Inquiring Into Other Minds: The Cultivation of Experimental Music in the Bay Area and BeyondMain MenuCase 1: The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and the CCPACase 2: OM Festivals and EventsCase 3: The ComposersCase 4: OM Records and Web RadioVideo: A Conversation between Dr. Amy C. Beal and Charles AmirkhanianCreditsMadison Heying55e917894c352dccc867c861906f08867fd00852Jay Michael Arms5b369b3fbc09db3d90193a70881c4dffc0531e53
From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, Charles Amirkhanian organized concerts featuring experimental music for the Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz. His programming is notable for its inclusivity, delimiting a broad definition of the experimental music—including free jazz, indeterminacy, electronic music, sound poetry, just intonation, and more—that characterized Other Minds programming decades later.