Martian Gardens for May 19-20, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 19, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
May 20, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Sonar Trajectory
Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
electronic music on magnetic tape: Ursula Mamlok; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966; composition year: 1966; time: 4:07

SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Anima Pepsi
The Art of David Tudor 1963-1992 boxed-set
New World Records/2013
live electronics: David Tudor; recorded in the Pepsi Pavilion, Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, 1970; time: 23:37

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2009
electronic music on 8-channel tape: Iannis Xenakis; presented at the Federation of Iron and Steel Companies' Pavilion, Osaka World's Fair, 1970; sound sources: UPIC, orchestra, biwa (Japanese lute), snare drum; composition years: 1969-1970; time: 17:45

SET ONE
Denis Smalley:  selections from Tides
a. Pools and Currents (excerpt) [3:00]*
b. Sea Flight (12:47)
Sources/Scenes
empreintes DIGITALes/2000
electroacoustic music: Denis Smalley; created at the University of Toronto Computer Systems Research Group, the Experimental Studio of Finnish Radio at Helsinki, and the Ina-GRM, Paris; final mix at completed at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1984; composition year: 1984; time: 12:47
*TAINT Radio version only

Trevor Wishart: selections from Two Women*
a. Sirens (Margaret Thatcher quoting St. Francis of Assisi) (3:26)
b. Stentor (Ian Paisley talking about Margaret Thatcher) (2:27)
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
voice processing, sounds: Trevor Wishart; premiered at the Parachialkirke, Berlin, in a concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of Musique Concrete, September 1998; composition year: 1998
*refers to the subjects Margaret Thatcher and Lady Diana

Trevor Wishart: selections from the VOX Cycle
a. Vox 2 (2:13)
b. Vox 3 [Hocket] (0:47)
MusicWorks 98 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
voice processing: Trevor Wishart; vocal group: The Electric Phoenix; composition years: 1980-1988

SET TWO
Neely Bruce: Eight Ghosts
a. 49 (3:38)
b. 38 (2:05)
c. 25 (3:35)
d. 58 (1:18)
e. 39 [Marilyn Monroe] (5:26)
f. 21 (2:21)
g. 28 (2:49)
h. 28 (1:52)
The Electric Phoenix Sing Neely Bruce
The Plague & Other Vocal Works
Mode Records/1991
vocal group: The Electric Phoenix; text: Michael McClure, "Ghost Tantras" (1964), recorded at October Sound, London, July 1989; composition year:1989; total time: 19:39

Blue Gene Tyranny: Decertified Highway of Dreams II
Go, Blue
O.O. Discs/2000
Digital Music Ensemble of the University of Michigan; (soloists -- electric bassoon: Steve Newton, electric flute: Jessica Johnson), conductor: Stephen Rush; recorded at Ann Arbor, 2000; composition year: 2000; time: 3:43

SET THREE
Larry Austin: Redux
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 39 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas 
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI)
Centaur Records/2012
for violin and computer; computer music: Larry Austin; violin: Patricia Strange; composition year: 2007; time: 7:28

Allen Strange: Shaman, Sisters of Dreamtime
a. Evocation (1:37)
b. Crystal Woman (2:44)
c. Serpent Woman [Cihuocoatl) (3:09)
d. Sun Woman [Sutalidihi] (3:10)
e. Sky Woman [Selu] (1:54)
f. Jaguar Woman (1:47)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 26 [various artists]
Music from the Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music (CREAM)
San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Centaur Records/1998
electronic music: Allen Strange; amplified violin: Patricia Strange; recorded at the Aurora Studios, Modesto, California, November, 1997; composition year: 1994; total time: 14:21

SET FOUR
Jace Clayton: selections from Evil Nigger
a. Evil Nigger Part I (J.Eastman) [6:00]*
b. Evil Nigger Part IV (J. Eastman) [10:0]**
The Julius Eastman Memory Depot
New Amsterdam Records/2013
composer: Julius Eastman; arrangements, processed piano: Jace Clayton; pianos: David Friend, Emily Manzo; recorded at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, 2013; composition year: 1979; time: 10:02
*WMUA Version only
**TAINT Radio version only

Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg: Jahweh and Allah Battle
Hydrogen Jukebox
Nonesuch Records/1993
narrator, text: Allen Ginsberg; piano: Philip Glass; vocal ensemble with flute: Carol Wincenc, reeds: Andrew Sterman; percussion: Frank Cassara, James Pugliese; keyboards, conductor: Martin Goldray; recorded at The Looking Glass Studios, New York City, 1992-1993; time: 3:40

Anthony De Mare: Nowth Upon Nacht (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (Music of John Cage and Meredith Monk)
Koch/1992
composer: John Cage; piano, voice: Anthony De Mare; text: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake," recorded at Master Sound Astoria, Astoria, New York, 1991; composition year: 1984; time: 0:49

Diamanda Galás: Let My People Go
The Singer
Mute Records/1992
voice, piano, lyrics: Diamanda Galás; music: traditional; recorded at Sorcerer Sound, New York City; time: 4:57

SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: 
a. Fragment Territoire (1:04)
b. Ô madame la mort (4:06)*
La Femme Territoire ou 21 Fragments D'Humus
actuellecd.com/2012
conductor, voice, objects, melodica: Joane Hétu ; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; accordion, voice: Alice Tougas St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussions, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2011 
*WMUA version only

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Martian Gardens for May 12-13, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 12, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
May 13, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
Final update @  23:59/5/12/13

SINGLE PLAY
Carey Nutman: Down Stairs Pad
Sang Et Lumière
MPS Music & Video/2010
electronics: Carey Nutman; time: 3:30

SET ONE
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Moo-Goo-Gipan Smash!
Sound Portraits
MSR Classics/2013
electronics: Vivian Adelberg Rudow; composition year: 2012; time: 1:33

Thomas Clark: The Fourth Angel
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 39 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
Centaur Records/2012
computer music: Thomas Clark; composition year: 2007; time: 10:53

Thomas Clark: LIGHTFORMS 2: Star Spectra
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 27 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
Centaur Records/1998
computer music: Thomas Clark; composition year: 1993; time: 7:22

Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Lavender
I Didn't Want to Say Goodbye
VAR/2004
electronics: Vivian Adelberg Rudow; composition year: 1993; time: 1:08

SINGLE PLAY
Barry Truax: The Shamen Ascending
Trans_Canada [various artists]
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
electroacoustic music: Barry Truax; realized at the composer’s studio and mixed in the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; premiered at trans_canada, ZKM_Medientheater; Karlsruhe, Germany, February 12, 2005; composition years: 2004-2005; time: 15:45

SET TWO
Lou Cohen: Shape03
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
computer music: Lou Cohen; time: 6:09

The Hub: Cut to Ribbons
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
composer: Chris Brown; performed by The Hub computer music network ensemble; recorded in Oakland, California, September, 2006; time: 10:22

The League of Automatic Music Composers: Oakland Three
The League of Automatic Music Composers 1978-1983
New World Records/2007
computer network: Tim Perkis, John Bischoff, Jim Horton; recorded in Oakland, California, May 25, 1981; time: 3:21

SET FOUR
David Tudor: Webwork
Music for Merce 1952-2009
New World Records/2010
live electronics: David Tudor; recorded in New York City for the dance Shards (The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, 1987); recorded in New York City, March 17, 1988; composition year: 1987; excerpt time: 10:46

Steven Ricks: Percept Can Improv
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
found sounds, microphones, computers: Steven Ricks; time: 4:04

R. Weis: Buzz Electrica
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
found sounds; sampler: R. Weis; time: 3:36

Anomonous: tracks 13, 14
Anomonous
Prom Night Records/2013
amplified contra-bass clarinet: Josh Sinton; hyper-piano: Denman Maroney; synthesizers, sampler: Ben Miller; recorded at Peter Karl Studio, Brooklyn, March 15, 2012; excerpt time: 3:33

Fortner Anderson: Talking T. Fortner
Annunciations
Electrocd/2013
voice, text ("Every Sunday"): Fortner Anderson; synthesized voice: Coleco Talking Teacher; deconstruction/composition: Martine Crispo; recorded in Montreal, 2012; time: 3:25

SET FIVE
James Tenney:
a. Percussion Response (with Ergodos I) (8:42)
b. Monody (3:09)
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
The Barton Workshop
Mode Records/2007
a. computer music with percussion: James Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, 2007; composition year: 1964; b. clarinet: John Anderson; recorded in Amsterdam, 2007; composition year: 1959; time: 3:09

