KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: An Interview with Joan La Barbara & Morton Subotnick

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1979.03.16

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

45 min

Dates

1979-03-16 | broadcast
| 1979-03-16 | created

Description

In a program recorded in 1979, Charles Amirkhanian talks with guests Joan La Barbara and Morton Subotnick. La Barbara is a singer and composer working with extended vocal techniques. She was also the new music critic of the magazine “Musical America”, and she and Charles critique a concert by Philip Glass. Morton Subotnick is one of America's foremost electronic composers and has taught at CalArts and has also lectured extensively around the world. In this program he discusses his work "Ghost Pieces". The three also talk about the differences, or lack of them, between East Coast and West Coast music scenes, and the Uptown and Downtown schools of music.

Genres

Electro-Acoustic / Electronic

Musical Selections

A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur [excerpt] (1978) / Morton Subotnick -- Liquid Strata [excerpt] (1977) / Morton Subotnick -- Twelvesong (1977) / Joan La Barbara

Performers

Ralph Grierson, piano (Liquid Strata)
Morton Subotnick, "ghost" electronics and piano (Liquid Strata)
Joan LaBarbara, voice (Twelvesong)

Subjects

Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Vocalises
Vocal music
Piano music
Piano and electronic music

Related places

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

Related Entities

Subotnick, Morton
La Barbara, Joan, 1947-
Amirkhanian, Charles
Grierson, Ralph, 1942-