Other Minds...new and unusual music in all its forms

Welcome to Other Minds, a global New Music community where composers, students, and listeners discover and learn about innovative music by composers from all over the world. Other Minds is a private not-for-profit organization (501(c)(3) based in San Francisco. THANKS to our many loyal supporters whose participation in A Gathering of Other Minds allows us to provide this web resource.

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Our thanks to the musicians and composers who made Other Minds Festival 13 a terrific success. You can hear all the concerts at radiom.org.
Follow these links:
Concert 1, March 6, 2008
Concert 2, March 7, 2008
Concert 3, March 8, 2008

Excerpted pages from original scores by the Other Minds 13
composers are available for sale (frames included).
You can view them here and order them online.
They're originals, only one copy of each, so hurry!

Click on the image to the right to view the OM13 program.

American composer Henry Brant died Saturday, April 26, at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was 94. There are links here to Henry Brant and his music.

Brant's Pulitzer Prize winning Ice Field, commissioned by Other Minds and premiered at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, December 2001.

A video of Henry Brant with SF Symphony's Michael Tilson Thomas.

Henry Brant In Memoriam
(composer David A. Jaffe)

Henry Brant at the organ, Davies Symphony Hall, December 2001.

Links to Henry Brant on radIOM.ORG:

Henry Brant at KPFA, 1971
Henry Brant on "Speaking of Music." 1984
"Meteor Farm" by Henry Brant, 1982
"Homeless People" by Henry Brant, Other Minds 4, 1997

Dhrupad vocalist Amelia Cuni gave the US premiere of John Cage's Solo for Voice 58 (18 Microtonal Ragas), at St. John's Presbyterian Church in Berkeley on November 2nd. You can order our new CD release of this extraordinary work here.

See the concert program here. Read the SFCV (San Francisco Classical Voice) review here.

A first edition of Ezra Pound’s first opera Le Testament, a double volume with the editor’s reconstruction of the 1926 Paris Salle Pleyel concert & the 1933 complete score, Pound’s own final version, has been added to the series The Music of Ezra Pound.

Along with the other books in the series, edited by Margaret Fisher & Robert Hughes, it can be ordered from our Webstore here.

Our new CD release is out. Ring of Fire by the Del Sol String Quartet has music by Kui Dong, Chinary Ung, Jack Body, Gabriela Lena Frank, Hyo-shin Na, Zhou Long, John Adams, Peter Sculthorpe, and including an improvisation by the quartet. Buy it here.

OM has just released a new CD of the music of Kui Dong:
Hands Like Waves Unfold
Order here

Music From Other Minds
on KALW-FM
Other Minds is now on KALW with a new series - "Music from Other Minds" - curated and hosted by Richard Friedman every Friday night (Pacific time) at 11pm. You can listen live in the San Francisco Bay Area at 91.7 FM or hear the stream from their website. Playlist and more information is available at the Music from Other Minds website.

Check this out!
CDs featuring the Music of Philip Glass and others - now available from our webstore.

Visit our newly revamped radiOM.org site to hear 100s of hours of music & interviews with Maverick composers. Listen to Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Lou Harrison, John Cage, Anthony Braxton, Conlon Nancarrow, Aaron Copland, Edgar Varese and many others.

The next New Music Séance takes place Saturday, December 6, 2008. Mark your calendar!

Seance

l to r: participants Charles Amirkhanian, Sarah Cahill, Kate Stenberg,
Eva-Maria Zimmermann

Our award winning video In Between the Notes - a Portrait of Pandit Pran Nath, Master Indian Musician is now available on DVD. Order it from our webstore.

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