Van Meter in Vineland objective correlative?

Daniel Julius daniel.julius at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 14:12:08 CST 2007


Robin, I could just look this up I spose, but since I have ye: is Pauline
Oliveros Terry Riley's wife?
And did you hang out at bars that only played Stockhausen?


On Dec 28, 2007 7:36 AM, <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> If the game played was "6 degrees of", Jim Horton is probably off
> by only one notch. I was involved with KPFA from 1987-1998,
> back when Charles Ahmarkahninian:
> http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Amirkhanian.shtml
> was in charge of Kpfa's music department and I was getting into recording.
> There was a fair level of activity involving avante-garde music. Shira
> Cion
> [my ex from a previous marriage] studied under Pauline Oliveros
> [ http://www.deeplistening.org/pauline/ ] at Mills and Alvin Lucier
> [ http://alucier.web.wesleyan.edu/ ] at Wesleyan. Shira's involvement with
> the "Women's Philharmonic" [ http://tinyurl.com/254keg ] meant hearing
>  a lot of brand spanking new music, as did other recording gigs like the
> Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and plenty of smaller-scale gigs. Had
> quite a few conversations with Daniel Revenaugh [
> http://tinyurl.com/3co2kw ],
> who was involved with Harry Partch. Like you say, "sounds like" someone
> I ought to know, and assuming he was out and about at the time, there's a
> good chance I ran into him. Looking at this list for the "Frog Peak Music
> Collective" http://www.frogpeak.org/fpartistsfront.html , I see the names
> of other musicians I've encountered/recorded.
>
> http://www.frogpeak.org/fpartists/fphorton.html
>
> And then, there's Michael Masley,
>
> http://d1049385.mydomainwebhost.com/
>
> http://magnatune.com/artists/masley
>
> who you ought to know anyway. The "Artist General" seems to have
> oozed out of Vineland, and pops up in Diane Paxon's fantasy books
> from time to time.
>
> http://home.pon.net/rhinoceroslodge/paxson.htm
>
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> > actually that History of Experimental Music in Northern California
> > is more than just hippie trivia...sounds like people Robin might know...
> >
> > Especially the author autobiographical notes - that Jim Horton
> > talked his way into a synthesizer grad program lab without actually
> > being enrolled, played Harry Partch's instruments at a memorial
> > service for same, associated with a group of composers playing
> > instruments with just intonation...very active person, RIP
> >
> >
> http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/~tebo/history/LongDur/JimHorton/jh-music1.html
>
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