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| 10 Oct 2023 | 16. Mary Kouyoumdjian, Music as Documentary | 00:36:26 | |
Mary Kouyoumdjian. Mary is a composer and documentarian with projects ranging from concert works to multimedia collaborations and film scores. Her music covers thematic material that often relates to her family’s experiences during the Lebanese Civil War and the Armenian Genocide, exploring themes of displacement and exile through the use of documentary materials. Topics include working with documentary materials, composing from a diaspora perspective, and Kouyoumdjian’s monumental work They Will Take My Island, a string octet about Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky with video by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan. Music: Paper Pianos: "You are not a kid" by Mary Kouyoumdjian, performed by Alarm Will Sound; They Will Take My Island by Mary Kouyoumdjian, performed by JACK Quartet and Silvana Quartet Follow Mary on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 26 Sep 2023 | 14. Carl Stone, Unlimited Free Samples | 00:27:24 | |
Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, having used computers in live performance since 1986. Hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling,” today he divides his time between Japan and Los Angeles between his busy international touring schedule. In the interview, we talk about the genesis of his sampling practice dating back to his time preserving LPs on cassette as a student at CalArts, issues of cultural meaning in sampling, and live computer music performance. Music: Ngoc Suong by Carl Stone (Unseen Worlds), Vim by Carl Stone (Unseen Worlds), Kustaa by Carl Stone (Unseen Worlds) Follow Carl on Facebook and Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 16 Aug 2022 | 2. Mari Kimura, Is a dog toy an instrument? | 00:30:35 | |
Mari Kimura is a violinist, composer, and leading figure in interactive computer music. She developed a motion sensor system called MUGIC® which tracks her hand movements as she plays her violin. We discuss her own performances with the MUGIC® sensor in her piece Rossby Waving. We also talk about her MUGIC® collaborations with Ensemble Decipher and percussionist Aiyun Huang, as well as the sensor’s life in other composers' and artists' works. Music: Rossby Waving by Mari Kimura, performed by Mari Kimura; KISMET by Mari Kimura, performed by Mari Kimura and Ensemble Decipher; Iron Bird by Mari Kimura, performed by Aiyun Huang Video for Rossby Waving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf4r5FEbsfU Video for KISMET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9nKQSX_H8 Follow Mari on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 30 Aug 2022 | 4. Kui Dong, Music and Belonging | 00:32:10 | |
Kui Dong is a composer whose work spans diverse genres including ballet, orchestra, chamber works, chorus, electro-acoustic music, film scores, multi-media art, and improvisation. On the podcast, we discuss her opera-in-progress Hutong and the presence of diaspora identity in her music. We also talk about her piece for four percussionists on two moving marimbas Scattered Ladder, which will be performed at OM 26. Music: Hutong by Kui Dong; Scattered Ladder by Kui Dong, performed by Third Coast Percussion (Kairos) Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is edited and produced by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is Kings: Atahualpa by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 24 Jun 2022 | Other Minds Podcast Trailer | 00:01:52 | |
The Other Minds Podcast features interviews with some of today's leading composers and performers of new and experimental music. The podcast is produced by Other Minds in San Francisco, which hosts concerts, a record label, a weekly radio program, an archive, and a yearly festival of contemporary music. Season 1 of the podcast features interviews hosted by Joseph Bohigian with the composers featured on our 26th Festival, which will be held on October 13-15, 2022 at the Great Star Theater in San Francisco, California. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Intro music is The Harmonic Canon by Dominic Murcott, performed by the arx duo (Nonclassical). | |||
| 27 Sep 2022 | 8. Lauren Newton, Vocal Adventures in Free Improvisation | 00:26:05 | |
Lauren Newton has gained recognition in both the jazz and avant-garde music scenes through her vocal practice expanding her range of voice techniques without using words, focusing primarily on vocal expression. In the episode, we talk about her collaborations with French bassist Joëlle Léandre in anticipation of their performance together at OM 26, as well as recent collaborations with pianist Myra Melford. We also discuss her new book, VOCAL Adventures: Free Improvisation in Sound, Space, Spirit and Song. Music: “Face It 1” from Face It! by Lauren Newton and Joëlle Léandre (Leo Records); “Whisper 8” from Stormy Whispers by Lauren Newton, Joëlle Léandre, and Myra Melford (Fundacja Słuchaj!) Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 05 Sep 2023 | 11. A Neil Rolnick Sampler | 00:45:13 | |
