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	Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig Interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian, 1989 - Lou Harrison, Bill Colvig, Charles Amirkhanian Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of America's most distinguished composers, Lou Harrison, whose use of gamelan instruments and interest in other musics of the world helped bring an appreciation of Pacific and Asian music to the U.S. William Colvig has collaborated with Harrison for many years, building original and gamelan-inspired instruments. The program begins with Eric Marin's film documenting Harrison & Colvig, and continues with excerpts from Harrison's Piano Concerto (featuring Keith Ja... Keywords: Interview and Music; Unconventional Instruments; New Music Downloads: 461 Average rating: (0 review)
	Interview with Ivan Wyschnegradsky From his home in Paris, Russian-born composer Ivan Wyschnegradsky discusses with Charles Amirkhanian his approach to writing microtonal music, and his desire for a "chromatic revolution". He describes his invention of the quarter-tone piano that has two harps controlled by three keyboards, enabling performances by a single player, and elaborates on his subsequent evolution as a composer. Wyschnegradsky focuses on "The Day of Existence", an early work (influenced by Scriabin) that he is revisitin... Keywords: New Music; interviews; unconventional instruments; composers; Ivan Wyschnegradsky Downloads: 220 Average rating: (0 review)
	Harry Partch Memorial Charles Amirkhanian discusses the music and ideas of Harry Partch on the day after his death. Several examples of his work are played, in addition to brief reminiscences about the man by a number of notable composers and musicians that knew or were influenced by Partch. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Documentary; Microtonal Music; Unconventional Instruments; Harry Partch Downloads: 74 Average rating: (0 review)
	Harry Partch: 30 Years of Lyrical and Dramatic Music A selection of songs by Harry Partch. The Poems by Li Po include: A midnight farewell; Before the cast of wine; An encounter in the field; On hearing the flute at Lo-cheng; The intruder; I am a peach tree. Windsong is an excerpt from the soundtrack for the film of the same name. It is a modern rendering of the ancient myth of Daphne and Apollo. The music is a collage of sounds, ten instruments are used with Partch playing nearly all the parts... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Microtonal; Unconventional Instruments; Harry Partch Downloads: 247 Average rating: (0 review)
	Harry Partch: Twelve Intrusions - Harry Partch Harry Partch discusses receiving notariety using a scale of 43 separate tones and original instruments with references to his "Genesis of a Music." There is a brief introduction to "Twelve Intrusions," this recording which is played by five musicians under Partch's direction. The pieces are: Study in an Ancient Phrygian Scale, Study in the Ancient Greek Enharmonic Scale, The Rose, The Crane, The Wind, The Waterfall, The Letter, The Street, Vanity, Lover, Soldiers/War/Another War, and Chamber Mus... Keywords: Interview and Music; Microtonal music; Unconventional Instruments; Harry Partch Downloads: 1,670 Average rating: (0 review)
	Margaret Leng Tan performs António Pinho Vargas' Dinky Toys at Other Minds 5, 1999 - António Pinho Vargas Margaret Leng Tan performs the U.S. premiere of António Pinho Vargas' Dinky Toys (1979), arranged by the composer for her in 1999, at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, two toy pianos According to Tan: Dinky Toys and General Complex are originally works for piano. António Pinho Vargas sent them to me with the following instructions: "You can do what you want (change register, organize, improvise, etc.) to play them on your toy pian... Keywords: Music; Unconventional Instruments; Toy Piano; Other Minds Festival Downloads: 494 Average rating: (0 review)
	Improv:21 = Playing the Wild: An Informance with Cheryl Leonard - ROVA:Arts Moderator Derk Richarson facilitates a session with composer Cheryl Leonard, who talks about her work utilizing materials from nature as musical instruments, and performs several excerpts from longer pieces with her own chamber ensemble. Amplifying everything from pine cones, pieces of driftwood, rock, sand, water, and other natural objects, Leonard composes works that are surprisingly textured and full of unusual rhythms... Keywords: ROVA; Improv:21; Avant-Garde; Unconventional Instruments; Interview and Music; Cheryl Leonard Downloads: 28 Average rating: (0 review)
