Experimental music.

  • Night of the Virgin Shark: Didi Favreau / produced by Charles Amirkhanian

    Charles Amirkhanian plays experimental works by members of his class at U.C. Extension, San Francisco; and introduces the work of Didi Favreau, a woman who has composed music on tape based exclusively on the sounds of office machinery. Her art is an outcry against the slavery of women and is an interesting contrast to her…

  • Music of Eliane Radigue

    This program was originally “Music of Eliane Radigue and Philip Glass,” however the archives has only the one of the two reels, which features two electronic pieces by French composer Eliane Radigue, “Geelriandre” and “Chry-ptus”. Radigue speaks briefly at the end of the tape. The other part, which is not in the Archives, features music…

  • Getting better than good : notes from the omniverse / Sun Ra ; interviewed by Jay Green.

    Sun Ra discusses his life and development as a musician. The discussion begins with Ra’s early musical training under Fletcher Henderson, and his feelings about learning, listening and obediency. Ra continues by explaining his role as a musician in the omniverse; philosophies on the future of humanity; earth; nuclear weapons; and the message in his…

  • Voices : a musical celebration of the wild world.

    Program about whales and the delicate balance between human beings and those huge creatures who inhabit the world’s oceans. Includes music from the Massachusetts-based Long Term Research Institute’s Fall 1988 concert; how scientists have found the humpback whales sounds are actually songs, and the interpretation of those songs from human listening.

  • Earthcaring music : Paul Winter / produced by Mary Pat Fisher.

    Ongoing series of interviews with individuals from around the world who are responding to the earth’s ecological problems. This program features the views of Paul Winter, head of the Paul Winter Consort. His group interweaves sounds of the natural world and instruments from many cultures. He talks about appreciating the gentler side of creatures traditionally…

  • Sound voyages / produced by Andy Weiss.

    Exploratory documentary on sound and how it affects us. Weiss examines noise pollution, healing, art, and mysticism. Includes the voices of John Cage, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Gertrude Stein, Adolf Hitler, Laurie Anderson, Allen Ginsberg, Inayat Khan, Allan Watts, and more.

  • World music and Rattlesnake Mountain / Alvin Curran ; produced by Mellissa Gould.

    Series of ten environmental concerts composed by Curran, in collaboration with ten American New Music artists and features the eastern seaboard as a musical source. Natural sounds provide the backup for solo improvisations.|WORLD MUSIC / LEO SMITH ON TRUMPET AND SEAL HORN| RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAIN / PAULINE OLIVEROS. SERIES: Maritime rites / Alvin Curran| produced by…

  • Malvina Reynolds: I’d rather say it myself singing / narrated by Nancy Schimmel; produced by Susan Kernes

    A tribute to singer-songwriter Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978). The program is comprised of a running narration by Reynolds’ daughter, Nancy Schimmel, pieces of interviews with Ms. Reynolds, and reminiscences by Pete Seeger. Explores how she wrote songs, her struggle to get her material distributed, a discussion of her politics, what it is like to grow up…

  • Mr. : I’d rather say it myself singing / narrated by Nancy Schimmel ; produced by Susan Kernes.

    A tribute to singer-songwriter Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978). The program is comprised of a running narration by Reynolds’ daughter, Nancy Schimmel, pieces of interviews with Ms. Reynolds, and reminiscences by Pete Seegar. Explores how she wrote songs, her struggle to get her material distributed, a discussion of her politics, what it is like to grow up…

  • Laurie Anderson on her music / interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian

    Noted experimental musician Laurie Anderson discusses her music, the development of ideas, and the use of odd and modified instruments. Anderson also discusses the influence on her by Vito Acconci and William Burroughs. Includes performances of Anderson’s “New York Social Life,” “Language of the Future,” and “Time to Go.” Recorded in her New York studio…