In the fifth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden, “Space Explorations: Avant-Garde Music in Three Dimensions,” host Matthew Friedman explores how avant-garde composers rediscovered the spatial nature of sound in the 20th century, and explored the three-dimensional implications of their music. This episode features music by Charles Ives, Erik Satie, Edgard Varese, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Tudor, and Henry Brant, as well as Giovanni Gabrielli, and Georg Philipp Telemann.

No Sounds Are Forbidden - Episode 4 - The Tale of the Tape: The First Electronic Music Revolution

In the fourth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden, “The Tale of the Tape: The First Electronic Music Revolution,” host Matthew Friedman explores the impact of magnetic tape recording technologies on avant-garde composers, and on the birth of electronic music. This episode features an interbiew with composer Pauline Oliveros, music by Oliveros, Pierre Schaeffer, Halim El-Dabh, Otto Luening, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Alice Shields, Lejaren Hiller, Steve Reich, and Jacob Druckman.

No Sounds Are Forbidden - Episode 3 - Listening in the Dark: The Avant-Garde at the Movies

In the third episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden, “Listening in the Dark: The Avant-Garde at the Movies,” host Matthew Friedman explores the intimate connections between avant-garde music and cinema in the 20th, and 21st centuries. This episode features music by Gyorgy Ligeti, George Antheil, Norman McLaren, John Cage, Bebe and Louis Baron, Toru Takemitsu, Leonard Rosenman, Bernard Herman, Jerry Goldsmith, and John Adams.

No Sounds Are Forbidden - Episode 2 - Order From Chaos: Modernism and Rationality in 12 Tones

No Sounds Are Forbidden explores the complex and fascinating history of the avant-garde art music of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the second episode, “Order From Chaos: Modernism and Rationality in 12 Tones,” host Matthew Friedman explores the radical conservatism of Arnold Schoenberg's 12-tone composition method, and its impact on western avant-garde music before, and after the Second World War. This episode features music by Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Hanns Eisler, Luigi Dallapiccola, Igor Stravinsky, Milton Babbitt, and Donald Martino.