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 564
Covers of the Classics
KALW Broadcast: June 7, 2019
Host: Liam Herb
Host: Liam Herb
On this Music From Other Minds, Liam Herb covers the classics! This program will include some wacky re-imaginings of some of the most famous and beloved works of classical music. Purist beware!
Catch it live Friday at 11pm on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco.
Previous Programs
Program 563: Other Minds Festival 24 – A Pitch Perfect Revolution!
On this Music From Other Minds, Liam Herb explores the works of Other Minds Festival 24’s featured composers, Brian Baumbusch and Ivan Wyschnegradsky.
Program 562: A Blast from the Past!
On this Music From Other Minds, Liam Herb plays some choice selections from past Other Minds concerts. The program includes a short performance from Philip Glass’ 80th birthday celebration, Balawan’s performance from OM 16, and one performance each from The Nature of Music and Latitudes.
Program 561: Salonen and Takemitsu
On this Music From Other Minds, Liam Herb plays the world premiere recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto, performed by Yo Yo Ma and the LA Philharmonic, and Tōru Takemitsu’s A String Around Autumn.
Program 560: Wind Works
On this Music From Other Minds, Liam Herb explores works for wind instruments by Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford, Alois Hába, and Hanna Kulenty. This program includes an unreleased live recording of Kulenty’s masterful Trumpet Concerto No. 1.
Program 559: Anti-Opera
On this Music From Other Minds, Randall Wong presents Morton Feldman’s “anti-opera” Neither. Also on this program, Christian Wolff in Cambridge, a short work for 1963 for a capella choir. In this work the pitches are clearly defined, but the note length is indeterminate.
Program 558: Voice(s)
On this Music From Other Minds, Liam Herb explores three very different approaches to vocal music. Tune in to hear works by Maurice Ohana, Milton Babbitt, and Johanna Beyer.
Program 557: Archiving the Avant-garde
On the next Music From Other Minds, Liam Herb explores a decade (1964-1974) of boundary pushing music. The program will feature works by Robert Ashley, Alvin Curran, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and a few surprise guests. Tune in for an overview of a very important decade in avant-garde music.
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Program 556: Jazz on the Edge
On this Music from Other Minds, a program dedicated to the experimental spirit of jazz now and in the past. The program celebrates the new innovations happening in jazz today, as well as the experimental jazz artists that paved the way for this younger generation of composers and performers.
Program 555: Other Minds Shuffle
On this Music from Other Minds, Liam Herb presents the first ever Other Minds Shuffle! Tune in to hear some a curated assortment of gems from the odd and extensive Other Minds Records catalogue.
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.