Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center 91.7 FM WHUS

11/05/2024

Quincy Jones was one of Nadia Boulanger's star students. When asked what he learned from his time with the famed music teacher and theorist, Jones replied, “Counterpoint, structure, science, left brain.”

He applied his classical lessons with Boulanger to become one of the most decorated and admired musicians in history and change the music world forever. ❤️

10/30/2024

A classic series of releases!

Explore the rich legacy of musique concrète on Bandcamp with records, soundtracks, and scores made by its pioneers.

10/21/2024

Greetings! Welcome to the UCONN sports truncated edition of PTE! It's quite amazing how much great music you can squeeze into 59 minutes and 30 seconds! Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 10-19-24 PTE Playlist Triton - John Olive...

10/17/2024

Greetings! Some new things from the folks at Neuma Records & Projekt Records morphs into a bunch of used goodies I found in a store in Ellicott City, MD. Someone was getting rid of their collection of prog and prog-metal, so I scarfed up a handful of Spock's Beard releases along with most of wha...

10/12/2024

Greetings! Progressive rock, music recorded in reverberent spaces and other assorted bric a brac... a brief summary of this week's program. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 10-5-24 PTE Playlist The Equilibrium of Time - Leon Al...

10/06/2024

Greetings! PTE closes out the month of September by celebrating National Piano Month with a taste of numerous musical genres featuring the instrument that Andrés Segovia described as, " a monster that screams when you touch its teeth" or as author Maria Cristina noted, “The piano keys are black a...

09/28/2024

Greetings! Quite a bit of international representation on today's program; from Japan (Norio Maeda) to Viet Nam (Keith Beber & Mai Giang Trần), from Brooklyn (Devin Gray) to a plethora of Canadian artists (India Gailey, Eldritch Priest & Kamra). Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@g...

09/22/2024

A format underrated by most, CDs are still worth listening to today.

09/18/2024

*NEW RELEASE*

Hey everyone. I'd like to announce my latest release. It's an abstract album-length dronescape called 'Becquerel'.

Stream/Buy/Download :

https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/becquerel

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FLETINA - BECQUEREL

Dedicated to the memory of Alexandre- Edmond Becquerel.

Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820 – 1891) was a French physicist who first discovered 'The Photovoltaic Effect' - a physical phenomenon resulting from the conversion of light energy into electrical energy.
Becquerel described it as “the production of an electric current when two plates of platinum or gold immersed in an acid, neutral, or alkaline solution are exposed unevenly to solar radiation.”

His observations would lead directly to the creation of the first solar cell in 1884, and is now considered 'The Father of Solar Energy'.

Stream/Buy/Download :

https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/becquerel

09/16/2024

Greetings! Much new listening for us all this week! I'm particularly thrilled to open this week's program with new music from composer/reed player, Ken Field's latest Neuma Records release, "The Canopy". Ken is an old friend of Pushing The Envelope and it's alway a sonic pleasure when he puts out a....

09/13/2024

9 track album

09/11/2024

Greetings! As usual, multi-genre fits the bill! Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Twitter-like x-thing: http://twitter.com/envpusher1 9-7-24 PTE Playlist nuevo merengue - Benjamín Vergara & Amanda Irarrázabal - último sosiego (last peace) - 577 Records (2024) https://577rec...

09/02/2024

Reminder: Calls for Participation are now open, deadline 8 September 2024 (29 September for the Composition Workshop)

08/31/2024

Charles Amirkhanian and György Ligeti. Photo by Carol Law.