J Anthony Allen is an academic composer who makes music for the dance floor and the ambient lounge. He talks about it on Echoes.
Playlists
Weekend, January 16 & 17, 2016-Echoes Program 1602A
Tag: classical
Playlists
Monday, January 11th, 2016-Echoes Program 1602A
J Anthony Allen is an academic composer who makes music for the dance floor and the ambient lounge. He talks about it on Echoes.
Playlists
Thursday, January 7th, 2016 – Echoes Program 1601D
Chad Kettering started out as a classical trumpet player, but something happened on the way to the concert hall.
CD of the Month
Echoes January CD of the Month: Contact’s Discreet Music
Brian Eno’s Discreet Music is the seminal work of ambient music. Now Contact has taken this electronic piece and arranged it for acoustic instruments. Contact’s Discreet Music is the Echoes CD of the Month.
Interview Podcast
Steven Halpern in the Echoes Podcast
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Steven Halpern released his first album of electric piano modalities, Spectrum Suite, in 1975. That makes 2015 his 40th anniversary as a recording artist. We talk to Halpern about the evolution of his music from the “anti-frantic alternative” to his concepts of sound healing.
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015-Echoes Program 1539D
Ólafur Arnalds is one of the signature composers of ambient chamber music, and in the last year, he’s released an album based on the compositions of Chopin, scored BBC TV series, Broadchurch and recorded an all electronic project as Kiasmos.
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Slow Meadow in the Echoes Podcast
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Slow Meadow is the performance name of Matt Kidd who has collaborated with the band Hammock, but has created his own approach to ambient chamber music. We walk through the fields of Matt Kidd’s Slow Meadow.
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Michael Spriggs in the Echoes Podcast
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Michael Spriggs is an A-list session guitarist in Music City who has played on, and written, dozens of country hits. But when he goes home, he plugs in to a different sound, turning country into Ambient Americana, with touches of Celtic music.
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Chad Kettering in the Echoes Podcast
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Chad Kettering started out as a classical trumpet player, but something happened on the way to the concert hall. He discovered synthesizers and started creating an orchestral electronic sound that’s part progressive rock and part New Age.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015-Echoes Program 1536B
Chad Kettering started out as a classical trumpet player, but something happened on the way to the concert hall.