electronic, ambient & electro-acoustic music.

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.

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