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 10pm every Friday, 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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Follow this link for a complete list of works played on MfOM up to program 644
Next Up: Program 649
Evolving Music
KALW Broadcast: April 23, 2021
Host: Mark Abramson
Host: Mark Abramson
This program explores some contemplative, narrative work by composers Morton Feldman and Tyshawn Sorey. Morton Feldman is one of the 20th Century’s most influential composers, a pioneer of indeterminate music and notational innovations. Tyshawn Sorey is a virtuosic drummer and a composer whose prolific work ranges from classical to jazz to experimental. This is quiet, slowly evolving music, with a few sonic surprises to keep you on your toes.
Previous Programs
Program 648: The Great Anthony J Gnazzo
On this broadcast of Music from Other Minds, Liam Herb introduces works of concert music, sound poetry, tape music, and radio art by Anthony Gnazzo in honor of his 85th birthday. Featured on the program are his compositions Not So (1971), Did I wake you? (1981), An Orchestra is Born (1972), The Art of Canning Music (1978), early works of concert music, and more.
Tune to KALW 91.7fm in San Francisco or KALW.org Friday at 10pm PST to hear it live.
(Click here for more info and to hear the complete archived program.)
Program 647: New Music from Okinawa and Mainland Japan
On this Music from Other Minds, Randall Wong introduced stunning new works from Okinawa and mainland Japan by Aragaki Mutsumi, Michiyo Yagi, Ken Sugai, Cockroach Eater, and more.
Program 646: Experimental | Pop
This week on Music From Other Minds, we’ll look at the intersection between pop and experimental music. We begin with the work of composer Joseph Byrd, a composer and academic who studied under John Cage and Morton Feldman, who formed a rock band in the late ’60s called The United States of America. We’ll play some classic 1960s weirdness by Frank Zappa. And we’ll listen work from John Zorn, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and Patti Smith.
Program 645: For Stephen Stephen Scott (1944-2021)
On this Music From Other Minds, Liam Herb plays music and interviews with composer Stephen Scott (October 10, 1944-March 10, 2021) including two never-before-released pieces, a collaboration with Terry Riley and his final composition Fantasy for English Horn commissioned by Thomas Stacy.
Program 644: (RE)
On this Music From Other Minds:
Re-compositions, re-orchestrations, realizations, and deconstructions;
Re-imaginings by Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Zender, Marius Constant, and others
Program 643: Conversations with Ellen Arkbro and Max Eilbacher (with guest)
On this Music from Other Minds, Liam Herb presents a conversation with the Swedish composer and organist Ellen Arkbro recorded at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2019) and a remote interview with Baltimore based electronic musician and bassist Max Eilbacher (of Horse Lords fame).
Program 642: Saxophones (and strings)
This week, we’ll start with Anthony Braxton – compositions, improvisations, and works that combine the two. We’ll listen to some of the first chapter in Matana Roberts‘ Coin Coin series, a mix of abstract compositional techniques with emotional storytelling. We’ll hear from the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, an album that uses Beethoven‘s String Quartet No. 15 as a frame of reference for commissioned works by new composers. And we’ll end our evening with one last work by Reena Esmail for solo violin.
Program 641: Dark Theater
On the next MFOM, two macabre stage works-. Tom Waits & William S Burroughs’ The Black Rider, and Heinrich Hoffman’s lethal cautionary tales, Shock Headed Peter.
Program 640: New Releases of late '20 and '21
A program featuring new releases of New Music releases from late 2020 and so far in 2021! Tune in to hear works by Ana Roxanne, George Lewis, Ned Rorem, Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl, and more!
Program 639: Southern Exposure
In this program, we spotlight experimental music and sound art from Mexico. The Tecuexe band combines modern electronics and traditional Mexican acoustic instruments. Juanjosé Rivas, Rogelio Sosa, and Israel Martinez, create sound art with field recordings and electronics. And the science/art collective Interspecifics make soundscapes with cyanobacteria and slime mold.
