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๐Ÿ“€ Return with Ruggles from a long weekend! ๐Ÿ“€ Spec ๐Ÿ“€ Return with Ruggles from a long weekend! ๐Ÿ“€ Specifically, our release of the complete Ruggles! Reissued from the historic 1980 CBS Masterworks LP, our 2CD set includes original liner notes plus a rare critical essay by composer Lou Harrison. Carl Ruggles (1876โ€“1971) was an innovative American composer who used โ€œdissonant counterpointโ€ to fashion a body of work both finely crafted and wrought with emotional power. This reissue includes world-renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the original liner notes plus a rare essay on Ruggles by Lou Harrison and historic photos of the composer. Link to buy is in our bio! Link to stream and download here: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-music-of-carl-ruggleshttps://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-music-of-carl-ruggles
Celebrate David Tudor's 100th birthday (January 20 Celebrate David Tudor's 100th birthday (January 20) with this program and recording of a concert celebrating his 39th, recorded in San Francisco 60 years ago today! We know, we know, it's a picture of Cage, not Tudor, on the program... Recorded by KPFA Radio, this historic concert thundered through the halls of the sculpture court of the San Francisco Museum of Art before a capacity audience that included the late Darius Milhaud in his wheelchair and other Bay Area arts dignitaries. The volume levels were raucous and the medium of live electronic music never more vibrant. The program included Cage's "Duet for Cymbal" and "Variations IV," with Christian Wolff's "for 1, 2, or 3 people" in between. Links to view the full program and listen to the concert in our bio!
Drones for Thursday! On the aptly named Drones, @ Drones for Thursday! On the aptly named Drones, @jenksalden shares three longform pieces of delicate synthesis recorded in the late 60s and early 70s. While the pieces are hardly blissful, they represent somewhat of a link between the avant-garde and New Age music scenes simultaneously percolating in the Bay Area in that time period. Link to stream and buy in our bio.
Good weather's back in Berkeley! To celebrate, he Good weather's back in Berkeley! To celebrate, here's a photo from the Other Minds Archives of Gerhard Stรคbler (left) and Charles Amirkhanian in shorts and sandals. Taken during the 1990 Composer-to-Composer Festival, held in Telluride Colorado from July 13-15, 1990. Remember, it's always sunny and breezy when you're combing through the Other Minds Archives: https://archives.otherminds.org/index.php
It's Tuesday, time to buy a new record. How about It's Tuesday, time to buy a new record. How about our Scenes from a New Music Sรฉance? At some point it seemed appropriate that Other Minds honor the deceased progenitors of American experimental music by presenting their music side by side with their spiritual offspring. And thus was born โ€œA New Music Sรฉance.โ€ Other Minds composers are mostly individualists who have forged their own paths that are very personal and that announce their creators as boundary pushers. These individualists flourished because others, equally daring, led the way. The series was subtitled, somewhat tongue in cheek, โ€œSummoning the specters of musical forbears, channeling the spirits of their successors.โ€ The duo of @grebnet and @zofoduet's Eva-Maria Zimmermann bring these โ€œghostโ€ works to life and allow us to hear these exceedingly rare gems from the violin and piano repertory. Link in our bio to buy digitally or on cd.
We're still reeling from @acwcomposer 's incredibl We're still reeling from @acwcomposer 's incredible performance of Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories last Thursday. If you missed it, we'll have video up soon, but you can also read the program notes while listening to a recording of the piece to pretend you were there! Link in our bio to the full program notes
๐Ÿ“ฝ Blue+Bob Concert Video ๐Ÿ“ฝ Did you miss our Blue+ ๐Ÿ“ฝ Blue+Bob Concert Video ๐Ÿ“ฝ Did you miss our Blue+Bob concert in September, featuring Joseph Kubera and @cahill_piano playing "Blue" Gene Tyranny and Robert Ashley compositions? Fret no more! We've uploaded the entire performance for your viewing pleasure. Link to stream is in our bio. And, if you love these sorts of concerts, don't forget that this week we celebrate Morton Feldman's 100th birthday with a performance of his Triadic Memories at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. More info and a link to buy tickets in our bio.
