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1. radiOM.org - Not So, Gnazzo [2.633% Popularity: 0.00000]

Not So, Gnazzo Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 17 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) After yet another period of self-imposed retirement, intermedia artist, war correspondent, and general man around town, Anthony Gnazzo, returned to radio in 1971 with another important prerecorded message. “Not So” is an extended text-sound composition which combines taped telephone conversations with what sounds like live readings of selected cut-up texts and other sundry auditory eruptions. Is it just derivative of past avant-garde masterpieces or is it a hilarious, cutting-edge commentary on art and human existence? Only by listening repeatedly and intensely can these and other important questions be answered. So please, for the children, give this program your full and complete attention. Musical Selections: Not So (ca. 1971) (16:50) / Anthony Gnazzo Genres: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic ; Sound Poetry Subject: Sound poetry ; Text-sound compositions People: Gnazzo...

2. radiOM.org - MACHUNAS: A Performance Oratorio in Four Colors [0.490% Popularity: 0.00000]

MACHUNAS: A Performance Oratorio in Four Colors View Item Type: Video Duration: 144 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Frank Oteri The story of “MACHUNAS” is an emblem of the end of twentieth century culture, in all its tragedy, irony, delusions and immense vitality. It’s inspired by and based on four key episodes in the life and death of George Maciunas, an architect, artist, activist and founder of the Fluxus art movement, the last avant-garde utopia of the modern era. His name is misspelled on purpose, both due to phonetic considerations and the desire to separate this story from any accurate description of his life. The four acts of “MACHUNAS” are divided into Yellow, Green, Red, Blue, and each act has 9 parts. “MACHUNAS “ begins in Yellow, narrating the days of a young child in the old Lithuania that’s about to be extinguished by the Nazis and Soviets and transitions into Green through the story of a teenager strangely out of place and time in an American-controlled refugee camp in Germany. Representi...

3. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music by Johanna Magdalena Beyer, Mar. 29, 1990 [0.613% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music by Johanna Magdalena Beyer, Mar. 29, 1990 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 118 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA This is the first of two programs devoted to the works of the largely forgotten German-American composer, Johanna Magdalena Beyer (1888-1944). Beyer, who died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, was a pioneering avant-garde composer who’s works would be lost if it were not for the preservation efforts of the American Music Center in New York City, to which she had donated her scores prior to her death. Beyer was by most accounts a tall, angular, painfully self-conscious woman, who nevertheless devoted herself to the cause of contemporary classical music, even serving as a personal secretary for Henry Cowell during his imprisonment on homosexual morals charges. This program includes recordings of Beyer’s music made at the first of two concerts devoted solely to Beyer’s work. The concert occurred on N...

4. radiOM.org - Avant-Garde Trombone Studio Concert [6.634% Popularity: 0.00000]

Avant-Garde Trombone Studio Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 105 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Stuart Dempster, principal trombonist of the Oakland Symphony, and faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory and San Francisco State College, presents a recital of six premieres, including three works commissioned by himself. This concert was held on June 24, 1966 at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. The concert is announced by Charles Boone, composer and officer of the Composers' Forum. During the intermission he interviews Mr. Dempster, who discusses his instrument and his commissions. Composer Robert Erickson is also interviewed, and he discusses his teaching as well as his music. This is a good recording of a fine concert of avant-garde music. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Changes: In Open Style, for trombone and magnetic tape (1965) / Larry Austin -- Solo, for sliding trombone (1957-58) / John Cage -- Ricercar à 5 (1966) / Robert Erickson Performers: Stuart Dempster,...

5. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 5, Concert 1: 08 “Guru” by Errollyn Wallen [0.244% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 5, Concert 1: 08 “Guru” by Errollyn Wallen Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 6 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds The music of composer Errollyn Wallen spans numerous styles from avant-garde classical to jazz song writing. She has composed extensively for chamber media, including piano solo and duet, string quartet and various mixed ensembles, often with voice. In between her work on classical composition, Wallen began in 1988 writing pop/jazz songs for a change of pace. The results are electrifying, as she moves freely among influences ranging from Laurie Anderson to Gospel, Bill Evans, Blues, Schubert, and Ives. A song to melt your heart, “Guru” is only gradually perceived as a satire on the promise held out by certain unscrupulous new age spiritual leaders. The presentation of this work was made possible with the support of Jeanne & Howard Baumgarten. Musical Selections: Guru (5:21) / Errollyn Wallen [U. S. premiere] Performers: Errollyn Wallen, piano and v...

