Earth Day Dreaming is a seven-hour instrumental soundscape inspired by the natural world. We’ll hear environmental sounds turned into music, and compositions that evoke those natural scenes.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes – Earth Day Dreaming
Tag: synthesizer
Playlists
Friday April 22nd, 2016-Echoes Program 1616E
On this Earth Day, we create a soundscape born from the planet, inspired by the riches of this earth that we seem so intent on destroying.
Playlists
Friday, April 15th, 2016-Echoes Program 1615E
We’ll listen to one of the seminal albums of 70s electronic music, Klaus Schulze’s 1976 album, Moondawn.
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears 2016
Drones, lconic alt-rock group out of depth. More drones. Charming elders of the old vanguard. A master of pink noise and symphonic expanse. Drones. Celtic aires. Gothic metal. Only at the 2016 Big Ears Festival.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Walking the Labyrinth
Six hours of continuous instrumental music that navigates geometric pathways, on a journey to deep contemplation. It includes music from The Cavern of Anti-Matter, Vic Hennegan, Neuronium, Patrick O’Hearn, Liz Story, Oregon and many others.
Reviews & Commentary
Hearing Aids for Big Ears 2016: Interviews with 7 Performers
We hear features from 7 of the performers at Big Ears 2015 including Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Max Richter, William Tyler, Silver Apples, and Bill Frisell.
Interview Podcast
Big Ears Festival 2016 in the Echoes Podcast
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Big Ears is one of the most expansive, eclectic and challenging music festivals in the world. In downtown Knoxville Tennessee, musicians from around the world and across genres convene in concerts that test the limits of sound and music.
Playlists
Friday, March 25th, 2016-Echoes Program 1612E
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new ambient music by Tom Eaton, a producer and engineer, who goes to the other side of the glass for his album Abendromen. We’ll also hear from Vic Hennegan’s Space & Shadows.
Interview Podcast
Cavern of Anti-Matter in the Echoes Podcast
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Cavern of Anti-Matter is a group steeped in analog synthesizers and worships at the electronic altar of 70s German groups like Neu! Harmonia, Cluster and Can. We talk to band leader Tim Gane about plugging in to the sound of his youth.
Playlists
Weekend, March 19 & 20, 2016-Echoes Program 1611A
Tim Gane was a founding member of the post-rock group, Stereolab who were underground darlings for the better part of 25 years.