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 on 11/19/12

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2012 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature on 11/12/12

Airs at: Mon, 11/12/2012 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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ELIOT CARTER (Dec 11, 1908- Nov 5, 2012) - HENRY COWELL (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965)- LOU HARRISON (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003)- 3 monster figures in the early Avant garde- Composers who broke all tradition in form and style and thereby changed the world of compo... Read more

A Different Nature on 11/05/12

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2012 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Tonight on A Different Nature: Javanese and American music for Gamelan.  Mostly contemporary compositions, including pieces from Pauline Oliveros and Lou Harrison.   Portland-based Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan will be performing at Lewis and Clark College this coming... Read more

A Different Nature on 10/29/12

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2012 at 8:00pm - Tue, 10/30/2012 at 12:00am
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Tune in this Monday evening (Oct. 29) from 8:00 pm until 12 midnight for an extended installment of "A Different Nature", as the collective brings you their annual Dia de los Muertos show. ADN founding host Richard Francis was heavily into celebrating Dia de los Muertos d... Read more

A Different Nature on 10/22/12

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2012 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature on 10/15/12

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2012 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Tonight on A Different Nature we mostly focus on DANCE music.. No, this will not be a beat-thudding techno-disco show, but instead we'll delve into experimental and avant garde music composed specifically for contemporary ballet and modern dance, as well as other musical wo... Read more

A Different Nature on 10/08/12

Airs at: Mon, 10/08/2012 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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On this episode of A Different Nature, who'll explore artists and pieces that best exemplify the manipulation of found sound via magnetic tape. Tape Manipulation distinguishes itself from similar genres involving magnetic tape such as Tape Music, Musique Concrete or Electro-... Read more

A Different Nature on 10/01/12

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2012 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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On A Different Nature: Spontaneous Music Ensemble "Eighty-Five Minutes"                                     Concert Improvisations, 1974 John Stevens Derek Bailey Kent Carter Evan Paker Trevor Watts                                        "The Topography of the Lungs", 1971 E... Read more

A Different Nature on 10/01/12

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2012 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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A Different Nature on 09/24/12

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2012 at 7:00pm - 11:00pm
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   John Cage (1912-1992) was  perhaps, the greatest music radical of the 20th century. He composed using chance procedures. His music honored silence along with sound. He made no distinction between traditional musical sounds and what some call noise. He embraced, rather th... Read more