Suzanne Ciani came to renown for her New Age music but she’s gone back to her roots with experimental electronic music and the Buchla synthesizer. She plays both live on Echoes.
Playlists
Tuesday April 11th, 2017-Echoes Program 1715B
Tag: Improvisation
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears 2016
Drones, lconic alt-rock group out of depth. More drones. Charming elders of the old vanguard. A master of pink noise and symphonic expanse. Drones. Celtic aires. Gothic metal. Only at the 2016 Big Ears Festival.
Reviews & Commentary
Matthew Shipp Live in Philadelphia
Pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist Michael Bisio essay intimate jazz duets and torrential improvisations live in Philadelphia
Program Highlights
Echoes Goes to the Darkside
Hear an Interview with Darkside Tonight on Echoes. This past October I got to see the band Darkside at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit. They played before an impressively large audience in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, considering they only had one album out, Psychic. They’re a band that favors shadows, standing in twin cones…
Interview Podcast
Matt Borghi & Michael Teager on Echoes Podcast
Hear Two Musicians Who Begin at Zero These days in contemporary music, most musicians don’t leave much to chance when they play live. They either adhere to note-for-note recreations of their recorded work or they just have it all in a computer, hit play and have a perfect, if frozen performance. Ambient guitarist Matt Borghi…
Program Highlights
Echoes Goes to the Darkside
Hear an Interview with Darkside Tonight on Echoes. This past October I got to see the band Darkside at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit. They played before an impressively large audience in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, considering they only had one album out, Psychic. They’re a band that favors shadows, standing in twin cones…
Program Highlights
Start at Zero: Matt Borghi & Michael Teager on Echoes
These days in contemporary music, most musicians don’t leave much to chance when they play live. They either adhere to note-for-note recreations of their recorded work or they just have it all in a computer, hit play and have a perfect, if frozen performance. Ambient guitarist Matt Borghi and saxophonist Michael Teager don’t work that…
Program Highlights
Improvisations in Ambience: Borghi & Teager Live on Echoes
Jazz goes Ambient with Matt Borghi & Michael Teager on Echoes Tonight. These days in contemporary music, most musicians don’t leave much to chance when they play live. They either adhere to note-for-note recreations of their recorded work or they just have it all in a computer, hit play and have a perfect, if frozen…
Reviews & Commentary
Dans Les Arbres Concert Review
Dans Les Arbres Retune Philadelphia You expect the unusual in shows produced by Ars Nova Workshop in Philadelphia, the patron saints of new jazz in Philadephia. But as soon as I saw the stage set-up for Dans Les Arbres at The Philadelphia Art Alliance, I knew this wasn’t going to be even your typical Ars…