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1. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Music to make you blind: Interview with Lowell Cross [6.690% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Music to make you blind: Interview with Lowell Cross Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 58 min Event Type: Music and Interview Program Origin: KPFA Lowell Cross was born in 1938 in Kingsville, Texas. He is an American composer of electro-acoustic and multimedia works that have been performed throughout the world. He is also active as an engineer and instrument builder. Cross taught at Mills College in Oakland from 1968-69, where he also served as artistic director of the Tape Music Center. He also taught art and technology, musical acoustics, recording techniques, and other subjects at the University of Iowa in Iowa City from 1971-2002, where he was a Professor of Music. In this program, recorded in 1971, Cross discusses his collaboration with David Tudor involving laser projections which was premiered at the Osaka World's Fair in 1970. This program also includes a stereo recording of “Video II-B”. Musical Selections: Video II-B / Lowell Cross Genres: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic ; P...

2. radiOM.org - Panel Discussion on the Firing of the Co-directors of the Mills College Tape Music Center (April 20, 1969) [5.121% Popularity: 0.00000]

Panel Discussion on the Firing of the Co-directors of the Mills College Tape Music Center (April 20, 1969) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 41 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) This program consists of a panel discussion on the subject of the firing of the two co-directors of the Mills College Tape Music Center (Anthony Gnazzo and Lowell Cross). KPFA Music Director Howard Hersh interviews Gnazzo, Cross, and composers Eugene Turitz, Alden Jenks, Ann Kish, and student representative Susan Lynch about the action of the College. The College was offered time to respond but declined. This poignant discussion pits the intention of the original San Francisco Tape Music Center to be an open and public/private R & D organization against the College's desire to keep the newly acquired facility private for its students. Genres: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic ; Mixed-Media Subject: Gnazzo, Anthony, 1936- ; Cross, Lowell M. ; San Francisco Tape ...

3. radiOM.org - Thin Air Nicolas Slonimsky at 76 [5.101% Popularity: 0.00000]

Thin Air: Nicolas Slonimsky at 76 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 83 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) A lively and engaging interview with Nicolas Slonimsky, the dean of musicological lexicography who visited KPFA in 1971 and talked with Robert Commanday (S.F. Chronicle music critic) and Charles Amirkhanian of KPFA. This program includes especially important discussions about Igor Stravinsky and Charles Ives by the first conductor ever to champion the music of Ives, Varèse, Cowell, and Riegger (in the early 1930's). Slonimsky also describes how he debunked a popular myth about the funeral of Mozart as part of his quest for accuracy of detail in his “Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians”. Composer Lowell Cross was also present. Includes piano performances by Slonimsky. Part 1 of 2: Genres: 20th Century Classical ; New Music Subject: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 ; Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 ; Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965 ; Cowell, Henry, 1897-19...