A Different Nature

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Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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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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George Crumb 90th Anniversary

Airs at: Mon, 07/08/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
In 1970 George Crumb wrote Black Angels for “amplified” string quartet and percussion, a protest piece against the Vietnam war.  Recently performed at the Makrokosmos Festival, scaring many of youthful age, we believe the time is ripe to celebrate Mr. Crumb’s career. Witnes... Read more

New Music China

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
A Different Nature brings you two hours of adventurous music by expatriate Chinese composers, including Zhou Long, Chen Yi, Kui Dong, and Ge Gan-Ru.  Read more

New Music

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
New releases of new music.. We'll listen to two or three tracks from guitarist Fred Frith's recent 3-CD release All Is Always Now-Live at the Stone, which contains selected live performances recorded between 2007 and 2016 at the Stone in New York with a number of different ... Read more

Music of Tan Dun

Airs at: Mon, 06/17/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
We'll hear selections from his Ghost Opera (performed by Kronos Quartet & Wu Man), Marco Polo (an opera within an opera), Symphony 1997, "Heaven, Earth, Mankind" (composed for the ceremonies commemorating the reunification of Hong Kong and China, featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma)... Read more

Feature Artist: Holly Herndon

Airs at: Mon, 06/10/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
Tonight on A Different Nature, we feature the music of composer Holly Herndon. Herndon's music, using custom built computers and voice processes, often explores the complixity of technology. We'll hear from her latest album, PROTO, which came out in May 2019, as well as ear... Read more

Carlos Beltrán: Jericó, La Familia Carvajal

Airs at: Mon, 06/03/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
Carlos Beltrán with his classic album Jericó from 1987, and an unedited unreleased recording La Familia Carvajal of unknown date. Read more

A Different Nature on 05/27/19

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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The Empty Vacuum of the World

Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
ADN presents a collection of empty environments, winds that don’t blow, sad machines, turntables of the dead, islands that whistle, and a crazy guy playing the marimba, on this week’s elegiac ode to what you hear beyond the event horizon (hint: marimbas).  Featuring Benedic... Read more

ELECTROACOUSTIC SOUNDS

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
 André Almuro, Gonzalo Biffarela, Tom Carter & Robert Horton, Roger Cochini, Francis Dhomont, Erdem Helvacıoglu, Jon Christopher Nelson, Felipe Otondo, Adam Stansbie, and Cristian Vogel. Read more

A Different Nature on 05/06/19

Airs at: Mon, 05/06/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature