Composed, improvised and fixed-media music is all fair game in Flotation Device's inclusive approach to Western art music. And all three are present here, including premiere recordings of works by Michael Gordon, the late Kaija Saariaho, Christopher Butterfield and Ivan Fedele. Our 50 years ago in the avant-garde feature takes us back to the 1973 BBC Proms, and the premiere of Nicola LeFanu's colorful orchestral work The Hidden Landscape, recently rescued from the vaults by NMC. The London Experimental Ensemble contemplates Celtic ballads and forbidden love, while the Kronos Quartet revisits campaign songs and the Sound-In collective demonstrates the art of remote improvisation. New albums from Matt Mitchell, James Ilgenfritz, John Butcher, Pat Thomas, Benjamín Vergara, Matías Riquelme, Loo(p)cy and the Aruán Ortiz Trio round out the playlist.
Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell.
