![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Cabrillo Music Festival: Lecture by John Cage The lecture begins with reading of Mureau, the first part of “Empty Words”, which is based on a Thoreau text. The program concludes with a lengthy question and answer session that followed Cage’s appearance at the Cabrillo Music Festival in August 1977. It is often in addressing the public’s questions that Cage’s brilliance is most memorable, and this example is no exception. Of particular interest is his description of how he uses chance operations in his creative processes. Keywords: John Cage; Lecture/Panel Discussion; Experimental Literature; KPFA-FM Downloads: 620 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Capricorn's Collision An excellent example of KPFA's experimental, free-form, late night, radio programing. Robert Moran and Howard Hersh serve up an eclectic mix of poetry, music, humor, political commentary, and inspirational musings. With the growing protests against the Vietnam War as the backdrop this program includes such characters as General Wastemoreland, General HersheyBar (plain chocolate, the nuts are in Washington), General Nuisance, General Eclectic, Captain Technology, and other luminaries... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Other Finds Downloads: 108 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Carl Rakosi Reading and Interview on KPFA's Ode To Gravity, 1971 - Carl Rakosi Carl Rakosi (born November 6, 1903, Berlin) was one of the four so-called Objectivist poets of the thirties along with Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and Charles Reznikoff. The Minneapolis poet gave up his art in 1941 to become a social worker and psychotherapist under the pseudonym Callman Rawley; he resumed writing in 1964 and his book Amulet was published by New Directions in 1967. Late in 1971 his new book, Ere-Voice, appeared... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Modern American Prose and Poetry; objectivist Downloads: 278 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Carl Stone performs Ruen Pair at Other Minds 4, 1997 - Carl Stone The Paul Dresher Ensemble performs one of Carl Stone's signature disjunct narratives assembled from found-music sources at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1997 at San Francisco's Cowell Theater. Source: Other Minds Keywords: Avantgarde; Sound Art Downloads: 413 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Carl Stone performs So Kong Dong at Other Minds 4, 1997 - Carl Stone Carl Stone performs the world premiere of So Kong Dong at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1997 at San Francisco's Cowell Theater. Carl Stone, solo electronics Source: Other Minds Keywords: Sound Art; Avantgarde Downloads: 658 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Chamber Concerto by Robert Erickson Ralph Shapey conducts the Hartt Chamber Players in a performance of Robert Erickson’s “Chamber Concerto”, composed in 1960. Born in Michigan in 1917, Erickson studied composition with Ernst Krenek and Roger Sessions, before eventually moving to the West Coast in the early 1950s where he soon became a well recognized composer and teacher as well as one of KPFA’s music directors. While still distinctly modern in nature, this work was composed before Erickson’s experimentation with tape m... Keywords: KPFA-FM; 20th Century Classical; Music; Robert Erickson Downloads: 18 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Chance Music In this December 1962 program from the KPFA archives, composers Ramón Sender and Robert Moran (then graduate students in composition at Mills College), talk with Will Ogdon and John Whiting of the KPFA staff. Also present was dancer Judith Wickware who had worked with Anne Halprin. The two composers discuss the role of aleatoric, or chance music, in their work. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; New Music; 20th Century Classical Downloads: 143 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Charles Amirkhanian's "Son of Metropolis San Francisco" performed at Other Minds 11, 2005 - Charles Amirkhanian Son of Metropolis San Francisco (1986; 1997) by composer Charles Amirkhanian performed at the 11th Other Minds Music Festival at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. OM11 presents a 60th birthday tribute to Other Minds founding artistic director Charles Amirkhanian, featuring the San Francisco concert premiere of his radiophonic tape piece, Son of Metropolis San Francisco. The work is a part-abstract, part-representational audio snapshot of idiosyncratic Bay Area sounds, ranging from... Source: Other Minds Keywords: tape collage; musique concrete; Concrete Music Downloads: 728 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Charles Amirkhanian: Oratora Konkurso Rezulto - Autoro de la Jaro (Portrait of Lou Harrison, 1970) - Charles Amirkhanian An original text-sound composition by Charles Amirkhanian, produced at the KPFA studios with the sounds of the voice of Lou Harrison, recorded in his home in Aptos, CA, by KPFA Chief Engineer George Craig. Amirkhanian composed a cut-up text in Esperanto, a favorite language of Harrison's. Many of the phrases were taken from a contemporary newspaper in that international language. Also intruding from time to time are ambient sounds of Mr... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Sound Poetry; Avantgarde Downloads: 295 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Charles Dodge, Speaking Of Music at the Exploratorium in 1986 - Charles Dodge Charles Dodge interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian at the Exploratorium's Speaking of Music Series in San Francisco, February 27, 1986. Charles Amirkhanian hosts an evening with electronic music composer Charles Dodge. Dodges stated intent is to discover new ideas by experimenting with new technology. He elaborates on the technical aspects of his computerized music, which extends human speech into realms not possible without the aid of technology... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Avantgarde; Experimental; 20th Century Classical Downloads: 446 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Charles Reznikoff Reads Poetry for the Jewish Holidays From a program originally broadcast on September 6, 1975, Charles Reznikoff reads a selection of his poetry. Most of the poems included in this program have as their theme the history of the Jewish people, with the majority coming from two of Reznikoff’s major works “In Memorium: 1933” and “Holocaust.” Reznikoff, who died in January of 1976, just months after recording this program, was an American Jewish poet, playwright, and author, and the first to be referred to as an Objectivist P... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Spoken Word; Poetry; Charles Reznikoff Downloads: 7 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Charles Shere Returns to KPFA Specialists in New Music have long been associated with KPFA’s Music Department, be it John Rockwell, Alan Rich, Robert Erickson, Glen Glasow, or Charles Amirkhanian. But for intensity of production and richness of quality no term at KPFA was more productive than that of former Music Director Charles Shere who’s tenure at the station lasted from 1965 to 1967. Now the Music & Art critic for the Oakland Tribune, and a distinguished composer as well, Mr... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; New Music; Charles Shere Downloads: 158 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | CHESS: A Participatory Time Space Event On April 28, 1971, the transmission herewith recorded took place. CHESS: A Participatory Time Space Event produced by students from California College of Arts and Crafts under direction of James Petrillo. Thirty-two human beings acted as chess pieces utilizing a district of San Francisco as the chessboard. The chess pieces were situated in the Richmond District of San Francisco bounded by Lake Funston, Fulton Street and Sixth Avenue... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Inter-Media; Visual Arts; Interactive Art Downloads: 77 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Clark Coolidge: Poetry Reading at the Naropa Institute, 1980 A poetry reading by Clark Coolidge given at the Naropa Institute in Boulder Colorado, on July 2, 1980. Coolidge, was perhaps more than any other person, responsible for inspiring the entire experimental field of Language Poetry, which became popular among avant-garde, mostly American poets, during the 1960s and 70s. This type of poetry was partially inspired by the work of Gertrude Stein, John Cage and others who sometimes used mathematical sequences and other aleatoric or logical constructs to ... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Naropa Institute; Spoken Word; Poetry; Clark Coolidge Downloads: 23 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Classical Indian Music: A Live Concert by G.S. Sachdev G. S. Sachdev performs an extended concert of music for bass flute, live from the KPFA Studio B. Mr. Sachdev had just completed his first year as a member of the faculty of Ali Akbar College in San Rafael. He is joined by a number of his students for this concert of classical Indian music. During the intermission, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Sachdev about his early training and career as a flute player. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; World Music; Classical Indian; G.S. Sachdev Downloads: 1,401 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Composer's Corner: Mandala Music In what was a preview for KPFA’s first concert in the Performer’s Choice Series, held in February of 1963, Loren Rush presents rehearsal out-takes of his group improvisation piece, “Mandala Music”. Joining him for a discussion of this aleatoric piece and its graphic score, is program host Will Ogdon, Glenn Glasow, and Phil Winsor. Will Ogdon’s attempts to understand this then new form of composition and score writing are illustrative of the challenges many music listeners had with acce... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; New Music; 20th Century Classical; Loren Rush Downloads: 89 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Computers and Art John Lifton from London talks about his goal of realizing a cybernetic art which will alter itself according to the spectators' response to it. He talks with Don Buchla, who currently is adapting his synthesizers to computer control, Richard Friedman, composer and programmer who helped design the Buchla program, and Charles Amirkhanian. American painter Pamela Zoline, now living in London, tells about her recent work on the meta-set "Things in the World". Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; Interactive Art; Modern Art Downloads: 440 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Concept Bomb (Or, A Logic of Clouds) Who is this Ken Friedman talking about dharma-encrusted Sangha cookies? What single-minded macropolysyllable can survive a barrage of hirsute chomatacism in light of the advancement of quaquaversal dispersion? Listen to this program for the answers to these and other questions as Ken Friedman states his views on the philosophy and aesthetics of inter-media art, Fluxus, and the conceptual art movement, as he reads from his book, A Logic of Clouds published by Beau Geste Press of England... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Lecture; Panel Discussion; Modern Art; Poetry; Ken Friedman Downloads: 49 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Conlon Nancarrow on KPFA's Ode To Gravity Series from 1987 including interviews from Mexico City and New York recorded in 1977 - Conlon Nancarrow In an interview by Charles Amirkhanian with Conlon Nancarrow at this Mexico City home in 1977, the composer reveals details of his compositions for one or more player pianos including the equipment needed to hand-punch the holes into the piano rolls. Reminiscences of the artists residing in Mexico City from the 1940s on, including Diego Rivera, are recounted. There are recordings of several "Studies for Player Piano" presented, and in one instance, a composition for traditional instruments (Stri... Source: Other Minds Keywords: 20th Century Classical; Avantgarde Downloads: 1,279 Average rating: (2 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Country Joe McDonald at KPFA Country Joe McDonald made his start, in some ways, playing late night jams at KPFA on the “Midnight Show” in the mid-1960s. For this recording, made in April of 1977, Country Joe returned to the KPFA studios to present a concert of acoustic songs, in support of the station’s fund raising efforts. As well as performing some of his classic war protest songs, such as “Fixin’ To Die Rag”, McDonald also plays a number of more recent songs that reflect his environmental concerns, such as ... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Popular Music; Folk Music; Country Joe McDonald Downloads: 450 Average rating: (0 review) |
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