WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for December 20, 2009
(extended edition)
SINGLE PLAY
William S. Burroughs: The Junky's Christmas
Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (Burroughs/The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy)
Island Records/1993
voice, text: W.S. Burroughs; music: DHH; Hammond Organ, Synclavier: Pete Scaturro
SET ONE
George Crumb: A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979
a. The Visitation
b. Berceuse for the Infant Jesu
c. The Shepherd's Noël
d. Adoration of the Magi
e. Nativity Dance
f. Canticle of the Holy Night
g. Carol of the Bells
George Crumb Edition 1
Bridge Records/1991
piano: Lambert Orkis; recorded at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, MD, August, 1982
John Cage: Winter Music (for 20 pianos)
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music
Mode Records/2007 (orig. 1986)
The Callithumpian Consort; pianos: Alanna Battat, Johanna Kovitz, Guy Livingston, Mina Yang; director: Stephen Drury
SET TWO
Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
soprano: S. Botti; piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings; recorded 12/04/97, American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC
Diane Thome: Ringing Stillness, Pearl Light
Palaces of Memory -- Electro-Acoustic Music
Centaur Records/1995
piano: D. Thome; recorded at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest, WA
SINGLE PLAY:
Michael Byron: Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl
Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl
Cold Blue Music/2000
CalArts New Century Players; conductor: David Rosenboom; Recorded at Dizzy Gillespie Recording Studio, California Institute of the Arts, 2000
SET THREE
Scott Locke: Celestial Dreamscape (D. Kavasch)
a. Stillness of Moondrift
b. Sparkle of Starlight
Celestial Dreamscape -- A Century of Music for Clarinet
Everglade Records/2008
recorded at Weeks Center, University of Miami
Benjamin Broening: Arioso/Doubles
Third Practice -- Commissions and Premieres #
Centaur Records/2004
Bb clarinet: Arthur Campbell; recorded 11/03/02, Camp Concert Hall, University of Richmond
Daniel Koppelman: Nocturn/Doubles (B. Broening)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
recorded 2/27/08 at Ball State University Center for Music Engineering Technology
SINGLE PLAY
Eric Moe: Strange Exclaiming Music
a. Rhyme Does Not Pay
b. Cut Time
c. The Sorbet of Regret
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos Records/2009
violin: Curtis Macomber; piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded 5/24/05, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Peaceable Kingdom
September Canons
New World Records/2009
members of the Yale Philharmonia with tape accompaniment, conductor: Julian Pellicano; recorded 12/18/08, Sprague Hall, Yale University
SET FOUR
Meredith Monk: Epic I
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
recorded at Schaubuhne am Hallesches Ufer, Berlin, July, 1980
Shelley Hirsch:
a. Electric Menorrah
b. The Jewish People
c. Chant
O Little Town of East New York
Tzadik/1995
voice, text: S. Hirsch; music: S. Hirsch, David Weinstein; recorded at Harmonic Ranch and Harvestworks/Studio PASS, NYC
Larry Polansky and John Bischoff: Cocks Crow, dogs bark, this all men know...
