Music With Space

On this weeks edition of Music With Space, we will be focusing on the works of the very prolific Dan Pound. Dan composes and produces ambient electronic, new age, world/shamanic, space-music soundscapes. Dan was classically trained on piano, guitar and double bass at an early age and started writing songs soon after. He went on to be in the local honor orchestra and was soon writing pieces for the entire ensemble. 

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8-4-2012 Juan Garces and Floyd Bledsoe

Live tonight in the Dr. Cosmo Memorial Studio here at WPRB, we will host Juan Garces and Floyd Bledsoe in there first ever live on air performance. Join us!

Nest week (8/11/2012) we will focus on the almbient, shamanic ambient space  music of Dan Pound.

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7-28-20112 Mort Garson - The Unexplained

Tonight we will be featuring the work of Mort Garson. Sadly Mort passed away back in 2008...so we will attempt to "channel" his spirit across the FM aetherwaves and transport you back to days when Syths were huge and poatch cables were numerous

Reminder: Next week we'll here live music from Juan Garces and Floyd Bledsoe.

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7-21-2012 - Joo Won Park and Bill Fieger

Joo Won Park performs live with toys, kitchenware, vegetables, umbrellas, and other non-musical objects by digitally processing their sounds. He also produces pieces made with with field recordings, sine waves, and any other sources that he can record or synthesize. He has studied in Berklee College of Music and the University of Florida, and currently serves as an assistant professor of music at the Community College of Philadelphia. Joo Won's music and writings are available on ICMC DVD, Spectrum Press, MIT Press, and PARMA recording. 

Bill Fieger is a name in the local Philadephia Experimental music scene. He creates music with anything from conventional synth's to custom created acoustic instruments. On this next weeks show, we will be playing an instrument contructed around the inards of a piano suspended on a custom frame. The strings are plucked, rubbed and excited to vibration by various implements chosen for their unique sound producing properties. Many will recognize Bill from his band Stares To Nowhere, his solo project Oblivious Solitude or his concert seriesEvent Horizon at The Rotunda in Philadephia, PA.

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7-14-2012 - Sleep...perchance to dream

Music to induce sleep this week...

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7-7-2012 Tangerine Dream

Your host was lucky enough to see Tangerine Dream this evening live in Philadelphia, PA before rushing up to Princeton, NJ to do this broadcast. The venue was changed a few days ago and, due to this, I was able to see the band in a NIGHTCLUB SETTING! Edgar Froese mentioned something about not having played in such a small venue since The Zodica Club in West Berlin's Kreizberg Quarter in 1968! Quite a treat to hear and quite a treat to meet and shake hands with the master Edgar Froese himself.

As a result, we'll be hearing Tangerine Dream interspersed with other music throughout the night.

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6-30-2012 Orbital Decay

I had the distinct pleasure of visiting with one the east coasts master electronic musicians, Terry Furber in his studio (looks like an analog synth museum!) this past weekend. He demoed some of his incredible collection for me, we discussed music and art and I even got to play around with his Moog 1P Modular (a rare treat!) While there, he was kind enough to provide me a stack of CD's

So, as a result, his week on Music With Space, we will be featuring the music of Orbital Decay. This duo conists of Terry on Synths and electronics and Scott Watkins on guitar and synths.  I've been listening to these works all week and am very excited to share them with you. Tune in tonight and begin your decent from orbit towards the earth with Orbital Decay.

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6-26-3023 Music With Space Recordings

Interesting news... We are toying with the idea of starting a net label with some free music and some for sale. It will revolve around performances recorded on the show...amongst other things that we find interesting. It will be called Music With Space Recordings.

We are gearing up to contact artists the might be interested in seeing their live performances on the air become available for free download, or...if they choose to sell it themselves, we will at a minimum, provide a link.

The first release is a commercial release featuring the duo Harrison McKay and Mike Hunter... recording live here on Music With Space in 2011. It is titled Phase1 and can be ordered here.

Stay Tuned!

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6-9-2012 Spotted Peccary

This weeks program is a focus on the Spotted Peccary label, including the latest release from Craig Padilla, Heart of the Soul.

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6-2-2012

In preparation for the Even Horizon Series show at 8pm at The Rotuna in Philadephia PA, we bring you Thadclar and Hunter & Harrison live on the program. Tune in for this double live set at midnight.

