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Posted November 4, 2019

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💽 From OM Records 💽 Visit our webstore or B

💽 From OM Records 💽

Visit our webstore or Bandcamp to grab a copy of our 2023 release of @samuelcarladams' album Current! Adams writes of the album's titular piece that:

“The crux of the piece is the relationship between the minimal digital language of the resonating snare drums and the warm, acoustic complexity of the string quartet. … The result is a virtuosic display of four individuals performing with artificial, indifferent musical elements. Together, a complex polyphonic musical organism emerges. … The title Current seemed appropriate both for its reference to the electric currents that activate the resonating snare drums as well as the intense, weather-blasted quality of the work’s sound world.”

Get your copy at the link in our bio!

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Hosted by Charles

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Hosted by Charles Amirkhanian, KPFA's "Ode to Gravity" was a pioneering radio program in the broadcast of 20th century avant-garde music. This photograph from a 1972 program broadcast shows the set up of an in-studio performance of Annea Lockwood's "Music for Multiple Hummers." Lockwood is seated on the far left and is wearing glasses. Photo by Charles Amirkhanian.

🌐 Announcing Latitudes 23 on July 12th at St. J

🌐 Announcing Latitudes 23 on July 12th at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in SF!

@landandseaoakland, in conjunction with Latitudes, is pleased to present a night of sound and vision, bringing together artists they've hosted and/or released music from to celebrate their most recent effort—a limited edition 7″ record from Oakland based duo PEACES consisting of @zekarias and Joshua Wismans.

Joining in the celebration—Aventures LTD presents their recent release by The Urxed—TRIPS. As all forces gather for the SF Art Book Fair, come melt with us.

This is a family affair, all are welcome. This event will feature: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe @kirlianauras (NY); PEACES (Oakland); Joel St Julien @joelstjulien (SF); and The Urxed @the_urxed (LA).

Visit the link in our bio to get your tickets (NOTAFLOF)!

On yesterday's @kalwpublicmedia broadcast of Music

On yesterday's @kalwpublicmedia broadcast of Music From Other Minds, host Joseph Bohigian took listeners on a tour through the music of the influential Danish composer Per Nørgård, who died on May 28, 2025, at the age of 92. Nørgård was among the most influential 20th century Danish composers, known for his infinity series, a serial method of composition using a sequence of integers which he developed in the 1960s. The program features a range of Nørgård’s compositions from the 1950s to the end of the 20th century, including his Trifoglio, Op. 7, Canon for organ, and Symphony No. 6 “At The End Of The Day”. Also included is an excerpt of a 1970 interview with Nørgård on KPFA from the Other Minds Archives.

Click on the link in our bio to listen to the program!

(Image is from the OM Archives and is of Per Nørgård and Markus Stockhausen during a meeting at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA, in December, 2006. Photo by John Fago)

📣 Other Minds is Hiring! 💼 Other Minds is l

📣 Other Minds is Hiring! 💼

Other Minds is looking for someone to fill the role of Operations Associate at our office in Berkeley.

The Operations Associate position requires a versatile individual who reports to the Associate Director and functions as an office and project administrator to ensure the timely scheduling and implementation of the multiple programs of Other Minds.

This is a part time role at 30 hours a week and the starting date would be July 1st.

For more information, please visit the link in our bio!

💽 From OM Records 💽 Check out our 2023 rele

💽 From OM Records 💽

Check out our 2023 release of Tierceron by @sensodivoce (@esingunduz_composer_performer and Megan Kyle) and Henry Birdsey! The trio improvises within a virtual recreation of the acoustics of Buffalo's Silo City, a complex of decommissioned grain elevators on the banks of the Buffalo River. Get your copy by visiting the link in our bio!

Just last week, composer David Cope passed away fr

Just last week, composer David Cope passed away from congestive heart failure at his home in Santa Cruz, California. A prolific composer and writer, Cope is perhaps best known for his early use of artificial intelligence in music composition through his bespoke computer program "Experiments in Musical Intelligence," or EMI, in the 1980s. While this trailblazing application of artificial intelligence became much of Cope's lifework, he was already an established composer before EMI ever entered his life.

