Eine Kleine Werkmusik

Links to free, streaming instrumental work music

When you need to work:

Free Code Camp Quincy Larson's non profit - someone made Free Codecamp Radio!

Literally radios, plural. It's a roomful of radios, in this 1956 composition: Radio Music by John Cage. Performed in 2018 by the Opening Performance Orchestra in collaboration with the Tesla Museum in Trest.

When you need a friend:

KEXP Seattle Washington

Creedo ! John Creedon on RTÉ 1, the national radio station of Ireland

Brainiac and Saint The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC - teaching us all how to listen. A Mets fan, bless him.

When you need energy and tuneage:

fip.fr music from Paris

WXRT-FM 93FM, Chicago, Illinois, the home of Johnny Mars and Saturday Morning Flashback

KUTX Austin Texas

The Current Minneapolis-St Paul

NRK Sámi Radio from Norway

Channel 4 from Austria the "alternative youth channel" by the Austrian National Telekomm

WQXR normal Normal classical music: Beethoven, et cetera

WQXR New Sounds WQXR's Daily showcase of "weird and wonderful music from artists, composers and traditional musicians — all gleefully oblivious of their genres".

WORT FM archives Something for everyone, from Madison, Wiscosnsin. Try classical mornings and afternoon jazz for work music.

CBFM radio A radio station from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - playing mostly that Scottish tinged folk

WWOZ radio archive from New Orleans

The Top 20 Countdown at Minnesota MPR's The Current (aka The Chart Show)

Jazz Albums

Jason Mumby's big EDM festival DJ Boris Brejcha - Christmas Mix 2022 .

Jeremy Udden's third album on Bandcamp free streaming.

A jazz trio. Ben Allison famously wrote the famliar theme music for WNYC On the Media - the podcast with Brook Gladstone

Sucking In the 70s is sampled downtempo hip hop instrumentals from Vancouver DJ PMan

Chicago, Mexico City, and Philadelphia Experiments All on Ropeadope Select label

Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey: Uneasy

first album, 1999 from back when the Bad Plus were called the loudest jazz trio, by AllMusic

Eighty albums playable anywhere, from a browser at Bandcamp .

Label: Sunnyside Records of Brooklyn (Jazz)

Ambient music from New Zealand's Paul Buttimore . Electronic, chill out.

Marlowe + DJ L'Orange

Vocalist + Piano: Sarah Elizabeth Charles & Jarrett Cherner

Third Coast Percussion

Holiday Music Charlie Brown's jazz Christmas, covered by Isaiah J. Thompson

Experimental

Sounds of weather from Field Recordings . Microphone under a puddle in the rain. Microphone clipped to a wire fence. Et cetera. Makes me feel like how a robot might feel while trying to experience nature.

Sonologyst Italy Radio waves and ambient. Some parts John Cage 'Radios', some parts engine room of an overnight Mediterrenean ferry.

A Guide to Toshimaru Nakamura’s No-Input Mixing Board

sound collage by Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, who says these truncated and reversed echoes are "assembled in paradoxical but familiar structures. Thus, the imperative tension/relaxation loses its significance".

Ex-Yugoslavia 1980s, now Slovenia: Laibach

Jeff Gburek Trans Beskid Radio Session...