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1. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Seven American Women Composers [5.063% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Seven American Women Composers Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 70 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian plays selections from an LP he produced called “New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media - Women in Electronic Music”. The music on this album exhibits an exciting, wide-open, freewheeling approach to the medium of electronic music which was typical of this genre in the late 1970s. No longer were composers obsessively concerned with the agonizing, expressionistic, and purely "electronic" (synthesized) sound formulas which marked much of the electronic music composed between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s. Instead, by the 1970s composers were willing to mix media and sonic materials in thoroughly inventive ways to achieve ends which were new-sounding, and often more engaging, than that of the "academic" avant-garde. Several composers represented here were deeply concerned with Eastern music and its subsequent metamorphoses into such popular forms as R...

2. radiOM.org - The Expanded Ear: Six Acre Jam [5.075% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Expanded Ear: Six Acre Jam Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 54 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian reports on The Expanded Ear music conference, held on April 27-29, 1973 at the Camp de Benneville Pines, in the San Bernardino National Forest. The highlight of the conference was the Six Acre Jam, performed over a hillside by about 60 musicians and no less than ten synthesizers. Join Charles as he takes a walk through the woods interviewing performers and composers, including Richard Bunger, Barry Gott, Jacques Bekaert, Nicolas Slonimsky & Dane Rudhyar, all while the sounds of music echo from the surrounding wilderness. Musical Selections: Dolphin Dance [excerpt] / Herbie Hancock -- [improvised percussion music performed on bits of metal] / Barry Gott -- [improvised percussion music played on pots and pans] / Richard Bunger -- [excerpt from the tentatively entitled “Cultural Train”] / Jan Pusina Genres: Electro-Acoust...

3. radiOM.org - The Greatest Hits of BIOME [5.098% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Greatest Hits of BIOME Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 37 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Members of BIOME, an electronic music ensemble, perform “Tactus Tempus” by Frank McCarty, live on KPFA on February 22, 1973. The performers are Allen Strange, Frank McCarty, Pat Strange, Boots McCarty, Steve Ruppenthal, and Steve Whealton. Following the piece, which is performed on four Synthi electronic music modules, the players talk with Charles Amirkhanian about the group and their music. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: Tactus-Tempus (1969) (27:00) / Frank McCarty Performers: BIOME: Allen Strange, synthesizers Frank McCarty, synthesizers Pat Strange, synthesizers Boots McCarty, synthesizers Steve Ruppenthal, synthesizers Steve Whealton, synthesizers Genre: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic Subject: Electronic music People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; McCarty, Frank ; Strange, Allen ; Strange, Patricia ; McCarty, Boots ; Ruppenthal, Stephen ; Whealton, Steve Recording Date: 2/22/1973 First Broa...

4. radiOM.org - Six Text-Sound Pieces by Larry Wendt [5.081% Popularity: 0.00000]

Six Text-Sound Pieces by Larry Wendt Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 39 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Six text-sound pieces by Larry Wendt, probably recorded in San Jose, around 1978. Born in Napa, California, in 1946, Wendt began experimenting with text-sound composition and musique concrète in the 1970s, and has been a frequent participant and organizer of sound poetry and electronic music festivals and events ever since. He has also written extensively about avant-garde and experimental art including several seminal books on sound poetry written in collaboration with Stephen Ruppenthal. In this program you will hear six unidentified compositions featuring a mix of spoken word fragments, ambient sounds, and processed electronic noise. Although many of these works contain a suggestion of narrative, they are best enjoyed as an immersive audio environment rather than a clearly defined story. Musical Selections: [unidentified musique concrète composition featuring the sounds of th...

5. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Larry Wendt & Stephen Ruppenthal (June 22, 1979) [7.374% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Larry Wendt & Stephen Ruppenthal (June 22, 1979) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 124 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA In a program recorded in June of 1979, Charles Amirkhanian has a giddy discussion about sound poetry with Stephen Ruppenthal and Larry Wendt. Featured text-sound compositions heard during this program includes Wendt’s "Rain, Steam and Speed", and Ruppenthal’s "Cloud Forests" taken from a live recording made during the 1977 International Sound Poetry Festival in San Francisco. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Rain, Steam and Speed / Larry Wendt -- The Same Language (1979) / Stephen Ruppenthal -- Just Cat (1979) / Stephen Ruppenthal -- Flash Gordon conquers the Intona Remorae / Larry Wendt -- Cloud Forests (1977) / Stephen Ruppenthal Genre: Sound Poetry Subject: Sound poetry ; Text-sound compositions ; Poetry -- Readings with music People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; Wendt, Larry ; Ruppenthal, Stephen Recording Date: 6/22/1979 Part 2 of 2: Musical Selectio...