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5-5-2012 Broekhuis Keller & Schönwälder

Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder have been a solid base in the Electronic and “Berliner Schule” (Berlin School, in English)  style of music for years.  Inspired by Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, they have managed to develop their own style of Electronic Music with includes a health dose of Trance and Ambient. Beautiful sequences and driving drums with a wide variety of pads and astonishing sound effects on top, which can best be described as “the BK&S way of Electronic Music.”

Tune in this week for a astonishingly excellent live, on air, concert. TUne into 103.3FM in the NJ/PA area or listen online here.

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4-28-2012 Groupthink - Live on Music With Space

This week, Music With Space is featuring Groupthink, A duo comprised of Darren Bergstein & Edward Yuhas.

Groupthink mine a rich seam of improvised electroacoustic ambience & awry rhythmic pulsations via guitar, iPhone & laptop apps, myriad found objects, various percussives, samples, loops, and processing. Groupthink just realized their debut recording, "Of Microcosmic Origins", in March 2012 on the Periphery label. 

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4-21-2012 Wave World - Live on Music With Space

Wave World is a Dutch/Canadian multimedia project attracting quite a lot of attention for its fascinating music and enchanting shows. During live performances, their impressive music is blended with computer-generated graphics of a virtual world, projected on a huge screen.
Wave World's extraordinary music style can best be described as modern space music with dance influences. The enthralling shows carry the audience away to an alien world, that might exist in another time and another dimension.

Join us this week for a live, on-air performance on Music with Space and be sure to attend there live shows in the area at The Gatherings Concert Series on Saturday evening and Sunday at the Soundscapes Concert Series and to pick up their wonderfsul CD's and their amazing DVD

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4-7-2012 Onewayness, Ben Miller and Jason Sloan - Live at Event Horizon 

Tonight we will hear a live recording of Onewayness, Ben Miller and Jason Sloan from last weeks Event Horizon Series show at The Rotunda. 2hrs and 20min of great live music!

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3-21-2012 Onewayness

Onewayness is Adam Holquist, an experimental electronic musician from Erie, Pennsylvania. He uses hardware and software synths, spoken word and field recordings, and a variety of acoustic and electric instruments to create atmospheric compositions which draw influence from vintage Berlin-school electronic music, minimalism, post-rock, and contemporary electronic 'listening music'. Tune in to here Adam perform this evening after 1am.

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3-17-2012 Tim Motzer and J A Deane - Live on Air

Tonight's program will feature a live performance from Guitarist Tim Motzer and multi-instumentalist J A Deane. Dino J.A. Deane

J A Deane: Over his career multi-instrumentalist, sound-designer, conductor Dino J.A. Deane has demonstrated an innovative approach to the world of music. Deane pioneered the use of live-electronics & live-looping in Indoor Life a popular art/punk band from San Francisco during the early 1980's. There he played trombone controlled synthesizer that emulated the sound of an electric guitar. Soon afterwards he was touring the world as the electro-acoustic live-sampling percussionist with Jon Hassell.That collaboration resulted in the ground breaking Power Spot recording for ECM in 1986, produced by Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois. During that same period Deane became a close collaborator in Butch Morris's real-time composition creations called Conductions and in 1995 co-produced Morris's epic 10 CD box set Testament for New World Records. Deane coined the term live-sampling, which means to record members of the ensemble while in performance, manipulate the sound and play back the recorded audio as part of the piece, all in real time. He is considered a master in this field of performance. Deane also has an extensive background in sound-design for theater and dance working with writer directors as diverse as Sam Shepard, Julie Hebert and Christoph Marthaler. Deane is sought after by music festivals, instrumental ensembles, spoken word artists, theater companies and conservatories worldwide for performances, projects and workshops.

