No one can embrace all of the Big Ears Festival but we have a rundown of the 2025 edition which drew much of its music from the Echoesphere. John Diliberto takes us into a music utopia.
Reviews & Commentary
A Journey Through Big Ears Festival 2025
Tag: EDM
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf
Coming Up
Monday, Apr 14, 2025 – Immersion & SUSS Play Live
Get immersed in the Nanocluster with Immersion and SUSS, live. This collaboration travels the borders of ambient, country and electronic music on their album, Nanocluster Volume 3.
Coming Up
Friday, Apr 11, 2025 – New Music from AeTopus
New music by AeTopus from Bellingham, Washington. His latest album takes electronics into off-center rhythms and melodies that begin in abstraction and evolve into quiet grandeur.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Ben Neill’s Music Democracy
Living Room Concerts
Ben Neill, Performing Live On Echoes
We take you back to a 2016 live Echoes performance by Ben Neill. He plays the mutantrumpet with 3 bells, 2 sets of valves, a mini trombone slide and a lot of electronic controllers.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Apr 1, 2025 – MAPS: The Echoes Interview
We throw out our GPS and get out MAPS. That’s the recording persona of James Chapman. His last two albums have been pure joyous, electronic bliss. We talk counter melodies and more.
Playlists
Tuesday, Mar 18, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511B
Ben Neill has been at the bleeding edge of new music for decades with his Mutantrumpet. Now he has a book, Diffusing Music – Trajectories of Sonic Democratization
Coming Up
Weekend, Mar 29-30, 2025 – Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf
It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf. They’ve created an album called Doppelganger that looks back at the golden age of Krautrock.
Coming Up
Monday, Mar 24, 2025 – Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf
It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf. They’ve created an album called Doppelganger that looks back at the golden age of Krautrock.