Flotation Device 2021-06-20 - Anna Webber interviewed

Anna Webber joins host Michael Schell to chat about her new Idiom album, featuring her Simple Trio and Large Ensemble performing elaborate improvisational compositions based on a variety of extended woodwind techniques. Plus, we continue our survey of Anthony Braxton's two new box sets, one devoted to his newfangled ZIM compositions, the other to standards and pop tunes. Our "50 years ago in the avant-garde" feature chimes in with an astringent classic by Alice Coltrane and Rashied Ali, while we honor Arne Nordheim on what would have been his 90th birthday by juxtaposing a major electroacoustic work of his with Sam Dunscombe’s new Nordheim-influenced fixed-media meditation on fractured memories of an abandoned Mojave Desert town. A peek at Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s newest album, plus a couple of new tracks by Broken Thoughts and the duo of Clara de Asís and Mara Winter round out the playlist. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world.

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