KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ New Music FM I: Signal Smart, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

WNYC

Identifier

AM.1983.07.18.1.A

Program Length

121 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1983-07-18 | broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

Ned Sublette introduces a program of five works produced for the broadcast medium by New York composers. These full length, electronic and musique concrète pieces, most of which involve samples from radio and TV broadcasts, provide a fascinating introduction to the experimental music scene of New York during the early 1980s. The composers represented are Peter Gordon, David van Tieghem, Ned Sublette, Maryanne Amacher, Frankie Mann, and the Boris Police Band. This was the first of four nationally broadcast programs, each emanating from one of the four previous host cities of the New Music America Festival, and was meant as a preview to the 1983 Festival which was held in Washington D. C. in October 1983. Please put on the headphones and settle in for two hours of extraordinary electronic soundscapes from the Big Apple.

Genres

Electro-Acoustic / Electronic

Musical Selections

Frozen Moments of Passion: A Tone Poem (1980) (21:40) / Peter Gordon -- We Didn’t Do That, for radios and drums (24:22) / David van Tieghem & Ned Sublette -- Intercept [part 1] (11:04) / Maryanne Amacher

Subjects

Electronic music
Electro-acoustic
Musique concrète
Music, concrete
Monologues with music (Saxophone with electronic music)
Electronic and percussion music

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

New York (N.Y.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Sublette, Ned, 1951-
Gordon, Peter, 1951-
Van Tieghem, David
Amacher, Maryanne