Over the years, STAR'S END has hosted numerous on-air in-studio radio concerts. These live performances were often, for the artists, a culmination of many...
On INDALO (70'50"), Max Corbacho and Bruno Sanfilippo collaborate to produce a musical crosscurrent of directions and influences. This work tells of a shared...
For composers exploring indeterminacy in music, the compositional process is no doubt fascinating, but often rough going for the audience. The intellectual...
Every electronic musician is eventually advised, by helpful neighbors or well-meaning relatives, to look into doing soundtrack work. Along with being the most...
ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS by John Adams commemorates those who lost their lives on the 11 September 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. It also mourns...
Public Radio is driven by the concept of content diversity and community enrichment; ideals not well served by the commercial sector. By concentrating on...
Science remains in the dark as to the matters that make life most worth living. It has been left to music and art to express human ideas about joy, happiness...
SANCTUARY OF DREAMS (73'14") by Numina (a.k.a. Jesse Sola) comes from the same spark as many other soundworld realizations in the field of Spacemusic. Through...
Luca Formentini seems to be investigating sound for the sheer satisfaction of discovery. Described by the author as "a life from the inside", SUBTERRANEANS is...
TONE-CONE (65'39") by Mind Transport Tools (a.k.a. Cameron Akhunaton) harkens back to the early days of electronic spacemusic, a time before the inclusion of...
Murcof (a.k.a. Fernando Corona) has had a reaction to the shallow gloss of techno music. It is the album UTOPIA (75'41"). Murcof may be from the world of...
TWILIGHT IN THE OFFING (60'27"), the debut album by Chad Hoefler, deals with our inescapable encounter with Truth. The 7 tracks exist as leviathans within this...
Avid STAR'S END listeners, Scott Watkins and Terry Furber of Orbital Decay have been influenced profoundly by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Pink Floyd and...
With the opening track on THE DEAD TEXAN (46'37"), the self titled album by Adam Wiltzie, we find a piano dreaming, slowly breathing music in and out,...
Blow Up Hollywood sidesteps the ordinary with a range of original, moody, dreamy pop songs. Their music is textured, with strings and samples throughout and is...
Powered by their passion for sound, noted touch guitarist and looper Markus Reuter along with storied electronic musician Ian Boddy, craft disparate influences...
Centrozoon works with free-improvisational, free-tonal, microtonal soundscapes. Within the rich and dense layers there are subtle rhythmic and tonal shifts...
On WICHMAN AND OTHER PIECES (68'34") Spielerei (Dennis Knoepper) & Mantacoup (Jeroen Vermeent) bring together divergent traditions. The duo views electronic...
It's not until after a few encounters with GREY MIRRORS (42'24") by The Glimmer Room (a.k.a. Andy Condon), that it becomes possible to grasp this album's...
It's hard to imagine that anyone acquiring a copy of .74 (51'18") by Maitreya (a.k.a. Simon Lomax), would use this disc of Ambient Music as a musical...
The music of David Parsons is best experienced with eyes closed. In this manner, the transportive qualities of his work can be fully felt. His album VAJRA...
On his album FIRE & REMEMBRANCE (47'12"), Philippe Emmanuel Gueble compiles nine distinctive, almost disparate, tracks. Each piece explores a separate aspect...
Dino Pacifici has given his album, THE FLOAT ZONE (57'55"), the perfect name. What with it's drifting nature and recumbent posture, it is unlikely that anyone...
FOUR (54'46") is the 2nd solo album by electronic musician Dwight Ashley. Featuring 11 hymns to the worldly religion of the mind, Ashley's frostbound...
Maybe it was her tenure as a singer songwriter that provided Janet Robbins with the ability to express complex emotional themes in the few succinct musical...
Electronic musician Thom Brennan, while reaching inward, seeks to create music with an emphasis on his relationship with the forces of the natural world. His...
The purpose of non-commercial radio is to present music and programming that is worthwhile based, not on marketability or popularity, but on artistic content...
Titled "In the Regions of Sunreturn", Michael Garrison's first album paved the way for future generations of electronic musicians. Musically, it was among the...
Sonogram (Todd Gautreau) should be commended for realizing music that lasts only as long as its founding idea. Each of the 21 tracks on SUBSTRATES (66'55") are...
Independent-minded music is usually realized as a reaction to something. For Arnold Schoenberg it was World War I, for Roger Waters it was the death of his...