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Ode To Gravity:
The People's Opera 1970: Aerosol, or The Computer That Couldn’t Hear |
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| Item Type: Sound Recording |
Duration: 57 min |
| Event Type: Music |
Program Origin: KPFA |
An intermedia opera, scored by Liam O’Gallagher, for four FM stations and a chorus of nine transistor radios with two soloist or maybe three...via the Bell System, plus tapes of Robert Moran and Charles Amirkhanian. Reminiscent of some of John Cage’s aleatory compositions for FM radio this opera contains an amalgam of sounds ranging from Peking Opera, to sound poetry, to snippets of TV, to musicians performing on a variety of instruments. This program was composed live on the air on April 20, 1970 as part of the KQED program “Capicorn’s Collisions with Robert Moran”. |
| Musical Selections: |
The People's Opera 1970: Aerosol, or The Computer That Couldn’t Hear / Liam O’Gallagher |
| Performers: |
Philip Geitzen, conductor / FM
Billy Kettleman, conductor / FM
Robert Rheem, conductor / FM
Steven Solberg, conductor / FM
Jeff Beach, soloist
Steve Bennett, soloist
Tom MacDonald, soloist |
| Genres: |
Avant-Garde; Soundscapes |
| Subject: |
Avant-garde (Music) ; Soundscapes (Music); Sound poetry; Text-sound compositions; Aleatory music |
| People: |
O'Gallagher, Liam; Moran, Robert, 1937-; Amirkhanian, Charles; Geitzen, Philip; Kettleman, Billy; Rheem, Robert ; Solberg, Steven; Beach, Jeff; Bennett, Steve; MacDonald, Tom |
| Recording Date: |
4/20/1970 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
6/18/1970 |
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