Radio – Sound It Out

Through interviews with musicians and scholars in the improvised and experimental music world, this show explores the idea that new ways of interacting musically are also new ways of interacting socially. In listening to what is unfamiliar can we better hear the voices of others? Does creative risk-taking in music give courage to progressive political expression? Can judicious spontaneity in performance model the timely wisdom needed in our social institutions? Does improvised music preface grassroots democratic deliberation? Produced and Hosted by Rachel Elliott, a PhD candidate in Philosophy, Sound It Out is a fun, easy-listening exploration and reflection on the present, past, and future of jazz, creative, and contemporary music, and all nature of sound experiment. Broadcast in Guelph, Ontario on CFRU 93.3FM on Tuesdays at 5pm. Produced with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Art by Justin Karas.