| F.A.R. | Alejandra's Nightmare | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Arturo Meza | El Vals de los Trostrospitos en la Casa de Los Espejos Liquidos | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Oxomaxoma | Vals para Yeloguerlizet a 6 Manos y Cinta | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Armando Velasco | Una Vez | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Sack | Alejhumtata | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Los Troves Souplardos & Claire Deremiens | Alejandra I Tu | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| La Reata | Alejandro | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Bene Gesserit | Alexandra Petit Muchacha | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Folie Neuborg | L'Air du Temps | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Rolando Chia | ... y Alejandra Mostro | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Neffe + Velasco | Don' Forget Alexandra | Los Valses de Alejandra | Alejandra | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
| Darsel + Chia | Afanipteros | Tratado de Insectos de Metamorfosis Perfectas | Laudano | |
| Darsel + Chia | Neuropteros | Tratado de Insectos de Metamorfosis Perfectas | Laudano | |
| Darsel + Chia | Lepidopteros | Tratado de Insectos de Metamorfosis Perfectas | Laudano | |
| Darsel + Chia | Dipteros | Tratado de Insectos de Metamorfosis Perfectas | Laudano | |
| Darsel + Chia | Himenopteros | Tratado de Insectos de Metamorfosis Perfectas | Laudano | |
| Jose Alvarez + Arturo Romo | Track 1 | Jose Alvarez + Arturo Romo | ||
| Jose Alvarez + Arturo Romo | Track 2 | Jose Alvarez + Arturo Romo | ||
| Oxomaxoma + Arturo Meza | Unicornio 13 | En el Nombre Sea de Dios | www.tianguismusicatl.com |
Audio for this broadcast can be foud at:
http://laruletaradio.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/a-different-nature-los-val...
A Different Nature playlist for 08/08/2011
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
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| Charlie Morrow | Central Park, 1850 | TOOT! | XI |
| Marilyn Monroe collage | |||
| TOOT and BLINK, Chicago | |||
| Ken Friedman, WFMU talks about Toot & Blink, NY (out on The Hudson) | |||
| Breath Chant | |||
| Late Afternoon Chant | |||
| Wave Music VII (for 30 Harps) | |||
| Wave Music I (for 40 cellos) | |||
| Feather | |||
| Central Park, 2007 |
SOUND ARTIST, COMPOSER, SOUND POET, EVENTMAKER CHARLIE MORROW (b 1942 Newark, New Jersey) tonight on ADN, we feature(d) Charlie Morrow--a conceptualist whose music and sound work explores many styles and forms, from events for media and public spaces (sunset concerts with 40 cellists! Dozens of boats tooting their whistles and blinking their lights!) to commercial soundtracks, new media productions, museum installations and programming for broadcast and festivals. He also apparently did a live performance for fish. Assembling expert project groups, Morrow employs a collaborative style that fuses arts, artists, and environment. Technological expertise creates the basis for much of his work, which often combines newest and oldest technologies. Morrow’s patent for 3D sound playback is pending. Morrow's 1st major work, Slow Gabrieli (1957) was a super slow motion performance of G. Gabrielli's Sonata Pian e Forte for double brass ensemble. Other 50s conceptual action works include Interuption Music where, unknown to the conductor, an orchestra is rigged to scratch and belch at a set time in the a performance and Flower Music where, while receiving honors on stage in a public ceremony, the performer tips a vase of flowers onto the audience. Also from this time, ironic stamp art works: REALLY and author: please destroy. Mail art work in this genre followed with Ray Johnson.Morrow’s sound poetry works started with Morrow’s home tape recorder creations Hella (1969) on wordplay text, continuing in Horse Songs of Frank Mitchell and Satan in Goray (1969) manipulations of J. Rothenberg text and the multitrack Personal Chants (1971) w/Morrow’s voice with sound processing. He has performed and made recordings with poet Jerome Rothenberg from the 60s to the present. A Healing Piece for the Performance Group (now the Wooster Group). Performance works with soundtracks, and audience participation include : Ho Ho on my Father’s Shirt, Breath Chants, Sky Songs and Dream Songs.
His sound poetry ranges from improvisation to fully notated works with and without texts. He chanted as the shaman in his with fire and recorded sound environment, one of the first performances at The Kitchen New York in the old Broadway Central Hotel. His calligraphies of vocal patterns in color on parchment stem from this work, and handmade books in small editions: Chanting Book, A Gathering of Healers. the Blue Book and the Red Book.
Charlie created and directed Radiophonic works include live broadcast Morrow’s Skysongs and electro-acoustic pieces including four one-hour radio Sound Head Shows, broadcast in the US and Europe. Sound portrait works began in 1968 with The Marilyn Monroe Collage. He participated in the 11th International Sound Poetry festival in Toronto where he met Swedish artist, Sten Hanson. Morrow and Hanson co-organized the 12th International Sound Poetry Festival 80 NYC and collaborated on performance works Sound Graphics, The Heavy Weight Sound Fight (including Carles Santes), and Montgolfier Musique. Recent sound poetry work includes digitally retouched voice works, sound portraits, and 3D word-sound environmentsLight Opera, with Min Tanaka and the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, was presented at La Mama Theater. He created incidental music for Hotel Pro Forma’s Snow White, scores for Nana Nilsson Dancers and performances in 3D sound environments for The Geneva Set.
