Weekly Update: 16 August 2026

STAR'S END Update - 16 August 2026
Howard Givens & Craig Padilla embrace collaboration in a spirited, heart-seizing work of celestial textures and higher atmospheres. Rounded tones of a sonorous timbre fluctuate in varying layers of charged synthesizer consonance. The underpinning chords brighten, climb and wane - then turn dark, swelling into a steadily sweeping soft mass. Within their perfect electronic realm this duo conjures lush thought zones through which to drift, contemplate possibilities, and imagine the better world their work wishes to call forth. West-Coast synthesists Howard Givens & Craig Padilla perform a Transcontinental Remote Live-to-Air Radio Concert as part of Star's End Space Camp this summer on WXPN in Philadelphia Please tune in to the 16 August 2026 broadcast for details and to listen/or stream live on Youtube For more about Howard Givens & Craig Padilla, please access givens-padilla.bandcamp.com Howard Givens & Craig Padilla Live on STAR'S END 08.16.26 (live stream from 2-3AM EDST/UTC-5) .
STAR'S END Space Camp 2026
Star's End Space Camp 2026 08.02.26 Robert Rich (California USA) 08.09.26 Grant Beasley (Sunderland UK) 08.16.26 Howard Givens/Craig Padilla (Oregon USA) 08.23.26 Andrea Cichecki (Dresden DE) 08.30.26 Radio Massacre International (Teesside UK) Please Click Here for Details : :
STAR'S END - WXPN's Archived Stream
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
STAR'S END on The Internet

The Listening List - Recent Album Reviews From STAR'S END
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July 2026 Top 35 STAR'S END Releases - Alphabetical
Artist - Album (label) Ard Bit - Juxtaposed (Derde) Grant Beasley - The Consolation Engine (self released) Black Mellotrons - Tripmuziek (Doombient) David Cordero/Aiko Takahashi - Night's End (Home Normal) Cosmic Ground - Orgone Forest (self released) Dream Sequence - Nebula (self released) Dream Sequence - Night 1 Tokyo [1980] (self released) Dream Sequence - Nordic Bizarre (self released) Christian Fiesel - On a Second Thought (Cyclical Dreams) Adam Filip - The Returning Circle (Cyclical Dreams) Ludwig Goransson - The Odyssey (Back Lot Music) Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota - Music for Babies (Mystery Circles) Paul Haslinger/Christian Wittman - Borges (Noion Music) Paul Haslinger/Christian Wittman - Mallarme (Noion Music) Jack Hertz - Astral Sound Matrix (Aural Films) Ellen Johnson - Elemental Essence (Vocal Visions) Daniel Lanois - Belladonna Nocturne (Red Floor Records) Lone Bison - Longshore Drifting (Castles in Space) Mayerling - Finis Terrae (Hands in the Dark) Byron Metcalf/Erik Wollo - Spanned Times EP (Wayfarer) Chris Meyer's Alias Zone/Robert Rich - Passage (self released) m00m - Postcard From the End (Aural Films) Miguel Otero/David Cordero - Verano Oxidado (Noray Records) Jeff Pearce - Infinite Ambient: Stars (self released) Phobos - A Perceived View (self released) Plume Girl/Home Baker - Every Day I Weave on the Great Loom (Sound as Language) Robert Poss/E-Clark Cornell - Kepler's Choice (No Sides Records) Sam Rosenthal - The Width of Shadows (Projekt) Christina Ruf - That Light in the Night Sky Could Be (Iapetus) SOCCI - Movements 1 (self released) Michael Stearns/Robert Rich - Reunion of Breath and Waves (Soundscape) Martin Sturtzer - Void Pulse (self released) subtractiveLAD - Onward (self released) Andreas Tilliander - Lava (Quiet Details) XauriX XubatniX - Shapeshifter (Acousmatique Recordings)
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Images From Selected Live On-Air Concerts - Click on an Image for Details
Access the Concerts page for more about live on-air in-studio STAR'S END radio recitals . 2026 : Live on STAR'S END 3 May 2026 : Jaymie Rose Hennegan - STAR'S END Space Camp Live Remote Concerts On-Air through August : 2 August 2026 Robert Rich (California USA) 9 August 2026 Grant Beasley (Sunderland UK) 16 August 2026 Howard Givens/Craig Padilla (Oregon USA) 23 August 2026 Andrea Cichecki (Dresden DE) 30 August 2026 Radio Massacre International (Teesside UK) - 13 September 2026 : Otal . Please Check Back for Updates! .
Website Pages Updated/Added 07.23.26 The Consolation Engine (2026) 07.30.26 Space Camp 2026 07.23.26 Cold Spring Notes (2026) 07.16.26 Mallarme & Borges (2026) 07.09.26 Nightwoven (2026) 06.25.26 Reunion of Breath and Waves (2026) 06.18.26 DiN Reimagined Volume 1 06.11.26 Lost vols 1 & 2 06.04.26 Stellar Remnants (2026) 05.28.26 Library Copy Do Not Remove (2026) 05.21.26 Phaedra (1974) 05.14.26 Oceanine (2026) 05.07.26 Radiance and the Receding Light (2026) 04.30.26 Desert Goddess (2026) 04.26.26 XPN Member Concerts 04.23.26 Serge Works (2026) 04.16.26 Entering Elysium (2026) 04.09.26 Gjota (2026) 04.02.26 Journal (2026) 03.26.26 Live on Star's End Radio (2024) 03.19.26 Nebbia (2026) 03.12.26 The Rotunda 9 March 2025 (2026) 03.05.26 Snow Tides (2026) 02.26.26 The Sound of Dreams (2026) 02.19.26 2026 Fundraiser 02.12.26 Velan (2026) 02.05.26 Empyrean Sun (2026) 01.29.26 Synthergic (2026) 01.22.26 Savor (2026) 01.15.26 Anemoia (2026) 01.08.26 Interstellar Odyssey (2025) 01.03.26 2025 in Review 01.01.26 Water Planets (2025) 12.25.25 Enigmatic Resonance (2025) 12.18.25 CHRYSALIS (2025) 12.11.25 Incubation (2025) 12.04.25 Aftermath (2025) 11.27.25 No Pussyfooting (1973) 11.20.25 Hydrology (2025) 11.13.25 Rendering Time (2025) 11.06.25 Sequential Dreaming (2025) 10.30.25 Drawn Into the Edge Effect (2025) 10.23.25 Aeropsia (2025) 10.16.25 Live at DEMMF 2025 (2025) 10.09.25 Portals and Spirals (2025) 10.02.25 Timeless (2025) 09.25.25 Tone Science 10: The Final Patch (2025 09.18.25 The Absence of Being (2025) 09.11.25 Paradise Lost (2025) 09.04.25 Protostar (2025) 08.28.25 Oxygene (1976) 08.21.25 Shadows of Time (2025) 08.14.25 The Coils Suite (2025) 08.07.25 Aeons (2025) 07.31.25 A New Light (2025) 07.24.25 Resplendent in the Light of the Universe (2025) 07.17.25 Tote Winkel (2025) 07.10.25 Sea-swallowed Wands (2025) 07.04.25 Space Camp 2025
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