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The Nature of Music 21: Marina Peterson @murmur0 The Nature of Music 21: Marina Peterson @murmur0 How does one listen with rather than listen to? And how might listening with allow the listener to more fruitfully conceptualize climate change? On Wednesday, September 9, 2026, Other Minds welcomes musician, anthropologist, and philosopher of sound Marina Peterson to discuss these questions at the Goldman Theater, David Brower Center. Click the link in our bio to learn more and buy tickets.
Larry Polansky and Wadada Leo Smith, outdoors in T Larry Polansky and Wadada Leo Smith, outdoors in Telluride, Colorado during the 1990 Composer-to-Composer Festival, where Smith and Polansky were featured composers.
Kristin Norderval on the Other Minds Podcast! Per Kristin Norderval on the Other Minds Podcast! Performer, composer, and improviser Kristin Norderval’s repertoire spans the renaissance to the avant-garde, and her credits as a soprano soloist include performances with the Oslo Sinfonietta, Philip Glass Ensemble, and the San Francisco Symphony. As a composer, she combines her operatic lineage with electronic experimentation, placing emphasis on small-scale opera, cross-disciplinary work, and interactive technology. Norderval will perform with Elizabeth Gaver on Night 3 of this year’s Other Minds Festival in San Francisco. On the podcast, Joseph Bohigian talks with Norderval about her operatic training, improvising with medieval instruments, and her research into singing and Parkinson’s disease. Click the link in our bio to listen to the podcast and to buy tickets to Other Minds Festival 30.
Brian Eno and his wife Anthea Norman-Taylor examin Brian Eno and his wife Anthea Norman-Taylor examine an exhibit of Mimosae on November 3, 1987 at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Last night on MFOM!: Kristin Norderval and Sylvie Last night on MFOM!: Kristin Norderval and Sylvie Courvoisier Rachel Schofield continues showing off composers and performers at the 30th Other Minds Festival, October 8th – 11th at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. For the first hour of last night's program, you will hear music by Norwegian-American composer and vocalist Kristin Norderval, and our second hour featured @sylcourvoisier, a Swiss-born, New York City-based composer and pianist. Link to listen to the entire 2-hour program and purchase tickets to Other Minds Festival 30 is in our bio.
Two pages of George Antheil’s hand drawn staff pap Two pages of George Antheil’s hand drawn staff paper; ten staves. Taken from the second of two sketchbooks by George Antheil
Composer-Critics of the New York Herald Tribune F Composer-Critics of the New York Herald Tribune For a brief period between 1940 to 1954, the now-defunct paper The New York Herald Tribune maintained a staff of music critics who were valued for their ability to write about music (especially less accessible modern music) in clear language for a general audience. This groundbreaking department was headed up by composer Virgil Thomson and over the years included John Cage, Paul Bowles, Lou Harrison, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Around the same period, Thomson was asked to curate a series of records for Columbia Records under the name Modern American Music. These records were among the first recorded documents of pioneers and mavericks of American New Music, including many of his colleagues at the Tribune. On Composer-Critics of the New York Herald Tribune, these recordings are collected for the first time. In 2017, after many of these composers’ work has been mastered and recorded by virtuosic musicians the world over, looking back at these early recordings is a fascinating exercise in the development of interpretation and audio engineering. Click the link in our bio to listen and buy on Bandcamp!
Morton Subotnick bends over his computer during a Morton Subotnick bends over his computer during a rehearsal or performance of his piece “The Other Piano” during the 2008 Other Minds Music Festival (OM 13).
Marina Peterson @murmur0 on the Other Minds Podcas Marina Peterson @murmur0 on the Other Minds Podcast! Marina Peterson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has an emphasis on sound and urbanism, and she is the author of the 2021 book Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles, which examines ways in which environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter cohere through noise pollution legislation and the politics of airport noise from the 1960s to the present. Peterson will speak about her work at Other Minds’s The Nature of Music on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. On the podcast, we discuss the emergence of the concept of noise pollution in the 1950s and ‘60s, municipal noise mitigation around airports, and making the microphone present in field recordings of the wind. Click the link in our bio to listen to the entire podcast and to learn more and to buy tickets to Marina Peterson's The Nature of Music event.
