KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Music to make you blind: Interview with Lowell Cross

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1971.01.13.c1

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

58 min

Dates

1971-01-13 | broadcast
| 1971-01-13 | created

Description

Lowell Cross was born in 1938 in Kingsville, Texas. He is an American composer of electro-acoustic and multimedia works that have been performed throughout the world. He is also active as an engineer and instrument builder. Cross taught at Mills College in Oakland from 1968-69, where he also served as artistic director of the Tape Music Center. He also taught art and technology, musical acoustics, recording techniques, and other subjects at the University of Iowa in Iowa City from 1971-2002, where he was a Professor of Music. In this program, recorded in 1971, Cross visits with Charles Amirkhanian and Richard Friedman and discusses his collaboration with David Tudor involving laser projections which was premiered at the Osaka World's Fair in 1970. This program also includes a stereo recording of “Video II-B”.

Genres

Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Performance Art

Musical Selections

Video II-B / Lowell Cross

Subjects

Multimedia (Art)
Electronic musical instruments
Electro-acoustic
Mixed media (Music)
Performance art

Related places

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

Related Entities

Expo '70 (Osaka, Japan)
Mills College
San Francisco Tape Music Center
University of Iowa
Amirkhanian, Charles
Cross, Lowell M.
Tudor, David, 1926-1996