KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Oceans in Motion, 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1976.05.19.B

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

86 min

Part

2 of 2

Dates

1976-05-19 | broadcast
| 1976-05-19 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian introduces recordings of unusual 20th Century music released by the Ocean Records label. The brainchild of composer Allen Strange and friend David Porter, Ocean distributed cassettes of sound poetry, electronic music, Indonesian music, and other salty material, once a month to subscribers. In this program, Amirkhanian highlights Ocean’s Composers’ Cassettes recordings of music by Lou Harrison and Richard Dee (”Suite for Violin with American Gamelan”) and sound poetry by Larry Wendt. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

Sound poetry

Musical Selections

Log Pi Sutra (5:27) / Larry Wendt -- Gending uyon-uyon: Javanese court gamelan music [excerpt] / K. R. T. Wasitdipuro

Subjects

Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Record companies
Gamelan music

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Ocean Records
Amirkhanian, Charles
Strange, Allen
Wendt, Larry
Wasitdipuro, K. R. T.