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 explores the music of MAJA RATJKE

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Tonight on A Different Nature, host Danielle Parks continues her long-running series (and some would say long-overdue) focusing on the very wide world of under-appreciated, amazingly talented and intensely brilliant women composers and performers in experimental music--from... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE salutes ORNETTE COLEMAN tonight at 8pm

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Join the A DIFFERENT NATURE Collective tonight for a kind of radio primer on Ornette Coleman, as some of us share what recordings we still have of his most pivotal and radical music from our collections and reflect on the life and turbulent times of one of modern music's mo... Read more

A Survey of Spectral Music

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Spectral compositions work off the generation of harmonic and timbral music structures based upon the structure of frequencies. We'll be taking a look at works from Ensemble l'Itinéraire, which included the first composers of spectral music: Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, M... Read more

La Música de Eblen Macari

Airs at: Mon, 04/11/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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​On April 11th, 2016 on A Different Nature we will be presenting music by Eblen Macari.  ​We hope you can tune in for two hours of Macari's music, an internationally respected musician of great sensibility and sense.  ​We will be airing several recordings, such as Musi... Read more

A Different Nature Presents: The German Cassette Music of the 80s & 90s

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Tonight on A Different Nature we'll hear some music from Germany's cassette music scene; Neue Deutsche Welle, Industrial, Punk and New Wave. Like the USA and the rest of Europe, the compact cassette format was an essential medium for distributing independent underground musi... Read more

A Different Nature on 03/28/16

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Experimental and Progressive Music from 1970s Italy

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Tonight on A Different Nature we explore experimental progressive music from Italy in the 1970s, with artists like Area, Franco Battiato, Opus Avantra, Talaio Magnetico, Roberto Cacciapaglia, Goblin and more..     Read more

Ben Johnston Birthday Special

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Another 90th birthday special featuring composer Ben Johnston.  Johnston was at one time an apprentice to Harry Partch, and was one of the first to develop a system of microtonal notation for conventional instruments.  Microtonal, or “Just Intonation,” may use dozens of har... Read more

Woodwinds and Pipes

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Tonight's show will feature woodwinds (with some bagpipes added) performed by Chenoa Anderson, Claire Chase, Anne La Berge & Joe WIlliamson, and Anthony Braxton. Grace is hosting.  Read more

A Different Nature on 02/29/16

Airs at: Mon, 02/29/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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