Source: Other Minds.
Other Minds is pleased to announce the addition of two more events to the Other Minds Festival 27 schedule, presented in collaboration with our friends at Gray Area, a cultural incubator in San Francisco’s Mission District integrating art, technology, science, and the humanities.
On Tuesday, November 14 at 7:00 pm, we will present a screening of Subotnick: Portrait of an Electronic Music Pioneer, an official bio-documentary on revered avant-garde music composer Morton Subotnick directed by Robert Fantinatto. Through a series of candid interviews and illuminating conversations with key figures from his past and present, Subotnick provides an overview of this fascinating composer’s rich life and uncompromising career. The film will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with Morton Subotnick and Other Minds Executive and Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian.
Akaihirume and Carl Stone
Akaihirume and Carl Stone. Photo by Samantha Gore.
We’ll close our 27th Festival on Sunday, November 19, with the world premiere of Carl Stone’s evening-length multimedia work Re:gendo. Carl Stone, who has lived and taught for decades in Japan and celebrates his 70th birthday this year, will perform live computer-based electronics with sounds distributed throughout the space, utilizing field recordings of the urban soundscape in Tokyo combined with his unique take on music from Japan as well as other parts of Asia. The music shares the immersive space with multi-channel video using specially commissioned drone footage shot over Tokyo. Featured as part of the performance will be Akaihirume, the Japanese singer whose ear is always tuned to the world’s sounds which she keeps as material in what she calls her shell.
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