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Classic radiophonic proto-rap with America's lost practitioner of text-sound composition. The work includes a 100th birthday salute to musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky, who achieved the century mark on 27 April 1994, in Los Angeles. Mental Radio is a retrospective of Amirkhanian's classic analog speech tapes along with some recent Synclavier digital updates: Radii (1971), Chu Lu Lu (1991), Just (1972), Heavy Aspirations (1973), Vers Les Anges (1990), Dot Bunch (1981), and Mugic (1974). Mental Radio was produced expressly for NEW AMERICAN RADIO.
More Charles Amirkhanian Biography
Charles Amirkhanian (Woodside,
CA) is a composer, percussionist, sound poet, and radio producer. For
many years music director at KPFA-FM in Berkeley, Amirkhanian was also
founding co-director of the acclaimed Composer-to-Composer Festival
in Telluride, Colorado. He has produced numerous works for international
venues such as radio station Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Cologne,
Germany, and Swedish radio. An internationally known radio artist, Amirkhanian
is currently executive director of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program
in Woodside, California. He has produced two major works with commissions
from NEW AMERICAN RADIO: Politics
As Usual (1988)
and Walking Tune (A
Room Music for Percy Grainger) (1986-87).
A third -- Miatsoom (or Reunion in Armenian) -- is upcoming
in 1996. |