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	Charles Amirkhanian: Lexical Music - Charles Amirkhanian 1750 Arch Records S-1779. Released in 1980, this first solo LP by Charles Amirkhanian contains a selection of his text-sound compositions including Dutiful Ducks, Mugic and Seatbelt Seatbelt. With influences from Ernst Toch's 1930 Geogbrphical Fugue and Kurt Schwitters Ursonate to Gertrude Stein, Clark Coolidge and Steve Reich, Amirkhanian fashions words into percussion objects, layering them countrapuntally and non-syntactically... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Sound Poetry; Spoken Word; Charles Amirkhanian Downloads: 469 Average rating: (0 review)
	Words Program No. 17: Charles Amirkhanian An early, hour long, text-sound composition by one of the premiere artists in the field of Sound Poetry. Charles Amirkhanian performs his piece, “Words”, in this, the 17th installment of Clark Coolidge’s KPFA series devoted to the spoken word and its electronic manipulation. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Spoken Word; Poetry; Sound Poetry; Charles Amirkhanian Downloads: 50 Average rating: (0 review)
	Charles Amirkhanian Concert at 1750 Arch on KPFA's Ode To Gravity Series, 1973 - Charles Amirkhanian Beginning in 1972, KPFA Radio broadcast weekly on Friday nights over high quality phone lines from a lovely home in North Berkeley owned by baritone singer Thomas Buckner. The address and name of the concert hall and record company was 1750 Arch Street, and many brilliant composers and performers made this 49-seat hall the place to be in Northern California to hear classical music of all periods with an emphasis on the contemporary... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Sound Poetry; Spoken Word; KPFA-FM; Charles Amirkhanian; 1750 Arch Street Downloads: 260 Average rating: (0 review)
	The Words and Music of Anthony Gnazzo Composer Anthony Gnazzo introduces a number of his compositions, two of them finished especially for this program. Charles Amirkhanian plays his tape composition “Audience”, based on ambient sound recordings made in the garage and stairwell of the Oakland Museum, with his kitchen milk steamer at home, and at Marineworld/Africa USA. And the two just generally have fun in the KPFA studios. This is another funny and fantastic program by the dynamic duo of text-sound composition... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; Sound Poetry; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic; Anthony Gnazzo; Charles Amirkhanian Downloads: 80 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Charles Amirkhanian's 20th Anniversary Program Celebrating 20 years as KPFA's music director, Charles Amirkhanian begins the show with a work of sound poetry of his own composition. He then plays pieces by Robert Pollock, Roger Sessions, and George Antheil recorded from a concert at Rutgers University on June 3, 1989. Charles then takes a few calls from the audience with their comments and suggestions for programing on KPFA, and finishes it off with a work by Alan Hovhaness. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; 20th Century Classical; Sound Poetry; Charles Amirkhanian Downloads: 35 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Charles Amirkhanian's Last Morning Concert as KPFA Music Director The last Morning Concert with Charles Amirkhanian at the helm kicks off with an interview with David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet. This interview was recorded just prior to a concert by the Quartet at the Theater Artaud that was to feature new compositions by Mr. Bungle and Thomas Mapfumo written for the Kronos Quartet. The various roles individual players have within the Quartet is described. The second half of the program is dedicated to taking phone calls from listeners reminiscing with C... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview; 20th Century Classical; Avant-Garde; Charles Amirkhanian Downloads: 44 Average rating: (0 review)
	Ode to Gravity: Word-Tape Works and Music From 1970, a program of word-tape compositions by Steve Reich and Charles Amirkhanian. During the 1960s and 70s a number of composers and poets began to experiment with tape editing techniques to create text-sound compositions in which fragments of text were cut-up, repeated, or otherwise manipulated in order to create a new synthesis between speech and sound. A selection of these works of sound poetry are presented here... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Ode to Gravity Series; Spoken Word; Sound Poetry; Charles Amirkhanian; Steve Reich Downloads: 97 Average rating: (0 review)
	r i g i d f o x h o l e - Charles Amirkhanian, Richard Friedman & Anthony Gnazzo This incurably bizarre program, somewhat reminiscent of John Cage's Indeterminacy, begins with "I had a hankering to shoot pins at Bartok." It features a mix of pre-recorded electronic and radio drama sound sources mixed with tape delay under readings of experimental texts by Charles Amirkhanian read by Carol Law, Anthony J. Gnazzo and Amirkhanian himself. Performed live in the KPFA studios, the writing is influenced by William Burroughs, Clark Coolidge, and Fluxus happenings artists Dick Higgin... Keywords: Sound poetry; Anthony Gnazzo; Richard Friedman; Carol Law; Charles Amirkhanian; Fluxus; trenchermen; kitchen; Bartok; spitting Downloads: 402 Average rating: (1 review)
	Charles Amirkhanian & Anthony Gnazzo: William Panda with Back Mark to Martyre - Charles Amirkhanian & Anthony Gnazzo A collection of collaborative sound pieces for radio by Anthony Gnazzo and Charles Amirkhanian. This program has sensitive language. We hope you are a sensitive listener. Source: Other Minds Keywords: Sound Poetry; Spoken Word; Electro-Acoustic/Electronic; Anthony Gnazzo; Charles Amirkhanian Downloads: 303 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert with Larry Wendt and Stephen Ruppenthal In a two part program, Charles Amirkhanian has a giddy discussion about sound poetry with Stephen Ruppenthal and Larry Wendt. Featured music during the program include "Rain, Steam and Speed" (Wendt), and "Cloud Forests" (Ruppenthal), a live recording from the 1977 International Sound Poetry Festival in San Francisco. Keywords: sound poetry; Stephen Ruppenthal; Larry Wendt; Charles Amirkhanian; KPFA; Morning Concert series; West Coast International Sound Poetry Festival Downloads: 134 Average rating: (0 review)
	Ode to Gravity: Text-sound poetry by Charles Amirkhanian, Anthony Gnazzo, and Clark Coolidge A program of text-sound and poetry works by Anthony Gnazzo, Clark Coolidge, and Charles Amirkhanian. Gnazzo is interviewed by Charles about his career and the techniques he uses to create his compositions. Gnazzo, a pioneer in the field of electronic music who now lives in relative obscurity in Oakland, composes entirely on tape, and yet does not even have a tape or record player in his house. His rigorous training in music at Brandeis University under the tutelage of Arthur Berger, amply prepar... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Ode to Gravity Series; Spoken Word; Sound Poetry; Charles Amirkhanian; Clark Coolidge; Anthony Gnazzo Downloads: 45 Average rating: (0 review)