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The Other Minds Archive features recordings of OM's past music festivals and concert productions, selected recordings of new music sent to us by composers from around the world, and selections from thousands of hours of audiotape recordings from the KPFA Radio Music Department collection, transferred to Other Minds in 2000. The KFPA tapes contain live conversations, interviews, and performances with many of the innovative musicians who created 20th Century new music. KPFA-FM is a part of the Pa...
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A live recording of a concert by Philip Glass given on July 2, 1978 as part of the New Sounds San Jose concert series. This program includes a number of pieces for organ, written in Glass’ trademark minimalist style, as well as a piece for orchestra and electronics by an unidentified composer. Born in 1937, Philip Glass is one of the most influential American composers of the late 20th century. He is the best known composer of repetitive or minimalist music, and has produced a number of...
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Sounds San Jose, Philip Glass, Music, New Music
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Sounds San Jose, Philip Glass, Music, New Music
Professor Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. reads the general prologue and the concluding retraction of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” One of the foremost experts on early English poetry, Bessinger offers a masterful recitation of this seminal work of literature, all in the original Middle English. The lyrical quality of Chaucer’s masterpiece is best appreciated when read aloud by someone fluent in the archaic form of English in which it was written. While most students have read at...
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Literature, Spoken Word
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Charles Amirkhanian interviews Frank Zappa in anticipation of his appearance on Speaking of Music at the Exploratorium. Zappa discusses his digital re-mastering of his album "Lumpy Gravy" and other early works. The musical selections played during this program are not included in this recording.
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Interview, Popular Music, Avant-Garde, Frank Zappa
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Interview, Popular Music, Avant-Garde, Frank Zappa
Amirkhanian introduces a program of poetry from the Dial-A-Poem exhibits organized by John Giorno at the Museum of Modern Art and other spaces. These poems were originally available to the general public via a special telephone number from the The Architectural League of New York. However due to some of the adult content contained in certain pieces the project was threatened with lawsuit’s from concerned, conservative parents and the telephone number was eventually disconnected. John Giorno...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity series, Poetry, Spoken Word
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity series, Poetry, Spoken Word
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Other Minds, a private 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization based in San Francisco, is a global New Music community where composers, students, and listeners discover and learn about innovative music by composers from all over the world. Other Minds Records, a project of Other Minds, produces a select catalog of contemporary music exploring areas seldom touched upon by mainstream institutions. You can explore their collection of available works here on archive.org, and visit their online store...
Topics: other minds, new music, classical
Topics: other minds, new music, classical
Gordon Spencer of WBAI in New York presents a program about Louis Hardin, more popularly known as Moondog. From the 1940s up until 1974 Moondog made his living as a street musician and poet in New York City and was typically found near the jazz clubs on 52nd Street. Blind since an accident when he was 16 years old, Moondog was always recognizable in his Viking helmet playing a variety of instruments, some of his own design. In this program Moondog talks about his interests, his influences and...
Topics: KPFA-FM, WBAI, Interview and Music, Jazz, Avant-Garde, Louis Hardin, Moondog
Topics: KPFA-FM, WBAI, Interview and Music, Jazz, Avant-Garde, Louis Hardin, Moondog
On February 12, 1988, KPFA dedicated an entire day to take a closer look at the music and career of Brian Eno, one of the most influential composer, performer, producer, and visual artist of our times. Eno joins Charles Amirkhanian in the studios of KPFA to assist in hosting a day of his music. In a number of far ranging interviews, some previously recorded and some live in the studio, Eno discusses his English adolescence and early musical influences, as well as sharing stories about his work...
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Topics: Interview, Music, Popular Music, New Music, Rock Music, Ambient Music, Electronic Music, Video Art
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Topics: Interview, Music, Popular Music, New Music, Rock Music, Ambient Music, Electronic Music, Video Art
From a program recorded on July 6, 1989, Charles Amirkhanian’s guest is the noted poet Michael McClure, who in addition to his own literary prowess, is also a connoisseur of a diverse range of musical expression, as will be understood by the time he finishes playing selections from his favorite commercial recordings. Who else would mix Beethoven and Monteverdi with Funkadelic, and the Talking Heads? Whether listening to Jorge Demus in Brahms’ “Four Serious Songs,” Thelonious Monk...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Music, Interview, Popular Music, Classical Music
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Music, Interview, Popular Music, Classical Music
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John Cage / Morton Feldman: Radio Happenings I - V Recorded at WBAI, New York City, July 1966 - January 1967 John Cage and Morton Feldman recorded four open-ended conversations at the studios of radio station WBAI in New York. These meetings spanned six months between July 1966 and January 1967, and were produced as five "Radio Happenings". Both were at transitional points in their music. Cage had completed Variations V in 1965 and Variations VI and VII in 1966, and would publish...
