| Colin McPhee and the Music of Bali |
31 min |
World Music
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| Henry Cowell presents a program on the music of Indonesia, featuring early recordings of gamelan music, as well as many transcriptions of Balinese music by Colin McPhee. The music of Indonesia first came to the attention of the West when... |
| Digging Dugger |
73 min |
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
New Music |
| How does an instrumental composer make the transition into electronic music? Edwin Dugger, composer and director of the University of California at Berkeley’s electronic music studio, talks with Charles Amirkhanian about this and other... |
| Electric Richard Maxfield |
126 min |
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
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| On June 27, 1969, Richard Maxfield, 42, jumped out of a window of the Figueroa Hotel in Los Angeles, ending his tragically short life during which he became known as one of the earliest and foremost electronic music composers. Maxfield... |
| Frank Zappa Day |
240 min |
Popular Music
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| On February 10, 1986, as part of its fund raising marathon, KPFA dedicated an entire day of programming to the music of Frank Zappa, including this four hour long segment, during which Zappa joined Charles Amirkhanian, live in the studio... |
| George Antheil: String Quartet No. 1 |
31 min |
20th Century Classical
New Music |
| Charles Amirkhanian discusses the challenges in performing George Antheil's Violin Sonata and String Quartet No. 1 with Antheil's wife and Anne Kish, a violinist. The tape starts with a discussion, recorded in the Berkeley home of Jeanne... |
| Han Reiziger reception at 1750 Arch St. |
46 min |
20th Century Classical
New Music |
| A live recording of a musical reception held at 1750 Arch St. to welcome Dutch radio producer Han Reiziger (1934-2006) to KPFA. Reiziger was the long standing musical director at VPRO, a Dutch radio station that was known worldwide for... |
| Harry Partch: Twelve Intrusions |
58 min |
Microtonal Music
Unconventional Instruments |
| From a program originally broadcast in 1956, avant-garde composer Harry Partch discusses receiving notoriety for using a scale of 43 separate tones, and for his original instruments, with additional references to his "Genesis of a Music".... |
| Henry Brant at KPFA, August 16, 1971 |
119 min |
New Music
Unconventional Instruments |
| Henry Brant, born in 1913 in Montreal, surveys his music with Charles Amirkhanian. Brant has enlarged upon the musical practices of Gabrieli and Ives to create "spatial music." This music calls for the physical separation of different... |
| Henry Cowell at the KPFA piano & Critics Circle on Censorship in the Arts |
10 min |
New Music
Current Events |
| Here are three brief excerpts from a transcription disc of some of the earliest broadcasts on KPFA, recorded in mid-August of 1949. The first and probably most interesting clip includes three excerpts of early piano works by Henry Cowell,... |
| Henry Kaiser interviews Derek Bailey (Dec. 7, 1989) |
122 min |
Jazz
Free Improvisation |
| From a program recorded on December 7, 1989, Henry Kaiser interviews fellow avant-garde jazz guitarist Derek Bailey. Bailey is an English guitarist who started out as a rather conventional commercial session player, but in the early 1960s... |
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