A Different Nature

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Every Monday from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

Sustained Explorations of New, Experimental Music and Sonic Art

A Different Nature Mission Statement: A Sustained Explorations of New, Experimental Music and Sonic Art
A Different Nature is a curatorial program of genre-defying avant garde music and spoken word that champions historic and modern sound art and spotlights, new, emergent experimental music and audio art generally not heard anywhere else.
The program's format provides the space for deep listening to pieces not confined to pop song lengths and shows are generally focused on an artist, school of music or discipline, record label or art movement.

 A Different Nature is a collaborative effort of the ADN Collective, who each curate a show every week on an informal rotating basis, or a group show,     depending on the subject at hand.

A Different Nature was founded in the late Seventies by Richard Francis, who fearlessly championed new music and the unheard Avant Garde. His programs went into exhaustive detail on individual artists, labels and musical disciplines. He also spearheaded many important events on the air, such as the 2001 and 2008 Dada and Surrealism festivals that dominated the airwaves for days on end and involved many in the local avant garde community as well as many KBOO programmers.

Richard passed away in 2009 but it's our hope to carry on with his mission of introducing listeners to unheard new music as a collective of his collaborators and listeners.

Long live Papa Dada!

 

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A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 12/01/2008 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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MUSIQUE CONCR[\]ETE: FRANCIS DHOMONT is a French composer who, along with Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer, was one of the early founder/discoverers of the genre. By the mid-60s he was dedicating his time to electroacoustic composition utilising taped recordings of natura... Read more

A Different Nature

Airs at: Mon, 11/24/2008 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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DADA/SURREALISM FESTIVAL REPLAY.  Richard will be dedicating the last Monday of each month to presentations of material collected for KBOO's 2008 Dada/Surrealism Festival, focusing largely on material performed and produced by KBOO volunteers to give you a chance to hear AL... Read more

A Different Nature on 08/21/08

Airs at: Thu, 08/21/2008 at 9:00pm - 11:00pm
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CLASSICS, ANTIQUES AND CURIOS:  ATLANTA (ACTS OF GOD), an opera by ROBERT ASHLEY.  The mythic tale of fleet-footed Atalanta and her suitor Hippomenes with his three golden apples is picked up centuries later with Hippomenes and apples replaced by three suitors from our time... Read more

A Different Nature on 08/14/08

Airs at: Thu, 08/14/2008 at 9:00pm - 11:00pm
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CONTEMPORARY THEREMIN.  LYDIA KAVINA is well on her way to becoming the Clara Rockmore of our times, using her virtuoso abilities at theremin to present serious contemporary compositions for theremin and ensembles, sometimes using her technique to blend her instrument in so... Read more

A Different Nature on 08/07/08

Airs at: Thu, 08/07/2008 at 9:00pm - 11:00pm
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MUSIQUE CONCRETE: HERBERT DISTEL, a multi-media Swiss artist best known for making large eggs and his Museum of Drawers, created two concrete masterpieces in the 1980s.  Die Reise (The Journey) is created entirely from the sounds of a train noisily clattering through variou... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE on 07/31/08

Airs at: Thu, 07/31/2008 at 9:00pm - 11:00pm
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"Inner Cities" by Alvin Curran--Part II. Curran's more recent pieces have tended towards complex, often unfocused collage; regularly using audio and musical material one would never imagine side-by-side except in a piece by Curran. With "Inner Cities", Curran does this comb... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE on 07/24/08

Airs at: Thu, 07/24/2008 at 9:00pm - 11:00pm
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"Inner Cities" by Alvin Curran--Part I. Curran's more recent pieces have tended towards complex, often unfocused collage; regularly using audio and musical material one would never imagine side-by-side except in a piece by Curran. With "Inner Cities", Curran does this com... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE on 07/17/08

Airs at: Thu, 07/17/2008 at 9:00pm - 11:00pm
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CLASSICS, ANTIQUES & CURIOS: WENDY CARLOS' BRANDENBURGS. In 1980 Carlos, whose electronic interpretations of some western classical pieces caught the world's ears when used in the soundtrack for "A Clockwork Orange," used her synthesizer to take on "The Brandenburg Conce... Read more

A Different Nature on 06/26/08

Airs at: Thu, 06/26/2008 at 9:00pm - 11:00pm
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Classics, Antiques and Curios:" Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet."  This classic Gavin Bryars B-side to  "The Sinking of the titanic" on Eno's first 1976 Obscure label release began in 1970 with the looped prerecorded voice of an old tramp singing solo to which the instruments... Read more

A Different Nature on 06/05/08

Airs at: Thu, 06/05/2008 at 9:00pm - Fri, 06/06/2008 at 12:00am
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SOUND MAP OF THE DANUBE --- by Annea Lockwood -- A three hours special of recordings taken from 59 sites along the Danube and 13 brief interviews (in German) with people who live along the river. Read more