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  1. Now listening: othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com

    Ramón Sender was a co-founder of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, which later became The Center for Contemporary Music at #MillsCollege. Sender was instrumental in the invention of the voltage controlled synthesiser and I think I hear a Buchla on this delightfully weird, multilayered album.

    #SaveMills #SaveCCM

  2. Now listening: othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com

    Ramón Sender was a co-founder of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, which later became The Center for Contemporary Music at #MillsCollege. Sender was instrumental in the invention of the voltage controlled synthesiser and I think I hear a Buchla on this delightfully weird, multilayered album.

    #SaveMills #SaveCCM

  3. Now listening: maryclarebrzytwa.bandcamp.com/

    Experimental Electronic by #MillsCollege alum Mary Clare Brzytwa

    The extremely cool album photo shows a clarinet with a proximity detector on it. Listening so far, it sounds like left coast dreamy electronics.

    #SaveMills #SaveCCM

  4. Now listening: maryclarebrzytwa.bandcamp.com/

    Experimental Electronic by #MillsCollege alum Mary Clare Brzytwa

    The extremely cool album photo shows a clarinet with a proximity detector on it. Listening so far, it sounds like left coast dreamy electronics.

    #SaveMills #SaveCCM

  5. Now listening:

    djll.bandcamp.com/album/skin-t

    Noisy free improv. Recorded at #MillsCollege by people involved with the music department in various capacities.

    #SaveMills #SaveCCM

  6. Now listening:

    youtube.com/watch?v=hy3W-3HPMW

    A Rainbow in Curved Air by former #MillsCollege faculty Terry Riley.

    His second most influential piece has a droney undercurrent, but is a steady forward momentum. Loopy but linear. Busy but still. The Guardian describes this piece as "feel good".

    #SaveMills #SaveCCM

  7. Now listening:

    youtube.com/watch?v=hy3W-3HPMW

    A Rainbow in Curved Air by former #MillsCollege faculty Terry Riley.

    His second most influential piece has a droney undercurrent, but is a steady forward momentum. Loopy but linear. Busy but still. The Guardian describes this piece as "feel good".

    #SaveMills #SaveCCM

  8. Now Listening:

    Lovely Little Records

    ubu.com/sound/lovely.html

    A fascinating compilation of the state of experimental electronic music in 1980. Everyone on the record either taught at or studied at #MillsCollege.

    John Bischoff was a founding member of The Hub and taught at Mills for ages.

    Paul Demarinis is a Mills alum, who has done amazing work with text. (This computer work is 1980!!)

    Phil Haromic was a Mills alum and also the housemate of my MA thesis advisor. I wish I'd met him, but alas, he did not survive the AIDS crisis.

    Frankie Mann was an early adopter of computer controlled synthesis. I know of her because John Bischoff told me to to look her up. This is one of the only things I've found.

    Maggi Payne is a Mills alum and the former director of CCM at Mills. She was my composition teacher.

    Blue Gene Tyranny was a teacher at Mills and also a member of the Once group in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work is extremely influential, especially on piano.

    #MillsMusic #SaveMills #SaveCCM

  9. Now Listening:

    Lovely Little Records

    ubu.com/sound/lovely.html

    A fascinating compilation of the state of experimental electronic music in 1980. Everyone on the record either taught at or studied at #MillsCollege.

    John Bischoff was a founding member of The Hub and taught at Mills for ages.

    Paul Demarinis is a Mills alum, who has done amazing work with text. (This computer work is 1980!!)

    Phil Haromic was a Mills alum and also the housemate of my MA thesis advisor. I wish I'd met him, but alas, he did not survive the AIDS crisis.

    Frankie Mann was an early adopter of computer controlled synthesis. I know of her because John Bischoff told me to to look her up. This is one of the only things I've found.

    Maggi Payne is a Mills alum and the former director of CCM at Mills. She was my composition teacher.

    Blue Gene Tyranny was a teacher at Mills and also a member of the Once group in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work is extremely influential, especially on piano.

    #MillsMusic #SaveMills #SaveCCM

  10. #MillsMusic oliveros.bandcamp.com/album/al

    These iconic pieces by Pauline Oliveros were made at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre and the Centre for Contemporary Music at #MillsCollege.

    Oliveros wrote: "I was deeply impressed by the sounds from the frog pond outside the studio window at Mills. I loved the accompaniment as I worked on my pieces. Though I never recorded the frogs I was of course influenced by their music."

    This is just the time of year that the fogs would be singing. It was an incredible accompaniment to the Moog when I was there.

    Mills still has all the synthesisers and equipment used to make these pieces, all accessible to students.

    #SaveCCM #SaveMills