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Interview with Terry Riley (June 11, 1983)

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Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Terry Riley at his home in Northern California on June 11, 1983. Riley describes his early childhood experiences with music, his life as a student in San Francisco and his first experimentation with serial and then minimal composition. He goes into great detail about the processes that led to his seminal work "In C". Riley describes his early collaborations with others and his later tendency to work alone. Both Charles and Terry lament the fact that growing up in rural California there was little chance to be exposed to classical music. Riley also discusses his exploration of musical traditions from around the world, and in particular his affinity for Asian and Indian music and Eastern spiritual philosophies. Terry also discusses the influence that Pandit Pran Nath had on his life and music.


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Archive

Date: 1983-06-11
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; New Music; Minimalism; Terry Riley

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States

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For more detailed program information and to browse other material in the Other Minds Archive visit: radiOM.org

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