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Sound Perimeter

Lia Uribe

Sound Perimeter: More Than One Voice

June 29, 2026 12:49pm 11 min

Today's Sound Perimeter celebrates the Fourth of July through the music of two remarkable American women composers. Nkeiru Okoye's "Voices Shouting Out", written in the aftermath of September 11, reminded us that even in...

Sound Perimeter: Two Canadian Composers

June 15, 2026 12:04pm 11 min

Today's Sound Perimeter features two works by Canadian composers: "The Bessborough Hotel" by Nicole Lizée and "Pièce pour violon et clarinette" by Claude Vivier. While these pieces sound very different from one another, ...

Sound Perimeter: Heroines

May 18, 2026 3:40pm 10 min

Sound Perimeter from Lia Uribe is dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. Today, we listen to the music of two contemporary composers: Clarice Assad and Gabriela Lena Frank, brought together under the idea of...

Sound Perimeter: Hidden Currents

April 20, 2026 2:15pm 9 min

Today's Sound Perimeter features "The Currents" by Sarah Kirkland Snider (performed by Irene Kim) and "Árbakkinn" by Ólafur Arnalds, two pieces connected by a sense of flow and quiet introspection. Both explore what move...

Sound Perimeter: Sounding Justice

April 13, 2026 1:46pm 13 min

Today's Sound Perimeter listens across distance: two composers, both born in 1946, two different worlds. Vladimir Martynov and Mary Lou Williams arrive at the sacred from very different paths. Martynov through stillness,...

Sound Perimeter: Listening for Rain

April 06, 2026 2:16pm 9 min

A note from host Lia Uribe: "Today on Sound Perimeter, Listening for Rain, I found myself drawn to   something simple and familiar: rain. We hear it arrive in different ways: as shifting patterns and playful color in Aus...

Sound Perimeter: Butterflies

March 30, 2026 1:48pm 11 min

Today on Sound Perimeter, we are thinking about butterflies, those fleeting flashes of color that feel more like memories than things you can hold. They show up without warning, linger just long enough to catch your brea...

Sound Perimeter: The Stories We Carry

March 16, 2026 10:54am 11 min

Today's Sound Perimeter features excerpts from "Nightscape" and "No-Man’s-Land Lullaby", both written by Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga, works that linger at the edge of place and memory, where atmosphere gives way to...

Sound Perimeter: Fully Present

February 23, 2026 7:07pm 10 min

Pianist Gabriela Montero and salsa legend Willie Colón share a stage on Sound Perimeter — two artists from different worlds united by presence, improvisation, and music as a vehicle for truth.

Sound Perimeter: Listening for a Change

February 18, 2026 9:48am 11 min

Today's Sound Perimeter explores change, how it happens inside the music and around it. We begin with Philip Glass's Metamorphosis I, where repeating patterns shift so gradually you almost don't notice until the whole at...

Sound Perimeter: Here and Then

January 26, 2026 1:26pm 10 min

Today's Sound Perimeter spends time with two bassoon pieces that have stayed close to host Lia Uribe over the years. Music holding memory, shifting shape and meeting us differently each time we return to it. Past and pre...

Sound Perimeter: Holding Space

January 12, 2026 12:36pm 10 min

Today's Sound Perimeter features two pieces of music, one by French composer Gabriel Fauré, and the other by American composer Meredith Monk. Host Lia Uribe says, "I chose these works because, lately, I’ve been turning t...

Sound Perimeter: The Unknown

January 05, 2026 3:45pm 11 min

Today's Sound Perimeter features Metacosmos by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, a contemporary piece inspired by the idea of crossing into unfamiliar territory, taking listeners inside a universe where forces are felt more than exp...

Sound Perimeter: Motherless Child

December 15, 2025 4:20pm 11 min

Today's Sound Perimeter listens to two different versions of “Motherless Child”, one by Jubilant Sykes, and the other by Cécile McLorin Salvant. Each rendition holds the same spiritual at its center, yet each opens a dis...

Sound Perimeter: Holding Time

December 08, 2025 4:22pm 8 min

Today's Sound Perimeter explores two very different meditations on stillness and motion. Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, performed by Anne Akiko Meyers and Akira Eguchi, takes us into a space of quiet tension and spacious introspec...

Sound Perimeter: Notes in the Snow

December 01, 2025 1:28pm 13 min

Today's Sound Perimeter steps into winter through three very different musical moods. We began with Thea Musgrave’s "A Winter’s Morning", a quiet, atmospheric setting of a Robert Burns poem that captures the sting of col...

Sound Perimeter: Dreaming in Air

October 20, 2025 1:15pm 10 min

From meadow to rainforest to dreamscape, three composers in today's Sound Perimeter invite us to hear the world in new ways. Ottorino Respighi captured the bright call of the cuckoo in an Italian morning, turning nature’...

Sound Perimeter: Mirrors and Memories

October 13, 2025 3:31pm 9 min

Today's Sound Perimeter presents two pieces that reflect one another across time: Frédéric Chopin’s Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4, and Caroline Shaw’s Gustave Le Gray , which reimagines and reframes Chopin’s melody th...

Sound Perimeter: Old Forms, New Worlds

October 06, 2025 2:53pm 11 min

Today's Sound Perimeter includes two remarkable works: Ariel Ramírez’s Misa Criolla , where the traditional Catholic Mass meets the rhythms and melodies of Argentina, and Aldemaro   Romero’s Fuga con Pájara Pinta Bimodal...

Sound Perimeter: The Orange Tree

September 29, 2025 1:50pm 10 min

Today's Sound Perimeter features two pieces inspired by oranges, both the fruit itself and the color it embodies.

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