Julianna Barwick's Stormy Record 'Will' (From the Archives)
Julianna Barwick has been a repeat visitor in the studio (April 2013, Spring 2018.) In 2013, she was teasing songs from the protean, beautifully hazy Nepenthe, to which Sigur Rós's producer Alex Somers...
View Article#4095: With David Garland, 'Verdancy'
Hear music by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Garland, who presents music from his latest work - a 4-CD set called Verdancy. The music is a celebration of nature, time, and expanded sense of...
View Article#4122: Music from Guitarist-Composers
Hear some new approaches to guitar music from guitarist-composers on this New Sounds. The guitarist-composer Fabi Reyna is the founder and editor of She Shreds, a magazine dedicated to women guitarists...
View Article423- Sean Exploder
As you might know, we have our own composer here at 99pi named Sean Real who works with the producers to score our episodes with original music that she writes and records right here in Oakland. She...
View Article#4154: With Tyshawn Sorey, from the 2018 Music Now Festival
Hear music by and an interview with composer, improviser, drummer, trombonist, and pianist Tyshawn Sorey. A 2017 MacArthur Fellow, Sorey makes music that is wonderfully hard to pin down and floats best...
View ArticleThe 2021 Oscar Nominees for Best Original Score
Most of us probably haven’t purchased a movie ticket and an $11 tub of popcorn since Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece Parasite made history at the 2020 Academy Awards. Nevertheless, 2020 persevered and...
View ArticleAaron Copland's Sound of America
There are many Americas. Nowadays they barely speak to each other. But during the most perilous years of the last century, one young composer went in search of a sound that melded many of the nation's...
View ArticlePoet, Composer, Stutterer JJJJJerome Ellis Creatively Shapes Time
Poet, sax player, electronic music producer, storyteller, and composer JJJJJerome Ellis is a stutterer. On his 2021 album The Clearing, he takes speech disfluency and considers how it affects one’s...
View ArticleNicholas Britell on the Art of the Film Score
Nicholas Britell has emerged as one of the most in-demand film composers working today, creating original music for projects that hew to no style or model. He wrote the infuriatingly catchy theme of...
View ArticleA Closer Look at the 2022 Oscar Nominees for Best Original Score
The Academy Awards are just a few days away and the nominees for this year’s Best Original Score feature an impressive and competitive group of composers. The Power of the Dog is nominated for 12...
View ArticleSon Lux On Their 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' Score
In their new feature film, "Everything Everywhere All At Once," former music video directors the Daniels recruited the experimental band Son Lux to compose the score. Their soundtrack also features...
View ArticleSteve Earle's Music In The Play 'Coal Country'
[REBROADCAST FROM May 20, 2020] Steve Earle discussed his album Ghosts of West Virginia, including songs he wrote for the play"Coal Country." The interview features the exclusive premiere of Earle's...
View ArticleMaking the Music of 'The Lord of the Rings' Series
The original "Lord of the Rings" trilogy earned composer Howard Shore--who also scored "The Hobbit" films--two Academy Awards for Best Original Score and three Grammy's for Best Score Soundtrack Album....
View ArticleThe Composer Charles Strouse on “Annie,” and Working with Jay-Z
The Broadway composer Charles Strouse has written music for shows like “Applause” and “Bye Bye Birdie,” and the theme to Norman Lear’s “All in the Family,” but he is best known for the musical...
View ArticleFilm Composer John Williams Returns to “Raiders”
Generations of moviegoers have grown up on the music of John Williams, which have been featured in “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” as well as many of Steven Spielberg’s films. He has been writing...
View ArticleA Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic, and the Composer John...
A year ago, the staff writer Emily Witt visited Fargo, North Dakota, to report on the Red River Women’s Clinic—the only abortion provider in the state. The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision had just come...
View Article542- Player Piano
This week we're featuring an episode of The Last ArchiveThe Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of archives. Manuscripts, photographs, letters and...
View ArticleIcons Day Part 2: Henry Threadgill's Life in Music
[REBROADCAST FROM May 16, 2023] Over the last fifty years, Henry Threadgill has been one of the most renowned American composers, never afraid of leaning into innovation and experimentation. He's one...
View ArticleA Preview of the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition &...
Jazz at Lincoln Center's 29th annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival is May 9–11! We receive a preview of the event from JLCO’s longtime sax player, Sherman Irby,...
View ArticleThe Brooklyn Museum Hires a Composer-in-Residence
For the first time ever, the Brooklyn Museum has hired a composer-in-residence to make original music to accompany their exhibitions. Cellist and composer Niles Luther joins us to discuss taking on...
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