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📀 Tuesday Rorem! 📀 Other Minds rereleased this ba

📀 Tuesday Rorem! 📀

Other Minds rereleased this back in 2006; it was originally released on LP by Columbia Records in 1964, and features some of the most outstanding soloists of the day: Charles Bressler, Phyllis Curtin, Gianna D’Angelo, Donald Gramm, and Regina Sarfaty, accompanied at the piano by the composer, Ned Rorem. The original recordings were digitized and re-mastered on a Sonic Solutions system to minimize tape hiss and other sound artifacts. The resulting clarity and brilliance far surpasses that of the original release offering a fresh look at this legendary album. Includes a 24-page booklet.

Link to listen and download in our bio.

📻 MFOM: أحمد[Ahmed] and Akhnaten 📻 Last night's M

📻 MFOM: أحمد[Ahmed] and Akhnaten 📻

Last night's Music from Other Minds featured two “A” students: 1) أحمد [Ahmed]—a jazz quartet featuring Pat Thomas, Seymour Wright, Joel Grip, and Antonin Gerbal that works to “re-arrange and re-imagine in real time the music of composer, bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927-1993)” and 2) selections from Philip Glass’ 1983 opera Akhnaten.

Link to stream the entire 2-hour program in our bio.

Above: Philip Glass seen playing the piano during his retreat at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA, prior to his appearance at the 1st Other Minds Music Festival in November of 1993. Photo by John Fago.

🦆 The Nature of Music: David Rothenberg 🦆 How doe

🦆 The Nature of Music: David Rothenberg 🦆

How does one play music with animals in a way that respects their nature and agency? Other Minds welcomes musician and philosopher David Rothenberg to answer this question in the West Coast premiere of his work Eleven Paths to Animal Music (2025) on Thursday, April 16 2026 at 7:30 pm at the Goldman Theater, David Brower Center.

Click the link in our bio for more information and tickets.

📀 Gann's Hyperchromatica 📀 On Hyperchromatica, K

📀 Gann's Hyperchromatica 📀

On Hyperchromatica, Kyle Gann expands on Conlon Nancarrow’s work with player pianos and multiplies it. This expansive new work was written for three computer-controlled disklavier pianos that Gann tuned to an intricate system of his own design, with the express goal to “reinvent tonality.” Gann treats the work not as a piano trio but a work for a single instrument with 243 keys. Hyperchromatica extends the possibilities of the piano well beyond the range of human possibility, utlizing complex polytempo and polymetric techniques that would be impossible for even the most virtuosic of players.

That’s not to say that Hyperchromatica is cold and mechanical. There are moments of frenetic chaos, to be sure, but Gann is focused on making microtonal music not accessible, but more “attractive and seductive.” Gann manipulates our suspension of disbelief, moving seamlessly from typically pianistic passages to figures almost too complex to comprehend. The strata of mictrotonal pitch and polytempo provides an unfamiliar lushness.

Hyperchromatica is a mammoth work, more than two years in the making. After years of working with a variety of microtonal tunings, Gann devised a tuning that provided him with enough heft to cover the piece’s two and half hours. By covering the gamut of styles and techniques, Gann has created a touchstone of microtonal music. The future is now, and Kyle Gann is leading is the way.

Link to stream and buy in our bio.

🌈 Savage 1960s Program Design 🌈 The Other Minds A

🌈 Savage 1960s Program Design 🌈

The Other Minds Archives delivers again, with a printed program for performances of "The Marriage of Figaro", presented by The Fresno Opera Association on May 10-11, 1967. Includes advertisements, list of association and guild members, program notes, cast and synopsis, as well as orchestra, chorus, and ballet personnel, and production staff. Last pages include upcoming season dates and patron and member lists.

📀 Werner Durand's "To Be Continued: Early Recordin

📀 Werner Durand's "To Be Continued: Early Recordings 1978-1980" 📀

Werner Durand has been active since the 1980’s both as a solo performer, and in collaborations with Amelia Cuni, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Sam Ashley, among others. To Be Continued comprises three long form pieces that are important documents of the development of the audio processing techniques for which Durand is now known.

To Be Continued is presented in chronological order, tracing Durand’s move from his home in Karlsruhe, Germany to his influential trip to India and subsequent move to Berlin, including the only recording existent of the artist playing the bansuri flute. The influence of his studies in India are apparent, as is the influence of his teacher Ariel Kalma. The music is hypnotic and subdued, the sound of a trailblazing artist taking his first steps into the brush.

On the trilogy "Triptychon,” subtitled “Three Afternoon Songs,” Durand, along with collaborator Tom Dietz, weave together fragmented organ and synthesizer arpeggios into a dense field of kaleidoscopic sound. “The Road to Trichy” finds Durand in a more contemplative mode, skirting around the edges of New Age, a harder-edged Joanna Brouk or something akin to Alice Coltrane. The album closes with the short piece for soprano saxophone titled “BerlIndia.” As indicated by the elision of the title, there is a clear influence of Indian classical music here. Repeated raga figures over a central drone dominate the sound field.

Link to stream and download in our bio.

📻 Yoko Ono on Music from Other Minds 📻 Yoko Ono,

📻 Yoko Ono on Music from Other Minds 📻

Yoko Ono, born February 18, 1933, is a pioneer in performance art, film, and conceptual art, and is known for her activism for peace and social justice. The first hour of last night's Music from Other Minds surveys Ono’s life and art, drawing from “Music of the Mind,” a retrospective of her work organized by the Tate Modern in London. The second hour features electronic and instrumental music by Toshi Ichiyanagi (February 4, 1933 - October 7, 2022). He and Ono were married 1956–1963. Together they arranged John Cage and Merce Cunningham’s first visit to Japan. Ichiyanagi was a preeminent Japanese composer, writing chamber and orchestral music, multimedia pieces, operas, electronic music, and music using traditional Japanese instruments. Hosted by Ed Herrmann.

Link to stream in our bio.

🌷 The Bouquet Stays in the Picture🌷 Mauricio Kage

🌷 The Bouquet Stays in the Picture🌷

Mauricio Kagel during Speaking of Music series at the Exploratorium with host @odetogravity , March 17, 1988.

📀 Curran's Inner Cities 8 📀 “What began in 1993 a

📀 Curran's Inner Cities 8 📀

“What began in 1993 as a mere 28-minute piano piece on an A major triad in first inversion, has now grown to a major (for me) series of solo piano works, of which this last-number 8-is one of the most rarified and rigorous, most lush and longest (50 minutes plus)…”

@eve.egoyan , piano.

Recorded at the Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California on March 10th, 2001.

Link to purchase in our bio.

🗄 Archives Find! 🗄 Michael Nyman, facing forward,

🗄 Archives Find! 🗄

Michael Nyman, facing forward, standing above Fred Frith, whose head is emerging out of the ground at a site sculpture on the land of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA. Standing behind Nyman (l to r) are Daniel Bernard Roumain, unidentified person sitting on fence, and Billy Bang. Taken prior to the 11th Other Minds Festival, in February, 2005.

📖 Brush up on your Antheil and German! 📖 Ever wan

📖 Brush up on your Antheil and German! 📖

Ever wanted to read George Antheil's raucous autobiography in German? Well, look no further than our webstore, where you can order a copy for yourself and all your friends! Lerne, wie du Strawinsky auf Deutsch davon überzeugen kannst, dein Mentor zu werden!

Link to purchase in our bio.

@odetogravity with Han Reiziger of the Dutch radi

@odetogravity with Han Reiziger of the Dutch radio station VPRO In the KPFA music office, in February 1975. Reiziger was the long standing musical director at VPRO, a Dutch radio station that was known worldwide for its adventurous and avant-garde musical programming. In an exchange program with the Pacifica Radio network that saw KPFA’s Charles Amirkhanian spend several months in Holland, Reiziger came to Berkeley California for a four month stint in 1974-75, where he produced numerous programs on Dutch musical life.

🔊 Is there anybody out there? 🔊 In the late 70s,

🔊 Is there anybody out there? 🔊

In the late 70s, Sheila Booth (now Roberts) lived in Half Moon Bay, CA where she helped operate the Half Moon Bay Film School with her then-partner Larry Booth. Originally trained as a painter, Sheila began to make soundtracks to accompany her husband’s films. She dubbed her technique “sound-painting,” the work she made in the period is impressive in its use of minimal resources to maximal affect.

Link to buy in our bio.

🎹 Who's the pianist? 🎹 Hint: he'll be playing May

🎹 Who's the pianist? 🎹

Hint: he'll be playing May 14th, 2026 at Mill College at Northeastern.

