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Other Minds Podcast

Other Minds
Other Minds Festival
Time Perspectives
Trimpin
Dance
Experimental Music
Japanese Poetry
Cello Quartet
Armenian Genocide
Cultural Memory
A Year Of Deep Listening
Pauline Oliveros
Galina Ustvolskaya
Robert Ashley
Blue Gene Tyranny
Nature
Gamelan
Simultaneous
Alexander Reinagle
Electro Percussion Music
Spatial Sound

The Other Minds Podcast features interviews with some of today's leading composers and performers of new and experimental music. The podcast is produced by Other Minds in San Francisco, which hosts concerts, a record label, a weekly radio program, an archive, and a yearly festival of contemporary music. Season 3 of the podcast features interviews hosted by Joseph Bohigian with a range of musicians... more

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Marina Peterson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has an emphasis on sound and urbanism, and she is the author of the 2021 book Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles, which examines ways i... more

Theodore Gordon is a musicologist and musician whose work connects experimental music, critical organology, and science and technology studies. He has performed with viola and Buchla instruments at venues including Elastic Arts, Experimental Sound St... more

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Pianist Stephen Siek served as a professor of music at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, where he taught piano, music history, American music, the aesthetics of music, and film music. He is currently Director of the Emeritus College Academy... more

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Composers Inside Electronics is a group of composer/performers dedicated to the composition and live collaborative performance of electronic and electro-acoustic music. The group was formed in 1973 with David Tudor and is known for its pioneering use... more

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Recent Guests

Marina Peterson
Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
Episode: 44. Marina Peterson, Atmospheric Noise
Theodore Gordon
Musicologist and musician, author of The Composer's Black Box
Baruch College; CUNY Graduate Center; UC Press
Episode: 43. Theodore Gordon, The Composer’s Black Box
Stephen Siek
Pianist, professor, and specialist in Federalist-era American music; interviewee on Reinagle
Arizona State University; Emeritus College Academy for Continued Learning
Episode: 42. Stephen Siek on Alexander Reinagle, Composing in Early America
David Rothenberg
Composer, clarinetist, philosopher and author
Independent musician and author
Episode: 40. David Rothenberg, Eleven Paths to Animal Music
Amy Williams
Composer and pianist
University of Pittsburgh (professor of composition); New Music on the Point Festival artistic director
Episode: 39. Amy Williams, Morton Feldman at 100
Pamela Z
Composer, performer and media artist known for her experimental use of voice and electronic sound processing.
Episode: 38. Pamela Z, More or less at the same time
Nancy Karp
Choreographer and founder of Nancy Karp and Dancers
Episode: 37. Nancy Karp, Choreographing in Silence
Putu Septa
Composer and musician from Bali, known for his work in Gamelan music.
Nata Swara
Episode: 34. Putu Septa, Experiments in Gamelan
Kristine Tjøgersen
Norwegian composer known for her work integrating nature into music
Episode: 33. Kristine Tjøgersen, Finding the Music in Nature

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Joseph Bohigian
Host of the show focusing on contemporary and experimental music and discussions with composers and performers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars from 15 ratings
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    Great listened for 30 years

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    Sfoguy
    United Statesa month ago
  • Variety

    ….sums up the world of contemporary music, a natural expression of the human condition. This could go on indefinitely, especially if the show looks to the past, when things were radical and incipient. Host should practice these as an articulation and accuracy lesson: championing. Wien.(study up in advance of recording) Elocution is part of intellect and expression which can have such positive effect on the listener/student. Kudos, though, all around.

    Apple Podcasts
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    Iswoon
    United States3 years ago

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The show is a strong platform for exploring interdisciplinary approaches to sound and performance.
Listeners appreciate the rigorous, thoughtful discussions and deep dives into contemporary music practices.
Guest lineups are consistently high-caliber and the conversations insightful.

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44. Marina Peterson, Atmospheric Noise
Q: So what drew you to sound as a focus of your anthropological research?
Marina explains how her background as a cellist and interest in cities led her toward sound studies, and how early work on downtown concerts evolved into questions about neoliberal urbanism and world music performances.
43. Theodore Gordon, The Composer’s Black Box
Q: How did Pauline Oliveros' approach differ from Subotnick and Buchla's, and what did her experiments with feedback taught us?
Oliveros prioritized intuitive, body- and attention-centered musical processes, using feedback and intermodulation not to achieve technical mastery but to expand consciousness and improvisational possibilities, as seen in her mnemonics tapes and tape-based explorations at Mills College and the Tape Center.
43. Theodore Gordon, The Composer’s Black Box
Q: What was the role of instrument designers like Buchla and Moog on the development of this kind of music? Was there back-and-forth with composers?
There was extensive back-and-forth; designers and musicians negotiated capabilities and constraints, with composers like Subotnick seeking envelope followers and gestural control, and artists such as Sun Ra demonstrating how a single instrument could be exploited in non-traditional, non-analytic ways to serve artistic goals.
43. Theodore Gordon, The Composer’s Black Box
Q: You write in the book about the element of unpredictability that gets built into these systems. How did Morton Subotnick and Donald Buchla approach this in practice?
Subotnick framed unpredictability as a pathway to a complex, multi-parameter instrument that could be controlled in more dimensions, while Buchla's modular systems made experimentation a collaborative design process; together they created instruments that extended the musician's gestural and expressive capabilities, even if the systems behaved in unforeseen ways.
43. Theodore Gordon, The Composer’s Black Box
Q: Let's start off with this idea of the black box. What is it and how did it open up new modes of electronic music making?
The black box is a foundational engineering concept describing a system whose internal workings are opaque, yet whose behavior can be observed through inputs and outputs; this opacity spurred musicians to experiment with electronics and to focus on what the system does rather than how it intrinsically works, leading to varied approaches in the 60s.

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A deep, exploratory program focusing on contemporary and experimental music through in-depth conversations with composers, performers, and scholars. Episodes frequently center on how technology, theory, performance practice, and interdisciplinary studies shape new music, from cybernetics and sound sculpture to early American piano repertoire and live electronics. Noteworthy is the show's ability to blend rigorous scholarly context with practical performance insights, often featuring guests who are both researchers and practitioners. This makes it a strong fit for listeners who seek thoughtful, idea-driven discussions about music-making, sound, and the evolving landscape of experimental music, with occasional forays into dance, architecture ... more

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1. Marina Peterson
2. Theodore Gordon
3. Stephen Siek
4. David Rothenberg
5. Amy Williams
6. Pamela Z
7. Nancy Karp
8. Putu Septa

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