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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 31/08/2026

Happy 60th birthday to Australian composer Liza Lim. We celebrate tonight on Flotation Device with an exclusive interview and retrospective. Plus the latest from Threadgill, Nabatov, Hanes, Min Xiao-Fen and Visible Cloaks. Sunday 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 04/08/2026

Mamdani and Trump’s candidacies were both designed to appeal primarily to disgruntled white people.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 26/07/2026

Turning 50 this weekend is Einstein on the Beach, minimalism's greatest opera, and the crowning achievement of Philip Glass & Robert Wilson. We'll celebrate tonight with a survey of its four extent recordings. Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @philipglass.bsky.social @normanrecords.com

Photo credits: Suzanne Vega by Jorge Carmona, Philip Glass and Robert Wilson by Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Wilson and Philip Glass by Kristian Kruuser, Sheryl Sutton and Lucinda Childs by Richard Landry, Bed (Montpellier 2012) by Lucie Jansch, Albert Einstein on the beach (1939), organ solo from Einstein on the Beach (Act IV, Scene 2: Bed), Tison Street as Einstein (BAM 1984), Train (Montpellier 2012) by Lucie Jansch, Trial (Paris 1976) by Egon Von Fürstenberg, Rudy Wurlitzer and Philip Glass on the beach (Nova Scotia 1971) by Roberta Neiman.

Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with hosts Michael Schell and John Seman, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 19/07/2026

Flotation Device turns 25 tonight with 4 DJs spinning A.Coltrane, W.Parker, P.Oliveros & more. We also mark the 70th BD of Bang on a Can's Michael Gordon. Sunday 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @nonesuch.com @cantaloupe-music.bsky.social @icebreakeruk.bsky.social @visiblecloaks.bsky.social

Photo credits: KMRU and microphone via the artist, Jonathan Lawson via Climate Solutions, Alice Coltrane by Jeff Dunas, Michael Gordon by Peter Serling, Beatriz Ferreyra by INA grm, Naked City (Wayne Horvitz, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Joey Baron, Fred Frith) by Timothy Greenfield Sanders, Alëna Korolëva by Mike Hoolboom, Pauline Oliveros by David A. Cantor, Christopher DeLaurenti by Alex Woodward, Michael Schell and John Seman via the artists, William Parker via AUM Fidelity.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 06/07/2026

Tonight we celebrate the 90th BD of Stuart Dempster, the 100th of Kenneth Gaburo, and the 50th of Cage's Apartment House 1776 & Sun Ra's great Montreux gig. Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @imprec.bsky.social @neumarecords.bsky.social @johncagetrust.bsky.social @andrewdrury.bsky.social

Photo credits: Stuart Dempster performing General Speech, Sun Ra and Ahmed Abdullah in Montreux by Leon Collins, Pauline Oliveros and Stuart Dempster via Andy Clausen, Kenneth Gaburo in Michael Schell: Just Words, Chen Yi by Jiang Xiao Ming, Giya Kancheli via Wise Music Classical, John Cage in Nam June Paik: Good Morning Mr. Orwell, Satoko Fujii and Myra Melford by Michele Giotto, WRENS (Elias Stemeseder, Ryan Easter, Lester St. Louis, Jason Nazary) by Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr., Miles Okazaki by John Rogers.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 28/06/2026

Next on Flotation Device: -Henze at 100 -Janice Giteck at 80 -New albums by Halvorson, Akinmusire, Amy Denio, Dewa Alit, Steve Layton, Horse Lords and more -Sorabji's Opus Archimagicum in its first recording Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @maryhalvorson.bsky.social @nonesuch.com

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 06/04/2026

Happy Podcast Monday! This week we preview four Northwest new music events, with new works by Tower & Theofanidis at Seattle Symphony, a new version of Canto Ostinato at Emerald City Music, plus Frith, Harriet Tubman & more www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDev... @kbcs.bsky.social @melvingibbs.bsky.social

