![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Hafez Modirzadeh performs the World Premiere of Voices Unveiled (1997) at Other Minds 4, 1997 - Hafez Modirzadeh Hafez Modirzadeh, an Iranian American jazz composer, saxophonist, and inventor of the "chromodal" improvisations, presents the World Premiere of Voices Unveiled at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1997 at San Francisco's Cowell Theater. Voices Unveiled is a series of finely wrought miniature chromodal pieces, featuring six female vocal soloists and an acoustic sextet performing five-minute chromodal dialogues between performers of multiple traditions ranging from Navajo to Hindustani... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Improv; Jazz; Avantgarde Downloads: 560 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | US Premiere of Hanna Kulenty's "Flute Concerto No.1" at Other Minds 10, 2004 - Hanna Kulenty US Premiere of Hanna Kulenty's Flute Concerto No. 1 (2001) performed at Other Minds 10 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2004. Hanna Kulenty: Flute Concerto No. 1 (2001) US Premiere Anne La Berge, quarter-tone flute Parallèle Ensemble, Nicole Paiement, conductor Winner of the UNESCO Rostrum of Composers (2003), and one of Europes most promising young composers, Hanna Kulentys talent is virtually undiscovered in the US... Source: Other Minds Keywords: 20th Century Classical Downloads: 755 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Interview and Music; Microtonal music; Unconventional Instruments; Harry Partch Downloads: 1,606 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Evenings on the Roof with Peter Yates: Harry Partch Series #3 - Harry Partch, Peter Yates Evenings on the Roof with Peter Yates, Harry Partch Series #3 includes interviews and a complete performance of "The Bewitched", a dance satire. The performance of "The Bewitched" is a recording from University of Illinois directed by John Garvey. Source: Other Minds Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical Downloads: 531 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Evenings on the Roof with Peter Yates: Harry Partch Series #4 - Harry Partch, Peter Yates Evenings on the Roof with Peter Yates, Harry Partch Series #4 includes interviews and music. Harry Partch introduces himself, his 43-tone scale, and demonstrates his instruments. Music selections played and sung by Partch, from Gate 5 Records: [9:09] wordless piece marked "steady in an ancient phrygian scale" [10:27] wordless piece marked "steady in a Greek enharmonic scale" [12:20] "The Rose" [13:58] "The Crane" based on a text by Lao Tze [15:35] "The Wind" [17:13] "The Waterfall" [18:17] "The ... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical Downloads: 634 Average rating: (2 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | A Sense of Place: The Life and Work of Conlon Nancarrow - Helen Borten The life and work of Conlon Nancarrow, a composer who turned an anachronistic gadget, the player piano, into a vehicle for greatness. This half-hour portrait includes interviews with family, friends, and other composers, interweaving the man and his music in ways that illuminate both. Interviewees in Order: Ardis Wodehouse Julio Estrada Mako Nancarrow Julio Estrada Letter of Ed Lending read by Forrest Miller Conlon Nancarrow Kyle Gann Yoko Seguira Nancarrow Kyle Gann Yoko Conlon Yoko Eva Soltes ... Source: Helen Borten/Other Minds Keywords: Documentary; 20th Century Classical; Interview; New Music Downloads: 915 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Henry Brant at KPFA, 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... Source: Other Minds Downloads: 139 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Henry Brant performs Homeless People at Other Minds 4, 1997 - Henry Brant American composer Henry Brant, father of 20th Century "spatial" music, conducts and performs the world premiere of a new work titled "Homeless People" at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1997 at San Francisco's Cowell Theater. For this premiere, Brant performs with the San Francisco-based Onyx Quartet with Brant playing directly on the strings of a piano with mallets. "As the 20th Century concludes, there is scarcely anyone on the planet who is not in some significant way a member of the univer... Source: Other Minds Keywords: 20th Century Classical Downloads: 557 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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... Source: Other Minds Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; New Music; Unconventional Instruments; Henry Brant Downloads: 402 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Henry Cowell Musical Autobiography - Henry Cowell 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. Source: Other Minds Keywords: Documentary; New Music; Henry Cowell; Orchestral Music Downloads: 2,686 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Shibui Is The Word: Contemporary Music in Japan, 1961 - Heuwell Tircuit, Glenn Glasow Heuwell Tircuit, American music critic in Tokyo, explains the success of some contemporary music in Japan. He also accounts for the incredible musical activity and illustrates with recordings in this conversation with Glenn Glasow. This program was recorded on March 4, 1961 at KPFA. Source: Other Minds Keywords: Documentary; 20th Century Classical Downloads: 418 Average rating: (0 review) |
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