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Composer/intermedia artist. Host of Radio Eclectus (KHUH) and Flotation Device (KBCS). Writer for Sequenza21.com. Cribbage player.

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A night of Feldman and Kurtág in Seattle backrooms with the @seattlechamberorchestra. My first time experiencing a longer Feldman piece live and it was transcendent. It’s been an incredible weekend for postmodern & modern classical music here.

I’ll know next time to bring a yoga mat & pillow.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Broody music takes the spotlight Sunday night as we explore works inspired by Samuel Beckett and Albrecht Dürer. We’ll contrast Charles Dodge’s realization of Beckett’s Cascando (made using 70s-era synthesized speech) with Trevor Bača's new rendition of Stirrings Still with narrator Paul Griffiths and the @JACKQuartet. We'll follow the Irish connection to Donnacha Dennehy's new piano concerto “Limina”, while Harrison Birtwistle covers Dürer with his clarinet concerto Melencolia I (named for the master's famous allegorical engraving). The late Phill Niblock continues the clarinet focus in the premiere recording of a work for multitracked bass clarinets, while Geof Bradfield and Ben Goldberg lead a double-clarinet quartet with Myra Melford and Dana Hall. Wadada Leo Smith and Angelika Niescier offer their own all-star trios. We’ll celebrate Ned Rothenberg’s cross-cultural music for his 70th birthday, while revisiting Morton Feldman’s obscure piece Orchestra for its 50th. A new solo cello composition by Salvatore Sciarrino extends Feldman’s flirtation with silence, while Ming Tsao adds a dissonant line to Bach’s Two-Part Inventions and Birtwistle does likewise with a Machaut ballade. Cheer-Accident unveils their first live album ever, and the premiere recording of a colorful orchestral work by the underrated 20th century composer Elsa Barraine rounds out this wide-ranging playlist.

Sunday, September 13, 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: Samuel Beckett by John Haynes, @CheerAccident via the artists, Elsa Barraine by Boris Lipnitzki, @DonnachaDennehy by Hugh O’Conor, magic square from Dürer: Melancholia I, Wadada Leo Smith by Phil Penman, Chicago Tapes (Luke Stewart, @AngelikaNiescier, Nicole Mitchell, Mike Reed) via @Intakt_Records, Ming Tsao by Markus Sepperer, Sync (Jerome Harris, @Ned.Rothenberg, Samir Chatterjee) via the artists, Harrison Birtwistle by @MitoSettembreMusica, Morton Feldman via @ModeRecordsInc.

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Sunday night we eavesdrop on saxophonist Dave Liebman for his 80th birthday as he mingles with his key influences Coltrane and Miles, plus newer collaborators like Adam Rudolph and Tyshawn Sorey. We’ll stay with Sorey as he tackles one of *his* formative influences: Morton Feldman's Rothko Chapel, the subject of a 50th anniversary concert-length elaboration that Sorey has just recorded for the first time. Davor Vincze makes his Flotation Device debut while reflecting on war chaos, while Joseph Franklin does the same while channeling Sun Ra, Gunther Schuller and the AACM. Victoria Bond has a new album out, as does the cognominal duo of Gary Lucas and Lukas Ligeti. And Brandon Seabrook unveils two distinct and unusually-constituted quartets in his latest releases. Henry Kaiser continues the guitar theme in a duet with Jin Hi Kim, while a lighthearted reflection on ringtones by Anne-Sophie Mutter and Sebastian Currier rounds out the program.

Sunday, September 6, 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: Victoria Bond by Anna Abolgina, @Anne_Sophie_Mutter and @SebCurrier by Monika Höfler, @Dave_Liebman and @MilesDavis via Michael Lake, @DB.Vincze via Stanford University, Utility Modern (Rashaan Carter, @BrandonSeabr00k, @Bill.Frisell, Marcus Gilmore) by Frank Heath, Mark Rothko by Denisova Olesya Alexandrovna, Jin Hi Kim and Henry Kaiser via the artists, Tyshawn Sorey at @Rothko_Chapel by Elizabeth Conley, Joseph Franklin by Shannon May Powell.

With @Airrrcuh, Elias Stemeseder, @Henry__Fraser, @RomanPatkolo, @Matt_Vashlishan, @AlexJRitz, @HIIIT_music, @NielsMeliefste, @FlorZuloaga, Kim Kashkashian, Sarah Rothenberg, Steven Schick, Davóne Tines, @HoustonChamberChoir, @TomGelissen, @Owen.Mulholland.music and @Aaron_Nevezie on @ColumbiaRecords, @CuneiformRecords, @NeumaRecords, @Kairos_HNE, @Alpha_Classics, @DotTimeRecords, @NewFocusRecordings, @PyroclasticRecords, @Dacamera_Editions, @OutOfYourHeadRecords and @MetaRecordsLabel.

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