Martian Gardens for 05/20/2012

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for May 27, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--02:10 May 27-28, 2012

SET ONE
Paul Lansky: from Shapeshifters
a. At Any Moment
b. Florid Counterpoint
Imaginary Islands
Bridge Records/2012
piano duo: Quattro Mani (Susan Grace & Alice Rybak); Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Justin Brown; recorded at Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center, Birmingham, Alabama, February 2011

George Crumb:
a. Day of the Comet (from Zeitgeist)
b. The Advent (from Music for a Summer Evening -- Makrokosmos III)
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Four
Bridge Records/2001
a. piano duo: Quattro Mani; b. piano duo: Quattro Mani; percussion: John Kinzie, David Colson; recorded at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, August, 2000

SINGLE PLAY
John Melby: Concerto for Computer and Orchestra
Concerti
Albany Records/2009
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Joel Eric Suben; recorded at Gregorz Fitelberg Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Quartet
a. Moderate
b. Very Slow
c. Slow -- Axial Symmetry
d. Fast
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, June 2011

SET TWO
Jon Christopher Nelson: They Wash Their Ambassadors in Citrus and Fennel
Music from Seamus Volume 7 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1998
electroacoustic music: J. C. Nelson; mezzo soprano: Heidi Dietrich Klein; text: Robert Gregory

Francisco Kröpfl: Lento como l'alghe
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005
electroacoustic Music: Francisco Kröpfl; voice: Lucia Maranca; text: Aldo Maranca

SET THREE
John Bischoff: Local Color
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
electronic music: John Bischoff; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 2010-2011

Nicolas Bernier: Les chambres de l'atelier (The Workshop)
Travaux Mécaniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio and the University of Montreal, realized at the Pulsar *3 concert at the Planétarium de Montréal, April 14, 2008

DEDICATED TO PAULINE OLIVEROS 
IN OBSERVANCE OF HER 80th BIRTHDAY, PART I
(b. May 30, 1932) --

SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: Bye Bye Butterfly
Women in Electronic Music 1977 [various artists]
New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media
New World Records/2006 (orig. 1977)
synthesizer, tapes, phonograph: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1965

Timeless Pulse: Healing Piece
Quintet
Mutable Music/2007
accordion: Pauline Oliveros; percussion: George Marsh; live electronics: David Wessel; percussion: Jennifer Wilsey; voice: Thomas Buckner

SET FIVE
Pauline Oliveros: Something Else
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
tone generators, tape delay: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at Classical Electronic Music Studio, University of Toronto, 1966

Deep Listening Band: Cave Water (track 7)
Troglodyte's Delight
Nonsequitur/1990
DLB: Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaioitis; recorded in Tarpaper Cave, Rosendale, New York, 1989

SET SIX
Pauline Oliveros: Lion's Tale (in Gamelan fashion)
Lion's Eye and Lion's Tale
Deep Listening/2006
sampler programmed and performed by Carter Scholz

Pauline Oliveros and Miya Masaoka: Afternoon
Accordion Koto
Deep Listening/2008
accordion: Pauline Oliveros, koto: Miya Masaoka; recorded at the Bard College Recording Studio, 2004

SINGLE PLAY
Deep Listening Band: Non-Stop Flight
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
DLB -- just-tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, trombones, didjeridu, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; organ overtone flutes, electronics: David Gamper; additional performers on Non-Stop Flight -- voices: Julie Lyon Balliet; bass-clarinet, pocket trumpet: Joe McPhee; just-tuned accordion, voice: Margarit Shenker; Brazilian percussion: Nego Gato, Carol Chappell; Brazilian percussion, found percussion: Jason Finkleman; Women Who Drum (djembe: Leaf Miller; conga, shekere, bells: Judith Muldoon); recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, New York, January 1994

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Martian Gardens for 05/20/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
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Host: Max Shea
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Program for May 20, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--02:10 May 20-21, 2012

SET ONE
John Cage: Third Construction
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion (Owen Clayton Condon, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore); recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, DeKalb, Illinois, June 2011

John Cage: Williams Mix
The 25th-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
Recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958
Wergo/1994
for magnetic tape and loudspeakers; realized by Earle Brown, John Cage, and David Tudor

