![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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
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| Radio Event No 13: "Bucket - Ful Mercury Walk" by Tom Zahuranec
Broadcasted live from the Mills College Electronic Tape Music Center via a remote portable transmitter, Tom Zahuranec's "Bucket-Ful Mercury Walk" invited listeners at home to drive to Mills and assist in creating sounds using various electronic equipment including Moog and Buchla synthesizers. Guests discovered and experimented with their manipulated voices while others helped turn nobs on the instruments...
Keywords: KPFA; KPFB; Radio Event; Tom Zahuranec; Mills College Electronic Tape Music Center; Don Buchla
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| Radio Event No. 15: "30 notes ascending, 24 hours apart"
A work by conceptual artist Mike Cohn in which at the beginning of each Morning Concert for the month of April a single note in sequential ascending order was broadcast.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Radio Event; Other Finds; Mike Cohn
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| Radio Event No. 20: Rhododendron
Tom Zahuranec invited the radio audience down to the KPFA Music Office to communicate mentally with a rhododendron which was wired with liquid electrodes feeding impulses into a Buchla synthesizer. This program includes commentary of Amirkhanian and Zahuranec, as well as the impressions of the participants.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Inter-Media; Visual Arts; Interactive Art; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic; Tom Zahuranec
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| Radio Event No. 3: Furniture Mix by Anna Halprin
Dance choreographer and intermedia artist Anna Halprin leads the KPFA audience in a participatory event, recorded live on Thursday evening, November 20, 1969. Listeners are encouraged to re-arrange their furniture at home in time to music played over the air and then to visualize a fantasy which occurred to them in the process. These fantasies are called into the station toward the conclusion of the program...
Keywords: Performance Art; Inter-Media; San Francisco Dancers' Workshop Company; Anna Halprin
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| Radio Visions: The New Consonance, 1981 - Charles Amirkhanian
The New Consonance Starting in 1969, Charles Amirkhanian was the first radio producer to broadcast substantial quantities of music by first generation minimalist composers. His early interviews with Steve Reich, John Adams, Paul Dresher, Laurie Anderson, Lou Harrison, and others form the basis of this fascinating exigesis of the sea change in contemporary music brought on by the use of consonant harmonies, steady pulse, and hypnotic repetition...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; Electronic; Documentary; 20th Century Classical
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| Radiofest: The Pioneers of Electronic Music in America
This is a program, produced by the American Society of University Composers in conjunction with Radiofest: New American Music, in which the work of two early American pioneers in electronic music is explored. During the early 1950s Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky collaborated on a number of electro-acoustic recordings that utilized the newly available tape recorder, and employed such seemingly basic techniques as feed back and changing tape speeds to transform pitch with considerable effec...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Radiofest; Documentary; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic
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| Radiofest: Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde ?
This is the second, mostly self-contained, half of a program produced by the American Society of University Composers in conjunction with Radiofest: New American Music, in which the state of avant-garde music in the late 1970s is explored. The program begins with a look back at a typical avant-garde performance from the heady days of the 1960s, for which an audience gathered to witness the ignition of a single jet engine...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Radiofest; Documentary; Avant-Garde
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| Rae Imamura performs Mamoru Fujieda's Patterns of Plants - Fifth Collection at Other Minds 4, 1997 - Fujieda
East Bay pianist Rae Imamura performs the Bay Area premiere of Mamoru Fujieda's Patterns of Plants - Fifth Collection at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1997 at San Francisco's Cowell Theater. Fujieda is an important figure in Japan's post-minimalist movement.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: 20th Century Classical; Minimalism; Avantgarde
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| Rae Imamura performs Mamoru Fujieda's Patterns of Plants - Seventh Collection at Other Minds 4, 1997 - Fujieda