Topics: Avantgarde, 20th Century Classical, Interview
Source: Other Minds
Topics: Avantgarde, 20th Century Classical, Interview
Source: Other Minds
From a concert recorded on July 27, 1966, a selection of traditional and contemporary Koto music. The concert begins with “Midare Rinzetsu,” which is roughly translated as “disorder” or “unorthodox.” It is for two kotos, and is in the dan-mono style of the Ikuta school, and is generally ascribed to the 17th century master koto player, Yatsuhashi Kengyō. This is followed by “Matsukaze” which means ”wind in the pines.” The work, which is believed to have been composed by the...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, World Music, Koto Music
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, World Music, Koto Music
A selection of South Indian flute music by Tanjore Viswanathan. The master flute musician performs a number of ragas accompanied by five other musicians playing the violin and assorted traditional Indian instruments.
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, World Music, Tanjore Viswanathan
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, World Music, Tanjore Viswanathan
The ninth transmission of KPFAs groundbreaking series the World Ear Project, featuring unedited ambient recordings of unique or unusual environments. The World Ear Project was an attempt to bring everybodys ears a little closer. KPFA asked their listeners and friends from around the world to send in recordings made in common places of the sounds that surround our daily existence. The environments in which these recording were made were the sole subject of the project. It was the philosophy of...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Other Finds, Soundscapes, World Ear Project
Topics: KPFA-FM, Other Finds, Soundscapes, World Ear Project
Charles Amirkhanian introduces recent compositions by this American composer, who since 1947 developed a unique body of complex pieces, all for player piano. Nancarrow was able to punch carefully calculated holes in player piano rolls and make the instrument perform inhumanly difficult figures. His concerns with rhythm and sonority are more advanced than almost any in the world, yet his music makes an immediate impression even to those who don’t normally like avant-garde music. This is music...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity Series, Interview and Music, 20th Century Classical, Mechanical Music,...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity Series, Interview and Music, 20th Century Classical, Mechanical Music,...
A 1975 recording of a party to introduce one of Don Buchla’s synthesizers, the Buchla 500 (Electric Music Box). This program begins with the sounds of Buchla and others preparing the instrument for presentation while also describing its features to interested people who are milling around the studio. Then a composition entitled “Terminal References” is performed, followed by additional music that plays in the background as the party continues, and ending with the performance of a long...
Topics: Music, interview, electronic music, electro-acoustic, synthesizers
Topics: Music, interview, electronic music, electro-acoustic, synthesizers
In the second of two consecutive appearances before a live audience, as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer and artist Brian Eno, about his latest multi-media installation, and other subjects of interest. Eno had just finished working at the Exploratorium on a video art project called “Latest Flames,” in which he had used video monitors as an ever changing light source to illuminate a selection of paintings, all...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Speaking of Music, Exploratorium, Interview, Music, Popular Music, Modern Art
Topics: KPFA-FM, Speaking of Music, Exploratorium, Interview, Music, Popular Music, Modern Art
A live performance of four early works by Steve Reich: "Four Organs", "My Name Is", "Piano Phase", and "Phase Patterns." This performance marked an important moment in San Francisco Bay Area new music history with the triumphant return to the East Bay by Reich, who studied at Mills College with Luciano Berio, and who performed the 1964 world premiere of Terry Riley's seminal work, “In C", at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. The resonant...
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Topics: Music, KPFA-FM, Minimalism, New Music, Steve Reich, University Museum, UC Berkeley
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Topics: Music, KPFA-FM, Minimalism, New Music, Steve Reich, University Museum, UC Berkeley
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This program features a number of pieces by La Monte Young with such cryptic titles as “23 VIII 64 2:50:45-3:11AM, the volga delta” some of which can be played at various speeds, as demonstrated in this recording. Described as some of the most difficult music played on KPFA, Young’s music combines effectively the spirituality of the East with Western intellectual and technical interests. These performances are by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. (from KPFA Folio)
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Electro-Acoustic, Avant-Garde, La Monte Young
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Electro-Acoustic, Avant-Garde, La Monte Young
Radio station WFMT in Chicago presents the second of six broadcasts from Navy Pier, as part of the fourth New Music America Festival. Charles Amirkhanian hosts, assisted by composer and vocalist, Joan La Barbara. The concert begins with a string quartet by John J. Becker, the first deceased composer to have their work performed at a New Music America Festival. This is followed by a work for solo cello by Joseph Paul Taylor and “Tableaux Vivants” a work for flutes and two voices, by Larry...
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Music America, Music, Interview, New Music, Mixed Media
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Music America, Music, Interview, New Music, Mixed Media
On December 3, 2005, Other Minds presented for the first time three concerts of new music summoning the spirits of composers past and present, in the spiritual setting of Bernard Maybeck's Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco. The following selections are from Concert I, "WALK IN BEAUTY". Dane Rudhyar Third Pentagram, excerpts: Stars, Sunburst (1926) Leo Ornstein Three Fantasy Pieces (1962, world premiere) Henry Cowell Aeolian Harp (19230 The Banshee (1925) Tides of Maunaunaun (1912)...
