The Tonic

Luke Fraser presents Episode 17 of The Tonic, featuring both new and classic instrumental and electronic music with a special focus on Canada, Germany and the US. With music by Christina Kubisch, Michael Oesterle, Ana Sokolović, John Luther Adams, Nicole Lizée, James Tenney, Jocelyn Morlock and Henry Cowell. The featured image shows Black Hole Horizon (2020), an audiovisual installation by Swiss-G...

Episode 16 of The Tonic features both new and classic instrumental and electronic music from South Korea, South Africa, Italy, Germany, Norway, France, Belgium, the UK and the USA. With pieces by Giacinto Scelsi, Moniek Darge, Howard Skempton, Ruth Anderson, Kevin Volans, Maja SK Ratkje, Gérard Grisey, Eva-Maria Houben and Unsuk Chin. The featured image shows Risonanti pressioni materiche (2014),...

The Tonic returns for 2020 with a show featuring evocative modern instrumental and electronic classical music from Romania, Moravia, Iceland, Argentina, USA and France. With music by Maurice Duruflé, Anna Thorsvalsdottir, Jessie Montgomery, George Enescu, Molly Joyce, Jean-Claude Risset, Beatriz Ferreyra and Leoš Janáček. The featured image shows Ad lib. - a sound installation by the Italian artis...

Electroacoustic orchestras, the sound of pure data and some gorgeous organ music are featured in this month’s episode of The Tonic - hosted by Luke Fraser, with modern classical music originating from Puerto Rico, Japan, Russia, Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, USA and the UK. Featuring music by Miroslav Raichl, Gabriella Frank, Maria de Alvear, Ryoji Ikeda, Dobrinka Tabakova, George Walker, Angélica...

In this latest episode of The Tonic, Luke Fraser explores instrumental and electronic classical music from Georgia, Latvia, Bulgaria and Brazil. Featuring work by Giya Kancheli, Annea Lockwood, Phil Harmonic, Jocy De Oliveira, The Bulgarian State Television Female Choir, Miriam Gideon, Pēteris Vasks, William Walton and Matthew Wright.

In the latest episode of The Tonic, Luke Fraser presents recent and ravishing classics by Canadian composers Linda Caitlin Smith and Cassandra Miller, alongside the innovative turntabalism of Christian Marclay and the previously lost music of the African-American performative polymath and sociopolitical provocateur Julius Eastman. And you can experience sounds unwittingly produced by yourself - fr...

Luke Fraser hosts the 4th and final part of The Tonic’s US Retrospective, featuring both recent and classic instrumental and electronic works by Pamela Z, Alvin Lucier, Tania León, George Crumb, Reena Esmail, David Skidmore, Eve Beglarian, Emma Lou Diemer and Glen Kotche.

Luke Fraser presents Part 3 of The Tonic’s US Retrospective, featuring a series of instrumental and electronic gems from Joan Tower, La Monte Young, Maria Schneider, David Behrman, Jennifer Higdon, Steve Reich, Missy Mazzoli, Gordon Mumma and Julia Wolfe.

Part 2 of The Tonic’s US Retrospective features music by Caroline Shaw, Philip Glass, Florence Price, David Tudor, Margaret Bonds, Curtis Roads, Libby Larsen and John Cage.

The thumbnail shows the Rothko Chapel in Houston, TX - setting for Morton Feldman’s classic piece of the same name, opening Part 1 of The Tonic’s US retrospective. Featuring music by Johanna Beyer, Robert Ashley, Amy Beach, Lou Harrison, Undine Smith Moore, Charles Ives and William Basinski.

The Tonic packs its bags for Denmark, Greece and the Netherlands for its latest episode, featuring acoustic and electronic gems from Per Nørgård, Else Marie Pade, Georges Aperghis, Iannis Xenakis, Jan Boerman, Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Ton de Leeuw and Michel Van der Aa.

The Tonic moves between the Baltic, Italy and the UK for its latest episode - featuring both classic and lesser-known pieces by Ēriks Ešenvalds, Ekki-Sven Tüür, Arvo Pärt, Teresa Rampazzi, Salvatore Sciarrino, Carlo Domeniconi, Morfydd Owen, Elisabeth Lutyens and Gustav Holst.

The Tonic returns in a new home on Threads Radio , this month exploring the process-driven music of Tom Johnson, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Conlon Nancarrow, Hanna Hartman, Mark Fell and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Moving between NY and France, The Tonic explores classic instrumental, vocal and electronic music by Joan La Barbara, Morton Subotnick, Lili Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez.

The Tonic returns, featuring music from Germaine Tailleferre, Steve Martland, an astonishing electronic piece from Pauline Oliveros, and an ethereal late classic by Morton Feldman.

The Tonic returns to 199radio , featuring two milestones of electroacoustic music, probably the earliest ever piece of composed (and recorded) electronic music, and some mind / soul-bending pieces for strings.

In a new show on 199 Radio (Now Threads FM), Luke Fraser trawls through the archives of 20th and 21st Century instrumental and electronic classical music to present pieces ranging from the weird to the wonderful. The first episode features pieces by Louis Andriessen, Laurie Spiegel, Éliane Radigue, Andrew Hamilton, Dimitri Shostakovich, György Ligeti and Ximo Cano,