Meander 287: Forrest Fang From Old To New – Part 1

Forrest Fang is now well into his fifth decade of making beautiful ambient music. His compositions combine electronics, rich sound processing, and acoustic instruments to form uniquely absorbing soundscapes that lean toward the lyrical and expressive. On this and the...

Meander 286: Sonaura’s Noumena, A Sonic Oil Painting

On tonight’s Meander, we feature the newly released album from Sonaura entitled Noumena. This is a beautiful but sometimes challenging work, where smooth textures and sweet melodies are mixed with choppy rhythms, antique noise, and shifting environments, to...

Meander 285: The Return Of Journey Into Silence

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a Journey Into Silence – a longform live improv designed for deep meditation and slow, careful thought. While my shows almost always feature long playlists of other people’s work and Live Ambient Rants with lots...

Meander 284: Taking A Different Track

Every once in a while, Mr. Spiral gets a glimpse into a world of music he knows very little about but finds fascinating. One such technological platform is tracker music, where simple computer code is combined with sound libraries – usually those burned into the chips...