The STAR'S END radio program broadcasts live every Saturday Night/Sunday Morning 1:00AM to 6:00AM on public radio station WXPN in Philadelphia
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Chaka Benson 08.04.24
Chaka Benson plays with an ear for color, motion and texture, forsaking conventional narrative clarity. It is an experience by way of the senses, rather than through pure mental interpretation. Our focus expands beyond sound, to the sources of that sound, to its imminent fragility and a state of un-being. In Benson's work negative space is constantly asking us to define it. Tones flicker lightly across the surface, come into focus, then burrow deep and all but disappear. The gentle descent into incandescent timbres stirs the imagination.
Chaka Benson returns to STAR'S END on the broadcast of 4 August 2024, as part of Space Camp 2024. Please tune in for details and/or stream live on Youtube.
Chaka Benson Live on STAR'S END 08.04.24 (live stream)
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MANNA 08.11.24
The learned listener will find the modular-made realizations by MANNA marked by creative beauty and a meritorious aural adventurousness. The sonic energy level winds its way languidly through the resonant and subtly shaded Ambient moods provided by a range of synthesizers of an open-ended voicing architecture. From tuneful fairytale engagement to the enigmatic and uncategorizable, this explorer of the electronic realm absorbs, then plays the world around us.
MANNA debuts on STAR'S END on the broadcast of 11 August 2024, as part of Space Camp 2024. Please tune in for details and/or stream live on Youtube.
Tangent Universes(Carolyn Zaldivar Snow) subjects their raw electrical material to a number of obscure routes and processes along warm circuitry and wires. Providing fulfilling collections of sonic statements in creative endeavor the utopian ideals of Electronic Music are absorbed and echoed. Playing out in a chamber of resonances and reverberations music manifests itself to draw the ear with a complex and powerful quality of sound - and asks nothing more than to ignite the gifts of the imagination.
Tangent Universes debuts on STAR'S END on the broadcast of 18 August 2024, as part of Space Camp 2024. Please tune in for details and/or stream live on Youtube.
Tangent Universes Live on STAR'S END 08.18.24 (live stream)
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Gray Acres 08.25.24
Gray Acres is the musical project between twin brothers Andrew & Michael Tasselmyer. Containing many of the textural elements found in their work with Hotel Neon here they realize a somehow softer, even more dreamy feel. Producing multiple layers of mood inducingprocessed sounds and synthetic timbres, amid the washes of electric guitar chords,reverberant piano and fragrant field recordingsAndrew & Michaelconjure captivatingprepared soundscapes - for an evocative and beautiful listening experience.
Grey Acres debuts on STAR'S END on the broadcast of 25 August 2024, as part of Space Camp 2024. Please tune in for details and/or stream live on Youtube.
Gray Acres Live on STAR'S END 08.25.24 (live stream)
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STAR'S END
STAR'S END, hosted by Chuck van Zyl, broadcasts live weekly beginning at 1:00AM on Saturday night until 6:00AM Sunday morning(USA Eastern Time Zone). Originating from WXPN, Non-commercial Radio from The University of Pennsylvania,STAR'S END has occupied this time slot since its inception back in 1976, making it one of the longest running radio programs of Ambient/Space Music in the world.
WXPN's signal is sent to various other radio stations, repeaters and translators throughout Pennsylvania and Maryland:
88.5FM WXPN Philadelphia, PA
88.7FM Middletown, York and Lancaster, PA
90.5FM WKHS Worton/Baltimore, MD
91.9FM WXPJ Hackettstown, NJ
99.7FM Harrisburg, PA
104.9FM Lehigh Valley, PA
W285DH Whitehall, PA
In addition to the various land based FM radio transmissions, STAR'S END can also be received live via the World Wide Web. Learn about the live stream by accessing www.xpn.org
Sincere Thanks to everyone tuning in to support and enjoy our on-airstudio performance, and to all the musicians making the effort to participate in STAR'S END Space Camp 2024.
Thanks Also to Neil Cippon for technical oversight of the live stream,in-studio mood projections and graphic design, to Roycee Martin for routing, recording and engineering the live concert audio, to Samara Talkin for in-studio video projection artistry, and to Ken Anderson for skilled support.
Chaka Benson plays with an ear for color, motion and texture, forsaking conventional narrative clarity. It is an experience by way of the senses, rather than through pure mental interpretation. Our focus expands beyond sound, to the sources of that sound, to its imminent fragility and a state of un-being. In Benson's work negative space is constantly asking us to define it. Tones flicker lightly across the surface, come into focus, then burrow deep and all but disappear. The gentle descent into incandescent timbres stirs the imagination.
The learned listener will find the 
Tangent Universes 
Gray Acres is the musical project between twin brothers Andrew & Michael Tasselmyer. Containing many of the textural elements found in their work with Hotel Neon here they realize a 
STAR'S END, hosted by Chuck van Zyl, broadcasts live weekly beginning at 
