Other Minds presented scenes in workshop from the work-in-progress, I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment, by composer Joseph Bohigian, vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian, and the music-technology group Ensemble Decipher. I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment is an evening-length multimedia work for solo voice, electronics ensemble, and video projection about the life of Georgian-born Soviet-Armenian film director Sergei Parajanov. The free workshop performance took place on Friday, July 25, 2025, at the Paul Dresher Ensemble Studio in Oakland, CA.

New in the Other Minds Archives: the Dorothy Renzi Collection. Soprano Dorothy Ohannesian Renzi (1924–2014) pursued a burgeoning career in New York City during the late 1950s, recording many premieres of music by contemporary composers for MGM Records. In the early 1960s, she moved to her hometown of Fresno, California, where she became a professor of voice in the Music Department at California State University, Fresno. This personal collection of her tapes, discs, and other ephemera documents her long career and includes many live performance recordings otherwise unavailable.

New on OM Records: Thea Farhadian’s Tattoos and Other Markings is an electronic composition exploring the symbolic power of memory. After discovering a rarely discussed tattooing practice among female survivors of the Armenian Genocide, Farhadian became motivated to investigate questions about what has the power to be known and archived, what is remembered and what is forgotten.

Music from Other Minds is a weekly two-hour radio program of new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers around the world. Produced and presented by Other Minds staff members and associates Liam Herb, Joseph Bohigian, Ed Herrmann, and Charles Amirkhanian. Air time is 8pm Sunday evenings on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area.

LAND AND SEA, in conjunction with Latitudes, presented a night of sound and vision, bringing together artists they’ve hosted and/or released music by. This event was held at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco on Thursday, July 12, 2025 and featured Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (NY), PEACES (Oakland), Joel St. Julien (SF), and The Urxed (LA).

A bevy of composers convened for the 28th Other Minds Festival at San Francisco’s Brava Theater. The highlight was the world premiere performance of The Cello Quartet by the visionary Seattle-based media artist Trimpin, featuring three autonomous cellos, human cellist Lori Goldston, and a trio of circus artists, choreographed by Margaret Fisher.