Morrow’s first sound studio 1968 in NYC was a mix of hand made circuits, tape recorders and a custom loud speakers including a Jack Weisberg corner array of six 6'x 3' horns, stacked 3 above 3. He has built successive studios in Soho and Chelsea as the cornerstone for producing events, broadcasts & media work. He conceived and produced large-scale musical works for Lake Michigan (Louvre Museum, Paris), General Gas Exhibit (Chicago Museum of Science and Industry), 2nd Acustica International (Whitney Museum) and an arctic sound room for the KAH, Bonn, Germany, the Hall of Planet Earth (American Museum of Natural History) He composed music for multimedia, orchestra, 3D sound for a Volvo U.S. annual sales meeting, for AT&T Mummenschanz (Telcom 88 Geneva) inaugurating the ISDN system, for Nam Jun Paik's Versailles Video Wall and programmed Nam Jun Paik's Swatch Watch.Toot'N Blink Chicago), Copenhagen (Copenhagen Waves), and New York Harbor. He codesigned Radio City Music Hall Production's World Cup Soccer finale, LA , and created event broadcasts for Copenhagen 96, Cultural Capital of Europe. Buecker & Harpsichord Gllery (NY) presented a solo show of event objects, as did No Se No Gallery. Individual pieces appeared in group shows at PS 1, West German Radio Gallery, Berlin Augen Ohren and Copenhagen galleries. A Clio Award winner, Morrow, has created the U.S. national advertising music for the "Hefty/Wimpy" campaign, Diet Coke, SwissAir and Mercedes Benz, and for International campaigns of M&Ms and IBM. Jaron Lanier, Charlotte Moorman, Sten Hanson, RIP Hayman, Tom Johnson, Simon and Garfunkel, The Rascals, The Vanilla Fudge, Dr. John, Sun Ra, Don Cherry, Buster Williams, Sarah Dash, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Allen Ginsberg, Jerome Rothenberg, Alvin Curran and John Cage, as an improviser with Glen Velez, Derek Bailey, Steve Lacy, Marten Alteena, dancers Min Tanaka and Simone Forti. A friend of Fluxus, he performed at George Maciunas and Robert Watts memorial events. WDR (West German), DR(Danish), RAI (Italian), SR (Swedish), BBC (British), CBC(Canadian), BRT (Belgian), NPR, PBS and New York radio stations WBAI, WKCR, WNYC. Branded music logo clients include MTV, WINS TBS, ABC Network, Internat’l Paper, AT&T. He created feature film soundtracks in the U.S. and Europe, Francis Thompson's Moonwalk I, Paddy Chayefsky's Altered States, Elinor Antin's Man Without A World. He designed music and sound for the 13 part educational Time-Life's "America". His video, Paul's Story, A Sami in New York, premiered at The Margaret Mead Film Festival, December 1989. He co-produced T.C. McLuhan’s audio Touch the Earth.
2002 Morrow-Klingenstein venture: audio tours and experience at the Thea Award for Great Platte River Memorial Arch Museum audio installation.
2003 invention of 3D MorrowSound Cube: VIS smart projection + spatial sound for Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Future of Sound: British Academy Awards, New Sounds New York; SoundCube at the Kitchen; Solo sound art show MUU Gallery, Helsinki.
Charlie Morrow is president and creative director of The Charles Morrow Productions LLC and of the New Wilderness Foundation, Inc. Morrow worked on records and event projects with: Morrow has designed and produced special radio and TV programming for : As artistic director of New Wilderness Foundation, Morrow produced Summer Solstice celebrations 1973-89 broadcast internationally on radio and TV. New Wilderness published EAR Magazine and Audiographics art audio cassettes. Morrow's arctic projects begun in 1986 include :ARCTIC II (1994) hörspiel for Klaus Schöning,WDR and Circumpolar Sounds of Spring, for K96, and hörspiel Shaman’s Journey North(98), also for WDR. His interactive arctic store room of drawers and cabinets filled with arctic sounds was featured in Arktis-Antarktis at the Kunst-und Austellungs Halle, Bonn, DE. Stitchworks on pillow cases are from this time. Morrow’s sound sculpture from the 80s and 90s includes interactive works with electronics, sound furniture and heart beat machine, and resonance objects like (DK), His Blue Glass calligraphy on glasses, vases and windows are from this period. 1996 CD-ROM, ScruTiny in the Great Round,, visual work of Tennessee Rice Dixon and Jim Gasperini +Morrow’s music won MILIA D’OR 96 at Cannes 1997, Three City Dance live internet work with interacting dancers and musicians in Tokyo, New York and Copenhagen with Jaron Lanier, Gunnar Wille. The Vikings.
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A Tribute to PANDIT PRAN NATH
http://www.soundmaps.net/pandit_pran_nath.html
A Different Nature playlist for 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
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 ?
Programs & Schedules
- On-Air Schedule Grid (HTML)
- Schedule By Genre (PDF)
- On-Air Schedule (3/2012, graphic)
- On-Air Schedule (3/2012, PDF)
Next Board of Director's Meeting
JUNE 3, 2013 - 6PM
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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