A Curious Ear explores the unlikely connections between experimental, contemporary classical, ambient, noise, and other musics. The show airs at 11 pm, on the second Saturday of every month on WCNY-FM, as part of WCNY’s Tomorrow’s Choices Today. Archived episodes are hosted on MixCloud.
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On this month’s episode of A Curious Ear, we visit Ohio University, which held their inaugural CLICKFEST on Sept. 20th and 21st. We'll experience a sampling of the wide range of music presented at the festival and hear from the composers themselves as they talk about their work.
On this month’s episode of A Curious Ear, we explore very different sounding works for strings. ranging from the lush world of Alex Burtzos’s a moment of transition and Georgia Denham’s to gwen, with love to the sometimes harsh, sometimes intimate world of Scott Wollschleger’s Violain, and more.
On this month's episode of A Curious Ear, we explore the ability of synthesized sound to imitate, emulate, and interrupt the world of contemporary classical music. From a work written for “Cyborg Pianist” Zubin Kanga, inspired by a 16th century treatise on microtonal tuning to a pair of works for flute and electronics inspired by nature and a work created specifically for the midi sounds in notation software, we will explore it all A Curious Ear.