A Different Nature

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Every Monday from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

Sustained Explorations of New, Experimental Music and Sonic Art

A Different Nature Mission Statement: A Sustained Explorations of New, Experimental Music and Sonic Art
A Different Nature is a curatorial program of genre-defying avant garde music and spoken word that champions historic and modern sound art and spotlights, new, emergent experimental music and audio art generally not heard anywhere else.
The program's format provides the space for deep listening to pieces not confined to pop song lengths and shows are generally focused on an artist, school of music or discipline, record label or art movement.

 A Different Nature is a collaborative effort of the ADN Collective, who each curate a show every week on an informal rotating basis, or a group show,     depending on the subject at hand.

A Different Nature was founded in the late Seventies by Richard Francis, who fearlessly championed new music and the unheard Avant Garde. His programs went into exhaustive detail on individual artists, labels and musical disciplines. He also spearheaded many important events on the air, such as the 2001 and 2008 Dada and Surrealism festivals that dominated the airwaves for days on end and involved many in the local avant garde community as well as many KBOO programmers.

Richard passed away in 2009 but it's our hope to carry on with his mission of introducing listeners to unheard new music as a collective of his collaborators and listeners.

Long live Papa Dada!

 

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Gurdjieff: Harmonium Improvisations 1948-1949

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2024 at 8:00pm - Tue, 04/02/2024 at 12:00am
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In the 1970s Leo Feigin, a Russan expatriate, began smuggling jazz and modern music recordings out of (and into) the Soviet Union. Since then Leo Records has released over 700 albums of European and Asian music. The list of artists is bottomless with hundreds of little-know... Read more

A Different Nature: New Releases of New Music

Airs at: Mon, 03/18/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Another listen to albums that have come out within the last year. Read more

Mexican Women Noise Makers: Vania Fortuna, Concepción Huerta, CNDSD, Puzz Anatizta, Andrea Toussaint: ….Hold (1982)

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Black History Month special with a retrospective of the little known jazz trio Air (featuring Henry Threadgill, Steve McCall and Fred Hopkins). Their music really does go from ragtime (Scott Joplin) to the outside future of exploration. Additional music by Cassandra Wilson ... Read more

A Different Nature: New Releases of New Music

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Another look at experimental music released within the last year. Read more

Aristeo: The Sacred Machine (1985); Eagle Warrior (1989)

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 01/22/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Our program will explore how musicians are using electronic processing as part of performance. These will be mostly solo artists with their various laptops and circuit boards: Liz Albee, Emil Karlsen, Franz Hautzinger, Sudhu Tewari, Helene Breschand, and Lucas Niggli. BONUS... Read more