John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion Records/1994
prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters; New York City, 1993

SET TWO
Eric Chasalow: from The Furies
a. The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos
b. The Fury of Cooks
Over the Edge
New World Records/1993
soprano: Christine Schadeberg; electronic music: Eric Chasalow; texts: Anne Sexton; realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1984

Arie Shapira: Antigona
Spring 2012 CD-R
Arie Shapira/2012
mezzo-soprano: Bracha Kol; Meitar Ensemble and electronics; text: Sophocles; recorded in Israel, 2010

Noah Creshevsky: Talea
Man & Superman
Centaur Records/1992
electronic music: Noah Creshevksy; recorded 1991

Hugh Le Caine: Nocturne
Compositions and Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999
Conductive Keyboard with tape delay: Hugh Le Caine; recorded at the University of Toronto electronic music studios, 1962

SET THREE
Adrian Moore: Rococo Variations
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music recorded at the composer's studio and premiered at the Soundings Festival, Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, February 3, 2006

Scott A. Wyatt: Private Play
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 8 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1999
electroacoustic music:  Scott A. Wyatt; recorded at the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios, 1997

SET FOUR
Elizabeth Hoffman: Red is the Rows
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space Magazine/2012
violins: Conrad Harris, Paula Kim Harris

Ethel: No Nickel Blues (John King)
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
Ethel string quartet recorded at Area 52 studio, Saugerties, New York, March 17, 2011

SET FIVE
Phil Kline:  from John the Revelator
a. Northport
b. The Unnamable 
c. Wondrous Love
John The Revelator
A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
Lionheart vocal group; Ethel string quartet; recorded at the Church of St. Luke's in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August 2007; a. "Jesus, My All, to Heav’n has Gone (North Port)," words: John Cennick, tune: R.R. Osborne; b. text: Samuel Beckett, music: Phil Kline; c. music: William Walker; arr. William J. Reynolds 

Ethel: Requiem (Lennie Tristano) 
Light
Cantaloupe Music/2010
Ethel string quartet; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ, March 2006

Scanner:  Insulation Mix
Messiah Remix [various artists]
Cantaloupe Music/2004
 electronic music: Robin Rimbaud; loosely based on G.F. Handel

Joane Hétu: from Chaîne
a. Tisser pour toi la 1a
b. Chacun son fil
c. Lin + Tisser pour toi 1b
Filature
Ambiances Magnetiques/2011
L'ensemble Supermusique;  recoded in concert at Usine C, Montreal, March 2006

SET SIX
Francois Rabelais: Inscription mise sur la porte de Thélème
Le sixte livre dit électroacoustique de Francois Rabelais
[various artists]
Chrysopée électronique -Bourge
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
recitation: René Zosso; text: Francois Rebelais; recorded at the Institut International de Musque Electroacoustique de Bourges, 1994

Sten Hanson: Le Torche Cul
ibid. 
electroacoustic music: Sten Hanson; recitation: René Zosso; text: Francois Rabelais; recorded at IMEB, 1994

Paul Steenhuisen: Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit
Miniatures Concrétes [various artists]
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
electroacoustic music: Paul Steenhuisen 

Paul Steenhuisen: Poland is Not Yet Lost
60 x 60 2004/2005 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2007

SET SEVEN
John Eaton: Blind Man's Cry
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; text: Tristan Corbiere; Syn-Ket: John Eaton; Moog synthesizer: Jaye Williams; tapes and mixing: Wilson Allen; recorded in Rome, 1965

Judy Klein: The Wolves of Bays Mountain (excerpts)
The Wolves of Bays Mountain
Open Space Magazine/2004 
field recordings made at Bays Mountain Park, Tennessee; computer processing: Judy Klein

Coil: Tenderness of Wolves
Scatology
Force & Form/1984
computer, electronics: John Balance, Peter Christopherson; lyrics, voice: Gavin Friday, acoustic guitar: Alex Ferguson

SET EIGHT
Judy Klein: Railcar
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 20 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2011
electroacoustic music: Judy Klein; premiered at Festival Synthése, IMEB, Bourges, 2008

Philippe Auclair: Railways soundwalk enigma
Compendium International 2002 Bourges -- IMEB [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2002
electroacoustic music: Philippe Auclair