Listen to a 1978 interview between Charles Amirkhanian and Cope where they discuss Cope's dislike of leaving the "decision making" of musical composition to machines. Little would they know that that Cope's preference for actually "composing," as Charles put it, would completely transform just a few years later.

You can listen to more of David Cope's music and interviews by visiting OM Archives. Link in our bio.

Illustration by Kathy A. Courchene.

🎹 Announcing our "Blue + Bob: the Music of 'Blu

🎹 Announcing our "Blue + Bob: the Music of 'Blue' Gene Tyranny and Robert Ashley" concert on September 7th at Mills College at Northeastern University!

This program features pianists Sarah Cahill @cahill_piano and Joseph Kubera presenting a two piano recital of the music of “Blue” Gene Tyranny (1945–2020) and Robert Ashley (1930–2014), including pieces such as Tyranny’s two-piano gems Decertified Highway of Dreams and Letters from Home and Ashley’s Viva’s Boy and Details (2b), along with solo compositions by both composers.

Visit the link in our bio to read more about the program and purchase your tickets!

Photo by John Sanborn.

On yesterday's @kalwpublicmedia broadcast of Musi

On yesterday's @kalwpublicmedia broadcast of Music From Other Minds, Devin King hosted a program that featured two extended works composed by Anthony Braxton, who celebrated his 80th birthday on June 4, 2025.

One of many solar centers for the universe of Other Minds, Braxton’s compositional output extends from his pursuit of “trans-idiomatic creativity,” Braxton’s term for the way his work—and the work of his best collaborators—cross genre and media in pursuit of expression. Most often introduced with reference to his membership in Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the detail that he recorded the first solo saxophone album (1969’s For Alto), these facts bookend only Braxton’s first half-decade of what is now a nearly sixty-year career as a musician and composer.

Click on the link in our bio to listen to the program!

(Image is from the OM Archives and is of Anthony Braxton at the 1985 Speaking of Music series held in San Francisco. Photo by Esther Kutnick)

📂 From the OM Archives 📂 Morton Subotnick,

📂 From the OM Archives 📂

Morton Subotnick, Joan La Barbara, their son Jacob, and John Cage enjoying a picnic outside during the 1989 Composer-to-Composer Festival, August 1989, Telluride, CO. Photo by John Fago.

☕ Other Minds Mugs! ☕ Available on our websto

☕ Other Minds Mugs! ☕

Available on our webstore, these 10 oz ceramic mugs will remind you to "compose yourself" as you drink your favorite morning beverage. Available in gray or red.

Visit the link in our bio to purchase yours today!

Happy 80th birthday to the renowned composer, impr

Happy 80th birthday to the renowned composer, improviser, and saxophonist Anthony Braxton!

Born June 4th, 1945 in the South Side of Chicago, Braxton was a key member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), later embarking on a storied career as a composer and solo artist. He has recorded dozens of seminal records of solo material, ensemble pieces, orchestral works, and electronic music including his For Alto (1968), Creative Orchestra Music 1976, 9 Compositions (Iridium) (2006), and Duet (Other Minds) 2021 recorded live at Other Minds Festival 25. A recipient of both the MacArthur "Genius" Grant and the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship, Braxton stands at the tail end of a long, illustrious career, but shows no signs of stopping; Braxton continues to compose and perform, including premiering the 6th installment of his 12 part opera cycle Trillium in 2023.

Explore Braxton's career by checking out the OM Archives which houses numerous interviews with Braxton. Link in bio!

