KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Series 2, April 22, 1985, 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.1985.04.22.B

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

118 min

Part

2 of 2

Dates

1985-04-22 | broadcast
| 1985-04-22 | created

Description

This program is the third in a new series of ambient field recordings from around the world. The original World Ear Project series was broadcast on KPFA in the early 1970s, as the portable cassette recorder first made such an ambitious undertaking economically affordable. In this, the second series, the idea of collecting sounds from unique and unusual environments from all over the world remains the same, however the advances in field recording technologies, including digital recording, make for a much higher quality experience. In this program Charles Amirkhanian, and Richard Friedman, present tapes recorded in San Francisco, and other locations.

Genres

Soundscapes
Field recordings

Musical Selections

[crowd playing a Pentaphone at the Exploratorium, San Francisco] / Melanie Walker -- Valencia, CA and the Ocean / Fritz C. Weiland -- Solitudes Vol. 3 [excerpt] / Dan Gibson -- [washing of photographic prints] / Melanie Walker -- Solitudes Vol. 3 [excerpt] / Dan Gibson

Subjects

Ambient sounds
Field recordings
Unconventional instruments
Soundscapes (Music)
Ocean sounds
Electronic music
Musique concrète
Music, concrete
Animal sounds
Nature sounds

Related places

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

Related Entities

Friedman, Richard
Amirkhanian, Charles
Weiland, Frits C.
Gibson, Dan
Walker, Melanie
Allison, Ty