East Bay pianist Rae Imamura performs the Bay Area premiere of Mamoru Fujieda's Patterns of Plants - Seventh Collection at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1997 at San Francisco's Cowell Theater. Fujieda is an important figure in Japan's post-minimalist movement.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; Minimalism; 20th Century Classical
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| Raga: Indian Vocal and Gottuvadyam Music
From a 1992 broadcast, host Prabha Gopal, presents a program of both Northern and Southern classical Indian vocal and instrumental music. The initial focus of the program is on examples of Indian vocal music from both the North and the South of the country, and yet each featuring lyrics sung in Sanskrit. The vocalists are Pandit Jasraj and Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, both recognized masters, and the contrasts between the two styles of singing are elucidated by the informative commentary of the hos...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; World Music; Raga
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| Randy Weston & African Rhythms perform Blues for Langston Hughes & Other Selections at Other Minds 8, 2002 - Randy Weston
Randy Weston and African Rhythms perform new and classic works of Weston's at Other Minds Music Festival 8 in 2002 at Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco California. The music, according to Robin D.G. Kelley, New York Times jazz critic and NYC African Studies Professor, "...pushes the African rhythms to the foreground and always tries to work within a framework true to the source, whether it's the West African dance music called highlife or sacred songs from Morocco...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Jazz
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| Reflections on Carlos Chavez After His Death by Lou Harrison & Aaron Copland - Lou Harrison & Aaron Copland
Statement by Lou Harrison, 5min. Statement by Aaron Copland, 1 min. Recorded by Charles Amirkhanian during the 1978 Cabrillo Music Festival, held annually in August in Santa Cruz, CA. Chavez, the distinguished Mexican composer, born in 1899 just had passed away in Mexico City on August 2nd.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Classical
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| Rehearsal of Roger Sessions’ String Quartet No. 2
The Griller String Quartet (Sidney Griller and Jack O’Brien - violins, Philip Burton - viola, Colin Hampton - cello) rehearses String Quartet No. 2 (1951) by Roger Sessions. This piece, the last before Sessions began to incorporate serial techniques in his music, features some use of twelve-tone technique, within a structure built from themes and variations. The composer works in fine detail with quartet, dealing with issues of articulation, dynamic, bowing, and tempo...
Keywords: Music; 20th Century Classical; Chamber Music; Griller String Quartet; Roger Sessions
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| Ricardo Tacuchian at Other Minds 8, 2002 - Ricardo Tacuchian
Richardo Tacuchian's 2002 performance at The Other Minds Music Festival 8 in San Francisco California. Imagem Carioca (1987) U.S. Premiere The Mexican Guitar Quartet (Tomas Barreiro, Santiago Gutierrez Bolio, Santiago Lascurain, Rodrigo Placencia) Impulsos No. 2 (1980) U.S. Premiere Michael Kudirka & Eric Benzant-Feldra, guitar duo Paprica (1999) U.s. Premiere David Tanenbaum, classical guitar solo Estruturas Gemeas (Twin Structures) for Piano Four-Hands (1978) San Francisco Premiere Continuum (...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: World Music; Classical Guitar; Avantgarde
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| Richard Teitelbaum at Other Minds 8, 2002 - Richard Teitelbaum
Richard Teitelbaum's performance from 2002 at the Other Minds Music Festival 8 in San Francisco California. Richard Teitelbaum: Blends (1977), for shakuhachi, synthesizer and percussion (West Coast Premiere) Performed by The Other Minds Ensemble (Masayuki Koga, shakuhachi; Richard Teitelbaum, Kurzweil synthesizer; Geoffrey Gordon, tables & percussion) As Teitelbaum explained in 2002: "I composed Blends while studying with the great shakuhachi master Katsuya Yokoyama in Tokyo in 1976-77, and many...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Robert Dick, Speaking of Music at the Exploratorium in 1990 - Robert Dick
Flute virtuoso Robert Dick performs his works Flames Must Not Encircle Sides and Further Down while discussing his efforts to extend flute techniques and his work on designing a new flute capable of playing chords. In Part Two, Robert Dick performs Heart of Light for Ab alto piccollo, Look Out, which he composed for High School students, Another Look, a flute solo in the style of Jimi Hendrix, and discusses his teacher, Indian flute music, and the flute in 20th century music.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: 20th Century Classical
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| Russian Liturgical Music
Larry Jackson introduces three works of liturgical music by three different Russian composers, Tchaikovsky, Grechaninov and Kalinnikov.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Classical Music; Liturgical Music; Russian Composers
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