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Hibotep - "Acid Dairiah" - Alternate African Reality [Hibo Elmi is of Somali ancestry, born and raised in Ethiopia, living in Kampala, Uganda at the time of this project. DJ, filmmaker, fashion designer, installation artist, rapper and producer, and self-described cultural nomad. From a compilation of experimental music from Africa and the diaspora.] Ned Rothenberg - "Inner Diaspora (live)" - Interpretations Series [Composer Rothenberg’s ensemble, Inner Diaspora, with Mark Feldman, violin; Erik Friedlander, cello; Jerome Harris, acoustic bass guitar & guitar; Samir Chatterjee, tabla; & Rothenberg on clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax & shakuhachi. Excerpt.] [0:07:30] Henry Threadgill - "ZOOID (live)" - Roulette Concert Series [Composer/wind player Threadgill's ensemble, ZOOID, with Liberty Ellman, acoustic guitar; Jose Davila, trombone, tuba; Stomu Takeishi, fretless bass guitar; Chris Hoffman, cello, violin; Elliot Humberto Kavee, drums. Based on a musical language developed by Threadgill. Compositions are organized in blocks and assigned to each musician who in turn can use them independently, throwing in elements of improvisation. The term Zooid describes an independent organism that works together like a colony. Excerpts.] [0:37:36] Annie Gosfield / JACK Quartet - "Signal Jamming and Random Interference (live)" - Roulette Concert Series [Composer Gosfield on electronics along with JACK Quartet, constructed around and using fragments of rare recordings of jammed signals from WWII, including “ghost voices” which emphasize the otherworldly qualities of these strange broadcasts. JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld (violin), John Pickford Richards (viola), Kevin McFarland (cello). Excerpt.] [1:13:53] Chris Brown, Frank Gratowsky & William Winant - "Improvisations (live)" - Interpretations Series [Brown, piano, electronics; Gratowsky, sax; Winant, percussion. Improvisation, extended techniques, and interactive electronic signal processing. Excerpts.] [1:47:40] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163204

Young Hormones - "Egg" - Disk Musik: A DD. Records Compilation [From a 1985 compilation album by Japan’s cult label DD. Records, featuring cuts from key outsider Japanese artists of the era: avant-punk, cubist ambient, sound collage, pop concréte, jazz-prog, early computer music, and much more.] Angine de Poitrine - "Sarniezz" - Vol. 2 [Canadian experimental rock duo from the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec. Khn de Poitrine, microtonal guitar/bass, loop station, synth, vocals; Klek de Poitrine, drums, vocals. Khn plays a double-necked hybrid instrument consisting of a Fender-Stratocaster-like guitar and bass, each with quarter-tone frets. Anonymous by choice and self-described as a "mantra-rock Dada Pythago-Cubist orchestra".] [0:06:44] Nour Kara & Juliette Capel - "En-Sheneh" - Noise vs. Silence (Vol. I-IV) [Nour Kara, is an Iranian electronic music producer based in France. Juliette Capel, multi-instrumentalist from Spain on processed cello. Title translates as "chained".] [0:11:04] Jin Hi Kim, Min Xiao-Fen, Susie Ibarra - "Asian Sound Revolution (concert recording)" - Roulette Concert Series [Jin Hi Kim, Korean komungo, electric komungo, janggo; Min Xiao-Fen, Chinese pipa, sanxian, ruan, voice; Susie Ibarra, Philippine kulingtang, percussion. Excerpt.] [0:17:34] Mari Kimura - "MUGIC Magic! (concert recording)" - Interpretations Series [A solo program featuring works written for and by the violinist and the MUGIC motion sensor/processor, of her design. This excerpt includes works by Jean Claude Risset (France), Dai Fujikura (Japan), and Kimura’s own recent work, Sasakawa.] [0:35:53] Keith Tippett, Claudio Gabbiani, Roberto Musci - "Music For Labyrinths 6" - Music For Labyrinths [Keith Tippett, piano; Claudio Gabbiani, acoustic & electric guitars; Roberto Musci:, sampler, percussion, theremin, Vx7 (didgeridoo, bass clarinet), electronics. Recorded live at Palazzina Liberty, Milan, Italy 2000.] [0:54:32] Craig Taborn, Nels Cline, Marcus Gilmore - "Queen King" - Trio of Bloom [Craig Taborn, keyboards; Marcus Gilmore, drums and percussion; Nels Cline, 6- and 12-string guitars, lap steel guitar, bass.] [1:05:26] Sam Hoyek - "2ras" - demonstration_01: anomalous [Syrian transdisciplinary artist's dark ambient atmospheres, breakcore drumbeats, post-metal textures, and experimental electronic collage.] [1:14:09] Angine de Poitrine - "Tamebsz" - Vol.1 [Canadian experimental rock duo from the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec. Khn de Poitrine, microtonal guitar/bass, loop station, synth, vocals; Klek de Poitrine, drums, vocals. Khn plays a double-necked hybrid instrument consisting of a Fender-Stratocaster-like guitar and bass, each with quarter-tone frets. Anonymous by choice and self-described as a "mantra-rock Dada Pythago-Cubist orchestra".] [1:22:29] Simon Hanes - "Lucifer / Aurem Chaos" - GARGANTUA [The composer, guitarist, and bandleader (Tredici Bacci, Tsons of Tsunami) from his epic work for three French horns, three trombones, three electric basses, three drum sets, and voices. Inspired by volcanoes, hiking and isolation across Norway, Iceland, and Hawaii, music theory, orchestration, improvisation, and texts by Rabelais.] [1:33:43] Xerxes The Dark - "Xtraterrestrial" - Anthology Of Persian Experimental Music [Iranian. Xerxes The Dark is the project of composer and electronic musician Mohammadreza Govahi. Initially, this compilation was released under the banner “Iranian” experimental music survey, but due to political issues with Iran it was put into the black list and blocked on various digital platforms.] [1:49:03] Hibotep - "Acid Dairiah" - Alternate African Reality [Hibo Elmi is of Somali ancestry, born and raised in Ethiopia, living in Kampala, Uganda at the time of this project. DJ, filmmaker, fashion designer, installation artist, rapper, producer, and self-described cultural nomad from a compilation of experimental music from Africa and the diaspora.] [1:58:34]...

Hoagy Carmichael - "How Little We Know" - To Have and Have Not Soundtrack [Lauren Bacall is smoldering (hear her strike a match?) and Carmichael is crooning in this snippet of his tune from the classic film.] Martha Mooke & Tony Verderosa - "Live Set" - Roulette Concert Series [Mooke, electric 5-string viola/violin and electronics; Verderosa, percussion, electronics.] [0:03:45] Ka Baird - "Live at The Sump" - David Watson's Work Series [A solo for bells, voice, flute, harmonium, electronics. From the series organized by Watson at the club (now H0L0).] [0:35:53] Stephen Scott - "Entrada" - The Bowed Piano Ensemble [Performed at Packard Hall, Colorado College. 10 players bowing, plucking, hammering clustered around a single piano.] [1:04:44] Yuka C. Honda - "Pink Freud" - Clocktower Archive [The keyboardist/producer (Cibo Matto) mixes, mashes, and sublimely manipulates whatever was in mind and/or on hand for a prototype radio project.] [1:13:20] Lucky Dragons - "Ooga Booga" - Sumi Ink Club [During their residency at the Gallery, Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck (the collaborative partnership, Lucky Dragons) provided materials for visitors to draw. This is the soundtrack/audio environment for the sessions.] [1:35:28] Eric Singer - "LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Robots)" - WarmUp Concert Series [The musician/inventor and his longtime associate Leif Krinkle were recorded live in concert at PS1's summer music series with a mechanical automated MIDI and MAX driven guitar, xylophone, drums and percussion, and much more.] [1:56:57] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162493

