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It’s Friday yet again, which means it’s time for your weekly WXYC programming update! Check out some of the sweet stuff we have planned for this week:

Catch tonight’s Inside Track to hear Untitled Arpeggios and Pulses, a piece that Christian Wallumrød, a Norwegian jazz musician, was asked to compose for the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Kongsberg Jazz Festival. An ensemble chock-full of musicians creates a four-part piece that is really diverse in style. The title of this piece is a pretty apt guide to its sound world.

Tonight's New Science Experience will feature live mixes by WXYC's own Primordial Puss and Beto Terwilliger. Expect evil techno bangers and dancefloor oddities from 10pm to midnight!

Tune in to Hell or High Water Sunday from 1 to 2pm to hear this week’s feature from UNC's esteemed Southern Folklife Collection. This week, we're proud to present the music of Curtis Mayfield, one of the pioneers in soul-filled, politically-conscious African American music from the Civil Rights Era up until his death in 1999. Perhaps you've heard of The Impressions, or his epithet "The Gentle Genius." Either way, WXYC DJ Sam S will be providing the history and context of a most formative musician.

Sunday afternoon, Broken Music will delve into the recorded artifacts of the Once Festival of New Music, a multi-disciplinary symposium spanning five years of musical innovation. Five composers based out of the University of Michigan School of Music--Robert Ashley, George Cacioppo, Gordon Mumma, Roger Reynolds, and Donald Scarvarda, referring to themselves as the Once Group--spearheaded the Ann Arbor-based festival, inviting fellow musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, and choreographers from across the country to present original works.Over the hour we will cover a mere sampling of the diverse works produced for the event. Tune in at 2pm!

Monday’s Outside Track will feature Let Them Grow, the fifteenth release from Slovenia-born, Austria-based composer, who composes for a variety of mediums, in a wide variety of genres, while utilizing her voice, field recordings, lo-fi devices, and found objects, among others. This record explores the dynamics of relationships, while utilizing Osojnik’s eclectic compositional style.

And on this week’s Thursday Night Feature, DJ Katie H will present a preview of the Big Ears Festival in Nashville! Tune in on Thursday from 9pm to midnight