KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: John Oswald & Pauline Oliveros, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1990.10.11.A

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

112 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1990-10-11 | broadcast
| 1990-10-11 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian talks with the two great O's of the 1990s, plunderphonicker John Oswald and deep listener Pauline Oliveros. Hailing from Toronto, Oswald has astounded audiences with his technoripoffaudacities, which have landed him in trouble with Canadian record industry authorities. In this interview Oswald discusses why he uses other people's music to create his own. Pauline Oliveros currently lives in Kingston, New York, although her formative years were spent in the Bay Area. All through the days when musical intellectuals were disdaining sumptuous sound, Oliveros has been readying the Platonic sonic hot tub. We hear selections from her Deep Listening Band’s CD, “Troglodyte’s Delight”, and get both artists opinions on the state of dialogue regarding censorship, the NEA, and copyright issues in the field of music. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

Avant-garde
Popular music

Musical Selections

[unidentified gospel] -- Dab / John Oswald [with samples from Michael Jackson's “Bad”] -- Pretender / John Oswald [with samples from Dolly Parton's “The Great Pretender”] -- Spring / John Oswald [with samples from Igor Stravinsky's “The Rite of Spring”] -- Anon / John Oswald [with samples from Tim Buckley's “Happy Sad” & The Doors’ “Riders on the Storm”] -- Vain / John Oswald [with samples from Carly Simon and Faster Pussycat's versions of “You’re So Vain”] -- Mother / John Oswald [with samples from MC5's “Kick Out the Jams”] -- Prelude / John Oswald [with a sample from Franz Liszt] -- 2Net / John Oswald [with samples from Metallica]

Subjects

Sampling (Sound)
Avant-garde (Music)
Copyright
Censorship
Popular music

Related places

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

Related Entities

Faster Pussycat (Musical group)
MC5 (Musical group)
Doors (Musical group)
Metallica (Musical group)
San Francisco Tape Music Center
Amirkhanian, Charles
Oswald, John, 1953-
Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-2016
Jackson, Michael, 1958-
Parton, Dolly
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Buckley, Tim
Simon, Carly
Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886