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Other Minds Podcast

The Other Minds Podcast features interviews with some of today's leading composers and performers of new and experimental music.

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Sep 22, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 22, 2026

    51. Mahsa Vahdat, My Voice is My Home (opens the original)

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    Mahsa Vahdat is an internationally acclaimed Iranian singer and composer. She is an iconic figure in the struggle of Iranian women for artistic freedom in the complex socio-political landscape after the Islamic Revolution. Deeply rooted in the rich tradition of Persian classical music, her work blends classical and regional Iranian music, poetic lyricism, and contemporary idioms. Now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has engaged in musical partnerships that span a wide range of genres and

  2. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

    50. Joseph Bohigian & Khatchadour Khatchadourian, From Sayat-Nova to Sergei Parajanov (opens the original)

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    Joseph Bohigian is a composer and performer of acoustic and electronic music. His work focuses on issues of memory, cultural reunification, and diaspora. With a strong interest in reestablishing a relationship with lost elements of our past to better envision our future, he makes use of archival materials in his music, such as sound recordings, interviews, and written texts, synthesizing fragments of song lyrics and reviving ancient musical notations. Khatchadour Khatchadourian is a Lebanese-Arm

  3. Episode · Sep 11, 2026

    49. Charlemagne Palestine, Golden Sound (opens the original)

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    Charlamagne Palestine is an enigma to say the least. Born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, he cut his teeth as a sacred singer of Jewish music, a bell ringer for the Episcopal Church, and accompanist to figures as disparate Kenneth Anger, Tiny Tim, and Allen Ginsberg. He is considered to be a founding member of the New York School of Minimalism alongside La Monte Young, Steve Reich, and others; he always found a way to eschew the more conventional means of composition of his contemporaries. His lo

  4. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    48. Juri Seo, Bad Decisions (opens the original)

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    Juri Seo is a Korean-born American composer and Professor of Music at Princeton University. She merges many aspects of music from the past century, in particular its expanded timbral palette and unorthodox approach to structure, with a deep love of functional tonality, counterpoint, and classical form. With its fast-changing tempi and dynamics, her music explores the serious and the humorous, the lyrical and the violent, the tranquil and the obsessive. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowshi

  5. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    47. Foreign/Domestic, High Vibration Resonance (opens the original)

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    Foreign/Domestic is the improvisational duo of composer, guitarist, and sound artist Zachary James Watkins and drummer John Diaz. Zachary James Watkins studied composition at Cornish College and received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College. He has received commissions from documenta 14, the Kronos Quartet, and the Seattle Chamber Players, and releases music on the labels Sige, Cassauna, Confront, The Tapeworm, and Touch. John Diaz is a free-form drummer and improvis

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