For this edition of New Sounds, listen to some of the 2010 highlights from the annual new music extravaganza, recorded live at the World Financial Center. We'll hear a work for percussion and 1-bit electronics from New York-based Tristan Perich, who combines math and physics with acoustic and electronic music for elegant and austere results. That, and more.
Public radio’s classic show about food and the people who eat it. Francis Lam brings you recipes, cooking tips and in-depth stories about where our food comes from.
Interviews with top newsmakers in politics, science, and the arts, and Will Shortz brings you the beloved Weekend Puzzle.
What a year was 1913! In an exhibition in a New York Armory, Cubism and abstraction were revealed to the American public for the first time. In Vienna, audience members at a concert of atonal music by Schoenberg and others broke out into a near-riot. And in Paris, Stravinsky ...
A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.
ThisAmericanLife: Themed, offbeat, (mostly) true stories that shed new light on the extraordinary side of everyday life. Host Ira Glass and a regular cast of personalities, including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and Mike Birbiglia, bring the best of nonfiction storytelling to the radio.
Cool, eclectic recordings and in-studio performances from genre-bending musicians. This show no longer airs on WNYC. You can find out more about David Garland and his relaunch of Spinning On Air as a podcast here.
Jesse Thorn cuts through the weeds of pop culture, with irreverent comedy, in-depth interviews and a keen eye for what’s worth knowing about.
Classic and contemporary short fiction read by some of the most iconic voices in today’s world of film, theater and comedy. Recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City.
Listen to a recent recording featuring vocalist Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond together with the new-music supergroup Signal (led by Brad Lubman) performing Snider’s remarkable song cycle, “Penelope” on this New Sounds. It’s a haunting 60-minute song cycle for female voice, chamber orchestra, and electronics that limns the boundaries between art song, chamber folk and post-rock.
