WDIY's Space Music Program airs every Thursday at 11:04 pm.
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Electronic music composer David Wright has a large catalog of work
that is varied, embracing Electronic Music, New Age, Ambient and Space Music.
During a musical journey that began in the late '80s, David's unique, emotive, and multi-layered style has been compared to Tangerine Dream, Kitaro, Klaus Schulze, Mike Oldfield and Vangelis. He has established himself as a respected musician, producer and promoter of electronic music events. David Wright is co-founder of the Tangerine Dream influenced "Callisto" and the avant-garde electronic rock band "Code Indigo." He has recorded music as the new age project "Trinity" as well as with Ian Boddy, Robert Fox and Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock. He also founded the A.D. Music label in 1989 and his music has been used for film and TV alongside involvement in the production of numerous albums in genres spanning folk and opera to rap and rock. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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| Date | Title |
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| 01/07 | Continuum |
| 01/14 | Sines of Life Volume 1 |
| 01/21 | Connected |
| 01/28 | Beyond the Airwaves Volume 1 |
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Bryan Carrigan is a producer, engineer, music editor, synth programmer,
scoring sound designer, remixer and composer of electronic music. His
career has spanned the gamut of genres working within the record, TV
and film industries lending his skills to hundreds of projects.
Bryan has also released six albums of his own blend of electronic, ambient, downtempo, chill out and new age music. He has been involved in multiple Grammy winning and nominated albums, multiple Emmy winning and nominated TV projects, in an Oscar Nominated film, and has been awarded over a dozen gold and platinum albums. Bryan was involved in multiple award winning projects including Best Chill/Groove Album (2011, 2013), Album of the year (2005, 2007, 2011), and Best Contemporary Instrumental album (2005, 2007). Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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| Date | Title |
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| 02/04 | Focus |
| 02/11 | Passing Lights |
| 02/18 | Windows |
| 02/25 | Inspired |
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Amongst Myselves is Steve Roberts of Australia. He was first drawn into
electronic and atmospheric music by Tangerine Dream's "Atem" and "Alpha
Centauri." His journey continued in the '90s with influences from Future
Sound of London, Steve Roach, Robert Rich and Aphex Twin, and Brian and
Roger Eno. Coupled with advances in computer-based synths, he took a
great interest in the ambient.
After releasing a new-age styled album 1999, it was Steve's more ambient follow up "Still Life" in 2001 from which "Ultima Thule" radio chose a track to use for theme music. Steve's music has appeared on compilations by AquaFM and Ultima Thule alongside Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Tim Story and Numina. Other appearances include EuCuE Concert Series XXVII of electro-accoustic concerts and Roger Mills' project "Idea of South" sound installation at the Loop Gallery in Newcastle. "Fragments" is a very ambient remix of his previous three albums and was nominated for "Best Electronic" and "Best Ambient" album for 2010 in the annual Zone Music awards. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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Steve is also on CD Baby. |
| Date | Title | Label |
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| 03/03 | Still Life | RMC Records |
| 03/10 | Sacred Black | RMC Records |
| 03/17 | Fragments | Amongst Projects |
| 03/24 | Ambient, Landscape and Space | Amongst Projects |
| 03/31 | The Past Is Another Country | Amongst Projects |
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Cyberchump is the electro-organic duo of Jim Skeel and Mark G.E.
They explore aural soundscapes of rhythm and moment. Subterrainian
atmospherics give way to driving space melodies, at once a mix of
science beats, ambient texture, and cinematic themes.
The duo's music evokes place, time, and mood, utilizing the studio as an instrument to enhance traditional organic instruments. Jim tends to focus on electric guitar and keyboards. Mark tends to work with bass and keyboards. They count Brian Eno, Harold Budd, and Robert Fripp among their influences. Their interests include cinema, exploration, and moving forward. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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| Date | Title |
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| 04/07 | Inner Grooves |
| 04/14 | Their Moment of Perfect Happiness disk 1 |
| 04/21 | Their Moment of Perfect Happiness disk 2 |
| 04/28 | Flutter and Flow |
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Thomas Park has been involved with music for his entire life. He was trained
in classical and jazz music as a teenager and played the trombone and piano.
His listening habits changed in the late 1980s when Thomas became interested
in electronic music. After several years of writing techno as the band AutoCad,
Thomas was fortunate enough to collaborate with Robin Storey of Rapoon. This
project helped Thomas to evolve into the ambient / drone band Mystified.
Mystified has found considerable success, both through online and physical
releases, and is known for being proficient, creative and prolific.