A pioneer in the use of computers in performance since the late 1970s, Neil Rolnick’s music has been performed around the world and appears on 22 commercial recordings. Born in Dallas in 1947, he earned a bachelor's degree in literature from Harvard and a PhD in music composition in 1980 from UC Berkeley. He went on to develop the first integrated electronic arts graduate and undergraduate programs in the US, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and, and has lived in New York City since 2002. On the podcast, we talk about his use of sampling from the 1970s to today, his involvement in the first-ever live computer-music performance at IRCAM in 1978, and his recent release of music for piano and electronics on Other Minds Records, Lockdown Fantasies. Music: A Robert Johnson Sampler by Neil Rolnick, performed by Neil Rolnick (Centaur Records); WakeUp by Neil Rolnick and Felice and Boudreaux Bryant, performed by Neil Rolnick (Innova Recordings); O Brother! by Neil Rolnick, performed by Neil Rolnick (Innova Recordings); Journey’s End by Neil Rolnick, performed by Kathleen Supové (Other Minds Records); Lockdown Fantasies by Neil Rolnick, performed by Geoffrey Burleson (Other Minds Records) Follow Neil on Facebook and Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 28 May 2024 | 20. Soosan Lolavar, Disrupting Diaspora | 00:40:22 | |
Soosan Lolavar is a British-Iranian composer, researcher, and lecturer living in London. Having studied Iranian classical music, her music draws on ideas from both Western and Iranian traditions with a focus on the diaspora experience. Her album Girl with the London chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru was released in March 2024, and her book Embodied Research Through Music Composition and Evocative Life-Writing: Disrupting Diaspora was published in April 2024. Lolavar’s book, the subject of this interview, examines how attending to the lived experience of diaspora can impact our understanding of the term through the lens of her practice as a composer. Music: Tradition-Hybrid-Survival by Soosan Lolavar, performed by Ruthless Jabiru, Kelly Lovelady, conductor, Roxanna Albayati, cello (nonclassical); I Am the Spring, You Are the Earth by Soosan Lolavar, performed by Ruthless Jabiru, Kelly Lovelady, conductor, Faraz Eshghi Sahraei, santoor (nonclassical) Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 17 Oct 2023 | 17. Eivind Buene, Telescopic Listening | 00:32:04 | |
Eivind Buene is a Norwegian composer living and working in Oslo, where he is professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Apart from writing music for soloists, ensembles, and orchestras, Buene also frequently engages in collaborations with improvising musicians, developing music in the cross-section between classical notation and improvisation. In addition to music, Buene writes critiques, essays, and novels, and is exploring hybrid forms between music and text in large-scale orchestral works. In the interview, we talk about his relationship with the music of the past and his idea of a telescopic mode of listening, hybrid forms in which text and music are equally important, and his new piece Chorales, which will be premiered at Other Minds Festival 27. Music: “By the river” from Schubert Lounge by Eivind Buene, performed by Eivind Buene; Blue Mountain by Eivind Buene, performed by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, conductor Baldur Brönnimann, and actors Andrea Bræin Hovig and Mattis Herman Nyquist; Grid by Eivind Buene, performed by Cikada (2L) Blue Mountain with English subtitles Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 12 Jul 2024 | 23. Karen Power, Letting the Environment Speak | 00:39:32 | |
Karen Power is a composer from Cork, Ireland whose work spans orchestral music, sound installation, music for dance and experimental film, and free improvisation. Since 2012, much of her work has been concerned with the use of field recordings and ambient sounds. Power has a new album with Quiet Music Ensemble out now on Other Minds Records, …we return to ground…, which surveys her field recording compositions written between 2015 and 2022. In the interview, we talk about field recordings, dialogue between natural sounds and human performers, and Power’s “aural scores.” Music: instruments of ice by Karen Power, performed by Quiet Music Ensemble (Other Minds Records); sonic pollinators by Karen Power, performed by Quiet Music Ensemble (Other Minds Records); …we return to ground… by Karen Power, performed by Quiet Music Ensemble (Other Minds Records) Follow Karen on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 27 Aug 2024 | 26. Marshall Trammell and Hafez Modirzadeh, Music Research Strategies | 00:34:39 | |
