Flotation Device celebrates the 80th birthday of computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel, the 70th birthday of Chinese cross-culturalist Ye Xiaogang, and the 50th anniversaries of Frank Zappa's Orchestral Favorites and Louis Andriessen's Workers Union. We mark the latter's standing as one of European minimalism's greatest landmarks with a montage of five different recordings featuring Bang on a Can, the California E.A.R. Unit and more. We also dive into the first complete recording of Frederic Rzewski's ten-hour piano tome The Road. And new and newly-released recordings by Alexander Hawkins, Taylor Ho Bynum, Fred Frith, Blasio Kavuma, the late Irène Schweizer and The Dwarfs of East Agouza round out the proceedings. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, originally broadcast September 21 on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma.
