KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Music by Bob Davis
Analog Audio
Event Type
MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
AM.1976.03.11Program Length
23 minDates
| broadcast| 1976-03-11 | created
Description
A selection of music by Bob Davis. The first work, “Scherzophrania,” is an electronic and musique concrète tape piece featuring at times ominous electronic music mixed with maniacal laughter and other electronic sounds. This is followed by a series of excerpts from Davis’ 1976 composition “Big Ball in Town,” recorded at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on March 11, 1976, during the work’s first performance by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble, under the direction of John Adams. The piece, subtitled “A Tribute to Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers” is a collection of songs, comic dialogue, and musical interludes, all loosely based on the hillbilly and vaudeville music for which Tanner’s band was famous in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Bob Davis was born in Philadelphia in 1947 and received his musical education at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is primarily known as a folk and rock guitarist, the author of the “50 Cent Guitar Book,” and was once referred to as “the commonsense composer of new music” by the German music journalist Hans Pfitzinger.Genres
Electro-Acoustic / ElectronicMusical Selections
Scherzophrania (7:50) / Bob Davis -- excerpts from Big Ball in Town, a Tribute to Gid Tanner & HIs Skillet Lickers: Rain Don’t Fall - Corn Don’t Grow (2:50) ; Just Fill Me Up Again (2:44) ; Out of the Woodpile (4:14) ; Hard Luck Waltz & Let the Bad Luck Happen (3:28) (1976) / Bob DavisPerformers
San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble (Big Ball)John Williams, director
Subjects
Electronic musicMusique concrète
Music, concrete
Related place
San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)Related Entities
San Francisco Conservatory New Music EnsembleDavis, Bob, 1947-
Adams, John, 1947-