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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: The Music of Alvin Curran, 1991, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1991.03.28.A

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

91 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1991-03-28 | broadcast
| 1991-03-28 | created

Description

Alvin Curran is one of the most active and inventive avant-garde and electronic music composers of the current and past century. He was the co-founder of the radical music collective, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV), and has taught at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, as well as at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he was a visiting Professor of Music from 1991 to 2006. He specializes in works for keyboard, percussion, winds, voices, and natural sounds, often performed at outdoor sites. In this program, recorded in March of 1991, Curran introduces a number of his works, including “Erat Verbum” and “Electric Rags II.” Curran’s pieces incorporate ambient and musical sounds in a startlingly complex and lyrical evocation of the human spirit. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Sound poetry

Musical Selections

Erat Verbum: Alpha [excerpt] (1990) (8:08) -- [excerpts from the album “Electric Rags II”] (ca. 1989) -- Wasserkorso [excerpt] (1987)

Performers

ROVA Saxophone Quartet (Electric Rags II)

Subjects

Avant-garde (Music)
Electronic music
Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Woodwind quartets (Saxophones (4))
Aleatory music
Foghorns

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

ROVA Saxophone Quartet
Amirkhanian, Charles
Curran, Alvin S., 1938-