The Japanese singer-composer-producer Hatis Noit layers her own voice - using Balkan singing, classical opera, percussive rumbles, and/or experimental pop. She performs in-studio. 

The masterful sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar presents music from her trilogy of mini-albums, with an adventurous live band. She plays and chats from National Sawdust.

Hear arrangements of electronic music: Taylor Deupree’s looping patterns and pulses reworked, Aphex Twin by Alarm Will Sound, and Jeff Mills by Barcelona pianist Francesco Tristano.   

Vocalist, choreographer, and composer Meredith Monk and her Vocal Ensemble and new music supergroup Alarm Will Sound perform Monk's music at Kaufman Center in May 2025. (Part 2 of 2). 

Hear LA-centered collaborative music where percussionist Carlos Niño is a pivotal figure; music from sax player Josh Johnson and friends; plus work featuring LA harpist Nailah Hunter. 

Hear new music from Tiny Leaves, Colin Stetson, and a collaboration by Lawrence English and Lea Bertucci.

Hear work by American experimental musician, composer, and sound artist William Basinski of looped field recordings; also his remixes of Hatis Noit and collaborations with Alva Noto.

Hear keyboard-based, lyrical music by Icelandic pianist and composer Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, Polish composer and pianist Hania Rani, German composer and pianist Nils Frahm, and others.

The Spanish Civil War broke out in July, 1936, and sparked music by Brooklyn-born band Barbez, American singer Pete Seeger, electric violinist Tracy Silverman, and drummer Bobby Previte.