eucademix - "A Camel to UFO" - Farm Psychedelia II [The music project of Yuka Honda, Cibo Matto founder, producer, composer, performer.] Khadija Jijo Jeesto - "Dahableey (Golden One)" - 808 Xamar: Exiled Digital Somali Sounds from 1990s Saudi Arabia [In a sound-insulated room, the singer and fellow musicians secretly recorded a wedding commission for a Somali family in France. Recorded illicitly in 1994, when music by women was banned, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.] [0:08:30] Antoine Dougbé et l'Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - "Ya Mi Ton Gbo" - Legends Of Benin - Afro Funk, Cavacha, Agbadja, Afro-Beat [The Congolese Dougbé, one of the most inventive songwriters out of the music scene of Cotonou, was also a powerful Vodún initiate and referred c himself as “the Devil’s prime minister.” While attracted to Congolese rhythms, his fascination with the traditional rhythms of Benin — especially those associated with Vodún ceremonies — allowed him to move away from anything happening in the Congo.] [0:16:16] Darja Kazimira & Zura Makharadze - "Improvisation for drums and sona" - Songs from an obscure matriarchal tribe [From an improvisational cycle recorded by the duo during the filming of the experimental film "Rue de la Lune" by the Irish director Juana Robles. Recorded in Tbilisi, Georgia.] [0:22:51] Noori & His Dorpa Band - "Qwal" - Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan's Red Sea Coast [Noori Jaber and his Dorpa Band are Beja, an ethnic group from eastern Sudan that make up roughly 5% of the population of the country. The Beja have historically been politically and culturally marginalized in Sudan.] [0:36:06] Siti Muharam - "Pakistan" - Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution On Zanzibar) [Resurrecting the music of Siti Binti Saad, the 'Mother of Taarab', great-granddaughter vocalist Siti Muharam, mastering the scales, melodies, and feel, preserves the eclecticism of Zanzibar’s Swahili street culture.] [0:42:11] Hassan Hakmoun - "Gnawa Soul of Morocco" - A World in Trance Festival [Born in Marrakech, Hassan Hakmoun is the premier exponent of Moroccan Gnawa trance music in America, unleashing grooves on the sintir, a bass lute, and his ecstatic vocals "invoke the spirits of healing through chants of praise to the Prophet Mohammad and the saints". Excerpt.] [0:48:47] Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness - "Phallus Palace" - The Totemist [Written and recorded in a ghost-town in the Chihuahuan Desert in far West Texas. Various overdubs and field recordings were captured in the historic Terlingua cemetery, an ancient burial ground.] [1:06:47] Catteh - "Karchatta (Original Mix)" - A La Turka EP [Weaving together "tribal percussion, melodies, and hypnotic grooves from the Eastern-tinged primal drive of Deep Africa, the warm sensuality of Habanera, and ritual". Catteh is probably Romanian and the melody likely of Ukrainian origin.] [1:18:43] Nonentia - "Kalaharakiri" - Anthology Of Contemporary Music From South Africa [Layering of pulsating drones, synths, portamento chants. Described as "influenced by the Berlin School but with a trip to the far south".] [1:29:33] St Celfer - "Serpents and Horses, part A" - I thought U thought I [Glitch-tronics treading failure with counterblasts through the vanishing point... brain-hexing music...] [1:34:34] Grey Frequency - "Utopia Mist" - Hauntology In UK [The music project of UK-based audio and visual artist Gavin Morrow. The term "Hauntology" originates in the work of Algerian-born French philosopher Jacques Derrida and is described by cultural critic/philosopher Mark Fisher thus: "the 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion; the current cultural moment is in the grip of a formal nostalgia, in which ostensibly new things are produced only through the imitation and pastiche of old forms".] [1:44:19] Mntana WeXhwele - "Isi-La-Wu" - Anthology Of Contemporary Music From South Africa [Nkosenathi Ernie Koela aka Mntana WeXhwele is a Healer specializing in indigenous music...

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn - "New South Africa" - Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn [From an album that won the 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. Fleck is a banjo playing legend. Washburn plays clawhammer banjo known for combining it with Far East culture and sounds. Fleck canceled a Washington, DC Kennedy Center performance citing political influence on programs and administration of the venue.] PRIZE! Josh Johnson - "Sterling" - Unusual Object [Pledge $20+ to get in the running and win this CD. Processed saxophone and subtle samples and grooves with a cyberpunk ambient jazz feel.] Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists - "Dance of the Zombies 1955" - Way Way Out: Quiet Storm Avant-Garde Jazz 1948-1965 [Pledge $75+ and select this CD/download or any other WFMU DJ Premium.] Balún - "Los Problemas (Siempre Regresan)" - Los Problemas (Siempre Regresan) [Sextet based in Brooklyn mixing dream pop with Dominican dembow. Balún canceled a Washington, DC Kennedy Center performance citing political influence on programs and administration of the venue. Angélica Negrón, vocals; Noraliz Ruiz, Puerto Rican cuatro guitar; Raul Reymundi, electric guitar; José Olivares, synths, programming; Shayna Dunkelman, drums, percussion; Enrique Bayoan Ríos Escribano, Zampoña (Andean pan flute).] Teerath Majumder - "Dust" - Dust to Dust [Bangladeshi-born, Chicago artist's experimental electronics flirting with EDM.] PREMIUM! Myra Melford - "bug on water" - Ridgewood Radio 2026 Premium [Pledge $75+ and select this CD/download: Inside & Out: Ancient and experimental tunings, preparations, and alterations for piano. This track from Melford's Concrete Sun, with Evelyn Ficarra, Heather Frasch (found sounds and synthesizer).] Morgana King - "Tomorrow Never Knows" - Satisfying Sounds From Unexpected Places [Pledge $75+ and select this CD/download or any other WFMU DJ Premium. A very brave cover of a John Lennon tune that signaled a paradigm shift in popular music.] Philip Glass / Lucinda Childs - "Prematurely Air-Conditioned Supermarket" - Einstein On The Beach [From Act 3, Scene 1 – Trial 2/Prison. Glass canceled a Washington, DC Kennedy Center performance citing political influence on programs and administration of the venue.] PREMIUM! Jessica Williams - "Odun-de" - Ridgewood Radio 2026 Premium [Pledge $75+ and select this CD/download: Inside & Out: Ancient and experimental tunings, preparations, and alterations for piano. A track from Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987, based on a traditional Nigerian melody.] PRIZE! Senyawa + Lawrence English/Aviva Endean/Peter Knight/Helen Svoboda/Joe Talia - "Perjamuan" - The Prey And The Ruler [Pledge $20+ to get in the running and win this CD. Wukir Suryadi, Industrial Mutant instrument; Rully Shabara, voice; Helen Svoboda, double bass & voice; Peter Knight, trumpet & Revox B77 tape machine; Joe Talia, drums; Aviva Endean, clarinets & harmonic flute; Lawrence English, organ, electronics.] Terje Rypdal - "Into the Wilderness" - Notes Afloat: Melodies that Missed the Mainstream [Pledge $75+ and select this CD/download or any other WFMU DJ Premium. From the guitarist's 1997 ECM album, Skywards.] PREMIUM! Tom Ross - "A Bicycle Built for Nyama" - Ridgewood Radio 2026 Premium [Pledge $75+ and select this CD/download: Inside & Out: Ancient and experimental tunings, preparations, and alterations for piano. From the Daisy Prepared Piano suite, in South Indian rhythmic grooves and scales, featuring homemade and junk percussion.] PRIZE! Chas Smith - "The End of Cognizance" - Three [Pledge $20+ to get in the running and win this CD. A blend of tones and timbres from his metal sound sculptures (instruments with such names as Que Lastas, Bertoia, Lockheed, Towers, Sceptre, Parabaloid) and his homemade steel guitars (Guitarzilla, Jr. Blue, bass steel). Excerpt.] Keith Tippett, Claudio Gabbiani, Roberto Musci - "Music For Labyrinths 6" - Music For Labyrinths [Keith Tippett, piano; Claudio Gabbiani: acoustic &...

