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101. radiOM.org - Concerts by Composers No. 10: Works by William Hellermann, David Borden, & John Rockwell [2.289% Popularity: 0.00000]

Concerts by Composers: No. 10: Works by William Hellermann, David Borden, & John Rockwell Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 58 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In the late 1970s and early 1980s the Experimental Intermedia Foundation held a series of exciting concerts of avant-garde and electro-acoustic music at Phill Niblock’s loft in the SoHo district of New York City. These concerts were then packaged into a series of hour-long radio programs entitled “Concerts by Composers” and distributed to interested radio stations around the United States. This tenth program in the series features music by William Hellermann and David Borden with additional commentary by music critic John Rockwell. First up is an excerpt of William Hellermann’s “Three weeks in Cincinnati in December”, performed by Robert Dick on flute. This piece makes use of Dick’s ability at circular breathing to create a continuous pattern of sounds that lasted over 50 minutes, truly testing the physical endurance of the performe...

102. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Denys Bouliane [5.883% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Denys Bouliane Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 129 min Event Type: Interview and Music In an interview recorded in June of 1987, Charles Amirkhanian visits composer Denys Bouliane at his home in Cologne, Germany. Bouliane was born in 1955 in Quebec, Canada, but moved to Germany to study with György Ligeti. Bouliane is a former rock guitarist who became interested in classical music when the father of a friend gave him a recording by Stravinsky, after which he quickly decided to pursue a career as a composer, although he didn’t even know how to read music. After an initial rejection he eventually got accepted to study music at Laval University and is currently a Professor of Composition at McGill University. His carefully crafted scores reveal the influence of Charles Ives, Conlon Nancarrow, and Ligeti, in a style which music critic Peter Niklas Wilson has called Magic Realism, the musical equivalent of the literature style of Jorge Luis Borges. In this interview, Boul...

103. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Annea Lockwood, (December 20, 1972) [5.089% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Annea Lockwood, (December 20, 1972) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 83 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA On December 20, 1972, composer Annea Lockwood appeared live on Ode To Gravity. She was interviewed by Pauline Oliveros, who began the discussion by relating a number of dreams that she had had involving Annea, although they had never met before. The two composers go on to discuss their mutual interest in meditation, and in particular sonic meditation. Later a gathering of 30 composers and performers executed Annea’s serenity-inducing event for multiple hummers. Among the many guests were Don Buchla, Barry Conyngham, John Lifton, Joanna Brouk, Tony Gnazzo, Richard Friedman, Allen Strange, John Dinwiddie, Tom Zahuranec, and Annea’s husband at that time, Harvey Matusow. Also heard on this program is a 1972 tape piece by Annea titled “Windhover”. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Music for Multiple Hummers (1972) / Annea Lockwood Genres: Avant-Garde ; Soundscap...

104. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity An Interview with Tom Johnson [5.085% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: An Interview with Tom Johnson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 19 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Composer Tom Johnson, no longer lives in New York, no longer writes provocative criticism for the “Village Voice,” and has found a new and receptive home for his work and ideas as a composer in Paris. In this informal discussion, recorded at the composer’s home on June 12, 1987, Tom talks with Charles Amirkhanian about his new life, plays an excerpt from a new work for piano, and discusses his retreat from the New York music scene. Johnson comments on how recent avant-garde music composer’s interest in a more popular aesthetic during the 1980s has eroded support for small, less theatrically ambitious new music composers in the United States. The situation, according to Johnson, is quite different in Europe, where his minimalist inspired compositions remain highly regarded, and his operas are regularly performed. This program conclude...

105. radiOM.org - An Interview with John Cage & David Tudor, (May 29, 1972) [5.090% Popularity: 0.00000]

An Interview with John Cage & David Tudor, (May 29, 1972) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 71 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA This is an interview with John Cage & David Tudor, conducted in French and English. This particular interview was purportedly recorded on May 29, 1972, a time at which both John Cage and David Tudor were on a European tour featuring performances in London, Bremen, Paris and other European cities. Cage talks about the influence that Henry David Thoreau, Marcel Duchamp, and others have had on his own artistic output. Works discussed include Cage’s “Mureau” and David Tudor’s “Rainforest,” which were performed simultaneously during their 1972 European concerts. Another pairing of the two composer’s works, Cage’s “62 Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham,” and Tudor’s “Untitled” is also discussed. Towards the end of the program David Tudor talks about his decision to play the piano less, and instead focus on his own electronic music. Part 1 of 2: Genres: New Music ; Electr...

106. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Louis Andriessen (1984) [5.883% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Louis Andriessen (1984) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 70 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program originally broadcast on January 13, 1984, Charles Amirkhanian introduces avant-garde Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, and talks with him about his work “Velocity,” which had just been premiered by the San Francisco Symphony, where it was received with distrust by many of the more traditionally inclined members of the audience. In defense of his work Andriessen points out that unlike some American composers of minimal or repetitive music who according to Andriessen began to write more consonant music after gaining some acceptance among audiences, the Dutch composer’s works will remain true to his radical viewpoint. Also discussed in this highly informative and far ranging interview is the the varying availability of venues for avant-garde jazz and classical music in Europe and the United States, and a comparison between the work of Schoenbe...

107. radiOM.org - Accidents by Larry Austin [1.810% Popularity: 0.00000]

Accidents by Larry Austin Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 18 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Originally released as an insert into the seminal avant-garde “Source” magazine, this is Larry Austin’s “Accidents” for electronically prepared piano. The performers are pianist and frequent John Cage collaborator, David Tudor, with additional electronics provided by the composer himself. Austin, born in Duncan, OK., in 1930 is an electronic and computer music composer and co-founder and editor of “Source: Music of the Avant-Garde” which was noted for it publication of experimental music scores and records from 1967 to 1973. This work perfectly captures the spirit of the radically experimental live electronic music performances that were prevalent during the 1960s. Musical Selections: Accidents, for electronically prepared piano (1967) (17:21) / Larry Austin Performers: David Tudor, electronic prepared piano Larry Austin, electronics Genre: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic Subject: Electro-acoustic...

108. radiOM.org - Source Second Series: Program No 2, Cage on Chance [1.908% Popularity: 0.00000]

Source: Second Series: Program No 2, Cage on Chance Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 49 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) This program is dedicated to a lecture given by John Cage’s on October 28, 1969, at the University of California Davis during his class on “Music in Dialogue”. Cage assigns a class exercise using library catalog cards and chance operations, the students then divide into their groups to discuss the project. Genre: Avant-Garde Subject: Group facilitation ; Aleatory music ; Chance operations People: Cage, John Recording Date: 10/28/1969 Listen...

109. radiOM.org - Thin Air An Interview with Harold Farberman and Corinne Curry (Jan. 16, 1971) [0.788% Popularity: 0.00000]

Thin Air: An Interview with Harold Farberman and Corinne Curry (Jan. 16, 1971) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 34 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Originally broadcast on January 16, 1971, Charles Amirkhanian talks with the then newly appointed conductor for the Oakland Symphony, Harold Farberman, and his wife, soprano, Corinne Curry. After briefly discussing Curry's recent appearances in Europe, Amirkhanian questions Farberman about his own composing, including his opinions about the use of percussion instruments in contemporary classical music. Farberman declares that he is less interested in using exotic percussion instruments than he is in exploring advanced playing techniques with more traditional orchestral percussion instruments. He is not particularly interested in incorporating elements from African or Asian musical traditions, or avant-garde techniques such as the 12 tone system, but rather focuses on what he considers uniquely American styles and sensibilities. To highligh...

110. radiOM.org - Other Minds Presents Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music, Concert One [5.772% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Presents: Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music, Concert One Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 76 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds On November 12, 2009, at the Valley Presbyterian Church in Portola Valley, CA, Other Minds presented the first of two concerts dedicated to the music of Henry Cowell. Born in nearby Menlo Park in 1897, Cowell began his musical career as a concert pianist, and is perhaps best known for pioneering such “ultramodern” performance techniques as “tone clusters,” in which the arms are used to play a number of notes simultaneously, and the direct manipulation of the strings of the piano, in a manner that presaged John Cage’s works for prepared piano. Yet Cowell’s greatest contribution to avant-garde music came with his publication of the journal “New Music Quarterly” and its associated recordings. First issued in 1927, and edited by Cowell until 1936 this journal was where many works, by what are now recognized as the greatest 20th century American ...