Jerry Hunt: Chimanzzi (Olun)
Phalba
Tzadik/2004
performed by The Barton Workshop (clarinet: John Anderson, Violin: Marieke Kesser, flute: Jos Zwaanburg, cello: Judith Van Swaay, trombone: James Fulkerson); recorded in Amsterdam, 2000-2003, composition year: 1991; time: 11:08

SET SIX
Giacinto Scelsi: Divertimento No. 4
I. (3:49)
II. (3:28)
III. (3:20)
IV. (5:16)
The Violin Works
Scelsi Volume 10
Mode Records/2013
violin: Weiping Lin; recorded at 4Tune Studio, Vienna, November, 2008; composition year: 1955

Neil Rolnick: Fiddle Faddle
Shadow Quartet
Innova Recordings/2005
computer interactive violin: Todd Reynolds; recorded at Elff Productions, Brooklyn; composition year: 2003 time: 7:28

SINGLE PLAY
If, Bwana: Lisa Verabbit
Red One
Pogus Productions/2013
voice: Lisa B. Kelley; flute: Veronika Vitazkova; recorded in New York City; composition year: 2010; time: 6:32

Matmos: Teen Paranormal Romance
The Marriage of True Minds
Thrill Jockey/2013
sampling, electronics, triangle: Drew Daniel; tuning forks, percussion: M.C. Schmidt; modular synthesizer: Jay Lesser; tuning forks: Carl Ewing; noise: John Wiesel;  voice: Max "DogDick" Eisenberg; voice; Domonique Leone: voice; recorded in Baltimore, 2012

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Martian Gardens for May 5-6, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 5, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
May 6, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
Final update 5/05/13 @ 23:30

SET ONE
Charles Dodge: Cascando (excerpt)
A Retrospective (1997-2009)
New World Records/2010
text: Samuel Beckett; Voice Opener: John Nesci; voice: Steven Gilborn, computer synthesis of voice: Charles Dodge; realized at the computer music studios of Columbia University, City University of New York, and Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music composition year: 1977; excerpt time: 8:00

Alvin Curran: Animal Behavior
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 [various artists]
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
computer music, sampler: Alvin Curran; realized at CCM, Mills College, Oakland, 1992; time: 13:00

SET TWO
Noah Creshevsky: Three Minute Waltzes
i. Try
ii. Piranha
iii. Y Tu Mamá También
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition years: i. 2003, ii. 2007, iii. 2006; time: 3:00

Johanna Beyer:
a. Bees (0:54)
b. The Federal Music Project (5:14)
Sticky Melodies
New World Records/2008
a. piano: Peter Dumsday; b. The Astra Choir, conductor: John McCaughey; recorded in Melbourne, Australia, 2007; composition years: a. unknown; b. 1936

Mary Ellen Childs:
a. Wreck Theme (4:30)
b. Mer-man (2:08)
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2013
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney,  Jacqueline Ultan; perucssion: Peter O'Gorman; recorded for Carl Flink's Black Label Movement dance company at Wild Sound Studio, Minneapolis, 2011; composition year: 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Michelle Kinney: I Don't Like Americans
Sonic Circuits X [various artists]
Innova Recordings/2003
vocals: Shi-Zheng Chen; cello, electroacoustic music: Michelle Kinney; recorded at Harvestworks/Studio PASS, New York City; time: 1:00

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: from Three Voices
a. Opening (2:25)
b. Legato (11:47)
c. Slow Waltz (5:08)*
d. Snow Falls (2:24)
Three Voices for Joan La Barbara
New Albion Records/1989
voice: Joan La Barbara;  d. text: Frank O'Hara, "Wind (to Morton Feldman),"; recorded in Los Angeles and Hollywood; composition year: 1982
*WMUA version only

Morton Feldman: The O'Hara Songs (in three parts)
Voices & Instruments
Mode Records/2002
The Barton Workshop; bass-baritone: Charles Van Tassel; text: Frank O'Hara, "Wind (to Morton Feldman)," recorded in the Netherlands, 1998-2000; composition year: 1962; time: 3:09, 2:32, 2:41

SET FOUR
Brian Chase: Cymbal Drone
Drums and Drones
Pogus Productions/2013
percussion: Brian Chase; recorded in Melbourne, Australia; time: 10:23