Kiwanoid - "କିଛି ନୁେହଁ" - Vanatühi [Estonia. From a technopagan concept album inspired by glitch aesthetics, clicks, error noises, and low-bitrate techno sounds.] Little Snake & Amon Tobin - "Loophole" - Loophole [Little Snake aka Gino Serpentini out of Calgary, Alberta with Brazilian (and global citizen) electronic composer Amon Tobin.] [0:04:42] littlesweetpotato, 楼长Louzhang - "Southside Dub Stars (Ambush Version)" - 盆地回响 Basin Dub [Shanghai. From a project focusing on the artist's hometown in southwest China, the Sichuan Basin, far from the center of the modern music scene.] [0:12:51] Barsa + Briggy - "Dumbocracy" - BnB [Brazil. Wesley Ribeiro, drums and percussion; Chris Vine, guitar, bass, keyboards.] [0:17:12] Kop-Z - "Remote Actions on a Non-Linear Path" - A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System [London. Written and produced by Daniel Ochieng Odhis Copsey. Kinetic probability programming systems, field recordings, manually looped vinyl, and childhood video games.] [0:29:50] Tony Elieh - "Part Two" - It's Good To Die Every Now And Then [Beirut, Lebanon. Composed, performed, and produced by bassist Elieh.] [0:38:15] Kaoru Watanabe - "Incense Live at Contemporary East" - Roulette Archives [Exploring the dual uses and meanings of its title: burning and calming, smoldering and healing, provocation and release. Excerpts.] [0:49:55] Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone - "Music for Intersecting Planes II" - Music for Intersecting Planes [Bordreuil, cello and feedback; Malone, Liardon/Felsberg 1995 organ and sine waves. Recorded at night by candlelight in the Temple of La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.] [1:05:49] Jan Jelinek - "Moiré (Piano & Organ)" - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records [Snippets of other people’s arrangements deconstructed through a sampler into loops mimicking the visual effect of "moiré", shifting patterns creating an implied new dimension.] [1:14:07] Sunju Hargun - "F9" - Extans Mantra : The Final Trip [Bangkok, Thailand. A recovered track from a forgotten hard drive, built around the Roland SH-101 and Prophet-6.] [1:24:31] Howie Lee - "光阴向太阳 (Time To The Sun) Ft. Yehaiyahan" - Birdy Island [Beijing-based producer/artist, (keyboard & prepared piano, yang qin, guitar, bass, drums. percussion, accordion, flute, guan zi + digital instruments). Choir vocals by Yehaiyahan, Fishdoll, and West by West.] [1:31:05] Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin - "03" - Iterae [Electronic musician and conceptualist Branciforte with Fender Rhodes artist Dumoulin in a "post-glitch" offering.] [1:37:29] Martin Tétreault & Otomo Yoshihide - "Genève no 4" - 2. Tok [Turntablist duo recorded at Cave 12 (Geneve, Switzerland).] [1:51:46] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161336

BlankFor.ms - "A Fleet Of Celebrants" - After The Town Was Swept Away [The artist (not the organization) aka Tyler Gilmore here with Remy Le Boeuf from a collection of "tape loop manipulation festoon and murmur".] Fred Frith & Mariá Portugal - "See Through Blind" - Matter [Improvisers Frith, electric guitar, voice, and Portugal, drums, percussion, voice.] [0:05:57] Cousin - "Toad" - A Message From Q [Producer/DJ aka Jackson Festerout of Sydney, Australia known for sub-heavy, downtempo, and atmospheric elements.] [0:21:08] Lou Harrison - "Song Of Queztecoatl" - Labrynth [Composed 1940 and radical for his use, among other things, of non-traditional percussion objects. Maelström Percussion Ensemble conducted by Jan Williams recorded 1997 at Slee Concert Hall, University at Buffalo, New York.] [0:27:56] Honestly Same - "Frog Lift" - Hot Plate Only [Chicago. Zachary Good, clarinets, recorders; Lia Kohl, cello, radio, synthesizers; Mabel Kwan, accordion, piano; Zach Moore, bass, synthesizers; Sam Scranton, percussion, drums, electronics.] [0:33:58] Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - "Paradise Road" - Notes Above Land [Ariel Kalma (born Ariel Kalmanowicz 1947-2025) was a French new-age composer, wind player, and electronic musician here with Lowe on modular synth, small percussion, samples. From a 2015 rehearsal in San Francisco for the "We Know Each Other Somehow" tour.] [0:40:51] Sam Gendel - "Junk_Theem" - Fresh Bread [Composer Gendel, saxophone; Gabe Noel, electric bass; Philippe Melanson, electronic percussion.] [1:01:37] Green-House - "Soft Meadow" - Six Songs for Invisible Gardens [A project of Los Angeles-based artist Olive Ardizoni designed to soothe the home environment, especially for plants.] [1:06:32] Cousin - "A Message From Q" - A Message From Q [Producer/DJ aka Jackson Festerout of Sydney, Australia known for sub-heavy, downtempo, and atmospheric elements.] [1:11:59] David First & The Western Enisphere - "(pulse, end body)" - Revolutions [Sections from composer First's drone-based magnum opus based on the 16th through 32nd harmonics of the note G. Performed by The Western Enisphere: Jeanann Dara, viola; Sam Kulik, trombone; Jeff Tobias, bass clarinet; Alex Waterman, cello; Ian Douglas-Moore, guitar; Tania Caroline Chen, overtone keyboard; Will Stanton, piano, bowed piano, ebow piano; Danny Tunick, tuned glasses; James Ilgenfritz, upright bass; Bern Gann, electric bass; Matt Evans, drum kit; David First, jaw harp, electric jaw harp, mpe keyboard, programming.] [1:20:33] Tangerine Dream - "Rubycon, Pt. 2" - Rubycon [Edgar Froese, organ, Mellotron, guitar, gong. VCS 3 synthesizer; Christopher Franke, double Moog synthesizer, gong, Synthi A, organ; Peter Baumann, electric piano (Fender Rhodes), organ, EMS Synthi A, voice, ARP 2600.] [1:53:16] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160913

Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - "Voyria" - Lucy & Aaron [Recorded in 3 different locations, Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY where Dalt was doing a residency and at home in Berlin, and finally at Dilloway's home in Oberlin, OH.] Takkak Takkak - "Raung" - Takkak Takkak [Berlin-based Japanese producer Shigeru Ishihara and Vilnius-based Indonesian composer and instrument builder Mo’ong Santoso Pribadi.] [0:06:08] Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - "Bordeándola" - Lucy & Aaron [See opening track.] [0:10:13] Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat - "Ciptaan Dan Energi / Creation and Energy" - Land is Talking [Born in 1973 to a family of artists in Pengosekan village, Dewa Alit has been immersed in Balinese gamelan from early childhood and is generally acknowledged as the leading composer of his generation in Bali.] [0:13:31] Pacha Wakay Munan - "Qinray Tema (Feat. Camilo Ángeles & Ángel Pantoja)" - El tiempo quiere cantar (The time wants to sing) [A duo formed by Peruvian musicians and researchers Dimitri Manga Chávez and Ricardo López Alca using pre-Hispanic musical instruments discovered throughout the Andes and the Peruvian coast: Chimú whistling vessels, Nasca antaras, pututos and dozens more. The performance practice is lost but the duo seeks to reclaim these instruments, not just as artifacts of study but as active tools for musical creation.] [0:20:42] Craig Taborn, Tomeka Reid, Ches Smith - "Dream Archive" - Dream Archives [Composer Taborn, piano; Reid, cello; Smith, drums, mallets, percussion.] [0:31:37] Concrete Sun - "bug on water" - the mundane uncanny [Evelyn Ficarra (found sounds, laptop); Heather Frasch (synthesizers, DIY kinetic objects); Myra Melford (amplified objects and preparations inside the piano).] [0:43:23] Horse Lords - "Intervention II" - Interventions [Baltimore. An electronic fantasia from the band usually known for Andrew Bernstein (saxophone/percussion), Max Eilbacher (bass/electronics), Owen Gardner (guitar), and Sam Haberman (drums).] [0:48:39] Algol - "II" - Algol [Camilo Ángeles (Peru): flute, self-made aerophones, synthesizers, electronics; Elias Stemeseder (Austria): piano, spinet, synthesizers, electronics; Christian Lillinger (Germany): drums, percussions, synthesizers, electronics. Algol refers to both a famous variable star in the constellation Perseus, known as the "Demon Star", and a family of influential computer programming languages (Algorithmic Language).] [0:54:34] KVL - "Microvibe" - Volume 2 [Chicago. KIRCH/VAN/LUX, is the improvising trio of Quin Kirchner, drums, percussion, sampler, electronics; Daniel Van Duerm, acoustic and electric pianos, organ, Mellotron, electronics; Matthew Lux, bass, electronics.] [1:05:44] How to See Know and Fall - "Clathrus Ruber" - Ecologies [Brian Shankar Adler, percussion, and Jesse Stiles, electronics, in a collaboration with novelist and poet Jesse Ball.] [1:10:49] Cergio Prudencio - "Cantos de piedra" - Antología 2 : Obras para la Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos [Bolivian composer Cergio Prudencio and his Experimental Orchestra of Native Instruments (OEIN). Cantos de piedra (1989) is an homage to the culture of Tiahuanaku, which articulates sound masses of tarkas, microtonal guitars, and sikus.] [1:21:46] Moody Alien - "Steve was Left (pt.1-3)" - Nations of I [Multidisciplinary artist living in Thessaloniki, Greece. Moody Alien: processed vibraphone, marimbas & glockenspiel, here with Jeremy Young, sine & triangle waves, brushes, radio transmissions.] [1:33:51] Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - "Iron Metal Rags" - Independent Television [Australia. Gulbenkoglu plays guitars, snare drum plus sampling the environment and oscillators. Revert provides musique concrete, field recording, and other more experimental sounds.] [1:44:04] Brian Eno - "1/1" - Ambient 1: Music for Airports [Brian Eno, synthesizer, electric piano, vocals; Robert Wyatt, acoustic piano.] [1:56:15] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160428

Ambiguity Research Institute - "Stripe 7" - Ambiguity Research Institute [Produced, broadcast, received, and edited by Rob Bridgett and Nathan Moody who write: "Tape noise, shortwave disruptions, and other artifacts were retained in order to convey the most authentic nature of the ARI broadcasts".] Arooj Aftab - "Mohabbat" - Vulture Prince [Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer/vocalist Aftab merges minimalism, Urdu poetry, trance, jazz, and "states of pure being". Here with Jamey Haddad, percussion; Gyan Riley, guitar; Maeve Gilchrist, harp; Nadje Noordhuis, flugelhorn; Shahzad Ismaily, synth.] [0:05:27] Ecker & Meulyzer - "Carbon Cycles" - Carbon [Based on field recordings made at Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure seed bank preserving key crop varieties, located on the island of Spitsbergen. Koenraad Ecker works in the fields of electro-acoustic music, field recording, and radio plays. Frederik Meulyzer is a Belgian percussionist.] [0:12:54] The Black Dog - "Rumination Romance" - Loud Ambient [UK. The latest (and likely last) project of Ken Downie, here with Martin Dust, Richard Dust.] [0:23:20] Olivia Block - "En Echelon" - Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea [Out of Chicago, for Korg CX3 organ, Organelle, tapes, field recordings, and Mellotron.] [0:32:35] Setting - "I & II" - at Eulogy [Nathan Bowles (banjo, keyboard, tapes & percussion); Jaime Fennelly (harmonium & synthesizer); Joe Westerlund (drums & percussion) live at Eulogy in Asheville, North Carolina.] [0:38:13] Mark Fell & Pat Thomas - "set two, part one" - Reality Is Not A Theory [Thomas is an improvising pianist and electronic artist, here with Fell’s electronics. Recorded in concert at the University of Sheffield.] [0:54:22] Nickolas Mohanna - "Night Horses" - Speaker Rotations [From a sound collection by NY-based artist/composer Mohanna, for guitar, trombone, and piano.] [1:16:26] VP - "underground" - COSMOSIS [VP is Victoria Pham, a Paris-based, Australian/Vietnamese artist, composer, writer, & evolutionary biologist.] [1:32:37] Felicia Sjögren - "Exis" - HULDA [Written and recorded on a reed organ with two manuals and pedals. The instrument was built by Alfred Cedergren 1870–1925 in Vänge on the island Gotland, Sweden, also the home of Hulda Veström, who at 14 years old boarded the Titanic.] [1:37:45] Liis Ring - "after-image IV: abborresjön" - Homing [Sweden. From a collection of sound pieces and photographs designed as extensions of one another: "the sound prolongs the image; the image concretises the sound".] [1:46:37] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160182

Naked City - "Catacombs" - Heretics [Composer credit to Bill Frisell, guitar and Wayne Horvitz, keyboards with John Zorn, alto sax; Fred Frith, bass; Joey Baron, drums. From Zorn's soundtrack for the underground S/M film Jeux des Dames Cruelles.] Leroy Jenkins - "To Believe (Pure Motion)" - Leroy Jenkins' Driftwood: The Art of Improvisation [Rich O'Donnell, percussion; Denman Maroney, piano; Min Xiao-Fen, pipa; Leroy Jenkins, violin. Recorded 2004 at an AACM concert in New York City.] [0:05:51] Alphawhore - "Underskin" - Alphawhore [A re-issue from 2016 with Chris Cochrane, guitar; Kevin Shea, drums; and Gordon Beeferman, organ.] [0:14:17] Daniel Wohl - "Replicate, Pt. 2" - Holographic [Iktus Percussion (Chris Graham, Justin Wolf, Josh Perry, Sean Statser, and Piero Guimaraes at the core) merged with composer Wohl (Paris, LA) using interleaving samples of vocals, bubbling water, and decaying electronics.] [0:32:09] Sifters - "90 cairns" - Sifters [Jeremy Viner, tenor sax; Marc Ducret, guitar; and composer Kate Gentile on drums. Recorded at Fattoria Musica, Osnabrück, Germany.] [0:42:57] Nick Dunston - "Reverse Broadcast" - Reverse Broadcast [Wet Ink Ensemble with Guest Artists. Composer Dunston, processed radios, double bass; Katherine Young, bassoon; Weston Olencki, trombone; Nina Guo, Charmaine Lee, Kate Soper, voices; Erin Lesser, flutes; Alex Mincek and Mette Rasmussen, saxes; Eric Wubbels, piano; Ian Antonio, percussion; Josh Modney, violin; Lester St. Louis, cello; Sam Pluta, electronics. A Conduction project directed by Dunston recorded live at Abrons Arts Center in NYC 2022.] [0:58:41] Butch Morris - "InterFlight Conduction #113 (Part One)" - InterFlight Conduction #113 [Conducted by Butch Morris, cornet, with J.A Deane, live-sampling, drum machine; Graham Haynes, cornet/electronics; Joan Saura, sampler, synthesizer; Agusti Fernandez, piano, bells. Recorded at Crystal Palace in Madrid, Spain for the David Hammons Global Fax Festival in 2000. Allegedly, Butch Morris' last recording. Excerpt.] [1:42:01] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159980

