| Bonnie Sherk and her Portable Parks |
18 min |
Interactive Art
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| Charles Amirkhanian interviews artist Bonnie Sherk, about her environmental art piece “Portable Parks” in which a freeway on-ramp, and a couple of concrete traffic islands were temporarily turned into idyllic oasis’ of green,... |
| Bonnie Sherk’s Report on her Portable Parks |
19 min |
Interactive Art
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| Charles Amirkhanian talks with artist Bonnie Sherk, about her environmental art piece “Portable Parks” in which a freeway on-ramp, and a couple of concrete traffic islands were temporarily turned into idyllic oasis’ of green,... |
| Cal Arts: Disney’s Dough Takes Flight (1970) |
232 min |
Modern Art
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| In September of 1970, the California Institute of the Arts opened its doors, thus embarking on a radical plan for art education, supported by the estate of the late Walt Disney. Several months prior to the start of its first academic... |
| Computers and Art |
27 min |
Interactive Art
Modern Art |
| John Lifton of London talks about his goal of realizing a cybernetic art work which will alter itself according to the spectators' response to it. He talks with Don Buchla, who was at the time of this recording (Dec. 20, 1972), adapting... |
| David Del Tredici on his work “Syzygy” |
5 min |
Art Songs
Chamber Music |
| Music critic Paul Hume interview’s composer David Del Tredici about his work, “Syzygy” (1966), which is scored for soprano, horn, and chamber orchestra. The name, which was suggested by a friend who was enamored with the sound of... |
| Flux Art: An Historical Perspective |
58 min |
Modern Art
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| An interview with George Maciunas, about the Fluxus art movement, a loose confederation of composers, poets and artists that included such well-known figures as Yoko Ono, and Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins. and... |
| Frank Zappa interviewed by Robin Baxter (ca. 1971) |
18 min |
New Music
Popular Music |
| KPFA’s Robin Baxter interviews a slightly combative Frank Zappa in his hotel room. The two discuss Zappa’s classical musical influences, and his own orchestral and choral compositions, as featured on his album and film, "200... |
| Fred Frith on Hans Reichel |
6 min |
Unconventional Instruments
Free Improvisation |
| In this program, recorded in 1987, Fred Frith joins Charles Amirkhanian in a discussion about Hans Reichel, a maker of guitars, musician, improviser, and musical collaborator. Frith who has known Reichel for more than fifteen years and was... |
| Harold Farberman On His Opera "The Losers" |
24 min |
20th Century Classical
Opera |
| In an interview with Charles Amirkhanian composer Harold Farberman discusses his opera "The Losers," which was premiered on March 26, 1971, at the Juilliard Opera Theater, Lincoln Center, to an astonished audience which witnessed the saga... |
| Harvey Matusow on ICES ‘72, and Other International Endeavors |
48 min |
Avant-Garde
New Music |
| In a program recorded on March 1, 1972 in the KPFA studio, Harvey Matusow describes the International Carnival of Experimental Sounds (ICES ‘72), an avant-garde music festival, based on the theme of myth, magic, madness and mysticism,... |
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