Topics: Other Minds, New Music Seance, Concerts, New Music, 20th Century Classical
Topics: Other Minds, New Music Seance, Concerts, New Music, 20th Century Classical
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Charles Amirkhanian and Brian Eno discuss Phonetic Poetry, how Brian writes his lyrics, and the spirit of inquisitiveness at KPFA Radio on Saturday February 2, 1980. Listen to some of Brian Enos pieces; After the Heat, Everything Merges With the Night, Another Green World, Spirits Drifting and sections of other pieces. Brian Eno also discusses the artist Peter Schmidt and their work on the Oblique Strategies Cards, being a producer, Process vs Product and looping. Reel I ends with some thoughts...
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity series, Interview and Music, New Music, Popular Music, Brian Eno
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity series, Interview and Music, New Music, Popular Music, Brian Eno
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John Cage reads: "On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist and His Work", published in his book Silence, and "26 Statements Re Duchamp", and "Jasper Johns: Stories and Ideas", both published in his book A Year From Monday. The lecture begins with an amusing and informative autobiographical introduction to his interest in art and artists, how he became a composer, and how he wrote each of these pieces. This lecture is of great historical value. Recorded at the L.A. County...
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Topics: Avantgarde, Spoken Word, 20th Century Classical
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A selected number of excerpts from all Other Minds CD releases to date (1999-2013) Catalogue Nos. OM1001-1022. For more information about Other Minds, visit: otherminds.org
Topic: Other Minds Records, OM Records
Topic: Other Minds Records, OM Records
One in a series of programs produced by Clark Coolidge that feature the works of late 20th century poets, sound poets, and authors. In this recording, made in San Francisco in August 1969, Tom Veitch reads from his experimental novel “The Luis Armed Story”. Veitch, who is perhaps best known today as an author of graphic novels, including a couple based on George Lukas’ “Star Wars” series of movies, was during the 1960s and early 1970s a major player in the underground comics scene, as...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Words series, Spoken Word, Experimental, Literature
Topics: KPFA-FM, Words series, Spoken Word, Experimental, Literature
On December 11, 1987 Leo Ornstein, one of the most important composer-pianists of the 20th century,celebrated his 95th birthday at his home in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In this program, Charles Amirkhanian takes a look at the career of this remarkable path-breaking musician whose early piano compositions, and performances of the most radical European composers of the day, shocked audiences throughout the U. S. in the period from 1912 to 1915. Included are several of his piano works performed by...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Leo Ornstein, Music, Interview, 20th Century Classical
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Leo Ornstein, Music, Interview, 20th Century Classical
Charles Amirkhanian interviews Trimpin, a sculptor and composer who builds his own electronically controlled acoustic instruments.
Topics: Speaking of Music Series, Trimpin, Unconventional Instruments, Interview and Music,...
Topics: Speaking of Music Series, Trimpin, Unconventional Instruments, Interview and Music,...
Field recordings from the San Diego Zoo, recorded on Nov. 14, 1968 by Pauline Oliveros. Many various animals and bird calls are heard in this recording of ambient sounds that is refreshingly free of crowd noise.
Topics: KPFA-FM, World Ear Project, Other Finds, Soundscapes
Topics: KPFA-FM, World Ear Project, Other Finds, Soundscapes
Phil Elwood presents the complete recordings of two concerts organized by John Hammond and given on the Christmas Eves of 1938 and 1939 at Carnegie Hall; featuring the best Swing, Blues, and Gospel musicians of the day. Performers include Charlie Christian, Lester Young, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Bill Broozy, and many others
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Jazz, Jazz Archives, Phil Elwood
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Jazz, Jazz Archives, Phil Elwood
In this ninth edition of Source, produced by the editorial staff of Source Magazine, a bi-yearly publication devoted to avant-garde composers’ scores, articles and photographs, two pieces of musique concrete are heard. The first, Marble Game, by Don Hannah, starts with a detailed explanation of the processes used to make the various sound heard.
Topics: KPFA-FM, Source Program, Music, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Sound Poetry, Don Hannah
Topics: KPFA-FM, Source Program, Music, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Sound Poetry, Don Hannah
Bernard Timberg analyzes the songs of Bob Dylan looking for Jewish themes and imagery. He identifies messianic longings in Quinn the Eskimo, references to Jewish burial practices in Masters of War, and finds significance in the fact that the initials of John Wesley Harding can be interpreted as the name of the Jewish God, YHWH. Issues such as social justice and a sense of out-sideness imbue the songs of Dylan as they do the history of the Jewish people. Timberg also interviews a number of...
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Documentary, Folk Music, Bob Dylan
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Documentary, Folk Music, Bob Dylan
From a recording made on June 13, 1981 in San Francisco, as part of the New Music America Festival, Laurie Anderson performs selections from her epic work “United States”. Laurie Anderson was born in 1947 in Chicago and received her MFA in sculpture from Columbia University. As a performance and recording artist, she has worked with film-sound-talking pieces for many years, performing at the La Jolla Museum, the Berlin Festival, and various other places in the U. S. and Europe. In this...