Jimmy Smith - "My One and Only Love" - Plain Talk [From an album by jazz organist Smith featuring performances recorded in 1960 but not released until 1968. Blue Mitchell, trumpet; Quentin Warren, guitar; Donald Bailey, drums. Tune by Robert Mellin, Guy Wood.] Horacio "Chivo" Borraro - "Mi Amigo Tarzán" - Blues Para Un Cosmonauta [Composer/sax player Borraro joined by Fernando Gelbard (Argentine synth wiz), Fender Rhodes and Minimoog; Brazilian Stenio Mendes, 12-string craviola; Jorge González, bass; Néstor Astarita, drums; Chino Rossi, percussion and special effects.] [0:07:31] Air - "Card Two: The Jick or Mandrill's Cosmic Ass" - Open Air Suit [Henry Threadgill, sax; Steve McCall, drums; and Fred Hopkins, bass.] [0:16:23] Steve Lehman - "34a" - The Music of Anthony Braxton [A project by Steve Lehman, alto sax, with Mark Turner, tenor sax; Matt Brewer, bass; Damion Reid, drums. Live at at ETA in Los Angeles. Composed by Braxton in 1976.] [0:23:41] Adam O'Farrill - "Speeding Blots of Ink" - For These Streets [Composer O’Farrill, trumpet & flugelhorn; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Patricia Brennan, vibraphone; David Leon, alto sax & flute; Kevin Sun, tenor sax & clarinet; Kalun Leung, trombone & euphonium; Tyrone Allen II, double bass; Tomas Fujiwara, drums.] [0:34:58] Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - "Impressions/Part 2" - Impressions (Remastered) [Henry ‘Light’ Huff, soprano sax, harp, percussion; Ed Wilkerson, tenor sax, woodwinds, piano; Kahil El’Zabar, drums, percussion. Recorded 1981 in Bologna, Italy.] [0:44:33] Sam Ospovat - "All the Rage" - Rancune [Band leader Ospovat, drums and electronics; Kim Cass, bass; Brandon Seabrook, guitar.] [0:54:19] Tomas Fujiwara - "You Don't Have to Try" - Dream Up [Composer Fujiwara, drums; Tim Keiper, donso ngoni, kamale ngoni, calabash, temple blocks, timbale, djembe, castanets, balafon, percussion; Kaoru Watanabe, o-jimedaiko, uchiwadaiko, shimedaiko, shinobue; Patricia Brennan, vibraphone.] [1:03:11] Jeff Parker - "Excess Success" - Forfolks [Chicago/LA. Jeff Parker, electric guitar.] [1:12:10] Sean Ali - "Amniotic Dreams" - Quartets for Plucked Strings [Sean Ali, mandolins, octave mandolin, guitar.] [1:26:11] Matt Mitchell - "blinkered hoopla" - Oblong Aplomb [Composer Mitchell, piano; Kate Gentile, drums, percussion.] [1:37:29] Ben Frost - "You, Me And The End Of Everything" - Steelwound [The guitarist recorded while in isolation on a deserted stretch of Johanna Beach along the Great Ocean Road (Victoria, Australia).] [1:46:49] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159743

Ashcan Orchestra - "Bell Piece #17" - Ridgewood Radio Premium [Composer Pat Spadine's bell choir and ensemble recorded at Pioneer Works Studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn in 2017.] Yayoba - "A Maze Of Glass (selected tracks)" - A Maze Of Glass [Radiophonic exotica. Selections from a collection of miniatures. 4th-world fusion trio using electronics, woodwinds, hand percussion, and field recordings. Paul Wilson (F. Ampism), Jani Hirvonen (Uton), and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin).] [0:05:40] Akusmi - "Fleeting Future" - Fleeting Future [London, Berlin. Akusmi, alto sax, bass guitar, gongs, piano, flutes, percussion, synths; Ruth Velten, alto & soprano sax; Daniel Brandt. drums, synths; Florian Juncker, trombone.] [0:23:23] Nick Neuburg - "senses and suppositions" - For 1 and 2 Surfaces [Chicago percussionist. A 28-inch concert bass drum and a 16-inch variable pitch floor tom function as drums in the traditional sense, and also as acoustic amplifiers for objects and implements.] [0:31:02] Satoko Fujii Quartet - "Burning Wick" - Burning Wick [Natsuki Tamura, trumpet; Satoko Fujii, piano; Takeharu Hayakawa, bass; Tatsuya Yoshida, drums.] [0:39:52] Phew, Erika Kobayashi, Dieter Moebius - "Helena" - Radium Girls [Japanese musician Phew, artist Erika Kobayashi, and German electronic music pioneer Dieter Moebius. Dedicated to the so-called Radium Girls, female factory workers in the United States during the 1920s who painted watch dials with radioactive luminous paint and suffered severe health consequences.] [0:49:52] Natural Information Society w/ Evan Parker - "Part 1" - descension (Out of Our Constrictions) [Joshua Abrams, guimbri; Lisa Alvarado, harmonium & effects; Mikel Patrick Avery, drums; Evan Parker, soprano sax; Jason Stein, bass clarinet. Recorded in London at Cafe OTO, 2019.] [1:00:10] Tropos - "Witchess" - Switches [Ledah Finck, violin; Yuma Uesaka, clarinet and bass clarinet (composer); Phillip Golub, piano; Aaron Edgcomb, drums and percussion.] [1:20:06] eucademix - "Virginia" - Across the Horizon: Alumni Singles Series [Composition, sound design, programming, Juno-60 by Yuka Honda. Dedicated to Virginia Giuffre, an activist victim of Jeffery Epstein.] [1:26:55] Concrete Husband - "I Heard Her Sing" - Where The Ashes Glow [Project of Carlos Aguilar, born into to a Chicano family in Southern California, now in Brooklyn operating out of raves and clubs.] [1:32:09] Devin Maxwell - "Cloudseeding 15" - Megadrought [Utah-based composer Maxwell (electronics) from a collection of compositions in his "Cloudseeding" series. With Nicolee Keuster, horn samples.] [1:40:15] Natural Information Society w/ Evan Parker - "Part 3" - descension (Out of Our Constrictions) [Joshua Abrams, guimbri; Lisa Alvarado, harmonium & effects; Mikel Patrick Avery, drums; Evan Parker, soprano sax; Jason Stein, bass clarinet. Recorded in London at Cafe OTO, 2019.] [1:54:41] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159526

