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48. Juri Seo, Bad Decisions

Juri Seo is a Korean-born American composer and Professor of Music at Princeton University. She merges many aspects of music from the past century, in particular its expa

47. Foreign/Domestic, High Vibration Resonance

Foreign/Domestic is the improvisational duo of composer, guitarist, and sound artist Zachary James Watkins and drummer John Diaz. Zachary James Watkins studied compositio

46. Sylvie Courvoisier, Improvising with Radios

Pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier is a Brooklyn-based native of Switzerland and winner of the Swiss Grand Prix and The American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Award.

45. Kristin Norderval, From Medieval Fiddle to Electronic Instruments

Performer, composer, and improviser Kristin Norderval’s repertoire spans the renaissance to the avant-garde, and her credits as a soprano soloist include performances wit

44. Marina Peterson, Atmospheric Noise

Marina Peterson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has an emphasis on sound and urbanism, and she is the author of the 2021 book

43. Theodore Gordon, The Composer’s Black Box

Theodore Gordon is a musicologist and musician whose work connects experimental music, critical organology, and science and technology studies. He has performed with viol

42. Stephen Siek on Alexander Reinagle, Composing in Early America

Pianist Stephen Siek served as a professor of music at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, where he taught piano, music history, American music, the aesthetics of

41. Composers Inside Electronics on David Tudor

Composers Inside Electronics is a group of composer/performers dedicated to the composition and live collaborative performance of electronic and electro-acoustic music. T

40. David Rothenberg, Eleven Paths to Animal Music

David Rothenberg is a composer, clarinetist, philosopher, and author of several books on animal songs, including Why Birds Sing, which was turned into a documentary by th

39. Amy Williams, Morton Feldman at 100

The “fresh, daring and incisive” (Fanfare) compositions of Amy Williams have been presented by leading international performers, including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchest

38. Pamela Z, More or less at the same time

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques,

37. Nancy Karp, Choreographing in Silence

Choreographer Nancy Karp grew up in Los Angeles, where she was an early student at CalArts. She embraces elaborate structures working with units of pure movement, investi

36. Peter Garland on Ingram Marshall

Other Minds’s own Devin King joins us to read an excerpt from our first ever OM book, Peter Garland’s Ingram Marshall: A Personal and Musical Appreciation. Born in 1952 i

35. Zeena Parkins, For the Pink Cup

Electroacoustic composer, improviser, and harpist Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices, making use of extended techniques, object preparations, and e

34. Putu Septa, Experiments in Gamelan

Putu Septa is a composer and musician from the village of Padangtegal, Ubud, Bali. To contribute to new music on Balinese gamelan, Septa initiated a new gamelan ensemble–

33. Kristine Tjøgersen, Finding the Music in Nature

Kristine Tjøgersen’s compositional practice is characterized by curiosity, imagination, humor, and precision. She has a special interest in the interplay between the visu

32. Samuel Adams, Changing Resonances

Samuel Adams (b. 1985) is an American composer. Gramophone Magazine praised Adams as “among the most interesting composers of the millennial generation in his negotiation

Bonus. Blue + Bob

SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: On Sunday, September 7, 2025, Other Minds will present a two piano recital of the music of “Blue” Gene Tyranny and Robert Ashley with pianists Sara

Bonus. Simon Morrison on Galina Ustvolskaya

We have another special episode for our subscribers, a recording of the pre-concert talk by musicologist Simon Morrison at our concert of the complete piano sonatas of 20

31. Stephanie Loveless, A Year of Deep Listening

A Year of Deep Listening was a 365-day online celebration of Pauline Oliveros’ legacy, coinciding with what would have been her 90th birthday. The Center for Deep Listeni