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Other Minds

About Me

Welcome to Other Minds. We are a global New Music community where composers, students, and listeners discover and learn about innovative music by composers from all over the world. Other Minds is a private not-for-profit organization (501(c)(3) based in San Francisco.

When American composer John Cage died in the summer of 1992, the New Yorker ran an unattributed obituary: "His epitaph might read that he composed music in other peoples' minds." Reading this, Jim Newman suggested "Other Minds" as the name of the major international music festival that he was about to launch in San Francisco, with Charles Amirkhanian as Artistic Director.

What started as a composers' retreat and New Music festival has grown to include a concert series, a record label , a radio show and a radio archive featuring interviews with many composers and recorded performances.

See our website for our many exciting projects. We strive to bring wonderful new and innovative music to audiences in the San Francisco Bay Area and worldwide via the internet.

To subscribe to our email news letter, Mind Alert, point your web browsers at http://r.vresp.com/?OtherMinds/c2d4ba3042/798556/4a519c664e/ cdd3d57 .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/12/2006
Band Website: http://www.otherminds.org/
Influences: John Cage, Morton Feldman, Charles Amirkhanian, Ellen Fullman, George Antheil, Robert Ashley, Beth Anderson, Brion Gysin, Pauline Oliveros, Lou Harrison, Ezra Pound, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Anthony Braxton, Conlon Nancarrow, Aaron Copland, Edgar Varese, Henry Cowell, La Monte Young, Pamala Z, Christian Wolff, Trimpin, James Tenney, Carl Stone, Laetitia Sonami, Frederic Rzewski, Terry Riley, Phill Niblock, Meredith Monk, Miya Masaoka, Alvin Lucier, Annea Lockwood, George Lewis, Joan Jeanrenaud, Amelia Cuni, Don Byron, Ingram Marshall, Alvin Singleton, Nicolas Slonimsky, Tan Dun, Calliope Tsoupaki, Linda Bouchard, Henry Brant, Gavin Bryars, Thomas Buckner, Mary Ellen Childs, Paul Dresher, Luc Ferrari, Mamoru Fujieda, Peter Garland, Philip Glass, Annie Gosfield, Hamza el Din, Alan Hovhaness, Jon Jang, Leroy Jenkins, John Kennedy, David Lang, Rex Lawson, Hafez Modirzadeh, Hyo-shin Na, António Pinho Vargas, Julian Priester, Alvin Singleton, Foday Musa Suso, Donald Swearingen, Richard Teitelbaum, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Jai Uttal, Glen Velez, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Errollyn Wallen, Julia Wolfe, Ashot Zograbyan, and many, many more. See our website for details.
Sounds Like: Listen to the latest radio show as an mp3 stream. Or check out our archive .
Record Label: Other Minds
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Revenge of the Dead Indians

The Revenge of the Dead Indians: In Memoriam John Cage A benefit for OTHER MINDS of San Francisco Monday, June 15, 2009 " 6:00pm Reception " 7:30pm Screening Sun...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:43:00 GMT

OM 13 Preview: Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith

OM 13 is just around the corner! March 6-8 at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.We've got all kinds of great music lined up!On opening night of OM13, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith will take the...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:21:00 GMT

OM13 Artist Preview: Frances-Marie Uitti

Dubbed the "Grande Dame of the avant-garde" by BBC Music Magazine,cellist Frances-Marie Uitti has earned widespread acclaim as theconsummate modern musician: composer, performer, improviser, author,co...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:19:00 GMT

OM Seance to conjure rarely heard scores

A NEW MUSIC SEANCEA Benefit for Other MindsWith Sarah Cahill (piano), Kate Stenberg (violin), and Eva-MariaZimmermann (piano)Saturday, February 24, 2pm, 5:30pm, and 8pmSwedenborgian Church, San Franci...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:12:00 GMT

OM announces program for A New Music Seance

Happy New Year, everybody! We've got some exciting things lined up for 2007 and one of those is the New Music Seance. You asked for and you got it!A New Music SeanceFebruary 24, 2007, 2pm, 5:30pm, a...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:20:00 GMT

New stuff up for free listening at radiOM.org

Part of our mission as an organization is the preservation of important radio interviews with composers. We have much of the KPFA music archives and are slowly but surely digitizing it with the help ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:54:00 GMT

12th Other Minds Music Festival a great success!

Other Minds recently concluded its 12th festival season, to muchacclaim. Attended by capacity crowds each of the three nights at theJewish Community Center, we received only glowing comments andreview...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:15:00 GMT

Last day of the OM Festival

Today at 2:00 PM is the last day of the Other Minds festival at the Jewish Community Center's Kanbar Hall (3200 California St. at Presidio Ave.). It's your last chance to go until next year. Today's...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:09:00 GMT

The Festival Starts Today!

We got some good press today: Pair of influential composers headline Other Minds Festival by Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle.Our festival isn't just the three nights of concerts, it's als...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:10:00 GMT