#savemills — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #savemills, aggregated by home.social.
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BandCamp today is covering the music department of #MillsCollege, which is threatened with closure: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/mills-college-list
If you care about experimental music and have an account on birdsite, if you could spare a tweet or two with the hashtag #SaveMills, there's a twitter campaign set for today.
You might say why the music department in particular or the college in general should carry on.
This is a cause that is personally very important to me. I want others to have the opportunities that I had and I also want to be able to keep hearing new music coming out of this milieu.
The graduate programme is all genders, but the undergrad programme is for women and trans people. (Mills was the first HWC to admit trans women without regard to their legal gender status.) There aren't many places that have helped so many musicians find such distinct voices and fewer still that had such a high degree of access for women and enbies.
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BandCamp today is covering the music department of #MillsCollege, which is threatened with closure: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/mills-college-list
If you care about experimental music and have an account on birdsite, if you could spare a tweet or two with the hashtag #SaveMills, there's a twitter campaign set for today.
You might say why the music department in particular or the college in general should carry on.
This is a cause that is personally very important to me. I want others to have the opportunities that I had and I also want to be able to keep hearing new music coming out of this milieu.
The graduate programme is all genders, but the undergrad programme is for women and trans people. (Mills was the first HWC to admit trans women without regard to their legal gender status.) There aren't many places that have helped so many musicians find such distinct voices and fewer still that had such a high degree of access for women and enbies.
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Now listening: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/first-things-first
Irreverent, fun, weird sound art from former #MillsCollege faculty Anthony Gnazzo
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Now listening: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/first-things-first
Irreverent, fun, weird sound art from former #MillsCollege faculty Anthony Gnazzo
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Lou Harrison's Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Javanese Gamelan (1981/1982) was also completed when he was working at #MillsCollege #SaveMills
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Lou Harrison's Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Javanese Gamelan (1981/1982) was also completed when he was working at #MillsCollege #SaveMills
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Now listening: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gallivants-and-garnishes
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.
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Now listening: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gallivants-and-garnishes
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.
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Now Listening:
https://millscollegemusic.bandcamp.com/album/mills-spring-2020-compilationMusic from #MillsCollege CCM, spring 2020. This is a selection of what recent students have been doing.
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Now Listening:
https://millscollegemusic.bandcamp.com/album/mills-spring-2020-compilationMusic from #MillsCollege CCM, spring 2020. This is a selection of what recent students have been doing.
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Now listening: https://maryclarebrzytwa.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-electronic
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.
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Now listening: https://maryclarebrzytwa.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-electronic
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.
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Now listening:
https://djll.bandcamp.com/album/skin-tightener
Noisy free improv. Recorded at #MillsCollege by people involved with the music department in various capacities.
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Now listening:
https://djll.bandcamp.com/album/skin-tightener
Noisy free improv. Recorded at #MillsCollege by people involved with the music department in various capacities.
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Now listening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3W-3HPMWg
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".
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Now listening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3W-3HPMWg
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".
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Now Listening:
https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/om-live-hommage
Cello and electronics from #MillsCollege teacher Joan Jeanrenaud
Very complicated droney new music vibe.
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Now Listening:
https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/om-live-hommage
Cello and electronics from #MillsCollege teacher Joan Jeanrenaud
Very complicated droney new music vibe.
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Now Listening:
Lovely Little Records
https://www.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.
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Now Listening:
Lovely Little Records
https://www.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.
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Now listening:
OM Live: Inner Cities 8 from Other Minds Recordshttps://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/om-live-inner-cities-8
Thoughtful piano music from #MillsCollege's long term composer in residence.
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Now listening:
OM Live: Inner Cities 8 from Other Minds Recordshttps://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/om-live-inner-cities-8
Thoughtful piano music from #MillsCollege's long term composer in residence.
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#MillsMusic https://oliveros.bandcamp.com/album/alien-bog-beautiful-soop
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.