Tom Zahuranec and others, at a KPFA Radio Event, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1971
Tom Zahuranec looks on as two men play with a synthesizer, at a KPFA Radio Event, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1971
Tom Zahuranec talks with a participant, at a KPFA Radio Event, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1971
Tom Zahuranec looks on as a person adjust settings on synthesizer, at a KPFA Radio Event, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1971
Tom Zahuranec and another man adjust a synthesizers settings, at a KPFA Radio Event, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1971
Participants, as seen through the recording booth window, at a KPFA Radio Event, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1971
Two men adjust the setting on synthesizers while Tom Zahuranec and others look on, at a KPFA Radio Event, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1971
Two people bend over equipment as others crowd around, at a KPFA Radio Event, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1971
Woman sitting, with other standing participants, at a KPFA Radio Event, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1971
Participants, standing with backs to camera, at a KPFA Radio Event, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1971
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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Radio Event: No. 13: Bucket - Ful Mercury Walk

Analog Audio

Event Type
Intermedia and Visual Arts
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
RE.1971.03.04
Program Series
Radio Event
Program Length
80 min
Dates
1971-03-04 | broadcast
| 1971-03-04 | created
Description
Broadcasted live from the Mills College Electronic Tape Music Center via a remote, portable transmitter, Tom Zahuranec's "Bucket-Ful Mercury Walk" invited listeners at home to drive to Mills and assist in creating sounds using various electronic equipment including Moog and Buchla synthesizers. Guests discovered and experimented with their manipulated voices while others helped turn knobs on the instruments. Charles Amirkhanian reports live from the event, which over two hundred people attended, including Don Buchla who brought in one of his newest model synthesizers of that time. The program features over 45 minutes of analog sounds for listeners to bathe themselves in. This recording is one in a series of audience participation radio programs in which artists were given air time to create situations that physically involved the listening audience.

Note: Tom's last name is pronounced ‘Zur-a-ness'
Genres
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Interactive Art
Subjects
Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Participatory art
Interactive art
Moog synthesizer
Synthesizer music
Audience participation radio programs
Related places
Oakland (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Mills College
KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)
Amirkhanian, Charles
Zahuranec, Tom
Buchla, Donald