Catch up on the latest in radical music, with Mark Dresser, Brooks Williams, Max Andrzejewski, Fabien Lévy, Alex Paxton, Ingrid Laubrock and Jakob Bro among the featured artists. Adam Rudolph connects with a pair of Miles Davis alums for a mixed electroacoustic outing, while Fred Frith joins with Norman Teale to remix Cosa Brava recordings. Anna Rubin dusts off the recitation song genre while the JACK Quartet goes minimalist in Austin Wulliman’s new portrait album. We pay our respects to avant-accordionist Guy Klucevsek and Fluxus veteran Yasunao Tone, and celebrate the 50th anniversaries of epic fixed-media works by Toshi Ichiyanagi and Bernard Parmegiani. A segment devoted to compositions by Finnish women, including the late Kaija Saariaho, rounds out the proceedings. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, from KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma.
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Flotation Device 2025-06-01: Annotated playlist by host Michael Schell
Intro and SET 1: Toward you who are so far away [0:00]
1. [1:44] Austin Wulliman: The Late Edition. From Escape Rites (Sono Luminus, 2025) with JACK Quartet: Austin Wulliman, Christopher Otto (violins), John Pickford Richards (viola), Jay Campbell (cello), Ryan Streber (recording engineer, Oktaven Audio)
2. [9:43] Cosa Brava: Genevial. From Z Sides (Klanggalerie, 2024) with Fred Frith (guitar, bass guitar, voice), Carla Kihlstedt (violin, voice), Zeena Parkins (keyboards, voice), Shahzad Ismaily (bass guitar), Matthias Bossi (drums, voice), Norman Teale AKA The Norman Conquest (creative live sound)
3. [12:03] Fabien Lévy: À propos - 1. Les automates intimes de Tim Hawkinson. From De l’art d’induire en erreur (Kairos, 2025) with Ensemble Recherche: Martin Fahlenbock (flute), Shizuyo Oka (clarinet), Melise Mellinger (violin), Åsa Åkerberg (cello), Klaus Steffes-Holländer (piano). NOTE: Composed 2008, premiere recording
4. [16:22] Adam Rudolph, Dave Liebman, Billy Hart: Transparent to Transcendence. From Beingness (Meta/Defkaz, 2025) with Dave Liebman (soprano saxophone), Adam Rudolph (keyboards, live electronic processing, percussion), Billy Hart (drum set), Edward Gavitt (recording engineer), James Dellatacoma (mastering)
5. [23:03] Kaija Saariaho: Vers toi qui es si loin. From Circle Map et al (BIS, 2019) with Peter Herresthal (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Clément Mao-Takacs (conductor). NOTE: 2017 arrangement of the final aria from L'Amour de loin (2000)
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SET 2: On the nature of sound, the world and AI [29:47]
1. [33:41] Maija Hynninen: …sicut aurora procedit (excerpts). From Dawn Breaks (Ravello, 2019) with Mirka Malmi (violin), Maija Hynninen (electronics, recording engineer)
2. [38:33] Anna Rubin: Powehi: The Darkest Heart of the Galaxy (excerpts). From Powehi (Neuma, 2025) with Pamela Fields (actor), Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, Cynthia Raim (pianos), Alan Wonneberger (recording engineer)
3. [45:34] Bernard Parmegiani: De natura sonorum - Deuxième Série: Pleins et déliés. From L'œuvre musicale (INA-GRM, 2008). NOTE: Realized 1975, premiered June 3, 1975 at Salle Wagram, Paris
4. [49:51] Bernard Parmegiani: De natura sonorum - Première Série: Conjugaison du timbre. From L'œuvre musicale (credits as above)
5. [54:47] Brooks Williams: A Veil Upon This World. From Abstract Art (Harmonic Ranch, 2024) with Brooks Williams (AI modelled instruments Ableton Live, Pro Tools, VCV Rack)
6. [57:54] Outro with Yasunao Tone: AI Deviation #2
7. [1:02:03] Toshi Ichiyanagi: The World (excerpts). From Oto no Hajimari wo Motomete Vol. 12: The World (Sound3, 2023). NOTE: Realized 1975 at NHK Electronic Music Studio, premiered June 1975 via broadcast by NHK, Japan. For more on Ichiyanagi see https://www.secondinversion.org/2018/11/01/eye-music-revives-a-memento-of-1960s-openness/
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SET 3: New and noisy [1:11:42]
1. [1:13:19] Jakob Bro: Osgood, Tutti. From New Morning (Loveland, 2025) with Jakob Bro Large Ensemble: Jakob Bro (guitar), Andrew D’Angelo (alto saxophone, bass clarinet), Jesper Zeuthen (alto saxophone), Bill McHenry (tenor saxophone), Søren Kjærgaard (piano), Adi Zukanovic (keyboards), Jeppe Skovbakke (electric bass), Anders Christensen, Matthias Petri (double basses), Kresten Osgood, Jakob Høyer (drums), Thomas Vang (recording engineer, The Village Recording)
2. [1:22:33] Mark Dresser, Jon Rose: Bandwidth 1. From Band Width (Relative Pitch, 2024) with Jon Rose (violin, tenor violin), Mark Dresser (double basses)
3. [1:29:34] Max Andrzejewski: Schwarm II. From Summen (SN Variations, 2025) with Max Andrzejewski (drums, vibraphone, percussion), Ensemble Resonanz: Barbara Bultmann, Swantje Tessmann (violins), Justin Caulley (viola), Lea Tessmann (cello), Jeremy Nothman (recording engineer)
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SET 4: Guy Klucevsek (1947–2025) [1:34:16]
1. [1:36:59] Alex Paxton: Dadd's Fairies. From Delicious (New Amsterdam, 2025) with Explore Ensemble, Alex Paxton (recording engineer)
2. [1:41:36] Ingrid Laubrock: Koan 10. From Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic, 2025) with Theo Bleckmann (voice), Ben Monder (guitar), Ryan Streber (recording engineer, Oktaven Audio)
3. [1:43:39] Lukas Foss: Curriculum Vitae. From Music by Lukas Foss (CRI, 1980, reissued 2010 by New World as Curriculum Vitae) with Guy Klucevsek (accordion), Richard Borgersen (recording engineer). NOTE: Composed 1977
4. [1:51:24] Outro with Guy Klucevsek: Tremolo No. 6 Nucleic Chains (with Pauline Oliveros)
Photo credits: Mark Dresser by Alessandro D'Amico, Beingness (Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, Billy Hart) by Caris Liebman, Fabien Lévy by Jenny Wolf, Alex Paxton by Jess Rose, Pauline Oliveros and Guy Klucevsek via the artists, Jakob Bro by Luciano Rossetti, Ingrid Laubrock by Helmut Berns, Toshi Ichiyanagi via Metason.net, Maija Hynninen via the artist, Yasunao Tone by Chris Buck, Anna Rubin via the artist, Austin Wullimen by Anneliese Varaldiev, Kaija Saariaho by Maarit Kytöharju