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Grammy Award winning pianist Gloria Cheng teams up with the father of minimalism, Terry Riley, for a recital of Riley’s music. Gloria Cheng has a decades long relationship with Terry Riley’s [...]

As one of experimental music’s most influential guitarists, Bill Orcutt weaves looping melodic lines and angular attack into a dense, fissured landscape of American primitivism, outsider jazz, [...]

Linda Bouchard with Kyle Bruckmann Linda Bouchard’s works are defined by the importance of color and textures, and the structures of her compositions are intimately linked to the orchestral [...]

All the way from Tokyo, Japan, guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama brings his motorik “infinite boogie” and graveside blues minimalism to the Center for New Music. Ecstatic music aesthete John Krausbauer [...]

As a performance duo, Joshua Churchill and John Davis operate spontaneously to create densely layered organic and atmospheric works, combining Churchill’s dynamic soundscapes with Davis’s [...]

The records of  Other Minds are now processed and available for research in the UCSC Special Collections & Archives reading room. The completed finding aid is available here: Other Minds: The [...]

Michael Pisaro is a composer and guitarist, and a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble. Hi is also a member of the composition faculty at CalArts in Valencia, CA. He has written over 80 [...]

The new exhibit, Inquiring into Other Minds: The Cultivation of Experimental Music in the Bay Area and Beyond, opened at UC Santa Cruz on the McHenry Third Floor Gallery on Thursday, May 10th [...]

Other Minds Festival 23 (performances April 9-14, 2018), was devoted to text-sound compositional work utilizing “speech” as a musical medium–text, isolated phonemes, and other vocal utterances as [...]

Internationally-renowned sound artist Bill Fontana uses sound as a sculptural medium to interact with and transform our perceptions of natural and architectural spaces. He often uses a rich [...]