Since January 2005, Music From Other Minds has presented new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers from around the world. Produced weekly for KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco by Charles Amirkhanian and the Other Minds staff, and aired at 8pm every Sunday, Music From Other Minds aims to open up radio listeners to experimental classical work by living and recent composers. We bring you the latest in contemporary music from around the world, and some glimpses into the past, to give a context for today’s music.
Follow this link for information and track listings from programs prior to program 501.
Follow this link to download a complete list of works played on MFOM up to program 702.
Previous Programs
Program 557: Archiving the Avant-garde
On the next Music from Other Minds, Liam Herb explores a decade (1964-1974) of boundary pushing music. The program will feature works by Robert Ashley, Alvin Curran, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and a few surprise guests. Tune in for an overview of a very important decade in avant-garde music.
Program 556: Jazz on the Edge
On this Music from Other Minds, a program dedicated to the experimental spirit of jazz now and in the past. The program celebrates the new innovations happening in jazz today, as well as the experimental jazz artists that paved the way for this younger generation of composers and performers.
Program 555: Other Minds Shuffle
On this Music from Other Minds, Liam Herb presents the first ever Other Minds Shuffle! Tune in to hear some a curated assortment of gems from the odd and extensive Other Minds Records catalogue.
Program 554: De Staat and Other Selections
On this Music from Other Minds, Liam Herb explores the music of three very different composers. The program features the work of Japanese composer and koto player Michiyo Yagi, De Staat but Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, and Alaskan composer Matthew Burtner‘s Sonic Physiography of a Time-stretched Glacier.
Program 553: 20th and 21st Century Music for Celesta
On the next Music from Other Minds, Randall Wong plays works for solo celesta by Josef Matthais Hauer, Jan Dušek, and Michael Jon Fink. (The music on this program is mostly very soft so it may be necessary to adjust your volume accordingly.)
Program 552: Fog Tropes and Other Selections
On this Music from Other Minds, Andrew Weathers explores short works by composers Jaap Blonk, Buck Young, Ingram Marshall, Kenneth Gaburo, Marsha Fisher, Ron Coulter, and Kevin Corcoran, and Gretchen Jude.
Program 551: Ivan Wyschnegradsky
On this Music from Other Minds, in anticipation of Other Minds’ 24th annual festival, Liam Herb explores the music of Ivan Wyschegradsky. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, but living most of his life in Paris, Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) is the most outstanding proponent of microtonal music of his era.
Program 550: Speech Music
Liam Herb hosts program 550 of Music from Other Minds. The subject this week is “speech music,” music from modern American composers that embrace speech and dialect in all its forms, not just the stylized language of opera and on the concert stage. Music from Harry Partch, Robert Ashley, Kyle Gann, and Scott Johnson.
Program 549: Music of the Spheres
On this Music from Other Minds, Randall Wong explores the music of outer space. The program features the work of the little known, visionary Danish composer Rued Langgaard (1893-1953) and “space age bachelor pad music” composer Russell Garcia.
Program 548: Meditations on Divinity and Loss
On this Music from Other Minds, Liam Herb presents a program dedicated to works about subject matter beyond the corporal realm. The show features two long works by composers Alden Jenks and Ingram Marshall and a very short (unrelated) work by the miniaturist composer Marc Mellits.
