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1. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 14: Concert 2 [5.033% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 14: Concert 2 View Item Type: Video Duration: 121 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The second concert of OM 14 was held on March 6, 2009, and it included: Hannah Hannah, or to be precise Ophiphagus Hannah, is a royal variety of the cobra. This composition presents several images of her: from sounds that replicate hissing and biting, and further analogies, to slithery rippling and connotations of submissiveness, to sounds of singing instruments. The cobra is the main character, creating her own images, as if surrounded by fun house mirrors, which deform and at times obscure the limits of reality. -Dobromiła Jaskot, trans. Anna Perzanowska Dilations For three tenors, three bass clarinetists, and three ‘cellists, the piece is a trio split in three. At moments, the three like instruments enmesh into one sounding body, and in other moments an instrument shares qualities of another. The clarinet timbre, for instance, changes by the syl...

2. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 14: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 [5.030% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 14: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 149 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The second concert of OM 14 was held on March 6, 2009. The program began with Other Minds Executive and Artistic Director, Charles Amirkhanian, moderating a panel discussion with the evening’s featured composers Dobromiła Jaskot, Catherine Lamb, Linda Catlin Smith, and Chico Mello. Jaskot discusses the spatial qualities of her music and address the question if it is distinctly Polish in nature. Lamb then talks about her particular interest in different timbres and the pleasure of composing long works in which individual sounds can be fully explored. Smith then describes her aesthetic as something that is not arrived at so much as it is uncovered over time. And Chico Mello displays an engaging sense of humor when describing his piece “Das Árvores” in which many popular Brazilian songs are quoted. H...