Last night on MFOM: Terry Riley & Linda Catlin Smi Last night on MFOM: Terry Riley & Linda Catlin Smith Here's Ed Herrmann's description of last night's on Music from Other Minds on KALW, 91.7 FM San Francisco Bay Area: Terry Riley’s Holy Liftoff is the latest contribution to Claire Chase’s Density 2036 project, in which she commissions new works for flute. Written over a two year period, Holy Liftoff includes through composed material, graphic notation, artwork, and open forms that can be interpreted with various durations and instrumentation. This performance features the JACK Quartet with Chase playing multiple flute parts. Linda Catlin Smith’s music is often introspective, gradually unfolding with quiet lyricism. This program features several selections from pianist Cheryl Duvall’s newly released second volume of Smith’s complete piano works. Filling out the program are Ann Cleare’s I should live in wires for leaving you behind, performed by Yarn / Wire; and given 1, by Eva-Maria Houben, organ, and Harmjan Roeles, bass. Click the link in our bio to stream the entire 2-Hour program. Above photo is of Linda Catlin Smith.
Joseph Bohigian to become our new Artistic Directo Joseph Bohigian to become our new Artistic Director in January 2027! Other Minds announces today that Joseph Bohigian, current Associate Director of Other Minds, will become its new Artistic Director in January of 2027. Having worked at, and worked-his-way-up at, Other Minds for over four years, Bohigian's coming tenure as Artistic Director will combine the lively and historically grounded artistic imagination that marks his own compositional output with a foundation in the institutional practices that have made Other Minds such a success over the past 33 years. You'll be able to see him perform at this year's Other Minds Festival 30, which opens with his work I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment, an evening-length multimedia work about the life of the visionary Soviet-Armenian film director Sergei Parajanov (1924–1990) that combines the multilingual songs of the 18th century bard Sayat Nova in Armenian, Azeri, and Georgian with live electronic manipulation of recordings by South Caucasus folk musicians. Click the link in our bio for more information and to buy tickets to OM30.
Archive Find! Charles Amirkhanian looking down at Archive Find! Charles Amirkhanian looking down at a construction area next to a sidewalk in Paris, France. The work area displays a sign announcing work for sewer service and modification. Taken ca. June, 1976 by Carol Law.
Listen to Joseph Bohigian interview @ted_gordon o Listen to Joseph Bohigian interview @ted_gordon on the most recent Other Minds Podcast! Theodore Gordon is a musicologist and musician whose work connects experimental music, critical organology, and science and technology studies. He has performed with viola and Buchla instruments at venues including Elastic Arts, Experimental Sound Studio, and Roulette. Gordon is Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College, and serves on the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. His first book, The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America, published in December 2025, shows how scientific concepts and technologies borrowed from cybernetics, information theory, and systems-thinking became catalysts for new musical organizations in the 1960s. This interview, like the book, focuses on these concepts through the work of Morton Subotnick, Donald Buchla, Pauline Oliveros, Sun Ra, and Alvin Lucier. Click the link in our bio to stream the interview.
@dameevelynglennie onstage playing a marimba. Thi @dameevelynglennie onstage playing a marimba. This image may be from a live performance or rehearsal. Glennie performed during the second concert of OM 9 on March 6th, 2003.
📻 Last Night on Music from Other Minds: Surreal Sa 📻 Last Night on Music from Other Minds: Surreal Samsara! 📻 Host Devin King played two works that engage with the intense reality of the dream-world as well as the Buddhist idea that the material world follows a cycle of birth and rebirth. For the first hour of the program, he played selections from the 2007 opera Wagner Dream, by British composer Jonathan Harvey. Wagner Dream is a reimagining of the last day of Wagner’s life; Harvey envisions the work that Wagner died attempting—an opera based on the life of the Buddha—as a long dream or vision that Wagner has as he moves toward death. Then, for the second hour, King played guitarist Henry Kaiser’s 45-minute solo that forms part of Bill Laswell’s 2026 project Mt. Analogue, based on René Daumel’s posthumously-published 1952 surrealist novel, Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing. Click the link in our bio to stream the entire program. Image from the 2008 Welsh National Opera production of Wagner Dream.
