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1. radiOM.org - New Music America 1982, Program No. 1 [5.952% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1982, Program No. 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 169 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: WFMT Radio station WFMT in Chicago presents the first of six broadcasts from Navy Pier, as part of the fourth New Music America Festival. Charles Amirkhanian hosts, assisted by composer and vocalist, Joan La Barbara. The concert includes electronic music by Tom Cameron, Robert Moran’s “Spin Again” for harpsichords, organs, and percussion, “Autumn Resonance” for piano and delay by Wayne Siegel, and to conclude, Meredith Monk’s work for four voices and organs, “Turtle Dreams.” Also heard, although unfortunately not seen, is a work of avant-garde musical theater by the performing duo of Ed Harkins and Philip Larson known as THE. This work combines strictly choreographed movements by the two, often involving sight gags of one type or another, mixed with electronic and new wave rock music. The intermission features includes a profile of Charles Ives, a talk with John Cage about...

2. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Dieter Schnebel [5.507% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Dieter Schnebel Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 104 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In a show from the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series recorded on March 22, 1984, Charles Amirkhanian interviews German composer Dieter Schnebel. The program begins with Schnebel performing "Mouth Work", a sound poetry piece, the theory behind which he later discusses in relation to the organs of articulation in the human body. Later an unidentified orchestral piece, as well as "Schubert-Phantasie" is played for the audience, and the program concludes with another sound poetry piece performed by Schnebel. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [unidentified live performance] Genres: Sound Poetry ; Avant-Garde Subject: Schnebel, Dieter ; Sound poetry ; Text-sound compositions ; Avant-garde (Music) ; Vocalises ; Performance art ; Orchestral music People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; Schnebel, Dieter Recording Date: 3/22/1984 Part 2 of 2: Musical Selections: [unident...

3. radiOM.org - Radio Event No. 18: Radio Free Music Day [5.485% Popularity: 0.00000]

Radio Event: No. 18: Radio Free Music Day Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 34 min Event Type: Inter-Media / Visual Arts Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) On November 7, 1971, between the hours of 2 PM and 4 PM, as part of its genre defying, groundbreaking Radio Event series, KPFA invited the public to play music live on the radio. The KPFA mobile bus was at a park in downtown Berkeley California where the listening public, and anybody else in the area, was asked to bring sound making devices of any sort and to play them in front of the KPFA mics. Foghorns, tympani, license plates, gongs, saxophones, guitars, and garbage cans were all welcome. Anything that could be used to produce sounds was fair game, the stranger the better. The resulting sounds were directly transmitted to Northern California, for all to hear. For anyone who wonders what those hippies that gathered in the parks of the Bay Area during the 1960s did or sounded like, this is your opportunity to listen in a...

4. radiOM.org - New Music America 1981: Selections from “United States” by Laurie Anderson [5.480% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1981: Selections from “United States” by Laurie Anderson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 52 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) From a recording made on June 13, 1981 in San Francisco, as part of the New Music America Festival, Laurie Anderson performs selections from her epic work “United States”. Laurie Anderson was born in 1947 in Chicago and received her MFA in sculpture from Columbia University. As a performance and recording artist, she has worked with film-sound-talking pieces for many years, performing at the La Jolla Museum, the Berlin Festival, and various other places in the U. S. and Europe. In this concert she performs a number of pieces including versions of songs that were later included on her famous “rock” album “Big Science”. The atmosphere was electric, the appreciative audience was eclectic, and the resulting concert was nothing short of extremely effective entertainment. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: From the ...

5. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Laurie Anderson, 1984 [5.470% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Laurie Anderson, 1984 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 150 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) In an interview recorded on December 6, 1984, before a live audience of 1000 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium's Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian speaks with Laurie Anderson about songs from her album, “Mister Heartbreak.” Anderson discusses the inspirationfor many of the songs on that album including “Kokoku” and “Sharkey's Day.” In addition, the composer explains this album's departure from her former release, “Big Science,” which contained the hit song “O Superman.” Laurie's sense of humor emerges in stories of her "past" lives, the controversy of extinct animal cloning, and a funny incident with her "clone" being spotted in New York City. Laurie discusses and plays the music of those who have influenced her through the years, including Ken Nordine, Bongo Joe, and Henry Fiol, as well as her immersion in...

6. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity The Art and Music of Gerd De Vries [5.238% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: The Art and Music of Gerd De Vries Listen ...

7. radiOM.org - Artforum Magazine [4.412% Popularity: 0.00000]

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8. radiOM.org - Radio Event No. 15: "30 notes ascending, 24 hours apart" [4.401% Popularity: 0.00000]

Radio Event: No. 15: "30 notes ascending, 24 hours apart" Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 14 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A work by conceptual artist Mike Cohn in which at the beginning of each Morning Concert for the month of April 1971, a single note in sequential ascending order was broadcast. In this program you can hear each and every one of those brief broadcasts, played in perfect order, without an actual gap of 24 hours between notes! Genre: New Music Subject: Conceptual art ; New music People: Cohn, Mike Recording Date: 3/9/1971 First Broadcast Date: 4/1/1971 Listen...

9. radiOM.org - Morning Concert An Interview with Philip Corner [4.394% 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...

10. radiOM.org - The Premiere Performance of John Cage’s 33 1/3 (Nov. 21, 1969) [4.393% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Premiere Performance of John Cage’s 33 1/3 (Nov. 21, 1969) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 44 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A live recording of the premiere performance of John Cage’s “33 1/3” at the University of California at Davis on Nov. 21, 1969. The work was really a sort of participatory sound installation in which 24 turntables with independent stereo speakers and almost 300 LP records were placed around a large room without any chairs. The audience that entered the room didn't get any instructions, although there was an “attendant’ on hand to assist with operating the equipment if needed. The end result was that after a while, people started putting records on the phonographs and making sounds of their own as well. In classic Cageian style this indeterminate work breaks down the barriers between audience and performer, and sound and music, all the while requiring nothing more from the audience/participant than an open ear and curious mind. Musical Selections: 33 1/3 (1969...