Sound Perimeter

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 introspection, where repetition becomes a form of listening. And Hiromi Uehara’s Green Tea Farm, from a 2006 solo performance, offers another kind of reflection, rooted perhaps in memory or maybe in a personal sense of landscape.

Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe (@Lia Uribe) and dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to sound and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.

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 cold air and the stillness of a snowy dawn. Then we moved into Tchaikovsky’s magical world with the "Adagio and Waltz of the Snowflakes" from "The Nutcracker", where snowfall becomes dance. And we ended with the Jerry Granelli Trio performing Vince Guaraldi’s "Skating", a piece that glides and sparkles with the lightness of ice underfoot. Together, these works remind us that winter holds more than chill, it’s a season full of sound, memory, and movement.

Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe (@Lia Uribe) and dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to sound and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.

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’s voice into playful melody. Annea Lockwood led us deep into the Amazon night, where the forest itself seemed to breathe through sound and imagination. And finally, Kaija Saariaho, with a piece where birds belong to dreams and poetry. In Aile du songe, she imagined flight itself, the movement of air, the shimmer of wings, the transformation of sound into light.

Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe (@Lia Uribe) and dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to sound and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.

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 through a contemporary lens. Both works explore the delicate space between reflection and reinvention where   memory becomes music, and the past lingers, reshaped, in the present.

Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe (@Lia Uribe) and dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to sound and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.

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 , where Baroque counterpoint dances with Venezuelan folk energy. Both composers remind us how Latin America has reimagined European traditions, transforming them into something vibrant, soulful, and entirely its own. 

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

Tonight, Sept. 22, 2025, at 6 p.m., we gather at the Fayetteville Public Library’s Walker Community Room for Borderless Sound: Latin American Composers and the World Stage, a live edition of Sound Perimeter in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Piazzolla bending tango toward the future, Gabriela Ortiz dissolving categories with conviction, and Angelica Negrón inviting us to move freely without borders. We’ll add Miguel del Águila’s velocity and heart, groove that thinks and dances at once. We’ll mix stories with brief excerpts and time for conversation. Today's Sound Perimeter is an entry point to tonight’s presentation and to the concept of borderless music.

Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe and dedicated to diverse voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to inclusive sounds and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.

Today's Sound Perimeter, Postcard from Mexico City, written as host Lia Uribe's present to you, after a short visit to Mexico this past week. Listen across three vibrant voices: Guadalupe Perales’ Intertwined: Color Changes for bassoon duo, Nubia Jaime Donjuan’s danzón Frida, and Andrea Sarahi’s “Piece for Bassoon Solo” from Calladita: Five Pieces About Violence. Lines crossed, colors shifted, and music moved from city  bustle to interior resolve. Host Lia Uribe hopes you enjoy these fresh and innovative voices, and her favorite instrument, her own instrument, the bassoon.  

Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe and dedicated to diverse voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to inclusive sounds and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.

Today, Sound Perimeter was inspired by cats—curious, sly, playful, and full of personality. We met Prokofiev’s clarinet cat in "Peter and the Wolf," smiled at Rossini’s comic duet of meowing singers, and closed with the fiery pasodoble from Penella’s "El Gato Montés."

Today's Sound Perimeter includes two journeys of motion and momentum: Gity Razaz’s 'The Strange Highway', racing forward with eight cellos like headlights through shifting landscapes; then a cello quartet in Carlos Gardel’s “Por una cabeza” leaning into tango’s sway, where a heartbeat rhythm meets a bittersweet tune. Together, they reveal the cello’s range, choral and intimate, resonant and lyrical, and how music can carry us through desire, risk and release. Featuring performances by Gity Razaz, Erin Murphy Snedecor and the Galvin Cello Quartet.