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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A DIFFERENT NATURE

Airs at: Mon, 03/02/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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MUSIQUE CONCRETE: WATER MUSIC.  A liquid and relaxing evening of electroacoustic music and musique concrete from a variety of international artists using the myriad sounds of water as their sound source. Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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CLASSICS, ANTIQUES & CURIOS: ERIC SATIE'S VEXATIONS, composed for piano in 1893 but not publically performed until 1963, contains a short chordal passage and a bass line repeated twice in each of the required 840 repetitions, usually taking 18-24 hours. Satie wrote ... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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SURPRISE NIGHT--for people who don't want to know what's coming. Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 02/02/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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MUSIQUE CONCRETE: PIERRE HENRY (born Paris, 1927) teamed up with Pierre Schaeffer in 1949 to become co-founder of the GRM (Group of musical research) dedicated to experimentation in "concrete music". Also with Schaeffer, Henry collaborated to create what is conside... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE

Airs at: Mon, 01/26/2009 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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An evening of largely percussive music by composer GAVIN BRYARS. Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 12/29/2008 at 8:00pm - Tue, 12/30/2008 at 12:00am
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DESOLO LUNA VOX THEATRUM. Premier of a new 4-hour long Dada/Surrealist variety show which will air on 5th Mondays of the month. Expect a wild mixture of both live and prerecorded presentations of Dada and Surrealist influenced material (manifestos, poetry, prose, theat... Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2008 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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THE PALM COURT: NINO ROTA COMPOSES FOR FEDERICO FELLINI. This year the Palm Court celebrates Winter Solstice with interpretations of the rich and warm music which Nino Rota composed for the majority of films by the great Italian Film Director Federico Fellini. Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2008 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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CLASSICS, ANTIQUES AND CURIOS: STEVE REICH now clearly ranks as one of the great American composers of the 20th Century as well as one of the primary pioneers in minimalist music. Tonight you can hear some of his earliest innovations including the use of tape loops to ... Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 12/08/2008 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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SURPRISE NIGHT.  A show for those who don't want to know what's coming. Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 12/01/2008 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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MUSIQUE CONCR[\]ETE: FRANCIS DHOMONT is a French composer who, along with Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer, was one of the early founder/discoverers of the genre. By the mid-60s he was dedicating his time to electroacoustic composition utilising taped recordings of nat... Read more