Other Minds News

The Other Minds Modern Hits release Gallivants and Garnishes was featured by bandcamp in a recent post on the history of the San Francisco Tape Music Center. You can read the complete article here. Ramón Sender, a founder of both the San Francisco Tape Music Center and the Morningstar Commune, is a legendary figure around […]

Kyle Gann (left) speaks with his longtime friend Robert Carl (right) about his work Hyperchromatica for Fanfare Magazines. In the interview, Kyle talks about his influences, his use of new tuning systems, and lists some of his favorite movements from the work. You can read the entire interview on Kyle Gann’s website here and purchase […]

Leah Garchik wrote about tonight’s Music From Other Minds program in today’s Chronicle. The program features music by the THAI ELEPHANT ORCHESTRA at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center (a retirement home for senior pachyderms) in Lampang, Northern Thailand. You can catch it tonight at 11pm on 91.7 KALW San Francisco or listen to it on Monday here. Host: […]

The September issue of the San Francisco AFM Local 6 Newsletter honors the music career of Robert Hughes. “Bob Hughes is a bassoonist, composer, conductor, and scholar. Over the years he performed in all the Civic Center orchestras (particularly the opera and ballet),was a tenured player in the Oakland Symphony/East Bay Symphony for nearly 40 […]

OM’s latest recording, Kyle Gann’s Hyperchromatica, receives an excellent review in Theater Jones, May 2018: “…music based on intervals other than those you can get from the 12 equally-spaced notes on the piano needn’t be problematic. It could even be beautiful… Gann’s Hyperchromatica may be as close to divine as we get.” Hyperchromatica is a mammoth […]

Jim Newman, born May 25, 1933, celebrates his 85th birthday today. Jim has worked since the early 1950’s to keep the Bay Area’s artistic identity alive and well.

San Francisco Classical Voice Reviews “The History Channel” Joe Cadagin speaks about how his childhood fear that everyone around him would start speaking a language that he couldn’t understand came true at OM 23’s presentation of “The History Channel” on Wednesday April 16th. Wednesday’s concert featured experimental pieces from the early 20th century, providing a […]

Mark Swed, of the Los Angeles Times, recounts his experience at the 23rd Annual Other Minds Festival Opening Gala and gives a short background on the history of sound poetry. He gives context to the night by referring back to Hugo Ball, the founder of the DaDa, movement and to Other Mind’s own Charles Amirkhanian’s […]

Other Minds 23: The History Channel Stephen Smoliar outlines some of his favorite parts of Wednesday nights concert “The History Channel”. Wednesday’s concert featured pieces that ranged from 1914 to 1966 and featured works by the founder of the futurist movement, Filippo Marinetti, Ernst Toch and Cathy Berberian. There were also remarks by Other Minds […]