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Since January 2005, Music From Other Minds has presented new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers from around the world. Produced weekly for KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco by Charles Amirkhanian and the Other Minds staff, and aired at 8pm every Sunday, Music From Other Minds aims to open up radio listeners to experimental classical work by living and recent composers. We bring you the latest in contemporary music from around the world, and some glimpses into the past, to give a context for today’s music.

Follow this link for information and track listings from programs prior to program 501.
Follow this link to download a complete list of works played on MFOM up to program 702.

Previous Programs

Program 748: New Releases from 2023

Canadian composer Gayle Young works with electronics, graphic scores, microtonality, and invented instruments. According to the Moon is a new album of her vocal music featuring Montreal based singer Sarah Albu.

Violinist Meredith Bates is active as a performer and collaborator in Vancouver. Her new double album Tesseract uses field recordings, electronics, and violin.

Neil Rolnick’s new release on Other Minds Records is a continuation of his work combining piano and interactive computer. Lockdown Fantasies is a suite of pieces composed during the pandemic. Journey’s End symbolically traces his wife Wendy’s spiritual journey while dying of cancer.

Program 747: International Electroacoustic

Electroacoustic music is music that incorporates electronic sound production and manipulation into compositional practice. We’ll feature two composers from Latin America: Joaquin Orellana and Jacqueline Nova. We’ll also feature an electroacoustic work from Luc Ferrari, and something new from Chicago-based composer Matana Roberts. Also a classic electroacoustic work by Iannis Xenakis, and a couple of turntable mash-ups of pop music by Christian Marclay.

Program 746: Intimacy and Meditation

Tune in to hear works by Ruth Anderson, Annea Lockwood, Zhao Cong + Zhu Wenbo, and Tom Johnson.
Composed nearly 50 years apart, Ruth Anderson’s (1928-2019) Conversations (1974) and Annea Lockwood’s For Ruth (2021) use voice recordings collaged with sounds of music and nature to express their deep love for one another.
In 2022, Zhao Cong and Zhu Wenbo set out to record a single sound from their everyday life, once a day, for a month and a half on a single cassette tape.
The entirety of the second half of the program is Tom Johnson’s An Hour for Piano (1971), a greatly underappreciated jewel of early American Minimalism.

Program 745: Listener Submissions

In this program, Joseph Bohigian plays a selection of submissions from composers, producers, and performers around the world. This is Music from Other Minds’s third listener submission program, featuring works in a variety of styles by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Marjorie Van Halteren, Pierre Jodlowski, Staubitz and Waterhouse, dana jnnfrsn, Sheri Wills, Dan Senn, David A. Jaffe, Jakub Polaczyk, and Fernand Vandenbogaerde.

Program 744: Invented Instruments by Tom Nunn & Sarah Kenchington

Sarah Kenchington’s mechanically assisted acoustic instruments are often uncontrollable, making surprising and delirious music. For more than 40 years, Tom Nunn was an essential force in San Francisco music, working at the intersection of invented instruments and free improvisation. He designed and built hundreds of original instruments and performed with dozens of musicians locally and internationally. A survey of Tom’s solo and collaborative music. Folded Landscapes, a new work by Scottish composer Erland Cooper, combines the words of poet Simon Armitage and activist Greta Thunberg with a chamber ensemble recorded in increasingly hot conditions for an immersive meditation on climate change.

Program 743: Freeform Experimental

Experimental music for people with short attention spans. If you hear something you like, look it up in our playlist and jump on the internet to learn more. If you don’t like what you’re hearing, it will change to something different in a few minutes. The program is weighted towards electronic music and experiments with voice – sound poetry and audio story telling. Artists include Lucrecia Dalt, Ben LaMar Gay, Valentina Magaletti, Valentina Goncharova, Henri Pousseur, Luc Ferrari, Charles Amirkhanian, Laurie Anderson with Scott Johnson, Delia Derbyshire, Toshi Ighiyanagi, Brian Eno, Joseph Byrd, Frank Zappa, and Tom Waits.

Program 742: Density, Time, and Sound

On this Music from Other Minds, Liam Herb plays Louder Warmer Denser by Pamela Z, From me flows what you call Time and Twill by Twilight (In memory of Morton Feldman) by Toru Takemitsu, Soundscape by Katrina Krimsky, and Morangak by Carl Stone.

Program 741: Interactive Electronic Music

Electronics pervade the performance of music in the 21st century. The use of electronic elements are common across many genres of music, and composers today are searching for new and interactive ways to incorporate them into live performance. The composers on this program take a variety of approaches to the use of interactive electronics, from the combination of acoustic instruments and voices and electronic processing to the creation of new electronic instruments using motion sensors and game controllers. Included is music by Mari Kimura, Paul Leary, Kate Soper and Sam Pluta, Thea Farhadian, Pamela Z and Paula Matthusen, Anne Hege, Lei Liang, Bora Yoon, and Caroline Polachek.

Program 740: Plants, Animals, Music

Music played by animals, for animals, with animals, and music inspired by plants. Pianist Sarah Cahill plays Mamoru Fujieda’s Patterns of Plants. Jim Nollman plays guitar along with dolphins and whales. Doug Carroll plays cello to accompany shore birds. The Thai Elephant Orchestra displays an uncanny sense of rhythm while playing percussion and strings. Plus a bird song inspired excerpt from Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie, music made from insect sounds by David Dunn, Ivan Tcherepnin’s Flores Musicales for oboe, violin, and psaltery; and a tribute to Serge Tcherepnin for the 50th anniversary of the invention of his “people’s synthesizer.”

Program 739: Per Nørgård

Over the past 50 or more years, Per Nørgård has been considered the one of the most prominent and influential Nordic composers since Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius. To date, he has composed over 400 works in nearly all genres, including operas, music for children, chamber music, solo works, and for the theater. Nørgård was a featured composer at Other Minds Festival 12 in 2006. In this program we’ll hear four of his large orchestral works and a bit of one of his ten string quartets.

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