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Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world. Sundays at 10pm on 91.3 KBCS Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma with host Michael Schell.

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Irvine Arditti joined host Michael Schell last night on the occasion of the Arditti String Quartet's first-ever Seattle performances on Friday, October 16 at @MeanyCenter. Check out their informative 24-minute conversation at @YouTube:

https://tinyurl.com/ArdittiInterview

Topics include the quartet’s 52-year history commissioning and championing works from composers as wide-ranging as Cage and Stockhausen through Ligeti, Xenakis, Glass, Ferneyhough, Gubaidulina and Seattle’s own Joël-François Durand—with a particular focus on the work’s they’ve selected for their two Friday night concerts.

Tune into Flotation Device every Sunday night 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 @KBCS Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma, and on demand in podcast format at https://tinyurl.com/FlotationDevice. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world. by @flotation_device_kbcs

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Sunday night we prep for our most exciting new music week of the year, headlined by the Arditti Quartet's first ever appearance in Seattle. We’ll chat with the legendary group's founder and first violinist Irvine Arditti about its history, its selections for the @MeanyCenter performances (which range from Beethoven to Berg, Ligeti, Ferneyhough, Clarke and a Durand world premiere), and his personal route to a career in the avant-garde, as well as his perspective and outlook at the sprightly age of 73. We’ll also preview @SeattleChamberOrchestra’s centenary celebration of Feldman and Kurtág, as well as upcoming @EarshotJazz appearances by Jessica Lurie, Anna Webber and John Hollenbeck. A 50th anniversary look at a Takemitsu orchestral gem (spiced with a whiff of German waltz) rounds out the program.

Sunday, October 11, 10pm–Midnight PDT (GMT -7), on 91.3 @KBCS Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma (streaming at KBCS.FM). Available in podcast format (with HQ audio) at Mixcloud.com. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell.
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Photo credits: Arditti Quartet (Ashot Sarkissjan, Irvine Arditti, Lucas Fels, Ralf Ehlers) by Manu Theobald, Brian Ferneyhough: String Quartet No. 3, Joël-François Durand by Steve Korn, George (Chiquita Magic, @AKWebber, Sarah Rossy, John Hollenbeck) by T.J. Huff, @SaxophoneJess via Key Leaves, Ludwig van Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, Tōru Takemitsu by Kiyotane Hayashi, Irvine Arditti and György Ligeti by Garth Knox, Morton Feldman by Joe Traver.

With Fred Frith, Jason Hoopes, Jordan Glenn, Aki Takahashi, @Kronos_Quartet, @DavidHarrington49, John Sherba, Hank Dutt, Joan Jeanrenaud, @Chicago_Wind_Project, @ConstanceVolk AndrewNogal @MJOlifant @BenRoidlWard @AndrewMunsey @ILaubrock, @YumaSax, @MRRyanEaster, @DoYeonMusic, Chris Tordini, @SmithChes, @TokyoMetropolitanSymphony, @QuatuorMolinari1, @OlgaRanzenhofer, @PierreAlainBouvrette, @Aaron_Nevezie, Nannnnni, @HansaStudios and @Judith_Sherman on the @Kairos_HNE, @SonyMusic, @OuthereMusic, @ATMA_Classique, @NonesuchRecords, JVC, @Intakt_Records, @OutOfYourHeadRecords and @NaiveRecords labels. by @flotation_device_kbcs

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Last night pianist Lucian Ban sat down with host Michael Schell to talk about his Transylvanian Dance project with violist Mat Maneri, and their October 9 performance at Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Festival. Other topics include his Elevation and Oedipe Redux projects, and his unusual career path from Cluj, Romania to the Downtown New York free improv scene. Check out our tidy 14-minute conversation at:

https://tinyurl.com/LucianBan

Tune into Flotation Device every Sunday night 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 @KBCS Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma, and on demand in podcast format at https://tinyurl.com/FlotationDevice. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world. by @flotation_device_kbcs

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Happy 90th birthday to Steve Reich. Sunday night we celebrate with one of his classic minimalist masterpieces plus a later, lesser-known work that showcases his interest in speech melody. We’ll assess his stature among the OGs of minimalism and among American composers in general. And we’ll contrast his beat-driven style with the sparser pseudo-repetitions in Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari (preparatory to its October 7 traversal at @MeanyCenter by pianist Cristina Valdés). We'll also begin our Earshot Jazz Festival coverage with a preview of Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri’s Transylvanian Dance performance on October 9, including an exclusive interview with Lucian that delves into his unusual background as a Romanian-born, New York-based Downtown jazz pianist, and his approach to using Bartók’s famous field recordings of Eastern European folk music as an improvisational starting point.

Sunday, October 4, 10pm–Midnight PDT (GMT -7), on 91.3 @KBCS Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma (streaming at KBCS.FM). Available in podcast format (with HQ audio) at Mixcloud.com. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell.
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Photo credits: @Lucian__Ban and @ManeriMat perform Transylvanian Dance, Steve Reich by Jeff Herman, young Reich riding a New York tricycle, Four Organs (Philip Glass, @NicoMuhly, @David.Cossin.52, @TimoAndres, Reich) by Stephanie Berger, Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri by Bogui Jazz, Reich and @MTilsonThomas via the artists, Pendulum Music (with @Richard.Serra, James Tenney, Reich, @BruceNaumanArt, Michael Snow) by Richard Landry, Béla Bartók transcribing a field recording.

