Brian Kane -- Podcast/Radio

Podcast:

I currently have two podcasts originating from this site, one dedicated to composition and the other to jazz guitar. Both are available for subscription, and can be found in the iTunes music store and all the other major podcast directories. You can also audition them here:

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If you want to subscribe manually, I have posted the original .xml files for:
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Radio:

You can listen to me live on the radio (or streaming on the web) as host of WKCR's Afternoon New Music, every Monday from 3-6 PM (EST). Tune in to 89.9FM if you are in New York City or the Boros, or visit WKCR's website.

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I play a wide variety of contemporary composition and improvised music, introduced with commentary and history about each of the works. Feel free to send me an email if you have ideas about future shows, want more information on the works presented, or have requests for specific pieces.

Upcoming programs:


Archive of previous shows:
Sunday, March 4th, 2007 6:22 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 02/26/07

Leroy Jenkins (March 11, 1932 – February 24, 2007)
Um Cha Chi Chum
Hipnosis
Folk Song
Off the Top of My Head
Dive for the Oyster, Dip for the Pearl
Keep on Trucking Brother
Wouldn't You (aka Woody'n You)

Early Anthony Braxton albums featuring Leroy Jenkins
Two tracks from Three Compositions of the New Jazz
Simple Like from B-Xo/ N-O-1-47A

Morton Subotnick
The Sidewinder
A Fluttering of Wings
Silver Apples of the Moon
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 5:28 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 02/19/07

Morton Feldman: from the early 60s
For Franz Kline
O'Hara Songs
De Kooning
Durations I-IV
Out of Last Pieces

Four Improvisations by the New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein

Improvised pieces from the late 60s
David Tudor -- Rainforest
Musica Electronica Viva -- Spaceship
Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Kommunion and Es from 'aus den Sieben Tagen'
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 5:19 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 02/12/07

Alban Berg Belated B-day (born Feb. 9th, 1885)
Three Pieces for Orchestra
Lyric Suite

Works for Solo Instrument with Berio as the Starting Point
Luciano Berio -- Trombone Sequenza
Nicolaus A. Huber -- Presente
Richard Barrett -- Basalt
Globokar -- Échanges
George Lewis -- Phenomenology

Luciano Berio -- Accordion Sequenza
Cornelius Schwehr -- aus dem Kamalatdanischen Leiden

Luciano Berio -- Guitar Sequenza
Elliott Carter -- Shard
Friday, February 9th, 2007 8:09 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 02/05/07

Harry Partch -- Cloud-Chamber Music

Early and Microtonal Music of Ben Johnston

Three Chinese Lyrics (1955)
Gambit (1959)
Five Fragments (1960)
Sonata for Piano (1962)
Duo for Flute and Contrabass (1963)
String Quartet #2 (1964)
String Quartet #3 (1966)
Casta Bertram (1969)
String Quartet #4 (1973)
Suite for Microtonal Piano (1978)
String Quartet #6 (1980)
Trio (1981)
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 5:56 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 01/29/07

Derek Bailey -- Eight Domestic Pieces
Luigi Nono -- "Hay que caminar" soñando

Classic electro-acoustic music on vinyl from the WKCR library
Pierre Henry -- Le Voyage
Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Telemusik
Bernard Parmegiani -- Violostries
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 9:18 AM

Afternoon New Music -- 01/22/07

Special Guest: Michel Galante of the Argento Chamber Ensemble

Wolfgang Rihm: Chiffre IV

Tristan Murail
Feuilles à travers les cloches
Ethers
Winter Fragments

Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No. 1
Wolfgang Rihm: Chiffre VI

Christian Wolff
selections from the CD Ten Exercises: Exercises 8, 14b, 3, 16
For 1, 2 or 3 players
For Prepared Piano

Larry Polansky
selections from the CD Four-voice Canons: #5, #6, #18 (Trio Canon for Christian Wolff)
Monday, January 15th, 2007 7:32 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 01/15/07

Luciano Berio's pieces for Martin Luther King
O King
Sinfonia

Jean Barraqué -- Concerto

Composer Profile: Piano Works of Bill Hopkins
Sous-structures
Etudes en séries

Elliott Carter -- Clarinet Concerto
Monday, January 8th, 2007 6:28 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 01/08/07

Morton Feldman as a conductor and performer
The Viola in My Life
False Relationships and the Extended Ending
Why Patterns?