Photo credits: José María Sánchez-Verdú by Zafino Visual, Joan Tower by Michael Schell, Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt, Miroslav Vitous via The Guardian, Kölner Philharmonie 1988 (Jürgen Hocker, Conlon Nancarrow, György Ligeti) by Gisela Gronemeyer, Christopher Theofanidis by Matthew Fried, Fred Frith Trio (Jordan Glenn, FF, Jason Hoopes) via Moods, Harriet Tubman (Brandon Ross, JT Lewis, Melvin Gibbs) via M M Music Agency, Jessica Lurie via Key Leaves.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 23/03/2026

Tonight on Flotation Device: -Missy Mazzoli gives Lot's wife a new voice -New albums from Endlings, Lukas Ligeti & Domenica Diavoleria -Pärt, Ferneyhough, Yun gems at 50 Sunday 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @missymazzoli.bsky.social @newworlddram.bsky.social @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social

Photo credits: Endlings (John Dieterich, Raven Chacon) via the artists, Biliana Voutchkova by C. Marx (Photomusix), Wolfgang Rihm by Astrid Ackermann, Arvo Pärt by Kaupo Kikkas, Baschet bass cristal by Marc-Antoine Millon, Isang Yun by Elke Nord, Lukas Ligeti via the artist, Cheer-Accident via the artists, Maya Beiser's salted cello by Abigail Fenton, Domenica Diavoleria via the artist, Nick Fraser by Jim Croft, Frederic Rzewski and his daughter by Françoise Walot, Nethering (Colin Stetson, Greg Fox, Trevor Dunn) via Envision Records, Brian Ferneyhough by Charlotte Oswald (Edition Peters).

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 02/03/2026

Tonight on Flotation Device: Emerald City Music premieres Vivian Fung, Joan Tower & Gabriella Smith, Third Angle plays Philip Glass, Klangforum Wien plays Marcin Stańczyk and Robert Millis turns 60. Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @philipglass.bsky.social @klangforumwien.bsky.social

Photo credits: Marcin Stańczyk by Paride Galeone, Sandbox Percussion (Jonny Allen, Terry Sweeney, Ian Rosenbaum, Victor Caccese) by Alex Lee, Robert Millis at Kyushu University, Lou Harrison via Cabrillo Festival, Gérard Grisey by Jackie Carson, Joan Tower by Bernard Mindich, Bernhard Lang by Harald Hoffmann, Vivian Fung by Geneviève Caron, Pierre Schaeffer via ISM, Philip Glass by Danny Clinch.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 23/02/2026

Tonight Flotation Device celebrates György Kurtág's 100th birthday with a look at his gripping and austere music. We also wrap up our 50th anniversary salute to Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra Music 1976. Plus Seabrook, Layton and Xenakis. Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social

Photo credits: Steve Layton via the artist, György Kurtág via Müpa Budapest, Anthony Braxton and Brandon Seabrook via Brandon Seabrook, Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton, Kenny Wheeler rehearsing in Braxton’s Woodstock home by Bill Smith, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Ah Young Hong performing Kurtág by James Holt/Seattle Symphony, Iannis Xenakis via Les Amis de Xenakis, Kurtág: Kafka Fragments, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and György Kurtág by Balint Hrotko.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 16/02/2026

Tonight we preview yMusic at Meany Center and Fellow Travelers at Seattle Opera. Plus Braxton's Creative Orchestra Music, Cerha & Hoiby at 100, Fagerlund, Rzewski, Wuorinen and Cecil Taylor's last gig. Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @okkyunglee.bsky.social @seattleopera.bsky.social

Photo credits: Matthew Welch via the artist, Uwalmassa (Harsya Wahono, Pujangga Rahseta, Randy Pradipta) via the artists, Anthony Braxton rehearsing Creative Orchestra Music 1976 by Bill Smith, Sebastian Fagerlund by Sirpa Räihä, Cecil Taylor in Chrystel Egal and Alain Kirili: IFA, Charles Wuorinen By Javier Del Real, yMusic (Mark Dover, CJ Camerieri, Alex Sopp, Gabriel Cabezas, Nadia Sirota, Rob Moose) by Shervin Lainez, Friedrich Cerha and Wolfgang Kogert by Daniel Auer, Theresa Wong by Peter Gannushkin.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 09/02/2026

