Hear works with pedal steel from Nashville-based Luke Schneider, Baltimore-based virtuoso Susan Alcorn, California composer Chuck Johnson, and Norwegian player Geir Sundstøl.

Hear unique and unexpected harmonies in music from Ireland, Bhutan, The Republic of Georgia, the state of Georgia, South Africa, Taian, and Bhutan.

Hear excerpts of contemporary opera from Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo, American composer Kate Soper, and a futuristic internet opera by sound artists Mendi and Keith Obadike.

Photo: Lute, by Princess Ruto (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25640085) Listen to songs with lute and oud accompaniment, including John Dowland's hit song – the melan...

Handmade music from South African trombonist Malcolm Jiyane; Northern Irish composer Hannah Peel and Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang; and from Japanese multi-instrumentalist Yas Kaz.

For this New Sounds, hear the one-man “pocket opera” by American composer Kyle Gann, a microtonal work about Custer and Sitting Bull, staged and recorded live at The Kitchen in 2000. ...

There’s music with echoes of the motorik style of 1970’s electronic music from West Germany, but from artists more closely associated with far-out jazz, cosmic country, and ambient el...

In this episode of New Sounds, we celebrate the legacy of the late Toumani Diabaté, a master of the kora -the  sublime West African instrument crafted from gourd, cow-skin, and fishin...

Listen to new film scores that may have a mix of classical, experimental pop, and the avant-garde by Scottish composer Anna Meredith, English musician Mica Levi (Micachu & the Shapes)...