6. radiOM.org - The History of Sound Poetry: An Introduction [5.064% Popularity: 0.00000]

The History of Sound Poetry: An Introduction Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 70 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian traces developments in 20th century text-sound composition, including recorded examples by such historical figures as Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, Ernst Toch, Gertrude Stein, Mauricio Lemaitre, François Dufrene and Henri Chopin. More modern examples of sound poetry follows, including works by the Swedish composer Lars-Gunnar Bodin and Amrikhanian. Production of this program was funded by the Berkeley Civic Arts Commission. Musical Selections: Surprises (2:05) / The Last Poets -- Experimental Dada Poetry (1:02) / Raoul Hausmann -- Poem dedicated to Pablo Picasso (1923) (3:35) / Gertrude Stein -- Geographic Fugue (1930) (2:50) / Ernst Toch -- Ursonate [1st movement] (1927) (3:27) / Kurt Schwitters -- Lettre Rock (1958) (1:55) / Maurice Lemaitre -- Oeuvre désintégrale (2:52) / Francois Dufrene -- New Departure (...

7. radiOM.org - Morning Concert A Visit with Paul Dresher [0.493% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: A Visit with Paul Dresher Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 91 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Guitarist and composer Paul Dresher talks with Charles Amirkhanian and presents recordings of his music composed from 1979 to 1986. Included is an excerpt from the solo guitar work, “Liquid and Stellar Music”, which first brought notice to the Bay Area composer. Also heard is an excerpt from “Slow Fire”, a groundbreaking work of musical theater featuring the words and voice of Rinde Eckert, playing the character of a paranoid hit man with father issues. The program concludes with a recording of “Flashlight” by San Francisco Bay Area, avant-garde rockers, Marina LaPalma & Jay Cloidt. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Liquid and Stellar Music [excerpt] (1981) / Paul Dresher -- Slow Fire [text by Rinde Eckert] (1985) / Paul Dresher Performers: Paul Dresher, guitar, electronics (all selections) Rinde Eckert, vocals (Slow Fire) Gene...

8. radiOM.org - Jim Nollman’s Cigarette Piece (1973) [5.013% Popularity: 0.00000]

Jim Nollman’s Cigarette Piece (1973) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 15 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Composer Jim Nollman of San Francisco, well known for his work with inter-species music, was also a member of the avant-garde group Music Music. This program is a recording made during the eighth night of his conceptual work, entitled “Cigarette Piece”, which was performed live over KPFA in 1973. The piece is scored for ten cigarette smokers and each night’s performance lasted as long as it took each of them to finish one cigarette. In this performance one smoker whirls a noisemaker for the duration that smoke is in his lungs. In addition three other smokers each ring a bell for the length of time each one inhales smoke. Three others performers exhale against suspended wind chimes, while the final three sound a gong each time they flick an ash. For perhaps the only time in the history of cancer causing chemicals, this “Cigarette Piece” lives up to the old adage of it being smooth and ...

9. radiOM.org - Improv:21 Wayne Horvitz: Approaching Training and Musical Heritage in Improvisation and Composition [1.615% Popularity: 0.00000]

Improv:21: Wayne Horvitz: Approaching Training and Musical Heritage in Improvisation and Composition View Item Type: Video Duration: 122 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: ROVA Derk Richardson interviews composer and keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, recorded at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco on April 15, 2009, as part of the ROVA:Arts Improv 21 series of informances. Horvitz, who is as well known for his classical styled compositions as for his experimental jazz and avant-garde rock performances, discusses the social context of a variety of performance practices. He makes an eloquent argument for breaking down, or at least ignoring, the barriers between jazz and classical music; claiming that neither term adequately captures the nuances of current composing and performance techniques. While Horvitz admits that many of the great improvisers of the 1960s and 70s were essentially self taught musicians, and were perhaps unable to sight read a score, he feels that today’s improvisers often hav...

10. radiOM.org - John Cage in Conversation with Morton Feldman, Radio Happening 1 of 5 [5.062% Popularity: 0.00000]

John Cage in Conversation with Morton Feldman, Radio Happening 1 of 5 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 40 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: WBAI John Cage and Morton Feldman recorded four open-ended conversations at the studios of radio station WBAI in New York. These meetings spanned six months between July 1966 and January 1967, and were produced as five "Radio Happenings". Both men were at transitional points in their music. Cage had completed “Variations V” in 1965 and “Variations VI” and “Variations VII” in 1966, and would publish "A Year from Monday" in 1967. Most of Feldman's important work was yet to come. These conversations between two old friends, relaxed, smoking, and throwing out ideas, are full of laughter and long ponderous silences. They form an incredible historical record of their concerns and preoccupation with making music, art, society, and politics of the moment. In 1993 these conversations were transcribed and published as "Radio Happenings I-V" by Edition MusikText...