Announcing The Nature of Music 21: Marina Peterson Announcing The Nature of Music 21: Marina Peterson @murmur0 How does one listen with rather than listen to? And how might listening with allow the listener to more fruitfully conceptualize climate change? On Wednesday, September 9, 2026, Other Minds welcomes musician, anthropologist, and philosopher of sound Marina Peterson to discuss these questions at the Goldman Theater, David Brower Center in Berkeley. Click the link in our bio for tickets and more information!
Other Minds Archives Find! A photo of Emmit Powel Other Minds Archives Find! A photo of Emmit Powell, the producer of "The Gospel Experience" program on KPFA. He was also the leader of The Gospel Elites music group and owner of Powell’s Place, a restaurant in San Francisco.
OTHER MINDS ANNOUNCES SEARCH FOR NEW EXECUTIVE DIR OTHER MINDS ANNOUNCES SEARCH FOR NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Desired Start Date January 1, 2027 Other Minds announces a search today for a new Executive Director. The Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for executing OM’s mission and purpose, while administering its staff and ensuring that it is financially sustainable through fundraising and grant awards and opportunities. The ED will establish clear metrics to evaluate OM’s programs and operations, and ensure that results are communicated effectively to OM’s Board of Directors, funders, and the broader community. The ED will bring a balance of artistic literacy, nonprofit management, financial acumen, and genuine enthusiasm for working in partnership with staff, board, artists, local organizations, and donors. Click the link in our bio to read the full job description.
Tonight! Stephen Siek plays Alexander Reinagle: Mo Tonight! Stephen Siek plays Alexander Reinagle: Monday, July 20, at 7:30 PM at Littlefield Concert Hall at Mills College. Alexander Reinagle was born in Edinburgh and emigrated to America in 1786. He soon established himself as Philadelphia’s most renowned musician, and after George Washington heard him at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Washington engaged him to give piano lessons to Martha’s granddaughter, Nelly Custis. Nelly was ten when she began her instruction in 1789, and within a few years, Reinagle had completed several large Sonatas for the piano which are today known as the Philadelphia Sonatas. Although they were not published till long after his death, he performed them frequently at public concerts, and today they are regarded as the most significant keyboard music composed in Early America. Presenting Reinagle’s work on both piano, as well as the more historically appropriate fortepiano, will be Stephen Siek, whose recording of the Philadelphia Sonatas remains the gold standard. Siek will also present commentary on the work as well as a lecture with projections illustrating the life and work of the composer. Tickets are still available in the link in our bio.
Stephen Siek plays Alexander Reinagle this Monday, Stephen Siek plays Alexander Reinagle this Monday, July 20, at 7:30 PM at Littlefield Concert Hall at Mills College. Alexander Reinagle was born in Edinburgh and emigrated to America in 1786. He soon established himself as Philadelphia’s most renowned musician, and after George Washington heard him at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Washington engaged him to give piano lessons to Martha’s granddaughter, Nelly Custis. Nelly was ten when she began her instruction in 1789, and within a few years, Reinagle had completed several large Sonatas for the piano which are today known as the Philadelphia Sonatas. Although they were not published till long after his death, he performed them frequently at public concerts, and today they are regarded as the most significant keyboard music composed in Early America. Presenting Reinagle’s work on both piano, as well as the more historically appropriate fortepiano, will be Stephen Siek, whose recording of the Philadelphia Sonatas remains the gold standard. Siek will also present commentary on the work as well as a lecture with projections illustrating the life and work of the composer. Tickets are still available in the link in our bio.
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