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Music America series, Music, New Music, Performance Art, Laurie Anderson
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Music America series, Music, New Music, Performance Art, Laurie Anderson
One of the most dynamic groups in avant-garde rock music is San Francisco's own The Residents; an underground ensemble which has been composing anonymously and on tape since 1970. KPFA celebrates a decade of music by The Residents with this special three hour extravaganza hosted by Charles Amirkhanian and featuring Snakefinger (frequent guest artist with The Residents) and Jay Clem (promotion director for the group's label, Ralph Records). Tonight we’ll hear selections from the complete music...
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity series, Interview and Music, Popular Music, The Residents
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John Cage / Morton Feldman: Radio Happenings I - V Recorded at WBAI, New York City, July 1966 - January 1967 John Cage and Morton Feldman recorded four open-ended conversations at the studios of radio station WBAI in New York. These meetings spanned six months between July 1966 and January 1967, and were produced as five "Radio Happenings". Both were at transitional points in their music. Cage had completed Variations V in 1965 and Variations VI and VII in 1966, and would publish...
Topics: Avantgarde, 20th Century Classical, Interview
Source: Other Minds
Topics: Avantgarde, 20th Century Classical, Interview
Source: Other Minds
Phil Elwood presents the first installment of a program on the evolution of Ragtime music from Scott Joplin to Jelly Roll Morton. The program begins with selections of music from piano rolls cut nearly over 100 years ago. Elwood also explains the difference between the player piano and the pianola. Selections of music from Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb are heard.
Topics: Jazz Archives, Phil Elwood, Ragtime music, Piano music
Topics: Jazz Archives, Phil Elwood, Ragtime music, Piano music
On December 20, 1972, composer Annea Lockwood appeared live on Ode To Gravity. She was interviewed by Pauline Oliveros, who begins the discussion by reading a number of dreams that she has had involving Annea, although they had not actually met until this day. They go on to discuss their mutual interest in meditation, and in particular sonic meditation. Later a gathering of 30 composers and performers executed Annea's serenity-inducing event for multiple hummers. Among the many guests were Don...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity series, Interview and Music, Avant-Garde, Soundscapes, Annea Lockwood,...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity series, Interview and Music, Avant-Garde, Soundscapes, Annea Lockwood,...
From a program recorded in 1968, Tom Donahue interviews Frank Zappa about his life and work, and allows the irreverent rock star to present some of his favorite music. The ensuing free form program ranges from surf music, doo-wop, jazz, the blues, to the works of Pierre Boulez. The song selection is very informative for any fan of Zappa’s music, as one can easily trace the influence of all these styles on his own creative output, be it the cheesy harmonies of 1950s pop songs or the intricate...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Interview and Music, Popular Music, Frank Zappa
Topics: KPFA-FM, Interview and Music, Popular Music, Frank Zappa
John Zorn and Larry Ochs join Charles Amirkhanian to discuss and play a selection of Zorn’s compositions. Among the pieces heard is an excerpt from “Spillane” in which Zorn tries to capture some of the film noir sensibility that imbues the Mickey Spillane novels and the gritty New York City in which they are based, and which Zorn calls home. This is followed by a couple of excerpts from Zorn’s collaborative improvisational work “Cobra” for which he created a number of general rules...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Interview and Music, Jazz, Avant-Garde, John Zorn, Larry Ochs
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Interview and Music, Jazz, Avant-Garde, John Zorn, Larry Ochs
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A lively 1963 interview of John Cage by Jonathan Cott. The discussion covers several aspects of Cages creative process and aesthetic. At every turn Cott antagonizes Cage with challenging questions. In addition, he quotes from numerous sources (including Norman Mailer, Michael Steinberg, Igor Stravinksy and others) criticizing Cage and his music. Includes a performance of Aria with Fontana Mix featuring vocalist Cathy Berberian. This program is notable particularly for the challenging stance of...
Topics: Interview, New Music, John Cage
Source: Other Minds
Topics: Interview, New Music, John Cage
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An interview with intermedia artist Dick Higgins, who discusses his views about California Institute of the Arts, artists and his company, Something Else Press, with Richard Friedman and Anthony Gnazzo. This was recorded Sunday, June 13, 1971, at the KPFA studios, after Higgins resigned his post at Cal Arts. He discusses his reasons for leaving and the problems he faced there. He also gives his ideas on what an arts institute should be like, and why he and his press were moving to Vermont. Dick...
