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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Experimental Musical Instruments, 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type
Interview and Music
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
MC.1986.03.31.B
Program Series
Morning Concert
Program Length
134 min
Part
2 of 2
Dates
1986-03-31 | broadcast
| 1986-03-31 | created
Description
Since it was first published in 1985, the magazine “Experimental Musical Instruments”, has exposed a growing readership to dozens of very unusual instruments and approaches to music-making. This bimonthly, 16 page newsletter also featured reviews of concerts, books, and records as well as an expanding letters section which acted as a forum for music enthusiasts. On the cover of the inaugural issue, editor Bart Hopkin states that “EMI is for people interested in new and unconventional musical sound sources. Instrument designers, builders and players, composers, acousticians, scholars and, I think, anyone with an adventurous turn of mind will find something of value here.” Hopkin joins Russ Jennings to discuss this publication and share recordings of many of the very special instruments featured in its pages. Some of the unusual instruments heard include the cristal, car horn organ, large wind harps and long string instruments. (from KPFA Folio)
Genres
Unconventional instruments
Avant-garde
Musical Selections
Clay Music / Barney Childs -- The Way [1st movement] / David Cope -- [a piece for The Semi-Civilized Tree] / Nazim Ozel -- Sandwich / Tom Nunn & Chris Brown -- [a demonstration of the Clay Ocarina] -- [a demonstration of the Disorderly Tumbling Forth] -- [a demonstration of a Waterphone] -- [samples of instruments built by Bart Hopkin] -- The Great American Slide Whistle / Bart Hopkin
Subjects
Unconventional instruments
Musical instruments
Musical instrument makers
Avant-garde (Music)
Electro-acoustic
Sound sculpture
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by Save America’s Treasures, a program of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Jennings, Russ
Hopkin, Bart, 1952-
Childs, Barney
Cope, David
Ozel, Nazim
Nunn, Tom
Brown, Chris, 1953-