On Friday, July 29th, DJ Surface Tension invites KALX listeners to tune in to an ear-opening conversation with the “sounding artists” of NIAD Art Center as they discuss their most recent release Sounding Artists R Sweet and So R You. 

Featured in this conversation are artists Luis Estrada, Christian Vassel, and Raven Harper. This studio compilation captures the rawness of NIAD’s community artists at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recorded in early 2020 over the phone and in zoom, the outcome is equal parts poignant, hilarious, beautiful and boundary-pushing. Sounding Artists R Sweet and So R You is a sonic answer to the age old question: what is music?

Find the entire NIAD sounding artists catalog on the NIAD Sound Recordings Bandcamp.

Tune in locally at 90.7 FM or stream live on kalx.berkeley.edu

Artists Interviewed:

Christian Vassell

Karen May

Raven Harper

Luis Estrada