Relevant Tones
Hosted by Austin Williams and Seth Boustead and Stephen Anthony Rawson · Access Contemporary Music
4.9from 34 ratings
- 430
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 34
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2011
- First episode
About Relevant Tones
A podcast about the most fascinating time in classical music history: right now. Relevant Tones features interviews with and music by some of the most creative figures in contemporary classical music, themed shows exploring new trends in classical music and frequent live streamed shows featuring conversations and music performances. Hosted and produced by Seth Boustead, Austin Williams, Stephen Anthony Rawson and Matt Dotson.
- Publisher
- Access Contemporary Music
- Category
- music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Oct 2011
- Latest episode
- 28 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 430 episodes have a transcript.
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
STRUCK: Music for Percussive Instruments
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STRUCK: Music for Percussive Instruments
Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We're hearing one instrument through the physical actions and sounds of another. And I think there's something interesting that happens when a familiar instrument is translated this way. We're invited to listen differently. The piano is still there, but suddenly we hear what else it might be capable of becoming. And those two identities, the piano and the guiro, seem to converse in the space between the instrument and our imagination. Welcome to Relevant Tones. I'm Stephen Anthony Rawson. On today's episode, we're featuring pieces that embrace and explore the percussive possibilities of traditionally non-percussive instruments, striking, tapping, scraping, knocking on their bodies to produce sounds beyond their conventional vocabulary. […]
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- Mark McGregor
- Cole Bartels
- Justin Coyne
- Adam Nissenbaum
- Elizabeth Chang
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 24 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 10 ratings
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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Who hosts Relevant Tones?
Austin Williams and Seth Boustead and Stephen Anthony Rawson host the show. Published by Access Contemporary Music.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Relevant Tones take guests?
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