Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. Bill Nelson and Phil Mansanera are guitarists who have extended the sound of their instruments and incorporated syntehsizers to create a personal music. Mansanera was a member of the pop group Roxy Music with Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno.
Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. Paul Horn's 1968 recording, Inside, recorded within the dome of the Taj Mahal, was one of the heralds of the new age. This flutist looks back on a career that has taken him into pyramids and China, as well as recording with Ravi Shankar.
Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. Two guitarists who take a radically different approach to composition and performance. Al DiMeola upped that speed stakes in fusion while simultaneously crafting Spanish influenced compositions. Scott Johnson combines fiery guitar with sound first.
Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. John Zorn has emerged as a leading composer in the 80's creating a celebration of sound and life tinged with the urban skepticism of New York City. He makes a collage of musical forms ranging from world music to free jazz to the blues to the avant-garde and beyond.
Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. John McLaughlin is a musician who has changed the shape of his instrument and the music it plays. His fusion group. The Mahavishnu Orchestra is the yardstick against which all such music is measured.
Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. O'Hearn, former bassist with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa, uses synthesizers and acoustic and electric bass. Exchange, a Canadian duo, are new wave professionals who work in commercial music.
Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. They start at new wave rock, pass through minimalism, and arrive at a post-modern sound. Roger Miller transmutes his piano through torturous manipulations. The Birdsons make a sort of Bartok Rock.
Ongoing weekly program which introduces the work of leading performance artists, playwrights, new music composers, and radio producers who explore the creative potential of radio as an experimental medium.|BETWEEN FEAR AND LONGING : MARGINALLY STABLE IN SAN FRANCISCO / Donald Swearingen. - SERIES: New American radio| no.
Composer Swearingen explores personal fear and longing in the words and thoughts of various individuals "overheard" following the October, 1989, San Francisco earthquake.
Ongoing weekly program which introduces the work of leading performance artists, playwrights, new music composers, and radio producers who explore the creative potential of radio as an experimental medium.|BLOODY ANGLE / Naut Humon and Bob Davis. - SERIES: New American radio| no.
Humon and Davis combine to process the lectures, tours and symposia commemorating the eleven month battle for Richmond, Virginia, which signaled the end of the Civil War, May 1864-April 1865.