KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Experimental Musical Instruments, 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1986.03.31.B

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

134 min

Part

2 of 2

Dates

1986-03-31 | broadcast
| 1986-03-31 | created

Description

Since it was first published in 1985, the magazine “Experimental Musical Instruments”, has exposed a growing readership to dozens of very unusual instruments and approaches to music-making. This bimonthly, 16 page newsletter also featured reviews of concerts, books, and records as well as an expanding letters section which acted as a forum for music enthusiasts. On the cover of the inaugural issue, editor Bart Hopkin states that “EMI is for people interested in new and unconventional musical sound sources. Instrument designers, builders and players, composers, acousticians, scholars and, I think, anyone with an adventurous turn of mind will find something of value here.” Hopkin joins Russ Jennings to discuss this publication and share recordings of many of the very special instruments featured in its pages. Some of the unusual instruments heard include the cristal, car horn organ, large wind harps and long string instruments. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

Unconventional instruments
Avant-garde

Musical Selections

Clay Music / Barney Childs -- The Way [1st movement] / David Cope -- [a piece for The Semi-Civilized Tree] / Nazim Ozel -- Sandwich / Tom Nunn & Chris Brown -- [a demonstration of the Clay Ocarina] -- [a demonstration of the Disorderly Tumbling Forth] -- [a demonstration of a Waterphone] -- [samples of instruments built by Bart Hopkin] -- The Great American Slide Whistle / Bart Hopkin

Subjects

Unconventional instruments
Musical instruments
Musical instrument makers
Avant-garde (Music)
Electro-acoustic
Sound sculpture

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

Jennings, Russ
Hopkin, Bart, 1952-
Childs, Barney
Cope, David
Ozel, Nazim
Nunn, Tom
Brown, Chris, 1953-