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Topic: Avantgarde
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As of May 1973 when this program was recorded, Shandar Records of Paris had produced a series of 14 impressive record albums by avant-garde composers and performers including Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, La Monte Young, Pandit Pran Nath, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, and Sun Ra. The owner of the company, Chantal d'Arcy talks in Paris with Philip Freriks, a reporter for VPRO/Amsterdam about the record company and her views on new music. Charles Amirkhanian also...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity Series, Interview and Music, Avant-Garde, Minimalism, Shandar Records
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity Series, Interview and Music, Avant-Garde, Minimalism, Shandar Records
Henry Cowell talks about his life and plays examples of his music from his entire career as a composer—a fascinating document. He mentions the diversity interests from his childhood, giving up violin at age 8, hearing Irish tunes hummed by his father, early American Ozark mountain tunes sung by his mother. Living in San Francisco, he was exposed to international influences, playing and humming along with his Japanese, Chinese & Tahitian playmates.
Topics: Documentary, New Music, Henry Cowell, Orchestral Music
Source: Other Minds
Topics: Documentary, New Music, Henry Cowell, Orchestral Music
Source: Other Minds
This is an interview with John Cage & David Tudor, conducted in French and English. This particular interview was purportedly recorded on May 29, 1972, a time at which both John Cage and David Tudor were on a European tour featuring performances in London, Bremen, Paris and other European cities. Cage talks about the influence that Henry David Thoreau, Marcel Duchamp, and others have had on his own artistic output. Works discussed include Cage’s “Mureau” and David Tudor’s...
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Music, Interview, John Cage, David Tudor
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Music, Interview, John Cage, David Tudor
A series of improvisations, recorded around 1957, and featuring Pauline Oliveros, Loren Rush, Terry Riley, Laurel Johnson, Robert Erickson, and Bill Butler. The instrumentation for these five pieces is varied and unspecified, but seems to include piano, percussion, flute, and a trumpet, or some other brass instrument. The first improvisation is used as accompaniment for a lengthy monologue. These early experiments with aleatoric and improvisatory music serves as a valuable historical record...
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Topics: Music, New Music, Improvisation, Monologues with music
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Topics: Music, New Music, Improvisation, Monologues with music
Henry Cowell presents a program on the music of Indonesia, featuring early recordings of gamelan music, as well as many transcriptions of Balinese music by Colin McPhee. The music of Indonesia first came to the attention of the West when in the 1920s Erich M. von Hornbostel and others collected and commercially released a number of gamelan performances, recorded in the villages of Indonesia. These early 78rpm records later inspired the Canadian composer, Colin McPhee, to travel to the island of...
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Topics: Interview, Music, World Music, Gamelan Music, Henry Cowell
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Topics: Interview, Music, World Music, Gamelan Music, Henry Cowell
Philip Glass: Music for Two Pianos Wednesday, December 6, 2017, St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, CA In honor of his 80th birthday … a benefit for OTHER MINDS Charles Amirkhaninan writes: "Other Minds has hosted its share of inimitables over the past quarter century of promoting maverick new music. But no one deserves that sobriquet more than my brilliant, talented and predictably adventurous friend Dennis Russell Davies. We thank him and Maki Namekawa for generously proposing...
Topics: Other Minds Presents, Music, Piano 4 hands, 20th century classical, Operas
Topics: Other Minds Presents, Music, Piano 4 hands, 20th century classical, Operas
A concert of Lou Harrison, (with one piece by Carlos Chávez), performed at The Old Spaghetti Factory in San Francisco on January 24, 1971. Works include music for Solo Piano by Lou Harrison, a Sonatina by Chávez, and selections from a Young Caesar, a puppet opera with unconventional instruments by Lou Harrison with libretto's by Robert Gordon. This is the first performance of the opera.
Topics: KPFA-FM, Lou Harrison, Music, New Music, Unconventional Instruments, Piano Music
Topics: KPFA-FM, Lou Harrison, Music, New Music, Unconventional Instruments, Piano Music
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John Cage / Morton Feldman: Radio Happenings I - V Recorded at WBAI, New York City, July 1966 - January 1967 John Cage and Morton Feldman recorded four open-ended conversations at the studios of radio station WBAI in New York. These meetings spanned six months between July 1966 and January 1967, and were produced as five "Radio Happenings". Both were at transitional points in their music. Cage had completed Variations V in 1965 and Variations VI and VII in 1966, and would publish...
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Topics: Avantgarde, 20th Century Classical, Interviews
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Composer-pianist Leo Ornstein visits with Charles Amirkhanian on the occasion of his 100th birthday! Severo Ornstein, the son of the composer, is in the studio with Amirkhanian to provide commentary, while Leo Ornstein and another near centenarian, Nicolas Slonimsky, are interviewed by phone. The discussion centers on Ornsteins early history as a Wunderkind pianist in the 1910s, and his enormous output of music over nine decades of composing. Slonimsky details a recent revival of Ornsteins...
Topics: 20th Century Classical, Interview
Source: Other Minds
Topics: 20th Century Classical, Interview
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The second concert of the Third Annual New Sounds of San Jose, recorded live on February 8, 1981. This year’s concerts featured works by Bay Area composers. In this second of two concerts you will hear works for solo piano by Charles Shere and John Adams, as well as a work for piano and violin by Richard Felciano and a number of songs for soprano, violin and piano by Wayne Peterson.
