Musical Space
Musical Space is a look at all things music, by KMUW music commentator Mark Foley. Mark is Principal Double Bass of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Double Bass and head of Jazz Studies at Wichita State University.
He has been a featured soloist with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, performs extensively as a jazz artist is also an avid bluegrass player. Passionate about promoting new and diverse music, Mark is the founder and music director of the Knob Festival of New Music, a series of concerts held in Fisch Haus Studios every Fall.
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The laws of physics are against musicians who play low notes. Any sounding medium - like a string or the air in a tube - vibrates at a frequency inversely… -
Halloween has gotten a little musically unscary, in my opinion, because it’s become too much about the kids. Nothing against trick-or-treating and… -
What’s your discovery service? In other words, how do you find out about new music?This is getting to be an important question, and a big problem for… -
Fall has just begun, so this is a good time to talk about a certain song - a pop tune from a forgotten French movie that became one of the most-played… -
Any work of art is basically an arrangement of elements that are part of our culture - the sounds of our shared memories are the building blocks of music.… -
September is Public Library Sign-Up Month. Seeing as how I hadn’t yet visited the brand-new Advanced Learning Library, I knew exactly what I had to do.… -
The term “open source” was coined 20 years ago this month by some software engineers who had the radical idea of allowing their code to be freely shared,… -
We need to talk about net neutrality. It’s a simple idea: Everything gets sent to your web browser at the same speed without middlemen, gatekeepers, or… -
I try not to live in the past, but when an album of music by John Coltrane is discovered and released decades after it was recorded, I’m justified in… -
Every once in a while there’s good live music on TV. The best shows are by smaller nonprofits: my favorite, Austin City Limits is on PBS, the BBC has…
