Putu Septa is a composer and musician from the village of Padangtegal, Ubud, Bali. To contribute to new music on Balinese gamelan, Septa initiated a new gamelan ensemble–Nata Swara–which performs with, among others, Gamelan Sada Sancaya, an orchestra of extended range bronze instruments designed by Septa, and Kendang Briuk, an instrument set consisting of a varied collection of Balinese kendang drums. On the final day of this year’s Other Minds Festival, Septa, along with fellow Nata Swara member I Kadek Janurangga, will perform with ZOFO, the Bay Area piano duo of Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi, and Brian Baumbusch. The supergroup will perform music by Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti, Brian Baumbusch, Colin McPhee, and Septa himself. Septa also has a new CD out on Other Minds Records in September called Piwal.

Music: Live performance with electronics by Putu Septa; KoSo by Putu Septa, performed by ZOFO; Piwal by Putu Septa, performed by Nata Swara (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).

Kristine Tjøgersen’s compositional practice is characterized by curiosity, imagination, humor, and precision. She has a special interest in the interplay between the visual and the auditory as well as the natural world. Her collaboration with researchers and biologists is a source of new sound and scenic ideas, incorporating organic forms into the music. On Night 3 of this year’s Other Minds Festival, pianist Ellen Ugelvik and lighting designer Evelina Dembacke will perform Tjøgersen’s Piano Piece. On the podcast, we talk about collaborating with biologists, creating a forest inside a piano, and much more!

Music: Lying on forest floor, looking at treetops by Kristine Tjøgersen (Aurora Records); “Moth Molecules” from Night Lives by Kristine Tjøgersen, performed by Cikada Ensemble (Aurora Records); “Myotis” from Night Lives by Kristine Tjøgersen, performed by Cikada Ensemble (Aurora Records); Piano Piece by Kristine Tjøgersen, performed by Ellen Ugelvik; “Bat Club” from Night Lives by Kristine Tjøgersen, performed by Cikada Ensemble (Aurora Records); Starry Night by Kristine Tjøgersen, performed by Tøyen Fil og Klafferi with Marcus Weiss and Jenny Hval (Aurora Records)

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Samuel Adams (b. 1985) is an American composer. Gramophone Magazine praised Adams as “among the most interesting composers of the millennial generation in his negotiation of the tensions that shape and define his musical narratives: between directness and implication, silence and resonance, emotion and its aftermath.” His work resists the traditional tensions of classical music, blending acoustic and digital sounds in inventive, texturally rich compositions. He has been commissioned by a number of major ensembles, including the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and The Living Earth Show. On the podcast, Adams talks about growing up in the Bay Area, working with the San Francisco Symphony, and the influence of composer Ingram Marshall on his life and work.

Music: Études by Samuel Adams, performed by Conor Hanick; Violin Diptych by Samuel Adams, performed by Karen Gomyo and Conor Hanick (Other Minds Records); Shade Studies by Samuel Adams, performed by Sarah Cahill (Irritable Hedgehog)

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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).

SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: On Sunday, September 7, 2025, Other Minds will present a two piano recital of the music of “Blue” Gene Tyranny and Robert Ashley with pianists Sarah Cahill and Joseph Kubera at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. Robert Ashley and “Blue” Gene Tyranny were both iconic and beloved teachers at the Mills College Music Department. They were opposites in many ways, but when they met in the early 1960s working with the legendary ONCE Group, they forged a fifty-year collaboration and lifelong friendship. In preparation for the concert, we’re sharing excerpts from interviews with the two composers from the Other Minds Archives.

Music: That Morning Thing by Robert Ashley (Other Minds Archives)

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We have another special episode for our subscribers, a recording of the pre-concert talk by musicologist Simon Morrison at our concert of the complete piano sonatas of 20th century Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya, performed by Conor Hanick. Born in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1919, Galina Ustvolskaya’s expressive and vigorous music was deemed problematic in the USSR early in her career and did not receive widespread attention in her home country until the 1960s and 70s, and abroad only in the late 1980s. She taught at the Leningrad Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music from 1947-1977 and over the past three decades her music has experienced an increasing amount of performances and acclaim in the West.

Simon Morrison is a Professor of Music at Princeton University specializing in 20th-century Russian and Soviet music. In the recording, you’ll hear Morrison discuss Ustvolskaya’s life, her relationships with her contemporaries, and her six piano sonatas, composed between 1947 and 1988. After the episode, head over to otherminds.org, where you can watch a video of Conor Hanick’s performance of Galina Ustvolskaya’s piano sonatas at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California.

Music: Excerpts from Piano Sonatas 1–6 by Galina Ustvolskaya, performed by Conor Hanick

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A Year of Deep Listening was a 365-day online celebration of Pauline Oliveros’ legacy, coinciding with what would have been her 90th birthday. The Center for Deep Listening, established at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014, posted one text score per day, totaling 365 pieces, which will be published in book form on January 28, 2025, as A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros. On the podcast, Joseph Bohigian is joined by Stephanie Loveless, a sound and media artist, Director of the Center for Deep Listening, and the editor of this new volume, to talk about the project.

Music: Roles of a Machine by Hassan Estakhrian, performed by Extradition (Maxx Katz, flute; Annie Gilbert, trombone; Collin Oldham, cello); Shao Way Wu, bass; Sam Klapper, violin; Caspar Sonnet, dobro; Ben Cohen-Chen, soprano saxophone; Matt Hannafin, percussion), No Small Matter by Seth Cluett, performed by Extradition (Juniana Lanning, Catherine Lee, Annie Gilbert, Loren Chasse, Matt Hannafin, natural objects), Water, Wood, Stone, Breath by Grace Harper, performed by Extradition (Stephanie Lavon Trotter, book, words; Juniana Lanning, cups, water; Loren Chasse, basket, pebbles)

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Thea Farhadian is a composer and violinist who creates multi-textured sound worlds which employ an array of elements drawn from her engagement with Western classical music, performance art, Arabic classical music, and live electronic processing. She collaborates with a network of Bay Area, East Coast, and international colleagues and her work has been seen and heard at Galerie Mario Mazzoli in Berlin, the Aram Khachaturian Museum in Yerevan, and Bimhuis in Amsterdam. Today, Other Minds Records releases Farhadian’s newest album, Tattoos and Other Markings, an electronic composition exploring cultural memory and the urge to remember difficult histories.

Music: “Mokats Mirza,” “There was and there was not,” and “Eulogy” from Tattoos and Other Markings by Thea Farhadian (Other Minds Records)

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Trimpin is a sound sculptor, composer, engineer, and inventor. A specialist in interfacing computers with traditional instruments, he has developed ways of playing instruments ranging from giant marimbas to stacks of electric guitars via computer. His work integrates sculpture, sound, and live performance. Born in Germany, Trimpin spent several years living and studying in Berlin, working as a set designer and collaborating with artists from both Germany and the United States. He relocated to the United States in 1979. This year’s Other Minds Festival features the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Trimpin, The Cello Quartet. It features autonomous cellos, circus artists, percussive lamp shades, and more. In the interview, Joseph Bohigian talks with Trimpin about his custom-built cellos, collaborating with choreographer Margaret Fisher, and the influence of spatial music composer Henry Brant.

Music: Contraption No. 1 by Conlon Nancarrow performed by Trimpin, computer-controlled piano (Other Minds Festival 1)

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