Tonight we celebrate The People United Will Never Be Defeated! at 50 w/six different pianists including composer Frederic Rzewski. Plus Iris Unveiled at Seattle Symphony, and Old Meets New w/@jamesweeks.bsky.social, Juri Seo and Žibuoklė Martinaitytė. Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social

Photo credits: Meng Meng via Seattle Symphony, Frederic Rzewski by Michael Wilson, Qigang Chen and Olivier Messiaen via Qigang Chen, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė by Tomas Terekas, James Weeks via the artist, Juri Seo via the artist, Latitude 49 via New Amsterdam Records, score excerpt from The People United Will Never Be Defeated!.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 02/02/2026

Tonight Flotation Device begins its 50-year celebration to Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra Music 1976. Plus a salute to the Iranian avant-garde (w/Sote, IFCA & Laibach), and new albums by Kalevi Aho and Marc-André Hamelin. Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @newfocuslabel.bsky.social

Photo credits: Alireza Amirhajebi by AmirAli Piroozbakhsh, Laibach (Janez Gabrič, Luka Jamnik, Milan Fras, Donna Marina Mårtensson, Jani Novak) via the artists, Alireza Mashayekhi via Toos Foundation, Kalevi Aho by Kuva Rajattu, Marc-André Hamelin by Benjamin Ealovega, Anthony Braxton via Mosaic Records, Creative Orchestra Music 1976 artwork by Frederick J. Brown, Anahita Abbasi by Michael Schell, Nasim Khorassani via the artist, Wet Ink Ensemble (Antonio, Lesser, Pluta, Mincek, Soper, Wubbels, Modney) via the artists, Ata Ebtekar AKA Sote via the artist, Iranian Female Composers Association by Deniz Khateri, Hiyoli Togawa by Anne Hornemann.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 26/01/2026

Tonight we bid farewell to Ralph Towner with a look at his career as guitarist & bandleader. Plus Horse Lords, Novoa/Gress/Gray, Gavin Higgins, David Lang & Chaya Czernowin. Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @chaya-czernowin.bsky.social @gavhiggins.bsky.social @devingraymusic.bsky.social

Photo credits: Nicolaus Richter de Vroe by Astrid Ackermann, Frederic Rzewski by Roberto Cifarelli, Ralph Towner in 1975, Eva Novoa via the artist, David Lang by Dacia Clay, Oregon in 2010 (Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Mark Walker, Glen Moore) by Efrem Lukatsky, Gavin Higgins via the artist, Chaya Czernowin by Ittai Bar-Joseph, Horse Lords+ (Owen Gardner, Arnold Dreyblatt, Andrea Belfi, Andrew Bernstein, Max Eilbacher) by Camille Blake, Iannis Xenakis in Xenakis Revolution, Farabi Toshiyuki Suzuki via the artist, Daniel Goode 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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 19/01/2026

Tonight on Flotation Device: -David Tudor at 100 -Yarn/Wire comes to Seattle -New things by Yikii, Otherlands Trio, Rosa Ensemble, For Living Lovers & Charles Rumback Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @yarnwire.bsky.social @stevereich.bsky.social @nonesuch.com @tyondaibraxton.bsky.social

Photo credits: Yikii via the artist, Tyondai Braxton by Dustin Condren, Yarn/Wire (Julia Den Boer, Sae Hashimoto, Russell Greenberg, Laura Barger) via the artists, David Tudor and Rainforest at the Andy Warhol Museum in 1994, Enno Poppe via Ricordi, Otherlands Trio (Stephan Crump, Eric McPherson, Darius Jones) via the artists, David Tudor by Betsy Epstein Williams, Lingyuan Yang via the artist, Steve Reich by Jeff Herman, Morton Feldman and Karen Phillips by Steven Sloman, Bekah Simms by Riley Stewart, Lila Meretzky 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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 12/01/2026

