KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Radio Event: No. 7: Junk and All that Jazz

Analog Audio

Event Type

Intermedia and Visual Arts

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

RE.1970.03.23.c2

Program Series

Radio Event

Program Length

71 min

Dates

1970-03-23 | broadcast
| 1970-03-23 | created

Description

A lengthy aural montage of interviews and monologues on the topic of “junk,” mixed with snippets of jazz music and live in-studio chatter and listener phone calls to KPFA. Under the direction of composer Anthony Gnazzo, this extended text-sound composition was played on the radio during one of KPFA’s groundbreaking listener participatory Radio Events. Chaotic and fun, this sort of adventurous and experimental programing was typical of the anarchistic artistic world that was Berkeley, during the late 1960s and early 70s.

Genres

Interactive Art

Musical Selections

[collage of spoken word and music, mixed with in-studio chatter and listener phone calls]

Subjects

Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Participatory art
Interactive art
Audience participation radio programs

Acknowledgment

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

Related places

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

Related Entities

KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)
Gnazzo, Anthony, 1936-