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1. radiOM.org - Improv:21 Bob Ostertag - Creative Life [6.692% Popularity: 0.00000]

Improv:21: Bob Ostertag - Creative Life View Item Type: Video Duration: 103 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: ROVA As part of the Improv:21 series sponsored by ROVA:Arts, Derk Richardson interviews composer, performer, author, and musical theoretician Bob Ostertag, before a live audience at the San Francisco Museum of Performance & Design Performing Arts Library, on May 27, 2007. Ostertag concentrates his remarks on the evolution of electronic music, what constitutes a performance, and the inherent tension between body and machine. He begins by referencing the essays of electronic music pioneers Edgar Varèse and Karlhienz Stockhausen both of whom predicted the future preeminence of electronic music because it would free the composer from the interpretation of their creations by third parties. Ostertag suggests that a problem not foreseen by those early advocates was the difficulty in devising a truly electronic instrument, one that performers would be able to practice playing for year...

2. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity The Eventide Harmonizer and Henry Kaiser [5.052% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: The Eventide Harmonizer and Henry Kaiser Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 112 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program recorded on September 14, 1981, Charles Amirkhanian gets a demonstration of the Eventide Clockworks Harmonizer from Laurie Anderson. The Harmonizer is the piece of equipment that Anderson has used, with such great effect, to lower the pitch of her voice in real time, during her concerts. Amirkhanian then interviews Richard Factor, the co-inventor of this ingenious device, in his busy New York City office. Amirkhanian also presents brief interviews with Margaret Jory, Director of the American Music Center, the United States’ official information center and repository for contemporary classical music; and with Phill Niblock, composer and director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, and who was preparing to broadcast his, “Concerts for Composers,” a collection of live performances recorded in Niblock’s New York City loft. Intersper...