KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Transmission Three, Oct. 1970

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.1970.10.26

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

37 min

Dates

1970-10-26 | broadcast
| 1970-10-26 | created

Description

From trains to freeways, to the chants of native people in Indonesia, to the cast of “Hair” singing on the top of Mt. Tamalpais, this third transmission of KPFA’s groundbreaking series of ambient field recordings from around the world, takes the listener on a virtual tour of the world as it was in 1970. Join host Charles Amirkhanian as he squeezes the globe into your head phones.

Genres

Soundscapes
Field recordings

Musical Selections

[diesel trains, Fresno, California, Summer 1969] / Karlheinz Martens -- [Southwest Freeway at 3 am, Houston, Texas] / Mitch Green -- [a reading from “The New Soundscape; A Handbook for the Modern Music Teacher”] / R. Murray Schafer -- [chant with percussion, Indonesia] / Larry Reed -- [cock fight] -- [village sounds, Indonesia] / Larry Reed -- [church service, Mitla, Mexico] / David Teskey (sp?) -- [cast of “Hair” singing “Aquarius”, Mt. Tamalpais, California, 1970] / David Teskey

Subjects

Field recordings
Ambient sounds
Railroad sounds
Music -- History and criticism
Soundscapes (Music)
Music -- Indonesia
Songs with percussion
Animal sounds
Cockfighting
Musicals

Related places

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

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Schafer, R. Murray
Martens, Karlheinz
Green, Mitch
Reed, Larry
Teskey, David