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Michael Schell
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Composer/intermedia artist, host of Flotation Device on 91.3 KBCS, contributor to Sequenza 21, cribbage player. Views expressed are mine and no one else's. https://linktr.ee/MichaelSchell
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Wayne Horvitz's What's Going On festival is back for a second year, and we'll have all the details tonight. Sun Ra, Butch Morris & Henry Threadgill will be in the spotlight of four Seattle concerts.
Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Felipe Lara by Celeste Sloman, Wayne Horvitz and Butch Morris by Dany Gignoux, Sun Ra with Yamaha YC30 combo organ, John Zorn in MindFlux 2010 via the artist, Oxana Omelchuk via Orbit, Steph Richards by Chris Weiss, Butch Morris by Chad Batka, Michael Finnissy via the artist, Brandon Ross via 27 East, Henry Threadgill via Pi Recordings, Ingrid Laubrock by Frank Schindelbeck. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Tonite Flotation Device pays tribute to Jack DeJohnette—perhaps the most versatile drummer ever—with help from Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Roscoe Mitchell & more. Plus Zappa, Rzewski, Meredith Monk, Clone Row & Prudencio at 70.
Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Cergio Prudencio via Kairos Records, Meredith Monk by Julieta Cervantes, Jack DeJohnette via the artist, Aquaserge (Audrey Ginestet, Julien Chamla , Manon Glibert, Benjamin Glibert, Olivier Kelchtermans) by J.P. Sageal, Alex Paxton by Jess Rose, Standards Trio (Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Gary Peacock) by Roberto Massoti, Norma Jean Bell and Frank Zappa by Gail Zappa, Frederic Rzewski and daughter by Françoise Walot, Jack DeJohnette and Miles Davis by Harry Monty, Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos via the artists, Clone Row (Liberty Ellman, Mary Halvorson, Nick Dunston, Ches Smith) by Chase Pierson. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Tonight Flotation Device interviews Matthew Aucoin about Music for New Bodies (coming to Meany Center on 11/1). Plus Wayne Horvitz & Kris Davis play Earshot Jazz, Dai Fujikura on timpani, Borderlands Trio, Zeena Parkins and more.
Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Matthew Aucoin via the artist, Megan Moore in Music for New Bodies via Meany Center, Wayne Horvitz by Tom Chargin, Cecilia Lopez by Ian Kornfeld, Kris Davis Trio (Kris Davis, Robert Hurst, Johnathan Blake) by B Natural, Zeena Parkins by Andy Newcombe, Dai Fujikura by Seiji Okumiya. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
October 27, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Tonight Flotation Device marks the 100th birthdays of Berio & Berberian (w/Stuart Dempster & Seattle Symphony) and the 70th of Hosokawa (w/the Arditti 4tet). Plus Smith, Taborn, @nelscline.bsky.social Patricia Brennan and more.
Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm @starbuckcello.bsky.social @kbcs.bsky.social
Photo credits: Carol Levin via the artist, Toshio Hosokawa by Kaz Ishikawa, Luciano Berio by Gisela Bauknecht, Trio of Bloom (Craig Taborn, Nels Cline, Marcus Gilmore) by Frank Heath, Sequenza V by Luciano Berio, Patricia Brennan by Werner Siebert, Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian via Seattle Chamber Orchestra, Gabriella Smith via the artist, Stuart Dempster via Still Listening Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
October 20, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Tonight on Flotation Device: La Monte Young at 90 w/Riley, Zazeela & Cale. Plus the latest from Dai Fujikura, Dobrinka Tabakova, Partch Ensemble & Shardik, and Earshot Jazz & Seattle Opera previews.
Sunday 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Dai Fujikura by Seiji Okumiya, Theatre of Eternal Music (Tony Conrad, Marian Zazeela, La Monte Young, John Cale), Dobrinka Tabakova by Benjamin Ealovega, La Monte Young by Co Broerse, Joe McPhee via the artist, Harry Partch riding the rails, improvisation segment from Ulysses Departs from the Edge of the World, Shardik (Sana Nagano, Danny Sher, Nick Jost, Matt Hollenberg) by Naeemah Maddox, Rudresh Mahanthappa via the artist, Henry Cow (John Greaves, Fred Frith, Dagmar Krause, Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper) via the artists. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Tonight Flotation Device previews Earshot Jazz Fest w/Ches Smith's Tone Row showing how Schoenberg might have sounded as a rock-n-roller. +Threadgill, Rzewski, Ohana, Bayle, Parkins & Roscoe Mitchell.
Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm @maryhalvorson.bsky.social @libertyellman.bsky.social @kbcs.bsky.social
Photo credits: Zeena Parkins by Andy Newcombe, Henry Threadgill via Pi Recordings, Clone Row (Ches Smith, Nick Dunston, Mary Halvorson, Liberty Ellman) by Bianca Zwerlein, Robert Fokkens via Music Theatre Wales, Maurice Ohana by Dominique Souse, Interpret It Well (Craig Taborn, Mat Maneri, Ches Smith, Bill Frisell) by Bianca Claircidor, François Bayle creating Vibrations composes, William Winant by Dennis Letbetter, Frederic Rzewski by Michael Wilson. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
October 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Tonite Flotation Device features premiere recordings of Gubaidulina and Amelia Cuni. Plus the Tim Berne and Cuong Vu Trios, the Bozzini Quartet Talk Show & more.
Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Oasis Boom (Vincent Duchosal, Mélissa Acchiardi) by Julie Ricosse, Cuong Vu Trio (Stomu Takeishi, Cuong Vu, Ted Poor) by William Poor, Sofia Gubaidulina by Mario Wezel, John Cage by Ann Keyvan, Amelia Cuni via the artist, Quatuor Bozzini (Alissa Cheung, Stéphanie Bozzini, Clemens Merkel, Isabelle Bozzini) by Michael Slobodian, Blake DeGraw via the artist, Arlene Sierra by Ian Phillips-McLaren, Steph Richards by Chris Weiss, Tim Berne Trio (Gregg Belisle-Chi, Tom Rainey, TB) by Sarah Berne, Pat Metheny by William Ellis, Conlon Nancarrow by Michael MacIntyre, Marshall Allen by Alexis Maryon. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
September 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Tonight on Flotation Device: Laurie Spiegel & Ye Xiaogang at 70, Zappa's Orchestral Favorites & Andriessen's Workers Union at 50. Plus Rzewski, Frith & The Dwarfs of East Agouza
Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: The Dwarfs of East Agouza (Alan Bishop, Maurice Louca, Sam Shalabi) by Maged Nader, Laurie Spiegel via Drew Schlesinger, Frederic Rzewski and Daan Vandewalle via Passacaille Records, Irène Schweizer via the artist, Alexander Hawkins via the artist, Workers Union by Louis Andriessen, Ye Xiaogang via Resonus Classics, Blasio Kavuma via the artist, Cosa Brava (Zeena Parkins, Norman Teale, Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Boss) by Heike Liss, Frank Zappa recording Orchestral Favorites by John Williams, Louis Andriessen by Marco Borggreve. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
September 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Tonight on Flotation Device
-Joe Morris & Adam Rudolph at 70
-Crossover w/Gabriel Prokofiev, Shaun Robert & The Residents
-Hosokowa's new album
-Gabriela Ortiz on Violeta Parra
-New Shardik & Joane Hétu
Sunday 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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September 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Tonight Flotation Device celebrates Arvo Pärt at 90 with a two-hour retrospective, including his iconic spiritual minimalist works of 1976–8 plus early and later works, including two brand-new premiere recordings.
Sunday 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @tasmin01.bsky.social @nonesuch.com
Photo credits: Arvo Pärt and Heino Eller via Arvo Pärt Centre, Arvo Pärt by Eric Marinitsch, Arvo Pärt in 1962 by Armin Alla, Arvo and Nora Pärt by Rene Riisalu, Paavo Järvi and Arvo Pärt by Kaupo Kikkas, Für Alina, Between Two Sounds by Joonas Sildre. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
September 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Tonight Flotation Device celebrates the 70th birthdays of Wayne Horvitz & Diamanda Galás with a retrospective and a look at recent albums & upcoming concerts. Plus Tania Léon for orchestra, and Sivan Eldar revisits the Daphne myth.
