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1. radiOM.org - Pythagorean Clavinet Phaze by Don Cardoza [0.220% Popularity: 0.00000]

Pythagorean Clavinet Phaze by Don Cardoza Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 30 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA This is a half hour long piece of entrancing music for the clavinet, that appears, at least to the untrained ear to have been influenced by Indian ragas. The clavinet is an electronically amplified clavichord and produces a sound quite similar to an electric guitar, despite it being a keyboard instrument. Don Cardoza has studied piano with Carlo Busotii and Michaiko Kolbiaka, among others, and he studied composition with Wayne Peterson, Fred Fox, and Ton De Leeuw at the Amsterdam Conservatory and then with Terry Riley at Mills College. He has also studied with Pandit Pran Nath from 1974 to 1990, and it may be the influence of the North Indian master vocalist that can be discerned in this delightful work. Since 1990 Mr. Cardoza has taught music at Ohlone College. Cardoza also teaches jazz piano at Cal State University East Bay, and is the organist for Corpus Christ Catholic Church...

2. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 4, Concert 3: 02 “Patterns of Plants-The 7th Collection” by Mamoru Fujieda [0.777% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 4, Concert 3: 02 “Patterns of Plants-The 7th Collection” by Mamoru Fujieda Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 15 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Mamoru Fujieda is internationally recognized as one of music's outstanding younger composers. Working with artists such as John Zorn, Yuji Takahashi, and Malcolm Goldstein, he composes music that emerges from his fascination with the essentially collaborative formation of music. Fujieda has developed methods of composition that depart from the minimalist tradition, charting a new terrain that liberates music from subjectivity by immersing it in a network of relationships. Among his numerous methods, he has pioneered a new structure of composition that he calls "parasitic," since it consists of grafting new material onto a "rhizome" of original melody borrowed from sources such as Bach, Gregorian chant, or medieval secular music. In the composition of the series “Patterns of Plants”, a system called "PLANTRON" was us...

3. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 4, Concert 2: 02 “So Kong Dong” by Carl Stone [0.885% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 4, Concert 2: 02 “So Kong Dong” by Carl Stone Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 17 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Carl Stone is a former student of Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music exclusively since 1972. “So Kong Dong” was composed in 1997 and was the first composition by Stone in which all the sounds are emitted directly from a computer and not from external MIDI devices such as samplers or synthesizers. All of the textures heard are generated by real-time processing applied to one short sample, which is thus the basis for the entire soundworld of the piece. Musical Selections: So Kong Dong (1997) (16:40) / Carl Stone [World premiere] Performers: Carl Stone, electronics Genre: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic Subject: Electronic music ; Computer music People: Stone, Carl, 1953- Recording Date: 11/11/1997 Listen...

4. radiOM.org - Pacific Sirens by Robert Erickson [0.431% Popularity: 0.00000]

Pacific Sirens by Robert Erickson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 14 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA “Pacific Sirens” by Robert Erickson, performed by the University of California at San Diego Players in June of 1969. The work is an aleatoric electro-acoustic composition scored for flute, clarinets, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, viola, violoncello, double bass, and tape. Beginning with electronically altered wind and surf sounds from the Pacific coast, the work gradually develops as groups of instruments introduce long, sustaining, and overlapping pitches that flawlessly match the windswept beach recordings. Occasionally instruments make more pronounced solo excursions that grab one’s attention, similar to the way the sound of sea gull may temporarily lift one’s gaze from the rolling breakers. Calm and meditative, without ever becoming boring, this subtle work of restrained playing and masterful use of ambient sounds and electronic wizardry is indeed a siren’s call to a more idyl...

5. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Words and Music of Anthony Gnazzo [0.736% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Words and Music of Anthony Gnazzo Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 79 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Composer Anthony Gnazzo introduces a number of his tape compositions, two of which were finished especially for this program. In addition Charles Amirkhanian plays his tape composition “Audience”, which incorporates ambient sound recordings made in the garage and stairwell of the Oakland Museum and at Marineworld/Africa USA, mixed with the sound of his kitchen milk steamer. When not listening to each others works the two just generally have fun in the KPFA studios. This is another funny and fantastic program by the dynamic duo of text-sound composition. Musical Selections: Old Standard [based on “That’s My Desire”] / Anthony Gnazzo -- The Art of Canning Music (1976) / Anthony Gnazzo -- Transit (1978) / Anthony Gnazzo -- Asparagus: Everybody likes it / Anthony Gnazzo -- Wed in an Aeroplane (1919) / Alma Ives -- Pun ...

6. radiOM.org - MACHUNAS: A Performance Oratorio in Four Colors [0.473% 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...

7. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Larry Austin [6.231% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Larry Austin Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 106 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In a program from 1988, Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of America’s most fascinating composers specializing in electro-acoustic and computer music, Larry Austin (b. 1930). From 1958-72 Austin taught at the University of California in Davis while also serving as the first editor of the avant-garde music composition journal, “Source.” In 1972 he moved to the University of South Florida, and in 1978 he began teaching at North Texas State University where he directed the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia. This program surveys his music, both instrumental and computer-generated. It includes a performance of his “Sinfonia Concertante: A Mozartean Episode” which takes as its text letters written by Mozart which are read by a narrator and then turned into computer sounds while a chamber orchestra plays music sometimes reminiscent of Mozart. Also heard is th...

8. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 15: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 [1.662% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 15: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 141 min Event Type: Music 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 ...

9. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Tania León, 1985 [6.233% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Tania León, 1985 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 104 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Recorded on September 19, 1985 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, the Cuban-born composer, Tania León, talks with Charles Amirkhanian before an enthusiastic audience at the McBean Theater in San Francisco, about her work as composer, conductor, concert producer, and arts activist. At 23, a graduate of the Havana Conservatory of Music, León moved to the United States where she was a co-founder of the Dance Theater of Harlem. She remained with the company until 1978 when she resigned to devote more time to composing. She has conducted orchestras in Germany, Italy, South Africa, The Netherlands, and New York, organized a number of concert series and festivals, taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Michigan, and is currently a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York. In this program she introduces a number of he...

10. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Interview with Daniel Kobialka [0.167% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Interview with Daniel Kobialka Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 84 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a recording made in 1973 violinist Daniel Kobialka is interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian after having just recently returned from Atlanta, GA, where he gave the world premiere performance of Ben Weber’s “Violin Concerto”. Kobialka, who was on the faculty at Hayward State, talks about his many performances of works by living composers, including Lou Harrison, Henry Brant, Leonard Bernstein, and many more. In addition Kobialka describes his first forays into composition, including a collaboration with a rock band. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: Concerto in Slendro (1961) / Lou Harrison -- Rakka, for violin and tape (1970) / Glen Glasow -- Hieroglyphics II (1966) / Henry Brant -- Untitled Piece [”Echoes (1973)”] / Daniel Kobialka -- Fantasy Variations / Donald Martino Performers: Daniel Kobialka, violin (all selections) Robert Hughes, conductor (Concer...