The Time is Now. Words of Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, text: M.S. Carnahan; music: L. Polansky and J. Bischoff; recorded at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 1989; edited at La Trobe University Computer Music Studios, Melbourne, 1996
Thomas Buckner/Tom Hamilton: Segment H
Jump the Circle, Jump the Line
Mutable Music/2001
voice: T. Buckner, electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded live 12/01/00, EMF Engine 27, NYC
Robert Ashley: In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt)
10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces #
Other Minds, Inc./2003 (orig. 1975)
electronics: Paul DeMarinis; voice: R. Ashley; text: John Barton Wolgamot; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1973
Brenda Hutchinson: EEYAH! (excerpt -- nomenclature to ending)
The Aerial no. 4 #
Nonsequitur/1989
voice, text, drum, bell: B. Hutchinson
SET FIVE
Hans Fjellestad: Free Throw Prophet
Red Sauce Baby
Accretions/2000
woodwinds: Jason Robinson, Ellen Weller; church organ: H. Fjellestad; percussion: Marcos Fernandes, Kristen Cheadle; bagpipes ("Scotland the Brave," 1844): "The Wizard";basketball game recorded at the Zion Building, San Diego, 1999
Charles Amirkhanian:
a. Gold and Spirit
b. Walking Tune [A Room Music for Percy Grainger] (excerpt)
Walking Tune
Starkland/1998
(a.) sounds, electronics, chants, voices: C. Amirkhaninan, written for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics; (b.) violin, voice: Elizabeth Baker; Synclavier: Henry Kaiser; recorded at 1750 Arch Studios, Berkeley
SET SIX
Joane Hétu: Joyeux Temps (1-4)
Nouvelle Le Musique D'Hiver
Actuellecd/2007
Ensemble SuperMusique, narrator: Gilles Derome; recorded March, 2003, at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Ensemble SuperMusique: 8 Moments Brefs
Y'a du bruit dans ma cabane
Actuellecd/2008
recorded live in Montreal, 10/09/07
SET SEVEN
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
realized in 1998 at Norwegian Network for Technology, Acoustics, and Music (NoTAM), University of Oslo
Natasha Barrett: Microclimate III -- Glacial Loop
MusicWorks 99 CD compendium
MusicWorks magazine/2007
recorded in western Norway, 2007
SET EIGHT
Artemiy Artemiev: Waiting for the Winter
Cold
Electroshock Records/1995
electronics: A. Artemiev, recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, December, 1994
Richard Pinhas: Wintermusic (excerpt)
Iceland
Cuneiform Records/1992
recorded live at Heldon Stduios, Paris,1983
SET NINE
Forrest Fang: Ebb in Winter
Phantoms
Projekt Records/2009
electronics, instruments: F. Fang; recorded at the Hangar, Berkeley
Robert Scott Thompson: Stellar
Improbable Pianos
Aucourant Records/2007
pianos, electronics: RST, recorded in the Digital Domain, La Jolla, UCSD, 1988
SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon
Still Lives
Lovely Music, Ltd./2001
koto: Ryuko Mizutani; pure wave oscillator: A. Lucier; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn
--fin--
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Martian Gardens for 12/13/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for December 13, 2009
SET ONE
Meredith Monk:
a. Greensleeves (trad.)
b. Nota
c. Duet for Voice and Echoplex
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, guitar: M. Monk; Echoplex delay system: Daniel Zellman;
recorded at Meriden, CT, 1966 (a), New York City, 1977 (b), Expo-67, Montreal, 1967 (c)
Anthony De Mare:
a. Paris (M. Monk)
b. Memory Song (M. Monk)
Pianos and Voices (Music of Meredith Monk and John Cage)
Koch Classics/1992
recorded March, 1991, at Master Sounds Astoria, New York
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano & Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
Arditti String Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY, Purchase, December, 1998.
In celebration of Elliot Carter's 101st birthday, 12/11/09
SET TWO
Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars:
Another Glass of Wine to Give Succor to My Ailing Existence (trad./arr. F. London)
Carnival Conspiracy -- In the Marketplace All is Subterfuge
Piranha Musik/2005
featuring Curtis Hasselbring, trombone
The Legendary Pink Dots:
a. The Peculiar Fun Fair
b. The Gallery
Any Day Now
Play It Again Sam/1988
Recorded at Rain Farm, Klaverland, Netherlands, July, 1987
Frank London: Emma Goldman's Wedding
The Shvitz Soundtrack
Knitting Factory Records/1993
trumpet, voice, keyboard: F. London; drums: David Licht; bass: Sebastian Steinberg; violin: Alicia Svigals; vocals, accordion, keyboard: Lorin Sklamberg; guitar: Elliott Sharp; guitar: Marc Ribot; guitar: Robert Musso; trombone: Jim Leff; clarinet, tenor saxophone: Greg Wall; clarinet, alto saxophone: Matt Darriau, alto sax: Christopher Cauley; recorded by Bob Musso at Loho Studios, Face Studios, Knitting Factory, NYC.
