John Luther Adams joins us to talk about his new album Arctic Dreams (with Synergy Vocals). We’ll learn about the project's inputs (both old and new), what Alaska and Barry Lopez (still) mean to him, and what's been keeping him busy during his past year’s sequestration in the Chihuahuan Desert (hint: we may have a couple surprises in store in the near future).
Plus, we honor Alvin Lucier with a 90th birthday mini-retrospective, probe for common themes in musical projects by Britten, Circle and Archie Shepp that all turned 50 together, celebrate musical artificial intelligence pioneer David Cope on his 80th birthday, and sample new albums featuring two trios (Courvoisier/Rothenberg/Sartorius and Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi), the percussion music of Rolf Wallin, and the Columbian avant-rock sextet MULA. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell.
