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1. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Maggi Payne [5.076% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Maggi Payne Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 106 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: C Amirkhanian Recorded on March 16, 1989 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Maggi Payne about her electronic music which is created by layering sounds and extensive multi track recording. Born in 1945 Payne began her musical career as a flutist but later studied composition and electronic music with Gordon Mumma, Ben Johnson, and Robert Ashley among others. Starting in the 1980s she began creating a series of videos and films, including a number in collaboration with video artist Ed Tannenbaum. Payne is currently on the faculty of Mills College and is co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music. Musical Selections: White Night (1984) (10:00) / Maggi Payne -- Airwaves: realities (1987) (10:00) / Maggi Payne -- Ahh Ahh: ver 2.1 (1987) (9:05) / Maggi Payne -- Phase Transitions (1989) (10:30) Genre: Electro-Acoust...

2. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Introducing the Buchla 700 [5.074% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Introducing the Buchla 700 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In a program recorded on March 21, 1988, Donald Buchla's newest synthesizer, the 700, is introduced to the San Francisco community at a gathering held at the Sake Factory. Charles Amirkhanian interviews the inventor as well as numerous local composers about their experiences with Buchla's creations while we hear in the background people trying out the newest version. Musical Selections: [The Buchla 700 Song] / Barbara Golden -- [unidentified keyboard piece] -- Air 8 / Donald Buchla & William Winant -- [unidentified keyboard piece] -- [unidentified polka] / Flaco Jimenez -- Red River Rock / Johnny and the Hurricanes Performers: George Tingley, keyboard (keyboard pieces) Karl Sevareid, bass guitar (polka ; Red) Jim Pugh, keyboards (polka ; Red) Genre: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic Subject: Buchla, Donald ; Synthesizer (Musical instrument) ; Buchla 700 ; Electronic mu...

3. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Computer Music Panel [5.073% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Computer Music Panel Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 63 min Event Type: Lecture and Panel Discussion Program Origin: KPFA The advent of the commonly available personal computer took the digital revolution further than some dreamed possible. Charles Amirkhanian and Richard Friedman host a discussion with composer Henry Kaiser and several journalists, including the editors of “Electronic Musician”, “Keyboard”, and “Mac User” magazines. The topic of discussion is the use of personal computers by both professional and amateur musicians for musical composition and performance. At the end of the program the panel takes questions from the listening audience. Musical Selections: [unidentified piece] / Jan Hammer -- [unidentified piece with animal sounds] / Bernie Kraus -- God’s Greatest Gift [excerpt] / Alain Thibault -- Election Gibber Funk / Craig Anderton -- [a variation of the “Rite of Spring”] / John Oswald Genre: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic Subject: Computer music ; Electronic keyb...

4. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music An Evening with Carl Stone [5.070% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: An Evening with Carl Stone Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 103 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Recorded on February 7, 1985 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Carl Stone about his role as one of the preeminent electronic composer in Southern California. Stone plays some of his pieces and demonstrates his digital delay unit that he was then using in many of his performances. Born in 1953, Stone studied with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney at Cal Arts, and has had his music performed throughout the world, including Japan, where he has also taught. A former music director at KPFA in Los Angeles from 1978 to 1981, Stone has often collaborated with Asian performers, often incorporated traditional instruments in his heavily textured electro-acoustic compositions, and is a dedicated customer of numerous Asian restaurants, many of which he has immortalized in the titles of his works. Part 1 of ...

5. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Carl Stone & Nicolas Slonimsky [5.069% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Carl Stone & Nicolas Slonimsky Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 124 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Los Angeles based, electro-acoustic, composer Carl Stone joins Charles Amirkhanian to talk about his music, including pieces that sample songs by Whitney Houston (”How Will I Know”) and the Beach Boys (”Fun, Fun, Fun”). Also in this program, which was recorded in 1987, composer, musical bibliographer, and raconteur extraordinaire, Nicolas Slonimsky, pops into the KPFA studio, to talk about his career, much of which was spent popularizing the music of Varèse and other modern composers. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Songs I-IX / Stuart Smith -- Everett & Jones / Carl Stone -- Wall Me Do / Carl Stone -- Vim / Carl Stone -- Arcana [excerpt] (1925-27) / Edgard Varèse Performers: Brian Johnson, percussion & voice (Songs) Carl Stone, electronics (Everett ; Wall ; Vim) Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Arcana) Jean Martinon, conduc...

