KEXP Presents Sonarchy Radio

After 22 years on air, the final Sonarchy brodcast features a freely improvised explosion of sound from Wally Shoup (alto sax), Dennis Rea and Bill Horist (electric guitars) and Greg Campbell (extended drum kit).

New jazz music from composer/keys player Michael Owcharuk performed with Kate Olson (soprano sax), Jacques Willis (vibes), Mike Catts (bass) and Mike Musburger (drums).

Tao in the atmosphere tonight from Dick Valentine (flutes) and Don Berman (percussion).

A large ensemble joins composer/improviser Blake DeGraw for a radio communication summit.

Deep listening exploration of the big world of cello with this pair of cellists.

New jazz music from Kevin Nortness (tenor sax), Troy Schiefelbein (bass), and Mike Gebhart (drums).

This session features the sounds of live patched modular synthesizer and cut-up samples flying above the wreck on the highway.

Stellar improvisation from William Monteleone (saxophones) and Stephen Fandrich (piano).

It's a heavy, heavy, very heavy Christmas with Igor Abuladze (guitar), Andy Sells (bass), and Mike Peterson (drums).

This archival show from August 1996 features the American experimental rock band consisting of Jeffery Taylor, Robert Millis and John Vallier, three timeless super-freaks and masters of suspension.

Textural and dimensional displays of acoustic sound from Clifford Dunn (flute & piccolo) and Patrick Neill Gundran (guitars).

Andria Nicodemou (vibraphone), Kelsey Mines (bass), and Chris Icasiano (drums) perform freely improvised music involving extended techniques and deep listening.

Solo music for a live setting in which the player is the muse, creator, director and listener.

New music for jazz quartet performed by Kate Olson (soprano sax), Matt Endahl (piano), Gary Prince (guitar), and Tim Cohen (drum set).

In this session, the Pacific Northwetern electronic music pioneer creates dense, highly-refined layers of sonic textures developed through years of dedicated listening.

Improvised music is where surprises from Steve Griggs (saxophone), Ben Griggs (synthesizer) and Greg Campbell (percussion) are hiding.

Extended techniques and deep listening inform the trio of Scott Eave (guitar), Alan Cook (percussion), and Dave Bamberger (bass).

Adventures into the avant garde with Gregg (guitar) and Chelsea (vocals).

An archive broadcast recorded in May 1995 reveals this seminal band, featuring 14 Seattle players on twice as many instruments, in full flight.

This session features work on the border of music and sound art, produced by piano, percussion, and electronics.

New music for a piano trio featuring Tim Kennedy (piano), Geoff Harper (bass), and Brad Gibson (drums.)

A session of new electric music driven by jazz, fusion, and experimental thinking.

This session features solo electronics and field recordings in service of a well-calibrated ambience.

An improvised music/sound art performance by Christopher Yohmei Blaudel (shakuhachi) and Byron Au Yong (performing with water, chinese percussion, er-hu, voice and piano.)

This session features an instrumental/orchestral approach to the music of Jimi Hendrix performed by a large ensemble.

Four bicycles, four contact microphones and four amps create a strange and fascinating world of sound in this session.

Rising from the formidable Seattle funk/soul scene comes this super-sturdy outfit featuring Colin Higgins (guitar), Marc Hager (keys), Bob Heinemann (bass), and Olli Klomp (drums).

In this session, Kristopher Wettstein performs "Tent of Meeting", an experiment in loving action for solo piano.

This 2005 session features masterful free-improvisation from Toshi Makihara (percussion,) Elizabeth Falconer (koto,) and Suzie Kozawa (sounds and textures,) to create a unique listening experience.

Vocalist Keenen Magik leads the psychedelic hip-hop big band in this session.

This 2006 performance from the Pacific Northwest's finest is a powerhouse with live and fully connected dub.

A stunning musical collaboration between James Falzone (piano, clarinet, shruti box), Tom Baker (fretless guitar, theremin), and Greg Campbell (percussion, effects and french horn.)

This session from Tyler Coray (guitar), William Hayes (guitar, prepared guitar), Bret Gardin (electronics), and Jordan Rundle (electronics) sounds like "the internet, funerals and government conspiracies."

This 1996 session from the Sonarchy archive series features the compositions of Andrew Dury (drums), Brent Arnold (cello), Fred Chalenor (bass), and Steve Moore (trombone).

Meditative atmospheres created through electronics highlight this session.

A massive, free-jazz,  bomb-dropping session with Sean Fisher (guitar), Cary Kindberg (bass), and Jack Gold-Molina (drums).

A computer-controlled (super collider) analog synth and the processed voice of Ian Halloran form this gauzy session.

Slow, low, loud, and deep sounds from Kristian Garrard (guitar, electronics), Andrew Swanson (sax, keys), Chris Icasiano (drums.)

This session features new 20th century music for prepared piano, looped slide guitar, and fine-tuned listening.

The ensemble of Tari Nelson-Zagar, Maria Scherer Wilson, Eyvind Kang, Bill Horist, Stuart Dempster, and Rob Millis perform a new piece inspired by a family memoir and a 78rpm record collection.

An ideal trio balance in a jazz music setting features Pete Turner (drums), Doug Lilla (electric bass) and Jim Knodle (trumpet.)

This electric, bomb-dropping session from Dennis Rea's band aims equally at prog rock partisans, jazz aficionados, and metalheads.

Jazz interpretations of the music of French pop icon Serge Gainsbourg played by Rich Cole (sax), Dan Duval (guitar), Chris Mosely (guitar), Jason Goessl (bass), and Todd Bishop (drums).

Produced by drummer Don Berman, this session features 10 players performing "Ascension NW", based on John Coltrane's "Ascension."

First heard in 2003, Thomas Bell (bass), Kevin Sawka (drum kit), Leif Dalon (keys), Dave Carter (trumpet), and Francis Mazzeo (electronics) lead this massive demonstration of band power replacing sequencers in electronic music.

In this session focused upon the electronic treatment of sonic phenomena, Matt Shoemaker  employs microphones, recorders, computers and acoustic instruments to create compositions that uniquely imagine a space encrypted to the point of vanishing.

This archive broadcast from 2003 features a masterful performance by Michael Bisio (bass), Joe Giardullo (winds), Rob Blakeslee (brass( and Billy Mintz (drums).

Inspired by Montana, shared sensibilities and a deep creative impulse fuel Alan Cook (drums, percussion), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), and Scot Ray (guitar, effects.)

A collection of high-flying, shimmering drones and hyper-tactile field recordings from Charles Stanyan.

Dark western music for post-apocalyptic literature and the geography of the Pacific Northwest played by Blaine Craft (drums), Levi Fuller (bass), Casey Alexander (guitars), David Totten (guitars), and Jeff Forrest (guitars).