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1. radiOM.org - B.A.S.E. - Bay Area Synthesizer Ensemble [5.113% Popularity: 0.00000]

B.A.S.E. - Bay Area Synthesizer Ensemble Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 52 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In 1974, the first and only Bay Area Synthesizer Ensemble (B.A.S.E.) was formed. This was an ensemble of electronic music studios at the University of California in Berkeley, radio station KPFA in Berkeley, the San Francisco Conservatory, and San Francisco State University. The studios were connected by special telephone lines which all led into the master control room at KPFA, where incoming signals were mixed electronically and then broadcast in real time. The performance broadcast took place on the evening of February 23, 1974. The compositions commissioned for the affair were “Responsive Reading” and “Thirty Seconds,” by Gareth Loy; “Music for B.A.S.E.,” by Anthony Gnazzo; “Quartet for Synthesizers,” by George Burt; “BASEment,” by Alden Jenks; “Recycled Radio,” by Jan Pusina; and “BASEball” and “A Ludwig Washout,” by Herbert Bielawa. Each studio had a production crew as follow...

2. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Music by Maggi Payne, Herb Bielawa, and Bob Gonsalves [6.311% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Music by Maggi Payne, Herb Bielawa, and Bob Gonsalves Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 62 mins Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian hosts a program featuring the music of three Bay Area composers, two of whom join him in the studio to discuss their works. Maggi Payne and Bob Gonsalves are both graduates of the Master’s Degree program at Mills College in Electronic and Recorded Media from the Center for Contemporary Music. Payne, who could not make it to the KPFA studios due to illness, was at the time of this recording, director of the recording studio at the Center, and was serving as an engineer for recording sessions which were available to the public for a nominal charge. Her expertise in the studio is highlighted with a selection of pristine tape pieces that Amirkhanian plays in her absence. Herb Bielawa was director of the electronic music studio at San Francisco State University as well as the founder of the Pro Musica Nova ensemble. The pa...