Savant has been played over 80 times on NTS, first on 27 November 2014. Savant's music has been featured on 76 episodes.

The story of electronic music pioneer Kerry Leimer continues with a focus on his auteurist studio project Savant.

For Savant, Leimer enlisted a rotating cast of Seattle-based musicians, among them Marc Barreca, John Foster, Jim and David Keller, Alex Petit as well as Roy Finch and Dennis Rea, in a blindfolded collaboration whose happenstance source music Leimer would sample, loop and sculpt at will. In pursuit of spontaneity, Leimer asks these musicians to play instruments far outside their forté, guided by click tracks and…