Al Margolis: Cicada #5 -- Version Bohman
Rex Xhu Ping (If, Bwana/Al Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2005
talking tapes: Adam Bohman; talking tapes performance: Dan Andreana, Detta Andreana, Al Margolis; time: 10:02

SET FIVE
Gonzalo Biffarella: La maquina de picar memoria
Compendium International -- Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
electroacoustic music: Gonzalo Biffarella; realized at IMEB (Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique), Bourges, France, 2006; time: 12:37

Howard Jonathan Fredrics: The Tragedy of Leaves
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 20 [various artists]
The University of Texas at Austin Electronic Music Studios
Centaur Records/1995
electroacoustic music: Howard Fredrics; text: Charles Bukowski; composition year: 1991; time: 11:00

SET SIX
Jon Christopher Nelson: objet sonore/objet cinétique
Music from SEAMUS Volume 19 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2010
electroacoustic music: JCN; realized at IMEB (Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique), Bourges, France, 2007; composition year: 2007; time: 11:30

Luc Ferrari: Visage 2
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Musiques Nouvelles, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at l'Auditorium Abel Dubois à Mons, Belgium, April 21, 2006; composition years: 1955-1956; time: 10:02

SET SEVEN
Paul Dolden: Twilight's Sleep (from Entropic Twilights)
Délires de plaisirs
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
electroacoustic music: Paul Dolden; realized at the composer's studio 1997-1998; premiered at the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art in Toronto, September 2, 2001; time: 8:11

Mari Kimura: ComeCryWithMe (M. Paranosic)*
Polytopia -- Music for Violin and Electronics
Bridge Records/2007
composer: Milica Paranosic; violin, electronics: Mari Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, Fall, 2004; composition year: 2005; time: 8:09
*TAINT RADIO version only


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Martian Gardens for April 28-29, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 28, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
April 29, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
Final update: 23:53, 4/29/13

SINGLE PLAY
Meredith Monk: Particular Dance
Impermanence
ECM Records/2008
voices: Meredith Monk, Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger, Ellen Fisher, Sylvie Jensen, Ching Gonzalez, Sasha Bogdanowitsch; piano: Allison Sniffen; percussion: John Hollenbeck; wind instruments: Bohdan Hilash; recorded at Avatar Studios, January, 2007

SET ONE
Burr Van Nostrand: 9 Miracles
(from Fantasy Manual for Urban Survival)
Voyage in a White Building 1
New World Records/2013
flute: Robert Stallman; cello: Jay Humston; prepared piano: Herman Weiss; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, October 17, 1972; composition year: 1972; time: 6:17

Michael Tenzer: Resolution (Tabuh Gari)
Let Others Name You
New World Records/2009
Ossia Ensemble; Balinese drums: Wayan Sudirana and Michael Tenzer; conductor: David Jacobs; recorded at Blackdog Recording Studios, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, November 2008; composition year: 2007; time: 13:14

SET TWO
Helmut Lachenmann:  Ein Kinderspiel
a. Hänschen klein  (1:07)
b. Wolken im eisigen Mondlicht / Clouds in Icy Moon-Light  (2:09)
c. Akiko  (0:42)
d. Falscher Chinese (ein wenig besoffen) / Fake Chinese (Slightly Drunk)  (1:41)
e. Filter-Schaukel / Filter Swing  (3:33)
f. Glockenturm / Bell Tower  (1:50)
g. Schattentanz / Shadow Dance  (3:25)
„ … Zwei Gefühle …“ and Solo Works
Mode Records/2012
piano: Helmut Lachenmann; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, March 2010; composition year: 1980

Margaret Leng Tan: The Animist Child (J. Kitzke)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
composer: Jerome Kitzke; toy piano and voice: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January 2010; composition year: 1994; time: 7:04

SET THREE
Eve Beglarian: Wayfaring Stranger (Live at Roulette)
Songs from the River Project
EVBVD Music/2011
composition: traditional; BRIM: arrangement; vocals, electronics, electric guitar, bass: Eve Beglarian; violin, electric violin, acoustic guitar: Mary Rowell; recorded at Roulette, New York City, October 16, 2010; time: 5:00

Paul Lansky: Wayfaring Stranger (trad.)
Folk Images
Bridge Records/1995
computer music: Paul Lansky; Princeton University, 1991, time: 4:42

