Otto Luening has been played on NTS in shows including Cong Burn, featured first on 15 January 2016. Songs played include Piece For Tape Recorder, Incantation and Low Speed.

Otto Luening (b. Milwaukee WI, June 15, 1900 - d. New York NY, September 2, 1996) demonstrated an infectious musical catholicism both through his prolific output as a composer and as a tireless educator and advocate for new music.

Although he is now most famous for his electronic work in the 1950s and early 1960s in collaboration with Vladimir Ussachevsky, Luening composed a vast body of music, much of it chamber music, characterized by its accessibility…