Morton Subotnick is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch. He has worked extensively with interactive electronics and multi-media, co-founding the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Ramón Sender, and is an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. On the podcast, we talk about his youth growing up in Los Angeles, his co-founding of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, shifting from the clarinet to the electronic music studio to live electronic performance, and his upcoming performance of As I Live & Breathe at Other Minds 27 with video artist Lillevan. mortonsubotnick.com Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at [email protected]. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Intro/outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

Eivind Buene is a Norwegian composer living and working in Oslo, where he is professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Apart from writing music for soloists, ensembles, and orchestras, Buene also frequently engages in collaborations with improvising musicians, developing music in the cross-section between classical notation and improvisation. In addition to music, Buene writes critiques, essays, and novels, and is exploring hybrid forms between music and text in large-scale orchestral works. In the interview, we talk about his relationship with the music of the past and his idea of a telescopic mode of listening, hybrid forms in which text and music are equally important, and his new piece Chorales, which will be premiered at Other Minds Festival 27. Music: “By the river” from Schubert Lounge by Eivind Buene, performed by Eivind Buene; Blue Mountain by Eivind Buene, performed by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, conductor Baldur Brönnimann, and actors Andrea Bræin Hovig and Mattis Herman Nyquist; Grid by Eivind Buene, performed by Cikada (2L) Blue Mountain with English subtitles Follow Eivind on Twitter. eivindbuene.com Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at [email protected]. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

Mary Kouyoumdjian. Mary is a composer and documentarian with projects ranging from concert works to multimedia collaborations and film scores. Her music covers thematic material that often relates to her family’s experiences during the Lebanese Civil War and the Armenian Genocide, exploring themes of displacement and exile through the use of documentary materials. Topics include working with documentary materials, composing from a diaspora perspective, and Kouyoumdjian’s monumental work They Will Take My Island, a string octet about Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky with video by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan. Music: Paper Pianos: "You are not a kid" by Mary Kouyoumdjian, performed by Alarm Will Sound; They Will Take My Island by Mary Kouyoumdjian, performed by JACK Quartet and Silvana Quartet Follow Mary on Instagram and Twitter. marykouyoumdjian.com Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at [email protected]. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

Born in 1980 in Moscow and educated at the Yerevan State Conservatory in the capital of Armenia, Artur Avanesov is among the leading Armenian composers of his generation. He is also an accomplished pianist and musicologist, having published multiple research papers and held seminars on Armenian music internationally. On the podcast, we discuss the many international references in his work, his piece Tezeta and its connection to Ethiopian popular music, and microtonality in his piano quintet Quasi harena maris. Music: Tezeta by Artur Avanesov, performed by Artur Avanesov; Quasi harena maris by Artur Avanesov, performed by Movses Pogossian, Ji Eun Hwang, Morgan O’Shaughnessey, Niall Ferguson, and Artur Avanesov (New Focus Recordings) Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at [email protected]. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, having used computers in live performance since 1986. Hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling,” today he divides his time between Japan and Los Angeles between his busy international touring schedule. In the interview, we talk about the genesis of his sampling practice dating back to his time preserving LPs on cassette as a student at CalArts, issues of cultural meaning in sampling, and live computer music performance. Music: Ngoc Suong by Carl Stone (Unseen Worlds), Vim by Carl Stone (Unseen Worlds), Kustaa by Carl Stone (Unseen Worlds) Follow Carl on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. rlsto.net Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at [email protected]. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

Bora Yoon is a Korean-American composer, vocalist, and sound artist who conjures audiovisual soundscapes using digital devices, voice, and instruments from a variety of cultures and historical centuries to formulate a storytelling through music, movement, and sound. Joshue Ott is a visualist and software designer who creates cinematic visual improvisations that are performed live and projected in large scale. On the podcast, we talk about their history of multimedia collaborations, their recent project at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, and their upcoming performance at Other Minds Festival 27. We also discuss Bora’s newly commissioned work for Ensemble Decipher, featuring a large kinetic sculpture designed to imitate the string game cat’s cradle. Music: “ClockSequence” from PHONO KINETIC by Bora Yoon, performed by Bora Yoon Follow Bora on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. borayoon.com Follow Joshue on Instagram and Twitter. superdraw.intervalstudios.com Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at [email protected]. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