SET NINE
Anne LeBaron: Lagniappe -- Hourglass of Stars
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
amplified harp with live electronics: Anne LeBaron; amplified violin: Leroy Jenkins; electronics: Earl Howard; recorded at Joe's Pub, New York City, 2004

Earl Howard: Strasser 60 (excerpt)
Granular Modality
New World Records/2012
synthesizers: Earl Howard; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, November 12, 2009

Scott Smallwood: Sunkcraft
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
antique electrotherapy devices: Scott Smallwood

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Pianos and Voices
Only --Works for Voices and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
5 pianos, 1 celeste: Ralph Grierson; 5 voices: Joan La Barbara; recorded in Los Angeles, 1995

SINGLE PLAY
Barbara Monk Feldman: The Northern Shore
The Northern Shore
Mode Records/2012
violin: Marc Sabat; piano: Stephen Clarke; percussion: Dirk Rothbrust; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, August 26, 2003

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Martian Gardens for 5/13/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
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Host: Max Shea
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Program for May 13, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--02:10 May 13-14, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Ethel: Early That Summer (J. Wolfe)
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
Ethel String Quartet -- violin: Cornelius Dufalo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ, February 2011

SET ONE
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love
Vivian Adelberg Rudow/2004
cello cases (prepared tape), electronics, samples: V.A. Rudow; cello: Paula Skolnick-Virizlay

Roxanne Turcotte: Méres et Monde (Mothers of the World)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2003 at the composer’s studio (Productions RTM), and premiered on June 10, 2003 during Synthèse, the 33rd Bourges International Electronic Music and Creation Festival (France)

SET TWO
Beth Anderson: Torero Piece
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voices: Beth and Marjorie Anderson

Laurie Anderson: O Superman (for Massenet)
Big Science
Warner Bros/1982
voice, Vocoder, electronics: Laurie Anderson; Farfisa organ, Casio: Roma Baran; flute, saxophone: Perry Hoberman

Charles Dodge: We Are Reading the Story of Our Lives
Synthesized Voices
CRI/1976
from "The Story of Our Lives" (1973-74) realized at Columbia University Center for Computing Activities and Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, 1974

SET THREE
Jill Summers: Apricot Wensleydale
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
voice, text, music: Jill Summers

Susan Stone: Ruby's Story
The Time is Now (Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan)
[various artists]
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, music: Susan Stone; text: M.S. Carnahan (Burning Books publishing)

Robert Ashley: Ingrid
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
from "Au Pair," voices, text: Jacqueline Humbert, Robert Ashley; electronic music: Robert Ashley, Tom Hamilton

SET FOUR
John Rahn: The New Mother (excerpts)
a. Overture
b. Not Bad Enough
JKR Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his friends
[various artists]
Open Space Magazine/2007
electronic music:  John Rahn

Pauline Oliveros: Big Mother is Watching (excerpt)
Electronic Works 1965-66
Paradigm Discs/1997
electronic music: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1966

Diane Labrosse: Unisson Duet
Musicworks 100 [various artists]
Musicworks Magazine/2008
sampling: Diane Labrosse, treatments: Michel F. Côté

SET FIVE
Arie Shapira: Euridice's Travels
Spring 2012 CD-R
Arie Shapira/2012
Ensemble Meitar with processed tenor and female voices; text: Bat-Sheva Shapira

Noah Creshevsky: Lisa Barnard Redux
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
voice: Lisa Barnard-Kelly; electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky

Meredith Monk:
a. Cry #1
b. Cry #2
Volcano Songs
ECM Records/1997
a. from "Volcano Songs: Duets" (1993), voices: Meredith Monk, Katie Gessinger; b. from "Volcano Songs: Solos" (1994), voice: Meredith Monk; recorded at Clinton Studios, New York City, July 1995

SET SIX
Ralf Nuhn: Staccato Death/Life
Cultures électroniques -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2005
electroacoustic music: Ralf Nuhn

Scott A. Wyatt: Night Visitors
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2003 
electroacoustic music: Scott Wyatt 

Priscilla McLean: Night Images
The McLean Mix & The Golden Age of Electronic Music
[Barton McLean/Priscilla McLean]
CRI/1997
synthesizers: Priscilla McLean

