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1. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Rubber Stamp Art [5.130% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Rubber Stamp Art Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) The Ellis Rubber Stamp Co. was founded in 1929 by H.R. Ellis and his son, Walter, who continued to produce rubber stamps of over 1000 different visual designs, plus custom stamps for regular retail customers. Charles Amirkhanian, Ken Friedman and Carol Law have produced a series of graphic works exclusively utilizing rubber stamp images. In this program Charles talks with Walter Ellis and several of his employees at the Ellis Co. about how the rubber stamps are designed and manufactured, and the various unusual uses to which they are sometimes put. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 2: Subject: Law, Carol ; Ellis, Walter ; Ellis Rubber Stamp Co (Berkeley, CA) ; Rubber stamps ; Graphic artists ; Graphic arts ; Prints -- Technique People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; Law, Carol ; Ellis, Walter First Broadcast Date: 8/15/1973 Part 2 of 2: Musical Selections: P...

2. radiOM.org - Radio Event No. 9: Boiling Water [5.097% Popularity: 0.00000]

Radio Event: No. 9: Boiling Water Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 14 min Event Type: Inter-Media / Visual Arts Program Origin: KPFA One in a series of groundbreaking, audience participatory, Radio Events, produced by KPFA in Berkeley California. This program, entitled “Boiling Water” was created by Philip Corner in conjunction with Charles Amirkhanian and his wife Carol Law. In order to participate, the audience was encouraged to listen to the radio while standing near the stove. The general idea was to have the audience boil some water and make some tea, or some other warm beverage, in concert with the two on-air personalities, Amirkhanian and Law. Unlike some other program in the Radio Event series, there is nothing preventing current radiOM.org listeners from joining in this interactive experience despite the span of years that separate the original broadcast from the current day. So go to your stoves and enjoy the timeless comfort of listening to the radio while enjoying a good cup of tea. Gen...

3. radiOM.org - Nicolas Slonimsky Eats Dinner [5.094% Popularity: 0.00000]

Nicolas Slonimsky Eats Dinner Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 170 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) In this three part program, the eminent musicologist, composer and conductor talks with Mrs. George Antheil, Charles Amirkhanian and Carol Law over roast duck at the home of Mrs. Antheil in Los Angeles, on December 28, [1970?]. Brace yourselves for a monologue that puts Spalding Gray to shame. Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995), whose career spans the period dating back to the mid-1920s, is totally uninhibited by a microphone hanging off a chandelier in the West Hollywood apartment of Böske Antheil (1902-1978). Amirkhanian and his wife Carol Law sit by helplessly as one course follows another. Recorded on a quarter-track reel-to-reel machine, the sound quality is less than sterling but the voyeuristic vantage point more than makes up for any difficulties. This is the new music equivalent of the Nixon Tapes. In the last part Slonimsky makes a pronounceme...

4. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Rigid Foxhole [r i g i d f o x h o l e] [5.094% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Rigid Foxhole [r i g i d f o x h o l e] Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 61 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) This incurably bizarre program, somewhat reminiscent of John Cage's “Indeterminacy”, begins with "I had a hankering to shoot pins at Bartok." It features a mix of prerecorded electronic and radio drama sound sources mixed with tape delay under readings of experimental texts by Charles Amirkhanian read by Carol Law, Anthony J. Gnazzo and Amirkhanian himself. Performed live in the KPFA studios, the writing is influenced by William S. Burroughs, Clark Coolidge, and Fluxus happenings artists Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles and Allan Kaprow. The program builds to a searing intensity as Gnazzo moves on to recite records for eating, spitting and consumption by "trenchermen" like Bozo Miller of Oakland, California, while dinner is cooked by Law, Gnazzo, Amirkhanian and Richard Friedman, as heard in an ambient kitchen recording in th...

5. radiOM.org - World Ear Project Sounds from Europe [5.092% Popularity: 0.00000]

World Ear Project: Sounds from Europe Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 48 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) As part of a series of ambient sound broadcasts, Charles Amirkhanian introduces recordings made by he and his wife, Carol Law, in Ravenna, Italy (birds); Northeast France (meadow); Positano, Italy (children); the Grotto dello Smeralda (”Emerald Grotto”) on the Southwest Italian coast; and Essex, England (a visit with composer/artists Harvey Matusow and Annea Lockwood. Warning: contains some profanity Musical Selections: [cuckoo and other birds near Ravenna, Italy] -- [walking in a meadow in Northeast France] -- [children playing and traffic noise in Positano, Italy] -- [boat ride to the Grotto dello Smeralda ] -- [driving around suburban England with Harvey Matusow] -- [visit with Harvey Matusow and Annea Lockwood, April 3, 1972] Genre: Field Recordings Subject: Matusow, Harvey ; Lockwood, Annea, 1939- ; Field recordings ; Birdsongs ; Anim...

