# A Conversational Oral History Between Friends, Part 1.

In a series of wide-ranging interviews and discussions, Roger Reynolds discusses various threads woven through his life and music. They include the use of text, thoughts on sound spatialization, site-specifics works, intermedia, technology in music, his compositional methods, and relationships with other composers (including Iannis Xenakis, Toru Takemitsu, John Cage, and Elliott Carter). Composer, author and educator Roger Reynolds is University Professor at the University of California, San Diego. The Roger Reynolds Collection is held at the Library of Congress, and contains manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, recordings and other primary source materials related to Reynolds life and work. In Parts 5 and , Reynolds discusses his life and work with his wife Karen and DC-based friends Kathy Malfa and Thomas DeLio. Topics in Part 5 include biographical details of the participants' lives, Reynolds' work with an American Music Festival at the National Gallery of Art, the collaborative organization of festivals in general, experiencing new music, relationships between engineering/mathematics/music, the beginnings of both the Reynolds' careers, facility with technology in electronic music creation, shared experiences in France and Japan, the impact of different cultural perspectives on one's outlook, and the creation of the 1969 Cross Talk festival in Tokyo.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: History, Music
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697263/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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