Growing New Music With Other Minds
Lou Fancher wrote about the past, present, and future of Other Minds in her recent article for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also in the article, interviews of Other Minds 25 participant Jen [...]
Terry Riley’s Avant-Garde Sounds Are Still Casting Spells
Friend of Other Minds, Terry Riley, received a large feature article in the New York Times, Dec. 19, 2019. The musician and composer is celebrating his 85th birthday — and his influence on a wide [...]
Gershon Kingsley, Master of Electronic Sounds, Dies at 97
Gershon Kingsley, a composer who brought electronic sounds into popular music and wrote the enduring instrumental hit “Pop Corn,” died on Dec. 10 at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. You can read [...]
World Premiere · Simon Steen-Andersen
Simon Steen-Anderson whose works “approach the human behind the instrument, because then music can be about everything that is most important: communication, being, fragility, and intimacy,” was [...]
A Profile of Annea Lockwood
We were thrilled to have one of the world’s leading figures in environmental music, Annea Lockwood, with us on November 9, 2017 to discuss her music of the world’s rivers. Ms. Lockwood is the [...]
Philip Glass Speaks Out
It’s been two years since we produced a concert here in Berkeley to celebrate Philip Glass’s birthday, featuring his frequent collaborators Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa. [...]
MUSIC IN AMERICA: Little Walter
The great singer and harmonica blues legend Little Walter is discussed just 18 months after his death in Chicago at age 37 and presented by Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz. [...]
Bay Area Reporter Highlights Gloria Cheng & Terry Riley’s Night of Piano Music
Other Minds is in the News! Philip Campbell, Senior Music Critic of the Bay Area Reporter, outlines the experience of being at last week’s concert and outlines the rest of the Other Minds [...]
The Heaven Ladder & other works for piano by Terry Riley; Gloria Cheng & Terry Riley
Grammy Award winning pianist Gloria Cheng teams up with the father of minimalism, Terry Riley, for a recital of Riley’s music. Gloria Cheng has a decades long relationship with Terry Riley’s [...]
A Retrospective of the San Francisco Tape Music Center
The Other Minds Modern Hits release Gallivants and Garnishes was featured by bandcamp in a recent post on the history of the San Francisco Tape Music Center. You can read the complete article [...]