In Memoriam, Olly Woodrow Wilson
NEW YORK TIMES, March 23, 2018 Other Minds offers condolences to the friends and family of Olly Wilson, pioneering African-American electronic music and orchestral composer. A long-time [...]
Nancy Karp + Dancers On Beauty
Choreographer Nancy Karp has just shared a video edit of her site-specific piece “On Beauty,” which was performed at the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley California last [...]
Landscape Sculpture With Fog Horns
Sound sculptor Bill Fontana originally created his piece “Landscape Sculpture With Fog Horns” at Fort Mason in 1981. He placed eight microphones at points around the Bay, transmitting the sound [...]
Philip Glass Rehearsal
Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa at the rehearsal for their concert of music by Philip Glass, accompanied by the Other Minds Ensemble. This video was recorded on December 6, 2017, the day [...]
Why John Adams Won’t Write an Opera About President Trump
‘There’s just nothing there except this raw, very dangerous ego… you don’t want to spend time as an artist giving your very best to a person who is a sociopath.” Why John [...]
Bent Sørensen wins Grawemeyer Award
NY Times: Bent Sørensen wins Grawemeyer Award Other Minds audiences heard the innovative music of Bent Sørensen at OM Festival 14 in 2009. We’re pleased to hear that he’s been given the [...]
Girls of the Golden West
American maverick composer strikes gold at the San Francisco Opera! Unusually fine press coverage from the NY Times and PBS NewsHour for the world premiere of Girls of the Golden West by John [...]
Kui Dong at Tanglewood
A new piece by Chinese-born composer Kui Dong, who is currently based at Dartmouth College, had it’s premiere during this year’s Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood. Entitled A Night at [...]