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Scenes from I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment

Scenes from I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment

Scenes from I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment

By Joseph Bohigian

Posted March 27, 2025

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📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Meredith Monk (@me

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Meredith Monk (@meredithmonk), Philip Glass (@philipglass), & Conlon Nancarrow (l to r) in a group portrait taken during the retreat at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, prior to their appearance at the 1st Other Minds Music Festival in November of 1993. Photo by John Fago

Missing OM 28? Relive those memories by visiting t

Missing OM 28? Relive those memories by visiting the link in our bio and watching our newly uploaded panel discussions featured at the festival! Moderated by our director Charles Amirkhanian, theses discussions feature artists Annea Lockwood, Trimpin, Margaret Fisher, IMA (Amma Ateria @amma_ateria and Nava Dunkelman @nldunk). Marshall Trammell, Hafez Modirzadeh, and many more.

Photos by ebbe roe yovino-smith.

In memory of composer-accordionist Guy Klucevsek (

In memory of composer-accordionist Guy Klucevsek (February 26, 1947–May 22, 2025), yesterday's edition of @kalwpublicmedia's MfOM will present a special batch of archival recordings ca. 1980’s, focused on live performances by Klucevsek, and some of collaborators performing his works. Guy Klucevsek championed new music for the accordion and bridged a natural relativity between experimental and traditional musics with the instrument. Like Pauline Oliveros, he has also influenced how the accordion (and accordion player) are perceived and played, making room for new thought and sound. We’ll hear Klucevsek play his own works and others by Henry Cowell, Ramon Sender, William Duckworth, William Obrecht, Jim Hiscott, Arne Nordheim, William Schimmel, and Carl Finch.

Listen to the program at the link in our bio!

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Percussionist Will

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Percussionist William Winant (@steakatto) and violinist/composer David Rosenboom play a duo at the 1986 Speaking of Music event series held in San Francisco. Photo by Susan Schwartzenberg.

Hear more of Winant at this year's Other Minds Festival as he performs in Zeena Parkins' harp and percussion duet Modesty of the Magic Thing. Purchase your tickets by clicking on the link in our bio.

💽 From OM Records 💽 For a brief period betw

💽 From OM Records 💽

For a brief period between 1940 to 1954, the now-defunct paper The New York Herald Tribune maintained a staff of music critics headed by composer Virgil Thomson which over the years also included John Cage, Paul Bowles, Lou Harrison, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Around the same period, Thomson was asked to curate a series of records for Columbia Records under the name Modern American Music. These records were among the first recorded documents of pioneers and mavericks of American New Music, including many of his colleagues at the Tribune.

Released in 2017, this OM Records classic features those recordings lovingly re-mastered from the original Columbia Records for the very first time. The release also includes a 60-page full color booklet that includes rarely seen photographs, two Virgil Thomson essays, and new essays and program notes on each piece by Charles Amirkhanian.

Purchase your copy by clicking at the link in our bio!

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 A one page handwri

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

A one page handwritten letter in beautiful calligraphy from composer Lou Harrison to pianist Maro Ajemian. In it, Harrison congratulates and compliments Ajemian on a recent performance of pieces by Komitas and Satie.

🎂 Composer Terry Riley has become a nonagenaria

In celebration of Riley’s birthday, our KALW 91.

In celebration of Riley’s birthday, our KALW 91.7 radio program Music from Other Minds will broadcast a special Terry Riley program this Sunday, June 22nd. Host Liam Herb will give listeners a brief survey of this visionary composer’s 60-plus-year inspiring career in which he has combined his interest in classical rigor, jazz improvisation, and the spirituality of Indian classical music to fashion music that is universally hailed.

Click on the link in our bio to listen to the program!

(Image is from a 2018 Other Minds concert featuring Gloria Cheng and Terry Riley. Photo by ebbe roe yovino-smith.)

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 IRVING M. EVERYTHI

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

IRVING M. EVERYTHING

...is an essay penned by composer and WBAI radio producer Eric Salzman in 1970 for WBAI's February Folio. In it, he theorizes a new, capacious music concept commensurate with the age of mass media, advanced audio recording technology, and the perceived revolutionary potential of music that he dubs Irving. According to Salzman, this neologism, both a commentary on the social impact of music as well as conventions of style and genre, perfectly encapsulated what the eclectic, non-commercial programming of WBAI was all about.

💽 From OM Records 💽 Visit our webstore or B

💽 From OM Records 💽

Visit our webstore or Bandcamp to grab a copy of our 2023 release of @samuelcarladams' album Current! Adams writes of the album's titular piece that:

“The crux of the piece is the relationship between the minimal digital language of the resonating snare drums and the warm, acoustic complexity of the string quartet. … The result is a virtuosic display of four individuals performing with artificial, indifferent musical elements. Together, a complex polyphonic musical organism emerges. … The title Current seemed appropriate both for its reference to the electric currents that activate the resonating snare drums as well as the intense, weather-blasted quality of the work’s sound world.”

Get your copy at the link in our bio!

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Hosted by Charles

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Hosted by Charles Amirkhanian, KPFA's "Ode to Gravity" was a pioneering radio program in the broadcast of 20th century avant-garde music. This photograph from a 1972 program broadcast shows the set up of an in-studio performance of Annea Lockwood's "Music for Multiple Hummers." Lockwood is seated on the far left and is wearing glasses. Photo by Charles Amirkhanian.

