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San Francisco non-profit dedicated to contemporary music through concerts, recordings, broadcasts, audio preservation, & public discussions 🎵

On last Sunday's Music from Other Minds on @kalwpu

On last Sunday's Music from Other Minds on @kalwpublicmedia, Liam Herb presented a conversation with the late “Blue” Gene Tyranny, who passed away at the age of 75 on Saturday, December 12, 2020. Compiled for an oral history of Tyranny in 2019, the interview topics span the composer's life from early childhood, his work with the ONCE Group, his collaborations with composer Robert Ashley, his recordings, and his struggles with Charles Bonnet Syndrome. Link to listen in our bio.

New on the OM Podcast: @samuelcarladams talks with

New on the OM Podcast: @samuelcarladams talks with host Joseph Bohigian about growing up in the Bay Area, working with the San Francisco Symphony, and the influence of composer Ingram Marshall, the dedicatee of a new piece composed by Adams and commissioned by pianist @cahill_piano which Cahill will premiere at OM Festial 29 in October. Link to listen and subscribe in our bio.

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Carol Law and Conl

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Carol Law and Conlon Nancarrow by the outdoor stone steps and mural by Juan O'Gorman in Nancarrow's garden, Mexico City, 1969. Photo by Charles Amirkhanian.

Our Blue + Bob concert is almost 2 weeks away! Pia

Our Blue + Bob concert is almost 2 weeks away! Pianists Sarah Cahill (@cahill_piano) and Joseph Kubera will perform the music of “Blue” Gene Tyranny and Robert Ashley on Sunday, September 7, 2025, at 7pm at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. Cahill and Kubera worked closely with both composers, and we're excited to celebrate their memory in a place where they held sway with profound influence as Mills College faculty members. Ticket link in our bio.

The OM Podcast is back! We're starting off our 4th

The OM Podcast is back! We're starting off our 4th season with archival interviews with Robert Ashley and "Blue" Gene Tyranny in honor of our upcoming Blue + Bob piano duo concert with Sarah Cahill (@cahill_piano) and Joseph Kubera at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. Link to listen in our bio.

On yesterday's Music from Other Minds on @kalwpubl

On yesterday's Music from Other Minds on @kalwpublicmedia: Ed Herrmann broadcast Scot Gresham-Lancaster’s (@scotgl) electronic treatment of Martian Time Slip by Philip K Dick; Myths of Origin, a conduction-style piece for improvising string orchestra and drum set by Jason Kao Hwang (@jkhwang1); String Quartet No. 8 by Gloria Coates; and @sandbox_percussion performing Bloom by @torkemichael.

Click on the link in our bio to listen to the full 2-hour program!

Photo of Gloria Coates at OM 17 by John Fago.

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 A poster promoting

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

A poster promoting a Sunday Concert Series presented by the California College of Performing Arts featuring Indian master vocalist Pandit Pran Nath (and Terry Riley!). The series included three concerts that took place on September 23rd, 30th, and October 7th, 1984. The concerts were held at the New Performance Gallery in San Francisco. Performing with Pran Nath were Krishna Bhatt, tabla; Terry Riley and Shabda Kahn, tambouras.

💽 From OM Records 💽 A participant in the Na

💽 From OM Records 💽

A participant in the National Science Foundation’s (@nsfgov) Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, Cheryl E. Leonard (@allwaysnorth) lived and worked at Palmer Research Station for five weeks in 2009. At this remote outpost on the Antarctic Peninsula, the composer made pristine field recordings of ice, water, wind, and wildlife. The result of that excursion was Antarctica: Music from the Ice 🧊, released in 2022 by OM Records.

Leonard’s works document an Antarctica that may no longer exist, at least how the composer saw and heard it. Music from the Ice conveys both the wondrous beauty of Antarctica, and the experience of living in the Anthropocene, drawing directly from a region of the Earth where the damage is most audible.

Click on the link in our bio to grab your copy today!

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 A short excerpt fr

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

A short excerpt from the World Ear Project's Transmission Four, broadcasted on @kpfaradio on Nov. 30th, 1970. One can hear the soothing sounds of gamelan, chattering children, and the rude snorts of a pig.

The World Ear Project was an attempt to bring everybody’s ears a little closer. KPFA asked their listeners and friends from around the world to send in recordings made in common places, of the sounds that surround our daily existence. The environments in which these recording were made were the sole subject of the project. It was the philosophy of those that began this endeavor, hosts Charles Amirkhanian and Richard Friedman, that one key step in trying to understand our neighbors is getting to know the setting in which they carry out their daily lives.

Click on the link in our bio to liste to the full recording!

🎹 @cahill_piano plays her piano with an EBow fo

🎹 @cahill_piano plays her piano with an EBow for Lars Petter Hagen's (@lphagen) Diabelli Cadenza at OM 26! The Diabelli Cadenza was comissioned to be played alongside Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. the former being described b Hagen as an "intervention" and "shadow" to Beethoven's great work.

Click on the link in our bio to check out the full recording!

