Other Minds News

The printed programs for our upcoming Festival 23 – Sound Poetry: The Wages of Syntax – just arrived from our printer. We took a different direction with the design this year, featuring some stunning art from some of the multi-talented characters in the Futurist and Dadaist movements of the early 20th Century. We made four […]

NEW YORK TIMES, March 23, 2018         Other Minds offers condolences to the friends and family of Olly Wilson, pioneering African-American electronic music and orchestral composer. A long-time professor of composition at U.C. Berkeley, Olly was a guest composer at Other Minds Festival 3 in 1996. His infectious smile and dignified, reassuring […]

Sound sculptor Bill Fontana originally created his piece “Landscape Sculpture With Fog Horns” at Fort Mason in 1981. He placed eight microphones at points around the Bay, transmitting the sound to Pier 2, where it mixed with the live sound of water, birds and foghorns. The local public radio station in San Francisco, KQED, recorded […]

“Music from Other Minds” Marks its 500th Broadcast. Other Minds, the Bay Area non-profit celebrating its 25th year of support for composers of pathbreaking music, marks a milestone this week with its 500th radio program on San Francisco’s KALW-FM. Founding host Richard Friedman will pop all available corks with blockbuster works for large ensembles by Edgar Varèse (photo above), […]

Jim Newman (pictured above with his wife Jane Ivory) – film and television producer, contemporary art curator, gallerist, musician, and co-founder of OTHER MINDS – was profiled recently in the San Francisco Chronicle by Art Critic, Charles Desmarais. A lifetime of bringing bold creations to light “Newman a proponent of avant-garde art, new music for 7 […]

On Saturday, at Roulette in Brooklyn, the pianists Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies reveled in a program of Mr. Glass’s piano music, about half of which had been adapted from the composer’s operas. There wasn’t a single dud in this sparkling concert. A suite from “Les Enfants Terribles” showed how much expressive range these […]

‘There’s just nothing there except this raw, very dangerous ego… you don’t want to spend time as an artist giving your very best to a person who is a sociopath.” Why John Adams Won’t Write an Opera About President Trump President Trump is said to be questioning things he has previously said to be true (“Access […]

NY Times: Bent Sørensen wins Grawemeyer Award Other Minds audiences heard the innovative music of Bent Sørensen at OM Festival 14 in 2009. We’re pleased to hear that he’s been given the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his new triple concerto ”L’ Isola della Città” (“The Island in the City”).