🌐 Announcing Latitudes 23 on July 12th at St. J

🌐 Announcing Latitudes 23 on July 12th at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in SF!

@landandseaoakland, in conjunction with Latitudes, is pleased to present a night of sound and vision, bringing together artists they've hosted and/or released music from to celebrate their most recent effort—a limited edition 7″ record from Oakland based duo PEACES consisting of @zekarias and Joshua Wismans.

Joining in the celebration—Aventures LTD presents their recent release by The Urxed—TRIPS. As all forces gather for the SF Art Book Fair, come melt with us.

This is a family affair, all are welcome. This event will feature: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe @kirlianauras (NY); PEACES (Oakland); Joel St Julien @joelstjulien (SF); and The Urxed @the_urxed (LA).

Visit the link in our bio to get your tickets (NOTAFLOF)!

On yesterday's @kalwpublicmedia broadcast of Music

On yesterday's @kalwpublicmedia broadcast of Music From Other Minds, host Joseph Bohigian took listeners on a tour through the music of the influential Danish composer Per Nørgård, who died on May 28, 2025, at the age of 92. Nørgård was among the most influential 20th century Danish composers, known for his infinity series, a serial method of composition using a sequence of integers which he developed in the 1960s. The program features a range of Nørgård’s compositions from the 1950s to the end of the 20th century, including his Trifoglio, Op. 7, Canon for organ, and Symphony No. 6 “At The End Of The Day”. Also included is an excerpt of a 1970 interview with Nørgård on KPFA from the Other Minds Archives.

Click on the link in our bio to listen to the program!

(Image is from the OM Archives and is of Per Nørgård and Markus Stockhausen during a meeting at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA, in December, 2006. Photo by John Fago)

📣 Other Minds is Hiring! 💼 Other Minds is l

📣 Other Minds is Hiring! 💼

Other Minds is looking for someone to fill the role of Operations Associate at our office in Berkeley.

The Operations Associate position requires a versatile individual who reports to the Associate Director and functions as an office and project administrator to ensure the timely scheduling and implementation of the multiple programs of Other Minds.

This is a part time role at 30 hours a week and the starting date would be July 1st.

For more information, please visit the link in our bio!

💽 From OM Records 💽 Check out our 2023 rele

💽 From OM Records 💽

Check out our 2023 release of Tierceron by @sensodivoce (@esingunduz_composer_performer and Megan Kyle) and Henry Birdsey! The trio improvises within a virtual recreation of the acoustics of Buffalo's Silo City, a complex of decommissioned grain elevators on the banks of the Buffalo River. Get your copy by visiting the link in our bio!

Just last week, composer David Cope passed away fr

Just last week, composer David Cope passed away from congestive heart failure at his home in Santa Cruz, California. A prolific composer and writer, Cope is perhaps best known for his early use of artificial intelligence in music composition through his bespoke computer program "Experiments in Musical Intelligence," or EMI, in the 1980s. While this trailblazing application of artificial intelligence became much of Cope's lifework, he was already an established composer before EMI ever entered his life.

Listen to a 1978 interview between Charles Amirkhanian and Cope where they discuss Cope's dislike of leaving the "decision making" of musical composition to machines. Little would they know that that Cope's preference for actually "composing," as Charles put it, would completely transform just a few years later.

You can listen to more of David Cope's music and interviews by visiting OM Archives. Link in our bio.

Illustration by Kathy A. Courchene.

🎹 Announcing our "Blue + Bob: the Music of 'Blu

🎹 Announcing our "Blue + Bob: the Music of 'Blue' Gene Tyranny and Robert Ashley" concert on September 7th at Mills College at Northeastern University!

This program features pianists Sarah Cahill @cahill_piano and Joseph Kubera presenting a two piano recital of the music of “Blue” Gene Tyranny (1945–2020) and Robert Ashley (1930–2014), including pieces such as Tyranny’s two-piano gems Decertified Highway of Dreams and Letters from Home and Ashley’s Viva’s Boy and Details (2b), along with solo compositions by both composers.

Visit the link in our bio to read more about the program and purchase your tickets!

Photo by John Sanborn.

On yesterday's @kalwpublicmedia broadcast of Musi

On yesterday's @kalwpublicmedia broadcast of Music From Other Minds, Devin King hosted a program that featured two extended works composed by Anthony Braxton, who celebrated his 80th birthday on June 4, 2025.

One of many solar centers for the universe of Other Minds, Braxton’s compositional output extends from his pursuit of “trans-idiomatic creativity,” Braxton’s term for the way his work—and the work of his best collaborators—cross genre and media in pursuit of expression. Most often introduced with reference to his membership in Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the detail that he recorded the first solo saxophone album (1969’s For Alto), these facts bookend only Braxton’s first half-decade of what is now a nearly sixty-year career as a musician and composer.

Click on the link in our bio to listen to the program!

(Image is from the OM Archives and is of Anthony Braxton at the 1985 Speaking of Music series held in San Francisco. Photo by Esther Kutnick)

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Morton Subotnick,

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Morton Subotnick, Joan La Barbara, their son Jacob, and John Cage enjoying a picnic outside during the 1989 Composer-to-Composer Festival, August 1989, Telluride, CO. Photo by John Fago.

☕ Other Minds Mugs! ☕ Available on our websto

☕ Other Minds Mugs! ☕

Available on our webstore, these 10 oz ceramic mugs will remind you to "compose yourself" as you drink your favorite morning beverage. Available in gray or red.

Visit the link in our bio to purchase yours today!

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