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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Computer Music from Stanford, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type
Interview and Music
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
MC.1979.01.11.A
Program Series
Morning Concert
Program Length
133 min
Part
1 of 2
Dates
1979-01-11 | broadcast
| 1979-01-11 | created
Description
On November 16 & 17, 1978, a concert of provocative and exciting new electronic tape pieces, produced at the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Center, was presented at the Stanford Museum of Art. Here is a program featuring a majority of those works by such composers as John Chowning, Gareth Loy, Paul Wieneke, Bill Schottstaedt, and kindly provided to KPFA by composer Michael McNabb of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Most of these works were realized using the Systems Concepts digital synthesizer and unlike the early electronic music of John Cage and David Tudor, this first generation of digitally synthesized music is smooth and soothing to the ear. The composers join Amirkhanian in the studio to discuss the various techniques they used to create their compositions. Also in this program is the San Francisco Bay Area premiere of “Phosphones”, a computer generated work by New York composer Emmanuel Ghent. This tape work, provided to KPFA by the composer, was created at the Bell Labs on the GROOVE Hybrid System.
Genres
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Musical Selections
Omnes amici mei (ca. 1611) (6:00) / Carlo Gesualdo -- Dreamsong (1978) (9:13) / Michael McNabb -- Dreamsong [played again] (1978) (9:13) / Michael McNabb -- Oracle-4:00 AM (1978) (7:23) / Paul Wieneke
Performers
Deller Consort (Omnes)
Alfred Deller, conductor (Omnes)
Marilyn Barber, soprano (Dreamsong)
Subjects
Electronic music
Electro-acoustic
17th century classical
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
Songs (High voice) with computer
Computer music
Computer composition
Musique concrète
Music, concrete
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.
Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Deller Consort
Stanford University. Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Amirkhanian, Charles
Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa, 1560 (ca.)-1613
Deller, Alfred
McNabb, Michael, 1952-
Barber, Marilyn (Soprano)
Wieneke, Paul