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1. radiOM.org - World Ear Project Series 2, May 27, 1985 [5.069% Popularity: 0.00000]

World Ear Project: Series 2, May 27, 1985 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 121 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA This program is the fourth in a new series of ambient field recordings from around the world. The original World Ear Project series was broadcast on KPFA in the early 1970s, as the portable cassette recorder first made such an ambitious undertaking economically affordable. In this, the second series, the idea of collecting sounds from unique and unusual environments from all over the world remains the same, however the advances in field recording technologies, including digital recording, make for a much higher quality experience. In this program Susan Stone, Richard Friedman, and Ty Allison present an entertaining amalgam of tape recordings made in ambient situations from around the globe. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [gathering of women at a reunion in La Jolla, California] / Susan Stone - Windows / John Rieger -- [orchestra rehearsal] / Roxanne Merryfield -- [Native...

2. radiOM.org - Evening Concert Music from the Sky, Part II [5.046% Popularity: 0.00000]

Evening Concert: Music from the Sky, Part II Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 99 min Event Type: Inter-Media / Visual Arts Program Origin: KPFA On September 17, 1979, at Mills College in Oakland, California, Bulgarian conceptual artist, Alzek Misheff presented his spectacle, “Music from the Sky, Part II”, from a balloon high flying above the audience, with loudspeakers blaring computer derived sounds, based on a graphic score using slides of outer space. The slides themselves were projected onto a screen halfway between the earth and the balloon. Why would an artist choose to create such an event? Is it art? These questions and more come to mind whenever a conceptual artist working outside of conventional media announces an unusual presentation. In Misheff’s case, it is because he was interested in the relationship between language and expectation. As he explains, “What I do is choose a title, which may have strong metaphoric charges, send out invitations ... and then I carry out the metaphors lite...