KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ A Brief Experimental Excerpt of Sound Poetry and Orchestral Music

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OF.XXXX.XX.XX.05

Program Length

8 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

A collage piece of sdrawcab sound poetry, rooster crows, miscellaneous ambient sounds and classical music by Charles Amirkhanian, probably for a broadcast ca. 1971. This brief experimental work begins with a recording of a man talking, played backwards and mixed with an occasional rooster crowing. This is followed by what appears to be a short sound poem, or an excerpt of one, as read, and possibly composed, by Charles Amirkhanian. Next heard is an excerpt of an unidentified symphonic work, and the program then concludes with a rather ambiguous apology by Amirkhanian for what is an abrupt termination of the recording due to someone “stepping on the tape recorder.”

Genres

Sound poetry

Musical Selections

[unidentified sound poem] -- [unidentified symphonic work]

Performers

Charles Amirkhanian, speaker

Subjects

Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Orchestral music

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related place

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles