The dreamy digitalia of Ian Boddy & Bernhard Wöstheinrich permeates HEMISPHERES
(93'39"), their lushly imagined live recording from Germany's Bochum
Planetarium. This work embraces many emotions, moods and colors as the duo
reveals their instruments' vast potential. Exploring sound synthesis in all its
possibilities Boddy and Wöstheinrich roam freely between musical abstractions
and prog-rock inspired crowd-pleasers. In the former, sheets of sound build and
renew to immensely pleasing effect while the more defined areas are strident and
ethereal in turns. Most interesting are the passages that dwell in the middle
ground, where all aspects of their music converge. Here full-throated synth
leads tear across syncopated sequencer patterns and the sporadic thrum of
electronic percussion. The two sets both clock in at around 45 minutes with
beautiful amorphous soundscapes introducing and closing each. The sensation is
less that of sound floating through the room, than that of the audience floating
in the sound. Music is in dire need of alternate worlds of possibility and
HEMISPHERES delivers on this promise. It is a work imagining a "non-place" -
where all the tracks are landmarks in a dream cartography drawn by Boddy and
Wöstheinrich.

Tune in to STAR'S END this weekend for music from HEMOSPHERES the live
collaboration between Ian Boddy and Bernhard Wöstheinrich

For more on HEMISPHERES, access: http://www.din.org.uk

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Clocks Ahead One Hour This Weekend

STAR'S END will be one hour shorter this weekend as Daylight Saving Time begins
on Sunday 8 March 2009, at 2:00:00 AM local standard time. Please turn your
clock ahead one hour this Saturday Night/Sunday Morning while you listen to
STAR'S END.

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STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD

To mark 30 years of continuous broadcast of STAR'S END, WXPN has released the
STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD. This double CD contains over 120
minutes of live music from 12 renowned artists. The unique performances were
culled from on-air in-studio radio concerts by some of our community's greatest
talents. Included on the disc are previously unreleased live selections donated
by: The Ministry of Inside Things, Orbital Decay, Ian Boddy, AirSculpture, Radio
Massacre International, Robert Rich, Rudy Adrian, Jonn Serrie, Jeff Pearce, Saul
Stokes and Steve Roach.

The STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD is available for a $60 donation to
WXPN, which includes membership and all of its benefits (current WXPN members
can receive the STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD for a $25 donation).
Call 1-800-565-WXPN for details.

Thanks very much for your support!

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STAR'S END broadcasts every Saturday night/Sunday morning
from 1am-6am (EST) on:

88.5fm WXPN Philadelphia, PA
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and live on the web at http://xpn.org

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Chuck van Zyl
Host of STAR'S END Ambient Radio
http://www.starsend.org