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Sounds San jose, Music, 20th Century Classical
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Sounds San jose, Music, 20th Century Classical
On January 28, 1992, John Cage delivered a series of lectures at Stanford University in Palo Alto California in early 1992, just a few months before his death. Representing his last major writing, “Overpopulation and Art” is a mesostic poem that covers a wide variety of Cage’s concern’s, from the implications of technology on the environment to the role of art in society. Although often remembered as a radical composer of aleatoric music, John Cage was also a extremely intelligent man,...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Lecture, Panel Discussion, Poetry, John Cage
Topics: KPFA-FM, Lecture, Panel Discussion, Poetry, John Cage
Carolyn Strauss introduces a program of flute music of Northern India. She relates how in the late 1960s, after a largely fruitless search for musicians that play a certain type of long low flute (bansuri) she was finally introduced to G. S. Sachdev. Despite his obvious proficiency Sachdev was at the time largely unknown in India and was being pressured to forgo his musical studies in order to take on his father’s rock crushing business. Strauss managed to record a private concert, held in...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, world music, Indian music, flute music, ragas
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, world music, Indian music, flute music, ragas
The Music of Stephan Micus: Where In The World? By 2004, Stephan Micus (MEE-koos) has recorded over 20 solo albums of his multi-tracked, multi-ethnic music, mostly for the ECM Records label. But three decades earlier, the young musician stopped to visit WBAI in New York, and later Charles Amirkhanian at KPFA and left an hour-long tape of his music before disappearing into the ozone. From the original 1974 program description: Improvisations for wooden recorders, sitar, zither, cymbals, bamboo...
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Topics: Instrumental, Meditative, New Age, World Music
Source: Other Minds
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Topics: Instrumental, Meditative, New Age, World Music
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A performance of Harold Budd's “Madrigals of the Rose Angel”, recorded at Cal Arts in March, 1993.
Topics: Music, 20th Century Classical, Harold Budd
Topics: Music, 20th Century Classical, Harold Budd
An interview with Henri Chopin and his family, recorded by Charles Amirkhanian and Carol Law at Chopin’s home in Ingatestone, Essex, on April 3, 1972. Chopin’s English wife Jean assists in translating from French to English during this discussion about Chopin’s early work, influences, and recent publications. Also joining in the discussion is Chopin’s daughter Brigitte who is also an artist. Henri Chopin was an active member of the French avant-garde from at least 1950 until his death...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Interview, Sound Poetry, Text-sound composition, Henri Chopin
Topics: KPFA-FM, Interview, Sound Poetry, Text-sound composition, Henri Chopin
On December 25, 1974, as a Christmas special, the Fruit Punch Collective presented a recording of the 1971 world premiere performance of Lou Harrison’s gay-oriented opera, “Young Caesar”. The story of the opera explores the meeting and purported subsequent love affair between the young Julius Caesar and King Nicomedes IV of Bithynia. In addition to desiring to write an opera with a homosexual theme Harrison was also attracted to the story about Caesar and Nicomedes because it represented...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Opera, New Music, Lou Harrison
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Opera, New Music, Lou Harrison
Computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel discusses her compositional tools and processes with host Jude Quintieré (WBAI). Having recently completed a number of works using the GROOVE system at Bell Labs, Spiegel describes the flexibility of her programs, and her approach to sequencing and real-time manipulation of synthesized sounds. The composer further elaborates on the evolution of her personal interests, especially in regard to her use of specific pitch and rhythmic materials drawn from her...
Topics: KPFA-FM, WBAI, Interview and Music, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Laurie Spiegel
Topics: KPFA-FM, WBAI, Interview and Music, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Laurie Spiegel
Recorded on May 8, 1982, the third concert of the 4th annual New Sounds San Jose Festival featured works by famed minimalist composer Steve Reich, performed by the composer and an ensemble of San Jose State University students and faculty. The concert commenced with “Clapping Music” in which two performers produce a pattern of hand claps that is reminiscent of Reich’s works for organ and percussion in which various rhythmic patterns go in and out of phase with each other. This is followed...
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Sounds San Jose, Music, New Music, Minimal Music
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Sounds San Jose, Music, New Music, Minimal Music
In this edition of Source, produced by the editorial staff of “Source Magazine”, a bi-yearly publication devoted to avant-garde composers’ scores, articles and photographs, the focus is on a show of Sound Art held at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York City from October 1969 to January 1970. There is a brief description of the history of sound sculpture and then recordings of many of the works featured at the show. Artists highlighted include Jon Hassell, Robert Ashley, Harold...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Electro-Acoustic, Sound Poetry, Source Magazine
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Electro-Acoustic, Sound Poetry, Source Magazine
A short interview with Dutch violinist Vera Beths, recorded during the 1981 Cabrillo Music Festival. In her discussion with Carl Stone, Beths describes how she came across the music of George Antheil and the difficulties she had in learning to play it. She also talks about her Stradivarius violin and her relationship with contemporary composers Philip Glass and John Adams.
