OMP_2007_11_02 audio other_minds audio_music Nearly forty years after John Cage composed, “Solo for Voice 58”, an indeterminate work consisting of 18 separate parts, it finds its ideal interpreter in Italian-born dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni. The first performer to prepare the full 18 microtonal ragas for a major performance, Cuni executes microtonal melodies in five different languages with stunning ease. On November 2, 2007, Other Minds, presented the American premiere of this iconoclastic interpretation at a concert in Berkeley California. Two basic concepts are embodied in Cuni’s realization of the complete “Solo for Voice 58”: the meaning of raga, which is “to color the mind”, and chance operations, a favorite tool of John Cage. Following Cage’s own instructions, other selections from his “Song Books” (1970) have been integrated and superimposed as part of the “18 Microtonal Ragas” 2007-11-02 2007 Other Minds; Microtonal Music; New Music; John Cage; Amelia Cuni http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ 2007-11-29 21:00:09 2007-11-26 23:59:44 adrienne@otherminds.org 72 min For more detailed program information and to browse other material in the Other Minds Archive visit: <a href="http://radiom.org">radiOM.org</a> [curator]alexis@archive.org[/curator][date]20071129202445[/date][state]un-dark[/state] 2007-11-29 21:05:53 OtherMaiden 1