STAR'S END Update - 15 March 2026
The Rotunda 9 March 2025Chuck van Zyl The Rotunda 9 March 2025 (99:49) is a document of Chuck van Zyl continuing his exploration of the unclaimed regions. Rare in terms of sheer aural excitement and sustained emotional force, his concerts of improvised Electronic Music travel from the willfully discordant, barren and surreal, to more orderly rhythms rising along motoring sequencer lines and new heights. Once within this wordless realm the listener travels down broken chords of silvery harmony, along expressive synth-lead melodies, to drift easily beneath spacey modulated effects - where we might feel the flow of The Universe. Pulling us into the future every spontaneous digression seems like a new destination. While lightly syncopated patterns dance through minor-key scales an atmospheric depth builds and releases to trembling softness. The sounds, distant and frosty, then intricately plush move through you, and disappear - settling us upon otherworldly serenity, yet constrained with gentle purposefulness. Throughout the recordings of these two live sets we find electricity being transformed into a material of emotional weight. There is poetry to be found somewhere within all the voltages, currents, timbre and tone - in this sonic sonnet which hopes only to help us face the world with more love, light and life.

Please tune in to the 03.15.26 broadcast of STAR'S END for a track from The Rotunda 9 March 2025, the new benefit album by Chuck van Zyl... and much more...

For more on The Rotunda 9 March 2025, please access: therotundaphilly.bandcamp.com

For more on Chuck van Zyl, please access: chuckvanzyl.weebly.com

Additional Content:

The Gatherings 9 December 2021 (2022) by Chuck van Zyl
Live on Star's End 11.05.23 (2024) by Chuck van Zyl
Recitals (2016) by Chuck van Zyl
The Rotunda 4 December 2021 (2022) by Chuck van Zyl
Stars Landing (2023) by Chuck van Zyl

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The Rotunda 3/15/2026 Chuck van Zyl - Live Electronic Music at The Rotunda on Sunday 15 March 2026

Proceeds from the sale of The Rotunda 9 March 2025 go to support the efforts of The Rotunda - and is released to coincide with the Sunday 15 March 2026 concert event w/Chuck van Zyl at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street in Philadelphia. Free Admission. 7:30pm/doors 7pm.

For more on The Rotunda, please access: www.therotunda.org.


Chuck van Zyl at The Rotunda 9 March 2025 (excerpt)

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The Electrical Spectacle WXPN/Star's End Member Event
The Electrical Spectacle

Invitations to the Electrical Spectacle Member Event were sent out to those making donations during the 1-6am 02.22.26 broadcast of STAR'S END. Please check your email for the invite, and make your response as soon as possible. WXPN Membership may be contacted for further details. Thanks for your support!

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WXPN/STAR'S END - Winter 2026 Member Drive Thanks!
Chuck van Zyl

With each succeeding broadcast Star's End releases extraordinary new energies over the airwaves. Marking its 50th Anniversary at WXPN in Philadelphia, the five decade drift of imagination, its passionate exploration of innovative music and vivid manipulation of time and space have elevated this radio program to a great height.

Every weekend from 1:00am to 6:00am Saturday Nights/Sunday Mornings Star's End works to renew the potential of Public Radio. As we are carried through new regions of music and thought each radio-lit evening provides the audience with an aural experience meant to expand horizons and enrich the human spirit. From the bright and teeming to the dark then probing, the unique mix of musical realizations ascends along enlivening lines of beauty.

Across its 50 year run Star's End has preserved a space for us to center and contemplate. Even in the midst of tremendous distractions, we listen past all the noise - to simply spend some time with ones' own self.

Thank You for showing that you support this broadcasting endeavor, and validating the extraordinary 50 year run of Star's End on WXPN. In Winter 2026 the understanding few again played their part in the Public Radio enterprise - considering what this remarkable venture is worth, and then coming through with a donation to help it continue.

Giving to Public Radio continues to be a significant gesture. During the broadcast of 22 February 2026 host Chuck van Zyl spent the entire night live on-air in a fundraising effort. To you listeners who stayed up, tuned in, and made a donation, please know that your generosity is truly meaningful and appreciated! Thank You!


Please Note: The 02.22.26 broadcast of Star's End offered Special Thank You Gifts, including the Star's End Coffee Mug & Keychain plus an invitation to The Electrical Spectacle (the WXPN/Star's End 2026 Member Event: 25 April 2026). Please Click Here for more info. Thanks!

STAR'S END - WXPN's Archived Stream
Chuck van Zyl

Beginning with the 10.07.18 edition, an archived stream of each broadcast of STAR'S END will be available through the WXPN website. To listen anytime, please access: www.xpn.org/program/stars-end

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The Listening List - Recent Album Reviews From STAR'S END
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February 2026 Top 30 STAR'S END Releases - Alphabetical
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Images From Selected Live On-Air Concerts - Click on an Image for Details
Ombient Saul Stokes RMI Guitar Pilots Chuck van Zyl Robert Rich Ian Boddy

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2025 : Live on STAR'S END

Star's End Space Camp 2025

STAR'S END Space Camp 2025
- Dannielle Nia   Chuck van Zyl : 3 August 2025
- Huron : 10 August 2025
- Joe Aliberti : 17 August 2025
- Neil Cippon : 24 August 2025

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Chris Meyer's Alias Zone : 14 September 2025

Ótal (POSTPONED) : 12 October 2025

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