We're in the Siberian town of Novosibirsk for the Echotourist party – the best place to hear experimental music, perhaps the coldest too: outside, it's -20 and snowing.
To hear experimental acts head to the bunker-like Fluc and Fluc Wanne, or for a chilled drink go to Donau on Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse and enjoy relaxed beats accompanied by artistic projections – but you'll have to find the hidden entrance first.
More importantly, listening to these music streams was a way to nationalize local radio and catch up with some favorite college stations, like WFMU-FM in East Orange, N.J., for independent, hard-to-find new music; WNUR-FM in Evanston, Ill., a station I grew up with; and CKUT-FM in Montreal, one of the best places to hear experimental radio plays and sound art.
The series provides an opportunity to hear experimental music interpreted by performers who know the work of John Cage as well as anyone alive.
Andy Warhol could be spotted chatting, John Cage could be heard making experimental music and Eddy Haring could be found finishing his huge canvases.
The line, after all, is a fictional construct: much in Mahler and Berlioz can still be heard as experimental, and lifelines to the past are maintained, however quirkily, in Schoenberg and Ives.
Hence, it is likely that interactions seen in normal hearing experimental animals implanted with cochlear implants would be larger than those seen in partial hearing situations.
With informed consent, hearing screening, experimental blocks, and breaks, the entire session took approximately 3 hours to complete.
Doctors told Ms. Magnus, a 50-year-old Westbury woman, that she would be fortunate to live for a year, but she had heard about an experimental program at Brookhaven National Laboratory that could give her more time.
He exclaimed, "Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not," when he heard about an experimental contradiction (later proven spurious) of his theory of relativity.
And as for your never-before-heard experimental compositions, we'll give those a miss, thanks.
