Music is Music

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Music is Music

Join Music is Music host Ria Misra for revealing conversations with unexpected musicians. Featuring new compositions, surprising collaborations -- and a refreshing take on the sounds around us.

  1. 06/27/2017

    Season 2, Ep. 6: Who is Emily Howell?

    You can find Emily Howell's music all over the internet, but a search for the person comes up empty. She plays no concerts, attends no events, has no email address, and not a single photo comes up under a google search. Join Music is Music host Ria Misra as she talks with composer David Cope about who Emily Howell is--and what Emily Howell means for the future of music.

    10 min

  2. 06/20/2017

    Season 2, Ep. 5: Listening to Everything

    Ben Lukas Boysen and Sebastian Plano--the composers who wrote the music for the videogame, Everything--join host Ria Misra for a conversation about games, music, and how to build a musical world for a videogame where you can, literally, play the universe.

    10 min

  3. 06/13/2017

    Season 2, Ep. 4: The Hang Drum

    At times, listening to Manu Delago play music, you might think you hear him play a steel drum, a harp, or a tabla--and yet all of those sounds are actually coming from one instrument: the hang drum. Delago brings his hang into our New York studio for a chat with host, Ria Misra.

    12 min

  4. 06/06/2017

    Season 2, Ep. 3: Vijay Iyer

    Music is Music host Ria Misra visits composer and pianist Vijay Iyer at his home in Harlem to talk about the secret lives of instruments, the everyday art of improvisation, and also just to hear some really beautiful music.

    22 min

  5. 05/30/2017

    Season 2, Ep. 2: Music in Space, Pt II

    International Space Orchestra founder Nelly Ben Hayoun and NASA Ames Flight Director (and saxophonist) Rusty Hunt are here for part 2 of our music in space series. Join us as we meet a band where you can find astronauts, NASA flight directors, and all kinds of space scientists all clustered around the same piece of music.

    14 min

  6. 05/23/2017

    Season 2, Ep. 1: Music in Space, Pt. I

    Composer Arthur Jeffes joins us to tell us about working with space scientists to transform black holes and exoplanets into music.

    13 min

  7. 01/06/2017

    Music is Music: Christopher Tignor

    Christopher Tignor is a composer, violinist, and software engineer. His emotionally charged scores and unique focus on live, performance-based electro-acoustic practice has won acclaim within both the classical and experimental communities.

    15 min

  8. 10/28/2016

    Music is Music: Floating Points

    From a young age, Sam Shepherd has rejected the idea of neat, tidy musical categories. He studied classical piano growing up, but felt confined by what he calls the "dots on a page." It wasn't until he heard a performer really making a classical piece his own, breaking out of strictly classical feel, that he was hooked. Now, Shepherd writes music under the alias "Floating Points." Influences of classical, jazz, electronica, pop, and world music all blend to create a sound that doesn't fit squarely into any one style. This episode features a piece titled "Peroration Six," which Shepherd describes as careening towards and then falling into a black hole. To find out more about the music of "Floating Points," check out the website floatingpoints.co.uk. Music is Music is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

    14 min
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Join Music is Music host Ria Misra for revealing conversations with unexpected musicians. Featuring new compositions, surprising collaborations -- and a refreshing take on the sounds around us.

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  • Creator
    American Public Media
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2017
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2019 American Public Media
  • Show Website
    Music is Music

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