Other Minds

Other Minds in San Francisco commissions, presents, and preserves contemporary music from around the world. Its programs include an annual new music festival, additional concert presentations and symposia, an in-house record label, a robust online archive, and a weekly radio show on KALW-FM. Its offerings emphasize musical discovery and diversity, introducing listeners to new and unusual works by artists from a multitude of cultural expressions. Support for Other Minds advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.

Other Minds commissions, presents, and preserves contemporary music from around the world through its public concerts and symposiums, record label, and weekly radio show on KALW (also a Hewlett Foundation grantee). Other Minds makes the world’s largest digital archive of new music available free of charge through its website, RadiOM.org, which has an online listenership of more than 35,000 from 165 countries and territories. Other Minds continues to present a full season of new and unusual works each year, featuring artists from a multitude of cultural expressions. Support for Other Minds advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.

In recognition of the Hewlett Foundation’s 50th anniversary, the Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions initiative supports the creation and premiere of 50 exceptional works of performing arts. This grant will support Other Minds in developing and presenting lead artist Trimpin’s “The Cello Quartet.” The project will culminate in a performance that uses mobile electronic sound sculptures, dancers, and music to explore the interplay of humans and machines.