Best Pauline Oliveros Podcasts (2025)

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Episode Twenty Three - Guy Klucevsek 53:38

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This episode is devoted to our close friend and collaborator of many years, accordionist-composer, Guy Klucevsek. Guy passed away on May 22nd after a long battle with neuroendocrine cancer. To call Guy a virtuoso accordionist is, of course, accurate. He was a master of the instrument’s potential to express extended lyrical musical lines amidst a rh…

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Episode 162: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler May 1st, 2025 3:59:26

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Episode 161: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler May 1st, 2025 3:59:26

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Episode Twenty Two - Mary Ellen Childs 40:54

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Among the many composers to write music for the Relache Ensemble, Mary Ellen Childs has been one of the more active collaborators. The first of her compositions for Relache is named “Parterre.” It became a prominent part of Relache’s touring programs and was commercially recorded for the Minnesota Composers forum label. (You can hear it on Episode …

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Episode 160: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler April 17th, 2025 3:59:00

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Episode Twenty One - Kyle Gann 36:33

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Episode Twenty One – Kyle Gann For those of us who were participants in and/or avid listeners to “new” and “experimental” music in the mid-to-late 20th century, Kyle Gann’s name is resonant with the history of the musical arts during those extraordinary years. He is a writer, educator and composer. As a columnist/critic for the Village Voice he doc…

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Episode 155: KUSF 04.13.10 11-Noon Guest Pauline Oliveros DJ Bryan Chandler 54:20

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KUSF 04.13.10 11-Noon Guest Pauline Oliveros DJ Bryan Chandler

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Episode Twenty - Paul Epstein 40:51

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Paul Epstein’s music is deceptive. What appear to be beautiful melodies set within easy-to-recognize harmonies that cradle traditional tonal centers demand careful listening. Those melodies and harmonies are tricky. They slip in and out of an aural context that’s been carefully designed by an artist who has carefully studied the music from Machaut …

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Episode Nineteen - Music in In Motion No. 3 36:08

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Episode Nineteen of the Relache Chronicles is the third of three dedicated to Music in Motion, a project created by the Relache Organization in partnership with the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Between 1995 and 2001 the Relache Ensemble and four other ensembles, each dedicated to the creation and performance of contemporary music, collaborated wit…

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Episode Eighteen - Music in Motion No. 2 34:00

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Episode Eighteen is a continuation of Music in Motion, a project created by the Relache Organization in partnership with the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Between 1995 and 2001 the Relache Ensemble and four other ensembles, each dedicated to the creation and performance of contemporary music, collaborated with five presenting organizations in five …

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Episode Seventeen - Music in Motion No. 1 27:30

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Episode Seventeen – Music in Motion & Arturo Marquez Music in Motion was a project created by the Relache Organization in partnership with the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Between 1995 and 2001 the Relache Ensemble and four other ensembles, each dedicated to the creation and performance of contemporary music, collaborated with five presenting orga…

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Episode 146: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler and Martin Phillipps with The Chills 11:18

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Interview with Martin Phillipps of The Chills

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Episode Sixteen - Lois V Vierk 40:00

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Lois V Vierk is a unique voice in the recent history of music in America. She has composed stunning works for multiples of the same instrument that are technically complex and yield a mesmerizing aural experience. Among these is “Manhattan Cascade” for accordions, composed, recorded and performed widely by Guy Klucevsek, former Relache Ensemble mem…

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Episode Fifteen - Robert Ashley 46:20

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Episode Fifteen – Robert Ashley “Since he began composing and performing in the late 1950s, Robert Ashley has created a wholly original body of work. Continuously productive, his oeuvre encompasses nearly all versions of music and music/sound performance from instrumental and electronic compositions to film music and music videos to multi sectioned…

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Episode Fourteen - Annson Kenney 42:03

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Episode Fourteen - Annson Kenney Annson Kenney was a dynamic presence in Philadelphia from the mid-sixties until his death in late 1981. A visual artist, writer, performer, and composer, Annson was a difficult man to pin down. Although initially trained in music, his imagination and introspection led him far from his role as a contrabass player. In…

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Episode Thirteen - James Tenney and Critical Band 34:38

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Critical Band, an extraordinary composition by James Tenney has been described as a “sound poem,” and an “aural flower” slowly unfolding as the pitch tableau becomes evident and clear to the listener. John Cage, a long-time friend of Jim Tenney’s wrote him after hearing the premiere performance a congratulatory note, “…if this is harmony, I take ba…

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Episode 136: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler February 15th, 2024 55:22

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Episode Twelve - Bill Duckworth 37:49

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William Duckworth – known as Bill to his friends – was a composer, educator and author who wrote for contemporary ensembles and soloists throughout a busy compositional career in the mid to late twentieth century. He was a professor of music at Bucknell University and published five books on twentieth century music and theory. At the time of his pa…

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Episode Eleven - New Music America 1987 Philadelphia (3 of 3) 28:34

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Episode 11 Episode 11 is the third of three episodes of music and commentary from the New Music America Festival 1987 in Philadelphia, produced and presented by the Relache organization. Sound installations and outdoor performances in some unlikely locations have been part of New Music America festivals throughout the eleven-year history of the fes…

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Episode Ten - Guy Klucevsek's "Polka from the Fringe" NMA 1987 Philadelphia (2 of 3) 43:38

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Episode 10 is the second of three episodes of music and commentary from the New Music America Festival 1987 in Philadelphia, produced and presented by the Relache organization. This episode is one of our favorites. It features the premiere performance of accordionist-composer Guy Klucevsek’s “Polka from the Fringe,” a terrific investigation of Polk…

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Episode Nine - New Music America 1987 Philadelphia (1 of 3) 44:02

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Episode Nine - "Polka from the Fringe" at NMA 1987 Philadelphia (2 of 3) In 1979, a group of composers, performers, video artists, producers, presenters, and other experimental artists met at The Kitchen, a renowned Downtown NY performance space to present a festival named New Music New York. The following year in Minneapolis, The Walker Art Center…

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Episode 123: KUSF 01.24.10 6-8 PM Pomo Literati Guest Diane DiPrima Poet Laureate of San Francisco DJ Frank Andrick 1:05:06

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Pomo Literati Guest Diane DiPrima Poet Laureate of San Francisco DJ Frank Andrick

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Episode 116: KUSF 06.17.10 9-Noon Music Guest SpaceKraft Live DJ Bryan Chandler 38:57

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SpaceKraft Live on KUSF-FM

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Episode Eight - Romulus Franceschini 41:12

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Romulus Franceschini was a composer, arranger, music editor and assistant curator at the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral music in Philadelphia, his hometown. Raised in the vibrant Italian American community in South Philly, Romulus absorbed the rich classical music that was ever present in Philadelphia, while absorbing the equally rich j…

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Episode 110: BB King Interview for WKSU-FM 6-17-80 34:15

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Recorded at Blossom Music Center

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Episode Seven - Phill Niblock 33:46

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As the founding director of the Experimental Intermedia foundation, Phill Niblock has presented hundreds, if not thousands of concerts at his space in downtown New York City. As a composer, he has created numerous musical works for performing ensembles worldwide. As a film maker, he has made films that have been shown at festivals throughout the wo…

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Episode Six Fred Ho 45:06

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Baritone saxophonist, composer, band leader, recording artist, writer, and social activist, Fred Ho was a prodigious artist who created a large body of works for the concert hall and theater. By integrating Chinese folk songs and music from an African American diaspora, Fred created a unique and dynamic artistic legacy. Among the music in his legac…

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Episode Number Four - Guy Klucevsek 50:38

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Two works by the eminent accordionist-composer, Guy Klucevsek are featured. “Oscillation No. 2” is performed by pianist Jenny Lin and “The Flying Pipe Organ of Sian” is played by the Relache Ensemble. Guy Discusses these works with the podcast team, at times playing examples on the accordion. Guy is an innovate accordion virtuoso who has created mu…

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Episode Number Three - Pauline Oliveros "The Well" 34:34

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This is a major work by the pioneering composer, sound artist and activist, Pauline Oliveros. Created in collaboration with dancer-choreographer, Deborah Hay, and the Relache Ensemble while in residence at the Yellow Springs Institute for the Arts and Humanities in Chester Springs, PA, “The Well” has been performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Japa…

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Episode Number Five - Eve Beglarian 46:27

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Three works by composer and media artist Eve Beglarian titled “Fresh Air,” “Machaut in the Machine Age,” and “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” performed by the Relache Ensemble and the MATA Ensemble are featured. Throughout her extensive composing career, Eve has collaborated with numerous performers - poets, theater artists and directors, choreog…

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Episode Two - Joe Kasinskas "Echoes in Palindromes" 33:10

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Episode No. 2 Joe Kasinskas. One of the more dynamic works in the Relache Ensemble’s extensive catalogue of site-specific performances is titled “Echoes in Palindromes” by composer Joe Kasinskas. Following a carefully scripted graphic score, four performers move throughout a performance space playing notated musical palindromes amidst reverberant e…

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Episode Number One - The Relache Ensemble 34:12

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Episode No. 1 The Relache Ensemble. Beginning with a brief history of the ensemble through commentary by Joseph Franklin, Arthur Stidfole, and Joe Kasinskas, they reminisce about the ensemble’s early days in Philadelphia and how the name “Relache” was chosen. The musical works featured are “Forever and Sunsmell” by John Cage and “She Was a Visitor”…

