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1. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8, Concert 2: 05 “Blends” by Richard Teitelbaum [6.216% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 8, Concert 2: 05 “Blends” by Richard Teitelbaum Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 26 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) I composed “Blends” while studying with the great shakuhachi master Katsuya Yokoyama in Tokyo in 1976-77, and many aspects of the piece came out of those studies. The form of the piece follows a kind of global circumnavigation, starting out in a fairly traditional Japanese manner (actually making use of a piece I had written in 1974, derived from the traditional Kinko Honkoku classic “Hi Fu Mi Hachi Gaeshi”). This part of the score is written in traditional "Kinko" shakuhachi notation, starting on the middle right part of the score and reading downwards from right to left. The synthesizer briefly makes reference to the even older (originally Chinese) Gagaku (court) music. The music then "moves eastwards" across the Pacific and explores the beats, aural harmonics and difference tones characteristic of the...

2. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity An Interview with Martin Koenig [5.113% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: An Interview with Martin Koenig Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 42 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews Martin Koenig, a collector and publisher of Balkan folk music, about his work as an ethnomusicologist specializing in Eastern European folk music and dances. Koenig also introduces a number of recordings from his collection. Musical Selections: [a Nestinarsko Horo (Bulgarian fire dance)] -- [a Lazaritza (Bulgarian felicity & fertility song)] -- [a Strigaturi (ribald folk dance from Transylvania with calls)] -- [Romanian folk music with Jew's harp] -- [Moldavian folk dance] Genre: World Music Subject: Koenig, Martin ; Balkan Arts Center ; World music ; Ethnic music ; Folk music, Bulgarian ; Folk music, Romanian ; Folk dance music -- Balkan Peninsula People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; Koenig, Martin Recording Date: 3/11/1970 First Broadcast Date: 3/11/1970 Listen...

3. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 (video) [4.990% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 8: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 (video) View Item Type: Video Duration: 175 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) This first part of this program begins with the concluding performance from the first concert of the OM 8 Festival held on March 7, 2002. The composition is “New Work,” an improvisation by The Circle Trio, Pauline Oliveros, accordion, India Cook, violin, and Karolyn van Putten, voice. The second concert of OM 8 Festival, held on March 8, 2002, then begins with a panel discussion moderated by Charles Amirkhanian and featuring Richard Teitelbaum, Tom Buckner, and composers Annea Lockwood, Lou Harrison. Teitelbaum talks about how his interest in shakuhachi music led him to collaborate with some of the great Japanese masters of the instrument and influenced many of his electro-acoustic compositions. Lou Harrison then demonstrates the tack piano, for which he thinks he has composed the only work for its sol...

4. radiOM.org - New music, composers, poetry, video and audio streaming [4.659% Popularity: 0.00000]

Radical Aesthetics and Sound Sensitivity Information Charles Amirkhanian, KPFA's Sound Sensitivity Information Director, has been invited to join the staff of radio station VPRO in Holland from September to January. Although VPRO is a government supported station, it is enthusiastic about the Pacifica stations and we have both felt the benefit of these exchanges. Most recently, KPFA was host to Philippe Scheltema who did the midday program Here's Philippe this past winter. It helps keep our flow of information and input of ideas fresh and flexible, covering broad areas of radio, politics, and of course radical aesthetics… In Europe, radio is still alive and kicking—a force for intelligent, in-depth analysis and debate, music and literature broadcasts of a sophisticated nature, and productions in all areas of programming which are carefully thought out and skillfully accomplished by audio technicians who are experts in making a point without the aid of a video screen. But in the United States, virtually every ...

5. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Jin Hi Kim [6.260% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Jin Hi Kim Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 108 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Recorded on April 11,1990 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Jin Hi Kim about the traditional music of Korea as well as her own career as a composer, and the first female virtuoso on the komungo to experiment with free improvisation. She has performed with such musicians as Henry Kaiser, Elliot Sharp, and Joseph Celli, and has experimented with an electric komungo, samples of all of which can be heard in this excellent program. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [two samples of Korean court music] -- [a sample of Korean ceremony music] -- [demonstration of komungo music] -- [untitled improvisation] / Jin Hi Kim -- [from “No World Improvisation”] / Jin Hi Kim & Joseph Celli -- [improvisation piece] / Jin Hi Kim & Henry Kaiser -- [improvisation piece] / Jin Hi Kim, Elliot Sharp, & Joseph Celli Performers: Jin Hi Ki...

