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Meyer Sound with Tanglewood, Transformance 36, Tip Top Wine Shop

It’s Friday and that means music, and today we have lots of it.

The northern and southern Berkshires are coming together to take advantage of the future of sound, both in listening technology and composition. Tonight at Studio 9 in North Adams, five fellows from the Tanglewood Music Center will show works they’ve been developing to take advantage of the Meyer Sound Constellation system the venue has installed. We speak with one of those fellows, Elise Arancio, as well as faculty member Todd Roberts about this innovative program.

On Aug.18, the local music scene will once again come together to raise funds for Northampton arts programs. Transformance 36 takes place at look park under the theme “Moonage Daydream,” and we learn more about the much beloved event from one of the many performers in the lineup, Edy Savage.

And, the Wine Thunderdome visits the amazing pair of women at the helm of Tip Top Wine Shop in Easthampton, Lauren Clarke and Miranda Brown, to pit two food-ready expressions of Chenin Blanc representing each of their hemispheres against each other.

Christopher “Monte'' Belmonte is host and executive producer of NEPM's The Fabulous 413. He was born and raised in Massachusetts and has been a radio host in western Massachusetts for the last 20 years — the last 17 of them as host of Mornings with Monte on The River 93.9/WRSI.
Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM's The Fabulous 413.