hearts of space | news

PGM 1346 'INDIA NAVIGATION 2' : may 26-june 2

It’s been almost seventy years since the arrival of Indian classical music in Europe and the United States. Starting in 1956, English violinist YEHUDI MENUHIN’s interest in Indian music led to collaborations and concert tours with two of the then hottest young musicians in India—sitar master RAVI SHANKAR and sarod master ALI AKBAR KHAN. It was the beginning of a period of cross-fertilization of Indian and Western classical music. And in the 1960’s, the famous adoption of the Indian sitar by GEORGE HARRISON of THE BEATLES brought awareness of Indian music to the mainstream.

Today, recordings, films, videos, and digital networks have led to a broadening of cultural communication, where influence and interaction occur across many genres simultaneously. Western musicians study Indian microtonal scales, play Indian instruments, and create new hybrid styles—while Indian musicians study western tempered scales, harmony, and orchestration, play electronic instruments, and extend the traditions of Indian music to an international audience.

On this transmission of HEARTS of SPACE, contemporary, traditional, and sacred sounds of India, on a program called INDIA NAVIGATION 2.

Music is by sitarists JASDEEP SINGH DEGUN, ANOUSHKA SHANKAR, and NILADRI KUMAR, bansuri flutists MARK SEELIG and VIRGINIA NICOLI, sarod and santur by CHINMAYA DUNSTER, and producer CRAIG PRUESS and the great devotional singer ANURADHA PAUDWAL.

[ view playlist ] [ view Flickr image gallery ] [ play 30 second MP3 promo ]

PGM 1183R 'HYPERTRONIC' : may 19-26

In the fair days of late spring, electronic winds blow warm and steady, while sequencers spin creative rhythms, propelling us into the active days and balmy nights of summer. DJs prepare their sets for the summer festivals, while ambient composers create expansive soundscapes for virtual travel. Attention Spacefans: it's party time.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space, an hour of technotronic rhythms and ambient atmospheres, on a program called HYPERTRONIC. Music is by S1GNS OF L1FE, MARC HARTMAN, MEES DIERDORP, MARTIN NONSTATIC, ASC, CRYSTAL MOON, LEMONGRASS, ISHQ, and ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT.

[ view program page ] [ view Flickr image gallery ] [ play 30 second MP3 promo ]

PGM 1345 'THERAPEUTIC MUSIC' : may 12-19

For thousands of years, music has been used for therapy and healing. From the ancient lyre, the harp, and other stringed instruments, to the resonant percussion sounds of bells, bowls, gongs and cymbals, it’s long been known that music has the potential to heal both the physical body, and the psyche.

So it should be no surprise that from the earliest days of New Age music, some artists made claims for the therapeutic, stress-reducing, or healing qualities of their music. Here, language matters: therapeutic and stress-reducing express both the intention of the artist and the function of the music; healing is a much larger claim, more subjective, and much harder to prove.

On this transmission of HEARTS of SPACE—we explore these stress-reducing sounds, and on a program we’ll call (conservatively...) THERAPEUTIC MUSIC. We have selections by English musician ESSIE JAIN, therapeutic music pioneer STEVEN HALPERN, MOSHI MOSHI DESU, MAUREEN-JI & UNIVERSAL SYMPHONIES, Norwegian musician EIRLYS, the Los Angeles duo BIOMUSIQUE, and crystal bowls by TRYSHE DHEVNEY.

[ view playlist ] [ view Flickr image gallery ] [ play 30 second MP3 promo ]

PGM 1344 'GAME SCORES 2' : may 5-12

From humble beginnings as cheap electronic toys in the 1970s, video games have evolved into a multi-billion dollar worldwide industry, second only to television, and bigger than global sports, movies, radio, live and recorded music, audiobooks and podcasting…combined.

Today, video games can be comparable in technical and artistic quality to feature films. Over five decades, the technology developed to support high resolution video and audio, and video game music has become increasingly sophisticated.

On this transmission of HEARTS of SPACE based on awesomely comprehensive music research by guest producers JOHN WEDGEWORTH and HUGUES of the NERD NOISE RADIO video game music podcast—ambient, electronic, orchestral and environmental music from video games, on a program called GAME SCORES 2.

We have music from the soundtracks of ECCO: THE TIDES OF TIME / FINAL FANTASY TEN / 3D MUSEUM / THE LAST STORY / FORECAST CHANNEL / SAMAROST 2 / ZWEI 2 / TWO DOTS / MYST 3: EXILE / OUT OF THIS WORLD / SUBNAUTICA 2: BELOW ZERO / STRAY /NO MAN’S SKY / CONTRADICTION / and MINECRAFT.

It’s another report on the fantastic immersive worlds of video games: GAME SCORES 2...on this transmission...of Hearts of Space.

[ view playlist ] [ view Flickr image gallery ] [ play 30 second MP3 promo ]