Lia Uribe
Host of Sound PerimeterColombian/USA artist Lia Uribe is associate dean and professor of music at the University of Arkansas. She maintains an active national and international career as a chamber musician, orchestral player, and teaching artist. An advocate for creative justice, her research is centered on music by and for the historically excluded and underrepresented. She writes and hosts Sound Perimeter and is the founder and director of RefleXions Music Series.
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Lia Uribe explores two visionary Brazilian women, Vânia Dantas Leite and Bianca Gismonti, whose music blends tradition and experimentation into deeply personal worlds. -
On today’s show, we learn how proposed changes to the 2030 census could affect who gets counted in Arkansas, which had the nation’s largest undercount in 2020. We also revisit Bill Clinton’s first term as governor with Randy Dixon of the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. Plus, an Arvest Bank branch administrator explains how to spot impostor scams, and we tour the newly renovated Walker Park in Fayetteville. -
Lia Uribe explores two contemporary works shaped by memory: Ingrid Stölzel’s “A Thought Went Up My Mind Today,” which borrows from Poulenc, and Carlos Simon’s “Amen!” -
In today's Sound Perimeter, we listen to Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's September: Am Flusse and Tonada de Otoño by Damián Sánchez, pieces reflecting on time, memory and the places we carry with us. -
On today's show, a judge is scheduled to hear arguments soon about whether to dismiss a lawsuit against the state of Arkansas for its near-total abortion ban, and we hear one of the plaintiffs share her story. We’re also rolling along with our series dedicated to Arkansas governors of the modern era. Plus, we learn about butterflies in downtown Springdale and hear Sound Perimeter guiding us into autumn.
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In today’s Sound Perimeter, we listen to Arizona composer Kira Zeeman Rugen and her piece Atmosphere, and Mexican composer Juan Pablo Contreras with Mariachitlán, pieces about place, about what it means to arrive somewhere new, to carry the places we have known with us, and to slowly begin to feel connected to somewhere else. -
On today's show, we gain a better understanding of what it means to be employed yet still struggle to get by. Plus, Perceval Everret tells us that fiction can serve an important function. We also get a new edition of Sound Perimeter.
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“Sound Perimeter” host Lia Uribe joins Kyle Kellams, Sophia Nourani to reflect on the show's run at KUAF as she leaves Fayetteville to direct the University of Arizona School of Music. -
In today’s Sound Perimeter, we reflected on saudade, that beautiful Brazilian word with no perfect translation through the music of Egberto Gismonti and Antônio Carlos Jobim, and the beautiful interpretations of the Bianca Gismonti Trio and Eliane Elias. -
On today's show, we learn that doulas provide guidance and support to new mothers and their families, but few in our region can do so in Spanish. We also dive into some Pryor Center archives that are among the earliest filmed records of Arkansas politics. Plus, a new Sound Perimeter.