	Difference Tone: A Cristal Concert A program dedicated to the marvelous glass instrument, the Cristal, invented by the Baschet brothers of Paris in 1956. Consisting of glass rods, the Cristal is played by rubbing the rods with wet fingers, the way one would a wine glass, the vibrations of which are then acoustically amplified through a series of metallic resonators Host Charles Amirkhanian is joined in the KPFA studios by David James, Jerry Kuderna, Peter Josheff and Annie Hallett, who play a number of pieces live as well as list... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; Unconventional Instruments; 20th Century Classical Downloads: 169 Average rating: (0 review)
	Evenings on the Roof: Harry Partch, Series No. 1 The first in a series of programs produced by Peter Yates, highlighting the works of Harry Partch. This program begins with an excerpt from one of Partch's pieces followed by a 1960 interview of Partch by Peter Yates in which he discusses his career. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; Microtonal Music; Unconventional Instruments; Harry Partch Downloads: 40 Average rating: (0 review)
	Fred Frith on Hans Reichel Fred Frith joins Charles Amirkhanian for a brief discussion on Hans Reichel, a musician/friend/collaborator, and "a master craftsman" of guitars. (Frith and Reichel performed together later that week). Frith also comments on the noise/free music/improv scene, and his compositional work at the time. Program portion ends with selection of Frith's "Technology of Tears", a piece written for dance. Keywords: Fred Frith; Interview; Free Improvisation; Unconventional Instruments; KPFA-FM; Hans Reichel Downloads: 522
	Henry Brant at KPFA Berkeley, 1971 - Henry Brant Henry Brant, born in 1913 in Montreal, surveys his music with Charles Amirkhanian. Brant has enlarged upon musical practices of Gabrielli and Ives to create spatial music. This music calls for the physical separation of different groups of musicians within the performance space who simultaneously perform wildly diverse music in and around the audience. Brant has experimented with unusual instruments some of which have been built specifically for his compositions... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; New Music; Unconventional Instruments; Henry Brant Downloads: 410 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: The Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy, plus selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams and David Byrne In the first Morning Concert broadcast from the new building, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Howard Hersh about his new piece, Shrapnel in the Heart. Charles also plays a number of selections from a new release on Saydisc Records entitled "Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy". Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Music; 20th Century Classical; Unconventional Instruments Downloads: 191 Average rating: (0 review)
	Speaking of Music: Trimpin Charles Amirkhanian interviews Trimpin, a sculptor and composer who builds his own electronically controlled acoustic instruments. Keywords: Speaking of Music Series; Trimpin; Unconventional Instruments; Interview and Music; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic Downloads: 960 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Experimental Musical Instruments Since it began publishing in 1982 the magazine, “Experimental Musical Instruments”, has exposed a growing readership to dozens of very unusual instruments and approaches to music-making. This bi-monthly 16 page newsletter also featured reviews of concerts, books, and records as well as an expanding letters section which acted as a forum for music enthusiasts. On the cover of the inaugural issue, editor Bart Hopkin states that “EMI is for people interested in new and unconventional musical ... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; Unconventional Instruments; Avant-Garde; Experimental Musical Instruments Downloads: 202 Average rating: (0 review)
	Speaking of Music: Mauricio Kagel Recorded on March 17, 1988 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of Europe's most original and distinguished composers. Mauricio Kagel was born in Buenos Aires in 1931 and has lived in Germany since 1957. He is also known as a dramatist, filmmaker, radio drama producer, and conductor. In the first half of the program excerpts from "Ludwig Van"", a collage of Beethoven fragments, and "Acustica" a piece performed on instruments ... Keywords: Speaking of Music Series at the Exploratorium; Interview and Music; Avant-Garde; Unconventional Instruments; Mauricio Kagel Downloads: 116 Average rating: (0 review)