Killaloe Moon (2001). Cliff Caruthers /sfsoundradio/

I've been thinking about the aworks taxonomy. I suppose the musical "a" world includes, in increasing amounts of satisfyingly noisy chaos:

• traditional classical
• classic jazz
• film music
• some subset of pop and rock and folk hat I can't yet articulate (what definition will include Radiohead and the Allman Brothers' In the Memory of Elizabeth Reed and John Fahey)?
• electronic music
• experimental music

So, for example the music of John Adams is a blend of traditional classical and experimental, with whiffs from time to time of the electronic.

Tonight, via sfSoundRadio, it's experimental, in this case, Cliff Carothers Caruthers and his Killaloe Moon:

Waiting for Old Wind
Short Walk to Killaloe Moon

Killaloe Moon, presented here for the first time in its entirety, features field recordings gathered from London, New York City, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Killaloe (pronounced kill-a-loo), Ontario. Inspired by the 'Full Moon Over Killaloe' sound retreat sponsored by the Canadian Society for Independant Radio Production, the piece consists of many threads -- the relationship between urban and rural environments, the solitude that exists within both, wind, water, breath, the familiarity of one's own footsteps, the power of storytelling (the storyteller is my father recorded in 1976). For the composer, Killaloe Moon explores the joy and fear and anticipation of change, the transformation of self that comes from a direct connection to the environment, and of course, the quiet power of walking under moonlight.-CC

This all serves as a reminder of sfSoundRadio and especially their new live Fridays, starting this week. 
And ShoutCast describes their stream as "Classical Contemporary Improvised Electronic Experimental." 

Update: sfSound plays on iPhones and iPods via ShoutCast.

Update 2: While my use of the term "folk hat" above was a typo, it is conceivable that there's a musical genre called "folk hat."

Related articles

• Radiohead: Experimental and Electronic Music (informalflick.wordpress.com)

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[unit]

Good writeup. His name is spelled "Caruthers", btw.