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Sound Perimeter
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"Sound Perimeter" is a radio show created and hosted by Lia Uribe, professor of music and an associate dean at the University of Arkansas Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. The show is produced by Sophia Nourani and airs on KUAF 91.3 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. "Sound Perimeter" is dedicated to exploring diverse voices and perspectives within the world of music. Its goal is to broaden the audience's understanding and connection to inclusive and diverse musical experiences, with the hope of allowing music to have a transformative impact on their lives.

Latest Episodes
  • Sound Perimeter from Lia Uribe is dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. Today, we listen to the music of two contemporary composers: Clarice Assad and Gabriela Lena Frank, brought together under the idea of Heroines, women whose music moves fearlessly across cultures and traditions with imagination, honesty, and vitality.
  • Today's Sound Perimeter features "The Currents" by Sarah Kirkland Snider and "Árbakkinn" by Ólafur Arnalds.
  • Today's Sound Perimeter listens across distance: two composers, both born in 1946, two different worlds, Vladimir Martynov and Mary Lou Williams.
  • On today's Sound Perimeter, Listening for Rain, host Lia Uribe found herself drawn to something simple and familiar: rain.
  • Today on Sound Perimeter, we are thinking about butterflies, those fleeting flashes of color that feel more like memories than things you can hold.
  • Today's Sound Perimeter features excerpts from "Nightscape" and "No-Man’s-Land Lullaby", both written by Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga, works that linger at the edge of place and memory, where atmosphere gives way to deeper histories carried quietly in sound.
  • Pianist Gabriela Montero and salsa legend Willie Colón share a stage on Sound Perimeter — two artists from different worlds united by presence, improvisation, and music as a vehicle for truth.
  • Today's Sound Perimeter explores musical transformation through Philip Glass's "Metamorphosis I" and Terri Lyne Carrington's "Unconditional Love," featuring performances that shift gradually.
  • Today's Sound Perimeter spends time with two bassoon pieces that have stayed close to host Lia Uribe over the years. Music holding memory, shifting shape and meeting us differently each time we return to it. Past and present, coexisting.
  • Today's Sound Perimeter features two pieces of music, one by French composer Gabriel Fauré, and the other by American composer Meredith Monk.
Lia Uribe is the Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities and a professor at the University of Arkansas. She is also the principal bassoonist of the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra.

Sophia Nourani is a producer and reporter for KUAF. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas with a BA in journalism and political science.