Sunday 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @diamandagalas.com
Photo credits: Tania León via the artist, Wayne Horvitz by Daniel Sheehan, Sivan Eldar via the artist, Wayne Horvitz and Butch Morris by Dany Gignoux, Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb by Robin Laanenan, Naked City (Wayne Horvitz, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Joey Baron, Fred Frith) by Timothy Greenfield Sanders, Diamanda Galás by Pere Masramon, Pigpen (Briggan Krauss, Fred Chalenor, Mike Stone, Wayne Horvitz) via Wayne Horvitz, William Dazeley and Juliette Allen in Like Flesh by Simon Gosselin. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Two impressions from the Ai Weiwei retrospective which closes Sep-7:
1. Admiration for the courage of this artist
2. If the US looks like China in 5–10 years, historians will be amazed which issues its cultural left focused on while it still mattered
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Mockup of the padded cell where Ai Weiwei was incarcerated by Chinese authorities for nearly three months Some of the 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds that Ai had made by hand by Chinese crafters, a comment on their ubiquity as snacks and propaganda icons in the People's Republic of China, and an example of Ai's obsession with images and an example of Ai's obsession with images that viewed closely turn out not to be what they might seem from a distance
August 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Mary Halvorson joins us on Flotation Device tonight for an interview and a survey of new albums w/Sylvie Courvoisier, Ches Smith and her own Amaryllis sextet. Plus Braxton, Carla Bley, Wet Ink Ensemble, Alex Paxton and more.
Sunday 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @maryhalvorson.bsky.social
Photo credits: Mary Halvorson and Anthony Braxton by Peter Gannushkin, Carla Bley by Klaus Muempfer, Mary Halvorson with Guild Artist Award Archtop by Steve DiBenedetto, Clone Row (Liberty Ellman, Mary Halvorson, Nick Dunston, Ches Smith) by Chase Pierson, Shaun Robert via the artist, Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 355, Amaryllis sextet (Nick Dunston, Adam O'Farrill, Patricia Brennan, Jacob Garchik, Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara) by Ernest Stuart, Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson by Caroline Mardok, Mary Halvorson and Jamaaladeen Tacuma via the artists, Wet Ink Ensemble (Ian Antonio, Erin Lesser, Sam Pluta, Alex Mincek, Kate Soper, Eric Wubbels, Josh Modney) via the artists, Thumbscrew (Michael Formanek, Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara) by Amy Touchette. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
August 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Tonight on Flotation Device:
-Premiere Silvestrov & Saariaho recs
-Tim Berne, Tomas Fujiwara & Christopher Hoffman do new things
-Donnacha Dennehy & Mesías Maiguashca
Sunday 10pm PDT, 91.3fm www.kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Valentin Silvestrov by Marco Caselli, Mesías Maiguashca at WDR Köln Studio für Elektronische Musik 1973, Fall (Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Kaija Saariaho, Tuija Hakkila in 1983) by Pirkko Tanttu, Tim Berne Trio (Gregg Belisle-Chi, Tom Rainey, TB) by Sarah Berne, Tomas Fujiwara by Peter Gannushkin, Bridget Riley and Firebird (1971), Crazy Doberman via the artists, Donnacha Dennehy by Iarla, Nastasia Khrushcheva via Melodiya, Dan Weiss Quartet (Dan Weiss, Patricia Brennan, Miles Okazaki, Peter Evans) via Firehouse 12, Christopher Hoffman via the artist. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
August 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Tonight on Flotation Device:
-Grateful Dead's Blues for Allah at 50
-Gubaidulina premiere recording
-Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley
-Miriodor, Djuro Zivkovic, Steve Swell, Joe McPhee & Flow Trio
Sunday 10pm PDT, 91.3fm www.kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Sylvain Kassap by Schorle, Grateful Dead in 1975 (Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, Phil Lesh, Donna Godchaux), Miriodor (Bernard Falaise, Pascal Globensky, Rémi Leclerc) by Marc Tessier, Robert Linn via Roger Linn, Dmitri Shostakovich via National Portrait Gallery London, Ennio Morricone by Georges Biard, Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley by Heinrich Brinkmöller-Becker, young Sofia Gubaidulina, Djuro Zivkovic via the artist, Joe McPhee by Bernd Scholkemper, Agathe Vidal in Jacopo Baboni Schilingi: Scarlet K141. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
August 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Happy 85th birthday to Roscoe Mitchell, saxophonist, composer and cofounder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Join Flotation Device tonight to celebrate with a retrospective of his career both with and without the Ensemble.