6. radiOM.org - World Ear Project Dinner Party on Bowen Island, B. C. [5.089% Popularity: 0.00000]

World Ear Project: Dinner Party on Bowen Island, B. C. Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 57 mins Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA As part of KPFA’s World Ear Project, in which ambient field recordings from around the world were gathered for possible broadcast, this is a recording of a dinner party at the house of Paul and Ruth Ohannesian, on Bowen Island in British Columbia, Canada. The couple with their two children John and David are joined by David Friedman, Jennifer Smith, Charles Amirkhanian, and his wife Carol Law for dinner and conversation, all preserved for posterity in this ambient recording. Topics touched upon during the hour long meal include the recording equipment, which when monitored over headphones presents a delay effect that the children can be heard experimenting with, the meal itself, which included edible wild plants, and the quality of Canadian wine. Musical Selections: [dinner party, Bowen Island, B. C., August 6, 1970, 9:30-10:30pm] (57:29) / Charles Amirkhanian...

7. radiOM.org - An Interview with Henry Chopin (April 3, 1972) [5.087% Popularity: 0.00000]

An Interview with Henry Chopin (April 3, 1972) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 26 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA An interview with Henri Chopin and his family, recorded by Charles Amirkhanian and Carol Law at Chopin’s home in Ingatestone, Essex, on April 3, 1972. Chopin’s English wife, Jean, assists in translating from French to English during this discussion about Chopin’s early work, influences, and recent publications. Also joining in the discussion is Chopin’s daughter Brigitte who is also an artist. Henri Chopin was an active member of the French avant-garde from at least 1950 until his death in 2008. Chopin was a pioneer in the field of musique concrète and sound poetry, being one of the first to recognize the potential for such creations when tape recorders initially became available to consumers. Chopin also published a magazine called “OU”, the premiere publication for visual or concrete poetry, from his home in England. “OU” also often included a record of sound poetry wi...

8. radiOM.org - Beverly Bellows Harp Concert [5.087% Popularity: 0.00000]

Beverly Bellows Harp Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 47 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Beverly Bellows performs on the harp in a live concert from the KPFA studios on March 5, 1973. Works heard include a number of compositions by Lou Harrison and three pieces for harp by 16th and 17th century Spanish masters. Joining Bellows on some performances are Charles Amirkhanian and Amy Radner on percussion, and Charles’ wife Carol Law can be heard making a few comments. Note: The first couple of minutes of this recording is in one channel only, and the quality is less than pristine, but it soon improves. Musical Selections: [Four pieces for harp with percussion] / Lou Harrison -- Music for Harp and Tape / Robert Hughes -- Pavane and Variations / Antonio de Cabezon -- Romance / Francisco Fernández Palero -- Hachas / Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz -- Jahla in the Form of a Ductia to Pleasure Leopold Stokowski on his 90th Birthday (1972) / Lou Harrison Performers: Beverly Bellows, harp Amy Radner, ...

9. radiOM.org - Jerome Moross on George Antheil [5.083% Popularity: 0.00000]

Jerome Moross on George Antheil Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 52 min Event Type: Interview Recorded in New York City on June 19, 1979, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Jerome Moross about his life-long friendship with George Antheil. Moross, a composer and conductor himself, met Antheil when he was living in New York in the early 1930s, and was impressed by his sophistication and international reputation as an avant-garde pianist and composer. Moross talks about Antheil’s difficulties in getting his modernist compositions performed in the U. S. and his gradual shift towards composing in a more traditional style in hopes of being more financially successful, but thereby also alienating many of his initial supporters. Clearly a fan of Antheil’s early style of composition, Moross describes Antheil as someone who had lost his way, forgoing the energetic, even dissonant works of the 1920s, yet refusing to keep abreast of the trends being successfully adopted by his fellow American composers. Moross als...

10. radiOM.org - Morning Concert You Are Your Instrument [5.082% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: You Are Your Instrument Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 115 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA This program, recorded on August 7, 1992, begins with a brief interview with choreographer Nancy Karp, who has collaborated with artist Carol Law and composer Ingram Marshall to produce several dance pieces which she describes for the host, Charles Amirkhanian. This is followed by a visit with pianist and composer Michael Harrison, who is perhaps best known for his work with just intonation and his Harmonic Piano. The unique design of the strings, hammers and pedals of the Harmonic Piano gives it a delicate harp-like timbre, and allows for playing 24 distinct notes per octave in perfectly tuned intervals. A number of examples of his compositions for this extraordinary instrument are also heard. The second half of the program is then devoted to an interview with Julie Lyonn Lieberman, the author of “You Are Your Instrument: The definitive musician’s guide to practice...