KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Radio Event: No. 3: Furniture Mix

Analog Audio

Event Type

Intermedia and Visual Arts

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

RE.1969.11.20.c2

Program Series

Radio Event

Program Length

51 min

Dates

1969-11-20 | broadcast
| 1969-11-20 | created
| 1984-01-27 | broadcast

Description

Dancer, choreographer, and intermedia artist, Anna Halprin leads the KPFA audience in a participatory event, recorded live on Thursday evening, November 20, 1969. Listeners were encouraged to rearrange their furniture at home in time to music played over the air and then to visualize a fantasy which occurred to them in the process. These fantasies were called into the station towards the conclusion of the program. The show’s producer and host was Charles Amirkhanian. Anna Halprin directed the event. The program begins with a short summary of Halprin's recent activity at the time in leading a bi-racial workshop and performance of her, "Ceremony of Us". This show is from a series of audience participation radio programs in which artists were given air time to create situations that physically involved the listening audience.

[Note: There are some extended areas of intentional silence in the program, the first at 13:30-21:11, the second at 23:15-28:05]

Genres

Interactive Art

Musical Selections

Goin' Out of My Head [excerpt] -- Live for Life [excerpt] -- Don't Fence Me In [excerpt] -- Renaissance vocal, Mozart Symphony no. 35 [excerpt]

Subjects

Modern dance
Dance companies
Choreography
Interactive art
Participatory art
Audience participation radio programs

Related places

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

Related Entities

Halprin, Anna
Amirkhanian, Charles