Hosts: Louise Fristensky + Christopher Walker
Frequency: Weekly
Genre: Popular & Avant-Garde
Tonotopicalia (tō′nə-tŏp′ĭk′alja)
noun.
A broadcast pursuing a structural arrangement of the popular and the avant-garde in the auditory pathway, such that different tone frequencies and sun-drenched sensations are transmitted separately along specific parts of the structure.
This is music that draws up plans to experience it in person. Tunes cut as bumpers to NPR programming, eliciting exclamations of "neat!" Thoughtful renderings in pencil to paper; algorithmic overlays; nights, days in agony over buggy programming; working details out in performance.