Tonight’s Signal & Form episode is about subversion in music. But instead of focusing on satire, irony, or comedy, we’ll be listening to music that understands the rules we bring with us as listeners.... things like groove, beauty, confidence, virtuosity, closure... but deliberately pushes back agai...

Congratulations on getting this going! I'm sure it's going to be a hit!

I've had about 6 months of kendo training, so I know the basics. I'd love to continue, but I'm unlikely to be of any value as an instructor.

And again, since we're on the subject, any HEMA fencers in the valley? I'd love to give those methods a try.

Believe it or not, I was just talking with Jim Salter a couple of days ago about trying to get some fencing activity established here in the valley. I used to run a fencing program in Portland that taught traditional Western fencing concepts using homemade “boffer” swords. It was a great way to teac...

The next episode of Signal & Form explores structure — the intentional ways composers organize sound in time to shape how music unfolds and how we listen. This episode takes a field-guide approach, listening for structure in pitch systems, harmonic motion, rhythm and pulse, large-scale form, and mus...

Tonight’s episode of Signal & Form is built as a winter solstice listening journey. This isn’t a genre show or a music lecture. It’s a quiet, 2+ hour-long set shaped around how sound changes attention over time — moving through phases of disorientation, descent, stillness, and return. The playlist d...

Thanks Elliot! I'm glad I lucked out and caught you!

- Grant

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- Grant

What happens when composers stop changing the notes, and start changing the instruments? Tonight’s episode of Signal & Form explores music shaped by altered instruments, newly invented sound worlds, and machines built to realize ideas humans can’t easily play. First hour: • prepared instruments • in...

Hey folks, I’m hosting my weekly music show Signal & Form tonight (Tuesday) at 7pm on KTRT 97.5 — and if you’ve ever wondered what happens when a lover of eclectic music gets way too deep into rhythm, acoustics, and the physics of sound… well, here we are. Tonight’s theme is pulse: why a beat can hi...