22 gennaio 2024

 

Bandcamp offre un biglietto omaggio per accedere ai fantastici archivi della californiana Other Minds, con l'invito a tornare ad approfondire in successive occasioni. Oggi fanno da guida John Cage, Henry Cowell, Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Astor Piazzolla, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, George Antheil, David Byrne, Conlon Nancarrow, Frank Zappa, Anne Waldman, Anthony Braxton, Brian Eno, William Burroughs, Robbie Bāsho e Pauline Oliveros. Così, tanto per orientarsi.

The Other Minds Archives contain recordings of interviews, documentaries, panel discussions, and performances of innovative contemporary music, as well as spoken word and conceptual art. These were gathered from a variety of sources, most importantly from the Music Department of KPFA-FM Radio, the listener-sponsored Pacifica Foundation station (1949-1995) and from concerts produced by Other Minds (1993-present). The various collections present a West Coast perspective on national and international developments in new music, following changes in styles and instrumental resources through the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Other Minds' archives have been growing steadily since the inaugural Other Minds Festival in 1993. Along with the organization's documented concert history, Other Minds became a steward for other media collections over the years after embarking on a long term preservation project that began in 2000 with the acquisition of the KPFA-FM Music Department collection.

KPFA-FM Radio in Berkeley, California, a part of the Pacifica Foundation's radio network, was founded in 1949 by Lewis Hill, a journalist and poet who, along with a group of radio professionals, wanted "not only to disseminate the diversity of thought and art produced by this and other societies, but to make possible a way of life for individuals of artistic and intellectual abilities to contribute to the culture themselves." To promote this vision, KPFA capitalized the enterprise not through commercial funding, but through listener sponsorship, a model now imitated throughout the U.S. Significantly, KPFA quickly carved out an international reputation in music programming.

OM has to this day continued its efforts in the archiving and preservation of audiovisual material in our collections, placing emphasis on public access by making material available through this website and other institutional portals. In 2016, OM’s physical archives were deposited with Special Collections at the University of Santa Cruz's McHenry Library.

https://archives.otherminds.org
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