Herbert Brün: U-TURN-TO
SAWDUST Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
computer music: Herbert Brün 

SET SEVEN
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 1
Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
music for two variable speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano and cymbal; performed by Joey Van Hassel

Iannis Xenakis: Morsima-Amorsima
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
Callithumpian Consort; conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, June 11, 2008

John Luther Adams: Notquitespringdawn
Songbird Songs
Mode Records/2012
Callithumpian Consort; conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, October 3, 2006

SET EIGHT
Pierre Schaeffer: L'oiseau RAI
L'oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
performed on the antenna of Radio Paris IV, May 6, 1951

Pete Stollery: Scénes, rendez-vous
Scénes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
sounds recorded along the Parisian racecourse of Claude Lelouch's C’était un rendez-vous (1976), realized in June, 2006, premiered at Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, October 28, 2006

SET NINE 
Gerald Bennett: Im Eismeer
Gerald Bennett
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2008
electroacoustic music: Gerald Bennet

Ivan Elezovic: Do You Remember?
Wavefields [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios University of Illinois/2005
electroacoustic music: Ivan Elezovic 

Meredith Monk: Memory Song
Do You Be
ECM New Series/1987
voices: Meredith Monk, Andrea Goodman, Naaz Hosseini; keyboards: Nurit Tilles, Wayne Hankin; violin: Naaz Hosseini

SET TEN 
Alvin Curran:
a. Z Train
b. Little Him -- Lo Main
c. For Giacinto
Electric Rags II
New Albion Records/1990
electronics: Alvin Curran; synthesizer: Scot Gresham-Lancaster; Rova Saxophone Quartet (baritone and alto: John Rashkin; tenor and sopranino: Larry Ochs; alto and soprano: Steve Adams; soprano: Bruce Ackley); recorded live at Life on the Water, San Francisco, 1989

Kyle Bruchmann: On Procedural Grounds
On Procedural Grounds
New World Records/2012
Wrack ensemble (oboe: Kyle Bruchmann; viola: Jen Clare Paulson; bass clarinet: Jason Stein; contrabass: Anton Hatwich; percussion: Timothy Daisy), Rova Saxophone Quartet; live electronics: Gino Robair, Tim Perkis; recorded at Guerrilla Audio, Oakland, October 3, 2010


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Martian Gardens for 05/06/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for May 06, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Ethel: Sphere ('s) [J. Halle]
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
Ethel String Quartet -- violin: Cornelius Dufalo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson; recorded at BiCoastal Recordings, Ossing, New York, February 2011

SET ONE
Mary Ellen Childs: Welding
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
Ethel String Quartet; Sound Montage by Neverwas

R. Weis: Quantum Hayride
Mystery of the Egg
R. Weis/2012
sampler and sampling: R. Weis

Jon Hassell:
a. Chor Moiré
b. Courage
Dream Theory in Malaya
EG Records/1981
electronically filtered trumpet: Jon Hassell; drums: Brian Eno; bass: Michael Brook; recorded at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario

Alva Noto: Xerrox Soma
Xerrox Vol. 2
Raster-Norton/2009
electronic music: Alva Noto

SET TWO
Eric Moe: On the Tip of My Tongue
I. Two Part Contraption
II. Tim's Tune
III. Double Take
IV. What the Drums Say
IV. I. What the Drums Say (alternate take)
On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996
synthesizer: Eric Moe; clarinet: Tim Smith; recorded at Baby Monster Studios, October 1994

Krzysztof Wolek: Mobile Variations
Cultures électroniques 20 [various artists]
Prix Trivium et Magisterum 2007 -- IMEB series
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2007
electroacoustic music: Krzysztof Wolek; realized at the University of Chicago

SET THREE
Tom Lopez: Curvatures
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2003
Zeta String Quartet (2002 -- violins: Gillian Rivers and Amie Weiss, viola: Amy Cimini, cello: Sarah Biber), and electronics, recorded at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music

Zack Browning: Breakpoint Screamer
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
trumpets: Michael Ewald, Salvatore Percoco, Charles Saenz, James Zingara, Kevin Vos; computer processing: Zack Browning; commissioned for performance at the International Trumpet Guild 1994 Conference

