KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Lars-Gunnar Bodin & Bengt-Emil Johnson, 2 of 2
Analog Audio
Event Type
Interview and MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
MC.1988.03.25.BProgram Series
Morning ConcertProgram Length
112 minPart
2 of 2Dates
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 / ElectronicSound poetry
Musical Selections
Nightchants [text from Navajo poetry] (1981) / Bengt-Emil Johnson -- Repulse (1986) / Åke Parmerud -- Orgelstycke 1980 (”Organ Piece 1980”) [excerpt] / Ákos RózmannPerformers
Kerstin Ståhl, voice (Nightchants)Subjects
Composers -- SwedenMusic -- Sweden
Electronic music
Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Computer music
Electro-acoustic
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
EMSElectronmusikstudion
Amirkhanian, Charles
Johnson, Bengt Emil, 1936-
Bodin, Lars-Gunnar, 1935-
Ståhl, Kerstin
Parmerud, Åke, 1953-
Rózmann, Ákos