Lou Cohen: Concerto
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
computer music: Lou Cohen; time: 7:34

Ivan Tcherepnin: from Santur Live!
a. Dream Filterings I (1:32)
b. Dream Filterings II (1:29)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/2001
Serge modular electronics and santur: Ivan Tcherepnin;  composition years: 1977-1995

SET FOUR
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Call for Peace
Sound Portraits
MSR Classics/2013
solo flute: Sara Nichols; electronic music: Vivian Adelberg Rudow; composition year: 2006; time: 6:04

Fortner Anderson/Alessandro Bosetti: It is Amazing
(Gesualdo's Waterboarding)
Announciations
Electrocd/2013
text, reciter: Fortner Anderson; organ, guitar, sound processing, voice, self-waterboarding: Alessandro Bosetti; original madrigal, Gesualdo, "'Mercè!, grido piangendo"; recorded in Montreal and Berlin; composition year: 2012; time: 12:19

Laurie Spiegel: Dirge Part II
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
computer music: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, October, 1974; time: 2:29

SET FIVE
John Rahn: Miranda
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 12 [various artists]
Composers in the Computer Age -- I
Centaur Records/1992
computer music: John Rahn; text: Miranda warning; reciter: Mary Henry; composition year: 1990; time: 13:15

Maggi Payne: Subterranean Network
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
electronic music: Maggi Payne; recorded at Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College; composition year: 1985; time: 11:18

SET SIX
Larry Austin: The Theme Restored [Williams Mix]
Octo Mixes
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
based on John Cage's Williams Mix (1951-1953) for eight magnetic tapes; realized by Larry Austin, 1997-2001; time: 4:15

Pete Stollery: Resound
Scenes
Empreintes Digitales/2011
field recordings: Pete Stollery; realized in 2005; premierd at the 34th concert of the Discoveries series, Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, Scotland, November 8, 2005; commissioned by Gordon Forum for the Arts, with support from Aberdeenshire Council and the Scottish Arts Council; time: 16:51

SET SEVEN
Chris Watson: Corncrake*
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch/1998
field recordings: Chris Watson; Corncrakes recorded on the Island of Coll, Western Isles, Scotland; time: 2:30 
*TAINT RADIO version only

Douglas Doherty: Neptune's Children*
Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield, and Newcastle
[various artists]
MPS Music & Video/2000
electronic music: Douglas Doherty; realized at Hopkins Studio at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Mjumbo Studios, March 1996; composition year: 1996; time: 12:46
*TAINT RADIO version only

Douglas Doherty: On the Toon in the Toon on the Tyne**
Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield, and Newcastle
[various artists]
MPS Music & Video/2000
electronic music: Douglas Dohert; realized at Mjumbo Studios, 1997; time: 3:00
**WMUA version only

Alistair McDonald: Final Times**
Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield, and Newcastle
[various artists]
MPS Music & Video/2000
sounds gathered in Glasgow and processed for the BBC by Alistair MacDonald; composition year: 1999; time: 5:01
**WMUA version only


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Martian Gardens for April 21-22, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 21, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
April 22, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Allen Ginsberg: Hum Bom
Holy Soul Jelly Roll -- Vol. 4: Ashes & Blues
Rhino Records/1994
reciter: Allen Ginsberg; recorded at The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York City, May 12, 1993: composition years: 1971, 1984, 1991; time: 3:20

SET TWO
Marcelle Deschênes:
a. Big Bangs II (7:44)
b. Big Bangs III (2:38)
petit Big Bangs
Empreintes Digitales/2006
electroacoustic music: Marcelle Deschênes; a. realized at the Bruit Blancs Studio, Montreal, 1987, remixed by Louis Dufort, 1995, Montreal; b. realized at Bruit Blancs Studio, Montreal, 1992; mastered by Dominique Bassal, Montreal, 2006

John Luther Adams: Triadic iteration lattices
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
for four air raid sirens; recorded by the Percussion Group Cincinnati. Patricia Corbett Theater, Cincinnati; November, 1998; composition year: 1997; time: 8:22

SET THREE
Jerry Hunt: Chimanzzi: Drape: Link
Haramand Plane -- Three Translation Links
Nonsequitur-What Next?/1994
piano, violin, electronics, devices, video: Jerry Hunt; composition year: 1993; time: 15:20

David Barnes: Angels
Axiom
DavidBarnesMusic/2013
violas, electric guitar, sampler: David Barnes: time: 6:09

SET FOUR
Tom Hamilton: Bonampak
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
ARP 2500 Synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; alto flute, alto clarinet, nagaswaram, alto saxophone: J.D. Parran; recorded at Technisonic Studios, St. Louis; recorded in 1975; time: 9:31

Peter Zummo/Tom Hamilton: Café Criminal
Slybersonic Tromosome
Penumbra Music/2000
synthesizer, electronics, beat thing: Tom Hamilton; Peter Zummo: trombone, valve trombone, wind instruments, beat thing; time: 3:02

J.D. Parran: Chang Gang
Window Spirits (Solo)
Mutable Music/2010
alto flute: J.D. Parran; recorded live at Balal Gallery, Kampo Cultural Center, New York City, March 27, 2009; time: 7:43

SET FIVE
Joseph Byrd: Densities I (for viola solo and 4 treble instruments)
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
American Contemporary Music Ensemble (viola: Nadia Sirota; trumpet: C.J. Camerieri; cello: Clarice Jensen; marimba: Chihiro Shibayama; vibraphone; Chris Thompson); recorded at Mission Sound, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 2010; composition year: 1962; time: 9:53

Lou Cohen: Circles
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
computer music: Lou Cohen; composition year: 2004; time: 12:25

SET SIX
Sylvia Smith: Poems I, II, III (S.S. Smith)
a. Poem I (0:53)
b. Poem II (1:03)
c. Poem III (0:51)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
composer: Stuart Saunders Smith; brake drums: Sylvia Smith; text, reciter: Stuart Saunders Smith; recorded at UMBC, Baltimore, composition year: 1970

Justin DeHart: Psappha (I. Xenakis)
Strange Paths
Innova Recordings/2013
composer: Iannis Xenakis; percussion: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Music Studio, La Jolla, California; composition year: 1975; time: 13:32

Roland Auzet: Omega (I. Xenakis)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
composer: Iannis Xenakis; percussion: Roland Auzet; orchestra: Ensemble FA, conductor: Dominique My; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, 2006; composition year: 1997; time: 4:04

SET SEVEN
Fortner Anderson/Nicolas Bernier: Belly Into Fire
Annunciations
Electrocd/2013
text, reciter: Fortner Anderson; electroacoustic music: Nicolas Bernier; recorded in Montreal; composition year: 2012; time: 11:11

Nicolas Bernier:  Les chambres de l'atelier
Travaux mécaniques
Emreintes Digitales/2012
electroacoustic music: Nicolas Bernier; realized and reworked at the composer's studio and the studios at the University of Montreal, 2007-2011; premiered at the Planétarium de Montréal for the Pulsar*3 concert; April 14, 2008; time: 10:48

SET EIGHT
Noah Creshevsky: Borrowed Time
Auxesis -- Works by Charles Amirkhanian and Noah Creshevsky
Centaur Records/1995
computer music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 1992; time: 11:43
Dedicated to the memory of John Cage

Alvin Curran: Erat Verbum  John (A Sound Portrait of John Cage)
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
piano: Alvin Curran; recorded at Studio Akustische Kunst, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, 2000; time 2:49

Larry Austin: from Six Short Variations (Williams [re]Mix[ed])*
a. Country Sounds (1:22)
b. Electronic Sounds (2:06)
Octo Mixes -- Octophonic Computer Music: 1996-2001
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
computer music based on John Cage's Williams Mix (1951-1953) for eight magnetic tapes
* TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for April 14-15, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 14, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
April 15, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Eve Beglarian: In and Out of the Game
Songs from the River Project II
EVBVD Music/2012
The Guidonian Hand trombone quartet (trombones: Mark Broschinsky, William Lang, James Rogers, Sebastian Vera); time: 4:21

Cluster & Eno: Schöne Hände
Cluster & Eno
Caroline Records/1996 (orig. Sky Records LP/1977)
synthesizers: Moebius, Roedelius, Brian Eno; recorded at Conny's Studio, Germany, June 1977; time: 3:03

