Raiding RadiOM and other adventures in soundwaves.

RadiOM is a radio pro­gram run by the San Fran­sisco based Other Minds music com­mu­nity which has hun­dreds of hours of archived per­for­mances, inter­views and doc­u­men­taries on new and avant garde music. Some recent finds I’ve been lis­ten­ing to are.…

Infor­ma­tion Trans­mis­sion, Mod­u­la­tion and Noise is an engross­ing two-part pro­gram back from 1970 fea­tur­ing Steve Reich and Jon Gib­son play­ing a selec­tion og Reich’s works, as well as Philip Glass’ Music in Sim­i­lar Motion.

Other Minds Fes­ti­val 13, includ­ing panel dis­cus­sions. There is a lot to lis­ten to in this three part fes­ti­val, if you don’t get to every­thing, attempt to at least give Åke Parmerud’s works a lis­ten: La Vie Mécanique and Dream­ing in Dark­ness are both phe­nom­e­nal com­po­si­tions: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

There are many other record­ings that will be of great inter­est to those of you explor­ing the his­tory of elec­tronic music, espe­cially from mon­u­men­tal Amer­i­can com­posers such as John Cage, Mor­ton Feld­man, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and many more. I’ll attempt to post some of the high­lights I’ve found in the col­lec­tion in a future post.

On a sim­i­lar theme — I recently dis­cov­ered an ambi­tious 10 part pod­cast enti­tled ‘The Tone Gen­er­a­tion’ that explores the his­tory of elec­tronic music through the world. The first episode begins with Great Britain and fea­tures BBC Radio­phonic Work­shop com­posers. A stun­ning col­lec­tion of early sci-fi sounds and music from the late 1950’s onward. The sec­ond episode just went online the other day, explor­ing France’s elec­tronic music history.

… and a lit­tle extra: Inter­view with Don Buchla, a syn­the­sizer pio­neer who was a con­tem­po­rary of Robert Moog. (via Dis­quiet).

And sadly, another pio­neer of elec­tronic music has past away: Bebe Bar­ron.