Marshall Trammell is an experimental archivist, percussionist, conductor, and composer. His aesthetics and activism are centered in social change interventions using political aesthetic theory, data creation, mapping, and collective music-and-artmaking in order to relocate the act of co-production from traditional cultural institutions into communities. Hafez Modirzadeh is a saxophonist, composer, and theorist whose music and research focuses on cross-cultural approaches. His research has been published in journals including Music in China, Black Music Research, Leonardo, and Critical Studies in Improvisation. Trammell and Modirzadeh will perform We Say NO To Genocide on the final night of Other Minds Festival 28, Saturday, September 28, 2024. In the interview, we discuss the pair’s history of collaboration, Trammell’s Music Research Strategies, and Modirzadeh’s cross-cultural approach to music. Music: David Boyce, Hafez Modirzadeh, and Marshall Trammell live at Bird & Beckett Books & Records Follow Hafez on Facebook. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 10 Jan 2025 | 30. Thea Farhadian, Tattoos and Other Markings | 00:29:48 | |
Thea Farhadian is a composer and violinist who creates multi-textured sound worlds which employ an array of elements drawn from her engagement with Western classical music, performance art, Arabic classical music, and live electronic processing. She collaborates with a network of Bay Area, East Coast, and international colleagues and her work has been seen and heard at Galerie Mario Mazzoli in Berlin, the Aram Khachaturian Museum in Yerevan, and Bimhuis in Amsterdam. Today, Other Minds Records releases Farhadian’s newest album, Tattoos and Other Markings, an electronic composition exploring cultural memory and the urge to remember difficult histories. Music: “Mokats Mirza,” “There was and there was not,” and “Eulogy” from Tattoos and Other Markings by Thea Farhadian (Other Minds Records) Follow Thea on Instagram. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 02 Jul 2024 | 22. Adam Tendler, Inheritances | 00:34:40 | |
Adam Tendler is a New York-based pianist and author. A pioneer of DIY culture in concert music, in his early twenties Adam performed in all fifty states as part of a grassroots recital tour he called America 88x50, which became the subject of his memoir, 88x50. After his father’s unexpected death in 2019, he used his inheritance to commission a group of composers including Laurie Anderson, Timo Andres, and Pamela Z to create new piano works exploring the idea of 'inheritance.' On July 17, 2024, Other Minds will present the Bay Area premiere of Tendler’s Inheritances at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. In the interview, we talk about the origins of Inheritances, looking back at one’s own past, and the unexpected turns the project has taken. Music: Morning Piece by Devonté Hynes, Outsider Song by Scott Wollschleger, Remember, I Created You by Laurie Anderson, Morning Piece by Devonté Hynes, Thank You So Much by Pamela Z; performed by Adam Tendler (New Amsterdam Records) Follow Adam on Facebook and Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 23 Aug 2024 | 25. Brian Baumbusch, Polytempo Music | 00:51:09 | |
Brian Baumbusch is a composer, instrument designer, and musicologist whose works engage the use of new technologies while also drawing on deep cross-cultural histories. His Polytempo Music, performed by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, is being issued in three different formats simultaneously: as a compact disc on Other Minds Records, as a virtual reality application for the Meta Quest headset, and as a mobile app for both Apple and Android users. Today, we’re bringing you an interview with Baumbusch about Polytempo Music conducted by Other Minds board member Bari Scott live at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California on June 28, 2024. Music: “Hex Tree” and “Pas de deux” from Polytempo Music by Brian Baumbusch, performed by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (Other Minds Records) Follow Brian on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 12 Sep 2023 | 12. Linda Bouchard, New Notations | 00:31:35 | |
