CARBONDALE - Dan Godson and Eric Glick Rieman will be performing live from 4 a.m. until 6:30 a.m. Saturday on WDBX 91.1 FM, as guests on the experimental music program "It's Too Damn Early."

The Godston/Glick Rieman Duo explores collaborations with non-human animals, in this case, snails. Eric Glick Rieman is co-composer of this set of graphic scores, collaborating with a trio of snails of the species commonly found in California gardens and originally introduced by nostalgic French immigrants for meat. With an emphasis on the space between musical events, the Godston/Glick Rieman duo rides a wave of intensity and extended technique. The duo represents an intersection between the avant garde traditions of post-jazz and the heavily art-influenced American experimentalist tradition of John Cage, Morton Feldman and Pauline Oliveros.

Daniel Godston is a Chicago trumpeter who also plays "small instruments." Unexpected oddments of tonal flavor emerge from these found objects and create a scintillating landscape of noise.

Eric Glick Rieman is known for his manipulations of the Rhodes electric piano, and he will be performing on a deconstructed/reconstructed instrument. Using rocks, marbles and other non-traditional means of triggering sounds, as well as the keyboard, his instrument becomes an access point into an edgy world of experimentation

Glick Rieman has worked with Fred Frith, Lesli Dalaba, Stuart Dempster and Carla Kihlstedt, and performed the work of Phil Minton, Olivia Block, Meredith Monk and Terry Riley as a member of the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble.

"It's Too Damn Early," hosted by Dave X, is broadcast from 4 a.m. until 6:30 a.m. each Saturday morning, with liveblogged commentary at www.startlingmoniker.wordpress.com.

- The Southern