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1. radiOM.org - Computers and Art [6.291% Popularity: 0.00000]

Computers and Art Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 27 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) John Lifton of London talks about his goal of realizing a cybernetic art work which will alter itself according to the spectators' response to it. He talks with Don Buchla, who was at the time of this recording (Dec. 20, 1972), adapting his synthesizers to computer control, Richard Friedman, composer and programmer who helped design the Buchla program, and Charles Amirkhanian. Also included in this program, Lifton’s companion, American painter Pamela Zoline, talks about her recent work on the meta-set "Things in the World". Genres: Interactive Art ; Modern Art Subject: Lifton, John ; Zoline, Pamela, 1941- ; Interactive art ; Mixed media (Music) ; Computer music ; Electronic music ; Multimedia (Art) ; Synthesizer (Musical instrument) ; Art, Modern People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; Friedman, Richard ; Buchla, Donald ; Lifton, John ; Zoline, Pamela, 1941- Recording D...

2. radiOM.org - Concept Bomb (Or, A Logic of Clouds) [5.102% Popularity: 0.00000]

Concept Bomb (Or, A Logic of Clouds) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: KPFA Who is this Ken Friedman talking about dharma-encrusted Sangha cookies? What single-minded macropolysyllable can survive a barrage of hirsute chromaticism in light of the advancement of quaquaversal dispersion? Listen to this program for the answers to these and other questions as Ken Friedman states his views on the philosophy and aesthetics of inter-media art, Fluxus, and the conceptual art movement, as he reads from his book, “A Logic of Clouds” published by Beau Geste Press of England. Friedman is an internationally renowned composer, sculptor, poet, theoretician, et al. Also included are readings of his chants and poems. (from KPFA Folio) Genres: Modern Art ; Poetry Subject: Friedman, Ken, 1949- ; Art, Modern ; Aesthetics, Comparative ; Art Philosophy ; Conceptual art ; Fluxus (group of artists) ; Inter-media art ; Multimedia (Art) ; Poetry People: Amirkhania...

3. radiOM.org - An Interview with Dick Higgins [5.099% Popularity: 0.00000]

An Interview with Dick Higgins Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 65 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA An interview with inter-media artist Dick Higgins, who discusses his views about the California Institute of the Arts, and his company Something Else Press, with Richard Friedman and Anthony Gnazzo. This was recorded Sunday, June 13, 1971, at the KPFA studios, after Higgins resigned his post at Cal Arts. He discusses his reasons for leaving and the problems he faced there. He also gives his ideas on what an arts institute should be like, and why he and his press were moving to Vermont. Dick Higgins died in 1998 at the age of 60. Genres: Modern Art ; Performance Art Subject: Higgins, Dick, 1938- ; Something Else Press ; California Institute of the Arts ; Fluxus (group of artists) ; Multimedia (Art) ; Conceptual art ; Art schools ; Performance art ; Art, Modern People: Higgins, Dick, 1938- ; Gnazzo, Anthony, 1936- ; Friedman, Richard Recording Date: 6/13/1971 First Broadcast Date: 6/19/19...

4. radiOM.org - Interview with La Monte Young, 1984 [5.098% Popularity: 0.00000]

Interview with La Monte Young, 1984 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 40 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Russ Jennings interviews composer La Monte Young and artist Marian Zazeela about their new collaborative work, “The Well Tuned Piano”. This piece was the culmination of a life long interest in just intonation on the part of Young which also incorporated the imaginative light art of Zazeela. In addition to describing this work, the two also discuss the influence that the Indian musician and teacher, Pandit Pran Nath, has had on their art and music. Genres: Minimalism ; Performance Art Subject: Young, La Monte ; Zazeela, Marian ; Pran Nath, 1918- ; Just intonation ; Microtonal music ; Minimal music ; Multimedia (Art) ; Light art ; Piano music People: Jennings, Russ ; Young, La Monte ; Zazeela, Marian Listen...

5. radiOM.org - Panel Discussion on the Firing of the Co-directors of the Mills College Tape Music Center (April 20, 1969) [5.069% 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 ...

6. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 18: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 (Mar. 2, 2013) [0.711% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 18: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 (Mar. 2, 2013) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 117 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds The third and concluding concert of the 18th Other Minds Festival of New Music (OM 18), held on March 2, 2013, began with a panel discussion featuring the night’s composers and some of the performers. The discussion moderated by Other Minds Executive and Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian begins with Canadian composer Aaron Gervais discussing his new composition “Work Around the World,” which is the third in a series of compositions that feature as their text one word in translated into multiple languages. Paula Matthusen who will wear a stethoscope on stage then talks about how her interest in incorporating the amplified sounds of the heartbeat into one of her pieces was partially derived from her need to calm herself down when performing. Danish musician Michala Petri then tells us how she would have probably stoppe...

7. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Music to make you blind: Interview with Lowell Cross [0.581% 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...