Sound Perimeter

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.

On today's show, we learn about a group that aims to build more queer community on the University of Arkansas campus, 50 years ago and today. Plus, we also remember a nearly 40-year-old movie made in Arkansas with a now-familiar cast. Plus, we dive into classical music on a new edition of Sound Perimeter.

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.

On today's show, a group out of Fayetteville is advocating for nine bond measures on the ballot this spring, plus sounds from a snowy Gulley Park in Fayetteville.