KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Not So, Gnazzo

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1971.02.09

Program Length

17 min

Dates

1971-02-09 | broadcast
| 1971-02-09 | created

Description

After yet another period of self-imposed retirement, intermedia artist, war correspondent, and general man around town, Anthony Gnazzo, returned to radio in 1971 with another important prerecorded message. “Not So” is an extended text-sound composition which combines taped telephone conversations with what sounds like live readings of selected cut-up texts and other sundry auditory eruptions. Is it just derivative of past avant-garde masterpieces or is it a hilarious, cutting-edge commentary on art and human existence? Only by listening repeatedly and intensely can these and other important questions be answered. So please, for the children, give this program your full and complete attention.

Genres

Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Sound poetry

Musical Selections

Not So (ca. 1971) (16:50) / Anthony Gnazzo

Subjects

Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Related places

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

Related Entities

Gnazzo, Anthony, 1936-
Amirkhanian, Charles