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61. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 [0.742% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 125 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The second concert of the 16th Other Minds Festival of New Music (OM 16), held on March 4, 2011, began as usual, with an informative and entertaining panel discussion moderated by Charles Amirkhanian. Most of the concert’s featured composers and performers gathered on stage, including David A. Jaffe, Agata Zubel, I Wayan Balawan, and Han Bennink, as well as sound sculptor Trimpin. Jaffe describes how, with the assistance of Trimpin, he has utilized a three dimensional computer mouse as a controller for a variety of instruments created by Henry Brant, some of which were suspended from the ceiling. Zubel provides a brief introduction to her first experiment with pure, non-textual, vocalizing, as well as describing some of her other compositions for orchestra. Balawan, then talks about how he uses MI...

62. radiOM.org - Concerts by Composers No. 04: Works by Carl Stone, Arthur Stidfole, & Joseph Pinzarrone [0.733% Popularity: 0.00000]

Concerts by Composers: No. 04: Works by Carl Stone, Arthur Stidfole, & Joseph Pinzarrone 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 fourth program in the series features music by Carl Stone, Arthur Stidfole, & Joseph Pinzarrone. The program begins with Carl Stone’s “Sukothai,” a tape work featuring the multi layering of a harpsichord melody in a style that is slightly reminiscent of a Bach canon. This is followed by a selection of lengthy excerpts of an unnamed improvisation by bassoonist Arthur Stidfole and pianist Joseph Pinzarrone. The two musicians provide some comment...

63. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Najma, 1991 [0.724% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Najma, 1991 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 112 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: C Amirkhanian Recorded on September 5, 1991 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, the acclaimed British born ghazal singer of South Asian ancestry, Najma Akhtar, and her band, are heard in concert as well as in conversation with Charles Amirkhanian. Trained as a chemical engineer but fortunately doing very well as a singer, Najma has successfully blended the traditional singing styles of her ancestors with the modern rhythms of pop music, and is recognized around the globe as one of the premiere practitioners of what has become to be known as world fusion music. In this program she and her band perform a number of songs from her numerous CDs as well as provide some background information on their origin and meaning. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Nikala -- Jane Kis Tara -- Jheel Mai -- Ghoom Charakana Performers: Najma Akhtar, voice and harmonium...

64. radiOM.org - Concerts by Composers No. 11: Works by R. Chatham, D. Behrman, A. Klingensmith, P. DeMarinis, & T. Kosugi [0.711% Popularity: 0.00000]

Concerts by Composers: No. 11: Works by R. Chatham, D. Behrman, A. Klingensmith, P. DeMarinis, & T. Kosugi 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 eleventh program in the series features music by Rhys Chatham, David Behrman, Anne Klingensmith, Paul DeMarinis, & Takehisa Kosugi. This program begins a work for solo guitar composed by Rhys Chatham and performed by the composer in March 1981 at a concert held at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York City. This is followed by two excerpts from a collective improvisation with David Behrman on synthesizer, Anne Kl...

65. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 1, Composer's Forum [0.710% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 1, Composer's Forum Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 112 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The first Other Minds Festival of New Music, held in 1993 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, included this Composer’s Forum, in which almost all the composers featured in the Festival participated. In addition to playing brief excerpts of their works, each of the featured composers spoke briefly about the pieces that were to be heard during the course of the three day Festival thus setting the stage for what was a most momentous occasion. Moderated by Charles Amirkhanian, the director of Other Minds, this panel discussion included Robert Ashley, Trimpin, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, Tom Buckner, Jon Jang, Jai Uttal, Barbara Monk Feldman, and Foday Musa Suso. Conlon Nancarrow was ill and could not attend. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: eL/Aficionado [excerpt] / Robert Ashley...

66. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Jin Hi Kim, 1990 [0.693% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Jin Hi Kim, 1990 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 124 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer and improviser Jin Hi Kim (Jin Hi= Dragon Princess; Kim=Gold) who was born in Korea and has lived in San Francisco since 1980. Ms. Kim is the first performer on the ancient komungo to play experimental and improvised music. This silk stringed wooden zither, with 6 strings, 3 moveable bridges and 16 frets is plucked in a variety ways which produce startling and vigorous sounds. She trained at the Seoul Conservatory in both Western classical composition and traditional Korean performance, and later completed graduate work at Mills College in Oakland. Included on this program are recordings from her live performances. Also introduced is her new electric komungo, which increases her dynamic range and provides new electronic possibilities. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [live performance, 5/20/1989, at the Western Front, Vancouver] -- O...

67. radiOM.org - Fred Frith on Hans Reichel [0.674% Popularity: 0.00000]

Fred Frith on Hans Reichel Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 6 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA In this program, recorded in 1987, Fred Frith joins Charles Amirkhanian in a discussion about Hans Reichel, a maker of guitars, musician, improviser, and musical collaborator. Frith who has known Reichel for more than fifteen years and was scheduled to perform with him later that week describes Reichel’s work as a master craftsman building uniquely sounding instruments. As a performer, Reichel uses a Japanese technique, plucking the strings with one hand and stopping them with the other. Reichel is from Wueppertal, near Dusseldorf, where many German free music (without a score) improvisers originated. Frith, who likes free music but who often composes more structured pieces, offers his opinions on the noise/free music/improv scene. The segment ends with a selection from Frith's "Technology of Tears", a piece written for dance. Musical Selections: [Excerpt from guitar piece] / Hans Reichel --...

68. radiOM.org - Improv:21 John Lindberg: Bass Walk [0.671% Popularity: 0.00000]

Improv:21: John Lindberg: Bass Walk View Item Type: Video Duration: 69 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: ROVA Derk Richardson interviews composer and bassist John Lindberg, recorded at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco on November 14, 2009, as part of the ROVA:Arts Improv 21 series of informances. John Lindberg is a New York based musician who was in the Bay Area on a temporary teaching stint at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). This informal discussion begins with Lindberg performing “Fiddlesticks,” a work that he has been part of his solo, double bass repertoire for about 20 years. Lindberg then describes the thought process, or rather lack of one, that is the hallmark of his performance practice. According to Lindberg, he tries to be in a state beyond thought when playing, or more precisely, when he is being played by the music. It has been his experience that thinking about what you are playing presents an extra layer of intentionality that can often get in the way o...

69. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8: Djerassi Resident Artists Program Panel Discussions (March 2002) [0.670% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 8: Djerassi Resident Artists Program Panel Discussions (March 2002) View Item Type: Video Duration: 5hr 12min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Prior to each annual Other Minds Festival the featured composers have traditionally gathered together for a number of days at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA., to meet each other and offer presentations about their works. In this program, recorded from March 3-5, 2002, you get the rare and invaluable opportunity of sitting in on these far ranging and interactive discussions, which provide insight into each composer’s early experiences and style of composing. In part one of this program, Charles Amirkhanian provides a brief introduction before Festival photographer John Fago attempts to put all the participants at ease about being on camera by showing some samples of his superb still photographs taken during earlier Festivals. Lou Harrison then talks about his style of composing and his use ...

70. radiOM.org - Improv:21 = Q + A: An Informance with John Zorn [0.596% Popularity: 0.00000]

Improv:21: = Q + A: An Informance with John Zorn View Item Type: Video Duration: 80 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: ROVA Taking questions directly from the audience and extrapolating from there, composer, saxophonist, Tzadik record label owner, and MacArthur Fellow John Zorn, talks about his work and the avant-garde music scene as he sees it. Joined by moderator Larry Ochs of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet and percussionist William Winant, Zorn discusses a number of topics including the use of texts in musical compositions; the influence of Judaism on his music; the process of composing 300 tunes in a matter of months; working within and for a community of composers and performers; the traditional packaging of music versus downloads; and Zorn’s early foray into performance art with his Theater of Musical Optics. Never one to be shy about his opinions Zorn is in a typical feisty mood during this engaging give and take with the audience. Genres: Free Improvisation ; Avant-Garde Subject: Zorn, Jo...