A Different Nature: Coda

We present part three (the grand finale) of November's Art Ensemble of Chicago tribute. Tonight features four hours and forty years of "Great Black Music, Ancient to Future" with Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Famadou Don Moye, Malachi Favors Maghostus, and Lester Bowie. F... Read more

Our three-part tribute to the Art Ensemble of Chicago continues with an extra hour of the orchestral music of saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell. A perfect mixture of “jazz” improvisations and “chance” compositions, we will hear large orchestral pieces of music.  And stay tuned on... Read more

A birthday salute to electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick (ninety years young). Using analog signal modules (little boxes, lots of wires) Subotnick created an epic array of cool, dry, and sympatico synthesizer pieces with lovely names (Silver Apples of the Moon, Four B... Read more

You know what’s great about water? It sounds fantastic. You love hearing rain, streams, water over mossy stones, the spume of sweet ocean surf. Why not kick back this evening and listen to all these amazing forms of precipitous riverine sound. Bonus: we have geysers! We hav... Read more

ADN presents a tribute to the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.  Though little known in the U.S. she was greatly admired in Europe for short chamber pieces and song cycles. We will play one full hour of various lovely pieces for flute, harp, female chorus, and samplers.... Read more

KBOO kicks off Black History Month with a special featuring extended orchestral compositions by four extraordinary jazz musicians: the “Ptah and Mantra” songs by Alice Coltrane, “Afrika Rising” by Nicole Mitchell and the Black Earth Ensemble, “Occupy the World for Life, Lib... Read more

You'll recall that John Cage shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die (“five to the heart, saving one bullet for the Buddah”). This anecdote and dozens more, equally non-existent, can be heard on the world premiere of INTERMINACY, the new text-sound piece written by Tom Dj... Read more

ADN: Coda presents The Night of the Slightly Noisier Than Usual Show It'll be dark, it'll be edgy, it'll be two hours of industrial, crazed slabs of malevolent music that will be, yes, slightly noisier than usual. Listen if you're still up! Read more

UN PEUX PLUS DE RADIO Or: The Return of the Velvet Gentleman.   Ce soir on mettra en vedette la musique du doux excentrique, M. Erik Satie. Les Embryons Desséchés, Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire, Trois Sonneries de la Rose-Croix, Aperçus Désagréables, et plus. Écoute, L... Read more

Tonight is dedicated to the late artist and music inventor Tom Nunn. Nunn built dozens of his own music instruments (the Crustacean, the Skatchit, the Crab, the T-Rodimba, The North Star, the Sonoglyph) and improvised with whimsical aplomb. Rare music this evening. Read more