All sounds are from two computer-controlled flutes.

Percussion+Guitar, for two computer-controlled flutes

Ensemble Pamplemousse's CD, RAANNA JEDAKU. Featuring work by Rama Gottfried, Andrew Greenwald, Natacha Diels, Jessie Marino, Dave Broome, and Kiku Enomoto. Maria Stankova, voice. Buy or donate at carrierrecords.com

Pulse Compression, by Natacha Diels

This episode focuses on a body of repertoire that I’m going to call “post-instrumental” music: pieces that use found instruments, broken instruments, makeshift instruments, human bodies -- pretty much anything but traditional orchestral instruments. What's drawing composers and performers to make this kind of art? To find out, I talked to members of the Chicago contemporary music ensemble Mocrep: trombonist Nick Meryhew, bassist Zach Moore, and cellist Lia Kohl.  

Episode 2: The Radical Liberation of Musical Instruments

An excerpt of Madison Greenstone and Bryan Jacobs playing two hybrid human/mechanically controlled clarinets.

Clarient Duo (excerpt 1)

The title track from Evan Parker's amazing 1988 solo saxophone recording PLUS six performers manipulating twelve mechanically controlled pecussion beaters across an array of table-top instruments. This is part of a larger project that attempts to find new ways of interacting with recordings, especially improvisations. 

Thank you Evan Parker for the use of this track!