Topics: KPFA-FM, Interview, New Music, Vera Beths, George Antheil
Topics: KPFA-FM, Interview, New Music, Vera Beths, George Antheil
Donald Buchla's newest synthesizer, the 700, is introduced to the San Francisco community at a gathering held at the Sake Factory. Charles Amirkhanian interviews the inventor as well as numerous local composers about their experiences with Buchla's creations while we hear in the background people trying out the newest version.
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity Series, Other Finds, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Buchla
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity Series, Other Finds, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Buchla
Radio station WFMT in Chicago presents the fourth of six broadcasts from Navy Pier, as part of the fourth New Music America Festival. Charles Amirkhanian hosts, assisted by composer and vocalist, Joan La Barbara, with additional commentary by Neil Tesser. After beginning with a rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner” sung by various unidentified and not necessarily professional singers, the actual concert gets underway with Harold Budd performing a number of his works for solo piano. This...
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Music America, Music, Interview, New Music, 20th Century Classical
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Music America, Music, Interview, New Music, 20th Century Classical
Charles Amirkhanian talks with David Raksin about his career as a composer for Hollywood films. Raksin describes his intentions while presenting selections from some of his best known film scores. Also discussed is the lost art of melody among modern composers. Born in 1912, Raskin was known as the grandfather of film music, having composed hundreds of scores for film and television, starting with Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” and including such films as “The Bad and the...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, David Raksin, Interview, Music, 20th Century Classical, Motion...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, David Raksin, Interview, Music, 20th Century Classical, Motion...
01 - Prelude (arr. Trimpin) 02 - Blues (arr. Trimpin) 03 - I. Presto 04 - II. Moderato - Piu allegro 05 - III. Allegro molto 06 - I. Allegro molto 07 - II. Prestissimo 08 - Piece for Tape 09 - Study for Player Piano No. 30 10 - Para Yoko (arr. Trimpin) 11 - Study for Player Piano No. 50 (arr. Trimpin) 12 - Study for Player Piano No. 51 (arr. Trimpin) 13 - Contraption No. 1 14 - Making the Hole-punching Machine 15 - How Long does It Take to Punch a Roll 16 - Terraced Dynamics 17 - Ethnic Music...
Topic: Other Classical
Source: CD
Topic: Other Classical
Source: CD
Radio station WFMT in Chicago presents the fifth of six broadcasts from Navy Pier, as part of the fourth New Music America Festival. Charles Amirkhanian hosts, assisted by composer and vocalist, Joan La Barbara. This concert features the “Clarinet Quartet” by Douglas Ewart, the world premiere of Christian Wolff’s “Preludes for Piano” and Phi Winsor’s “Same Tired Old Changes”, and a work for solo shakuhachi (Japanese flute) and tape by Dary John Mizelle. Also included is a...
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Music America, Music, Interview, New Music
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Music America, Music, Interview, New Music
This recording of 4 compositions by Mel Powell include: EVENTS for tape recorder Voices: Mildred Dunnock, Martha Scott, Lee Bowman IMPROVISATION Ward Davenny, piano; Keith Wilson, clarinet; David Schwarfz, viola SECOND ELECTRONIC SETTING TWO PRAYER SETTINGS New York Chamber Soloists; Charles Bressler, tenor; Melvin Kaplan, conductor MEL POWELL (b. 1923) is Chairman of the composition faculty and Director of the Electronic Music Studio at Yale. His music is characterized by a delicate lyricism...
Topics: Music, 20th century classical, Sacred songs, Electronic music, Trios (Piano, clarinet, viola)
Topics: Music, 20th century classical, Sacred songs, Electronic music, Trios (Piano, clarinet, viola)
One of the big hits of the 1980-81 San Francisco Symphony season was the world premiere of a work by Bay Area composer John Adams, a Harvard graduate now teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His settings of texts by John Donne (“Negative Love”) and Emily Dickinson (“Because I Could Not Stop For Death” & “Wild Nights” ) for chorus and full orchestra has set a new direction for the course of repetitive (or minimal) music, a style initiated by Steve Reich, Terry...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Interview and Music, New Music, Minimalism, John Adams
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Interview and Music, New Music, Minimalism, John Adams
Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Milton Babbitt. They are joined by pianist Alan Feinberg who plays a number of Babbitt's works including one piece that will have it's world premiere the next day.
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Interview and Music, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, New Music, Milton Babbitt, Speaking of...
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A concert given in honor of Gerhard Samuel, recorded February 1, 1971 at the Fireman's Fund Theatre, featuring music by Niccolò Castiglioni, Luis de Pablo, Charles Boone, Jean-Phillippe Rameau, and Gerhard Samuel.
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, 20th Century Classical, New Music, Gerhard Samuel
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, 20th Century Classical, New Music, Gerhard Samuel
Yoko Ono talks of the early part of the Showa Period (1926-1989), in Japan, and sings songs for unaccompanied voice which show various aspects of these times and culture.
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Topics: KPFA-FM, WBAI, Interview, Music, World Music, Ethnic Music
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Ellen Fullman performs Stratified Bands: Last Kind Words (2001-02) with the Kronos Quartet in 2002 at The Other Minds Music Festival 8 at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco California. This premiere and performance made possible by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Songs in Last Kind Words as were performed in order include: Changing Perspective; Drifting Areas: the Mississippi River, Never gets out of me, If I get killed #1, When you see me comin', And if I don't bring you...
Topics: Avantgarde, 20th Century Classical
Source: Other Minds
Topics: Avantgarde, 20th Century Classical
Source: Other Minds
Charles Amirkhanian interviews Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, Professor of Assyriology at the University of California at Berkeley, about an LP ”Sounds from silence; Recent discoveries in ancient Near Eastern music” which documents a previously unknown musical composition dating from around 1400 BC. This ancient fertility hymn from Ugarit caused an international sensation when modern research made available for the first time, the knowledge necessary for the translation of ancient clay tablets...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Interview, Ancient Music
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Interview, Ancient Music
Track Listing: Solo For Voice 58: Raga 1 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 4 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 14 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 8 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 3 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 5 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 6 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 9 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 2 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 10 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 12 Solo For Voice 58: Ragas 11-13-15-7 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 16 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 18 Solo For Voice 58: Raga 17 This album can be purchased from the Other Minds webstore . You can explore...
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Topic: Other Classical
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A program prepared by KPFK music director, William Malloch, on the orchestral music of Silvestre Revueltas, the colorful Mexican composer. Malloch illustrates the composers tendency to orchestrate Mexican folk music and compares two performances of Sensemayá in which the tempos of the piece varies dramatically. Also included is the broadcast of a rare recording of a lengthy suite compiled by the conductor Jose Limantour, from Revueltas music to the film La Noche de los Mayas. (from KPFA Folio)
Topics: KPFA-FM, KPFK, Interview and Music, Orchestral Music, 20th Century Classical, Silvestre Revueltas
Topics: KPFA-FM, KPFK, Interview and Music, Orchestral Music, 20th Century Classical, Silvestre Revueltas
On October 18, 1972, Tom Zahuranec invited the radio audience down to the KPFA Music Office to communicate mentally with a philodendron which was wired with liquid electrodes feeding impulses into a Buchla synthesizer. His call for audience participation was answered by scores of avid listeners who flocked to the KPFA studios in order to see for themselves just how responsive a philodendron could be. Once there they experimented with the plant by getting closer or farther away from it,...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Inter-Media, Visual Arts, Interactive Art, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Tom Zahuranec
Topics: KPFA-FM, Inter-Media, Visual Arts, Interactive Art, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Tom Zahuranec
Recorded on May 8, 1982, the second concert of the 4th annual New Sounds San Jose Festival featured Joan La Barbara presenting selections of music for voice, tape and electronics, most of which were her own compositions. Subtitled “Voice is the Original Instrument” the first half of this concert featured works where all the sound were created by the natural voice, amplified to bring out quiet sounds and particular qualities that would not be clearly audible without the use of amplification....
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Sounds San Jose, Music, New Music, Vocal Music
Topics: KPFA-FM, New Sounds San Jose, Music, New Music, Vocal Music
Based on an interview with John Cage, conducted by Charles Amirkhanian at the Exploratorium's Speaking of Music in San Francisco, this Ode to Gravity program was heard nationwide over the NPR satellite. Amirkhanian begins with a quick history of Cage's musical upbringing, leading into an interview conducted with Cage during preparation for the San Francisco Symphony's "all-Cage" evening in 1983. The program opens with a performance of "Double Music" (1941) written jointly by...
Topics: Avant-garde, 20th Century Classical, KPFA, John Cage
Source: Other Minds
Topics: Avant-garde, 20th Century Classical, KPFA, John Cage
Source: Other Minds
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The Other Minds Archive features recordings of OM's past music festivals and concert productions, selected recordings of new music sent to us by composers from around the world, and selections from thousands of hours of audiotape recordings from the KPFA Radio Music Department collection, transferred to Other Minds in 2000. The KFPA tapes contain live conversations, interviews, and performances with many of the innovative musicians who created 20th Century new music. KPFA-FM is a part of the Pacifica Foundation's Radio Network. Visit them at Pacifica Radio Archives.
RadiOM.org is a unique new music resource providing access to historical and contemporary material recorded over a fifty year-plus span. This collection is a not-for-profit service presented by Other Minds, Inc. of San Francisco. Click for more information about RadiOM.
Read a blog-post from Other Minds' first librarian Stephen Upjohn for collection highlights (2007).
This post on Modern Music by Jordon Zorker offers a good list style view of selected highlights in the Other Minds Audio archive.
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