KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ First Festival of Live Electronic Music: Winters by John Dinwiddie

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

FLEM.1967.12.XX.3

Program Series

First Festival of Live Electronic Music

Program Length

25 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

A work by John Dinwiddie, performed as part of the First Festival of Live Electronic Music, which involved a series of five concerts given at Mills College and the University of California at Davis on December 4-6, 1967. “Winters” (probably named after a town where it was composed), can be regarded as two compositions performed simultaneously, one focusing on the sounds produced and the other on the activities involved in producing those sounds. The equipment used include two performers with microphones, a large wind chime made from a suspended bicycle wheel and seventy six mirrors of various sizes, four slide projectors, and electronic amplification. In response to instructions inferred from the slides, the two performers used microphones to either pick up the sounds of the wind chime as they struck it, or to produce feedback by placing the microphones near the loudspeakers. While this piece was intended to be accompanied by a “light show.” and is thus missing much of its original impact, there can be no doubt that this recording is an excellent example of the type of music presented during the Festival.

(Some of this information is from Will Johnson’s article in the magazine “Source: Music for the Avant-Garde” No. 4)

Genres

Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Avant-garde

Musical Selections

Winters (1967) / John Dinwiddie

Subjects

Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Avant-garde (Music)

Related places

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

Related Entities

First Festival of Live Electronic Music
Dinwiddie, John