Sunday 10pm PDT, 91.3fm www.kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Roscoe Mitchell by Elvira Faltermeier, Wadada Leo Smith and Roscoe Mitchell via East of Borneo, Art Ensemble of Chicago (Famoudou Don Moye, Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors) by Enid Farber, Roscoe Mitchell and Thomas Buckner by Clara Pereira, People in Sorrow by Roscoe Mitchell via Paul Steinbeck, Pauline Oliveros and Roscoe Mitchell in Bologna 2011, Roscoe Mitchell with his paintings by Terrence Antonio James, Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell by Bill Smith, Muhal Richard Abrams by Brian McMillen. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
August 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Tonight on Flotation Device:
-New Sun Ra & Marshall Allen releases
-Raven Chacon explains owls & singing
-Zorn, Courvoisier, Missy Mazzoli & more.
Sunday 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm

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Photo credits: Roy Kiyooka in Michael de Courcy: Voice, A Joyful Noise (Marshall Allen, Knoel Scott, Sun Ra) by Robert Mugge, Andrew Poppy via the artist, Joe Morris by Rob Miller, Sylvie Courvoisier by George Braunschweig, Lester St. Louis by Peter Ganushkin, Sun Ra with Yamaha YC30 combo organ, Hildegard Westerkamp by Peter Grant, Missy Mazzoli by Marylene Mey, John Zorn and Bill Laswell with Sterling Ruby painting by Pushpin Films, Raven Chacon by Adolphe Pierre-Louis. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
July 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Tonight on Flotation Device:
-Liza Lim's new cello concerto and string 4tet
-Matt Mitchell at 50
-Braxton at Montreux
-Thollem in Seattle
-Cage's Radio Music
Sun 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Thollem and ACVilla via the artists, Liza Lim by Astrid Ackermann, John Cage by Marion Kalter, Anthony Braxton at Montreux 1975, Fabien Lévy by Jenny Wolf, Johannes Kalitzke: Kapitän Nemos Bibliothek (Johanna Zimmer, puppets, Iurii Iushkevich), Edges (Sylvain Kassap, Steve Swell, Benjamin Duboc, Chad Taylor) by Nicholas Dorbon, Matt Mitchell by Q. Bertram, Peter Ruzicka by Wilfried Beege, Keith Jarrett by Rose Anne Colavito, Evan Parker and Jean-Marc Foussat at Cafe OTO. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
July 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Tonight on Flotation Device: Silvestrov's 8th, Harriet Tubman, Laubrock, Williams, Didkovsky & Georges Lentz in the Outback.
Sun 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: David Lynch Eraserhead by Matteo Mariano, Joane Hétu via Productions SuperMusique, Valentin Silvestrov by Dmitri Matveyev, Harriet Tubman (Brandon Ross, JT Lewis, Melvin Gibbs) via MM Music Agency, Sylvie Courvoisier by Mimi Chakarova, Georges Lentz by Klae McGuinness, Unclassified Affections (Dan Weiss, Patricia Brennan, Miles Okazaki, Peter Evans) by Stephanie Ahn-Weiss, Adi Newton by E Gabriel Edvy, Cobar Sound Chapel by Lindsay Johnston, Nick Didkovsky by Lutz Diehl, Jose Davila by Alessandra Freguja, The Cave (Marilyn Crispell, Michala Østergaard-Nielsen, Thommy Andersson) by Stefani Sjöström Windfelt. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
July 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Tonight on Flotation Device:
-Rock-n-rollers do avant-garde stuff
-Shipp, Reynolds, Alex Paxton and Marshall Allen do new stuff
-Simone Porter plays Esmail
-ICE plays Ueno
-Julius Hemphill Stringtet
Sunday 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Matthew Shipp by Michael Wilderman, Laibach (Janez Gabrič, Luka Jamnik, Milan Fras, Marina Mårtensson, Jani Novak) via the artists, Julius Hemphill by Brian McMillen, Yoko Ono at Lisson Gallery 1967, Roger Reynolds by Malcolm Crowthers, Lou Reed by Keith Miller, Agustí Fernández via Jazz Music Archives, Reena Esmail via Community Musicworks, Marshall Allen with EVI by Elizabeth Robertson/Philadelphia Inquirer, Ken Ueno via UC Berkeley, Steve Layton via the artist, Alex Paxton by Jess Rose. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
July 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Lou Reed and Yoko Ono on Flotation Device? Yup. Tonight brings Metal Machine Music at 50 and a new recording of Ono's Grapefruit anthology of conceptual music. Plus Laibach on Hassan-i Sabbah and fascism.
