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Chuck Soo-Hoo

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Matt Black

Daniel Miller

Henry Rollins

Juana Molina

Tim Hecker

Bana Haffar

Morton Subotnick

Alan Vega

David Axelrod

Chris Watson

Florence Welch

Cate Le Bon

Brian Eno

Saul Williams

John Cale

OwlTail

Chris Kissel

Michael Stearns

Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond. This episode features a conversation with ambient and New Age music pioneer Michael Stearns, who is also a multi-genre composer, sound designer, and soundtrack producer. His credits include music for television, feature films, planetariums, twenty-two IMAX films and seventeen solo albums. As one of the pioneers of American electronic music from his earliest self-released cassette in 1977 up through his 2021 Beyond Earth &amp; Sky collaboration with Steve Roach, Stearns creates engaging textures melding with soaring melodies. He has created music for NASA, Laserium, Disney Films, HBO, 20/20 and the Berkshire Ballet. His award-winning scores for Ron Fricke’s non-verbal global film masterpieces Chronos, Sacred Site, Baraka and Samsara have been heard by audiences around the world. Stearns creates at his The Guest House studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This year marks the rerelease of Stearns’ groundbreaking and long out-of-print Planetary Unfolding (1981). Featuring the sound of the Serge Modular Synthesizer in 6 movements, the slowly evolving atmospheric swirls of this early spacemusic classic are a journey within inner and outer space. TRACKLIST: Michael Stearns – “In the Beginning…” – from “Planetary Unfolding” (Continuum Montage/Projekt) (1981/2022) **Michael Stearns Interview** Michael Stearns – As the Earth Kissed the Moon – from “Planetary Unfolding” (Continuum Montage/Projekt) (1981/2022) Cool Maritime – Temporal Dryft – from “Big Earth Energy” (2022) Patricia Wolf – Springtime in Croatia – from “See-Through” (Balmat) (2022) Charlatan – Sinking Between Pyramids – from “Streams” (The Jewel Garden) (2022) Jonas Reinhardt – Oxus – from “A Ragged Ghost” (Trouble In Mind) (2022) OHYUNG – tucked in my stomach! – from “imagine naked!” (NNA Tapes) (2022) Julian Stein – herons at night – from “pattern river” (Self-Released) (2022) Forest Management – One After Another – from “Palm Life” (Husky Pants) (2022) MAW – Prophase – from “A Maneuver Within” (Atlantic Rhythms) (2022) Andrew Bernstein – in flux (excerpt) – from “a presentation” (Hausu Mountains) (2022) JOYFULTALK – Take It To The Grave – from “Familiar Science” (Constellation) (2022) Mary Halvorson – Night Shift – from “Amaryllis” (Nonesuch) (2022) Noah Howard – Olé – from “Live in Europe Vol. 1” (Altsax) (1975/2020) Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dublab-inconversation/support

