KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: New Works of Liam O'Gallagher (1971)

Analog Audio

Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1971.07.28

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

56 min

Dates

1971-07-28 | broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

Three mutant, sci-fi, fantasies by San Francisco writer and visual artist Liam O'Gallagher. His concrete poetry and cut-up writings, often heralded a future of artificial intelligence, space migration, and expanding consciousness as is shown in these three works form the early 1970s. "2021" is a reply to Philip Geitzen's question concerning whether science fiction will be science fact in 2021. It was the soundtrack for a Geitzen video piece premiered at the Philo T. Farnsworth Memorial Event held at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco in June of 1971. "Super/Software" is a cut-up text which appears in O'Gallagher's "The Blue Planet Notebooks", published in 1972 by the San Francisco underground magazine, "Organ". "Past/Future Time" is a cut-up which includes material from a record found in an elevator at 205 West 57th. A record that could be a so-called “artifact" from a future time, perhaps 100 to 125 years from the present. O’Gallagher died in 2007 at the age of 90.

Genres

Sound poetry
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic

Musical Selections

2021 -- Super/Software -- Past/Future Time

Subjects

Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Cut-ups (Literary form)
Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Science
Time

Related places

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

Related Entities

Philo T. Farnsworth Memorial
Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco)
O'Gallagher, Liam
Amirkhanian, Charles