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21. radiOM.org - History of New Music in Los Angeles [6.297% Popularity: 0.00000]

History of New Music in Los Angeles Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 41 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KUSC Highlights of contemporary music in the City of Angels from the New Music Society of 1925 to New Music America, 1985 … a 60 year heritage of profound significance! Henry Cowell, born in California, was the "catalyst for all that was new and outrageous" in new music in Los Angeles in the 1920s. His October 22, 1925 concert at the Biltmore Hotel there, underwritten by Aileen Barnsdall, is considered the birth of "new music" in Southern California. Music premiered there was critically acclaimed at the time, and has become "revered" today. Cowell founded the “New Music Quarterly”, publishing music others would not consider at the time. He was "constantly burning with something new," reports Dane Rudhyar in this program. George Antheil started scoring films in New York City, later moving to Hollywood. First assignment: "The Plainsman" for Cecil B. DeMille. He enjoyed the freedom of be...

22. radiOM.org - A Mass for Forgotten Times by William Duckworth [5.086% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Mass for Forgotten Times by William Duckworth Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 13 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Recorded in 1975, the University of Delaware Concert Choir, under the direction of Dr. Peter J. McCarthy, performs William Duckworth’s “A Mass for These Forgotten Times.” In a brief interview that follows this work, Duckworth describes his intention to seamlessly blend traditional chants with more modern extended vocal techniques, and his general satisfaction with the composition. The actual performance was recorded at the University of Delaware, while the interview, with Charles Amirkhanian, was recorded at the New Music America Festival in June, 1980, in Minneapolis. Musical Selections: A Mass for These Forgotten Times: Kyrie ; Gloria ; Credo ; Sanctus ; Agnus Dei, for unaccompanied chorus (1973) (11:14) / William Duckworth Performers: University of Delaware Concert Choir Peter McCarthy, director Genre: 20th Century Classical Subject: 20th century classical ...

23. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity A Concert from Pier 2 with Stuart Dempster & Bill Fontana [5.072% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: A Concert from Pier 2 with Stuart Dempster & Bill Fontana Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 119 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Trombonist virtuoso Stuart Dempster, the master of the sewer pipe didjeridu, performs live from San Francisco's Fort Mason's Pier 2, where the sound installation of Bill Fontana, "Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns", was still sounding. That installation, part of the 1981 New Music America Festival, involved piping in via telephone lines, the sound of eight Bay Area foghorns and then manipulating their sounds with various delay effects. When Dempster, whose earlier performance at the Japan Center had been a big hit at the same Festival, went to Pier 2 and heard his alter egos performing from across the Bay, he decided then and there to play in concert with the sound of the eight foghorns. The result was this two hour sensuous soundscape, a program that very quickly became an audience favorite at KPFA and which can now be enjoyed by listeners from a...

24. radiOM.org - Lou Harrison 70th Birthday Concert [5.063% Popularity: 0.00000]

Lou Harrison 70th Birthday Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 165 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) From the Mills College Concert Hall in Oakland California, hosts Charles Amirkhanian and Russ Jennings present a special live broadcast of a tribute to Lou Harrison on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The evening began with a gala dinner in honor of the pioneering American composer, during which Jennings and Amirkhanian manage to corral many of the illustrious guests for brief interviews, including Joseph Franklin the founder of the Relâche Ensemble and director of the 1987 New Music Festival; Loren Rush, composer and cofounder of the Good Sound Foundation which was in charge of making the somewhat acoustically challenged Mills Auditorium sound like a first class concert hall; Eva Soltes, choreographer and dancer who was scheduled to perform later that evening; and other luminaries of the New Music scene in San Francisco and the United State...

25. radiOM.org - New music, composers, poetry, video and audio streaming [1.548% Popularity: 0.00000]

About radiOM.org Material available on radiOM.org has been selected from the ever growing archives of Other Minds . Here you will find recordings of OM's past music festivals and concert productions, selected recordings of new music sent to us by composers from around the world, and selections from 4000 hours of audiotape recordings from the KPFA Radio Music Department collection transferred to Other Minds in 2000. The KFPA tapes contain live conversations, interviews, and performances with many of the innovative musicians who created 20th Century new music. Check our site weekly for new additions. At least five new programs are made available each month. The Other Minds Recordings The Other Minds Music Festival brings to San Francisco annually a group of eight to twelve distinguished, non-conforming composers whose work has contributed to the redefinition of classical music, jazz, and various hybrid forms. The first event, held in November 1993, featured a world premiere of a collaboration piece by Conlon Na...

