Other Minds Podcast

Other Minds
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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 3 of the podcast features interviews hosted by Joseph Bohigian with a range of musicians and authors, including the composers featured on our 28th Festival, which will be held on September 25–28, 2024 at the Brava Theater in San Francisco, California.

  1. 12/30/2025

    39. Amy Williams, Morton Feldman at 100

    The “fresh, daring and incisive” (Fanfare) compositions of Amy Williams have been presented by leading international performers, including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JACK Quartet, Bent Frequency, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Wet Ink, International Contemporary Ensemble, Junction Trio, Orpheus, pianist Ursula Oppens, soprano Tony Arnold, and bassist Robert Black. As a member of the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, she has performed throughout Europe and the Americas and recorded six critically-acclaimed CDs for Wergo (works of Nancarrow, Stravinsky, Varèse/Feldman and Kurtág), as well as appearing on the Neos and Albany labels. She is a Professor of Composition at the University of Pittsburgh and Artistic Director of the New Music On The Point Festival in Vermont. On January 8, 2026, Williams will perform Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories for Other Minds at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California. She joins us to talk about her early impressions of Feldman in Buffalo, New York, his influence on 20th century music, and her upcoming performance in Oakland. Music: Triadic Memories by Morton Feldman, performed by Amy Williams (Alan Wonneberger, engineer); Piece for Four Pianos by Morton Feldman, performed by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo (WERGO); Piano and String Quartet by Morton Feldman, performed by Amy Williams and the JACK Quartet (live at Black Mountain College) Follow Amy Williams on Instagram. amywilliamsmusic.com Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. otherminds.org 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 min

  2. 10/07/2025

    38. Pamela Z, More or less at the same time

    Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, sampled sounds, and custom MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound and image with physical gestures. At this year’s Other Minds Festival, Z will perform her piece Simultaneous, an intermedia composition for voice, electronic processing, chamber ensemble, speech samples, gesture control, and projected video. In conjunction with the performance, Other Minds records will release a fixed media version of Simultaneous on LP and CD. In the interview, we talk about Z’s interest in simultaneous translation, finding music in speech, and her use of gesture control instruments. Music: Simultaneous by Pamela Z, performed by Pamela Z, Kyle Bruckmann, Charlton Lee, Clara Kennedy, and Kjell Nordeson live at MoMA; Simultaneous by Pamela Z (Other Minds Records) Follow Pamela Z on Instagram. pamelaz.com Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. otherminds.org 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).

    47 min

  3. 09/30/2025

    37. Nancy Karp, Choreographing in Silence

    Choreographer Nancy Karp grew up in Los Angeles, where she was an early student at CalArts. She embraces elaborate structures working with units of pure movement, investigating their potential through combination and variation. From these “structural investigations” emerge patterns and phrases that become her dances. In 1980, she founded her dance company, Nancy Karp + Dancers. On Night 3 of this year’s Other Minds Festival, Karp will premiere a new piece set to James Tenney’s Three Pieces for Drum Quartet. On the podcast, we talk about Karp’s education at CalArts, collaborating with composers, and choreographing her new piece. Music: WAKE for Charles Ives and CYSTAL CANON for Edgard Varèse from Three Pieces for Drum Quartet by James Tenney, performed by Maelström Percussion Ensemble and Jan Williams (hat[now]ART) Follow Nancy Karp on Instagram and Facebook. nancykarp.org Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. otherminds.org 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 min

  4. 09/23/2025

    36. Peter Garland on Ingram Marshall

    Other Minds’s own Devin King joins us to read an excerpt from our first ever OM book, Peter Garland’s Ingram Marshall: A Personal and Musical Appreciation. Born in 1952 in Portland, Maine, Peter Garland was one of the original students at CalArts in 1970, where his principal teachers were Harold Budd and James Tenney. From 1971 to 1991 he edited and published Soundings magazine and press, where he printed the work of four generations of mostly American composers. As an editor and essayist he played a pivotal role in the rediscovery and re-evaluation of such composers as Conlon Nancarrow, Silvestre Revueltas, Lou Harrison, Paul Bowles, Dane Rudhyar, Harry Partch, and James Tenney. King gives us a first look at what’s in store. Music: Rave by Ingram Marshall (New Albion); Dark Waters by Ingram Marshall, performed by Libby Van Cleve (New Albion); Hymnodic Delays – Low Dutch by Ingram Marshall, performed by Theatre of Voices (Nonesuch) Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. otherminds.org Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. This episode of the Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian and Devin King. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

