KBCS

In this program we listen to Ken Vandermark and Don Cherry inject analog synthesizers into free jazz via two newly-released live recordings (Cherry’s emerging from 45 years buried in a vault). We also mark the 50th anniversary of Cherry’s Relativity Suite album (starring Carla Bley) and Pierre Henry’s brainwave-driven contributions to an odd spectacle featuring Alwin Nikolais’ dancers performing alongside Nicolas Schöffer’s cybernetic sculptures. We celebrate John Corigliano’s 85th birthday with a little-known work that places him squarely in the Charles Ives lineage, while double bass evangelist Bertram Turetzky gets some 90th birthday love through one of his signature solo pieces. And we check out the latest recorded works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Christopher Fox, Anthony Cheung and Osvaldo Golijov (the latter channeling Schubert), plus new improv from Timuçin Şahin’s Flow State and the Timothy Daisy/Erez Dessel duo, as well as new fixed-media works by Perila and Langham Research Centre. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell.