Music From Other Minds

Program 722: Free Range New Music

KALW Broadcast Date: November 27, 2022 | Host: Mark Abramson

Tonight we’re going to do another freeform show – no particular theme this time. I’m enjoying this format, finding music that fits together based on criteria other than some musical “ism” we’d like to feature, or a particular composer or set of composers. My only self-imposed limitation is that the music be experimental in some sense, so that it fits within Other Minds’s mission of introducing our audience to music and sounds that have artistic merit but that they may not have encountered before. I hope you hear something unfamiliar this evening that gets you motivated to search out more of the same. We’ll start with some art-pop from Laurie Anderson, then move to something pretty far afield with a piece from Joan La Barbara that puts extended vocal techniques front and center. We’ll listen to a field recording of Central African Aka Pygmies, then an electronic composition from Laurie Spiegel. We’ll hear some more art-pop from Argentinian Lucrecia Dalt, who has much in common with Laurie Anderson. Then a long slow-changing electronic cut-up from composer Carl Stone, some left field jazz from Don Cherry, and a short work for string quartet by Steve Reich. Then we’ll play a portion of Einstein on the Beach, an important work from the 1970s by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, that rarely get played on the radio due to it’s length. We’ll finish up with a short zinger from tonight’s mystery artist…you’ll have to listen to the show, or skip to the end, to find out.

Program Audio

30-Second Spot