NMA birthday: Bonnie Barnett - May 2, 1947
Another small thanks to facebook for informing me that today's her day (and to her for giving me my first NMA participatory event!)
Bonnie Barnett May 2, 1947 Chicago
My very first participant action at the New Music Americas was during the 1985 Auto Hum, a special adaptation of Bonnie Barnett’s Tunnel Hum made to include the traffic surrounding the KPFK Pacifica Radio studio. It being Los Angeles, you could say it was hundreds of miles of forever moving traffic. We gathered at the radio station to participate in a live broadcast - it may have been here where I met Don Wherry - and if the station’s archives have survived, maybe there might be a copy of that performance… Bonnie now monthly curates a program on another Los Angeles station, KXLU, and more about that below.
To start with, here is her website where there is enough stuff for you to bookmark before going further on this page: bonniebarnettmusic.com
Bonnie Barnett’s first appearance at NMA was during the …