🎟 Announcing Other Minds Festival 29! 🌉 A p

🎟 Announcing Other Minds Festival 29! 🌉

A panoply of composers will assemble for the 29th Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, an international annual showcase for composers held at the Brava Theater Thursday–Sunday, October 16–19, 2025 featuring works by @samuelcarladams , Zeena Perkins (@zpribbon), @putu_septa , I Kadek Janurangga (@j.n.r.n.g.g.a), @pamelazed , William Winant (@steakatto), Peter Garland, Kristine Tjøgersen (@kristinetjogersen), ZOFO, @nancykarpdance, Ingram Marshall, and James Tenney.

Visit the link in our bio to read more about our star-studded program and purchase your tickets to OM 29!

On yesterday's @kalwpublicmedia broadcast of Music

On yesterday's @kalwpublicmedia broadcast of Music From Other Minds, host Ed Herrmann offers a brief survey of Artifact Recordings, an artist-run, non-profit organization supporting experimental and electronic music from the Bay Area for 35 years. Music by Chris Brown, John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Philip Perkins, William Winant, Ron Heglin, Lorin Benedict, Tom Djll, Steve Adams, The HUB, and more.

Listen to the archive recording on our website by clicking the link in our bio!

(Photo is of William Winant, taken by photographer Dennis Letbetter)

John Cage with pianists Peggy and Milton Salkind a

John Cage with pianists Peggy and Milton Salkind at Putah Creek Lodge. The Lodge, which is a part of the University of California at Davis, was the sight of a “concert-concert” organized by Cage on November 21, 1969, during his stint as a visiting lecturer at UC Davis during the 1969–70 school year. Photo by Charles Amirkhanian from the OM Archives.

💽 From OM Records 💽 In light of Lou Harris

💽 From OM Records 💽

In light of Lou Harrison's birthday last week, we'd like to highlight our 2022 release of his Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin (1936) performed by our friend Kate Stenberg. This short piece was written by the precocious composer when he was barely out of high school, still a teenager, but already a year deep into studies under Henry Cowell.

While we know Harrison for his danceable fusions of Western and Eastern musics, the Sonata finds the composer enthralled with Arnold Schoenberg’s twelve-tone method. Not content to merely mimic, Harrison developed a technique of serial manipulation of intervals he termed “interval controls” that he first fully realized in this piece. Maintaining consistent interval relationships throughout each movement of the piece imbues the aggressively dissonant melody with a cohesion not typically found in early 20th Century modernist composition. Despite the Sonata’s concise length of about seven minutes, it is filled to the brim with compositional ideas and novel approaches.

Click on the link in our bio and head to our Bandcamp page to read more about the release and purchase a CD or digital download!

New in the OM Archives: the Dorothy Renzi Collecti

New in the OM Archives: the Dorothy Renzi Collection. Soprano Dorothy Ohannesian Renzi (1924–2014) pursued a burgeoning career in New York City during the late 1950s, participating as soloist in numerous concerts in addition to recorded premieres of music by contemporary composers for MGM Records. In the early 1960s, she moved back to her hometown of Fresno, California, where she continued to perform lieder and opera and became a professor of voice in the Music Department at California State University, Fresno. This personal collection of her tapes, discs, and other ephemera documents her long career and includes many live performance recordings otherwise unavailable. Find the link to the collection in our bio.

New video: Catch up with Geoffrey Burleson's solo

New video: Catch up with Geoffrey Burleson's solo piano recital From Antheil to Zappa from last month at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. Burleson’s performance featured a variety of forgotten mid-century masterpieces by American composers. Video link in our bio.

Gianna Abondolo and Linda Catlin Smith consulting

Gianna Abondolo and Linda Catlin Smith consulting a score prior to their performance at Other Minds Festival 14 in 2009. Photo by John Fago.

Now available for viewing: @gloriachengpiano and @

Now available for viewing: @gloriachengpiano and @ralphvanraat's piano duo recital Boulez at 100. Celebrating the French composer's centenary, the performance included music by Boulez, Cage, Feldman, Zappa, Lindberg, and Stravinsky, all performed in the historic Littlefield Concert Hall at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. Video link in our bio.

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