June 13, 1981 NMA San Francisco - Day 7
Pauline Oliveros ● Bonnie Barnett ● Buster Simpson ● Laurie Anderson ● Lou Harrison ● Carl Stone
June 13, 1981 New Music America San Francisco - Day 7
Pauline Oliveros Traveling Companions
Bonnie Barnett Tunnel Hum
Buster Simpson installation
Laurie Anderson - United States excerpts incl. O Superman
Lou Harrison - work for gamelan ensemble (with stream audio)
Charles Amirkhanian KPFA radio series
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Wikipedia photo by Allan J. Cronin, 2010
Pauline Oliveros Traveling Companions
Golden Gate Park Marx Meadow
Carl Stone interviews Pauline Oliveros for the official program
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Bonnie Barnett
Tunnel Hum end of Judah Street
Y2b retrospective posted by Bonnie Barnett
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Buster Simpson [installation] San Francisco Art Institute
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Final KPFA broadcast with Charles Amirkhanian
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Laurie Anderson
Americans on the Move and on Let X = X from the program
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Actual live performance recording courtesy of Other Musics streaming archive with no radio announcer talk:
https://archive.org/details/NMA_1981_06_13_1_c1
described on the screen as follows:
From a recording made on June 13, 1981 in San Francisco, as part of the New Music America Festival, Laurie Anderson performs selections from her epic work United States. Laurie Anderson was born in 1947 in Chicago and received her MFA in sculpture from Columbia University. As a performance and recording artist, she has worked with film-sound-talking pieces for many years, performing at the La Jolla Museum, the Berlin Festival, and various other places in the U. S. and Europe. In this concert she performs a number of pieces including versions of songs that were later included on her famous “rock” album Big Science. [note - this was uploaded in 2008 and you’re only hearing about it now. - gd] The atmosphere was electric, the appreciative audience was eclectic, and the resulting concert was nothing short of extremely effective entertainment.
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Han Reitziger: Well, what’s – what’s really I think – but that that was for everybody, was ah the, was a big hit, was Laurie Anderson. It was a-may-zing what I have seen in her, it was great.
Charles Amirkhanian: Was that the first time you heard her? Or saw her in person?
Han Reitziger: Yeah, well just – I – I had a piece on a record but…
Charles Amirkhanian: You never saw her perform.
Han Reitziger: No! it was really such a great professional performance, it – it was, it was amazing what I ah what I heard.
- From KPFA’s Morning Concert with Charles Amirkhanian June 18, 1981 San Francisco
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Lou Harrison
A Concert of Gamelan Music Japan Center Theatre
Actual stream recording provided at the Other Minds archive collection
https://archive.org/details/NMA_1981_06_13_2_c1
Archival recording notes:
From a recording made on June 13, 1981 in San Francisco, as part of the New Music America Festival, this is a concert of new gamelan music by Lou Harrison, K. R. T. Wasitodipuro, and others. Lou Harrison’s music is known for its original and sensitive use of percussion and employment of just intonation. It also is widely appreciated for its lyricism and assimilation of techniques from East and West, as is clearly evident in the pieces heard here that incorporate Western instruments such as the harp, flute and trumpet with the traditional gamelan. These works are performed on two sets of gamelan instruments designed and largely built by William Colvig. They are the Gamelan Si Betty, named for Betty Freeman who made possible its construction, and Gamelan Si Darius, named after composer Darius Milhaud. The clarity of the sound and the complexity of the intertwining melodies is truly exceptional and as Lou Harrison points out at the beginning of the concert, the intent of these pieces is too leave your ears ringing as you exit the hall. An intent that is clearly fulfilled by this marvelous recording.
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