A Different Nature

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Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 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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A Different Nature: Scratching The Surface With Nurse With Wound 2

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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The Different Nature collective comes together (give or take a few) to bring you two hours of the music of Nurse With Wound for the Spring Membership Drive. Since 1979, British group Nurse with Wound has bridged the gaps between Psychedelia, Dada and Surrealism, Industrial... Read more

Lou Harrison (1917-2003)

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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The title of this week's show is also the title of a newly published Harrison biography by Bill Alves and Brett Campbell, finished just in time to celebrate the centenary of the composer's birth (May 14, 1917).  Portland State University will be hosting a CeLOUbration in mi... Read more

A Different Nature on 05/08/17

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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The Compositions of Annea Lockwood

Airs at: Mon, 05/01/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand born American composer trained in classical piano. She spent her childhood hiking and climbing in the New Zealand wilderness and later based much of her work on recording and processing natural sounds. Her works include sound sculptures, envi... Read more

Spires That In The Sunset Rise

Airs at: Mon, 04/24/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Tonight on A Different Nature we explore the fascinating sounds of SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE. From their bandcamp page: Since 2001, Spires That in the Sunset Rise have been unsettling and thrilling audiences with their brand of sonic alchemy. Described by Jack Rose as... Read more

A Different Nature on 04/17/17

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature presents 'Heady Metal' : Music of Chas Smith

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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who in the spirit of Harry Partch, creates much of his music on exotic instruments of his own design: sculptural metallic creations.  Smith's compositions, which always display his dualistic fascination with the scientific and the sensual, might owe their split personaliti... Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 04/03/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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The last five CDs I Bought

Airs at: Mon, 03/27/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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We present: "The last five CDs I bought," having in common, dull gray covers. Packaging aside, imagine hearing a piano concerto by Beat Furrer, a "jazz" trio with Thurston Moore and Mat (Die NOW!) Gustafsson, the murky guitar of Christian Fennesz, some oddity called Brothom... Read more

A Different Nature: Francis Dhomont

Airs at: Mon, 03/20/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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The French composer Francis Dhomont turned ninety this past November. A pioneer in electroacoustic/acousmatic music, Frankenstein Symphony is a work completed in 1997, in which Dhomont borrows snippets from the music of 22 composers and friends, many of whom had been his st... Read more