Hearts of Space - "Contemplative Music, Broadly Defined"

If you're sick of hearing the same old top 40 songs on constant rotation, and you've been looking for something different, you can count on WAER as your home for diverse music. In our quest to bring you the best alternative music, we have included "Hearts of Space" in our music lineup. Tune in to 88.3 FM every Sunday at 10 AM to listen to Hearts of Space on WAER, where music matters.

Hearts of Space grew out of former architect Stephen Hill's fascination with space-creating, ambient and contemplative music. Beginning in the early 1970s, Hill hosted a weekly late-night radio program on a local station in the San Francisco Bay area. In 1983, after ten years' evolution as a local program, Hearts of Space began national syndication on NPR.

Producer Stephen Hill

From the beginning, the program's success has come from consistently high production quality and sensitive, knowledgeable music programming. The program has defined its own niche: a mix of ambient, electronic, world, new age, classical and experimental music.

After a brief intro., each one hour show is an uninterrupted musical journey, designed to create a relaxed but concentrated ambience. Slow-paced, space-creating music from many cultures: ancient bell meditations, classical adagios, creative space jazz, and the latest electronic and acoustic ambient music are woven into a seamless sequence unified by sound, emotion, and spatial imagery.

Hearts of Space Featured Albums

The ancient resonances of drums, bells, and flutes, the exotic tones of gongs and gamelans, the digital sounds of the Ambient frontier; in its third decade, Hearts of Space continues to deliver the best of the contemplative sound experience, with spacemusic from near and far out.

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To continue to expand your own musical horizons, tune in to WAER at 88.3 FM to listen to Hearts of Space Sundays at 10 AM.