Greg Wall's Later Prophets: Sheer Merooba (The Four Fold Song)
Ha'Orot
Tzadik/2009
saxophones, clarinet, shofar, moseno: Rabbi Greg Wall; piano: Shai Bachar; bass: Dave Richards; drums: Aaron Alexander; text: G. Wall; reader: Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein; recorded February, 2002, Bennett Studios, Englewood, NJ
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Quick, A Word of Truth!
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004
text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
SET THREE
Bob Gluck: Shofaralong
Electric Songs
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
live shofar, electronics: Gluck
Roger Kleier: Hyperplane
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Master Element Studios, NYC
Arie Shapira: Bass 2000
Electronics Plus
Arie Shapira/2000
double-bass: Yair Loewinson
SET FOUR
Jin Hi Kim: Eternal Way
Komungo 'Round the World
Seoul Records, Inc./1994
digeridoo: Adam Plack; komungo: JH Kim; recorded in NYC and Tokyo
Miao Xiaoyun: Yingzhou Ancient Tunes (trad.)
The Art of the Chinese Lutes
ARC Music/1998
pipa: M. Xiaoyun; recorded February, 1997, ARC Music Studios, Sussex, UK
Mara Helmuth: Mountain Wind
Mara Helmuth--Sound Collaborations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36,
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Centaur Records/2007
pipa: Ming Ke; flute: I-Yin Tu; alto flute: Carlos Velez; bassoon: James Massol; violin: Timothy O'Neil; cello: Kaylie Duncan; computer: M. Helmuth; recorded at College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Stephen Montague: TiGiDA PiPa
Sonic Circuits VI #
Innova Recordings/1998
voices, woodblocks, claves: Songcircle, conductor: Gregory Rose; processing: S. Montague
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: 24 Seconds on Death
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004
text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
SET FIVE
Lawrence Moss: Korea (Live)
Unseen Leaves
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
clarinet: Esther Lamneck, NYU New Music Ensemble; recorded May, 2000, NYU Loewe Theater; Kurzweil sampler: L. Moss
Esther Lamneck: Lifelines (L. Moss)
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2007
clarinet: E. Lamneck
SET SIX
George Crumb:
a. Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory* (J. W. Howe)
b. Lonesome Road (N. Shilkret/G. Austin)
The Winds of Destiny -- American Songbook IV
The Complete Crumb Edition Volume 13
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman;recorded, November, 2005, at Swarthmore College.
*aka "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862)
"The Winds of Destiny," 2010 Grammy nominated for best Classical Contemporary Composition category.
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 2
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Steven Sehman; recorded in Studio 508, UMBC, May 2008
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Pleiades -- Melanges (excerpt)
b. Psappha (excerpt)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
red fish blue fish (a); Steven Schick (b); recorded at Warren Studios, UCSD
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for December 13, 2009
SET ONE
Meredith Monk:
a. Greensleeves (trad.)
b. Nota
c. Duet for Voice and Echoplex
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, guitar: M. Monk; Echoplex delay system: Daniel Zellman;
recorded at Meriden, CT, 1966 (a), New York City, 1977 (b), Expo-67, Montreal, 1967 (c)
Anthony De Mare:
a. Paris (M. Monk)
b. Memory Song (M. Monk)
Pianos and Voices (Music of Meredith Monk and John Cage)
Koch Classics/1992
recorded March, 1991, at Master Sounds Astoria, New York
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano & Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
Arditti String Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY, Purchase, December, 1998.
