Microtone

Name: Microtone
Address: University of, Berkeley, CA, 94720, US
Telephone: +15106425259

Arranger of music and music-like audio on KALX 90.7 FM Berkeley since 2010

06/24/2025

On today, Tuesday 6/24 noon to 3pm!

90.7 FM Berkeley
KALX.berkeley.edu

06/10/2025

Microtone is back with musical goodies for you today 6/10, Tuesday noon to 3 PM on KALX Berkeley!

Microkitten is staying home and working on his third morning nap while tuned in to 90.7 FM 📻 and KALX.Berkeley.edu 🔊

05/28/2025

Been a whirlwind past few days — finally have a chance to sit down and appreciate all the hard work that went into the Chinatown Pride event last Saturday evening! Special shout-outs to the QTAPI drag performance that culminated at the Portsmouth Square bridge where I was with DJ cohort for the Silent Disco, and the staff and volunteers at and , and all the sweet and friendly people who came out to make the event a success. 💃🏻🕺🏽🎧🪩🎶

I’m backtracking just a bit to mention that I put together an AAPI jazz special for ’s weekly show, ‘Round Midnight. I didn’t get a chance to announce its broadcast on 5/24/2025 at midnight, but you can stream the archived show through 6/6/2025. Please poke around the archives at kalx.berkeley.edu or head to the link below to check out the playlist and the show.

Taking a break to travel this week! Will report back soon!

https://widgets.spinitron.com/KALX/pl/20367142/Round-Midnight

05/23/2025

Normally I’m working in SF Chinatown on Fridays but today, I’m prepping all day for SATURDAY’s gig in support of Chinatown Pride🌈🏮

The Pride Procession starts at 6PM at , corner of Grant & Clay. They’ll lead the way over to the Pedestrian Bridge & Ballroom where attendees are invited to continue celebrating with a two-channel 🎧SILENT DISCO🪩, one channel programmed by yours truly, Microtone! I’ll be delivering some nostalgic and current Asian and global grooves straight into your ears at this family-friendly, intergenerational event. Free to hang out, but you’re going to need a ticket 🎟️ to dance with your personal set of headphones 💃🏻🕺🏽

CHECK THE LINK below to support Chinatown Pride 2025 and the Silent Disco Fundraiser this Saturday, May 24th!! 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜❣️

https://www.cccsf.us/post/chinatown-pride-2025

05/13/2025

📣 Calling all UC Berkeley summer sessions students‼️ Seats available in AFRICAM 25AC: BLACK POPULAR MUSIC & CULTURE, FROM BE-BOP TO HIP HOP. Professor Rickey Vincent will be dropping by the Microtone show on this Tuesday afternoon to preview his class. And as always, all kinds of eclectic musical treats in store.

Microtone on 5/13 from noon to 3PM,
Prof Vincent visiting ~ 12:40 PM,
YOU tuned in at 90.7 FM Berkeley or KALX.Berkeley.edu 📡

and

04/23/2025

Thank you to all the AMAZING donors on today’s Microtone show who contributed resources to wrangle all these kittens (and one puppy) run amok at KALX!! The station cleaned up nicely and now all the critters are safe where they belong, whew!

The 2025 KALX Spring fundraiser runs for one more day! Check out the climactic conclusion tomorrow at KALX.Berkeley.edu/donate 💸

04/22/2025

TOMORROW IS THE DAY I’ll be on the air on the second to last day of the KALX fundrai$er! It’d mean a lot to me if you could tune in at 📻 90.7 FM Berkeley or listen online 🔊 at KALX.Berkeley.edu. Since we can't see our audiences, this is one way for us to know we have friends and supporters out there when we do radio, whether you’re supporting us with your ears or with your dollars. 💸

KALX DJs tend to go all out during fundraiser time, yours truly included 🙋🏻‍♀️. I’m excited to be joined by DJ Pacifica for this special fundraiser show. If you donate during our show on Tuesday 4/22, noon-3pm Pacific(a) time, you’ll get to hear us cheer your name LIVE on air! We’ve got some other perks and tricks in store as well… tune in to find out 😻😽

04/18/2025

Yesterday’s live-inking shenanigans for the KALX fundraiser with Tiger Lily was super fun!!! Even Lucky Star had to come check out the action and get inked in solidarity 🖊️🧑‍🎨 🎨 Thanks and listeners for tuning in and donating at KALX.Berkeley.edu, and also giving me a great excuse for a niiice long bath last night 🛀🏻🧼

We’re not done with this fundraiser yet!! I’ll be lurking behind the scenes during this weekend’s phone drive when internet-avoidant donors can call 510-642-5259 to speak to a human volunteer when pledging your support!

Then I’ll be back next Tuesday 4/22 for my own fundraiser show, joined by DJ Pacifica 🌊 You’ll hear more about that later… 😎

and

04/08/2025

I’m back on tomorrow 4/8/2025 from noon to 3pm! About halfway through, I’ll be sitting down for a chat and live studio performance with Gamelan Sari Raras — its musical director Midiyanto, singer Heni Savitri, and puppeteer Ki Hanggoro Murti. This is radio you can 👂 listen to and 👀 see! We’ll be bringing this out over our live video feed on Facebook as well!

We're previewing their upcoming show at Hertz Hall on Sunday, April 13th. We’ll have passes to offer up during the show. Please tune in for your chance to win!

📻 KALX 90.7 FM Berkeley
🔊 KALX.Berkeley.edu
📹 KALX

03/11/2025

Radio today, Tuesday 3/11/2025. Noon to 3 PM Pacific non-standard time.

KALX 90.7 FM Berkeley
KALX.Berkeley.edu

and

02/18/2025

In ~2014 I was just starting to purchase more local music releases, inspired in part by everything I was exposed to in the library. We got this fantastic compilation from Records that tickled my eardrums and made me curious for more. I went to the label’s bandcamp and bought the Horaflora/Trumpet Trumpet Synthesizer record. To my surprise, Raub and Dianne showed up at my doorstep to personally deliver the record to my address! I was pretty shy about revealing my off-air identity back then, but this was a turning point, seeing the very real connections that radio can make with artists in our community.

I was going to pull the KALX library copy of that record I bought, but realized we don’t have it! Instead we have another Horaflora split based on a live recording done at KALX in 2009. Excited to check out this recording and other audio oddities on my show this Tuesday afternoon, noon to 3pm.

Tune in 90.7 FM Berkeley and streaming live online at KALX.Berkeley.edu 🔊

02/07/2025

Moments after I posted my selfie announcement for my recent Tuesday afternoon show, I was told that Mike Burma, a long-time fellow KALX DJ, was dying. Then minutes before airtime, I learned that he had already died that morning.

Once again, someone great is gone without a proper goodbye.

Radioing is a full body workout for me lately. I tighten my core, balance live on thin wire while dangling over emotional snake pits. Grief oozes horizontally, perpetually throwing my balance. But I’ve already gone down deep and haven’t found the bottom yet, so I’m moving around in different directions.

Human bodies and hearts aren’t well designed for pain, but institutions like can endure in part due to stalwarts like Mike Burma who emplaced structures in our past to secure the vitality of our future. KALX has lost an essential person whom we will mourn, and miss, and celebrate. The beauty of his legacy is that he left what we need to get through this — with time, with community, with work, and with love.

As I was refiling records after my show on Tuesday, a fluorescent light in the KALX library flickered overhead just as I paused at a spot underneath. I felt Mike Burma in that moment. ✨ Though his physical form may be gone, his luminescence and contributions to our community will always remain.

Rest in peace, Mike BURMA! Burma! Burma…And thank you. Thank you for having chosen to spend so much of your precious, limited time on this earth with us. We are all better off for having had you here.

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+15106425259

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