Isao Tomita left the planet on May 5. I interviewed him in 1992 in his Tokyo Studio. I look back at this early electronic music explorer who took the classics into space
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Isao Tomita 1932-2016 RIP
Tag: synthesizer
Playlists
Wednesday May 4th, 2016-Echoes Program 1618C
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.
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Friday April 22nd, 2016-Echoes Program 1616E
On this Earth Day, we create a soundscape born from the planet, inspired by the riches of this earth that we seem so intent on destroying.
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Friday, April 15th, 2016-Echoes Program 1615E
We’ll listen to one of the seminal albums of 70s electronic music, Klaus Schulze’s 1976 album, Moondawn.
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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.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Walking the Labyrinth
Six hours of continuous instrumental music that navigates geometric pathways, on a journey to deep contemplation. It includes music from The Cavern of Anti-Matter, Vic Hennegan, Neuronium, Patrick O’Hearn, Liz Story, Oregon and many others.
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Hearing Aids for Big Ears 2016: Interviews with 7 Performers
We hear features from 7 of the performers at Big Ears 2015 including Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Max Richter, William Tyler, Silver Apples, and Bill Frisell.
Interview Podcast
Big Ears Festival 2016 in the Echoes Podcast
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Big Ears is one of the most expansive, eclectic and challenging music festivals in the world. In downtown Knoxville Tennessee, musicians from around the world and across genres convene in concerts that test the limits of sound and music.
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Friday, March 25th, 2016-Echoes Program 1612E
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new ambient music by Tom Eaton, a producer and engineer, who goes to the other side of the glass for his album Abendromen. We’ll also hear from Vic Hennegan’s Space & Shadows.
Interview Podcast
Cavern of Anti-Matter in the Echoes Podcast
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Cavern of Anti-Matter is a group steeped in analog synthesizers and worships at the electronic altar of 70s German groups like Neu! Harmonia, Cluster and Can. We talk to band leader Tim Gane about plugging in to the sound of his youth.