AmirkhanianLocalMusic Charles Amirkhanian audio other_minds audio_music 1750 Arch Records S-1779. Released in 1980, this first solo LP by Charles Amirkhanian contains a selection of his text-sound compositions including Dutiful Ducks, Mugic and Seatbelt Seatbelt. With influences from Ernst Toch's 1930 Geogbrphical Fugue and Kurt Schwitters Ursonate to Gertrude Stein, Clark Coolidge and Steve Reich, Amirkhanian fashions words into percussion objects, layering them countrapuntally and non-syntactically. The resulting sounds lead to a reexamination of spoken language and its musical essence. Compositions: SIDE ONE Muchrooms (for John Cage); Mahogany Ballpark; she she and she (for Gertrude Stein's centennial); SIDE TWO Mugic; Seatbelt Seatbelt; Dutiful Ducks. Note: "Muchrooms", not Mushrooms, is correct. 1980-00-00 00:00:00 1980 Sound Poetry; Spoken Word; Charles Amirkhanian http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/ 2003-12-03 12:53:27 2003-12-03 12:53:27 bernard bernard@otherminds.org bernard 2004-09-20 14:33:10 Other Minds 47 min All Other Minds programs available, with additional print and photo materials, at http://www.radiOM.org. sound 2007-04-18 22:03:17 OtherMaiden [curator]OtherMaiden[/curator][date]20080312174142[/date][state]dark[/state]1