Co-hosted by <a href="https://www.dublab.com/djs/chris-kissel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chris Kissel</a> and <a href="https://www.dublab.com/djs/chuck-soo-hoo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chuck Soo-Hoo</a>, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond. This episode features a conversation with ambient and New Age music pioneer <a href="https://michaelstearns.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Stearns</a>, who is also a multi-genre composer, sound designer, and soundtrack producer. His credits include music for television, feature films, planetariums, twenty-two IMAX films and seventeen solo albums. As one of the pioneers of American electronic music from his earliest self-released cassette in 1977 up through his 2021 Beyond Earth &amp; Sky collaboration with Steve Roach, Stearns creates engaging textures melding with soaring melodies. He has created music for NASA, Laserium, Disney Films, HBO, 20/20 and the Berkshire Ballet. His award-winning scores for Ron Fricke’s non-verbal global film masterpieces Chronos, Sacred Site, Baraka and Samsara have been heard by audiences around the world. Stearns creates at his The Guest House studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This year marks the rerelease of Stearns’ groundbreaking and long out-of-print <a href="https://michaelstearns.bandcamp.com/album/planetary-unfolding" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Planetary Unfolding</a> (1981). Featuring the sound of the Serge Modular Synthesizer in 6 movements, the slowly evolving atmospheric swirls of this early spacemusic classic are a journey within inner and outer space. TRACKLIST: Michael Stearns – “In the Beginning…” – from “Planetary Unfolding” (Continuum Montage/Projekt) (1981/2022) **Michael Stearns Interview** Michael Stearns – As the Earth Kissed the Moon – from “Planetary Unfolding” (Continuum Montage/Projekt) (1981/2022) Cool Maritime – Temporal Dryft – from “Big Earth Energy” (2022) Patricia Wolf – Springtime in Croatia – from “See-Through” (Balmat) (2022) Charlatan – Sinking Between Pyramids – from “Streams” (The Jewel Garden) (2022) Jonas Reinhardt – Oxus – from “A Ragged Ghost” (Trouble In Mind) (2022) OHYUNG – tucked in my stomach! – from “imagine naked!” (NNA Tapes) (2022) Julian Stein – herons at night – from “pattern river” (Self-Released) (2022) Forest Management – One After Another – from “Palm Life” (Husky Pants) (2022) MAW – Prophase – from “A Maneuver Within” (Atlantic Rhythms) (2022) Andrew Bernstein – in flux (excerpt) – from “a presentation” (Hausu Mountains) (2022) JOYFULTALK – Take It To The Grave – from “Familiar Science” (Constellation) (2022) Mary Halvorson – Night Shift – from “Amaryllis” (Nonesuch) (2022) Noah Howard – Olé – from “Live in Europe Vol. 1” (Altsax) (1975/2020) Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dublab-inconversation/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dublab-inconversation/support</a>

Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo — Contact Wave w/Michael Stearns (04.03.22)

Adrian Sherwood

One of the most inspired of producer Adrian Sherwood’s many collaborations is the early-’80s dub project New Age Steppers – a loosely-configured collective of British and Jamaican musicians that primarily centered on Sherwood’s studio alchemy and the distinctive singing of Slits vocalist Ari Up. The project mixes up bright reggae songs and experimental zoners and helped pave the way for the most adventurous sounds of the ’80s and ’90s. Sherwood went on to work with Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Lee Scratch Perry, Sly &amp; Robbie, KMFDM, Cabaret Voltaire, and many others. This year marks the reissue of all four New Age Steppers releases, along with the odds-and-ends package Avant Gardening, in a single package titled Stepping Into a New Age 1980-2021 on Sherwood’s storied label On-U Sounds. Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, hosts of dublab’s Contact Wave, host this in-depth conversation with Sherwood--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dublab-inconversation/support

One of the most inspired of producer Adrian Sherwood’s many collaborations is the early-’80s dub project <a href="https://newagesteppers.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Age Steppers</a> – a loosely-configured collective of British and Jamaican musicians that primarily centered on Sherwood’s studio alchemy and the distinctive singing of Slits vocalist Ari Up. The project mixes up bright reggae songs and experimental zoners and helped pave the way for the most adventurous sounds of the ’80s and ’90s. Sherwood went on to work with Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Lee Scratch Perry, Sly &amp; Robbie, KMFDM, Cabaret Voltaire, and many others. This year marks the reissue of all four New Age Steppers releases, along with the odds-and-ends package Avant Gardening, in a single package titled <a href="https://newagesteppers.bandcamp.com/album/stepping-into-a-new-age-1980-2012" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stepping Into a New Age 1980-2021</a> on Sherwood’s storied label On-U Sounds. Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, hosts of dublab’s <a href="https://www.dublab.com/shows/contact-wave" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Contact Wave</a>, host this in-depth conversation with Sherwood--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dublab-inconversation/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dublab-inconversation/support</a>

Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo — In Conversation with Adrian Sherwood (04.15.21)