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Claude Ballif (lef

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Claude Ballif (left) at home in Paris with Ivan Wyschnegradsky, in 1973. Both men were Paris-based avant-garde composers who worked together on theories of microtonal music. However, it is Wyschnegradsky that is more strongly associated with microtonal music and his quarter-tone piano, while Ballif’s output has been more varied in form. Photo by Charles Amirkhanian.

💽 From OM Records 💽 Our 2024 double CD rele

💽 From OM Records 💽

Our 2024 double CD release …we return to ground… by Irish composer Karen Power (@powercomposer) and Quiet Music Ensemble (@quietmusicens), features three of Power’s large-scale pieces pairing natural sounds with musical instruments, written for and with Quiet Music Ensemble over an 8-year period.

Beginning with instruments of ice in 2015, Power's experience of pairing natural sounds with musical instruments has evolved into a transformative body of work. Her approach to composition, creating space for interactions between field recordings and human performers, allows for the emergence of new sonic dialogues with the natural world. In his liner notes, David Toop writes, “What we are hearing is not reducible to 'music' and 'nature'; there is an acknowledgement that the senses are not separate. They are fluid, sometimes interchangeable in their perception of worlds, and those worlds overlap, become each other.”

Purchase a copy today by visiting the link in our bio!

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Broadcasted in 197

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Broadcasted in 1970, John Cage reads a portion of his 5th installment of his "How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)" series of writings. Originally recorded at @ucdavis, Cage spent the Fall semester there teaching a class entitled "Music in Dialogue" which inlcuded some sessions on mycology, a well-known interest of Cage's. Much of the content from those lectures made it into Cage's 5th installment, including the mushrooms!

You can listen to the full recording--including a Q&A with the UC Davis students--by clicking the link in our bio!

In our 2023 "From Discord to Concord" concert, we

In our 2023 "From Discord to Concord" concert, we celebrated the 30th year of Other Minds with a performance of Charles Ives's Concord Sonata by the extraordinary pianist, @marcandreham, who has recorded the Sonata twice and plays it from memory. This concert excerpt show Hamelin playing movement 3 of the Sonata, “The Alcotts.”

You can check out the full recording by visiting the link in our bio!

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Pauline Oliveros a

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Pauline Oliveros and Tania León arm in arm during their retreat at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA prior to their participation in the 8th Other Minds Festival in March of 2002. Photo by John Fago.

💽 From OM Records 💽 Kyle Gann's expansive H

💽 From OM Records 💽

Kyle Gann's expansive Hyperchromatic from 2018 is written for three computer-controlled disklavier pianos that Gann tuned to an intricate system of his own design, with the express goal to “reinvent tonality.” Gann treats the work not as a piano trio but a work for a single instrument with 243 keys. Hyperchromatica extends the possibilities of the piano well beyond the range of human possibility, utlizing complex polytempo and polymetric techniques that would be impossible for even the most virtuosic of players.

Purchase this seminal microtonal work at the link in our bio!

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Interviewed in 197

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Interviewed in 1975 by Charles Amirkhanian on KPFA's Ode to Gravity program, computer musician Charles Dodge (b. 1942) speaks on the reception his speech-resynthesis music has receieved in light of its uncanny resemblance to real human voices.
Listen to the full interview by clicking the in our bio!

"There are some encounters in which a careful diso

"There are some encounters in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”

This phrase from Moby Dick is a sentiment that applies directly to the creation of Becoming Air. Disorderliness, not in its pejorative as a polite but unwanted chaos, but in its magical sense of allowing something outside of you to unfold in its own way, as Nate Wooley (@pleasureofthetext) writes. “More mobile, destabilized – explore...whirlwinds, dust eddies... allow things to fall apart... stillness.” A fascination with this idea–applied to the letting go of a sound to be itself–is the bedrock from which this work springs.

Hear the full OM28 performance of Annea Lockwood and Nate Wooley's Becoming Air by visiting the link in our bio!

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Here is a short ex

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Here is a short excerpt of Tactus-Tempus (1969), the EMS Synthi sextet performed by the Bay Area group BIOME in 1973 at KPFA in Berkeley. Consisting of Allen Strange, Frank McCarty, Pat Strange, Boots McCarty, Steve Ruppenthal, and Steve Whealton, BIOME was an all-synthesizer ensemble inspired by the ecological thought of Buckminster Fuller and the increasingly popular systems theories of the 1960s. One of its members, Allen Strange, wrote the original manuel for the Buhcla Music Easel in 1974 entitled Programming and Meta-Programming in the Electro Organism: an Operating Directive for the Music Easel.

Check out the full piece and an interview of BIOME conducted by Charles Amirkhanian in the link in our bio!

💽 From OM Records 💽 Our 2023 release The Wa

💽 From OM Records 💽

Our 2023 release The Water Has Found its Crack finds composer Jospeh Bohigian expertly handling a variety of performing forces from laptop ensemble to string quartet. Each piece engages with a different aspect of the California-born composer’s position as a member of the Armenian diaspora, including the legacy of displacement since the 1915 genocide, maintaining culture in exile, and returning to the Armenian homeland, where Bohigian lived while writing the first three pieces on the album.

Visit the link in our bio to purchase this impressive debut release!

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