Search results:

1. radiOM.org - Concerts by Composers No. 12: Works by Philip Corner, Petr Kotík, & Tom Johnson [4.891% Popularity: 0.00000]

Concerts by Composers: No. 12: Works by Philip Corner, Petr Kotík, & Tom Johnson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 58 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In the late 1970s and early 1980s the Experimental Intermedia Foundation held a series of exciting concerts of avant-garde and electro-acoustic music at Phill Niblock’s loft in the SoHo district of New York City. These concerts were then packaged into a series of hour-long radio programs entitled “Concerts by Composers” and distributed to interested radio stations around the United States. This twelfth program in the series features music by Philip Corner and Petr Kotík, with additional commentary by music critic Tom Johnson. The program begins with Philip Corner discussing his interest in gamelan music before we listen to his work “Gamelan Vox”, which while not scored for gamelan proper, does take its sense of time and pitch from the music of Indonesia. This performance of Corner’s work was recorded in December 1980 during a concert at the ...

2. radiOM.org - Vocal Tape Delay by Jon Gibson [3.617% Popularity: 0.00000]

Vocal Tape Delay by Jon Gibson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 17 min Event Type: Music Jon Gibson is an American composer, visual artist, and talented wind instrumentalist. He was an early collaborator with Steve Reich and a founding member of the Philip Glass Ensemble. Although well known for his work in jazz, minimal, and world music, Gibson was also an early experimenter with electronic music and frequently worked with such composers as Larry Austin and Stanley Lunetta. The work on this recording features extensive vocalizations of a wide variety. In the composer’s own words, taken from a 1972 concert program guide: "Voice/Tape Delay" happened spontaneously one night after an extended period of exploring various vocal sounds and techniques, Art Murphy had set up a tape delay on his own accord and without warning handed me the microphone asking me to try it out. This was the result.” Musical Selections: Vocal Tape Delay (1968) (16:22) / Jon Gibson Performers: Jon Gibson, voice Art Murphy, engin...

3. radiOM.org - New Music America New Sounds USA, Program No. 5, 1983 [3.594% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: New Sounds USA, Program No. 5, 1983 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: NPR / WNYC Hosts Alan Rich and Nancy Shear present highlights from the 1983 New Music America Festival, held in Washington D.C., as well as a couple of other recordings of works by composers featured at NMA. The program begins with a performance of Steve Reich’s “Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ,” recorded on May 8, 1982, as part of the 4th Annual New Sounds San Jose Festival. The performers for this piece, which is scored for voice, percussion, and electric organ, included Steve Reich and an assortment of San Jose State University students. Rich and Shear then take us live to NMA ‘83 for an excerpt of a performance by graffiti and rap music artists Ramm-ell-zee and Toxic. The program then concludes with another work of repetitive, or minimal, music that also incorporates voice with instrumental ensemble, John Adams’ “Grand Pianola Music.” Like the Reich pi...

4. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music An Evening with Charles Shere, 1984 [2.785% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: An Evening with Charles Shere, 1984 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 118 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Recorded on November 29, 1984 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian interviews American composer, critic, and former musical director at KPFA, Charles Shere, about his opera “The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even“. The opera, which is inspired by the Marcel Duchamp painting of the same name, uses Duchamp’s notes for much of the libretto. Shere, who was heavily influenced by the new music of John Cage and others, describes in detail Duchamp’s iconic work and then talks about how he has tried to capture it’s spirit in his avant-garde opera. Shere highlights his remarks with slides and excerpts from the opera. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Ces Désirs du Quatuor [excerpt, included in “The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even”] (1964) (3:20) -- Perh...

5. radiOM.org - Terry Riley on Pandit Pran Nath [2.541% Popularity: 0.00000]

Terry Riley on Pandit Pran Nath Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 41 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian and Harvey Wallerstein talk with composers Terry Riley and Jordan Stenberg about their studies with Pandit Pran Nath, a master of Indian vocal music. They describe Pran Nath’s spiritual approach to music, and his philosophy that true music is found in between the notes. Riley also describes his time spent in India studying with Pandit Pran Nath, and his impressions of Indian culture, including contemporary Indian films and music. Genre: World Music Subject: Pran Nath, 1918- ; Riley, Terry, 1935- ; Young, La Monte ; Music -- India ; Vocal music ; World music ; Ethnic music People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; Riley, Terry, 1935- ; Wallerstein, Harvey ; Stenberg, Jordan, 1947- Recording Date: 10/22/1971 Listen...

6. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 5, Concert 3: 05 “Satie Blues” by Toby Twining [2.541% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 5, Concert 3: 05 “Satie Blues” by Toby Twining Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 6 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Composer/vocalist Toby Twining's music and voice can be heard on his CD “Shaman”, featuring his vocal quartet, Toby Twining Music. Twining had made an earlier vocal arrangement of “Satie Blues” for his group. The version for toy piano and piano is probably the first-ever composition featuring this unique blend of instruments. - Margaret Leng Tan Musical Selections: Satie Blues (1989, rev. 1995) (5:40) / Toby Twining Performers: Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano, piano Genre: Unconventional Instruments Subject: Unconventional instruments ; Piano music ; Toy piano music People: Twining, Toby ; Tan, Margaret Leng Recording Date: 3/27/1999 Listen...

7. radiOM.org - World Ear Project Bullfrogs at Terry Riley’s House, June 11, 1983 [2.541% Popularity: 0.00000]

World Ear Project: Bullfrogs at Terry Riley’s House, June 11, 1983 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 3 min Event Type: Other Finds Just good’ol bull frogs “performing” as a natural vocal/percussion ensemble, recorded at Terry Riley’s house in Northern California, on June 11, 1983. Musical Selections: [bullfrogs and water sounds] Genre: Field Recordings Subject: Field recordings ; Ambient sounds ; Animal sounds People: Riley, Terry, 1935- Recording Date: 6/11/1983 Listen...

8. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 5, Concert 3: 06 “Nightmare Rag” by Toby Twining [2.539% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 5, Concert 3: 06 “Nightmare Rag” by Toby Twining Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 4 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Composer/vocalist Toby Twining's music and voice can be heard on his CD “Shaman”, featuring his vocal quartet, Toby Twining Music. “Nightmare Rag” is a delightfully hilarious slice of modern-day Americana laced with sly allusions to “The Addams Family”. - Margaret Leng Tan Musical Selections: Nightmare Rag (1989, rev. 1995) (3:44) / Toby Twining Performers: Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano, piano Genre: Unconventional Instruments Subject: Unconventional instruments ; Piano music ; Toy piano music People: Twining, Toby ; Tan, Margaret Leng Recording Date: 3/27/1999 Listen...

9. radiOM.org - Six Sonnets Composés au Secret par Jean Cassou by Darius Milhaud [2.538% Popularity: 0.00000]

Six Sonnets Composés au Secret par Jean Cassou by Darius Milhaud Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 17 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A recording of Darius Milhuad’s settings of poems, written in a prison camp by Jean Cassou, composed for unaccompanied vocal quartet or chorus, in 1946. This performance is taken from a June 5, 1962 concert by the Berkeley Chamber Singers, directed by Tikey Zes. Jean Cassou was a French poet and member of the French Resistance who wrote a collection of sonnets while in a Vichy prison, and had them published under a pseudonym in 1944. Musical Selections: Six Sonnets Composés au Secret, Op. 266 [text by Jean Cassou], for chorus (1946) (16:11) / Darius Milhaud Performers: Berkeley Chamber Singers Genre: 20th Century Classical Subject: 20th century classical ; Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied People: Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 ; Cassou, Jean, 1897-1986 ; Zes, Tikey Listen...

10. radiOM.org - Morning Concert An Interview with Joan La Barbara & Morton Subotnick [2.538% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: An Interview with Joan La Barbara & Morton Subotnick Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 45 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) In a program recorded in 1979, Charles Amirkhanian talks with guests Joan La Barbara and Morton Subotnick. La Barbara is a singer and composer working with extended vocal techniques. She was also the new music critic of the magazine “Musical America”, and she and Charles critique a concert by Philip Glass. Morton Subotnick is one of America's foremost electronic composers and has taught at CalArts and has also lectured extensively around the world. In this program he discusses his work "Ghost Pieces". The three also talk about the differences, or lack of them, between East Coast and West Coast music scenes, and the Uptown and Downtown schools of music. Musical Selections: A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur [excerpt] (1978) / Morton Subotnick -- Liquid Strata [excerpt] (1977) / Morton Subotnick -- Twelvesong ...