Linda Bouchard has been active for over 40 years as a composer, orchestrator, conductor, mentor, and researcher. Since 2001, she has been increasingly interested in how traditional artistic practices are influenced by the integration of new technologies, reflected in her development of the Ocular Score, “a visual musical score drawn using data generated from the analysis of complex sounds.” In the interview we talk about her Live Structures Project, designing new forms of musical notation, and her upcoming performance with Ensemble TriOcular + at the Other Minds Festival. Music: Murmuration by Linda Bouchard, performed by Ensemble TriOcular + (Charlotte Hug and Lori Freedman); Gathering by Linda Bouchard, performed by Ensemble TriOcular + (Linda Bouchard, Lori Freedman, François Houle, and Charlotte Hug) Follow Linda on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 21 Jun 2024 | 21. Giacomo Fiore, Lost Horse Wash Drone | 00:42:24 | |
Giacomo Fiore is a guitarist and musicologist and has premiered more than two dozen works for justly-tuned, electric, and classical guitars. As a scholar, his research focuses on American experimental music, intonation, and performance, and he teaches historical and practical music courses at the University of San Francisco and UC Santa Cruz. In the interview, we discuss Fiore’s new album Lost Horse Wash Drone, released by Other Minds Records. The album features field recordings from Joshua Tree National Park and the nearby Lou Harrison House, alongside Fiore’s guitar playing. This interview was recorded before the death of Larry Polansky, Giacomo Fiore’s mentor, in May 2024. Music: Morning by Giacomo Fiore (Other Minds Records); ii - v - i by Larry Polansky, performed by Larry Polansky and Giacomo Fiore at Other Minds Festival 21; Pine City Air by Giacomo Fiore (Other Minds Records); Lost Horse Wash Drone by Giacomo Fiore (Other Minds Records); Night by Giacomo Fiore (Other Minds Records) Follow Giacomo on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 04 Oct 2022 | 9. Lars Petter Hagen, Musical Memory | 00:33:23 | |
Lars Petter Hagen is a Norwegian composer whose music concerns memory and our relationship with the past. We talk about memory in his orchestra piece Gestern, inspired by Stefan Zweig’s 1934 memoir Die Welt von Gestern – Erinnerungen eines Europäers, his string quartet Transfiguration 4, and his Ingmar Bergman-inspired piece Seven Studies in Sadness. We also discuss his new role as Director of the Bergen International Festival. Music: Gestern by Lars Petter Hagen, performed by Klangforum Wien, recording by Norwegian radio (NRK) from the Ultima Festival; Transfiguration 4 by Lars Petter Hagen, performed by Quator Leonis, recording and live-electronics by INA-GRM, Radio France; Seven Studies in Sadness by Lars Petter Hagen Follow Lars Petter on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 09 Aug 2022 | 1. Dominic Murcott, Hells Bells! | 00:40:59 | |
Dominic Murcott is a composer, percussionist, curator, and educator based in London. His background as a percussionist and performing in bands has had a deep influence on both his creative work and his research. We talk about his longtime interest in the music of Conlon Nancarrow and his solo percussion arrangement of Nancarrow’s Piece for Tape. We also discuss his monumental percussion work The Harmonic Canon, written for a half-ton custom-made bell designed by sculptor Marcus Vergette using Finite Element Analysis, a type of structural analysis that determines the vibration patterns of the bell. Music: Piece for Tape by Conlon Nancarrow (Other Minds Records); Piece for Tape by Conlon Nancarrow, arranged by Dominic Murcott, performed by Chris Froh; The Harmonic Canon by Dominic Murcott, performed by the arx duo (Nonclassical) Follow Dominic on Facebook. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 10 Sep 2024 | 28. IMA (Amma Ateria and Nava Dunkelman), Time Perspectives | 00:33:04 | |
IMA is the electro-percussion project of electronic sound artist Amma Ateria and percussionist Nava Dunkelman. The duo has been presented in residency at The Stone, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco Art Institute, and Stanford University and collaborated with Ikue Mori, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Matmos, and many others. IMA will perform The Flowers Die in Burning Fire on the final night of this year’s Other Minds Festival on September 28, 2024. In the interview, we talk about the duo’s early collaborations, perception of time in music, and the influence of Japanese poetry. Music: “Meshes of the Afternoon” from The Flowers Die in Burning Fire by IMA (Buh Records); “Notion of Time” from The Flowers Die in Burning Fire by IMA (Buh Records); “Ende” from The Flowers Die in Burning Fire by IMA (Buh Records) Follow IMA on Facebook and Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 06 Sep 2022 | 5. Hanna Hartman, You’re Hearing a Different World Than I Do | 00:19:36 | |
