Flotation Device explores new creative and improvised music by Marc Ribot, Matt Shipp, Joe McPhee, Dai Fujikura and the London Contemporary Orchestra. Plus radical new music for shamisen and pipa, an octet featuring a harp and two drummers, a modern take on Japanese wind chimes, a piano composition by Vijay Iyer that reminds us of Rzewski, and a new concerto for cello and strings by Raphaël Merlin in the tradition of Crumb, Dutilleux and Lutosławski’s Preludes and Fugue.
Thomas Adès revisits fairy tales, Trio Mediæval revisits Petronius, and our “50 years ago in the avant-garde feature” revisits the most astringent work ever written for brass band in its just-released first digital recording by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, the group that premiered it in August 1973 under its composer, the late Harrison Birtwistle.
Join KBCS-FM's Michael Schell on the Pacific Northwest’s foremost and longest-running radio show devoted to new and experimental music.
