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Amirkhanian, Charles

LC control no.n 80035691
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Personal name headingAmirkhanian, Charles
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Variant(s)Amirkhanean, Chʻarlz, 1945-
Amirkhanyan, Chʻaṛlz, 1945-
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1945-01-19
Place of birthFresno (Calif.)
Field of activityComputer music Text-sound compositions
Profession or occupationComposers Percussionists
Radio producers and directors
Found in10 + 2 : 12 American text sound pieces. [Phonodisc] 1974.
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1945)
Other Minds WWW site, Feb. 20, 2013 (Charles Amirkhanian; born January 19, 1945, Fresno, California; composer, percussionist, sound poet and radio producer; leading practitioner of electroacoustic music and text-sound composition, and instrumental in the dissemination of contemporary music through his work as Music Director of KPFA/Berkeley, 1969-1992; directed the Speaking of Music series at the Exploratorium in San Francisco (1983-1992) and was the founding Co-Director (with John Lifton) of the Composer-to-Composer Festival in Telluride, Colorado (1988-1991); Executive Director of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California (1993-1997); Artistic Director (1993-8) and Executive Director (1998- ) of Other Minds)
   <http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Amirkhanian.shtml>
Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 22, 2024 (Charles Amirkhanian; Charles Benjamin Amirkhanian)
Western Armenian Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 22, 2024 (Chʻarlz Amirkhanean)
Armenian Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 22, 2024 (Chʻaṛlz Amirkhanyan; Chʻaṛlz Benjamin Amirkhanyan)