Hanna Hartman is a Swedish soundartist, composer, and performer based in Berlin. Hartman creates compositions that are exclusively made up from authentic sounds taken out of their original context which she has recorded around the world. Topics covered include her experiences at the Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm and in radio, including her work CRUSH, commissioned by Sveriges Radio. We also discuss her live performance practice featuring close amplification of objects and high powered magnets. Music: CRUSH by Hanna Hartman; Fog Factory by Hanna Hartman Secret Security by Hanna Hartman: https://vimeo.com/337498121 Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 17 Sep 2024 | 29. Trimpin, Autonomous Cellos and Self-Playing Pianos | 00:22:38 | |
Trimpin is a sound sculptor, composer, engineer, and inventor. A specialist in interfacing computers with traditional instruments, he has developed ways of playing instruments ranging from giant marimbas to stacks of electric guitars via computer. His work integrates sculpture, sound, and live performance. Born in Germany, Trimpin spent several years living and studying in Berlin, working as a set designer and collaborating with artists from both Germany and the United States. He relocated to the United States in 1979. This year’s Other Minds Festival features the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Trimpin, The Cello Quartet. It features autonomous cellos, circus artists, percussive lamp shades, and more. In the interview, Joseph Bohigian talks with Trimpin about his custom-built cellos, collaborating with choreographer Margaret Fisher, and the influence of spatial music composer Henry Brant. Music: Contraption No. 1 by Conlon Nancarrow performed by Trimpin, computer-controlled piano (Other Minds Festival 1) Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 16 Feb 2023 | BONUS. Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata with Kyle Gann and Marc-André Hamelin | 00:53:52 | |
We have a special episode for our subscribers, a recording of the pre-concert talk from our Other Minds 30th Anniversary celebration with pianist Marc-André Hamelin and composer/author Kyle Gann. You’ll hear a panel discussion between Hamelin, Gann, and Other Minds Artistic and Executive Director Charles Amirkhanian about the subject of the night’s event, Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata, followed by a lecture by Kyle Gann about the piece drawing on his research for his 2017 book Charles Ives’s Concord: Essays after a Sonata. After the episode, head over to the Other Minds website, where you can watch a video of Marc-André Hamelin’s performance of the Concord Sonata at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California. Music: Excerpts from Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860,” by Charles Ives, performed by Marc-André Hamelin Click here to purchase Marc-André Hamelin’s recording of the Concord Sonata on New World Records. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. | |||
| 20 Aug 2024 | 24. Annea Lockwood, Composing Collaboratively | 00:32:26 | |
Annea Lockwood’s compositions range from sound art and environmental sound installations to concert music. Water has been a recurring focus of her work and her three installation sound maps of rivers: the Hudson River, the Danube, and the Housatonic River have been widely presented. She is a recipient of the SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2022. In the interview, we discuss two of her recent works which will be performed at the Other Minds Festival: Becoming Air, co-composed with Nate Wooley and Into the Vanishing Point, co-composed with Yarn/Wire. Also covered are Lockwood’s practice of making sound maps and her upcoming project with Wooley sound mapping the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. Music: Becoming Air by Annea Lockwood and Nate Wooley, performed by Nate Wooley (Black Truffle); On Fractured Ground by Annea Lockwood and Yarn/Wire, performed by Yarn/Wire (Black Truffle) Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 03 Oct 2023 | 15. Artur Avanesov, International References and Microtonal Chorales | 00:23:19 | |
Born in 1980 in Moscow and educated at the Yerevan State Conservatory in the capital of Armenia, Artur Avanesov is among the leading Armenian composers of his generation. He is also an accomplished pianist and musicologist, having published multiple research papers and held seminars on Armenian music internationally. On the podcast, we discuss the many international references in his work, his piece Tezeta and its connection to Ethiopian popular music, and microtonality in his piano quintet Quasi harena maris. Music: Tezeta by Artur Avanesov, performed by Artur Avanesov; Quasi harena maris by Artur Avanesov, performed by Movses Pogossian, Ji Eun Hwang, Morgan O’Shaughnessey, Niall Ferguson, and Artur Avanesov (New Focus Recordings) Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 05 May 2023 | 10. Ghost Ensemble, with Ben Richter and Sky Macklay | 00:36:04 | |