William O. Smith: Transformations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 31 [various artists]
Music from CARTAH, University of Washington
Centaur Records/2001
trombone and computer-realized sound; trombone: Chad Kirby; composition year: 1999; time: 10:12

SET TWO
Joane Hétu: Fragment 0
La Femme Territoire ou 21 Fragments d'Humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
conductor, voice, objects, melodica: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; accordion, voice: Alice Tougas St-Jak, voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussion, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal; composition year: 2012; time: 2:13

Christian Calon: HMS Calypso/Tempête 1 + Calypso
Le projet Ulysse
Empreintes Digitales/2011
electroacoustic music realized at Christian Calon's studio, Montreal, 2006-2011; voice: Shelley Hirsch; time: 7:15

Fortner Anderson/Chantal Dumas: It's A Small World
Annunciations
Electrocd/2013
electroacoustic music: Chantal Dumas; text, voice: Fortner Anderson; recorded in Montreal, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 11:35

SET THREE
Lou Cohen: Symphony 3
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
computer music: Lou Cohen; time: 12:50

Jon Christopher Nelson: l'Horlage imaginaire
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 14 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2005
clock sounds, eight-channel tape: JCN, realized at Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France; composition year: 2002; time: 10:22

SET FOUR
Alvin Lucier: Fan
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
kotos: Miki Maruta, Ryuko Mizutani, Kayoko Nakagawa, Yoko Nishi; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, February 8, 2005; composition year: 2003; time: 12:05

Deep Listening Band: Sanctuary
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
Deep Listening Band (trombones, didjeridus, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; just tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; organ, overtone flutes, electronics: David Gamper); Expanded Instrument System; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, New York, January 1994; time: 11:55 

SET FIVE
Burr Van Nostrand: Oh! Oh? Oh...Violent, Sad, Fragments
(Voyage in a White Room 1, movement 1)
Voyage in a White Room 1
New World Records/2013
New England Conservatory Chamber Ensemble, conductor: Anthony Coleman; speaker: Lautaro Mantillo; text: Hart Crane ("Voyages 1" from the White Buildings collection) recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, October 8, 2012; composition year: 1969; time: 13:10

Salvatore Martirano: from O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag
a. Warning (4:09)
b. Spring (5:11)
O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag
New World Records/1998
University of Illinois Chamber Choir And Madrigal Singers, uncredited performers: clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, tenor-bass trombone, double-bass, piano, percussion; conductor Salvatore Martirano; texts: T.S. Eliot (title refers to "The Waste Land," lines 127-134), William Shakespeare (a. The Tempest, Act II, Scene I; b. Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene II); Shakespeherian (sic.); composition year: 1959

SET SIX
Patti Monson: Rapid*Fire (J. Higdon)
Conspirare -- Chamber Music for Solo Flute
CRI/2000
composer: Jennifer Higdon; flute: Patti Monson; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University; composition year: 1992; time: 6:33

Jennifer Higdon: Inward (Light Refracted, movement I)
An Exaltation of Larks
Bridge Records/2013
clarinet: Todd Palmer; violin: Deborah Buck; viola: Kathryn Lockwood; cello: Caroline Stinson; piano: Blair McMillen; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2011; composition year: 2002; time: 11:31

SET SEVEN
Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Crystal Springs (P. Schroeder)
Here (and there)
Innova Recordings/2013
composer: Phillip Schroeder; piano: Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi; recorded at Harwood Recital Hall, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, June 2012; fixed media realized at Henderson State University, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 10:48

Phillip Schroeder: The Patience it Contains*
Move in the Changing Light
Innova Recordings/2006
pianos and piano with digital delays, synthesizer, and suspended cymbal: Phillip Schroeder; Harwood Recital Hall, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, 2005
*TAINT RADIO version only

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Martian Gardens for April 7-8, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 7, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
April 8, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: Subaru
Celestial Excursions
Lovely Music, Ltd./2005
speaker, text: Robert Ashley; singers: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley; piano: Blue Gene Tyranny; electronic orchestra: Tom Hamilton, Robert Ashley; recorded live at the Kitchen, New York City; composition year: 2002; time: 1:48

SET ONE
If, Bwana: Ellen, Banned
Red One
Pogus Productions/2013
voice: Ellen Band; composition year: 2009; time: 10:16