6. radiOM.org - Morning Concert John Oswald & Pauline Oliveros [5.061% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: John Oswald & Pauline Oliveros Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 112 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian talks with the two great O's of the 1990s, plunderphonicker John Oswald and deep listener Pauline Oliveros. Hailing from Toronto, Oswald has astounded audiences with his technoripoffaudacities, which have landed him in trouble with Canadian record industry authorities. In this interview Oswald discusses why he uses other people's music to create his own. Pauline Oliveros currently lives in Kingston, New York, although her formative years were spent in the Bay Area. All through the days when musical intellectuals were disdaining sumptuous sound, Oliveros has been readying the Platonic sonic hot tub. We hear selections from her Deep Listening Band’s CD, “Troglodyte’s Delight”, and get both artists opinions on the state of dialogue regarding censorship, the NEA, and copyright issues in the field of music. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 2: Musica...

7. radiOM.org - Other Minds Presents A Civil Rights Reader: for strings, laptop, and DJ [5.058% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Presents: A Civil Rights Reader: for strings, laptop, and DJ Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 109 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Full of energy and passion, the spirited Del Sol String Quartet reunite with Daniel Bernard Roumain (whose “String Quartet No. 4” they premiered at Other Minds 11 in March 2005) for an evening of cutting edge music-making. Daniel Bernard Roumain is a pioneer in new forms, as he marries the instrumentation of string quartet with electric violin, laptop, and a Hip-Hop turntablist. This first-ever presentation of all four of his works for the quartet medium celebrates iconic figures of American Civil Rights who are the dedicatees of each piece: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Maya Angelou. The program concludes with a brief panel discussion in which Roumain and DJ Scientific discuss their musical partnership and perform Roumains signature work for violin “Filter.” Part 1 of 3: Musical Selections: String Quartet...

8. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 6: Artist Forum II, "Cultural Identity and Music in the Post-MODEM World" (March 18 [5.050% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 6: Artist Forum II, "Cultural Identity and Music in the Post-MODEM World" (March 18, 2000) View Item Type: Video Duration: 119 min Event Type: Lecture and Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds This is the second of two Artist Forums held on March 18, 2000 as part of the 6th Other Minds Festival in San Francisco. After a brief introduction by Guest Artistic Director, Carl Stone, professor Herman Gray moderates a panel discussion that takes as its topic "Cultural Identity and Music in the Post-MODEM World.” DJ Spooky talks about remix culture and how it reflects greater changes in culture in general with the advent of a true global community and advances in science such as DNA splicing. Annie Gosfield then talks about her interest in ambient industrial sounds which she has sampled in her own compositions. Eddie Def relates how he has always been interested in sampling records and manipulating them in a wide variety of ways, largely for reasons of personal satisfaction. He makes a...

9. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Sampling and the Music of Henry Gwiazda [3.490% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Sampling and the Music of Henry Gwiazda Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 47 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Minnesota-based composer and multi-media artist Henry Gwiazda visited the KPFA studios on March 15, 1990 to talk to Charles Amirkhanian. Using everyday sounds from our urban domestic landscape and sampling famous rock songs, Gwiazda has fashioned energetic, disturbing portraits of contemporary life, several of which are included in this program. At the end of the program the composer fields question and comments from the listening audience. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: nostalgiacoma [text by Louise Glück] (1987) / Henry Gwiazda -- allamericanguitarhero / Henry Gwiazda -- jamesbrownesque (1986) / Henry Gwiazda Genres: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic ; Popular Music Subject: Gwiazda, Henry ; Electro-acoustic ; Electronic music ; Rock music ; Sampling (Sound) ; Music, concrete ; Musique concrète ; Electric guitar music People: Amirkhanian, Charles...

10. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Fylkingen, the revolutionary art center in Sweden [1.026% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Fylkingen, the revolutionary art center in Sweden Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 58 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian explores Fylkingen, the revolutionary music and technological art center near Stockholm, Sweden. Included in this program are examples of linguistically-oriented experimental music, called by the Swedes "text-sound compositions”. This program is a definite must-hear for audiophiles, fans of sampling and tape manipulation. Note: includes mature language! Musical Selections: Western Europe 1969 (2:16) / Sten Hanson -- from any point to any other point (8:37) / Lars-Gunnar Bodin -- Around the Corner Variations( 4:11) / Diter Rot & Emmett Williams -- Coucher et Souffler (3:21) / Sten Hanson -- Che (1:26) / Sten Hanson -- Three Letters from the Deep-Mouthed One (3:27) / Ilmar Laaban -- Transition to Majorana Space (10:48) / Svante Bodin Genres: Sound Poetry ; Electro-Acoustic / Electronic Subject:...