Featuring @DJSpooky_official, John Surman, Paul Hillier, @ArsNovaCopenhagen, @EnsembleModern, @PeterRundel, Orkest de Volharding, Jussi Jaatinen, @MivosQuartetFour, @HolstSinfonietta_OperaFactory, Klaus Simon, Martin Demmler, Steffen Schleiermacher, @Harding.Alex, @Mr.JDAllen, Bob Stewart, @DerrekCPhillips, @RalphGrierson, Roger Kellaway, Tony Raney, @KilgoreStudios, @Preben_Iwan and Steve Reich and Musicians on the @NonesuchRecords, @ECM_Records, @EMIRecords, @SunnysideRec, @CantaloupeNY, @NaxosUSA, @ModeRecords and @DGClassics labels. by @flotation_device_kbcs

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Sunday night we hang out with Henry Threadgill and his two new albums: one with Vijay Iyer, the other with his Zooid band which—like Flotation Device—is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. We’ll also hear from Northwest standouts Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb and Marc Barreca, sample the latest from Anna Clyne (in a holiday mood), Beatriz Ferreyra (the doyenne of French acousmatic music) and Simon Nabatov (channeling his inner Ustvolskaya), and continue our exploration of Heiner Goebbels’ unsentimental setting of Thoreau’s Walden. We'll preview an upcoming Bonnie Whiting percussionist recital that will feature timely themes from Ancient Greece. And our “50 years ago in the avant-garde” feature will pay tribute to Thea Musgrave’s early and experimental Rorate Coeli.

It’s the last week of KBCS's Fall Fund Drive, our most crucial time of year financially. If you have the means, we sincerely hope you will support Flotation Device's loyal home by browsing online to KBCS.FM and contributing whatever you can. Thanks!

Sunday, September 27, 10pm–Midnight PDT (GMT -7), on 91.3 @KBCS Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma (streaming at KBCS.FM). Available in podcast format at Mixcloud.com. Creative and improvised music with host Mike Schell.
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Photo credits: Iannis Xenakis via @AmisDeXenakis, Fifteen (Dafnis Prieto, @HenryThreadgill, @VijayIyer) by Michael Wilson, Robin Holcomb and @WayneHorvitz by Lisa Hagen Glynn, @TheaMusgrave by Bryan Sheffield, Bonnie Whiting via the artist, Anna Clyne by Christina Kernohan, @SimonNabatov by Florian Ross, Heiner Goebbels by Olimpia Orlova, @MarcBarreca via the artist, Beatriz Ferreyra by @INAgrm.

With @LibertyEllman, Jose Davila, @ChristopherHoffmann, @ElliotHumbertoKavee, @DanaLeongMusic, Steve Schick, Bob Rutman, @EnsembleModern, Peter Eötvös, @AngelikaNiescier, @PascalKlewer, @ShannonKBarnett, @RogerKintopf, @AlexParzhuber, @LondonPhilharmonicOrchestra, Christian Karlsen, @ElenaDubinets, @NewYorkVirtuosoSingers, @Harold.Rosenbaum @MiroQuartet, @RenePierreAllain & @ScholesStreetStudio on @NonesuchRecords, @PiRecordings, @ModeRecordsInc, @LyritaRecords, @ECM_Records, @PentatoneMusic, @Room40Shoots & @NewFocusRecordings. by @flotation_device_kbcs

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John Seman returns to celebrate The John Coltrane Centenary with an all-vinyl program focusing on the late 1965–67 masterpieces, including the final studio dates with Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Rashied Ali and Trane playing bass clarinet, flute, and alto saxophone in addition to his usual tenor and soprano sax. We’ll also hear some of the last live and studio sessions of the classic Quartet with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones, including their visit to Seattle 61 years ago. We’ll also revisit some important posthumous releases, the magnum opus Ascension featuring the John Coltrane Orchestra, and the July 1966 Japan tour, as well as tribute poems from Joe McPhee and Amiri Baraka. Happy 100th birthday to the master, and Peace On Earth.

Sunday, September 20, 10pm–Midnight PDT (GMT -7), on 91.3 @KBCS Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma (streaming at KBCS.FM). Available in podcast format (with HQ audio) at Mixcloud.com. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world.
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Photo credits: John Coltrane Quartet (Jones, Tyner, Coltrane, Garrison) by Aftonbladet, John Coltrane: Stellar Regions by John Seman, John Coltrane by Lee Friedlander, John and Alice Coltrane at Rudy Van Gelder Studio by Chuck Stewart.

With @NelsCline, @Gregg_Bendian, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Albert Ayler, @Archie_Shepp, Freddie Hubbard, Dewey Johnson, Marion Brown, John Tchicai, David Murray, Steve McCall, Art Davis, Joe Brazil, Donald Rafael Garrett, Ray Appleton, Joan Chapman and Oran Coltrane on the @PrestigeRecords, Atavistic, @SundazedMusic, @CorbettVsDempseyMusic and @ImpulseRecords labels. by @flotation_device_kbcs

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