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71. radiOM.org - New Music America 1990: Montreal Musique Actuelles [5.873% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1990: Montreal Musique Actuelles Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 138 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: C Amirkhanian Charles Amirkhanian reports on happenings of the 1990 installment of the peripatetic New Music America Festival, which began in 1979 and was held this year for the first time outside the U.S. Montreal Musique Actuelles highlighted the work of Canadian composers, performers and improvisers alongside the work of such well-known Americans as La Monte Young, Scott Johnson, and Alvin Curran. Among participants interviewed are Jean Piche, a composer who directed the Festival and whose own work for percussion and tape was a highlight. Also heard are the voices of Montreal composer Linda Bouchard who lives in New York and is active as a composer and conductor; Jan Wolff, artistic director of Icebreaker, an internationally acclaimed center for avant-garde music in Amsterdam; electro-acoustic music specialist Hildegard Westerkamp of Vancouver; Shannon Peet...

72. radiOM.org - About Ear Magazine [1.218% Popularity: 0.00000]

About Ear Magazine Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 53 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Two related discussions of “Ear” magazine with host Charles Amirkhanian and Ear’s editor, Charles Shere , and publisher, Anne Kish. This program provides not only a behind the scenes look at “Ear” which had, at the time of this recording on January 23, 1973, just published it’s first edition, but also at the making of a radio review, as the first segment features the three discussing both “Ear” magazine and the way in which KPFA would review it, while the second segment features a more polished or edited review that was ready for broadcast. “Ear” was founded in Berkeley CA, in 1973 by Shere, Kish, with the assistance of an all volunteer staff. Intended as a means to galvanize a sense of community among Bay Area classical musicians, the magazine featured concert listings and articles highlighting not only major performances of traditional classical music, but also more contemporary and avant-garde e...

73. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Alexander Kan: Mr. New Music USSR [5.872% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Alexander Kan: Mr. New Music USSR Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 123 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA When the ROVA Saxophone Quartet toured the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, it was the enterprising and irrepressible Alexander Kan who invited the group and organized the visit against improbable odds. In 1988 Charles Amirkhanian turned the tables and invited Mr. Kan to the KPFA studio for a discussion. At the time, Mr. Kan was the leading Soviet producer of new music, avant-garde jazz, and experimental rock. The founder of the Leningrad Contemporary Music Club, (which throughout the late 1970s until it was banned in the 1980s, served as a solitary bastion of artistic free expression), is joined by Larry Ochs of ROVA, as they wend their way through an artistic motherlode of unofficial recordings made in performance during the 1980s. Musical selections heard range from free jazz performances by Aleksander Rjabov, Vladimir Chekasin, Sergeĭ Kurëkhin, and Anato...

74. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 15: Panel Discussion 3 [1.268% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 15: Panel Discussion 3 View Item Type: Video Duration: 36 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The third night of the 15th Other Minds Festival of New Music (OM 15) began with a panel discussion with the composers whose works were to be featured in that night’s concert, which was held on March 6, 2010. Joining moderator Charles Amirkhanian on stage were, Gyan Riley, who is known for his guitar playing as well as composing, minimalist composer Tom Johnson, and violinist, composer, and indy rock personality Carla Kihlstedt. Johnson describes his fascination with minimal music, which for him means works with a limited number of notes, a single main idea, and often a mathematically based progression. Unlike the elegant simplicity of Johnson, Kihlstedt describes her composing style as “messy,” typically starting with a wide variety of ideas that are examined, aligned, and developed in a manner that she describes as “o...