Arling & Cameron - "Voulez-Vous?" - All-In [Netherlands. Drawn from "French pop, spy movie themes, lounge, '70s light rock, Japanese Shibuya-kei, and other music genres that are often associated with kitsch".] Erik Friedlander - "The Dove" - Origami [Using source material from his “Floating City” album; "torn apart, re-mixed, cauterized, and re-evaluated" by cellist Friedlander, with Sara Serpa, vocals; Wendy Eisenberg, guitar; Mark Helias, bass.] [0:07:28] Asher Gamedze - "Air (Of Involvedness)" - A Semblance: Of Return [South African drummer and composer Gamedze, with Ru Slayen (percussion), Nobuhle Ashanti (keys & synth), Zwide Ndwandwe (bass), and Keegan Steenkamp (trumpet).] [0:12:08] Joachim Nordwall & Aaron Turner - "Regulator" - Malign Seeds [Nordwall, synths, drum machine; Turner: guitar, vocals, electronics. Recorded in Gothenburg, Sweden and Vashon, WA, 2021-2024. Turner submitting improvised guitar compositions to Nordwall for dissection and reassembly.] [0:18:40] Dryhouse Ruins - "Dunes" - Dryhouse Ruins [Ben Derickson, drums, percussion; Jeff Mitchell, Damian Strigens, Jim Warchol: guitars. Live at The Chair Company in Milwaukee.] [0:24:22] Don Cherry & Jean Schwarz - "Intro/Doussn' Gouni - part 1" - Roundtrip (1977) [Recently uncovered tracks: Don Cherry and Jean Schwarz, pioneer in electro-acoustic music, recorded in 1977 at the Paris MIX festival (Théatre Récamier). Don Cherry. pocket trumpet, vocals, doussn' gouni, whistles; Jean Schwarz, tape, synthesizers, treatments; Michel Portal, saxophone, bass clarinet, bandonéon; Jean François Jenny Clark, bass; Naná Vasconcelos, percussion.] [0:41:42] staraya derevnya - "Bubbling pelt" - Boulder blues [Tel Aviv. Gosha Hniu, percussion, vocals, kazoo, wheel lyre; Ran Nahmias, silent cello, theremin; Maya Pik: synthesizer, flute; Grundik Kasyansky, feedback synthesizer; Miguel Pérez, guitars; Yoni Silver, bass clarinet; Andrea Serafino, drums; Tom Wheatley, double bass.] [0:56:30] Joseph Byrd - "Animals" - NYC 1960–1963 [A document of Byrd’s activities in New York between 1960 and 1963, when he studied with Morton Feldman, served as an apprentice to John Cage, and participated in the Fluxus group. Byrd founded the psychedelic rock band The United States of America, and its successor Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies. Recorded by American Contemporary Music Ensemble with Alan Zimmerman, percussion.] [1:16:58] Kelly Moran - "Don’t Trust Mirrors (live)" - Roulette Archive [The composer's work for prepared piano and electronics celebrating a new album release.] [1:31:06] Grundik Kasyansky & Alexey Sysoev - "Variation IV" - Selene Variation [The performance/recording of "Selene", composed by Alexey Sysoev, processed by Grundik Kasyansky (feedback synthesizer). The pianist is Yuri Favorin.] [1:46:15] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159237

Pascal Comelade & Jaki Liebezeit - "To the last of imaginary solutions" - Improperis (compositions et enregistrements magnétiques 1984-2024) [France. From a boxset of the works of composer Comelade, described as "a music puzzle which doesn't obey to any rule characterised by the sounds of toy instruments, used as an integral part of the sound of his group, the Bel Canto Orquestra. Here with drummer Liebezeit (Can).] KnCurrent - "tewatatewenní:io" - KnCurrent [Patrick Brennan, alto sax; Cooper-Moore, diddley-bo; On Ka’a Davis, guitar; Jason Kao Hwang, electric violin.] [0:07:05] Han-earl Park, Lara Jones, Pat Thomas - "Proxemics IV" - Juno 3: Proxemics [Masterminded by Berlin-based Korean-American improviser and guitarist Han-earl Park, Juno 3 is his trio with London-based experimental producer, saxophonist, and sound artist Lara Jones, and boundless experimentalist and pioneer of electroacoustics in free improvisation, Pat Thomas. Recorded at Cafe OTO, London.] [0:14:23] Catherine Sikora - "All My Winters" - All My Winters [Santa Fe. Built from parts of 31 solo sax tracks, each recorded daily in December 2022, and layered by Eric Mingus.] [0:21:40] Susan Alcorn & Phillip Greenlief - "Light Green" - Prism Mirror Lens [Alcorn, pedal steel guitar; Greenlief, tenor sax, Bb clarinet.] [0:27:11] Resistance - "The Torch of Chaos And Doubt" - Live in Birmingham 1985 [Chris Cochrane and Doug Henderson, guitars. Recorded in a Unitarian church, organized by the late great guitarist Davey Williams, violist LaDonna Smith, and a loose band of Surrealists in the city.] [0:43:04] Elliott Sharp - "Goshozyg 3" - Goshozyg [Dedicated to the English inventor and sound artist Hugh Davies who created instruments inside of hollowed-out books. Sharp modeled his instrument from a Havana cigar box with bolts, springs, metal computer detritus, and two different grades of sandpaper with an embedded piezo pickup.] [0:48:24] Kristina Warren - "Tri-Cipher" - Mandatory Liberation Vol. 2 [From a collection of 19 tracks offered in support of trans liberation. All proceeds from sales will go to GLITS, a Black, trans-led advocacy organization that combats systemic discrimination.] [0:57:41] Bone (Nick Didkovsky/Hugh Hopper/John Roulat) - "Big Bombay" - The Gift of Purpose [Hopper Family Benefit Album] [Guitarist Nick Didkovsky and drummer John Roulat released this album in support of their bassist Hugh Hopper, who died of leukemia in 2009. Hopper was known to many as the legendary bassist for Soft Machine. Recorded at Baltimore's Orion Sound Studios.] [1:05:42] Levy Lorenzo & Peter Evans - "Concert Recording" - Roulette Archive [Lorenzo’s complex of self-built instruments, gongs, dry percussion, laptop, and sound processing engage with Evans’s acoustic trumpet in a dialogue of noise, mystery, precision, and chaos. Excerpts.] [1:18:30] Cooper-Moore - "Concert Recording" - Live at The Sump 2016 [The multi-instrumentalist in a solo with one of his invented instruments (mouth bow) recorded at the Ridgewood, Queens club now known as H0L0.] [1:45:47] Isobel Waller-Bridge - "Pillow" - Objects [UK. Composer Waller-Bridge, piano, Prophet, Mini Moog, modular synths.] [1:49:08] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159006

Tom Ross - "Panda Gamelan Khanda" - Panda Gamelan Malika [A Wesleyan ethnomusicologist featuring his automated junk-percussion Pandemonium Orchestra in pelog intonation (Javanese 7-tone scale).] Lowering - "Falling Into The Void" - Struggling With The Dark [All instruments by Kirill Zemskov, Brooklyn.] [0:06:01] Tristan Perich & James McVinnie - "Infinity Gradient: Section 6" - Infinity Gradient [For organ (McVinnie) and 100 speakers playing 1-bit audio (Perich), recorded at London’s Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre.] [0:15:26] Kukangendai - "Mure" - Palm [Tokyo/Kyoto. Junya Noguchi, guitar; Keisuke Koyano, bass; Hideaki Yamada, drums.] [0:26:43] Bree van Reyk - "Superclusters Part V" - Superclusters [Australia. Composer Bree van Reyk (vibraphone, drums, crotales), Véronique Serret (violin), Mick Turner (electric guitar), Evan Mannell (drums), Zoe Hauptmann (upright bass), Ben Hauptmann (acoustic guitar), Jess Green (electric guitar), Nick Wales (viola), Jason Noble (bass clarinet, clarini), Sandy Evans (saxophones), Freya Schack-Arnott (cello), Timothy Constable (vibraphone), Joshua Hill (marimba, crotales), Mohammed Lelo (qanun), The Letter String Quartet: Lizzy Welsh (violin), Steph O’Hara (violin), Biddy Connor (viola), Zoë Barry (cello).] [0:37:31] Sō Percussion - "Go" - Amid The Noise [Sō Percussion is Jason Treuting, Adam Sliwinski, Josh Quillen, and Eric Cha-Beach.] [0:48:25] Joe Westerlund - "Elegy (for OLAibi)" - Curiosities from the Shift [The drummer (North Carolina) in a a tribute to late Japanese experimentalist, Ai.] [0:55:20] NOMON - "Echoes of Breakage" - Echoes of Breakage [Duo of percussionists Shayna and Nava Dunkelman raised in Tokyo, Japan to an Indonesian mother and an American father in a "collision of traditional Asian sounds, electronics, and contemporary percussion music".] [1:06:44] Toni Geitani - "Madda Mudadda" - "wahj," وهج [Born in Beirut and now based in Amsterdam, the music "transgresses the boundaries of experimental Arabic, electronic, avant-pop, dark ambient, and industrial...".] [1:17:48] Henry Kaiser & P.ST - "Patterns Of Joy" - The Wolf at the Door [Created exclusively from Henry Kaiser's baritone guitar playing by P.ST, a performer/composer based in Prague. Based on an eight-minute guitar improvisation from Kaiser processed through thirty-two periodically delayed overlays that grew the piece into twenty-two minutes duration.] [1:31:11] Tom Ross - "Panda Gamelan Sankirna" - Panda Gamelan Malika [A Wesleyan ethnomusicologist featuring his automated junk-percussion Pandemonium Orchestra in pelog intonation (Javanese 7-tone scale).] [1:51:16] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158775

