131 Log 231006: Interview with David Bernstein

Professor of Music David Bernstein is an acclaimed scholar in Western Music Theory and current musicology. He is the editor of the renowned book on early electronic music: The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde. Professor Bernstein has also served as the Head of the Music Department at Mills College. David Bernstein revisits the history of the San Francisco Tape Music Centre (SFTMC) after its move from Divisadero Street to Mills College. Bernstein describes the newly founded Centre for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College as the ‘ground zero’ of experimental music on the West Coast. Compositions with tape machines and electronic devices are at the centre of music as a ‘community enterprise,’ of improvisational practices and ‘thinking in multiple temporalities.’ With the takeover of Mills College by Northeastern University, this is now a thing of the past.