New on OM Records: Charles Amirkhanian’s Ratchet Attach It is a rollicking miasma of drum cadences, fractured player piano rolls of manipulated Rachmaninoff, Harold Arlen’s “Stormy Weather,” and Armenian folk music, along with interludes for multiple ratchets and cowbells, tastefully crafted into an 11-movement suite sure to delight the most jaded new music ears.

Other Minds welcomed Singaporean avant-garde pianist and toy pianist Margaret Leng Tan on December 4, 2025 to present And No Birds Sing, her “personal endeavor to call attention to climate change and the dire consequences of remaining passive in the face of an unfolding universal catastrophe.” Named for the refrain of a John Keats poem, And No Birds Sing featured Tan playing works by John Luther Adams, Lois V Vierk, Somei Satoh, Annie Gosfield, Michael Wookey, Eric Griswold, and John Cage.

A panoply of composers assembled for the 29th Other Minds Festival in San Francisco at the Brava Theater, October 16–19, 2025. Our latest festival featured music by Pamela Z, Peter Garland, Samuel Adams, Ingram Marshall, Kristine Tjøgersen, Zeena Parkins. James Tenney, Putu Septa, and Brian Baumbusch and choreography by Nancy Karp.

Other Minds welcomed pianists Sarah Cahill and Joseph Kubera to present a two piano recital of the music of “Blue” Gene Tyranny (1945–2020) and Robert Ashley (1930–2014) on Sunday, September 7, 2025, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. This concert was part of Other Minds’s PastForward series, presented in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Music, Northeastern University and Mills Performing Arts.

New in the Other Minds Archives: the Dorothy Renzi Collection. Soprano Dorothy Ohannesian Renzi (1924–2014) pursued a burgeoning career in New York City during the late 1950s, recording many premieres of music by contemporary composers for MGM Records. In the early 1960s, she moved to her hometown of Fresno, California, where she became a professor of voice in the Music Department at California State University, Fresno. This personal collection of her tapes, discs, and other ephemera documents her long career and includes many live performance recordings otherwise unavailable.

Music from Other Minds is a weekly two-hour radio program of new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers around the world. Produced and presented by Other Minds staff members and associates Liam Herb, Joseph Bohigian, Ed Herrmann, Devin King, Rachel Schonfeld, and Charles Amirkhanian. Air time is 8pm Sunday evenings on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area.