Other Minds Collection, 1993-present

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Summary

Title:
Other Minds Programming Collection
Dates:
1993-present
Creators:
Other Minds
Abstract:
Extent:
Approximately 1,150 audiovisual items
Language:
Preferred citation:

Other Minds Programming Collection. Other Minds Archive

Background

Scope and content:

The Other Minds Programming collection represents several series of concerts and special programs produced by Other Minds from 1993 to the present. The foundational series is the Other Minds Festival; a yearly event that from 1993-2016 invited 8-12 innovative composers often representing the avant-garde, jazz, and world music. They would convene at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA before presenting their work four days later in San Francisco. This unique approach to a "festival" allowed for a camaraderie to develop between the established, mid-career and emerging artists. In 2017, the festival changed to explorations of a single subject, starting with a centennial celebration of composer Lou Harrison, and in 2018 a festival dedicated to sound poetry. As of 2023, the Other Minds Festival is currently in its 26th year. Other Minds Presents encompasses all other special programs produced by Other Minds including film presentations, artist retrospectives, single concerts, collaborative events, and other concert series such as the New Music Seance (2005-2008), Nature of Music (2016-present), Latitudes (2017-present). Collection media from 1993-2012 includes DAT, audio cassette, Hi-8 and Mini DV video tape. From 2013-present, audio, video, and images are primarily born-digital. A large collection of black and white photographic prints made by photographer John Fago are also part of Other Minds Festival media.

Biographical / historical:

Other Minds, Inc., is dedicated to the encouragement and propagation of contemporary music in all its forms through yearly festival concerts, film screenings, public discussions, commissioning of new works, a record label, weekly radio broadcasts, and preservation of audiovisual media. Other Minds was co-founded by Charles Amirkhanian and Jim Newman, two longtime advocates for living artists who themselves actively created new work. Amirkhanian was well-known to the San Francisco Bay Area new music community as a broadcaster of interviews and concerts on KPFA-FM Radio (1969-1992) and a composer of sound poetry and electroacoustic music. Newman was the legendary founder of San Francisco’s first serious art gallery of the modern era, Dilexi (1959-1970), and producer of experimental television programs and films on music and the visual arts.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid created by Other Minds Archive staff.
Date Prepared:
1993-present
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on April 17, 2025, 11:28 a.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:

A digital portion of the collection is publicly accessible through our online archives at archives.otherminds.org. Access restricted to physical collection maintained at the organization's office, offsite storage, and with Special Collections and Archives at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Terms of access:

Publication rights remain with Other Minds and the respective artists.

Preferred citation:

Other Minds Programming Collection. Other Minds Archive

Location of this collection:
55 Taylor St.
San Francisco, CA 94102, US
Contact:
(415) 934-8134
archives@otherminds.org
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