KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Music Special with The Hub, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1989.09.07.A

Program Length

119 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1989-09-07 | broadcast
| 1989-09-07 | created

Description

A live performance of “HubRenga”, an audience interactive music and poetry piece made possible by the communication between two computer networks. The collaborators in the creation of this piece are San Francisco Bay Area computer music band The Hub, novelist and musician Ramón Sender, and poets from a poetry conference of The Well (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link), a pioneering electronic community that operates in the Bay Area facilitating communication between people interested in arts and alternative lifestyles. The poetry conference was a forum about poetry which subscribers to The Well could join to exchange ideas and work collaboratively. Ramón Sender, co-founder of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, was the moderator of the poetry conference for a number of years. The Hub, is a band of electronic music composers using their networked computers to share data in real time. During this performance, poets submitted their work to the piece via The Well. At the KPFA studio, Ramón, as moderator, browsed their submissions at they came in, reading them aloud as part of the music. One Hub member also received the texts on his computer, which was programmed to filter for specific keywords, determined in advance to trigger specific musical responses. The piece was made possible by an InterArts grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, administered by New Langton Arts in San Francisco. The program is hosted by Charles Amirkhanian. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Interactive Art

Musical Selections

Hub Renga [part 1] / The Hub

Performers

Ramón Sender, voice
The Hub:
Chris Brown, electronics
John Bischoff, electronics
Tim Perkis, electronics
Phil Stone, electronics

Subjects

Computer music
Electronic music
Computer networks
Mixed media (Music)
Interactive art
Participatory art
Poetry

Related places

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

Related Entities

Hub (Computer music group)
Brown, Chris, 1953-
Bischoff, John
Perkis, Tim
Stone, Phil
Sender Barayón, Ramón, 1934-