Sound Perimeter

Lia Uribe explores two visionary Brazilian women, Vânia Dantas Leite and Bianca Gismonti, whose music blends tradition and experimentation into deeply personal worlds.

Lia Uribe explores two contemporary works shaped by memory: Ingrid Stölzel’s “A Thought Went Up My Mind Today,” which borrows from Poulenc, and Carlos Simon’s “Amen!”

In today's Sound Perimeter, we listen to Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's September: Am Flusse and Tonada de Otoño by Damián Sánchez, pieces reflecting on time, memory and the places we carry with us.

In today’s Sound Perimeter, we listen to Arizona composer Kira Zeeman Rugen and her piece Atmosphere, and Mexican composer Juan Pablo Contreras with Mariachitlán, pieces about place, about what it means to arrive somewhere new, to carry the places we have known with us, and to slowly begin to feel connected to somewhere else.

In today’s Sound Perimeter, we reflected on saudade, that beautiful Brazilian word with no perfect translation through the music of Egberto Gismonti and Antônio Carlos Jobim, and the beautiful interpretations of the Bianca Gismonti Trio and Eliane Elias.

Today's Sound Perimeter explores Jupiter through music.  "Although the planet often evokes grandeur, today's musical journey was surprisingly intimate. Through the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Mario Salvador, we heard music that was gracious and contemplative, with moments of quiet nostalgia and subtle emotional tension, offering, I hope, a quiet but meaningful pause in your day." - Host,...

Today's Sound Perimeter celebrates the Fourth of July through the music of two remarkable American women composers. Nkeiru Okoye 's "Voices Shouting Out", written in the aftermath of September 11, reminded us that even in moments of profound loss, music can become a voice of resilience, hope and collective resolve. Jessie Montgomery 's "Banner" invited us to hear our national anthem in a new way....

Today's Sound Perimeter features two works by Canadian composers: "The Bessborough Hotel" by Nicole Lizée and "Pièce pour violon et clarinette" by Claude Vivier. While these pieces sound very different from one another, both composers invite us into imaginative and unexpected musical worlds. Lizée draws on ghost stories, popular culture, and technology, while Vivier explores color, mystery and the...

Sound Perimeter from Lia Uribe is dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. Today, we listen to the music of two contemporary composers: Clarice Assad and Gabriela Lena Frank, brought together under the idea of Heroines, women whose music moves fearlessly across cultures and traditions with imagination, honesty, and vitality.

Today's Sound Perimeter features "The Currents" by Sarah Kirkland Snider (performed by Irene Kim ) and "Árbakkinn" by Ólafur Arnalds , two pieces connected by a sense of flow and quiet introspection. Both explore what moves beneath the surface, but in different ways: Snider through the intimacy of solo piano, Arnalds through a blend of acoustic sound and technology that feels more atmospheric and...

Today's Sound Perimeter listens across distance: two composers, both born in 1946, two different worlds. Vladimir Martynov and Mary Lou Williams arrive at the sacred from very different paths. Martynov through stillness, through a sound that unfolds like breath, rooted in chant and contemplation. Williams through voice and rhythm, through jazz, blues, and gospel carried into a liturgical space.  D...

A note from host Lia Uribe:  "Today on Sound Perimeter, Listening for Rain, I found myself drawn to   something simple and familiar: rain. We hear it arrive in different ways: as shifting patterns and playful color in Australian composer Elena Kats - Chernin’s piano duet 'The Rain Puzzle', and as something inward and heavy - hearted in Randy Newman’s 'I Think It ’ s Gonna Rain Today'. One piece le...

Today on Sound Perimeter, we are thinking about butterflies, those fleeting flashes of color that feel more like memories than things you can hold. They show up without warning, linger just long enough to catch your breath, and disappear, leaving an impression rather than a trace. That sense of ephemerality, of beauty that sharpens our attention because it won’t stay, is the thread that connected...

