KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Series 1, October 10, 1971

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.1971.10.10

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

57 min

Dates

1971-10-10 | broadcast
| 1971-10-10 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian introduces a program of ambient sound recordings made by listeners and friends of KPFA from around the world. On this program you will hear a ride in the Goodyear blimp “Columbia” as it flies over the Berkeley hills, a duck feeding at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, Charles taking a shower at home, the sound of Michael Barclay (KPFA’s opera commentator) breathing and writing, a flock of sparrows in a fifty year old redwood tree, and the story of John Fare, a conceptual artist whose “shows” consist of the continuing amputation of various portions of his physical body.

(It is generally believed that Fare is a mythical character first conceived of by Av Isaacs who put on a mixed media show at his art gallery in Toronto, Sept. 17, 1968.)

Genres

Field recordings

Musical Selections

[Michael Barclay, breathing and writing, October 8, 1971] -- [a ride in the Goodyear blimp “Columbia” flying over Berkeley, California, Oct. 5, 1971] / Joe Belden & Bill Schechner -- [duck feeding, Lake Merritt, Oakland, California, July 29, 1971] / Peter Said -- [shower and morning bathroom ritual, October 10, 1971] / Charles Amirkhanian -- [birds in redwood trees, Berkeley, California, October 10, 1971] -- The Hand [description of multiple amputations as part of a performance art show] / John Charles Fare -- [sounds of a lecture] / William Farley

Subjects

Field recordings
Ambient sounds
Machinery sounds
Animal sounds
Birdsongs
Performance art

Related places

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

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Barclay, Michael
Fare, John Charles
Isaacs, Avrom, 1926-
Belden, Joe
Schechner, Bill
Said, Peter
Farley, William