Other Minds Podcast

The “fresh, daring and incisive” (Fanfare) compositions of Amy Williams have been presented by leading international performers, including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JACK Quartet, Bent Frequency, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Wet Ink, International Contemporary Ensemble, Junction Trio, Orpheus, pianist Ursula Oppens, soprano Tony Arnold, and bassist Robert Black. As a member of the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, she has performed throughout Europe and the Americas and recorded six critically-acclaimed CDs for Wergo (works of Nancarrow, Stravinsky, Varèse/Feldman and Kurtág), as well as appearing on the Neos and Albany labels. She is a Professor of Composition at the University of Pittsburgh and Artistic Director of the New Music On The Point Festival in Vermont.
On January 8, 2026, Williams will perform Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories for Other Minds at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California. She joins us to talk about her early impressions of Feldman in Buffalo, New York, his influence on 20th century music, and her upcoming performance in Oakland.
Music: Triadic Memories by Morton Feldman, performed by Amy Williams (Alan Wonneberger, engineer); Piece for Four Pianos by Morton Feldman, performed by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo (WERGO); Piano and String Quartet by Morton Feldman, performed by Amy Williams and the JACK Quartet (live at Black Mountain College)
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The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

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, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, sampled sounds, and custom MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound and image with physical gestures. At this year’s Other Minds Festival, Z will perform her piece Simultaneous, an intermedia composition for voice, electronic processing, chamber ensemble, speech samples, gesture control, and projected video. In conjunction with the performance, Other Minds records will release a fixed media version of Simultaneous on LP and CD. In the interview, we talk about Z’s interest in simultaneous translation, finding music in speech, and her use of gesture control instruments.
Music: Simultaneous by Pamela Z, performed by Pamela Z, Kyle Bruckmann, Charlton Lee, Clara Kennedy, and Kjell Nordeson live at MoMA; Simultaneous by Pamela Z (Other Minds Records)
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The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

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, investigating their potential through combination and variation. From these “structural investigations” emerge patterns and phrases that become her dances. In 1980, she founded her dance company, Nancy Karp + Dancers. On Night 3 of this year’s Other Minds Festival, Karp will premiere a new piece set to James Tenney’s Three Pieces for Drum Quartet. On the podcast, we talk about Karp’s education at CalArts, collaborating with composers, and choreographing her new piece.
Music: WAKE for Charles Ives and CYSTAL CANON for Edgard Varèse from Three Pieces for Drum Quartet by James Tenney, performed by Maelström Percussion Ensemble and Jan Williams (hat[now]ART)
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The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

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 in Portland, Maine, Peter Garland was one of the original students at CalArts in 1970, where his principal teachers were Harold Budd and James Tenney. From 1971 to 1991 he edited and published Soundings magazine and press, where he printed the work of four generations of mostly American composers. As an editor and essayist he played a pivotal role in the rediscovery and re-evaluation of such composers as Conlon Nancarrow, Silvestre Revueltas, Lou Harrison, Paul Bowles, Dane Rudhyar, Harry Partch, and James Tenney. King gives us a first look at what’s in store.
Music: Rave by Ingram Marshall (New Albion); Dark Waters by Ingram Marshall, performed by Libby Van Cleve (New Albion); Hymnodic Delays – Low Dutch by Ingram Marshall, performed by Theatre of Voices (Nonesuch)
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This episode of the Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian and Devin King. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

Electroacoustic composer, improviser, and harpist Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices, making use of extended techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing. In her compositions, Parkins utilizes collections, recombination, historic proximities, geography, and movement. On Night 3 of this year’s Other Minds Festival, Parkins will perform her new work Modesty of the Magic Thing with percussionist William Winant. On the podcast, we talk about Parkins’ early experiments with the harp, electrifying the instrument, and her new work inspired by the drawings of the American visual artist Jay DeFeo.
Music: “Pink Cup by Day,” “The Very Tissue of Falling Columns,” “Pink Cup by Night,” “Figure to Figure,” and “Larkspur” from Modesty of the Magic Thing by Zeena Parkins, performed by Zeena Parkins and William Winant (Tzadik)
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The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).