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51. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Joan La Barbara, 1984 [0.272% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Joan La Barbara, 1984 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 91 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Recorded on March 8, 1984 as part of the San Francisco’s Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian interviews avant-garde vocalist and composer, Joan La Barbara, before a live audience. Born in 1947 La Barbara has worked with such well known modern composers as John Cage, Philip Glass, Morton Feldman, and her husband of many years, Morton Subotnick. In this program Joan La Barbara talks about her evolution from a singer of the classical repertoire to one that focuses on experimental and new music. She also discusses the difference between public support for the arts in America and Europe. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Berliner Träume (1983) / Joan La Barbara Genre: New Music Subject: La Barbara, Joan, 1947- ; Vocal music ; Vocalises ; New music ; Composition (Music) People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; La Barbara, Joan, 1947- Recording Date: 3/8/1984...

52. radiOM.org - Moondog: The Man on the Street [0.239% Popularity: 0.00000]

Moondog: The Man on the Street Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 140 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Gordon Spencer of WBAI in New York presents a program about Louis Hardin, more popularly known as Moondog. From the 1940s up until 1974 Moondog made his living as a street musician and poet in New York City and was typically found near the jazz clubs on 52nd Street. Blind since an accident when he was 16 years old, Moondog was always recognizable in his Viking helmet playing a variety of instruments, some of his own design. In this program Moondog talks about his interests, his influences and his experiences. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [unidentified excerpts mixed with street interviews] -- All is Loneliness [excerpt of two versions mixed together, one by Moondog the other by Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Co.] -- [an Oo solo] -- Bird’s Lament -- Stamping Ground -- Tugboat Toccata -- Symphonique No. 3: Ode to Venus Performers: Janis Joplin with Big Brother ...

53. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Tania León, 1985 [0.232% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Tania León, 1985 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 104 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Recorded on September 19, 1985 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, the Cuban-born composer, Tania León, talks with Charles Amirkhanian before an enthusiastic audience at the McBean Theater in San Francisco, about her work as composer, conductor, concert producer, and arts activist. At 23, a graduate of the Havana Conservatory of Music, León moved to the United States where she was a co-founder of the Dance Theater of Harlem. She remained with the company until 1978 when she resigned to devote more time to composing. She has conducted orchestras in Germany, Italy, South Africa, The Netherlands, and New York, organized a number of concert series and festivals, taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Michigan, and is currently a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York. In this program she introduces a number of he...

54. radiOM.org - Morning Concert An Interview with Philip Corner [0.221% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: An Interview with Philip Corner Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 83 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of New York City’s finest, composer Philip Corner, longtime stalwart of the avant-garde music and art scene in Lower Manhattan. Corner studied briefly with Olivier Messiaen in Paris in 1955, and in 1958 at the New School for Social Research he attended John Cage’s class which included such distinguished budding artists as Allan Kaprow, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, and others who would make their marks in the lively East Village scene of the 1960s. An articulate and persuasive spokesperson for new music, Corner talks about his own music, such as his food related performances, his association with the Fluxus group of artists, and the role of meditation in many of his compositions, during a late-night conversation recorded at his West Broadway flat on December 7, 1977, in New York City. Musical selections on this program includ...

55. radiOM.org - New Sounds San Jose The Fourth Annual Festival: Concert Two [0.221% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Sounds San Jose: The Fourth Annual Festival: Concert Two Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 74 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Recorded on May 8, 1982, the second concert of the 4th annual New Sounds San Jose Festival featured Joan La Barbara presenting selections of music for voice, tape and electronics, most of which were her own compositions. Subtitled “Voice is the Original Instrument” the first half of this concert featured works where all the sound were created by the natural voice, amplified to bring out quiet sounds and particular qualities that would not be clearly audible without the use of amplification. While some of the pieces included multi-tracking, no electronic or tape manipulation was used and all one hears is either live or pre-recorded amplified voice. The second half of the concert included pieces by John Cage and Morton Subotnick, who is also La Barbara’s husband. While some of these pieces include additional instrumentation such as ghost electronics the focus rem...

56. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 9, Concert 2: 02 “Six Little Stains” by Amy X. Neuburg [0.193% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 9, Concert 2: 02 “Six Little Stains” by Amy X. Neuburg Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 40 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds These songs constitute a sampling of the solo repertoire I've been developing over the past two years. They were created as individual works, not as a "cycle," which means you're allowed to clap after each one. Much of my music is loop-based; single vocal lines are "overdubbed" to build up a chorus of harmonies. In performance I use twelve touch-sensitive drum pads, both to bang out rhythmic accompaniment and to send instructions to my equipment, to start and stop recording a loop, for instance, or to control my digital mixer. The foot pedals can function similarly or can change instrument setups between songs or sections. I'm often asked about my composition process and to what extent the technology dictates the music. I always keep in mind the capabilities of my instruments while composing, but before even entering the studio I'll us...

57. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Segue Tech [0.181% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Segue Tech Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 61 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Introduced in the KPFA Folio with only the brief phrase, “to put side by side, put close together”, this program follows the same formula of other early Ode to Gravity programs by juxtaposing musical selections from a variety of styles and genres. It begins with a Tin Pan Alley song from the 1920s quickly followed by a quirky player piano piece, an experimental work for flute and voice, piano rag music, and it only gets better from there. Musical Selections: Varsity Drag [lyrics by Buddy De Sylva & Lew Brown] / Ray Henderson -- [unidentified player piano music] / Conlon Nancarrow -- [unidentified piece for flute and voice] -- [unidentified piano rag music] / Igor Stravinsky -- Labyrinth No. 3 (1941) / Lou Harrison -- [unidentified brass band music] -- America (My Country Tis of Thee) -- [unidentified electronic piece] -- Haydn go seek / Charles Amirkhanian -- Composition No. 1, for ratchet (196...

58. radiOM.org - Oakland Museum Concerts Chamber Music Concert, March 12, 1971 [0.175% Popularity: 0.00000]

Oakland Museum Concerts: Chamber Music Concert, March 12, 1971 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 87 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA This is the second in a series of four concerts of chamber music put on by the Oakland Museum in the Spring of 1971. The focus of the concerts was works by contemporary California composers, although the programs also included other works, as seen fit by the program director Donald Cobb. Thus this second concert, recorded on March 12, 1971, includes songs by Claudio Monteverdi, Virgil Thomson with Gertrude Stein, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as chamber works by Ernest Bloch, and Leon Kirchner. All performed by local San Francisco Bay Area musicians. Part 1 of 3: Musical Selections: Continuo Madrigals: Lamento della Ninfa (1638) (6:30) ; Si dolce e il tormento (1624) (3:00) ; Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti (1632) (8:30) / Claudio Monteverdi Performers: Kristine Comendant, soprano (Lamento ; Si Dolce) Bruce Brewer, tenor (Lamento ; Zefiro) David Hammer,...

59. radiOM.org - Worldwide Music An Interview with Joan La Barbara [0.168% Popularity: 0.00000]

Worldwide Music: An Interview with Joan La Barbara Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 63 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA This program, recorded in 1976, begins with Charles Amirkhanian playing the first three musical selections simultaneously. After this stimulating experiment with multi-tasking, Charles interviews avant-garde vocalist Joan La Barbara about her work with extended vocal techniques. She describe the various methods she employs and then plays two of her own 1975 compositions, “WARP” and “Vocal Techniques”. Musical Selections: Music in 5ths [excerpt] / Philip Glass & [excerpt from “Music in Sikkim”] & Aran [excerpt] / Christopher Hobbs [all three pieces played simultaneously] -- WARP (1975) / Joan La Barbara -- Vocal Extensions (1975) / Joan La Barbara -- Melody with Voice-Driven Electronics (1975) / David Behrman Performers: Joan La Barbara, voice (WARP ; Vocal Extensions ; Voice-Driven) Bruce Ditmas, percussion (WARP) Genres: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic ; Ava...

60. radiOM.org - Comparatively Speaking Bach’s Cantatas [0.167% Popularity: 0.00000]

Comparatively Speaking: Bach’s Cantatas Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 67 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Matthew Holdreith presents another program in his Comparatively Speaking series in which he juxtaposes varying performances of popular classical music. In this recording he examines Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas and oratorios, paying particular attention to the differences between performances that use instruments and vocal practices that were the norm in Bach’s day with more modern variations. Much of this fascinating program is spent comparing the different effects that can be achieved through the use of child singers as opposed to adult female sopranos. Holdreith was apparently inspired by Nikolaus Harnoncourt efforts to record all of Bach’s cantatas on original Baroque instruments, excerpts of which are included here. Whether you are already a huge fan of Bach’s vocal music, or someone who is only hearing it for the first time, you should find Holdreith’s illum...