Tonight we celebrates Morton Feldman at 100 with Joan La Barbara, John Cage, Michael Tilson Thomas, and composers like Sorey, Sciarrino and Andriessen that were influenced by Feldman. Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @philipthomas.bsky.social @alarmwillsound.bsky.social @nonesuch.com

Photo credits: Cergio Prudencio via Kairos Records, Morton Feldman by Philip Guston, Morton Feldman by Steven Slomana, Bryn Harrison via University of Huddersfield, Kris Davis by Peter Gannushkin, The King of Denmark by Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman and John Cage via Non Profit, Louis Andriessen by Francesca Patella, Mark Rothko by Denisova Olesya Alexandrovna, Joan La Barbara by Roberto Massoti, Tyshawn Sorey 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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 04/01/2026

Tonite Flotation Device begins 2026 w/old friends and new voices. Halvorson, Marsella, Kris Davis & Medeski play Zorn. +Mitchell/Gentile, Crispell, BMOP, Kendall, Steph Richards and even Bernstein & Ives! Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @maryhalvorson.bsky.social @shuyingli.bsky.social

Photo credits: Out Came the Sun by Tanner Porter (for Shuying Li), Mark Feldman by Michael Jackson, Dobrinka Tabakova by Benjamin Ealovega, John Zorn by David Garland, Denis Dufour via the artist, Steph Richards by Chris Weiss, Marilyn Crispell by Bobby Glazer, circuit by John Bischoff, Charles Ives via the Charles Ives Society, Les mercenaires de l'amour fou (Christian Bucher, Matthias Reinhard-DeRoo, Martin Medimorec) via the artists, Paweł Łukowiec by Joanna Klich, Matt Mitchell and Kate Gentile via the artists, Hannah Kendall by Emily Denny.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 29/12/2025

Tonight Flotation Device continues its review of the best new albums of 2025 with Pärt, Jarrett, Gubaidulina, Zorn, Laubrock, Halvorson, Monk, Andres and more Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @nonesuch.com @timoandres.bsky.social @ingridlaubrock.bsky.social @maryhalvorson.bsky.social

Photo credits: Sofia Gubaidulina via Sikorski, Timo Andres by Jason Marck, Koan 3 by Ingrid Laubrock, John Zorn in MindFlux 2010, Keith Jarrett by Rose Anne Colavito, Beckmesser harp by Horngacher, Daphne Oram via Electronic Sound, Gabriel Prokofiev by Nathan Gallagher, Meredith Monk by Julieta Cervantes, Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson by Caroline Mardok, Ornette Coleman by Michael Hoefner, Cosa Brava (Zeena Parkins, Norman Teale, Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi) by Heike Liss, Eiffel Tower by Leslie Fehling, Cantica Profana (John Surman, Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri) by Mircea Albutiu.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 22/12/2025

Tonight Flotation Device begins its annual review of the year's top new releases of exploratory music. Reich, Rzewski, Paxton, Mitchell, Serpa, Gentile, Alberga and Wayne Horvitz's Pigpen are among the headliners Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @stevereich.bsky.social @nonesuch.com

Photo credits: Eleanor Alberga by Ben Ealovega, Tim Berne Trio (Gregg Belisle-Chi, Tom Rainey, Tim Berne) by Sarah Berne, Ig Henneman by Francesca Patella, Steve Reich by Jesse Yang, Peter Eötvös by Jean-Francois Leclercq, self portrait by Alex Paxton, Pigpen (Briggan Krauss, Fred Chalenor, Mike Stone, Wayne Horvitz) via Wayne Horvitz, Trio Mediæval (Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Anna Maria Friman, Jorunn Lovise Husan) by Åsa Maria Mikkelsen, Nastasia Khrushcheva via Melodiya, Sifters (Jeremy Viner, Marc Ducret, Kate Gentile) via the artists, Frederic Rzewski via Nonesuch Records, Stomu Takeishi by Daniel Sheehan, Putu Septa via Other Minds.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 15/12/2025

