KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Word-Tape Works and Music, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1970.07.29.A

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

51 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1970-07-29 | broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

From 1970, a program of word-tape compositions by Steve Reich and Charles Amirkhanian. During the 1960s and 70s a number of composers and poets began to experiment with tape editing techniques to create text-sound compositions in which fragments of text were cut-up, repeated, or otherwise manipulated in order to create a new synthesis between speech and sound. A selection of these works of sound poetry are presented here. Also included in this program is a performance by the Incredible String Band, recorded at the Fillmore West and an orchestral work by Sir William Turner Walton.

Genres

Sound poetry
Poetry

Musical Selections

Radii (1970-72) / Charles Amirkhanian -- Come Out (1966) / Steve Reich -- [unidentified poems] / Charles Amirkhanian

Performers

Daniel Hamm, voice (Come)

Subjects

Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Poetry

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by Save America’s Treasures, a program of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Related places

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

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Reich, Steve, 1936-
Hamm, Daniel