Happy Podcast Monday! This week we celebrate Vasks at 80, a Murail premiere recording, upcoming PNW concerts by Samantha Boshnack and the Tallis Scholars, plus new albums by Melvin Gibbs, Nico Muhly and more.
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Happy Podcast Monday. Old Meets New and concert previews are the big items here, including Carrie Shaw at Meany Center tonight and Chris Speed's Yeah No at Earshot Jazz Wednesday. Plus BMOP, Sam Pluta, Bonnie Whiting & more.
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Happy Podcast Monday! This week we preview four Northwest new music events, with new works by Tower & Theofanidis at Seattle Symphony, a new version of Canto Ostinato at Emerald City Music, plus Frith, Harriet Tubman & more.
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Photo credits: José María Sánchez-Verdú by Zafino Visual, Joan Tower by Michael Schell, Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt, Miroslav Vitous via The Guardian, Kölner Philharmonie 1988 (Jürgen Hocker, Conlon Nancarrow, György Ligeti) by Gisela Gronemeyer, Christopher Theofanidis by Matthew Fried, Fred Frith Trio (Jordan Glenn, FF, Jason Hoopes) via Moods, Harriet Tubman (Brandon Ross, JT Lewis, Melvin Gibbs) via M M Music Agency, Jessica Lurie via Key Leaves. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice
Happy Podcast Monday! This week we preview four Northwest new music events, with new works by Tower & Theofanidis at Seattle Symphony, a new version of Canto Ostinato at Emerald City Music, plus Frith, Harriet Tubman & more
www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDev... @kbcs.bsky.social @melvingibbs.bsky.social
This week's podcast brings the latest from Roscoe Mitchell, Craig Taborn, Yowie, Moon Ha & Quinsin Nachoff. Plus Ichiyanagi's last composition and Wukir Suryadi & the late Richard Felciano mixing Western/Javanese instruments.
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Happy Podcast Monday! Missy Mazzoli revisits channels Lot's wife, Domenica Diavoleria does PNW dark ambient, and Endlings, Lukas Ligeti and Nick Fraser have new albums.
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Now available in podcast format, with HQ audio and no broadcast compression. And that's her at the bottom left.
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Photo credits: Endlings (John Dieterich, Raven Chacon) via the artists, Biliana Voutchkova by C. Marx (Photomusix), Wolfgang Rihm by Astrid Ackermann, Arvo Pärt by Kaupo Kikkas, Baschet bass cristal by Marc-Antoine Millon, Isang Yun by Elke Nord, Lukas Ligeti via the artist, Cheer-Accident via the artists, Maya Beiser's salted cello by Abigail Fenton, Domenica Diavoleria via the artist, Nick Fraser by Jim Croft, Frederic Rzewski and his daughter by Françoise Walot, Nethering (Colin Stetson, Greg Fox, Trevor Dunn) via Envision Records, Brian Ferneyhough by Charlotte Oswald (Edition Peters). Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice
Tonight on Flotation Device:
-Missy Mazzoli gives Lot's wife a new voice
-New albums from Endlings, Lukas Ligeti & Domenica Diavoleria
-Pärt, Ferneyhough, Yun gems at 50
Sunday 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm
@kbcs.bsky.social @missymazzoli.bsky.social @newworlddram.bsky.social @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social
Happy Podcast Monday! This week we celebrate Johnston and Mimaroğlu at 100, Finnissy at 80, and new albums from Bill Frisell, Jacob Garchik, Gabriel Zucker and Alice Sara Ott.
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This week's podcast bids farewell to Éliane Radigue with a survey of her slow, audacious, tantric-informed music with help from Quatuor Bozzini and Robert Ashley. Plus Taborn, Frith, Murail, Oswald, Cortiñas & Stockhausen
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“I don’t know what to tell you.” Seriously? You could start by apologizing for doing everything in your power to make the left and by extension the Democratic Party so repellent to the broader US population that Donald fucking Trump looked normal to them by comparison.
Happy Podcast Monday! Emerald City Music premieres music by Vivian Fung, Joan Tower and Gabriella Smith. Conrad Tao plays Seattle, Third Angle plays Glass, Klangforum Wien plays Stańczyk and Robert Millis turns 60.