Composer Profile: Mathias Spahlinger
128 erfüllte augenblicke
extension

Earle Brown -- Four Systems
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 8:56 AM

Afternoon New Music -- 01/01/07

Iannis Xenakis -- Eonta
Anthony Braxton and George Lewis -- Donaueschingen Duo (1976)

Charles Ives -- Marches and Parades
Calcium Light Night
The Gong on the Hook and Ladder
All the Way Around and Back
Over the Pavements
Fourth of July (from the Holidays Symphony)

Michael Finnissy -- Un-characteristic March
Brian Ferneyhough -- Superscriptio

Charles Ives -- Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos
Elliott Carter -- Figment II - Remembering Mr. Ives

Remembering Nam Jun Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006)
Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Plus-Minus (realization by Paik for Charlotte Moorman)
Waiting For Commercial
Hommage à John Cage

Remembering James Tenney (August 10, 1934 - August 24, 2006)
Collage #1 ("Blue Suede")
Analog #1 (Noise Study)
Dialogue
Phases (for Edgard Varèse)
Music for Player Piano
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 6:31 AM

Afternoon New Music -- 12/18/06

Guest in the Studio: Composer Philipp Blume

Henry Threadgill -- Spotted Dick is Pudding 
Robin Hoffmann -- Finte 
Philipp Blume -- Separated at Birth
Johannes Schüllhorn -- Rondo 
Stefano Scodanibbio -- Escondido 
Philipp Blume -- Rosy Derivative

3 tracks from the album "Anarchic Harmonies"
John Cage -- Harmony #35 
Frescobaldi -- Canzon seconda 
John Cage -- Harmony #11 

Georg Graewe -- Track 4 from the album "Traces of Memory" 
Henry Threadgill -- Let Me Look Down Your Throat, or Say Ah 
Philipp Blume -- collaboraxiom 
Martin Schüttler -- Venus_5 
Cornelius Schwehr -- Wer Ihnene Ihres Nicht Tanzt Spottet Der Verabredeten Bewegung 
Gordon Kampe: SPAX 

Visit Philipp Blume's website: www.pgblu.com
Monday, December 4th, 2006 6:00 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 12/04/06

Works for Solo Violin
Mel Powell - Setting
Richard Barrett - Air
Salvatore Sciarrino - Sei Capricci
Enno Poppe -17 Etüden, Heft 2
Iannis Xenakis -- Mikka and Mikka "S"
Morton Feldman - For Aaron Copland
Elliot Carter - Four Lauds
Brian Kane - Measure is the Heaven of Desire
Brian Ferneyhough - Intermedio alla ciaccona
Luigi Nono - La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura
Monday, November 27th, 2006 6:00 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 11/27/06

Composer Profile: Brian Ferneyhough
2nd String Quartet
Sonatas for String Quartet
Kurze Schatten II
Terrain

Finnissy plays Finnissy:
Autumnall
Kemp's Morris
Stanley Stokes, East Street 1836
Folklore
Reels
Short but...
Freightrain Bruise

Stockhausen's Piano Miniatures:
Klavierstücke I-IV
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 6:00 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 11/22/06

Composer Profile: Mathias Spahlinger
passage/paysage
Apo Do

Composer Profile: Luigi Nono
Varianti
...sofferte onde serene...
Incontri
A Carlo Scarpa
Fragmente-Stille, An Diotima
Da un diario italiano
A Pierre. Dell' azzuro silenzio, inquietum
Monday, November 20th, 2006 6:00 PM

Afternoon New Music -- 11/20/06

Contemporary String Quartets
F.-B. Mache - Eridan
Michael Finnissy - String Quartet (1984)
Anthony Braxton - String Quartet (Robert Schumann Quartet Performance)
Jonathan Harvey - String Quartet #2

Classic Musique Concrète
Pierre Henry - Variations pour une porte et une soupir
Pierre Schaeffer - Études aux objets
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien No. 1

Solo Instruments with Live Electronics
Luigi Nono - Post-prae-ludium
Karllheinz Stockhausen - Mikrophonie I