Today's Sound Perimeter features excerpts from "Nightscape" and "No-Man’s-Land Lullaby", both written by Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga , works that linger at the edge of place and memory, where atmosphere gives way to deeper histories carried quietly in sound.  Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe (@Lia Uribe) and dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. We hope it’ll ex...

Pianist Gabriela Montero and salsa legend Willie Colón share a stage on Sound Perimeter — two artists from different worlds united by presence, improvisation, and music as a vehicle for truth.

Today's Sound Perimeter explores change, how it happens inside the music and around it. We begin with Philip Glass's Metamorphosis I, where repeating patterns shift so gradually you almost don't notice until the whole atmosphere feels different. Performed by pianist Lisa Moore . Then we turn to Terri Lyne Carrington and a spacious performance of her piece "Unconditional Love." Terri Lyne Carringto...

Today's Sound Perimeter spends time with two bassoon pieces that have stayed close to host Lia Uribe over the years. Music holding memory, shifting shape and meeting us differently each time we return to it. Past and present, coexisting.  Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe (@Lia Uribe) and dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and con...

Today's Sound Perimeter features two pieces of music, one by French composer Gabriel Fauré, and the other by American composer Meredith Monk .  Host Lia Uribe says, "I chose these works because, lately, I’ve been turning tomusic for solace as we move through this present moment. Not necessarily to understand it, maybe just to sit with it, to hold space. "For me, these pieces create a shared space...

Today's Sound Perimeter features Metacosmos by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir , a contemporary piece inspired by the idea of crossing into unfamiliar territory, taking listeners inside a universe where forces are felt more than explained. We then turn to Venus, the Bringer of Peace from The Planets by Gustav Holst, where the cosmos becomes a place of reflection rather than fear, imagining Venus as a planet...

Today's Sound Perimeter listens to two different versions of “Motherless Child”, one by Jubilant Sykes , and the other by Cécile McLorin Salvant . Each rendition holds the same spiritual at its center, yet each opens a distinct emotional world. Sykes offers the song with warmth, grace, and a sense of outward offering, shaped by movement, conversation, and color. Salvant, in contrast, brings an int...

Today's Sound Perimeter explores two very different meditations on stillness and motion. Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, performed by Anne Akiko Meyers and Akira Eguchi, takes us into a space of quiet tension and spacious introspection, where repetition becomes a form of listening. And Hiromi Uehara ’s Green Tea Farm, from a 2006 solo performance, offers another kind of reflection, rooted perhaps in memory o...

Today's Sound Perimeter steps into winter through three very different musical moods. We began with Thea Musgrave’s "A Winter’s Morning", a quiet, atmospheric setting of a Robert Burns poem that captures the sting of cold air and the stillness of a snowy dawn. Then we moved into Tchaikovsky’s magical world with the "Adagio and Waltz of the Snowflakes" from "The Nutcracker", where snowfall becomes...

From meadow to rainforest to dreamscape, three composers in today's Sound Perimeter invite us to hear the world in new ways. Ottorino Respighi captured the bright call of the cuckoo in an Italian morning, turning nature’s voice into playful melody. Annea Lockwood led us deep into the Amazon night, where the forest itself seemed to breathe through sound and imagination. And finally, Kaija Saariaho,...

Today's Sound Perimeter presents two pieces that reflect one another across time: Frédéric Chopin’s Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4, and Caroline Shaw’s Gustave Le Gray , which reimagines and reframes Chopin’s melody through a contemporary lens. Both works explore the delicate space between reflection and reinvention where   memory becomes music, and the past lingers, reshaped, in the present. So...

Today's Sound Perimeter includes two remarkable works: Ariel Ramírez’s Misa Criolla , where the traditional Catholic Mass meets the rhythms and melodies of Argentina, and Aldemaro   Romero’s Fuga con Pájara Pinta Bimodal , where Baroque counterpoint dances with Venezuelan folk energy. Both composers remind us how Latin America has reimagined European traditions, transforming them into something vi...