Linda Bouchard has been active for over 40 years as a composer, orchestrator, conductor, mentor, and researcher. Since 2001, she has been increasingly interested in how traditional artistic practices are influenced by the integration of new technologies, reflected in her development of the Ocular Score, “a visual musical score drawn using data generated from the analysis of complex sounds.” In the interview we talk about her Live Structures Project, designing new forms of musical notation, and her upcoming performance with Ensemble TriOcular + at the Other Minds Festival. Music: Murmuration by Linda Bouchard, performed by Ensemble TriOcular + (Charlotte Hug and Lori Freedman); Gathering by Linda Bouchard, performed by Ensemble TriOcular + (Linda Bouchard, Lori Freedman, François Houle, and Charlotte Hug) Follow Linda on Instagram. lindabouchard.com Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at [email protected]. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

A pioneer in the use of computers in performance since the late 1970s, Neil Rolnick’s music has been performed around the world and appears on 22 commercial recordings. Born in Dallas in 1947, he earned a bachelor's degree in literature from Harvard and a PhD in music composition in 1980 from UC Berkeley. He went on to develop the first integrated electronic arts graduate and undergraduate programs in the US, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and, and has lived in New York City since 2002. On the podcast, we talk about his use of sampling from the 1970s to today, his involvement in the first-ever live computer-music performance at IRCAM in 1978, and his recent release of music for piano and electronics on Other Minds Records, Lockdown Fantasies. Music: A Robert Johnson Sampler by Neil Rolnick, performed by Neil Rolnick (Centaur Records); WakeUp by Neil Rolnick and Felice and Boudreaux Bryant, performed by Neil Rolnick (Innova Recordings); O Brother! by Neil Rolnick, performed by Neil Rolnick (Innova Recordings); Journey’s End by Neil Rolnick, performed by Kathleen Supové (Other Minds Records); Lockdown Fantasies by Neil Rolnick, performed by Geoffrey Burleson (Other Minds Records) Follow Neil on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. neilrolnick.com Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at [email protected]. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

Ghost Ensemble fosters groundbreaking music that blurs borders of genre, style, and scene, expanding perceptual horizons through shared immersive experience. Their May 18th performance at St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco, California presents new works by composers Sky Macklay, Ben Richter, and Catherine Lamb. In this interview, Joseph Bohigian talks with Macklay and Richter, who are both members of the ensemble, about their works, Ghost Ensemble’s evolution since its founding in 2012, and the influence of Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening. We also hear from Lamb about her new work for Ghost Ensemble, interius/exterius. Music: Harmonifriends by Sky Macklay, performed by Ghost Ensemble; Rewild by Ben Richter, performed by Ghost Ensemble; interius/exterius by Catherin Lamb, performed by Ghost Ensemble Follow Ghost Ensemble on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. ghostensemble.org Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at [email protected]. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

We have a special episode for our subscribers, a recording of the pre-concert talk from our Other Minds 30th Anniversary celebration with pianist Marc-André Hamelin and composer/author Kyle Gann. You’ll hear a panel discussion between Hamelin, Gann, and Other Minds Artistic and Executive Director Charles Amirkhanian about the subject of the night’s event, Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata, followed by a lecture by Kyle Gann about the piece drawing on his research for his 2017 book Charles Ives’s Concord: Essays after a Sonata. After the episode, head over to the Other Minds website, where you can watch a video of Marc-André Hamelin’s performance of the Concord Sonata at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California. Music: Excerpts from Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860,” by Charles Ives, performed by Marc-André Hamelin Click here to watch Marc-André Hamelin’s performance of Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata at Other Minds. Click here to purchase Marc-André Hamelin’s recording of the Concord Sonata on New World Records. Click here to purchase Kyle Gann’s book, Charles Ives’s Concord: Essays after a Sonata (U. of Illinois Press, 2017). Kyle Gann’s website Marc-André Hamelin’s website Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at [email protected]. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian.