Big Ears Festival 2025 is upon us and decisions must be made. Echoes host John Diliberto plots his path through the most Echoes-centric Big Ears ever with Steve Roach centering it all.
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears Festival 2025 – A Musical Journey
Tag: synthesizer
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.
Playlists
Thursday, Mar 13, 2025 – Echoes Program 2510D
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Ian Boddy teams up with German drummer and electronic musician Harold Grosskopf. Grosskopf played on several Klaus Schulze albums and in Ashra and Wallenstein.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we enter the temple of Steve Roach’s Sanctuary of Desire. We’ll go into one of the long, evolving tracks from this master of sequencer-driven music.
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.
Living Room Concerts
In Concert: Olafur Arnalds – Live on Echoes 2011
Ólafur Arnalds and his ensemble performed live on Echoes back in 2011, playing music from the album he had just released at the time, “And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness.”