KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Lars-Gunnar Bodin & Bengt-Emil Johnson, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1988.03.25.A

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

112 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1988-03-25 | broadcast
| 1988-03-25 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian interviews composers Lars-Gunnar Bodin, director of the prestigious EMS (Institute for Electro-Acoustic Music) in Sweden, and Bengt-Emil Johnson, one of Sweden’s leading poets and electronic music composers. Both were touring the United States in 1988 to present their music in concerts and on the radio. In this program, which surveys the scene in Swedish electronic and avant-garde music during the latter half of the 20th century, we hear a number of compositions, including “Nightchants I” by Johnson, and “Mémoires”, by Bodin. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Sound poetry

Musical Selections

On Speaking Terms: The second reading (1986) / Lars-Gunnar Bodin -- Vittringar (1978) / Bengt-Emil Johnson -- Mémoires du temps d’avant la destruction (1982) / Lars-Gunnar Bodin

Performers

Kerstin Ståhl, voice (Vittringar)
Göran Rydberg, percussion (Vittringar)

Subjects

Composers -- Sweden
Music -- Sweden
Electronic music
Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Computer music
Environmentalism
Sami (European people)
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986

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

EMS
Electronmusikstudion
Amirkhanian, Charles
Bodin, Lars-Gunnar, 1935-
Johnson, Bengt Emil, 1936-
Ståhl, Kerstin
Rydberg, Göran