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Episode 98: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler with Dr Simon Rowe, Keys Jazz Bistro December 1st, 2022 22:13

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Episode 93: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler and Martin Phillipps with The Chills October 27th, 2022 1:31:01

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Episode 92: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler October 27th, 2022 2:43:04

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Episode 83: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler with Naut Human with Morton Subotnick show June 24th, 2022 2:59:56

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Episode 82: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler Anglo Pop Psych Mayhem with Archie Patterson June 2nd, 2022 3:58:47

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Episode 81: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler Mayhem Tribute to Sun Ra Arkestra May 22nd, 2022 2:57:29

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Episode 77: KFJC fm Bryan Chandler with Homer Flynn of The Residents May 12th, 2022 25:37

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INTERVIEW WITH HOMER FLYNN

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S2 Ep6: Sculpting Lives: Making Sculpture Public 1:02:53

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Over the last year public sculpture has become a hugely controversial issue. No longer passive objects that we simply walk past on our streets, public sculptures are part of a vigorous debate about contemporary society – who is commemorated and represented, and why. In this episode we delve further into this subject, interviewing the people associa…

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S2 Ep5: Sculpting Lives: Cathie Pilkington 34:30

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'The thing about my work is that there is a tension between a passionate love and engagement with the traditions of the past and a complete impatience with their irrelevance and it’s trying to hold those things in tension and trying to engage people in the complexities of that.' Cathie Pilkington, R.A. Cathie Pilkington creates surreal, uncanny and…

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S2 Ep4: Sculpting Lives: Alison Wilding 31:17

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Alison Wilding emerged into the art world in the 1980s making powerful sculptural statements out of a myriad of materials. Taking sculpture out of the museum and off the plinth, Wilding’s work is some of the most enigmatic and beguiling sculpture being produced, and in a candid interview in her studio we ask her about influences, materials and her …

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S2 Ep3: Sculpting Lives: Gertrude Hermes 38:27

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'She did cause a bit of a revolution in the Royal Academy, which has been only to the good,' Anne Desmet, R.A. Gertrude Hermes was one of the most experimental sculptors of the twentieth century. She also changed the way women artists were treated at the Royal Academy forever – a story which had been overlooked until recently. Representing Britain …

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Episode 55: KFJC November 11th, Interview with Jen Burke Anderson 16:37

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Readings by Jen Burke Anderson

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S2 Ep2: Sculpting Lives: Veronica Ryan 36:51

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'I have been preoccupied all my life with a "sense of belonging." Growing up with an awareness of "being apart" has certainly defined who I am now. However, that alienation was in part to do with constantly moving – my parents never stayed in one place when we were younger for very long, so there was little chance of continued friendships, or a fee…

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S2 Ep1: Sculpting Lives: Dora Gordine 39:55

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“Sculpture has a vital, important message” Dora Gordine (1895-1991) When Dora Gordine died in 1991 leaving her Studio House to the nation, many people, including museum curators, assumed she had been dead for many years. How did an artist described by art critic Jan Gordon in The Observer in 1938 as ‘very possibly becoming the finest woman sculptor…

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S2: Sculpting Lives Season Two Trailer 0:56

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Launching on 2nd November 2021, the second series of the Sculpting Lives podcast features episodes on Dora Gordine, Gertrude Hermes, Veronica Ryan, Alison Wilding and Cathie Pilkington. At a moment when public sculpture is the subject of contentious debate, the final episode of the second series focuses on questions of gender, public sculpture and …

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Episode 44: King Crimson's, Tony Levin talking about the US Tour July 31st, 2021 20:10

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I conducted an interview with Bassist, Tony Levin for the King Crimson Tour.

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Episode 18: KFJC fm, Bryan Chandler with Sol Mogerman December 17th, 2020 1:27:08

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Sol Mogerman was named Stuart Louis Mogerman at birth in 1945 after his father’s father, Solomon Louis Mogerman, to keep the angel of death from confusing him with his then living grandfather. He grew up known as Stuart or Stu Mogerman in Berkeley, California and survived long enough to safely outlive his grandfather and claim his true name as “Sol…

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KFJC fm, Bryan Chandler Interview with Harvey Gold August 27th, 2020 52:52

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Harvey Gold, born in Akron, Ohio, USA, is an American guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist, a founder of the avant-rock/new wave band Tin Huey. Describing the musical output of the eclectic Harvey Gold, a founding father of Tin Huey and Half Cleveland, Gold has offered, “We are what we eat and we’ve eaten a lot of different stuff.” Careening from po…