This picture is from the first concert of the 22nd Other Minds Festival, a centennial tribute to Lou Harrison. This is the Mission Dolores Basilica and at the piano is... conductor/pianist Dennis Russell Davies.

Link to tickets to Davies and Maki Namekawa playing A Lotta Sonatas in our bio.

✨ ♈ ⚖ ALL HAIL DANE ⚖ ♈ ✨ Want to spend the rest

✨ ♈ ⚖ ALL HAIL DANE ⚖ ♈ ✨

Want to spend the rest of February warmed by a composer attendant to deep inward light? Come on down to the Other Minds Storefront and purchase Deniz Ertan's monograph on the great Dane Rudhyar! Dane Rudhyar: His Music, Thought, and Art is the first full-length study of this remarkable polymath and citizen of the world and universe. The book is enriched with numerous color illustrations of Rudhyar's paintings and with examples drawn from his music and writings.

Link to purchase in our bio.

🎻 Complete Antheil String Quartet Jammers 🎻 Featu

🎻 Complete Antheil String Quartet Jammers 🎻

Featuring the Del Sol String Quartet, this is the first-ever complete compilation of George Antheil’s string quartet works, each of which was composed during a different stylistic era in Antheil’s development. The result is a tour through a variety of familiar 20th Century styles now inhabited by the ghosts of five “new” very provocative pieces that comprise a missing link in the repertoire of American 20th Century music.

Link in our bio to stream and download .

🎟 The President's Concert 🎟 Hail to the OM Archiv

🎟 The President's Concert 🎟

Hail to the OM Archives! Here's a program for "The President's Concert," presenting active members of the Fresno Musical Club held on October 24, 1977. Includes list of active members, concert outline with works and performers, and upcoming artist series.

📝 Friday Hindemith! Friday Rilke! Friday A Lotta S

📝 Friday Hindemith! Friday Rilke! Friday A Lotta Sonatas! 📝

Here's something fun from the Archives: a document containing English translations of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke used in Paul Hindemith's song cycle "Das Marienleben" for soprano and piano. It is assumed this document was used in preparation for a performance given by Dorothy Renzi, soprano, for a concert given by the Fresno Chamber Artists presented by The California State University, Fresno Department of Music on December 15, 1972.

Did you know that @dennis_russell_davies and @maki.namekawa will be playing Hindemith's Sonata for Piano Four Hands at their May 14th concert A Lotta Sonatas? Link to tickets is in our bio.

🎹 Happy Brian Eno Day! 🎹 On February 12, 1988, KP

🎹 Happy Brian Eno Day! 🎹

On February 12, 1988, KPFA dedicated an entire day to the music and career of Brian Eno, who joins Charles Amirkhanian in the studios of KPFA. In a number of far ranging interviews, some previously recorded and some live in the studio, Eno discusses his English adolescence and early musical influences, as well as sharing stories about his work as a producer of famous rock bands such as U2, Devo, and the Talking Heads, and collaborations with Harold Budd, David Byrne, and others. Topics touched upon in over 10 hours of programming include an admission that even he does not know what his lyrics mean; a preference for the music of Stockhausen’s students rather than that of Stockhausen himself; and the differences between New Age, Minimal, and Ambient music. Eno also takes several hours to answer question from the listeners, including the last half hour of this extended extravagance where a clearly exhausted Eno lightens the mood by declaring that all his responses will be lies, something he then accomplishes with respectful and proper English aplomb and much ensuing hilarity.

Link in our bio to ten hours of programs in our Archives.

🏅🍌 BANANA OLYMPICS IN THE ARCHIVES 🍌🏅 CA: “What i

🏅🍌 BANANA OLYMPICS IN THE ARCHIVES 🍌🏅

CA: “What is it about your work that makes all these people interested?”

AB: “Well, I suspect it’s the bananas, personally.”

Some folks might be watching the slopes, but here at Other Minds we're remembering 1975's First International Art Meet, a combined conceptual art and sporting competition, from artist Anna Banana (in top hat), which was held on Easter Sunday, March 30, 1975 in San Francisco's Embarcadero. The Meet included the Banana Olympics, a series of exciting and ridiculous track and field events; the Banana Eating Contest in which participants got one banana and were judged on their ability to amuse the audience with their performance; and a Banana Music Contest, featuring songs about bananas.

Link in our bio to @odetogravity interviewing Ms. Banana in our archives as well as footage of the event from Steve Klocksiem's vimeo.

Photo is from the Canadian Art Database.

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