Sonarchy Radio Episodes

The Bran Flakes

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Otis Fodder and Mildred Pitt bring all the happiness and all the tears with their brain-bending commitment to the sampler and the records that feed it.

Graham Haynes & Broken Sound Barrier

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A Sonarchy archive performance from 2002 featuring Graham on coronet and processing, Kevin Sawka on drums and electronics, and Schzad Ismaily on electric bass. A fascinating adaptation of jungle and drum & bass into a live performance setting by this highly creative trio.

Eric Verlinde & Steve Kindler

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Freely improvised music from two masters of their instruments, with Eric on piano and Steve on 6 and 9 string electric violins.

Carl Lierman

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Carl Lierman explores textures, tones and mass with analog electronics (modular synthesizer), and heavily layered and processed recordings and digital sound sources.

Poontet

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Original music with elements of psychedelic rock, jazz and funk, featuring Brad Gibson (drums and composition), Bryan Smith (alto sax), Scott Morning (trumpet), Ari Joshua (guitar), Gregg Belisle (guitar), and Jason Gray (bass).

Byron Au Yong Ensemble

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Employing fantastical storytelling with the goal of activating the audience's imagination, featuring Byron (erhu, voice), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), Tiffany Lin (piano, toy piano), and Paul Kikuchi (percussion).

Sidewinder

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Interstellar soul-jazz featuring James DeJoie (reeds, flute), Jim Knodle (trumpet), Ryan Berg (bass), Everett Sarono (guitar), and Dylan Savage (drums).

David Kwan

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Live electro-acoustic composition with materials from his Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation, followed by a piece developed from the creative reuse of the public airwaves.

Wah Wah Exit Wound

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Monster guitar, power bass, attack drums and dramatic tempo changes that are mysteriously dark and psychedelic. They write it and then they play it. Wah Wah Exit Wound is Dave Webb (guitar), Bowie Mclean (bass, vocals), and Warren Pease (drums).

Systemwide

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A Sonarchy Archive performance from 2003. Live dub transcending the sequencer from this Portland band.

Echore

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A new music duo inspired by the music heard beyond our shores. Esther Sugai and Michael Shannon play traditional Asian instruments, Indian harmonium, dilruba, found percussion, and field recordings.

Batholith

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Fusion-jazz meets prog-rock meets free-improvisation, featuring Stephen Thomas Cavit (drums), Dennis Rea (guitar), Ken Masters (baritone guitar), and Geoff Harper (bass).