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "One Rainy Wish" - Axis: Bold as Love [Composer Hendrix, vocals, electric guitar; Noel Redding, bass; Mitch Mitchell, drums.] Majid Bekkas - "Purple Haze" - Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XVII: Gnawa World Blues [Morocco-born Majid Bekkas voice, oud, and guembri (bass lute); Franco-Vietnamese Nguyên Lê, electric guitar; American percussionist Hamid Drake.] [0:06:14] Majid Bekkas - "Tair" - Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XVII: Gnawa World Blues [See above.] [0:12:02] Helena Espvall/Ernesto Diaz-Infante/Marjorie Sturm - "receiving" - a shadowed fulguration [Helena Espvall, cello, acoustic guitar, electronics; Ernesto Diaz-Infante, acoustic guitar; Marjorie Sturm. Nepalese flute, ceremonial bells, small percussion. Recorded at Opalacete, Lisbon, Portugal.] [0:19:53] Manop Nakornchai - "The Unknown" - นวล อัลบั้ม (Naul) [Guitars by Adisak Poungok, Manop Nakornchai; drums by Prakaithip Yodkraw. Recorded in Bangkok, Thailand.] [0:33:37] Violent Squid - "Ease The Need For A Cootie" - Echo Lab Sessions Vol. 1 & 2 [A large improvisational collective originally out of North Texas organized by Ty Stamp, now out of Austin.] [0:41:32] staraya derevnya - "Half-deceased uncle" - Garden window escape [Israel. Gosha Hniu, cries and whispers, wheel lyre, marching band kazoo, percussion; Maya Pik, synthesizer, flute, drum machine; Ran Nahmias, silent cello, voice; Grundik Kasyansky, feedback synthesizer; Miguel Pérez, guitars; Yoni Silver, bass clarinet, Andrea Serafino, drums.] [1:02:16] Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider - "New Land" - A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams [Lidell’s work moving between microhouse and neo-soul with Schneider’s ambient pedal steel. Lidell is credited as playing Mini Moog, Fender Rhodes, Otari Tape machine flange processing, modular synth, treated acoustic percussion, various 80’s FX units.] [1:14:12] Sonitus Missarum - "Cantus Obscura" - Sonitus Missarum [Dutch-Portuguese free-noise quartet: Gonçalo Almeida, bass; Pedro Melo Alves & João Valinho, drums; João Almeida, no input electronics. Recorded live at Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon.] [1:29:52] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158296

Craig Taborn & Ikue Mori - "The Still Point of the Turning World" - Highsmith [MacArthur awardees Taborn, piano and Mori, electronics.] Conrad Schnitzler & Wolf Sequenza - "3" - Consequenz III [Circa 1980. Tangerine Dream and and Kluster alum Schnitzler's collaborations with Wolf Sequenza aka Wolfgang Seidel brought him closer to pop music than ever.] [0:06:38] Etant Donnes - "Les Cent Jours Clairs" - L'Autre Rive [Moroccan-born brothers Marc and Eric Hurtado, originally released on Bain Total in 1984. A mix of field recordings, found sounds, and sometimes whispered, sometimes violent vocals.] [0:11:44] Yara Asmar - "wooden giants and mechanical birds" - everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much [Musician and puppeteer (Beirut, New York), metallophone and a collection of deconstructed toy pianos, here with John Murchison (bassist, Brooklyn Maqam) & Gideon Forbes (saxophonist, nay player).] [0:26:55] Ben Carey - "Depth" - Metastability [Composed & performed on the 1975 La Trobe Serge ‘Paperface’, a colossal modular synthesiser designed by Serge Tcherepnin, currently housed at the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio.] [0:37:40] Elliott Sharp & Rainer Jancis - "Bug Reports" - Uhhuu [Sharp on electric baritone, and 12-string guitars, drum programming; Jancis on electric guitar, fretless 7 string, drums, electronica, programming. With Rob Heth, drums; Tuuliki Bartosik. accordion. Uhhuu is Estonian for "owl".] [0:43:46] Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian, Ben Monder - "The Totality of Silence" - Liminal Silence [Out of Australia: Sunny Kim: voice and live processing; Vardan Ovsepian, piano/keyboards; Ben Monder, guitar.] [0:58:29] Tom Hamilton, Bruce Eisenbeil, William Hooker - "Concert Recording" - Roulette Archive [Improvisations by Hamilton, Nord modular synthesizer; Eisenbeil, guitar; Hooker, percussion.] [1:09:30] Širom - "Tiny Dewdrop Explosions Crackling Delightfully" - In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper [Slovenian avant-folk trio: Ana Kravanja, violin, viola, ribab, qeychak, balafon, frame drum, chimes, various objects, percussion, fipple flute, voice; Iztok Koren: banjos, gembri, morin khuur, balafon, percussion; Samo Kutin, hurdy gurdy, bass harp, harmonium, lyres, frame drum, tampura, brač, lute, chimes, balafon, acoustic resonator, various objects, voice.] [1:29:59] Djrum - "Sycamore" - Under Tangled Silence [Written, produced, and arranged by UK DJ/producer Felix Manuel from 2017 to 2023 for piano, harp, mbira, percussion.] [1:41:33] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158088