Other Minds welcomes pianist Amy Williams @acwcomp Other Minds welcomes pianist Amy Williams @acwcomposer to perform Morton Feldmanโ€™s monumentalโ€”and rarely performedโ€”Triadic Memories on Thursday, January 8, 2026, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, in celebration of the composerโ€™s centennial. Morton Feldmanโ€™s extraordinary late solo piano work is a study in slowly evolving repetitions over the 80-minute duration. Exact repetitions, subtle variations, shifting patterns and fresh new materials are interwoven. Materials are constantly recontextualized, using different voicing and registers, changing one note of a chord, juxtaposing new harmoniesโ€”always changing and always soft. The listener is taken on a journey of deep concentration and reflection. Pianist/composer Amy Williams has been connected to Feldmanโ€™s music since her childhoodโ€”her father and Feldman were close colleagues at the University at Buffalo. She has recorded and performed his music for nearly three decades. This concert is part of Other Mindsโ€™s PastForward series, presented in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Music, Northeastern University and Mills Performing Arts. Ticket link in our bio!
OM 29 videos coming your way! First up is our fes OM 29 videos coming your way! First up is our festival opener: @pamelazed's Simultaneous, an intermedia composition composed of speech fragments taken from interviews with friends and collaborators woven together with Zโ€™s own vocalizations and found sounds. Link to watch in our bio.
@acwcomposer on the Other Minds Podcast Ready for @acwcomposer on the Other Minds Podcast Ready for our celebration of Morton Feldmanโ€™s 100th Birthday? This January 8, Other Minds welcomes pianist Amy Williams to perform Morton Feldmanโ€™s monumentalโ€”and rarely performedโ€”Triadic Memories at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. Morton Feldmanโ€™s extraordinary late solo piano work is a study in slowly evolving repetitions over the 80-minute duration. Pianist/composer Amy Williams has been connected to Feldmanโ€™s music since her childhoodโ€”her father and Feldman were close colleagues at the University at Buffalo. Listen to her interview with our Associate Director Joseph Bohigian on the Other Minds Podcast. Links in our bio for tickets and podcast.
Contact sheet for portraits of Anahid and Maro Aje Contact sheet for portraits of Anahid and Maro Ajemian with Lou Harrison (ca.1950s) A black and white contact sheet of twelve images that feature head and shoulders portraits of violinist Anahid Ajemian (left), pianist Maro Ajemian, and composer Lou Harrison. The three are seated at a table and in conversation throughout the sequence.
Happy Boxing Day! Enjoy this Other Minds Archive Happy Boxing Day! Enjoy this Other Minds Archive Find: 9 minutes of sawtooth experimentation on the "Payne Box" from the late '60s. This is an early example of the types of sounds that can be created electronically. It is uncertain if this modulated sawtooth wave was intended as a piece of electronic music or simply as a demonstration of a certain type of analog synthesizer. The accompanying documentation indicates it was one channel of a โ€œPayne Box,โ€ which may indicate that it was created by either Maggi Payne or John Payne, both composers of electronic music associated with KPFA during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Link in our bio.
Happy Holidays! Want to relive the shopping you d Happy Holidays! Want to relive the shopping you did a month ago? Here's a fly on the wall recording of Christmas shoppers, recorded at Hinks Department store in Berkeley, California on November 30, 1970, at 4:30 PM. This ambient field recording picks up the sounds of people as they walk past, use the phone, and open a music box. Link in our bio to the full recording on our Archives.
๐Ÿ“€๐ŸŽ…๐ŸŽ Ratchet Attach It for Xmas๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿ“€๐ŸŽ Need a last min ๐Ÿ“€๐ŸŽ…๐ŸŽ Ratchet Attach It for Xmas๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿ“€๐ŸŽ Need a last minute gift idea for your belovรฉd spouse, over-achieving child, or father who has it all? How about @odetogravity's newly released Ratchet Attach It? Sip cocoa and watch the yule log burn while listening to soon to be Christmas Classics like "The U.S. Army Postal Unit at Blandford, Dorset, 1944" and "Bum of the Flightlebee." Link in our bio to buy now on CD, LP, and Digital Download.
๐Ÿ“ฝ Streaming for Break: @ensembledecipher and @dudu ๐Ÿ“ฝ Streaming for Break: @ensembledecipher and @dudukwhisperer 's ๐Ÿ“ฝ If you haven't had time, the holidays might be perfect to watch the streaming video of scenes in workshop from the work-in-progress, I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment, by American composer Joseph Bohigian, Lebanese-Armenian vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian, and the music-technology group Ensemble Decipher. Cozy up by the yule log with this evening-length multimedia work for solo voice, electronics ensemble, and video projection about the life of the visionary Georgian-born Soviet-Armenian film director Sergei Parajanov. Link in our bio to the full performance.