    31 min

  5. 09/16/2025

    35. Zeena Parkins, For the Pink Cup

    Electroacoustic composer, improviser, and harpist Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices, making use of extended techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing. In her compositions, Parkins utilizes collections, recombination, historic proximities, geography, and movement. On Night 3 of this year’s Other Minds Festival, Parkins will perform her new work Modesty of the Magic Thing with percussionist William Winant. On the podcast, we talk about Parkins’ early experiments with the harp, electrifying the instrument, and her new work inspired by the drawings of the American visual artist Jay DeFeo. Music: “Pink Cup by Day,” “The Very Tissue of Falling Columns,” “Pink Cup by Night,” “Figure to Figure,” and “Larkspur” from Modesty of the Magic Thing by Zeena Parkins, performed by Zeena Parkins and William Winant (Tzadik) Follow Zeena Parkins on Instagram. zeenaparkins.com Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. otherminds.org 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).

    39 min

  6. 09/09/2025

    34. Putu Septa, Experiments in Gamelan

    Putu Septa is a composer and musician from the village of Padangtegal, Ubud, Bali. To contribute to new music on Balinese gamelan, Septa initiated a new gamelan ensemble–Nata Swara–which performs with, among others, Gamelan Sada Sancaya, an orchestra of extended range bronze instruments designed by Septa, and Kendang Briuk, an instrument set consisting of a varied collection of Balinese kendang drums. On the final day of this year’s Other Minds Festival, Septa, along with fellow Nata Swara member I Kadek Janurangga, will perform with ZOFO, the Bay Area piano duo of Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi, and Brian Baumbusch. The supergroup will perform music by Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti, Brian Baumbusch, Colin McPhee, and Septa himself. Septa also has a new CD out on Other Minds Records in September called Piwal. Music: Live performance with electronics by Putu Septa; KoSo by Putu Septa, performed by ZOFO; Piwal by Putu Septa, performed by Nata Swara (Other Minds Records) Follow Putu Septa on Instagram. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. otherminds.org 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 min

  7. 09/02/2025

    33. Kristine Tjøgersen, Finding the Music in Nature

    Kristine Tjøgersen’s compositional practice is characterized by curiosity, imagination, humor, and precision. She has a special interest in the interplay between the visual and the auditory as well as the natural world. Her collaboration with researchers and biologists is a source of new sound and scenic ideas, incorporating organic forms into the music. On Night 3 of this year’s Other Minds Festival, pianist Ellen Ugelvik and lighting designer Evelina Dembacke will perform Tjøgersen’s Piano Piece. On the podcast, we talk about collaborating with biologists, creating a forest inside a piano, and much more! Music: Lying on forest floor, looking at treetops by Kristine Tjøgersen (Aurora Records); “Moth Molecules” from Night Lives by Kristine Tjøgersen, performed by Cikada Ensemble (Aurora Records); “Myotis” from Night Lives by Kristine Tjøgersen, performed by Cikada Ensemble (Aurora Records); Piano Piece by Kristine Tjøgersen, performed by Ellen Ugelvik; “Bat Club” from Night Lives by Kristine Tjøgersen, performed by Cikada Ensemble (Aurora Records); Starry Night by Kristine Tjøgersen, performed by Tøyen Fil og Klafferi with Marcus Weiss and Jenny Hval (Aurora Records) Follow Kristine Tjøgersen on Instagram. kristinetjogersen.no Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. otherminds.org 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).

    29 min

  8. 08/26/2025

    32. Samuel Adams, Changing Resonances

    Samuel Adams (b. 1985) is an American composer. Gramophone Magazine praised Adams as “among the most interesting composers of the millennial generation in his negotiation of the tensions that shape and define his musical narratives: between directness and implication, silence and resonance, emotion and its aftermath.” His work resists the traditional tensions of classical music, blending acoustic and digital sounds in inventive, texturally rich compositions. He has been commissioned by a number of major ensembles, including the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and The Living Earth Show. On the podcast, Adams talks about growing up in the Bay Area, working with the San Francisco Symphony, and the influence of composer Ingram Marshall on his life and work. Music: Études by Samuel Adams, performed by Conor Hanick; Violin Diptych by Samuel Adams, performed by Karen Gomyo and Conor Hanick (Other Minds Records); Shade Studies by Samuel Adams, performed by Sarah Cahill (Irritable Hedgehog) Follow Samuel Adams on Instagram. samuelcarladams.com Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. otherminds.org 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).

    44 min
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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 3 of the podcast features interviews hosted by Joseph Bohigian with a range of musicians and authors, including the composers featured on our 28th Festival, which will be held on September 25–28, 2024 at the Brava Theater in San Francisco, California.

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  • Creator
    Other Minds
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    43
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Other Minds
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