For all of you who might be listening to the Stochastic Hit Parade on WFMU right now, here's hoping you made it out to Barbes this past Wednesday to see our girl Bethany in action. For those who didn't, you missed her mixing up some field recordings and hauling out her horn, which she used to flay both the Elliott Carter Wind Quintet (1948) and a Gounod "Mélodie" (joined by pianist David Moore.) Give the girl some props: not only did she go out in front of a full house and play live, she did so with the goddamned hardest instrument in the house. And, she friggin' nailed it.

She finished the night at the podium, leading a series of "Post Participles": improvisations for ensemble inspired by blurbs from the new music mag Wire. It was all near-noise madness, the kind we've grown to know and love these many Sunday nights. Well done, girl.

Ok, back to your radios.