Salvatore Martirano: SATBehind Demo
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22
The Composer in the Computer Age -- V
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective 1962-92
Centaur Records/1995
computers, digital keyboard: Salvatore Martirano

SET FOUR
Paul Koonce: Whitewash
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
electroacoustic music: Paul Koonce

Paul Koonce: The Flywheel Dream
Walkabout and Back
Mode Records/2000
electroacoustic music: Paul Koonce

SET FIVE
Adrian Moore: 3Pieces -- Piano
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio and premiered at Firth Hall, Sheffield, March 20, 2007

Mecha Fixes Clocks: Curvature dφ/ds of Takahashi’s Curves
Teoria dell’elasticità di Girolamo Papariello
Ambiances Magnetiques/2012 

Andrew Byrne: from Fata Morgana -- Mirages on the Horizon
a. Third Mirage
b. Fourth Mirage
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
prepared piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, 2006


SET SIX
Harry Partch: I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds...
Enclosures 2 -- Historic Speech-Music Recordings
Innova Recordings/1995
voice: Harry Partch; recorded in Gualala, California, 1950, for introduction of the 78 rpm recording of  "Intrusions"

Harry Partch: Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegans Wake
a. Isobel
b. Annah the Allmaziful
Enclosures 2 -- Historic Speech-Music Recordings
Innova Recordings/1995
soprano: Lola Harding; flutes: Dorothy Holden, Hilmar Luckhardt; Kithara: Harry Partch; recorded in New York City, 1945


Harry Partch: August 11 -- SERA Camp, Ingot
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
voice: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto


Beth Anderson: Yes Sir Ree
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voice: Beth Anderson; percussion: Michael Blair


Meredith Monk: Candy Bullets and Moon
Beginnings 
Tzadik/2009
voice, bass guitar: Meredith Monk; drums, organ: Don Preston; recorded at Garrick's Theatre, New York City, July 1967

SET SEVEN
If, Bwana/Trio Scordatura: The Tempest, Fuggit
E (and sometimes why)
Pogus Productions/2012 
speaker: Michael Peters; voice: Lisa Barnard Kelly; text: Shakespeare, The Tempest, act I, scene II;  recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, June 2010;


Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing (excerpt)
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
synthesizer, electronics: Robert Ashley; voices: Mimi Johnson, Robert Ashley, completed 1979


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Martian Gardens for 04/29/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 29, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Echoes of Time and the River
Four Processionals for Orchestra (Echoes II)
I. Frozen Time
II. Remembrance of Time
III. Collapse of Time
IV. Last Echoes of Time
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 6
Bridge Records/2003
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Thomas Conlin; recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw, Poland, August 2002

SET ONE
John Luther Adams: Clusters on a Quadrilateral Grid 3
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati; November 1998

John Luther Adams: Wood Thrush
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 2006-2008

Kui Dong: Flying Apples
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 8 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1999
computer music: Kui Dong; recorded at CCRMA, Stanford University

SET TWO
Kui Dong: Crossing -- Movement II
Pangu's Song
New World Records/2004
computer music: Kui Dong; recorded at CCRMA, Stanford University, October 21, 2000

Karen Tanaka: Water and Stone
Invisible Curve (Chen Yi/K. Tanaka)
New World Records/2008
The Azure Ensemble, conductor: Gerald Steichen; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 16, 2008

SET THREE
Karen Tanaka: Metallic Cristal
Percussion (s) [Roland Auzet]
Mode Records/2008
electronic music with percussion; percussion performed by Roland Auzet; recorded at IRCAM La Muse en Circuit, Atelier en Bel Air

Kwok-ping John Chen: Ring Shades
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 1 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1993
two-channel tape with percussion; percussion: Heung-Wing Lung

SET FOUR
Yves Daoust: Objets Trouvés
Compendium International -- Bourges 2002 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2012
commissioned by the IMEB, recorded at Bourges' Studio Charybde, November 2002

Nicolas Bernier:
Travaux Mécaniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012 
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio 2010-2011; premiered at Concierto de música electroacústica, Auditorio Noel Werthein — Instituto de Tecnología ORT, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 7, 2011; speech sampled: "Bodies upon gears," Mario Savio, Berkeley, December 2, 1964