๐Ÿ“ป Last night on Music from Other Minds on @kalwmus ๐Ÿ“ป Last night on Music from Other Minds on @kalwmusic ๐Ÿ“ป Late-Soviet Composers! On this rebroadcast of an earlier Music from Other Minds, Joseph Bohigian presented a program of music by composers from the former Soviet Union from the mid 1970s to early 1990s that looks outward, away from the countryโ€™s administrative center, engaging with influences at the edges of the Soviet East and South, or looking toward Western Europe. Including works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke, Edison Denisov, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, Astraea, and Valentin Silvestrov. The image above is Alfred Schnittke's gravestone: a fermata over a full rest. Link in our bio to the complete playlist and program.
@pmargasak writes on Bandcamp that @putu_septa 's @pmargasak writes on Bandcamp that @putu_septa 's Piwal is one of The Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2025! "Septa recognizes vast potential for the gamelan, evoking the most abstract swells and tones of experimental electronic music and classic minimalism (although neither is really deployed here). Thereโ€™s a clear fluency in traditional gamelan music, so when Septa subverts that tradition, itโ€™s with a mix of respect and love. That deep understanding seems to allow him to take all kinds of chances. Few things Iโ€™ve heard this year have been more transportive." Link in our bio to buy the album!
๐ŸŽถ ๐ŸŽน Tonight! Margaret Leng Tan ๐ŸŽน ๐ŸŽถ On Thursday De ๐ŸŽถ ๐ŸŽน Tonight! Margaret Leng Tan ๐ŸŽน ๐ŸŽถ On Thursday December 4, 2025, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, Other Minds welcomes Singaporean avant-garde pianist and toy pianist Margaret Leng Tan to present And No Birds Sing. To celebrate, here's a group portrait of many of the featured participants and organizers of the 5th Other Minds Music Festival, taken during their pre-festival retreat at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA, in March of 1999. Back row (l to r): Susan Radcliff, Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari, Alvin Lucier, Errollyn Wallen, Jim Newman, Julian Priester, and Charles Amirkhanian. Front row (l to r): Linda Bouchard, Antรณnio Pinho Vargas, Sam Rivers, Luc Ferrari, and Mary Ellen Childs. On floor: @margaret.l.tan.7. Photo by John Fago. Link in our bio for tickets to the event.
๐Ÿ•Š๐ŸŽน And No Birds Sing: Tomorrow Night! ๐ŸŽน๐Ÿ•Š On Thurs ๐Ÿ•Š๐ŸŽน And No Birds Sing: Tomorrow Night! ๐ŸŽน๐Ÿ•Š On Thursday December 4, 2025, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, Other Minds welcomes Singaporean avant-garde pianist and toy pianist @margaret.l.tan.7 to present And No Birds Sing, her โ€œpersonal endeavor to call attention to climate change and the dire consequences of remaining passive in the face of an unfolding universal catastrophe.โ€ Named for the refrain of a John Keats poem, And No Birds Sing features Tan playing works by John Luther Adams, Lois V Vierk, Somei Satoh, @anniegosfield, @michaelwookey, @erikgriswold6371, and John Cage. Stick around after for a post-event reception for cake and a toast to the 80th birthday of The Diva of the Toy Piano. Free with your purchase of a ticket! The reception will be held in the Ensemble Room of the Littlefield Concert Hall. Link in our bio to purchase tickets.
๐ŸŽŸ๐ŸŽŸ Win Margaret Leng Tan Tickets! ๐ŸŽŸ๐ŸŽŸ We're so exc ๐ŸŽŸ๐ŸŽŸ Win Margaret Leng Tan Tickets! ๐ŸŽŸ๐ŸŽŸ We're so excited for our upcoming Margaret Leng Tan concert on Thursday December 4, 2025, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, that we're running a ticket giveaway. Can you identify the brand below with just the snippet of its logo? Hint: it's something Margaret Leng Tan never performs without. First responders on our FB and Instagram feeds each win two tickets to this Thursday's concert. If you miss out, check the link in our bio to purchase tickets.
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