The music of Mystified is mainly of an atmospheric nature. Sometimes for Thomas, less is more, making his music ideal for listening while working, sleeping or doing other things. The music of Mystified especially explores texture, consistency, and a type of variety that could be called subtle. This is not the utopian ambient of the typical soundscape artist. It is serious music for serious people. Mystified music has found many purposes, including scores for films, online and terrestrial radio shows, festivals of aesthetic, political, and other varieties, informational CD-ROMs, spots on many scores of compilations, and quite a few independent releases. Mister Vapor, a newer incarnation of Thomas Park, focuses especially on the hazier, foggier sides of ambient music. Thomas is open for collaboration. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
| Date | Title | Label |
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| 05/05 | Passing Through the Outer Gates | First Fallen Star |
| 05/12 | The Hand of Jayanti | Blue Water |
| 05/19 | Two Days | Dark Duck Records |
| 05/26 | Skywatchers | Small Doses Records |
 Click the banner above to view and hear the WDIY announcement for the 1000th broadcast celebration. |
 Click on the album cover above to visit Robert Rich's website. |
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June 2, 2016, marks the 1000th broadcast of Galactic Travels. To celebrate,
Robert Rich's landmark recording Perpetual - A Somnium Continuum
will be played in only two parts. The first six hours will be played in a
marathon broadcast and the remainder will be played later this month.
Perpetual is the eight hour follow up to the epic recording Somnium. As far as it is known, Somnium has received only one complete play on the radio and that was on Galactic Travels #211, broadcast on April 5, 2001. Famous for his legendary Sleep Concerts, Robert Rich created both Somnium and Perpetual in the same vein. The idea is to let the music incorporate itself into your perceptual framework during the night, to create a sonic surround, an environment for unique states of consciousness. |
| Date | Portion |
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| 06/02 | Hours 1 - 6 |
| 06/16 | Hours 7 - 8 |
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This month's Special Focus is on a trilogy by Shane Morris and Mystified. You
may read about Mystified in last month's Special Focus.
Shane Morris has spent most of his life exploring and cultivating sounds and their relationships. Inspired by nature, patterns, systems, and science, Morris weaves tribal rhythms, ethereal atmospheres, and digital electronica into mystic soundscapes that are rooted in traditions of the past while embracing contemporary technology. A solo musician since 2008, Shane Morris is a BMI recording artist with music released at Spotted Peccary/Lotuspike, Relaxed Machinery, and independently, as well as many releases licensed in Creative Commons. Shane Morris is fluent with over 30 percussion instruments and numerous wind instruments from around the world and has been studying, performing, and recording for 25 years. Morris is also deeply involved in hardware and software synthesizers, digital processing, DiY electronics, generative systems, and field recordings, which are often combined with acoustic instruments in his works. Apart from his solo works, Morris is a frequent collaborator both live and in-studio and worked with a number of artists including Mystified, Disturbed Earth, Dan Minoza, Palancar, Howard Moscovitz, Emerald Adrift, Pixyblink, Killerhaven, Modulator ESP, Kevin Kissinger, Q, Blue Hell, Jack Hertz, and Anton Mobin. Morris received a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology and Music from Missouri State University with a particular interest in ritual music of the African diaspora. Continuing his studies in percussion, Morris took workshops at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Ma. with Giovanni Hidalgo and Jamie Haddad, Humboldt State University in Arcata, Ca. with Michael Spiro, Los Munequitos de Matanzas, and Howard Kaufman, and Raleigh, NC. with Mamady Keita. Shane Morris' music is in regular rotation at Drone Zone at Soma FM, Stillstream, Electro-music, Astreaux world, and Zelest’s Asylum dot com radio stations. Morris has been featured on Hypnagogue, Sadayatana, Sounds of Ambience, Syndae, and Lost Frontier podcasts. Morris' music is also found on terrestrial FM radio programs in the U.S., such as Music with Space (Princeton, NJ), Innervisions (Berea, Kentucky), Night Tides (Kansas City, Mo.), Galactic Travels (Allentown, PA), Secret Music (Fishkill, NY), Alien Air Music (Los Angeles, Ca.), NightSounds (Abilene, TX), The Chestnut Tree (Houston, Tx), Thought Radio (Allentown, PA), and Star's End (Philadelphia, Pa.) An avid live performer and improviser, Morris is also a regular at Electro-Music festivals and the former City Skies. Other performances include small venue and living room concerts, and live streaming internet concerts both solo and networking with other artists in real-time. A lover of the long-form approach in live music, Shane segues all compositions together in a continuous immersive sound field during live sets. Morris uses live looping, sampling, and sequencing in his live sets which are approached with a loose compositional arrangement, creating a balance of improvisation and structure. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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| 06/09 | Epoch |
| 06/23 | Emergence |
| 06/30 | Evolution |
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The Serbo-Croatian phrase "vidna obmana" means "optical illusion" which is
why vidnaObmana chose it to be his musical personna. This indicates his
willingness to try new processes, sounds, and musical styles. One of the top
three most respected and prolific composers/performers in the ambient field,
vidnaObmana's internationally acclaimed atmospheric soundscapes have made him
a sought after performer and collaborator.
Currently performing under his own name, Dirk Serries, he has played locally at the Soundscapes Concert Series in 2003. He has also played a radio concert on Galactic Travels from the WDIY studios. Asmus Tietchens has also recorded under the monikers Club of Rome and Hematic Sunsets. He is a German composer of avant-garde music who became interested in experimental music and musique concrète as a child. He began recording sound experiments in 1965 with electronic musical instruments, synthesizers, and tape loops. His early recordings consisted of accessible music, but in 1984, he began moving toward abstract music. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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| Date | Title |
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| 07/07 | Motives for Recycling disc 1 |
| 07/14 | Motives for Recycling disc 2 |
| 07/21 | The Shifts Recyclings disc 1 |
| 07/28 | The Shifts Recyclings disc 2 |
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Xeroid Entity is a trio consisting of Howard Moscovitz, Greg Waltzer,
and Bill Fox. Howard created the electro-music community on-line which has spawned festivals and
radio stations. Greg and his wife Hong run the regional electro-music festival
in Asheville, NC, Asheville electro-music.