Happy 100th BD to Wozzeck, the most iconic modern opera. We'll celebrate in English & German and hear its influence in Mary Kouyoumdjian's Adoration. Plus Jacob Garchik, Zorn, Rzewski, Monk & more. Sunday 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @jacobgarchik.bsky.social @maryhalvorson.bsky.social @kbcs.bsky.social

Photo credits: Frederic Rzewski by Lynn Garon, Ye Olde plus Simulacrus (Miles Okazaki, Josh Dion, Mary Halvorson, Ava Mendoza, Sean Moran, Jacob Garchik, Vinnie Sperrazza, Brandon Seabrook, Jonathan Goldberger) by Ernest Stuart, Elisabeth Steiner and Toni Blankenheim in Wozzeck (Staatsoper Hamburg 1970), Cenk Ergün via the artist, Adoration (Marc Kudisch, Naomi Louisa O'Connell, Omar Najmi) by Maria Baranova, Matt Choboter by Krestine Havemann, Chaos Magick (Brian Marsella, Matt Hollenberg, John Medeski, Kenny Grohowski) via Roulette Intermedium, Mako Sica (Przemyslaw Krzysztof Drazek, Hamid Drake, Tatsu Aoki, Brent Fuscaldo, Thymme Jones) by Taylor Hales, Meredith Monk by Julieta Cervantes.

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 30/11/2025

Tonight on Flotation Device: -Haas's 2nd Violin Concerto (premiere rec) -Younghi Pagh-Paan at 80 -John Zorn/Dave Lombardo duo -Raven Chacon, John Dieterich, Brandon Ross & more Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @davelombardo.bsky.social @ssskdist.bsky.social @stefanogervasoni.bsky.social @kbcs.bsky.social

Photo credits: Stefano Gervasoni via the artist, Younghi Pagh-Paan by Astrid Ackermann, Laetitia Sonami via the artist, Miranda Cuckson and Georg Friedrich Haas by Gene Gaudette, Andrew McIntosh via the artist, Osvaldo Coluccino in Rosetta Berardi: Intreccio, Raven Chacon by Adam Conte, Giacinto Scelsi via Wikimedia Commons, Brandon Ross via 27 East, Nina C. Young via the artist, John Zorn and Dave Lombardo via DiegoMH2002, 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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 24/11/2025

Tonight Flotation Device celebrates the 100th birthday of Gunther Schuller, the 90th of Helmut Lachenmann, the 60th of Björk and the 50th of Feldman's Piano and Orchestra. Plus new things by Dwarfs of East Agouza & Alec Hall Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @universaledition.bsky.social

Photo credits: Björk by Viðar Logi, Morton Feldman via Universal Edition, Helmut Lachenmann by Ensemble recherche, Alec Hall by Laura Bianchi, Sarah Maria Sun by Rüdiger Schestag, Ornette Coleman by Michael Hoefner, Pression by Helmut Lachenmann, The Dwarfs of East Agouza (Alan Bishop, Maurice Louca, Sam Shalabi) by Hans Van Der Linden, Gunther Schuller by William E. Sauro.

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 17/11/2025

Tonite on Flotation Device Steven Mackey chats about his new sax concerto coming to Seattle Symphony. Plus Jürg Frey, John Adams, Ying Wang & more. Sun 10pm PST 91.3fm kbcs.fm @mcallistersax.bsky.social @booseyandhawkes.bsky.social @juergfrey.bsky.social @klangforumwien.bsky.social @kbcs.bsky.social

Photo credits: Bryn Harrison via Another Timbre, Cantica Profana (John Surman, Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri) by Mircea Albutiu, Steven Mackey by Michael Schell, Jürg Frey via Le Vivier, John Adams by Musacchio Ianniello & Pasqualini, Ying Wang by Sophia Hegewald, Sifters (Jeremy Viner, Marc Ducret, Kate Gentile) via the artists, Blasio Kavuma via the artist, Steven Mackey on skis via the artist, Trio of Bloom (Craig Taborn, Nels Cline, Marcus Gilmore) by Frank Heath, Matt Mitchell and Sara Serpa by Mariana Meraz, Nicholas Tolle via UC Davis, Sylvie Courvoisier and Wadada Leo Smith by OGATA photography.

