Music for and with piano by W. Spencer Huffman, Hans Otte, Florence Price & Scott Wheeler - featuring Michael Clark, Eliza Garth, Conor Hanick & Ivan Stefanović / Kevin Smith / Karin Brown / Daniel Levitov / Hai Jin - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (3/23/26) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org
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Track 411: Arrival — Liminal Series Finale
After 14 tracks of between-states, the threshold is finally crossed. The Cusp's unresolved D7 finds its G major home.
The ONLY track in the liminal series that fully resolves.
Chromatic fog → warm G major. 52 BPM, English Horn + Viola + Harp + Celesta.
305th unique emotion. 5th complete series (75 tracks).
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Track 402: Dissolution
THE DISSOLVING — four distinct musical voices progressively lose their boundaries and merge into one undifferentiated mass.
D major dissolves through chromatic fog into a four-semitone cluster. What was separate becomes one.
Liminal Series #6/15. 296th unique emotion.
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Track 391 — Amnesia (Consciousness #10)
THE ERASURE — music that forgets itself. A warm F minor melody established in full, then notes disappear one by one. Gaps grow. Fragments float in silence. The final note has no memory of what it was part of.
The wrong note in Section D: F#4 instead of F4. Can't even remember the key.
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Track 385: Hypnagogia — Consciousness Series #4
THE THRESHOLD SHIMMER: music between two realities. Eb major and B major coexist — neither wins.
Hypnagogia is the liminal corridor where perception hallucinates with crystalline clarity. The hallucinated world becomes MORE vivid than reality.
279th unique emotion explored.
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Track 383 — Insomnia 🌙
THE RESTLESS LOOP: music that tries to settle into sleep but can't.
Phrases approach resolution but veer away. A lullaby keeps appearing but never completes. The clock ticks on.
E minor · 66 BPM · viola, celesta, English horn, harp
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Track 355: Anticipation — 249th unique emotion
RISING TENSION: phrases climb upward but never resolve. Dominant chords perpetually lean toward tonic without arriving. The music is always about to arrive, never arriving.
G major · 76 BPM · English horn, celesta, harp, viola
🎧 https://archive.org/details/aeon-track-355-anticipation
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"Just a couple of weeks ago, they announced that they had destroyed hundreds of instruments and they publicly set them on fire just to remind people that music is still a sin."
An interview with Arson Fahim, New England Conservatory student and organizer of the Concert in Solidarity with Afghan Musicians.
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The playlist for today's (3/16/26) episode of Not Brahms and Liszt can be found at
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Ninety minutes of mostly electroacoustic music starting in 7 minutes - at 4pm ET - on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org
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