Sunday 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Matthew Shipp by Michael Wilderman, Laibach (Janez Gabrič, Luka Jamnik, Milan Fras, Marina Mårtensson, Jani Novak) via the artists, Julius Hemphill by Brian McMillen, Yoko Ono at Lisson Gallery 1967, Roger Reynolds by Malcolm Crowthers, Lou Reed by Keith Miller, Agustí Fernández via Jazz Music Archives, Reena Esmail via Community Musicworks, Marshall Allen with EVI by Elizabeth Robertson/Philadelphia Inquirer, Ken Ueno via UC Berkeley, Steve Layton via the artist, Alex Paxton by Jess Rose. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.
July 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Sylvie Courvoisier joins Flotation Device tonight for an interview and a look at her new solo and duet (w/Mary Halvorson) albums. Plus The Horse in its expanded edition
Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Abaton Trio (Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman, Erik Friedlander) by Deborah Feingold, Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson by C. Mardok, Pierre Charial punching a barrel organ roll, Five Pieces 1975 (Anthony Braxton, Barry Altschul, Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler) by Bill Smith, Anthony Braxton by Giuseppi Pino, Iannis Xenakis via Les Amis de Xenakis, Sylvie Courvoisier by Harald Krichel, Composition No. 23g by Anthony Braxton, horse bone flute by Matthew Herbert, Conlon Nancarrow punching a player piano roll, Chimaera (Kenny Wollesen, Nate Wooley, Drew Gress, Sylvie Courvoisier, Wadada Leo Smith, Christian Fennesz) by David Breskin
June 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Tonight Flotation Device celebrates Anthony Braxton's 80th birthday with an exclusive interview with this most towering of creative musicians.
Sunday 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Quartet 1985 at Stonehenge (AB, Mark Dresser, Marilyn Crispell, Gerry Hemingway) by Nick White, AB and Epistrophy by Edu Hawkins, AB in 2007 by Michael Hoefner, AB in 1976 by Tom Marcello, Standards 2020 (Neil Charles, AB, Stephen Davis) by Edu Hawkins, AB drawing by Ian Johnson, Chick Corea via the artist, Thumbscrew (Michael Formanek, Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara) by Amy Touchette, Richard Teitelbaum with afro by Dennis Luzak, AB and Dave Holland via Qwest TV, Composition 115 by AB, Max Roach and AB via Inconstant Sol
June 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Next on Flotation Device
-JACK Quartet does minimal
-Brooks Williams & Yasunao Tone do AI
-Anna Rubin does black holes
-Alex Paxton
-RIP Guy Klucevsek
-Sun 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Mark Dresser by Alessandro D'Amico, Beingness (Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, Billy Hart) by Caris Liebman, Fabien Lévy by Jenny Wolf, Alex Paxton by Jess Rose, Pauline Oliveros and Guy Klucevsek via the artists, Jakob Bro by Luciano Rossetti, Ingrid Laubrock by Helmut Berns, Toshi Ichiyanagi via Metason.net, Maija Hynninen via the artist, Yasunao Tone by Chris Buck, Anna Rubin via the artist, Austin Wullimen by Anneliese Varaldiev, Kaija Saariaho by Maarit Kytöharju
June 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Old meets New tonight on Flotation Device w/Bright Sheng, Chinese astrology, Medieval organs, Korean zithers and Celtic ballads. Plus Frith, Syrphe & Lippel.
Sun 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Photo credits: Matt Mitchell and Kate Gentile via the artists, Steph Richards by Chris Weiss, Bright Sheng via the artist, Music Frees Our Souls (Matt Shipp, William Parker, Francisco Mela) by Kenneth Jimenez, Peter Adriaansz by Alex Schröder, Catalina Vicens by Kurt Van der Elst, Dal:Um (Hyeyoung Hwang, Ha Suyean) via Glitterbeat Records, Prach Boondiskulchok via the artist
May 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM