Martian Gardens for 12/28/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 28-29, 2008
extended edition

SET 1
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
Dawn of the Cycads
Cuneiform Records/2008

Bernard Falaise: Clic
Clic
Actuellecd/2008

Little Bang Theory: Tumbleweed
Elimentary
Acdisoxx Recordings2008

Frank Pahl:
a. Creatures, Real and Mythical, Part 1
b. Creatures, Part 2
The Romantic Side of Schizophrenia
FOT Records/1994
featuring the Blue Sun Quintent

SET 2
David Lee Myers & Marco Oppedisano: Throttle Body Lifter
Tesla At Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008

John Oswald: Massive
Plexure
Disk Union/1993

David Shea: Trio for Samplers
Shock Corridor
Disk Union/1992

SELECTIONS FROM: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Concert 2003 first 6 of 60:
1. Douglas Cohen: Welcome 2004
2. Allen Strange: Shadowboxer
3. Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
4. Noah Creshevsky: Try
5. Gene Pritsker: Junk Fragment
6. Daniel Eichenbaum: Car Accident

Coil: Disco Hospital
Love's Secret Domain
Wax Trax!/1991

David Hahn: Don't Fuck Giraffes
David Hahn E.P.
davidhahnonline/2005

SET 3
Ingram Marshall: The Emporer's Birthday
IKON--And Other Early Works
New World Records/2000

Chris Cutler and Thomas DiMuzio: Percolation/Floating Plates
Quake
ReR Megacorp/1999

Thomas DiMuzio: Cold Fusion Off Broadway
Mono-Poly
Asphodel/Gench/2003

SET 4
Henry Brant: Altitude 8750
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2008
The Telluride Glacial Spatial Ensemble, conductor: H. Brant; vocal ensemble conducted by Bruce Neely; text: John Lifton; recorded at Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO, 7/15/90

Lejaren Hiller: Computer Cantata--Strophe V; Epilog to Strophe V
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
soprano: Helen Hamm; Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players,
conductor: Jack McKenzie

SET 5
Sylvia Smith: A Flower (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith

John Cage/Joan La Barbara: A Flower
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; closed piano: William Winant

Sylvia Smith: Forever and Sunsmell (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; Chinese tom-toms: Sylvia Smith; Ayano Kataoka: Chinese cymbal; text: e.e. cummings

John Cage/Joan La Barbara: Forever and Sunsmell
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; percussion: William Winant, suspended cymbal: Scott Evans; text: e.e. cummings

Jacqueline Humbert: Via Dolorita, Street of Sorrows, Street of Sighs (J. La Barbara)
Chanteuse--Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004

SET 6
Michael Hamman: Discourse/current
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records
text, voice: Chris Mann

Larry Polansky: #10--Four Boys Mannin'
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
text, voice: Chris Mann

Pamela Z: Geekspeak
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Alice Shields: Shenandoah
Shenandoah--Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Quatuor Bozzini: Koan for String Quartet
Arbor Vitae (Music of James Tenney)
Actuellecd/2008

SET 7
Philip Glass: Pruit Igoe
Koyaanisqatsi
Island--Antilles/1983
Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Michael Riesman; chorus: Western Wind Ensemble

Kronos Quartet: Arioso [from Quasi una Fantasia] (H.M. Gorecki)
Released/Unreleased 1985-1995
Nonesuch Records/1995

Martin Boykan: Movement IV from String Quartet No. 2
City of Gold
CRI/1999
Pro Arte Quartet

SET 8
James Tenney: Ergodos I
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007

Quatuor Bozzini: Clouds for Iannis Xenakis
Arbor Vitae (Music of James Tenney)
Actuellecd/2008

Iannis Xenakis: Mists
Works for Piano
Mode Records/2006 (orig. 1999)
piano: Aki Takahashi

Matthew Burtner: Mists
Portals of Distortion
Innova Recordings/2002

SET 9
Andrew Imbrie: Dandelion Wine
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
Collage Music Ensemble; conductor: David Hoose

Roger Sessions: Two Tableaux and Malinche's Aria from Montezuma
ibid.
soprano: Susan Narucki; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Fred Sherry; flute:
Tara Helen O'Connor; clarinet: Charles Neidich; percussion: Daniel Druckman,
James Baker; piano: Donald Berman; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky;
arr. Richard Aldag

Jack Beeson: Prescription for Living*
ibid.
soprano: Susan Narucki; baritone: Chris Pedro Trakas; piano: Donald Berman
*from Beeson's opera "Doctor Heidegger's Fountain of Youth," and included in
"An American Academy in Rome Songbook"

SET 10
New Millennium Ensemble: Percussion Duo (C. Wuorinen)
H.C.E. -- Here Comes Everybody
CRI/1998
percussion: John Ferrari; piano: Margaret Kampmeier

Charles Wuorinen: Time's Encomium Part 2 (excerpt)
Time's Encomium--For Synthesized Sound & Processed Synthesized Sound
Nonesuch Records/1969

SINGLE PLAY
Edgard Varese: Ameriques
Xenakis/Varese
Mode Records/1997
Carnegie-Mellon Philharmonic, Conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo
Recorded in Pittsburgh, 4/95

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