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Music from Other Minds
is a program of new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers around the world. Produced for KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco by Other Minds and presented by

Richard Friedman

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MfOM(34) :: August 26, 2005 :: Galen Brown :: Zeitkratzer :: Rzewski

Galen Brown: Distance Over Time for Two Pianos (2001) - unreleased
                   Pulse-Point (2003) - unreleased

Manuel Göttsching: E2-E4 - performed by ZEITKRATZER (2000) - This is an ensemble version of an electronic piece from the 1980's.

Frederic Rzewski: Piano Piece #4 - Ortwin Stürmer, piano - Ars Musici AM 1148 (1997)

MfOM(33) :: August 19, 2005 :: Hanna Kulenty - Concertos

Hanna Kulenty Trumpet Concerto (2002) - Marco Blaauw, Polish National Radio Symphony, Ronald Zollman, cond. - unreleased (2003)

Hanna Kulenty Piano Concerto #3 (2003) - Frank Peters, Polish National Radio Symphony, Rinato Rivolta, cond. - unreleased (2004)

MfOM(32) :: August 12, 2005 :: Morton Subotnick String Quartets

Morton Subotnick - A Fluttering of Wings (1981)
Morton Subotnick - Echoes from the Silent Call of Girona (1998)
          Southwest Chamber Music Quartet - CAMBRIA 8811 (2000)

Mort Subotnick will be a featured composer (August 19th) at the Sixth San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, August 18-21 at SomArts Cultural Center. Details at the SFEMF Website

MfOM(31) :: August 5, 2005 :: Xenakis

  

Iannis Xenakis - Pithoprakta (1956) - Orchestra National de L'ORTF, Maurice Le Roux, conductor - Le Chant Du Monde CD (1965)
Iannis Xenakis - La Légende d'Eer (1978) - Mode 148 (2005)

UPDATE: A Xenakis Festival in London, October 7-9 (2005) at Royal Festival Hall includes a (rare) performance of La Légende d'Eer

MfOM(30) :: July 29, 2005 :: Gann, Ziporyn

    

Kyle Gann - Disklavier Studies #2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10 - New World Records 80633 (2005)
Liner notes PDF file.
Evan Ziporyn - Ngaben (For Sari Club) for Balinese gamelan & orchestra (2003) - commissioned by the New England Conservatory; world premiere Jordan Hall, Boston, March 12, 2003 by Gamelan Galak Tika and the NEC Symphony, Dante Anzolini, conductor - unreleased, but here is the mp3 file on the GalakTika website .

MfOM(29) :: July 22, 2005 :: The Year 1956 - Cage, Wolff, Tudor, Partch

  

John Cage - Music For Piano No. 52-56 (1956-57) - David Tudor - Recorded November, 1956
Christian Wolff - For Piano with Preparations (1957) - David Tudor - Recorded September, 1958
- Hat Art Records 6181 (1996)

Harry Partch - The Bewitched (excerpts) (1956) - Univ of Illinois Musical Ensemble - Recorded in 1957 for Gate 5 Records - Harry Partch Collection Vol 4, New World Records 80624

 

MfOM(28) :: July 15, 2005 :: Peter Garland and Stephen Scott

   

Peter Garland - Coyote's Bones (Last Piece) (2001) - Carla Kihlstedt, violin; Heather Heise, piano; William Winant, bass marimba.

Peter Garland - Love Songs (1993) - David Abel, violin; Julie Steinberg, piano; William Winant, marimbula -- Tzadik TZ8012 (2005)

Stephen Scott - Vikings of the Sunrise (1994) - The Bowed Piano Ensemble - New Albion NA084 (1996)

You can hear a recent interview with Stephen Scott on the New Music Box website. He talks about how his work with bowed piano evolved.

  The Bowed Piano Ensemble

MfOM(27) :: July 8, 2005 :: Electronic Music

   

Curtis Roads - Point Line Cloud (1999-2003) - Asphodel ASP 3000 (2004)
 Excerpts heard: Now, Vold air I-IV, Pictor alpha, Nanomorphosis, Tenth Vortex, Fluxon
This recording on Asphodel includes both a CD and DVD. There are 13 electronic pieces by Roads on the CD; the DVD contains 9 of the pieces with outstanding visuals by Brian O'Reilly.

Karen Tanaka - Song of Songs (1996) - Madeleine Shapiro, cello - Albany TROY726

Pierre-Yves Macé - Circulations III for harp (2004) - Sub Rosa SR240

MfOM(26) :: July 1, 2005 :: Alvin Curran - Inner Cities        

Daniel Lentz - Song of the Sirens - Amy Knoles, voice, Marty Walker clarinet, Bryan Pezzone, piano - Cold Blue CB0005 (2001)
Alexander Balanescu - Want Me - Balanescu Quartet - MUTE 61421 (1992)

Alvin Curran - Inner Cities (sections 4, 7.5, 11) - Daan Vandewalle, piano - Long Distance (Harmonia Mundi)

Great interview with Alvin at the New Music Box website.

MfOM(25) :: June 24, 2005 :: John Cage and Morton Feldman

(1980)

John Cage - 101 for Large Orchestra (1989) - New England Conservatory Philharmonia - MODE 41 (1994)
Morton Feldman - For Samuel Beckett (1987) - Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Roland Kluttig, conductor - CPO 999647 (1999)

PLAYLIST ARCHIVES:

»Playlists for programs 1 thru 12 (7 Jan - 25 March 2005)
»Playlists for programs 13 thru 24 (1 April - 17 June 2005)  
»Playlists for programs 25-34 (25 June - 26 August 2005)
»Playlists for progams 35-50 (2 September - 16 December 2005)
»Playlists for progams 51-60 (February 3 - April 7 2006)
»Playlists for programs 61-70 (April 14 - June 16 2006)
»Playlists for programs 71-89 (June 23 - December 1 2006)

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