Sound Perimeter

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...

Today's Sound Perimeter features two pieces inspired by oranges, both the fruit itself and the color it embodies.

Tonight, Sept. 22, 2025, at 6 p.m., we gather at the Fayetteville Public Library’s Walker Community Room for Borderless Sound: Latin American Composers and the World Stage, a live edition of Sound Perimeter in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Piazzolla bending tango toward the future, Gabriela Ortiz dissolving categories with conviction, and Angelica Negrón inviting us to move freely withou...

Today's Sound Perimeter, Postcard from Mexico City, written as host Lia Uribe's present to you, after a short visit to Mexico this past week. Listen across three vibrant voices: Guadalupe Perales ’ Intertwined: Color Changes for bassoon duo, Nubia Jaime Donjuan ’s danzón Frida, and Andrea Sarahi’ s “Piece for Bassoon Solo” from Calladita: Five Pieces About Violence. Lines crossed, colors shifted,...

Today, Sound Perimeter was inspired by cats—curious, sly, playful, and full of personality. We met Prokofiev’s clarinet cat in "Peter and the Wolf," smiled at Rossini’s comic duet of meowing singers, and closed with the fiery pasodoble from Penella’s "El Gato Montés."

Today's Sound Perimeter includes two journeys of motion and momentum: Gity Razaz’s 'The Strange Highway', racing forward with eight cellos like headlights through shifting landscapes; then a cello quartet in Carlos Gardel’s “Por una cabeza” leaning into tango’s sway, where a heartbeat rhythm meets a bittersweet tune. Together, they reveal the cello’s range, choral and intimate, resonant and lyrica...

Rain is the guiding theme today, a symbol of reflection, renewal and emotional depth. Whether through the gentle resonance of Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch or the steady, meditative pulse of Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude , rain becomes more than weather. It becomes metaphor that invites us to slow down, listen inward and find beauty in both stillness and storm.