All three members came from the telecommunications industry and are very active in all aspects of electronic music. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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| 08/04 | Moons of Saturn |
| 08/11 | Live at the Deer Head Inn |
| 08/18 | Shards of Light |
| 08/25 | Clouds of Dust |
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Modulator Experimental Synthesis Project (Modulator ESP) is Jez Creek
from Nottingham in the UK. He performs improvised music that explores
the boundaries of dark ambient, drone, Berlin School sequencing, and
noise using modular synthesis, real-time sampling, sound manipulation,
and live looping.
Modulator ESP has been described variously as "vintage synth overload to propel you into the outer reaches of the cosmos" and "one man will descend to (this) earth in a hail of analogue synth tones; called upon from the singular consciousness of John Carpenter and Vangelis - like a 2046 dystopian dream with the optimism of Jean Michael Jarre, and his penguins." When Modulator ESP discovered that there was more to EM than TD, Jarre, Pickford and Shreeve by finding bands like Arc, RMI, Redshift, Airsculpture, and Arcane, bands that were doing a more retro-styled improvisational take on EM, it came as a revelation to him. One of the reasons he'd left the band he was in was because he wanted to do something a bit more freeform. He knew he still wanted to play live but without playing along to pre-programmed, structured backing tracks. Things started to snowball when he discovered certain synthesizers, both hardware and software, step sequencing, and delay processors. Modulator ESP loves playing synths because he loves the electronic, synthetic, other worldly nature of the sounds. This makes Ambient, Berlin School EM the best style for his interests. He plans to stretch the boundaries by incorporating some of his progressive influences. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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| 09/01 | The Sacred Doctrine of the Invisible Prong |
| 09/08 | Dark Places |
| 09/15 | Demon Star |
| 09/22 | Heliosphere |
| 09/29 | Box Yourself Into Some Strange Sonic Corner... |
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Jeffrey Ericson Allen is an Oregonian composer, cellist and electronic
music recording artist. He has an extensive and eclectic background in
classical, new acoustic and theatrical music production. His
contemplative art music has been featured on distinguished and
nationally-syndicated radio programs in the U.S. and in Australia.
Chronotope Project
represents his most recent expression as a creator of contemporary
progressive ambient music. "Chronotope" refers to the essential unity
of space and time, a concept with numerous expressions in literature,
physics and the arts. The music of Chronotope Project explores this
time-space confluence and invites the listener on ambient journeys of
deep texture infused with gentle pulsing rhythms and soulful melodies.
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| 10/06 | Chrysalis |
| 10/13 | Solar Winds |
| 10/20 | Event Horizon |
| 10/27 | Dharma Rain |
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Michael Reiley McDermott (Mikronesia) is a Philadelphia based composer,
sound designer and producer. He has studied computer science, composition
and piano privately, at Philadelphia University and Berklee College of
Music. Michael is the co-director of earSnake, a music collective and
label based in Philadelphia. Mikronesia has released albums on Gears of
Sand, kikapu, Nophi and earSnake recordings. Michael is a co-founder of
the interdisciplinary dance and music collective, Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd,
which has performed across Europe.
Michael also performs, writes and produces in the electronic music ensemble Gemini Wolf which is a duo of song writing and electronics often augmented with a strings, horns and percussion. He has scored music and sound design for choreographers Emily Sweeny, Here Begin Dance, Ring Dance Theater, Jaamil Kosoko and Nora Gibson Performance Group. In 2010 Michael became a member of NEXUS Foundation as their resident sound artist. As a film composer he has written music for short films by Derek Moench, Scott Johnston (Brother's Quay Interview) and J Makary (featured at the Philagrafika 2010 festival). Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
| Date | Title | Label |
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| 11/03 | Mikronesia | self released |
| 11/10 | Tissue Paper Ghosts | Gears of Sand |
| 11/17 | Host | EarSnake |
| 11/24 | vxvii | EarSnake |
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Jim Ottaway is an Australian composer, producer, and studio performer of original
instrumental music covering many genres including space ambient, electronic, dance,
new age, relaxation and music for film and television.
From a young age, he has always loved listening to music, a major part of his life.
Major musical influences include Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese, Vangelis, Pink Floyd, Enigma, Johannes Schmoelling, Christopher Buckman, Tony O'Connor, Christopher Franke, Lisa Gerrard, Code Indigo, Gary Wright, Steve Winwood, and Radio Massacre International. Jim has worked with a few international musicians including Rick Fenn (10CC) and composer/author Ted Ottley. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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| 12/01 | Aurora |
| 12/08 | Orion |
| 12/15 | Centauri |
| 12/22 | Liquid Moon |
| 12/29 | Invisible Vortex |
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