New Sounds is hoping to find new major philanthropic funders and grants to keep New Sounds on the air past the current end date of May 31. 

There's new work from sitarist Anoushka Shankar; post-minimalist chamber jazz from Vega Trails; new sample-based music from JLIN; and Kyle Sanna’s live coding meets new chamber music.

Hear many diverse takes on Afrofuturism from dragonchild, percussionist/composer Michael Wimberly, bandleader/flutist Nicole Mitchell, and poet, musician, composer/producer Moor Mother.

Hear music that leans towards eastern spirituality and/or the cosmic in work by Joshua Adams and Natural Information Society, the late Pharoah Sanders, and Maria Schneider Orchestra.

Hear Indonesian-inspired work by American composers: synthesist Wendy Carlos; instrument builder Brian Baumbusch; accordionist/sound experimenter/pioneer Pauline Oliveros, and others.

Hear traditional stringed instruments from both Iran and Tunisia by New York-based musicians: kamancheh master Mehrnam Rastegari and Tunisian musician and songwriter Nour Harkati.

Listen to works for voices and keyboards in an ambient vein from American composer Julianna Barwick, Chicago-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Macie Stewart, and Brian Eno.

Listen to borrowed vocal styles from around the world, from Tuvan and Inuit throat singing, classical Hindustani vocals, and three-part harmonies from the Republic of Georgia.

From New Sounds Live, the poet, musician, and activist Moor Mother and collaborators premiere new music fusing spoken word, tap, jazz, and ghost songs, from Kaufman Music Center.