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Photo credits: Marcin Stańczyk by Paride Galeone, Sandbox Percussion (Jonny Allen, Terry Sweeney, Ian Rosenbaum, Victor Caccese) by Alex Lee, Robert Millis at Kyushu University, Lou Harrison via Cabrillo Festival, Gérard Grisey by Jackie Carson, Joan Tower by Bernard Mindich, Bernhard Lang by Harald Hoffmann, Vivian Fung by Geneviève Caron, Pierre Schaeffer via ISM, Philip Glass by Danny Clinch. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice
Tonight on Flotation Device: Emerald City Music premieres Vivian Fung, Joan Tower & Gabriella Smith, Third Angle plays Philip Glass, Klangforum Wien plays Marcin Stańczyk and Robert Millis turns 60.
Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @philipglass.bsky.social @klangforumwien.bsky.social
Happy Podcast Monday and happy 100th birthday to György Kurtág. We celebrate his austere, epigrammatic but beautiful music, while wrapping up our 50th anniversary tribute to Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra Music 1976. Plus Xenakis, Layton and Brandon Seabrook.
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Photo credits: Steve Layton via the artist, György Kurtág via Müpa Budapest, Anthony Braxton and Brandon Seabrook via Brandon Seabrook, Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton, Kenny Wheeler rehearsing in Braxton’s Woodstock home by Bill Smith, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Ah Young Hong performing Kurtág by James Holt/Seattle Symphony, Iannis Xenakis via Les Amis de Xenakis, Kurtág: Kafka Fragments, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and György Kurtág by Balint Hrotko. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice
Tonight Flotation Device celebrates György Kurtág's 100th birthday with a look at his gripping and austere music. We also wrap up our 50th anniversary salute to Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra Music 1976. Plus Seabrook, Layton and Xenakis.
Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social
yMusic & Fellow Travelers come to the PNW. Cecil Taylor plays his last gig. Cerha, Hoiby & Turandot have centenaries. Braxton's Creative Orchestra has a semicentenary. And Wuorinen, Rzewski & Fagerlund have new albums
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Photo credits: Matthew Welch via the artist, Uwalmassa (Harsya Wahono, Pujangga Rahseta, Randy Pradipta) via the artists, Anthony Braxton rehearsing Creative Orchestra Music 1976 by Bill Smith, Sebastian Fagerlund by Sirpa Räihä, Cecil Taylor in Chrystel Egal and Alain Kirili: IFA, Charles Wuorinen By Javier Del Real, yMusic (Mark Dover, CJ Camerieri, Alex Sopp, Gabriel Cabezas, Nadia Sirota, Rob Moose) by Shervin Lainez, Friedrich Cerha and Wolfgang Kogert by Daniel Auer, Theresa Wong by Peter Gannushkin. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice
Tonight we preview yMusic at Meany Center and Fellow Travelers at Seattle Opera. Plus Braxton's Creative Orchestra Music, Cerha & Hoiby at 100, Fagerlund, Rzewski, Wuorinen and Cecil Taylor's last gig.
Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @okkyunglee.bsky.social @seattleopera.bsky.social
This week's expanded podcast celebrates Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated! on its 50th birthday, previews Seattle Symphony's traversal of Qigang Chen's cross-cultural Iris Unveiled, and samples Old-meets-New themed works by Weeks, Seo & Martinaitytė.
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Photo credits: Meng Meng via Seattle Symphony, Frederic Rzewski by Michael Wilson, Qigang Chen and Olivier Messiaen via Qigang Chen, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė by Tomas Terekas, James Weeks via the artist, Juri Seo via the artist, Latitude 49 via New Amsterdam Records, score excerpt from The People United Will Never Be Defeated!. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice
Tonight we celebrate The People United Will Never Be Defeated! at 50 w/six different pianists including composer Frederic Rzewski. Plus Iris Unveiled at Seattle Symphony, and Old Meets New w/@jamesweeks.bsky.social, Juri Seo and Žibuoklė Martinaitytė.
Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social
Podcast Monday is back! This week we salute the Iranian avant-garde (as it shows us how free musical thought can persist in a hostile environment) and Anthony Braxton's freethinking album Creative Orchestra Music 1976 on its 50th birthday.
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Photo credits: Alireza Amirhajebi by AmirAli Piroozbakhsh, Laibach (Janez Gabrič, Luka Jamnik, Milan Fras, Donna Marina Mårtensson, Jani Novak) via the artists, Alireza Mashayekhi via Toos Foundation, Kalevi Aho by Kuva Rajattu, Marc-André Hamelin by Benjamin Ealovega, Anthony Braxton via Mosaic Records, Creative Orchestra Music 1976 artwork by Frederick J. Brown, Anahita Abbasi by Michael Schell, Nasim Khorassani via the artist, Wet Ink Ensemble (Antonio, Lesser, Pluta, Mincek, Soper, Wubbels, Modney) via the artists, Ata Ebtekar AKA Sote via the artist, Iranian Female Composers Association by Deniz Khateri, Hiyoli Togawa by Anne Hornemann. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice
Tonight Flotation Device begins its 50-year celebration to Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra Music 1976. Plus a salute to the Iranian avant-garde (w/Sote, IFCA & Laibach), and new albums by Kalevi Aho and Marc-André Hamelin.
Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm
@kbcs.bsky.social @newfocuslabel.bsky.social
Now in podcast format (with HQ audio and a fast-forward button): Ralph Towner (1940–2026), Horse Lords, Xenakis, David Lang, Chaya Czernowin, the Rosa Ensemble, Novoa/Gress/Gray trio and more.
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A vulgar appropriation of the memory of two dead people in service to an ideology that helped usher in the era of Trump.
I saw The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at my local cineplex via The Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series, and wrote about why a movie theater is exactly the right place to see it. It streams again this week at selected cinemas.
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Photo credits: Nicolaus Richter de Vroe by Astrid Ackermann, Frederic Rzewski by Roberto Cifarelli, Ralph Towner in 1975, Eva Novoa via the artist, David Lang by Dacia Clay, Oregon in 2010 (Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Mark Walker, Glen Moore) by Efrem Lukatsky, Gavin Higgins via the artist, Chaya Czernowin by Ittai Bar-Joseph, Horse Lords+ (Owen Gardner, Arnold Dreyblatt, Andrea Belfi, Andrew Bernstein, Max Eilbacher) by Camille Blake, Iannis Xenakis in Xenakis Revolution, Farabi Toshiyuki Suzuki via the artist, Daniel Goode via the artist. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice
Tonight we bid farewell to Ralph Towner with a look at his career as guitarist & bandleader. Plus Horse Lords, Novoa/Gress/Gray, Gavin Higgins, David Lang & Chaya Czernowin.
Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm
@kbcs.bsky.social @chaya-czernowin.bsky.social @gavhiggins.bsky.social @devingraymusic.bsky.social
Another mid-week podcast brings both new voices and old friends. Mitchell/Gentile, Crispell, Łukowiec, Tabakova, Halvorson and Kris Davis play Zorn, BMOP plays Shuying Li and Bernstein plays Ives!
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Happy Podcast Monday! David Tudor at 100. Yarn/Wire in Seattle. Plus Cage, Reich, Tyondai Braxton, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Yikii, Charles Rumback, Stephan Crump and more.
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Photo credits: Yikii via the artist, Tyondai Braxton by Dustin Condren, Yarn/Wire (Julia Den Boer, Sae Hashimoto, Russell Greenberg, Laura Barger) via the artists, David Tudor and Rainforest at the Andy Warhol Museum in 1994, Enno Poppe via Ricordi, Otherlands Trio (Stephan Crump, Eric McPherson, Darius Jones) via the artists, David Tudor by Betsy Epstein Williams, Lingyuan Yang via the artist, Steve Reich by Jeff Herman, Morton Feldman and Karen Phillips by Steven Sloman, Bekah Simms by Riley Stewart, Lila Meretzky via the artist. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice
Tonight on Flotation Device:
-David Tudor at 100
-Yarn/Wire comes to Seattle
-New things by Yikii, Otherlands Trio, Rosa Ensemble, For Living Lovers & Charles Rumback
Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm
@kbcs.bsky.social @yarnwire.bsky.social @stevereich.bsky.social @nonesuch.com @tyondaibraxton.bsky.social
A rare Friday podcast features the rest of the best of 2025, w/Pärt, Silvestrov & Gubaidulina premieres, plus Zorn, Jarrett, Andres, Halvorson, Laubrock, Fujikura & more.
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Now in expanded podcast format: our 100th birthday tribute to Morton Feldman, with Cage, Zappa, Joan La Barbara, Michael Tilson Thomas, Tyshawn Sorey, Louis Andriessen and more.
www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDev... @kbcs.bsky.social @philipthomas.bsky.social @alarmwillsound.bsky.social @nonesuch.com