Sonosphere

Interview with Ryan and Gibby of Dais Records followed by a playlist. Tracklist: 2:45 Ragnar Grippe - Sand Part 1 30:02 Tor Lundvall - Hiding 32:56 Coil - 7-Methoxy-β-Carboline: (Telepathine) 55:49  GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE & Thee Early Worm - Rather Hard to Libel 57:22 Choir Boy - Sunday Light 1:01:29 YOU - Feral 1:05:26 Psychic TV - Papal Breakdance 1:11:37 Annabelle's Garden - If 1:16:37 Youth...

This month Sonosphere teams up with the Rock 'n' Soul Museum and the Memphis Musicology podcast to bring you 60 years of Royal Studios. We visit with co-owner and music producer Boo Mitchell on a tour of Royal Studios in South Memphis. Come celebrate with Boo and the Mitchell family at the Levitt Shell on October 14th featuring local, regional and national artists and November 18th for the grand f...

Welcome to Press Play, a monthly interview and mixtape from record labels, musicians, and bands from around the globe and in our own backyard! This month's Press Play mixtape comes from a Toronto-based label called Adhesive Sounds (A/S). Sonosphere connected with A/S creator, Kel. When did you create Adhesive Sounds? The winter of 2014 was a time when I was basically housebound with an illness. I...

A recap of Continuum Music Festival that happened in Memphis, TN August 3-5, 2017. Enjoy!

On June 24th and 25th of 2017 an interesting experimental electronic music fest descended upon the MidSouth with artists primarily from Memphis, Mississippi, and the southeast. "I wanted to take electronic music back to its roots," said creator Robert Traxler. His inception for the fest came from the experimental spirit of the original electronic music artists like Delia Derbyshire, Karlheinz Stoc...

In this special, bonus episode of Sonosphere, we present An Evening with Wu Fei in collaboration with Crosstown Arts. This is Fei's live performance at the Crosstown Arts gallery on Cleveland Street in Memphis, TN on June 30, 2017. The intimate space lent itself to an interactive performance between the audience and Wu Fei, as she showcases what the guzheng can do through its thousand-year history...

This episode of Sonosphere takes a look at the life and work of composer Pauline Oliveros through the eyes and ears of those who worked with her and learned from her. We spoke with Claire Chase, Wu Fei, Monique Buzzarte, Tara Rodgers, and Kerry O'Brien about how Pauline touched their lives personally and professionally, and how her legacy shaped the musical world of today. sonospherepodcast.com WY...

Sonosphere goes to Knoxville's Big Ears Fest. Today you'll hear our experience at one of the most anticipated cultural events in the world. We’ll hear from composers Anna Meredith, Colleen, Wu Fei, Frode Haltli, Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, and Andy Bliss & Kerry O’Brien of Neif Norf about their performance and experience at Big Ears.

Last year Sonosphere visited Marfa, Texas for the Marfa Myths music festival created by Mexican Summer and Ballroom Marfa. Now in its fourth year, Marfa Myths has grown to a three day fest with hundreds of individuals from around the country in attendance. This year's festival is upon us, so let's travel back in time to Marfa Myths 2016 during a two-day wind storm, where I talk with sound artist M...

On two consecutive nights in April 2016, the first mellotron duet concert took place in a packed Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN. Robby Grant and Jonathan Kirkscey played Mellotrons provided by collector Winston Eggleston. After Winston finished building his own Mellotron, Robby was invited over to test it out and the idea for the World’s first duet for mellotron concert was born. We interviewed Rob...

Welcome to Sonosphere the podcast that explores the sounds all around us; in art and music movements through history. This is part 5 of our Birth of Modern Music Series on European composers of the early 20th century from the atonal compositions of Austria’s Schoenberg to the realization of total serialism of Olivier Messiaen we continue our coverage with German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and...

Welcome back to Sonosphere's Birth of Modern Music series featuring modern European, classical composers that inspired the experimental, avant garde art and music scenes of the 50s, 60s and resonate in music composition today. Today we will delve into the life and works of Olivier Messiaen. Messiaen escaped the world of composition’s shift to serialism through religion, nature, and birdsong, but h...

Welcome to Sonosphere! This month's episode features Zac Ives co-founder and co-owner of Goner Records, Natalie Hoffman of NOTS, Chris Shaw of Ex-cult and JB Horrell of Ex-Cult and Aquarian Blood to bring you a Goner Fest 2016 Special Edition. Thanks to the Goner family and Memphis musicians for sharing their passion! Goner Fest 13 is this weekend starting tonight, Wednesday September 28, 2016 at...

Today we will talk about French composer Edgard Varese, often described as the “Father of Electronic Music.” Varese had a huge influence on John Cage and many other avant grade American artists in the 40s and 50s. Cage said of Varese, he “fathered forth noise,” which “makes him more relative to the present musical necessity than even the Viennese masters.” Check out the playlist accompanying this...

The ultimate "underground" modernist artist in Paris, Satie didn't get a lot of credit when he was alive for his work. He was largely forgotten until John Cage found his Vexations composition fifty years after his death. His music "did not resolve as it should according to tonal laws" says our guest Dr. Caroline Potter. She talks with us about how Satie broke from Parisian tradition and led an ava...

This episode is the first in a series of European composers who started a change in music - paving the way for avant-garde and disruptive sounds from the classical minimalist genre, to punk and rock and roll we hear today. We’ll start with Arnold Schoenberg, an Austrian composer who mapped out the coming modernist era. Schoenberg created new methods of musical composition involving atonality, seri...

This episode is an introduction to our series on the Birth of Modern Music. It will highlight radical dissonance in Western classical compositions. We will individually describe the work and influence of Arnold Schoenberg, Erik Satie, Edgard Varese, Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. They were powerhouses in the classical composition revolution at the turn of the 20th century a...

The mellotron is a keyboard instrument operating with magnetic tape loops invented in the early 1960s that revolutionized the way novice and professional musicians alike could manipulate sound by providing the instruments of a full orchestra at our fingertips. Today we will explore the history of the mellotron, how it rose in popularity and then faded out as digital technology took over. Tracks in...

This episode discusses the Italian Futurist movement, which explored the intersection of aggressive ideologies and abrasive sound production. This movement influenced noise music and avant-garde artists of today. It was also the first time art could showcase its relationship with power and how art can influence politics and power - that link between avant-garde art movements and politics presiding...

A Brief History of Noise Music by Sonosphere Podcast