Ghost Ensemble fosters groundbreaking music that blurs borders of genre, style, and scene, expanding perceptual horizons through shared immersive experience. Their May 18th performance at St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco, California presents new works by composers Sky Macklay, Ben Richter, and Catherine Lamb. In this interview, Joseph Bohigian talks with Macklay and Richter, who are both members of the ensemble, about their works, Ghost Ensemble’s evolution since its founding in 2012, and the influence of Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening. We also hear from Lamb about her new work for Ghost Ensemble, interius/exterius. Music: Harmonifriends by Sky Macklay, performed by Ghost Ensemble; Rewild by Ben Richter, performed by Ghost Ensemble; interius/exterius by Catherin Lamb, performed by Ghost Ensemble Follow Ghost Ensemble on Facebook and Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 13 Sep 2022 | 6. Theresa Wong, Timbral Merging | 00:36:19 | |
Theresa Wong is a composer, cellist, and vocalist active at the intersection of improvisation, composition, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. On the podcast, we discuss the importance of physicality in her performance and composition. We also talk about her use of just intonation in her string and vocal writing. Finally, Theresa talks about her new album for cello and voice, Practicing Sands, with focuses on microphone usage, merging the timbres of her cello and voice, and the imprint of genetic memory on her music. Music: Harbors by Theresa Wong and Ellen Fullman, performed by Theresa Wong and Ellen Fullman (Room40); As We Breathe by Theresa Wong, performed by David Castillo and Theresa Wong; “sedimental” by Theresa Wong, performed by Theresa Wong (fo'c'sle) Order Theresa Wong’s Practicing Sands here: focslemusic.com/album/practicing-sands Follow Theresa on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 20 Sep 2022 | 7. Charles Amirkhanian, Ratchet Attach It Attach Ratchet It | 00:38:10 | |
A very special guest! Other Minds Executive and Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian joins the podcast to talk about his piece Ratchet Attach It for ten percussionists. We cover Amirkhanian’s early years in Fresno as a budding percussionist influenced by Cage, Harrison, Hovhaness, and Cowell, his time in the Fresno State marching band, his lifelong fascination with the ratchet, and his interest in piano rolls. Stick around for the Nick Cannon reference! Music: “Chatterratchet,” “Hopper Popper,” and “Pedestrian” from Ratchet Attach It by Charles Amirkhanian, performed by the Trinity Laban Conservatoire Percussion Ensemble, conductor Dominic Murcott otherminds.org/team/charles-amirkhanian Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 19 Sep 2023 | 13. Bora Yoon and Joshue Ott, Multimedia and Kinetic Sculpture | 00:35:33 | |
Bora Yoon is a Korean-American composer, vocalist, and sound artist who conjures audiovisual soundscapes using digital devices, voice, and instruments from a variety of cultures and historical centuries to formulate a storytelling through music, movement, and sound. Joshue Ott is a visualist and software designer who creates cinematic visual improvisations that are performed live and projected in large scale. On the podcast, we talk about their history of multimedia collaborations, their recent project at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, and their upcoming performance at Other Minds Festival 27. We also discuss Bora’s newly commissioned work for Ensemble Decipher, featuring a large kinetic sculpture designed to imitate the string game cat’s cradle. Music: “ClockSequence” from PHONO KINETIC by Bora Yoon, performed by Bora Yoon Follow Bora on Facebook and Instagram. Follow Joshue on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 03 Sep 2024 | 27. Jan Martin Smørdal, The Sound of Social Structures | 00:26:04 | |
Jan Martin Smørdal is a Norwegian composer and performer of contemporary music. With a background in experimental bands and improvisation, he writes music often inspired by social phenomena: imitation and mimicry; swarms, flocks, and other collective behaviors; memory; and the unevenness inherent to being human. His music has been performed at festivals such as Ultima, ISCM, MATA, and Borealis and released on the labels LAWO, SOFA, and Aurora. Smørdal is also a co-founder and member of Ensemble neoN, an Oslo-based contemporary music collective. His piece Both sides. Now will be performed by Yarn/Wire at Other Minds Festival 28 on September 27, 2024, at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. Music: My Favorite Thing 1 by Jan Martin Smørdal, performed by Pinquins (LAWO Classics); My Favorite Thing 3 “...something about a bird” by Jan Martin Smørdal, performed by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and conductor Kai Grinde Myrann (LAWO Classics); Kraftbalanse by Jan Martin Smørdal and Øystein Wyller Odden, performed by Vilde Sandve Alnæs, Miriam Bergset, Ragnhild Lien, Julija Morgan, Torunn Blåsmo-Falnes, Tove Bagge, Sverre Kyvik Bauge, and Inga Margrete Aas (Sofa Music); Both sides. Now by Jan Martin Smørdal, performed by Trond Schau, Helge Kjekshus, Andre Fjørtoft, and Åsmund Moen Follow Jan Martin on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 24 Oct 2023 | 18. Morton Subotnick, On the Right Track | 00:38:51 | |
