Other Minds Festival: OM 13: Preview Interview on KALW
Digital Audio
Event Type
Interview and MusicOrigin
KALWIdentifier
OMF.2008.03.02Program Series
Other Minds FestivalProgram Length
108 minDates
2008-03-02 | broadcast| 2008-03-02 | created
Description
Recorded on March 2, 2008, pianist and KALW radio host Sarah Cahill, interviews Other Minds Associate Director Adam Fong and three of the featured composers of the 13th Other Minds Music Festival, while also playing a large selection of music by OM 13 composers. The program begins with a quintet for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello, composed by Dan Becker, a San Francisco Bay Area composer and OM 13 particpant. Cahill then talks to Fong about the upcoming Festival, its featured composers and performers, as well as the Djerassi Resident Artists Program where OM 13 participants meet for several days in idyllic surroundings to get to know each other and their music. Then, after playing “Purple Prelude” by Elena Kats-Chernin, a work which was to be included in OM 13, Cahill interviews Åke Parmerud about his tape and electro-acoustic compositions while also playing an excerpt from his “Grains of Voices” a 30 minute musique concrète piece that mixes filed recordings of speech and vocal music from around the world, as well his “Retur” for saxophone quartet and electronics. Following Parmerud, Cahill brings Keeril Makan to the microphone to introduce two contemporary chamber works including his “Threads” which is performed by the Paul Dresher Ensemble. The last OM 13 composer to be interviewed is the electronic music pioneer, Morton Subotnick, whose “Silver Apples of the Moon” was one of the first electronic music compositions ever composed explicitly for a recording as opposed to a live performance. The program then concludes with another work by Dan Becker. The quality and variety of the music heard here is a testament to the exceptional efforts that Other Minds has made in presenting the best in contemporary classical, avant-garde, and electronic music from around the world and by composers of all ages and backgrounds.Genres
20th century classicalNew music
Musical Selections
S.T.I.C., for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello (1995) (2:30) / Dan Becker -- Purple Prelude, for piano (1996) (6:10) / Elena Kats-Chernin -- Grains of Voices [excerpt] (ca. 1994-95) (8:40) / Åke Parmerud -- Retur, for saxophones and electronics (1992-93) (10:17) / Åke Parmerud -- Husk, for flute oboe and harp (ca. 2005-06) (4:39) / Keeril Makan -- Threads (2002) (11:00) / Keeril Makan -- Silver Apples of the Moon [excerpt] (1965-67) (15:20) / Morton Subotnick -- Gridlock (1994) (6:36) / Dan BeckerPerformers
New Millennium Ensemble: (S.T.I.C.)Anna Lim, violin (S.T.I.C.)
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet (S.T.I.C.)
Margaret Kampmeier, piano (S.T.I.C.)
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute (S.T.I.C.)
Gregory Hesselink, cello (S.T.I.C.)
Lisa Moore, piano (Purple)
Saxophone Quartet (Retur)
Paul Dresher Ensemble (Threads)
Subjects
20th century classicalNew music
Avant-garde (Music)
Chamber music
Quintets (Piano, clarinet, flute, violin, cello)
Piano music
Musique concrète
Music, concrete
Vocal music
Electronic music
Woodwind quartets (Saxophones (4))
Quintets (Saxophones (4), electronics)
Trios (Flute, oboe, harp)
Sextets (Electronic keyboard, bass clarinet, electric guitar, marimba, percussion, violin)
Instrumental ensembles
Related places
San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)San Francisco (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
New Millennium EnsembleStockholms Saxofonkvartett
Paul Dresher Ensemble
Cahill, Sarah
Fong, Adam, 1980-
Parmerud, Åke, 1953-
Makan, Keeril
Subotnick, Morton
Becker, Dan, 1960-
Kats-Chernin, Elena
Lim, Anna
Gythfeldt, Marianne
Kampmeier, Margaret A.
O'Connor, Tara Helen
Hesselink, Gregory
Moore, Lisa, 1960-