Music From Other Minds

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.

This week we look at the intersection between pop and experimental music. We’ll play Joseph Byrd, a composer and academic who studied under John Cage and Morton Feldman, 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 also hear from John Zorn, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and Patti Smith.

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

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).

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.

On the next Music from Other Minds, two macabre stage works: Tom Waits & William S Burroughs’ The Black Rider, and Heinrich Hoffman’s lethal cautionary tales, Shock Headed Peter.

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!

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.

A forward-looking view from the past: “Music of the Future” including works composed for the 1962 & 1964 Seattle & New York World’s Fairs, and Olivier Messiaen’s Fête des belles eaux for the 1937 Paris Exhibition.