Morton Subotnick is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch. He has worked extensively with interactive electronics and multi-media, co-founding the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Ramón Sender, and is an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. On the podcast, we talk about his youth growing up in Los Angeles, his co-founding of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, shifting from the clarinet to the electronic music studio to live electronic performance, and his upcoming performance of As I Live & Breathe at Other Minds 27 with video artist Lillevan. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Intro/outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 28 Jan 2025 | 31. Stephanie Loveless, A Year of Deep Listening | 00:25:10 | |
A Year of Deep Listening was a 365-day online celebration of Pauline Oliveros’ legacy, coinciding with what would have been her 90th birthday. The Center for Deep Listening, established at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014, posted one text score per day, totaling 365 pieces, which will be published in book form on January 28, 2025, as A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros. On the podcast, Joseph Bohigian is joined by Stephanie Loveless, a sound and media artist, Director of the Center for Deep Listening, and the editor of this new volume, to talk about the project. Music: Roles of a Machine by Hassan Estakhrian, performed by Extradition (Maxx Katz, flute; Annie Gilbert, trombone; Collin Oldham, cello); Shao Way Wu, bass; Sam Klapper, violin; Caspar Sonnet, dobro; Ben Cohen-Chen, soprano saxophone; Matt Hannafin, percussion), No Small Matter by Seth Cluett, performed by Extradition (Juniana Lanning, Catherine Lee, Annie Gilbert, Loren Chasse, Matt Hannafin, natural objects), Water, Wood, Stone, Breath by Grace Harper, performed by Extradition (Stephanie Lavon Trotter, book, words; Juniana Lanning, cups, water; Loren Chasse, basket, pebbles) Follow Stephanie Loveless on Instagram. Follow The Center for Deep Listening on Instagram and Facebook. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 14 May 2024 | 19. Jennie Gottschalk, Experimental Music Since 1970 | 00:32:05 | |
Jennie Gottschalk is a composer and author based in Boston. She holds a doctorate from Northwestern University and her dissertation and current work explores connections between American pragmatist thought and experimental music. Gottschalk is also the author of the book Experimental Music Since 1970, published in 2016. In the interview, we discuss the challenges of defining experimental music, the influence of indeterminacy, and recent developments in the field. Music: New Work by Pauline Oliveros, performed by The Circle Trio: Pauline Oliveros, accordion; India Cooke, violin; Karolyn van Putten, voice (Other Minds Festival 8); Triptych by Éliane Radigue, performed by Éliane Radigue (Other Minds Archives); Raga 18 by John Cage, performed by Amelia Cuni, dhrupad vocals; Werner Durand, drones/electronics; Raymond Kacynski and Federico Sanesi, percussion (Other Minds Records); Transparent City by Michael Pisaro, performed by Michael Pisaro (The Nature of Music) Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Intro/outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||
| 23 Aug 2022 | 3. Raven Chacon, Music and Place | 00:35:30 | |
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music. We talk about the importance of place and location in his music, which is often written to be performed outdoors. We also discuss his interest in graphic notation and the expectations of representing one’s culture in art. Finally, Chacon talks about his recent collaboration with experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist, and visual media artist Guillermo Galindo, which will be featured at Other Minds Festival 26. Music: Compass by Raven Chacon, performed by Zoë Wallace; “Feast 2” from Sweet Land by Raven Chacon, libretto by Douglas Kearney, performed by The Industry (The Industry Records); Raven Chacon and Guillermo Galindo at Indexical Follow Raven on Instagram. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). | |||