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 Other Minds and presented by Charles Amirkhanian and the Other Minds staff, 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.
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Next Up: Program 555
Other Minds Shuffle
KALW Broadcast: April 12, 2019
Host: Liam Herb
Host: Liam Herb
On the next Music From Other Minds, an Other Minds Shuffle!
Join Liam Herb this Friday night as he shuffles through 20 years of OM releases. Only on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco.
Previous Programs
Program 554: De Staat and Other Selections
On this Music From Other Minds, Liam Herb explores the music of three very different composers. The program features the work of Japanese composer and koto player Michiyo Yagi, De Staat but Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, and Alaskan composer Matthew Burtner’s Sonic Physiography of a Time-stretched Glacier.
Program 553: 20th and 21st Century Music for Celesta
On the next Music From Other Minds, Randall Wong plays works for solo celesta by Josef Matthais Hauer, Jan Dušek, and Michael Jon Fink. (The music on this program is mostly very soft so it may be necessary to adjust your volume accordingly.)
Program 552: Fog Tropes and Other Selections
On this Music From Other Minds, Andrew Weathers explores short works by composers Jaap Blonk, Buck Young, Ingram Marshall, Kenneth Gaburo, Marsha Fisher, Ron Coulter, and Kevin Corcoran & Gretchen Jude.
Program 551: Ivan Wyschnegradsky
On this Music From Other Minds, in anticipation of Other Minds’ 24th annual festival, Liam Herb explores the music of Ivan Wyschegradsky. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, but living most of his life in Paris, Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) is the most outstanding proponent of microtonal music of his era.
Program 550: Speech Music
Liam Herb hosts program 550 of Music From Other Minds. The subject this week is “speech music,” music from modern American composers that embrace speech and dialect in all its forms, not just the stylized language of opera and on the concert stage. Music from Harry Partch, Robert Ashley, Kyle Gann and Scott Johnson.
Program 549: Music of the Spheres
On this Music From Other Minds, Randall Wong explores the music of outer space. The program features the work of the little known, visionary Danish composer Rued Langgaard (1893-1953) and “space age bachelor pad music” composer Russell Garcia.
Program 548: Meditations on Divinity and Loss
On this Music From Other Minds, Liam Herb presents a program dedicated to works about subject matter beyond the corporal realm. The show features two long works by composers Alden Jenks and Ingram Marshall and a very short (unrelated) work by the miniaturist composer Marc Mellits.
Program 547: Cinematic Music
On this Music From Other Minds, Mark Abramson explores cinematic works by John Cage and John Zorn. The program features John Cage and Kenneth Patchen’s 1942 radio play The City Wears a Slouch Hat and John Zorn’s file card composition Spillane.
Program 546: Long Forms
On this Music From Other Minds, Andrew Weathers plays long form pieces by David Rosenbloom, Panaiotis, and Tom Hamilton. The program includes David Rosenboom’s work Portable Gold and Philosophers’ Stones, Panaiotis’ Awakening, and an excerpt of Tom Hamilton’s City of Vorticicity.
Program 545: Not Socialist Realism
On this Music From Other Minds, Randall Wong explores the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, in anticipation of our program of his arrangements for two pianos, presented by Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies.