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🗄 Archives Find! 🗄 Michael Nyman, facing forward, 🗄 Archives Find! 🗄 Michael Nyman, facing forward, standing above Fred Frith, whose head is emerging out of the ground at a site sculpture on the land of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA. Standing behind Nyman (l to r) are Daniel Bernard Roumain, unidentified person sitting on fence, and Billy Bang. Taken prior to the 11th Other Minds Festival, in February, 2005.
📖 Brush up on your Antheil and German! 📖 Ever wan 📖 Brush up on your Antheil and German! 📖 Ever wanted to read George Antheil's raucous autobiography in German? Well, look no further than our webstore, where you can order a copy for yourself and all your friends! Lerne, wie du Strawinsky auf Deutsch davon überzeugen kannst, dein Mentor zu werden! Link to purchase in our bio.
@odetogravity with Han Reiziger of the Dutch radi @odetogravity with Han Reiziger of the Dutch radio station VPRO In the KPFA music office, in February 1975. Reiziger was the long standing musical director at VPRO, a Dutch radio station that was known worldwide for its adventurous and avant-garde musical programming. In an exchange program with the Pacifica Radio network that saw KPFA’s Charles Amirkhanian spend several months in Holland, Reiziger came to Berkeley California for a four month stint in 1974-75, where he produced numerous programs on Dutch musical life.
🔊 Is there anybody out there? 🔊 In the late 70s, 🔊 Is there anybody out there? 🔊 In the late 70s, Sheila Booth (now Roberts) lived in Half Moon Bay, CA where she helped operate the Half Moon Bay Film School with her then-partner Larry Booth. Originally trained as a painter, Sheila began to make soundtracks to accompany her husband’s films. She dubbed her technique “sound-painting,” the work she made in the period is impressive in its use of minimal resources to maximal affect. Link to buy in our bio.
🎹 Who's the pianist? 🎹 Hint: he'll be playing May 🎹 Who's the pianist? 🎹 Hint: he'll be playing May 14th, 2026 at Mill College at Northeastern. This picture is from the first concert of the 22nd Other Minds Festival, a centennial tribute to Lou Harrison. This is the Mission Dolores Basilica and at the piano is... conductor/pianist Dennis Russell Davies. Link to tickets to Davies and Maki Namekawa playing A Lotta Sonatas in our bio.
✨ ♈ ⚖ ALL HAIL DANE ⚖ ♈ ✨ Want to spend the rest ✨ ♈ ⚖ ALL HAIL DANE ⚖ ♈ ✨ Want to spend the rest of February warmed by a composer attendant to deep inward light? Come on down to the Other Minds Storefront and purchase Deniz Ertan's monograph on the great Dane Rudhyar! Dane Rudhyar: His Music, Thought, and Art is the first full-length study of this remarkable polymath and citizen of the world and universe. The book is enriched with numerous color illustrations of Rudhyar's paintings and with examples drawn from his music and writings. Link to purchase in our bio.
🎻 Complete Antheil String Quartet Jammers 🎻 Featu 🎻 Complete Antheil String Quartet Jammers 🎻 Featuring the Del Sol String Quartet, this is the first-ever complete compilation of George Antheil’s string quartet works, each of which was composed during a different stylistic era in Antheil’s development. The result is a tour through a variety of familiar 20th Century styles now inhabited by the ghosts of five “new” very provocative pieces that comprise a missing link in the repertoire of American 20th Century music. Link in our bio to stream and download .
🎟 The President's Concert 🎟 Hail to the OM Archiv 🎟 The President's Concert 🎟 Hail to the OM Archives! Here's a program for "The President's Concert," presenting active members of the Fresno Musical Club held on October 24, 1977. Includes list of active members, concert outline with works and performers, and upcoming artist series.
📝 Friday Hindemith! Friday Rilke! Friday A Lotta S 📝 Friday Hindemith! Friday Rilke! Friday A Lotta Sonatas! 📝 Here's something fun from the Archives: a document containing English translations of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke used in Paul Hindemith's song cycle "Das Marienleben" for soprano and piano. It is assumed this document was used in preparation for a performance given by Dorothy Renzi, soprano, for a concert given by the Fresno Chamber Artists presented by The California State University, Fresno Department of Music on December 15, 1972. Did you know that @dennis_russell_davies and @maki.namekawa will be playing Hindemith's Sonata for Piano Four Hands at their May 14th concert A Lotta Sonatas? Link to tickets is in our bio.
🎹 Happy Brian Eno Day! 🎹 On February 12, 1988, KP 🎹 Happy Brian Eno Day! 🎹 On February 12, 1988, KPFA dedicated an entire day to the music and career of Brian Eno, who joins Charles Amirkhanian in the studios of KPFA. In a number of far ranging interviews, some previously recorded and some live in the studio, Eno discusses his English adolescence and early musical influences, as well as sharing stories about his work as a producer of famous rock bands such as U2, Devo, and the Talking Heads, and collaborations with Harold Budd, David Byrne, and others. Topics touched upon in over 10 hours of programming include an admission that even he does not know what his lyrics mean; a preference for the music of Stockhausen’s students rather than that of Stockhausen himself; and the differences between New Age, Minimal, and Ambient music. Eno also takes several hours to answer question from the listeners, including the last half hour of this extended extravagance where a clearly exhausted Eno lightens the mood by declaring that all his responses will be lies, something he then accomplishes with respectful and proper English aplomb and much ensuing hilarity. Link in our bio to ten hours of programs in our Archives.
🏅🍌 BANANA OLYMPICS IN THE ARCHIVES 🍌🏅 CA: “What i 🏅🍌 BANANA OLYMPICS IN THE ARCHIVES 🍌🏅 CA: “What is it about your work that makes all these people interested?” AB: “Well, I suspect it’s the bananas, personally.” Some folks might be watching the slopes, but here at Other Minds we're remembering 1975's First International Art Meet, a combined conceptual art and sporting competition, from artist Anna Banana (in top hat), which was held on Easter Sunday, March 30, 1975 in San Francisco's Embarcadero. The Meet included the Banana Olympics, a series of exciting and ridiculous track and field events; the Banana Eating Contest in which participants got one banana and were judged on their ability to amuse the audience with their performance; and a Banana Music Contest, featuring songs about bananas. Link in our bio to @odetogravity interviewing Ms. Banana in our archives as well as footage of the event from Steve Klocksiem's vimeo. Photo is from the Canadian Art Database.
📻 Last Night's MFOM: Kaiser interviews Bailey 📻 L 📻 Last Night's MFOM: Kaiser interviews Bailey 📻 Last night on 91.7 KALW Bay Area, Music from Other Minds featured an archival 1989 interview between two generations of avant-garde guitar playing icons: Henry Kaiser and Derek Bailey. Kaiser interrogates Bailey about his various techniques, getting into the details of spacing, fingering, and the interplay between consciousness, intention, and free improvisation, posing the question; does one think what to play, or think about what you play? Link in our bio to listen to the full program.
Late post today, but Ingram Marshall by Peter Garl Late post today, but Ingram Marshall by Peter Garland was reviewed in the March 2026 issue of The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music by Dan Barrow. "Garland's concluding faith that 'Ingram's music defines the past half century as far as music history is concerned' becomes contagious." Links to purchase your copy of the issue, as well as a copy of the Ingram Marshall book are in our bio.
📀 Ratchet Attach It: Best Experimental Music on Ba 📀 Ratchet Attach It: Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp 📀 All hail @marcissist who selects @odetogravity 's Ratchet Attach It for Bandcamp's Best Experimental Music of January 2026. Master's writes, "There’s a cartoonish quality to the latest work by Bay Area composer Charles Amirkhanian, in the best sense of the word. At times these energetic short pieces evoke Carl Stalling’s work for Looney Tunes, though Amirkhanian’s music is less about twists and turns than forward motion...The upshot is a fun, sprightly record, like a relic of the ebullient past dragged into the breakneck present." Link to the full review and to buy the record in our bio.
