Last October, legendary French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre released his collaborative album, Electronica 1: The Time Machine. Now he’s put out the second volume, The Heart of Noise.
Playlists
Thursday August 11th, 2016-Echoes Program 1632D
Tag: synthesizer
Reviews & Commentary
Robert Rich and Jörg Wand’s “Filaments and Fractals”
Ambient composer Robert Rich and visual artist Jörg Wand create a video of fractal artwork to accompany Rich’s “Filaments.”
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Sleeping and Rising
Six hours of continuous instrumental music that traces the ups and downs of nocturnal rhythms.
Reviews & Commentary
Kraftwerk “Autobahn” Video
Kraftwerk’s 1974 classic, “Autobahn” is set to an accelerated car trip across the English countryside.
Playlists
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016-Echoes Program 1631C
On the next Echoes, a new generation of space musicians when we talk to Ascendant. They’re an electronic duo out of California who have been releasing albums of melodic electronics.
Playlists
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016-Echoes Program 1631B
Al Jewer plays flutes. Andy Mitran plays keyboards and percussion. When they aren’t crafting commercial jingles in Chicago, they create music that ranges from world fusion to pure ambient. Winners of a ZMR Award in 2016, they talk about their music on Echoes.
Reviews & Commentary
Suzanne Ciani’s Buchla Excursions
Suzanne Ciani is known for her romantic keyboard compositions, but she started out as an avant-garde electronic composer. You can hear that side on a new album, Buchla Concerts 1975. John Diliberto looks back at this seminal work and time.
Playlists
Weekend, July 30 & 31, 2016-Echoes Program 1630A
Peter Baumann was a member of Tangerine Dream during their classic era and founded Private Music. Now, after 20 years in his think tank, the Baumann Foundation, he returns with his first new album in 33 years, Machines of Desire. He talks about electronics and philosophy on Echoes.
Interview Podcast, Program Highlights
AeTopus in the Echoes Podcast
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Bryan Tewell Hughes, otherwise known as AeTopus, speaks with Echoes about his influences, process, and Sci-Fi musings. His latest album is entitled When.
Playlists
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016-Echoes Program 1630C
The French duo called Air is both retro and “moderne,” chilled pop and ambient lounge. They created a splash in 1998 with their album, Moon Safari In 2004 they came to Echoes to play music from that album and The Virgin Suicides soundtrack.