KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Impact: Source Tape, Bay Area New Gamelan (March, 1986)

Digital Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

Jim McKee

Identifier

IPC.1986.03.18.A

Program Series

Impact: Innovative Music From the Pacific Coast

Dates

1986-03-18 | created

Description

Unedited source recording for Impact: Innovative Music From the Pacific Coast: Program No. 2
Recorded at Club Nine in San Francisco.
Host James Goodkind introduces Impact and all the artists that will be heard in the program.
Christoph Schreiner (Dept. of Otolaryngology at UCSF) explains the binaural recording process being used to capture the event. Goodkind then introduces B.A.N.G, Bay Area New Gamelan, and its director Jody Diamond. Diamond talks about the instruments within the group, modeled after Indonesian gamelan. Examples of the instrument sounds are given by the players. B.A.N.G play Prelude to Trees by member Catherine Lyle, The Great Regulator Channel by John Levin, Penguin Solo [various], In That Bright World by Jody Diamond, and Sal Nalimbal [sp?] by Paul Miller.

Genres

World music

Musical Selections

Prelude to Trees (04:05) / Catherine Lyle -- The Great Regulator Channel (04:02) / John Levin -- Penguin Solo (07:40) / [various] -- In That Bright World (10:03) / Jody Diamond -- Sal Nalimbal (03:22) / Paul Miller

Performers

Bay Area New Gamelan
Chris McFee
Carter Scholtz
George Homsey
Catherine Lyle
Leslie Roberts
Caitlyn McClure
John Levin
Daniel Kennedy
Daniel Weintraub
Joan Bell Cowan
Paul Miller
Jody Diamond

Subjects

Gamelan music

Related place

San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Earwax Productions
Goodkind, James
Diamond, Jody
Bay Area New Gamelan
Schreiner, Christoph