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31. radiOM.org - Performances by the ONCE Chamber Ensemble [0.553% Popularity: 0.00000]

Performances by the ONCE Chamber Ensemble Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 35 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The ONCE Chamber Ensemble performs new and avant-garde music by four 20th century composers. The first work, “Bestiary I, Eingang,” is a 1961 composition by George Cacioppo and features soprano Karen Lovejoy. This is followed by Donald Scavarda’s “Sounds for Eleven,” “Two Pieces” by Bruce Wise,” and “Wedge” by Roger Reynolds. Each of these works for chamber ensemble exhibit the avant-garde sensibility of the mid-20th century, with its focus on percussion, tinkling piano, and abrupt brass sounds. The ONCE Chamber Ensemble, and the associated ONCE Festival, based in Ann Arbor Michigan, was one of the most experimental groups of composers and musicians in America during the early 1960s. Musical Selections: Bestiary I, Eingang, for soprano, percussion, and piano (1961) (6:59) / George Cacioppo -- Sounds for Eleven, for instrumental ensemble (1961) (9:27) / Donald Scavarda -- Two Piec...

32. radiOM.org - Harvey Matusow on ICES ‘72, and Other International Endeavors [0.475% Popularity: 0.00000]

Harvey Matusow on ICES ‘72, and Other International Endeavors Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 48 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA 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, that was scheduled to be held in August 1972 in London. Participating in the discussion are Stan Lunetta and Art Woodbury of “Source Magazine”, Lars-Gunnar Bodin of Stockholm’s Fylkingen Society, Robert Ashley of Mills College, and program host Charles Amirkhanian. Part comedian and clown, Matusow was once known as the “most hated man in America” for his role in informing, or misinforming, on Communists, including Pete Seeger, during the McCarthy Era. In this program Matusow, goes on to discuss the International Society for the Abolition of Data Processing Machines, an organization of which he was the founder and chairman, an...