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 10/11/2025

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 @sunrauniverse.bsky.social @ingridlaubrock.bsky.social @kbcs.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 02/11/2025

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 @maryhalvorson.bsky.social @kbcs.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 27/10/2025

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 @daifujikura.bsky.social @kbcs.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 20/10/2025

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 13/10/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @seattleopera.bsky.social @daifujikura.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 06/10/2025

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 29/09/2025

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 @nonesuch.com @ooyhrecords.bsky.social @orenambarchi.bsky.social @quatuorbozzini.bsky.social @kbcs.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 21/09/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @cantaloupe-music.bsky.social @nonclsscl.bsky.social @frankzappa.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 15/09/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @theresidents.bsky.social @nonclsscl.bsky.social

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 07/09/2025

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 01/09/2025

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 01/09/2025

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 @seattleartmuseum.bsky.social @aiww.bsky.social

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 25/08/2025

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 18/08/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @ooyhrecords.bsky.social @cantaloupe-music.bsky.social @buhrecords.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 10/08/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @gratefuldead.bsky.social @burningambulance.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 04/08/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @audiobuzz.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 28/07/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @sunrauniverse.bsky.social @ssskdist.bsky.social @pentatonemusic.bsky.social @missymazzoli.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 20/07/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @thollem.bsky.social @johncagetrust.bsky.social @first-inversion.com @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 13/07/2025

Tonight on Flotation Device: Silvestrov's 8th, Harriet Tubman, Laubrock, Williams, Didkovsky & Georges Lentz in the Outback. Sun 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @ingridlaubrock.bsky.social @melvingibbs.bsky.social @cantaloupe-music.bsky.social @doctornerve.bsky.social @ranchy.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 07/07/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @djmoderne.bsky.social @newamrecords.bsky.social

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.

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 07/07/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @yokoono.bsky.social @muterecords.bsky.social

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 29/06/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @maryhalvorson.bsky.social @matthewherbert.bsky.social @accidentalrecords.bsky.social

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 09/06/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @delmarkrecords.bsky.social @burningambulance.bsky.social @domlash.bsky.social @maryhalvorson.bsky.social

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 02/06/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @sonoluminusmusic.bsky.social @neumarecords.bsky.social @ranchy.bsky.social @newamrecords.bsky.social

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 26/05/2025

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 @kbcs.bsky.social @syrphe.bsky.social @edpettersen.bsky.social @newfocuslabel.bsky.social @577records.bsky.social

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

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 12/05/2025

Mother's Day isn't complete without Flotation Device's annual Frank Zappathon. This year features two new archival releases with the original Mothers of Invention in 1968 and the Roxy-era band joined by Captain Beefheart. Sun 10pm–Mid PDT on 91.3fm kbcs.fm @kbcs.bsky.social @frankzappa.bsky.social

Photo credits: Frank Zappa via @Zappa estate, Mothers of Invention (top: Jimmy Carl Black, Ray Collins, Art Tripp, Roy Estrada, middle: Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston, Motorhead Sherwood, bottom: FZ) at Whiskey a Go Go 1968 by George Rodriguez, Orchestral Favorites cover by Gary Panter, Captain Beefheart and FZ by John Williams, Edgard Varèse via Ricordi, young FZ, Mothers of Invention in 1974 (Napoleon Murphy Brock, Jeff Simmons, Ruth Underwood, Tom Fowler, Chester Thompson, George Duke, Ralph Humphrey, FZ, Bruce Fowler), The Penguins via Original Sound, Dupree’s Paradise, Larry Stein and FZ at US Senate 1985

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Michael Schell @schellsburg.com · 04/05/2025

Tonight on Flotation Device: -Tan Dun at Seattle Symphony -Jarrett at 80 -Philip Glass & Accordion Day -New Tenebrae lessons via IRCAM -Anzû 4tet, Melia Watras & more Sun 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm @stefanogervasoni.bsky.social @ircam.bsky.social @philipglass.bsky.social @cantaloupe-music.bsky.social

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