The Other Minds organization invites composers to participate in its annual OM Festivals with the aim of cultivating a vibrant community of experimental artists. Prior to the festival performances, composers gather in the Santa Cruz Mountains at the Djerassi ranch to share ideas and music with one another. This case features photographs of composers taken by Other Minds photographer John Fago, accompanied by scores.

The top shelf of this case includes artist photographs from OM Festivals and Djerassi artists residencies (all photos by John Fago), and a score and tuning chart for Catherine Lamb’s Alchemy/Bloom (2006-08).

On the middle shelf are Barbara Monk Feldman’s Duo for Piano and Percussion (1988) with portrait of the composer; Wadada Leo Smith’s Moths, Flames, and the Giant Sequoia Redwood Trees (1995) annotated and signed by the composer, along with a photo of Smith conducting a workshop on his Ankrasmation visual notation; and Kui Dong’s Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth (1993). The accompanying photograph shows Dong going over the score with composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski.

The bottom shelf includes Leroy Jenkin’s Off Duty Dryad (1991) with a portrait of the composer, and an autographed score of Henry Brant’s Ice Field (2001), commissioned by Other Minds and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2002.