Siselabonga - "Kwasha Flip" - Halo's Glitter [Zurich. Nongoma Ndlovu, vocals & keys; Fabio Meier, percussion; with Yannik Sandhofer, synth bass.] Catherine Christer Hennix - "The Well-Tuned Marimba" - Selected Early Keyboard Works [Performed by Hennix (1976 recorded during the Dream Music Festival in Stockholm) on well-tuned Yamaha keyboard & Fender Rhodes, sheng, sine wave, and live electronics.] [0:04:41] Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt - "Impulse Array" - FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field [Performed by Andrea Belfi, Andrew Bernstein, Arnold Dreyblatt, Max Eilbacher, and Owen Gardner.] [0:22:55] Ashcan Orchestra & Western Enisphere - "Live at Roulette" - Roulette Archive [Musicians: Cory Bracken, Simon Hanes, Philip Panos, Timothy Rusterholz, Sam Sowyrda, Austin Vaughn, Jeff Tobias on bass clarinet, violist Jeanann Dara, trombonist Sam Kulik, Will Stanton on laptop, percussionist Danny Tunick, and the composers/bandleaders David First, guitar/oscillator, and Pat Spadine.] [0:33:56] Chris Rainier - "Words are a Vain Thing and Drive to Despair" - Sorrowful Songs of the Silverswords [Performed on the Adapted Guitar 1, a replica of Harry Partch’s original microtonal instrument.] [0:55:46] The Hathaway Family Plot - "ten thousand ten thousand ten thousand ten thousand ten thousand" - modeled on our worst selves [A pianist/hermit living in Buffalo, NY. All pianos, keyboards, and electronics by Kevin.] [1:03:44] Old Saw - "Long Distance Engraving" - The Wringing Cloth [Harper Reed, nylon string guitar, banjo; Ira Dorset, fiddle, bowed strings; Ann Rowlis, reed organ, harmonium; J.M. Eagle, pedal steel, lap steel, resonator; Jim Cutler, Telecaster; Addison Starkweather-Price, bass; Peter Catchpole. metal objects, power hammer.] [1:08:21] Wordcolour - "Mallets " - Ratios II [UK-based electronic musician explores the 90/180bpm continuum taking influence from artists such as Amor Satyr and labels like Nervous Horizon.] [1:15:36] Ellen Fullman & Okkyung Lee - "Part I" - The Air Around Her [Fullman's Long String Instrument and Lee on cello. Recorded during the First Edition Festival for Other Music in Stockholm, Sweden at Kronobageriet — the former bakery to Swedish Royalty that dates back to the 17th Century and is now the site of the city’s Performing Arts Museum.] [1:25:09] Michael Zerang/ C. Spencer Yeh/ Tashi Dorji - "I" - ZERANG/YEH/DORJI [Michael Zerang, percussion; C. Spencer Yeh, violin; Tashi Dorji, guitar.] [1:43:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157833

Christian Marclay - "Pandora's box" - Records [The multimedia artist from his turntablist period in a collection of recordings recorded 1981 to 1989. Transferred and compiled at Harmonic Ranch, New York.] Oval - "Cross Selling" - 94diskont. (remastered 2013) [From an album by German by the electronic music group originally released in 1995 and featuring Sebastian Oschatz and Frank Metzger. Described as "deconstructing music and digital audio by using exacto knives, paint, and tape to damage the surfaces of compact discs, only to stitch the sound back together in loops of melody punctuated by the disc's physical skips".] [0:06:03] Jan Jelinek - "They, Them" - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records [Berlin. Snippets of other people’s arrangements deconstructed through a sampler into loops and then splashed onto an audio canvas.] [0:12:00] Jung An Tagen - "Reversible" - Revenge of the Speaker People [Stefan Juster aka Jung An Tagen uses the Otoacoustic discoveries of David T. Kemp (kind of ghost sounds generated by your ear) and applies them to a techno framework. OAEs are fragile and can collapse quickly when combined with other elements.] [0:19:21] John Zorn - "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science" - Prolegomena [A string sextet with members of Jack Quartet plus two: Jay Campbell, cello; Yura Lee, viola; Michael Nicolas, cello; Chris Otto, violin; John Pickford Richards, viola; Austin Wulliman, violin.] [0:30:53] Nobukazu Takemura - "Molla" - Assembler / Assembler 2 [The glitch/ambient artist out of Kyoto and Berlin, founder of the instrumental hip hop group Audio Sports with Yamatsuka Eye (of Boredoms) and Aki Onda.] [0:51:02] Joyful Noise Players - "Live at Big Ears" - Joyful Noise Players - Live at Big Ears [An unofficial renegade jam during the festival: Mike Savino (Tall Tall Trees), banjo + electronics; Macie Stewart, violin; Kramer, bass; Wendy Eisenberg, guitar; Greg Saunier, drums; Thor Harris, melodica, clarinet; Shahzad Ismaily, synth, voice; Hope Littwin, vocals. Performed during the 2025 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN at Pretentious Beer Co.] [1:05:29] Nobukazu Takemura - "Conical Flask" - Assembler / Assembler 2 [The glitch/ambient artist out of Kyoto and Berlin, founder of the instrumental hip hop group Audio Sports with Yamatsuka Eye (of Boredoms) and Aki Onda.] [1:47:21] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157607

György Ligeti - "Musica Ricercata - Vivace, Capriccioso" - Mechanical Music [In the late 1980s, composer Ligeti became acquainted with the French barrel organ virtuoso Pierre Charial. At the composer's request, Charial transcribed a number of piano and cembalo works, including Musica Ricercata, for the instrument which uses bellows and pipes that are played mechanically by hand-cranking a wheel.] Chad Kouri - "Sound Sketch" - Mixed [Kouri (little instruments, tenor sax, and FX), is a sound and visual artist based in Chicago. His music is inspired by the city's "rich history of improvisation and resistance/protest".] [0:04:51] KöSHRiMP - "ESPRESSO" - PHANTASM // ESPRESSO [The artist aka Tom Cochien, mysterious and likely French, from a double album with MindSpring Memories.] [0:11:27] Eric Singer/LEMUR - "Ballet mécanique" - Ballet Mécanique by George Antheil [The scandalous piece composed by George Antheil in 1923, presented at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2005. Musical robots (mallets, percussion, noisemakers, and 8 pianos) programmed by Eric Singer for LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots).] [0:31:55] John Oswald/Grateful Dead - "foldback time (encore)" - Grayfolded [Plunderphonic mastermind Oswald was invited by Phil Lesh to comb through the Grateful Dead Vaults collecting over a hundred performances that he "reproduced and redirected and further recomposed". All source material played live by the Grateful Dead, 1968-1992.] [0:40:21] John Oswald/Grateful Dead - "astrolude/dark matter problem/every leaf is turning/the speed of space" - Grayfolded [See note above, same collection.] [0:44:37] Ranjit Bhatnagar - "Singing Room for a Shy Person" - Clocktower Gallery [A microphone in a soundproof booth drives a battery of robotic instruments (mallets, percussion, guitar, accordion) tracking the voice of the "shy" and unheard visitor. Installation document.] [1:01:32] Conlon Nancarrow/Trimpin - "Blues (Arr. Trimpin)" - Nancarrow: Lost Works, Last Works [Recorded 1999. One of composer Nancarrow's piano rolls as converted into MIDI data by composer/instrument builder Trimpin.] [1:14:06] Alvin Curran/Massimo Simonini - "Mango Tango" - Toto Angelica [From an album of montages made from selected samples of the recorded history of the Angelica Festival 1991-2001 in Bologna, with two master sound manipulators and Domenico Sciajno's live processing.] [1:16:24] György Ligeti - "Musica Ricercata - Cantabile, Molto Legato" - Mechanical Music [In the late 1980s, composer Ligeti became acquainted with the French barrel organ virtuoso Pierre Charial. At the composer's request, Charial transcribed a number of piano and cembalo works, including Musica Ricercata, for the instrument which uses bellows and pipes that are played mechanically by hand-cranking a wheel.] [1:20:01] Matthew Ostrowski & Matteo Liberatore - "Live at The Sump" - Outpost Artists Resources [Ostrowski's motion-controlled laptop audio and Liberatore's prepared/processed guitar.] [1:26:39] Aaron Taylor Kuffner's Gamelatron - "Clock Mode" - Clocktower Gallery [From an interactive, mechanically-driven gamelan installation. The gongs are tuned in a 5-note non-standard relative scale called Pelog. Kuffner's installation included some forty instruments manufactured in Bali, including vibraphones, drums, chimes, bells, and resonating bronze gongs. Visitors were invited to select from a menu of compositions ranging from contemplative to ritualistic. When the pieces concluded, or when no visitors were present, the Gamelatron settled into a passive state, referred to as Clock Mode by Kuffner.] [1:51:12] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157371