6. radiOM.org - Inti-Illimani: Live in Concert at Stanford University, (October 30, 1974) [3.223% Popularity: 0.00000]

Inti-Illimani: Live in Concert at Stanford University, (October 30, 1974) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 142 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA At Stanford University on October 30, 1973, Inti-Illimani, a Chilean folk music group, performed in concert, just months after the military coup in Chile had led to the their exile as well as the death of their fellow folk singer and frequent collaborator, Victor Jara. Saved from a similar fate by the fact that they were on tour in Europe at the time of Pinochet’s violent take over, the group took this opportunity to offer a poignant tribute to Jara and other victims of the fascist regime. They also played the music that had made them the most popular group in Chile during the Allende years, music that celebrated the popular culture of the Latin American countries particularly those in the Andean region of the continent. They spoke of the beauty of the music of the indigenous people of that area, and told why that music and art was n...

7. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 4, Concert 2: 01 “Voices Unveiled” by Hafez Modirzadeh [5.070% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 4, Concert 2: 01 “Voices Unveiled” by Hafez Modirzadeh Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 38 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Saxophonist and composer Hafez Modirzadeh invented the "chromodial" method which allows for a non-linear improvisational practice which is able to adapt and incorporate multiple systems of music, permitting a cross-cultural conversation between instruments, performers, and musical idioms. “Voices Unveiled” features five songs that take their texts and musical influences from Mexico, India, Iran, Korea, and America. Musical Selections: Voices Unveiled: {Satira Filosophica [text by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz] / Son Huasteco & traditional melodies [arr. by Hafez Modirzadeh & Claudia Gomez] -- Raga Mishra Gara / Rita Sahai [arr. by Hafez Modirzadeh] -- Tas-e Falak [text by Mahsatī] / Hafez Modirzadeh -- Mindullae [text by Lee Hae-In] / Hafez Modirzadeh -- Phenomenal Woman [text by Maya Angelou]} (1997) (37:39) / Hafez Modirzadeh [World pre...

8. radiOM.org - A Stereophonic Journey Through India [5.101% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Stereophonic Journey Through India Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 89 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA Jean-Louis Derche traveled to India in the summer of 1971 and faithfully recorded temple music in several out-of-the-way locations. Even more remarkable are his unusual recordings made in the streets of Benares, Chidambaran, Madurai, Tanjour, and Trivandrum. Listen to the sounds of rickshaws; a walk down a narrow street; craftsmen hammering metal; and the timeless flow of the Ganges River. Derche’s companion, photographer Monique Sidi, provided illustrations of the journey, for use in the September 1972 KPFA Folio. Mr. Derche, a computer scientist in Berkeley at the time of this KPFA recording in 1972, has since disappeared from sight. This was his first and only known radio project. Part 1 of 2: Genres: Soundscapes ; World Music Subject: Ambient sounds ; Soundscapes (Music) ; Music -- India ; Ethnic music ; World music People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; Derche, Jean-Louis ; Sidi, M...

9. radiOM.org - Concert for the 57th Esperanto Conference [5.074% Popularity: 0.00000]

Concert for the 57th Esperanto Conference Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 77 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A recording of a concert given in honor of the members of the 57th Esperanto Conference. The concert begins with the “Pampeana No. 1,” by Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera. This is followed by four pieces of Chinese classical music performed by the Chinese Classical Music Ensemble of Lou Harrison, William Colvig and Richard Dee. They are "The Triple Refrain at Lang Kwan Pass," a 9th century piece attributed to Wang Way, a Buddhist chant from a 13th century opera, a 20th century piece known by its Esperanto title "Monologo de la Resanigulo" by Lju Tjen Hua, and a popular piece " Five Glories to the Buddha.” These are followed by the world premiere of three pieces written for the gamelan, "Cakono por Violono kun Gamelano " by Richard Dee and Lou Harrison, "La Kvar Patronoj de la Palestro" by Richard Dee, and "La Koro Sutro" by Lou Harrison. This concert was held in Knuth Hall ...

10. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Music from Sudan and Armenia [6.265% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Music from Sudan and Armenia Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In this program,, host Charles Amirkhanian introduces music performed by Sudanese virtuoso Hamza El Din, as well as a selection of Armenian folk music, and an interview with Dikran Karagueuzian, editor of the San Francisco based newspaper, the “Armenian Guardian”. Musical Selections: Song with Tar / Hamza El Din -- Escalay (Water Wheel) / Hamza El Din -- Yes Siretzi / G. Alemshah -- Gali Yerk / Vardapet Komitas -- Kh'ntrtrestsook Havadov / Alan Hovhaness -- Toi Negriz (Hey Narcissus) / T. Altunian Performers: Armenian National Choral Society of Boston (Gali ; Kh'ntrtrestsook) Genre: World Music Subject: El Din, Hamza ; Music -- Sudan ; World music ; Ethnic music ; Folk music, Armenian ; Oud music People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; El Din, Hamza ; Komitas, Vardapet, 1869-1935 ; Hovhaness, Alan, 1911-2000 ; Altounian, Tatoul ; Alt’unyan, T’at’ul, 1901-1974 Recording Date: 8/4/1971 F...