Tim Motzer: is a guitarist, composer, artist, remixer, music producer, and label owner. In the last 15 years, his music and guitar playing has made an impact in both the Philadelphia scenes and internationally—touring the world with poet Ursula Rucker for the last 11 years among others. His guitar work is featured on over 60 albums and remixes to date. His record label—1k Recordings—is focused on producing his own creative works and collaborations: Goldbug, Nucultures, Jazzheads (featuring Ari Hoenig), Secret Voices (featuring Ursula Rucker), Tilomo, Tim Motzer & Markus Reuter, Base 3, and more. He's recorded, collaborated, and performed with Les Nubians, Julien Lourau, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, King Britt, Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit (CAN), Kenny Lattimore, and Nine Horses (featuring David Sylvian and Steve Jansen). In 2005, he scored scenes for the original motion picture Miami Vice, and co-produced the critically acclaimed Ropeadope album 'King Britt presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan. He continues to be involved with film music (HBO's True Blood), and music for the world of dance (Group Motion, UArts). In September 2009, Tim was featured in Guitar Player Magazine. and again in April 2011 (with Markus Reuter). Motzer and his 1k label are profiled in the Spring 2011 edition of Progression Magazine. He co-founded—1k Sessions—a live in studio monthly webcast series from 1k Studios in Philadelphia in 2010.

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3-10-2012 NJFEA Preview - Live on Air Performances

Live in the studio tonight, we will be previewing two acts scheduled to appear on Saturday, Marth 10th at the New Jersey Festival of Electronic Arts .

Machine Eats Man aka,  Mohamed Ragab...coming to the USA al the way from Eygpt.

Analog & digital synthesizers , drum machines, sampling, programming & Theremin sounds take nothing away from a traditional making of pure electronic music & add to it the haunting sound of an army of Egyptian percussion instruments.

Machine Eat Man's shows usually feature stylish background visuals/video art, as well as different formations for live performance:

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Duality Perspective: Boston based Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) Electronic and Ambient duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Jason Felitto (bass, keyboards) and drummer/percussionist Kyle Ruggieri. Born out of their shared love of IDM Electronica, Duality Perspective combines organic and electronic instruments, live looping and improvisation layered with contemporary classical compositions to create a sound that is both uniquely varied yet strikingly their own.

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2-25-2012 - Music for Late Nights...

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2-18-2012 - Dean De Benedictis 

We''ll be focusing on the music of Dean De Benedictis tonight. Dean came by the studio with Vic Hennegan and each performed live solo sets as well as a set together. Dean was kind enough to record an addition live set specially for this program during his east coaust tour. This recording was a live improvisation which he recorded using his mobile studio outside in nature. 

Please tune in to hear this special, unique in time performance along with other selected studio works by Dean.

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2-11-2012 Music for the potential for Snow

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2-4-2012 Erratic Audio...

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1-28-2012 Kohoutek - Live

Formed in Washington DC in 2003, Philly-based experimental collective Kohoutek plays improvised psychedelia, ranging from unsettling, discordant noise to delicate melodies, inspired by such varied musical entities as Can, Amon Duul 2, Ash Ra Tempel, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Dead C, Skullflower, Sun City Girls, Hawkwind, This Heat, Sonic Youth, Bardo Pond, Ghost, Taj Mahal Travellers, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, and Van Der Graaf Generator. They inhabit a world where drone, musique concrete, and noise coalesces with cosmic folk, where doom and sludge metal merge with jazz-inflected polyrhythms. All Kohoutek performances are rituals channeling untapped energy transmogrified through pure expression and response to the immediate environment.

"Lossless Loss," their second studio album released on Prophase in 2009, covers most of the dynamic stylistic stylistic range Kohoutek is known for: abstract and textural sound, atmospheric rock, harsh noise freakouts, clattering percussion, guitar heroics, and alien electronics congealing to form a multihued psychedelic extravaganza. Recorded deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in September 2007, the five members embarked on a psilocybic twilight journey, and this 44-minute aural excursion is the result. No overdubs and minimal editing create an experience as close as possible to a Kohoutek performance. With longtime core members Scott Verrastro (percussion, flute), Craig Garrett (bass) and Scott Allison (electronics) augmented by Vic Salazar (electric guitar) and Damian Languell (vocals, harmonica, clarinet, didgeridoo, Space Echo), Kohoutek forge their own path in the improv universe, and "Lossless Loss" is another burning fragment of this fleeting sonic comet.

Please do tune in for what is sure to be a memorable performance.

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1-21-2012 Smite Matter and Technopolis Lost

Well be featuring tracks from the Smite Matter on the program tonight, specifically traks from the new CD titled Technopolis Lost.

We will also be hearing  tracks from Ian Boddy's recent release, on his own DiN label, titled Strange Attractors ...