SET FIVE
Mara Helmuth: Where is My Voice?
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
electroacoustic music: Mara Helmuth; poet/speaker: Steve Sunderland

David Behrman: Statement Against the War
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
speaker: Thomas Buckner; text: Siegfried Sassoon; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo; keyboards, electronics: David Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton

Christian Calon: Au travers du livre + Deuxième voyage 
Le Projet Ulysse
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
recorded/revised in Montreal 1996-2001; premiere: Werkstatt, Deutschlandradio Berlin, December 4, 1998
 
Heiner Goebbels:
a. Je ne voyage plus
b. Freight Train
Landscape with Distant Relatives
ECM New Series/2007
voice: David Bennett; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern with Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; a. text: Henri Michaux; b. traditional; recorded at Le Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers; Paris, October 2004

SINGLE PLAY
Frances White: Chōshi
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson 

Patrick Lenfant: Khem
Compendium International --Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
electroacoustic music: Patrick Lenfant


R. Weis: Shimmer
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
samples and sampler: R. Weis

SINGLE PLAY
David Mooney: Screws in their Shoes
Rhythmiconic Sections
Arizona University Recordings/2005 
computer music: David Mooney

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Martian Gardens for 04/22/2012

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Program for April 22, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Evan Ziporyn: Mumbai I
Big Grenadilla/Mumbai
Cantaloupe Music/2012
tabla: Sandeep Das; the Boston Modern Orchestra Project; conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, May 29, 2011

SET ONE
Mecha Fixes Clocks: Stresses Due to Galactic Bending
Teoria dell'elasticita de Girolamo Papariello
Ambiances Magnétiques/2011
Recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, November 2010

Roderik De Man: Cordes Invisibles
Cultures électroniques -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005
electroacoustic music, text: Roderik De Man; piano: Frans van Ruth; piano: Doris Hochscheid; voice: Clotilde Verwearde; commissioned by the Fund for the Creation of Music, Amsterdam

SET TWO
Horacio Vaggione: SCHALL
Musique pour Piano et electroacoustique
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
electroacoustic music: H. Vaggione; commissioned by GMEB for the Synthése Festival of Bourges, 1994

Horacio Vaggione: KITAB
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 21 [various artists]
The International Computer Music Association Composition Awards -- 1992-1993
Centaur Records/1995
bass clarinet: Andy Connell; piano: Delores Duran; contrabass: Christy Crews; with computer processed and controlled sounds; conductor: Pablo Furman; recorded at the University of California San Jose and the University of Paris VIII, 1992

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: Evensong
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 2006 and 2008

Ingram Marshall: Prelude/Now the day (from Evensongs)
Evensongs
New Albion Records /1996
performed by the Maia Quartet and the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet; recorded at SUNY Purchase, February 1996

Christian Wolff: Peace March 2
(Re): Making Music -- Works 1962-99
Mode Records/2004
The Barton Workshop, conductor: Jos Zwannenburg; recorded the Netherlands, 1999

Lou Harrison: Fox Trot
Rhymes with Silver
New Albion Records/2000
cello: Jean Jeanrenaud; violin: David Abel; viola: Benjamin Simon; piano: Julie Steinberg; percussion: William Winant; recorded at Fantasy Records, Berkeley, June 2000

SET FOUR
Scott A. Wyatt: Time Mark
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 2 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
solo percussion with tape accompaniment; percussion: Glenn Schaft

Stuart Saunders Smith: Tunnels
Crux
O.O. Discs/1993
percussion, actor: Thomas Goldstein

Noah Creshevsky: Rounded with a Sleep
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky

SET FIVE
Maggi Payne: Electric Ice
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
electroacoustic music: Maggi Payne

Pete Stollery: Serendipities and Synchronicity
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2005 and premiered at the 34th concert of the Discoveries series, Thainstone Centre, Scotland, November 8, 2005

Earl Howard: Strasser 60 (excerpt)
Granular Modality
New World Records/2012
synthesizer: Earl Howard; recorded at the Roulette, New York City

