KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: A Concert from Pier 2 with Stuart Dempster & Bill Fontana, 1 of 4

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1981.08.03.c1.A

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

119 min

Part

1 of 4

Dates

1981-08-03 | broadcast
| 1981-08-03 | created

Description

Trombonist virtuoso Stuart Dempster, the master of the sewer pipe didjeridu, performs live from San Francisco's Fort Mason's Pier 2, where the sound installation of Bill Fontana, "Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns", was still sounding. That installation, part of the 1981 New Music America Festival, involved piping in via telephone lines, the sound of eight Bay Area foghorns and then manipulating their sounds with various delay effects. When Dempster, whose earlier performance at the Japan Center had been a big hit at the same Festival, went to Pier 2 and heard his alter egos performing from across the Bay, he decided then and there to play in concert with the sound of the eight foghorns. The result was this two hour sensuous soundscape, a program that very quickly became an audience favorite at KPFA.

Warning: the exact point of separation between the two musical selections is uncertain.

Genres

Avant-garde
Soundscapes

Musical Selections

Masonry / Stuart Dempster & Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns / Bill Fontana [both pieces are heard simultaneously]

Performers

Stuart Dempster, didjeridu, trombone, shells, etc...

Subjects

Sound sculpture
Avant-garde (Music)
Didjeridu music
Trombone music
Ambient sounds
Soundscapes (Music)
Foghorns

Related places

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

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Dempster, Stuart
Fontana, Bill, 1947-