75. radiOM.org - A Poetry Reading by Clark Coolidge [0.743% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Poetry Reading by Clark Coolidge Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 119 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Clark Coolidge reads a number of his poems, many of which were unpublished at the time of this recording. Coolidge, was perhaps more than any other person, responsible for inspiring the entire experimental field of Language Poetry, which became popular among avant-garde, mostly American poets, during the 1960s and 70s. This type of poetry was partially inspired by the work of Gertrude Stein, John Cage, and others who sometimes used mathematical sequences and other aleatoric or logical constructs to organize their poetry or music. The work of the Language Poets often forced the audience to participate in the extraction or creation of meaning from the text, separate from the authors intent. This reading occurred in April or May of an undetermined year (but probably in the 1970s) at the home of Michael Palmer, 17 Beaver Street in San Francisco. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Stone...

76. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Criticism of San Francisco Chronicle Music Critics [5.894% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Criticism of San Francisco Chronicle Music Critics Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 15 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: KPFA From a program recorded in 1975, Charles Amirkhanian discusses the politics of new music in the San Francisco Bay Area, with reference to the unsympathetic criticism, leveled at avant-garde artists such as John Cage and Merce Cunningham, by music critics at the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Amirkhanian argues that while Bay Area audiences clearly support the radical styles of the avant-garde, the local papers of note only employ music critics that favor the contemporary classical music of more academically oriented composers, such as Roger Sessions. Amirkhanian points out that these critics routinely disparage the avant-garde composers as charlatans and purveyors of puns, jokes, and gags, all the while refusing to even describe these experimental works in their articles. Reading from a letter that he wrote...

77. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 [5.002% 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...

78. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 14: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 [4.982% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 14: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 155 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) OM 14 got started with Other Minds Executive and Artistic Director, Charles Amirkhanian, moderating a panel discussion with the Bent Sørensen, Chinary Ung, and Ben Johnston, whose works were to be heard during the first concert, held on March 5, 2009. Sørensen discusses how he has incorporated aspects from one of his operas into two of his more recent compositions as well as commenting on the challenges of writing for a piano trio. Ung touches upon his interest in finding the musical equivalent of the Buddhist idea of emptiness being filled by compassion, while Johnston reminisces about Harry Partch, his mentor in microtonal music. Spiral X: In Memoriam Genocide is not an easy theme to acknowledge in music, and yet for Chinary Ung, it finally became a necessity. in 2007 he decided to compose a ten...

79. radiOM.org - New Music America 1981: Concert 4, (June 10, 1981) [1.851% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1981: Concert 4, (June 10, 1981) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 96 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In 1981 the New Music America Festival came to San Francisco for a week full of concerts, sound installations, and multi-media performances. The fourth concert of the Festival, held on June 10, 1981, included works by Laurie Spiegel, Peter Gena, and George Lewis, as well as a live improvisation by LaDonna Smith and Davey Williams, and two musical performance art pieces by conceptual artist Jim Pomeroy. The concert began with two works by Laurie Spiegel, identified in the program as “The Unquestioned Answer” and “A History of Music in One Movement,” which had been previously performed on the computer but were now arranged for solo performers of the harp and piano, respectively. These were followed by an unidentified computer music piece, presented by the composer herself. Violinist and violist LaDonna Smith and guitarist Davey Williams then presented two distinctly avant...

80. radiOM.org - Morning Concert A Program of Dutch Music [5.866% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: A Program of Dutch Music Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 127 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Han Reiziger, Music Director of VPRO Radio, in the Netherlands, presents a selection of mostly 20th century classical music, by a variety of Dutch composers. One of the jurors for the 1973 Grad Prix du Disque, Reiziger produced a number of shows for KPFA as part of a cultural exchange program with VPRO, including this program recorded on November 11, 1974. In this show he plays a number of musical selections by Dutch composers, that were largely unknown and unavailable in the United States at that time. Featured composers include Otto Ketting, Rudolf Perdeck, Wouter Paap, Will Eisma, Willem Frederik Bon, and Tristan Keuris. Interspersed with these works of contemporary classical and avant-garde music are several selections of organ and harpsichord music from the late 16th and early 17th century by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, as well as short snippets of Ton de Leeuw’s “Spatial Mu...