Merce Cunningham Event group: Sept. 14, 1996, Annemasse, France
Music for Merce 1952--2009 boxed set
New World Records/2010
laptop, percussion: David Behrman; electric violin, live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; steel pan, objects: Fast Forward

SET SIX
R. Weis: Nowhere
Mystery of the Egg
R. Weis/1994
sampling and sampler: R. Weis

Russell Pinkston: Gabo
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 17 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2008
oboe and electronics; oboe: Rebecca Henderson

John Shirley: Bauble
Sonic Ninjutsu
Cycling '74/2004
computer processed autoharp: John Shirley

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Martian Gardens for 04/15/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 15, 2012

SET ONE
Gavin Bryars: Titanic Lament
The Sinking of the Titanic (radio edits)
Point Music/1995

Barney Childs: London Rice Wine
A Music; That it Might Be...
New World Records/2002
flute with live electronics: Philip Rehfeldt

SET TWO
Frank Denyer: Woman, Viola and Crow
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted viola, voice, percussion sounds: Elisabeth Smalt; recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, March 20, 2006

If, Bwana/Trio Scordatura: Gilmore's Girls
E (and sometimes why)
Pogus Productions/2012
Trio Scordatura -- viola d'amore: Elisabeth Smalt; voice: Alfrun Schmid; keyboard/laptop: Bob Gilmore; voice: Lisa Bernard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté; keyboard: Al Margolis who is If, Bwana; recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, June 2010

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel, part one
Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns?
New Albion Records/1991
UC Berkeley Chorus, director: Philip Brett; viola: David Abel; celeste: Karen Rosemak; percussion: William Winant; recorded at Skywalker Sound, October 1990

Morton Feldman: For Franz Kline
Only -- Works for Voice and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
soprano: Joan La Barbara; violin: Roy Malan; cello: Stephen Harrison; French horn: Lawrence Ragent; piano: Marvin Tartak; chimes: William Winant, director: Stephen L. Mosko; recorded in Los Angeles, 1995

SET FOUR
Harry Partch: Near Lodi I cut the huge Tokays*
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto; recorded at Second Story Studio, Venice, California, Summer 2010
*Flame Tokay grape native to Lodi, California

Harry Partch:
a. While my Heart Keeps Beating Time
b. Yankee Doodle Birds
Enclosure Two --
Historic Speech-Music Recordings from the Harry Partch Archives
Innova Recordings/1995
a. voice: Philip Blackburn; piano: Liz Schmidt; b. voice: Harry Partch, from 1970 interview

John Luther Adams: Apple Blossom Round
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 2006 and 2008

Evan Ziporyn: Mumbai II
Big Grenadilla/Mumbai
Cantaloupe Music/2012
tabla: Sandeep Das; Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, May 29, 2011

R. Weis: Tubular March
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
sampling and sequencing: R. Weis

SET FIVE
Frances White: In the Library of Dreams
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
viola d'amore: David Cerutti; electronics: Frances White

Mathew Adkins: Silk to Steel
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2012
electroacoustic music: Mathew Adkins

SET SIX
Christian Bouchard: Impasto 46
Automacité
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music: Christian Bouchard; commissioned by Codes d’accès, realized at the composer's studio, premiered at Les machines à communiquer electroacoustic music concerts at La Chapelle, Montreal, April 29, 2006

Christian Bouchard: Brazil Wins (from Parcelles 2)
Fractures
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music: Christian Bouchard; commissioned by Réseaux des arts médiatiques; realized at the composer's studio, premiered at the Rien à voir (14) series, Réseaux at Espace GO, Montreal, October 18, 2003

SET SEVEN
Roderik De Man: Wait a Minute
Electrified Music
Electroshock Records/2004

Diego Garro: O Que a menina ouve
Cultures électroniques --
Prix Trivium et Magisterium 2005, IMEB series [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005

Kyle Bruckmann: Orgone Accelerator
On Procedural Grounds
New World Records/2012
oboe, English horn, electronics: Kyle Bruckmann; recorded in Oakland, California, 2011

PAS: Vacation Beat
Flanked by Women and Pumpkins
Alrealon Musique/2012

SINGLE PLAY
Elaine Barkin: Xtet -- Last Dance for Milton
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer music: Elaine Barkin

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