Flotation Device 2025-06-01 - On the nature of sound

Catch up on the latest in radical music, with Mark Dresser, Brooks Williams, Max Andrzejewski, Fabien Lévy, Alex Paxton, Ingrid Laubrock and Jakob Bro among the featured artists. Adam Rudolph connects with a pair of Miles Davis alums for a mixed electroacoustic outing, while Fred Frith joins with Norman Teale to remix Cosa Brava recordings. Anna Rubin dusts off the recitation song genre while the JACK Quartet goes minimalist in Austin Wulliman’s new portrait album. We pay our respects to avant-accordionist Guy Klucevsek and Fluxus veteran Yasunao Tone, and celebrate the 50th anniversaries of epic fixed-media works by Toshi Ichiyanagi and Bernard Parmegiani. A segment devoted to compositions by Finnish women, including the late Kaija Saariaho, rounds out the proceedings. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, from KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma.