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Other Minds presents Solo for Voice 58: 18 Microtonal Ragas (November 2, 2007)

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Nearly forty years after John Cage composed, “Solo for Voice 58”, an indeterminate work consisting of 18 separate parts, it finds its ideal interpreter in Italian-born dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni. The first performer to prepare the full 18 microtonal ragas for a major performance, Cuni executes microtonal melodies in five different languages with stunning ease. On November 2, 2007, Other Minds, presented the American premiere of this iconoclastic interpretation at a concert in Berkeley California. Two basic concepts are embodied in Cuni’s realization of the complete “Solo for Voice 58”: the meaning of raga, which is “to color the mind”, and chance operations, a favorite tool of John Cage. Following Cage’s own instructions, other selections from his “Song Books” (1970) have been integrated and superimposed as part of the “18 Microtonal Ragas”


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Archive

Date: 2007-11-02
Keywords: Other Minds; Microtonal Music; New Music; John Cage; Amelia Cuni

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

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