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Charlemagne Palestine (b. 1945) Back to Charlemagne Palestine on UbuWeb Sound Interviews An Interview with Charlemagne Palestine (Fluchtpunkt Indien’, 2006) Charlemagne Palestine talks about the socio-cultural situation in the USA in the 1960s and the alternative ‘India’, about concerts by Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan in the US, the concept of ’Sa’ in the Indian musical system and Pran Nath’s influence on Terry Riley and La Monte Young. Part of the radio-documentary ‘Fluchtpunkt Indien’, about the influence of Indian music on Western musicians Author: Paul Paulun Produktion: WDR3, Musikpassagen Year: 2006 Length: 18.36 Music: The Fugs - The Garden is open Ali Akhbar Khan - Raga Khamaj Pran Nath - Raga Punjabi Berva Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band An Interview with Charlemagne Palestine (December 27, 1972) Charles Amirkhanian talks with the noted avant-garde composer Charlemagne Palestine on the subject of the latter's experiments with hearing subtle overtone images in music tones. Palestine had recently returned from performing in Europe and describes the concerts he gave there. He has also taught at Cal Arts and was a noted carillon performer in New York City for 6 years. The Music of Charlemagne Palestine (1975) Ingram Marshall presents a program on the life and work of composer and visual artist, Charlemagne Palestine. Palestine began his musical career as a carillonneur at St. Thomas's Church in New York City, and later studied electronic music with Morton Subotnick at NYU. In 1970 this quintessential New Yorker traveled west to study at Cal Arts where he became interested in using electronics to produce a subtle style of drone music. On his return to New York in 1973, Palestine became involved in the downtown scene and became well known for his very long recitals performed on the Bösendorfer grand piano, utilizing a unique strumming style that produced a variety of extended harmonics. In this program Marshall plays selections of Palestine’s electronic music interspersed with an interview he had with the composer in the Fall of 1974, as well as a sample of his work with the bells of St. Thomas, recorded just after Christmas in 1974. An Interview with Charlemagne Palestine (November 20, 1980) In this brief KFPA interview with Charles Amirkhanian, recorded on Nov. 20, 1980, composer Charlemagne Palestine discusses how his early minimal drone works were a reaction to the dense compositional style of Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage, but have since evolved beyond basic minimalism to embrace a more complex sonority. He then goes on to give a description of his string piece for 11 performers, “Birth of a Sonority”, as well as his pieces for the Bösendorfer piano. Much of Palestine’s work is focused on the use of overtones. The interview concludes with an excerpt of “Schlingen Blaengen” an organ piece recorded in 1979. RELATED RESOURCES: Charlemagne Palestine in UbuWeb Film UbuWeb Sound | UbuWeb