🏢 Wednesday Nyman! 🏢 From the Other Minds Archiv 🏢 Wednesday Nyman! 🏢 From the Other Minds Archives: Michael Nyman, performing on stage, at the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco as part of the 11th Other Minds Music Festival on February 24, 2005. As part of OM 11 Nyman provided accompaniment for Paul Strand’s silent film “Manhatta,” as well as performing selections from the his soundtrack for the motion picture “The Piano.” The English composer Nyman first came to prominence as a minimalist composer in the 1970s. He has also composed the music for several films by Peter Greenaway. This was his first appearance in San Francisco since 1994.
🎹 @maki.namekawa !!! 🎹 We're so excited to be ho 🎹 @maki.namekawa !!! 🎹 We're so excited to be hosting Namekawa and @dennis_russell_davies for A Lotta Sonatas on Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 7:00 pm at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland. Here's a photo from our archives of Namekawa performing Isang Yun’s Interludium A during the 22nd Other Minds Festival. Taken during Concert 1: Pacific Rim Centennials, February 18, 2017 at the Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco. OM 22 was a centennial tribute to American composer Lou Harrison—whose 109th birthday we'll be celebrating as part of A Lotta Sonatas. As always, links in our bio for tickets and more information.
📻 Niblock on Music from Other Minds 📻 Last night 📻 Niblock on Music from Other Minds 📻 Last night on Music from Other Minds—broadcast on the Bay Area's KALW—Ed Herrmann presented music powered by the wind: woodwinds, brass, composed, improvised, traditional, and modern. Anthony Braxton’s Composition 58 reinvents Sousa. Rova Saxophone Quartet spontaneously composes The Web with hand gestures and flags. Roscoe Mitchell plays all four parts in a quartet for saxophones. Beth Custer leads a quintet of clarinets. Phill Niblock (pictured above) stretches flute tones for hours. Ivo Nilsson plays a trombone solo. Plus music by György Ligeti, Douglas Ewart, Andrew Voigt, Thea Musgrave, Elliott Carter, Henry Threadgill, the Murung people of Bangladesh, nadhaswaram masters M.P.N Sethuraman and M.P.N Ponnuswamy, invented instruments, and the Stanford Marching Band. Blow your horn! Link in our bio to the full program.
Other Minds is besot with excitement for the white Other Minds is besot with excitement for the white-hot pianists @dennis_russell_davies and @makinamekawa to perform A Lotta Sonatas in their first appearance with Other Minds since we brought them for 2024’s celebration of Davies’ 80th birthday. This time we’ll be celebrating Lou Harrison’s 109th birthday, who worked and taught for many years at Mills—first as a piano accompanist for the Department of Dance at Mills College between 1937 and 1942 and then as the Darius Milhaud Chair of Musical Composition at Mills College between 1980 and 1985. For their sixth appearance with Other Minds, the duo will perform works by Lou Harrison, William Bolcom, Joe Hisaishi, Philip Glass, Paul Hindemith, and Arvo Pärt. The Hisaishi and Glass sonatas were written especially for Namekawa. This concert is part of Other Minds’s PastForward series, presented in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Music, Northeastern University and Mills Performing Arts. Link to buy tickets in our bio.
📀 Real to Reel by Helen Thorington 📀 “My work tal 📀 Real to Reel by Helen Thorington 📀 “My work talks about the loss of the natural environment, something to which I contribute as a maker of artificial worlds,” she told Ear. “And in the process of doing that, I can use any kind of sound.” Link to stream and buy in our bio.
📀 emoji by Teodora Stepančić 📀 "On this recordin 📀 emoji by Teodora Stepančić 📀 "On this recording, Stepančić here follows this series of actions. As she indicates with her instruction that “there is no difference between the outside sounds and created sounds,” we are encouraged to hear her entangled with our own world. As such, each listening becomes singular. In one listening, Slovenian bells accompany the song of a robin alighting on a tree outside my window. In another, the radiator gurgles quietly along with Stepančić’s piano chords towards emoji’s conclusion." from Ryan Dohoney's liner notes Link in our bio to download
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