{"id":488430,"date":"2026-10-07T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488430\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:12:08","slug":"other-minds-festival-celebrates-30th-year-of-highlighting-experimental-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488430\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Minds Festival Celebrates 30th Year of Highlighting Experimental Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAirdate: Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 9 AM\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">San Francisco\u2019s Other Minds Festival turns 30 this weekend, with four days of music from world renowned experimental composers. There will be improvisation, chord repetition, electronic manipulation, 18th century Armenian music \u2014 and a grand piano surrounded by teddy bears. We\u2019ll talk with co-founder and retiring executive and artistic director Charles Amirkhanian and with musicians about why the Bay Area is such a rich site for avant-garde music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Guest:<\/p>\n<p>Charles Amirkhanian, co-founder, executive &amp; artistic director, Other Minds, composer of sound poetry and electroacoustic music, former music director of KPFAPamela Z, composer, performer and media artist Joseph Bohigian, associate director, Other Minds, musician and composerKhatchadour Khatchadourian, Bay Area wind instrumentalist and vocalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airdate: Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 9 AM San Francisco\u2019s Other Minds Festival turns 30 this weekend, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-488430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}