Charles Amirkhanian: Hypothetical Moments
Mental Radio
New World Records/2011 (orig. LP CRI/1985)
voice, ocarina, bells, sampled harpsichord samples (via Dennis Russell Davies); text: Charles Amirkhanian; recorded in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 1980; composition year: 1980; time: 5:35

Eve Beglarian: I am worried now, but I won't be worried long
BRIM -- Songs from The River Project
EVBVD Music/2011
vocals, electronics, electric guitar, bass: Eve Beglarian; violin, acoustic guitar: Mary Rowell; time: 5:55

SET TWO
John Cage: ASLSP (excerpt)
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at Nederluleå Church, Gammelstads kyrkstad, Luleå, Sweden, November 8, 2008; composition year: 1985; excerpt time: 8:10

Lou Cohen: Homage to Cage
Music
Pogus Prodcutions/2013
electronics: Lou Cohen; composed for the Bohlen-Pierce Symposium, Boston, March 2010; time: 8:43

Mark Trayle: _28
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
magnetic strips, card reader, computer processing: Mark Trayle; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts; 2006-2007; time: 3:12

SET THREE
Lou Cohen: Symphony 6 (for Noah Creshevsky)
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
sampled instruments, MIDI keyboard: Lou Cohen; time: 9:33

Noah Creshevsky: Talea
Man & Superman
Centaur Records/1992
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 1991; time: 8:15

Ensemble Supermusique: Malgré tout Face A
Bruit court-circuit
Actuellecd.com/2012
composer: Martin Tétreault; Ensemble SuperMusique: alto saxophone, voice, objects: Joane Hétu; percussion, microphones: Michel F Côté; violin: Guido Del Fabbro; cello: Émilie Girard-Charest;  tenor saxophone, flute, objects: Jean Derome; percussion: Danielle Palardy Roger; synthesizers: Vergil Sharkya; electric bass, electronics: Alexandre St. Onge; turntables: Martin Tétreault; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012, time: 5:22

SET FOUR
Elaine Barkin: GamÈlange
ee²--a sound album by Elaine Barkin
Open Space/2000
harp: Sue Carole DeVale; gamelan: Michael Bakan, Wanda Bryant, Lindsay Clare, Alice Hunt, Jay Keister, Grace M., David Martinelli, Elaine Barkin; recorded at UCLA, July 1992 - April, 1993; time: 13:56

Bill Alves: Imbal-Imbalan
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2008
The HMC American Gamelan; Harvey Mudd College; composition year: 2001; time: 8:39

SET FIVE
Robert Voisey: Hunger
Vox Novus e.p.
Vox Novus/2004
processed voice: Robert Voisey; time: 2:25

Fortner Anderson/Ned Bouhlassa: 3 Out of Every 10
Fortner Anderson -- Annunciations
Les Blocs Errants/2013
voice, text: Fortner Anderson; electroacoustic music: Ned Bouhlassa; voice recorded at The Pines studio, Montreal; electroacoustic music recorded at Ned Bouhlassa's studio, Montreal, October 2011; time: 7:22

The Legendary Pink Dots: Glasshouse
Chemical Playschool 10
Soleilmoon/1999
keyboards, voice, text: Edward Ka Spel; sound treatments: Frank Verschuuren; recorded in the Netherlands, 1997; time: 3:45

Ned Bouhlassa/Fortner Anderson:
a. Montreal I (3:37)
b. Montreal II (8:00)
Empreintes Digitales/2008
realized at Ned Bouhlass'as studio, Montreal, 2005; premiered in Berlin, Germany, May 19, 2005

SET SIX
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2009
electronic music for 8-channel tape: Iannis Xenakis; premiered at the Osaka World Fair, Osaka, Japan, 1970; composition year: 1969-1970; excerpt time: 8:00

Ben Johnston & Jaap Spek: Museum Piece
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists[
EMS -- University of Illinois School of Music/2008
sound collage: EMS, U. Ill, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution; recorded 1968; time: 5:05

Henry Pousseur: Scambi (Exchanges)
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music [various artists]
first a-chronology 1921--2001
Sub Rosa/2001
electroacoustic music realized at the RAI Studios, Milan, 1957; time: 6:27

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Mantione: Dialtones and Strings
Compilation for Max CD-R
Philip Mantione/2011
dialtones, samples: Philip Mantione; composition year: 2009; time: 9:10

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