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Episode 42 – Never the Same Melody Twice with Akram Abdulfattah
Entertaining Noises, Music Theory, access & Identity, Genre Tombola Steve Pretty Entertaining Noises, Music Theory, access & Identity, Genre Tombola Steve Pretty

Episode 42 – Never the Same Melody Twice with Akram Abdulfattah

What happens when a melody can never be played quite the same way twice? Akram Abdulfattah brings his six-string violin to explore maqam, microtones and improvisation, with stories of musical tradition, family and his Palestinian-American identity.

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Episode 34 — Ciphers, Picks and the Art of the Jam
How We Hear, Genre Tombola, access & Identity, Music Theory, Entertaining Noises Steve Pretty How We Hear, Genre Tombola, access & Identity, Music Theory, Entertaining Noises Steve Pretty

Episode 34 — Ciphers, Picks and the Art of the Jam

From WOMEX in Finland, cyphers meet bluegrass picks with Gangstagrass — a live acoustic “Do Better,” an in-studio freestyle, and why the banjo’s a “pitched rhythm” engine. Improvisation as a shared language across genres.

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