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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 2 of the podcast features interviews hosted by Joseph Bohigian with the composers featured on our 27th Festival, which will be held on November 14-19, 2023 at the Taube Atrium Theater and Gray Area in San Francisco, California.
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18. Morton Subotnick, On the Right Track
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.
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The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Intro/outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). -
17. Eivind Buene, Telescopic Listening
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)
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The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). -
16. Mary Kouyoumdjian, Music as Documentary
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
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15. Artur Avanesov, International References and Microtonal Chorales
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)
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The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). -
14. Carl Stone, Unlimited Free Samples
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)
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The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records). -
13. Bora Yoon and Joshue Ott, Multimedia and Kinetic Sculpture
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
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The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).
Customer Reviews
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….sums up the world of contemporary music, a natural expression of the human condition. This could go on indefinitely, especially if the show looks to the past, when things were radical and incipient. Host should practice these as an articulation and accuracy lesson: championing. Wien.(study up in advance of recording) Elocution is part of intellect and expression which can have such positive effect on the listener/student. Kudos, though, all around.