26. radiOM.org - The Music of Lou Harrison (August 1968) [1.238% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Music of Lou Harrison (August 1968) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 218 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Recorded in August of 1968 this is a wonderful four part program in which American composer Lou Harrison presents a selection of his varied works, in roughly chronological order. The program begins with Harrison providing a brief biographical sketch of his life in which he describes being born in Oregon and how he then moved with his family to Northern California, and his subsequent self-identification as a San Francisco Bay Area composer. The rest of the first half of the program is then dedicated to presenting many of his earlier, Mission Period compositions, (a term meant to reflect his adopted home in California), including some of his groundbreaking percussion ensemble pieces such as his “Suite for Percussion” and “Labyrinth No. 3.” In the third hour of this program the emphasis switches to his longer works written for larg...

27. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 [0.876% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 125 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) As always, the third concert of the 16th Other Minds Festival of New Music (OM 16), held on March 5, 2011, commenced with an engaging panel discussion moderated by Charles Amirkhanian. Joining Charles on stage are the concert’s featured composers, Jason Moran, Louis Andriessen, and Kyle Gann. Moran begins the discussion with a description of how his latest work was inspired by an old LP about African American slang and his own interest in contemporary jazz slang. Andriessen then introduces his works with the admission that he had always had problems writing for classically trained singers and string players, feeling that they were too romantic for his type of music. A difficulty that was only solved when he met the two Italian musicians featured in this concert. Finally, Kyle Gann talks about his ...

28. radiOM.org - New music, composers, poetry, video and audio streaming [0.797% Popularity: 0.00000]

Radical Aesthetics and Sound Sensitivity Information Charles Amirkhanian, KPFA's Sound Sensitivity Information Director, has been invited to join the staff of radio station VPRO in Holland from September to January. Although VPRO is a government supported station, it is enthusiastic about the Pacifica stations and we have both felt the benefit of these exchanges. Most recently, KPFA was host to Philippe Scheltema who did the midday program Here's Philippe this past winter. It helps keep our flow of information and input of ideas fresh and flexible, covering broad areas of radio, politics, and of course radical aesthetics… In Europe, radio is still alive and kicking—a force for intelligent, in-depth analysis and debate, music and literature broadcasts of a sophisticated nature, and productions in all areas of programming which are carefully thought out and skillfully accomplished by audio technicians who are experts in making a point without the aid of a video screen. But in the United States, virtually every ...

29. radiOM.org - New Music for Pianos : Live Recordings by ONCE [0.743% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music for Pianos : Live Recordings by ONCE Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 50 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Based in Ann Arbor, MI, ONCE was one of the most experimental groups of American composers active in the mid-20th century. Among its members were many that even until this day remain fairly obscure, although others, such as Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma, have gone on to become well-known throughout North America and the world. In this program you will hear a selection of early, largely aleatoric works that were first presented in a series called New Music for Pianos, and were performed at a variety of Midwestern universities during the 1960s. The program begins with “Cassiopeia” by George Cacioppo, a two minute piece consisting of four structures written on a single page. They can be played in any order and are here performed by Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma. This is followed by Ashley’s own “Detail 2b” composed in 1962. The one obvious characteristic of the piece is the i...

30. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 [0.695% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 126 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The 16th Other Minds Festival of New Music (OM 16) began with a panel discussion with some of the composers featured in the first night’s concert, held on March 3, 2011. Joining moderator Charles Amirkhanian on stage were Kyle Gann, Louis Andriessen, Agata Zubel, and Janice Giteck. Gann briefly discusses “Triskaidekaphonia I” which is the result of Gann’s desire to finally incorporate the musical equivalent of the number 13 into a composition, something he achieves with the introduction of a pure 13th harmonic at the beginning of this piece. His other featured work, “Kierkegaard, Walking,” was inspired by a European walking tour and an early interest in the Danish philosopher. Polish composer Agata Zubel discusses her decision to take up a second career as a classical concert singer, while also in...