The Saturday Afternoon Show welcomes percussionist and NEXUS ensemble member Garry Kvistad live in WGXC's Acra Studio at the Wave Farm Study Center. Kvistad will be in conversation with host Tom Roe as well as premiere several not-yet-released recordings by NEXUS of the music of John Cage. This broadcast is presented in conjunction with, Reality Radio, a four-month durational project spanning February to May 2015 featuring a continuous audio surveillance feed from the Bard College Percussion Studio headed by Sō Percussion. Reality Radio positions those who move throughout the studio – students, professors, administrators, visitors, even maintenance crews – in the role of performer, with listening audiences as ever present observers, and is a co-presentation of Wave Farm, the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and the John Cage Trust.

Garry Kvistad is founder and CEO of Woodstock Percussion, Inc., makers of Woodstock Chimes distributed worldwide. Garry has been performing and recording with Steve Reich and Musicians since 1980, being one of 18 musicians to win a Grammy for the Nonesuch recording of Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians. He tours and records with NEXUS, the internationally-renown, Canada-based chamber music ensemble. Garry has a BM from the Oberlin Conservatory and a MM from Northern Illinois University where, in 1993, he received its Distinguished Alumni Award. Garry worked with composer/conductor Lukas Foss as a Creative Associate in Buffalo ‘71-72, after which he joined the faculties of Northern Illinois University and the University Of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. His Balinese Gong Kebyar Gamelan ensemble, Giri Mekar, formed in 1987, is on loan at Bard College where Garry currently serves as faculty advisor.