In celebration of Elliot Carter's 101st birthday, 12/11/09
SET TWO
Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars:
Another Glass of Wine to Give Succor to My Ailing Existence (trad./arr. F. London)
Carnival Conspiracy -- In the Marketplace All is Subterfuge
Piranha Musik/2005
featuring Curtis Hasselbring, trombone
The Legendary Pink Dots:
a. The Peculiar Fun Fair
b. The Gallery
Any Day Now
Play It Again Sam/1988
Recorded at Rain Farm, Klaverland, Netherlands, July, 1987
Frank London: Emma Goldman's Wedding
The Shvitz Soundtrack
Knitting Factory Records/1993
trumpet, voice, keyboard: F. London; drums: David Licht; bass: Sebastian Steinberg; violin: Alicia Svigals; vocals, accordion, keyboard: Lorin Sklamberg; guitar: Elliott Sharp; guitar: Marc Ribot; guitar: Robert Musso; trombone: Jim Leff; clarinet, tenor saxophone: Greg Wall; clarinet, alto saxophone: Matt Darriau, alto sax: Christopher Cauley; recorded by Bob Musso at Loho Studios, Face Studios, Knitting Factory, NYC.
Greg Wall's Later Prophets: Sheer Merooba (The Four Fold Song)
Ha'Orot
Tzadik/2009
saxophones, clarinet, shofar, moseno: Rabbi Greg Wall; piano: Shai Bachar; bass: Dave Richards; drums: Aaron Alexander; text: G. Wall; reader: Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein; recorded February, 2002, Bennett Studios, Englewood, NJ
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Quick, A Word of Truth!
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004
text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
SET THREE
Bob Gluck: Shofaralong
Electric Songs
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
live shofar, electronics: Gluck
Roger Kleier: Hyperplane
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Master Element Studios, NYC
Arie Shapira: Bass 2000
Electronics Plus
Arie Shapira/2000
double-bass: Yair Loewinson
SET FOUR
Jin Hi Kim: Eternal Way
Komungo 'Round the World
Seoul Records, Inc./1994
digeridoo: Adam Plack; komungo: JH Kim; recorded in NYC and Tokyo
Miao Xiaoyun: Yingzhou Ancient Tunes (trad.)
The Art of the Chinese Lutes
ARC Music/1998
pipa: M. Xiaoyun; recorded February, 1997, ARC Music Studios, Sussex, UK
Mara Helmuth: Mountain Wind
Mara Helmuth--Sound Collaborations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36,
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Centaur Records/2007
pipa: Ming Ke; flute: I-Yin Tu; alto flute: Carlos Velez; bassoon: James Massol; violin: Timothy O'Neil; cello: Kaylie Duncan; computer: M. Helmuth; recorded at College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Stephen Montague: TiGiDA PiPa
Sonic Circuits VI #
Innova Recordings/1998
voices, woodblocks, claves: Songcircle, conductor: Gregory Rose; processing: S. Montague
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: 24 Seconds on Death
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004
text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
SET FIVE
Lawrence Moss: Korea (Live)
Unseen Leaves
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
clarinet: Esther Lamneck, NYU New Music Ensemble; recorded May, 2000, NYU Loewe Theater; Kurzweil sampler: L. Moss
Esther Lamneck: Lifelines (L. Moss)
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2007
clarinet: E. Lamneck
SET SIX
George Crumb:
a. Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory* (J. W. Howe)
b. Lonesome Road (N. Shilkret/G. Austin)
The Winds of Destiny -- American Songbook IV
The Complete Crumb Edition Volume 13
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman;recorded, November, 2005, at Swarthmore College.
*aka "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862)
"The Winds of Destiny," 2010 Grammy nominated for best Classical Contemporary Composition category.
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 2
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Steven Sehman; recorded in Studio 508, UMBC, May 2008
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Pleiades -- Melanges (excerpt)
b. Psappha (excerpt)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
red fish blue fish (a); Steven Schick (b); recorded at Warren Studios, UCSD
--fin--
Sunday, December 6, 2009
A taste of Amecher and Lockwood
I was sad to hear earlier this fall from a mutual friend that the installation artist and composer Maryanne Amacher had died on October 22 at her Kingston, NY, home at the age of 70. I rarely broadcast Amacher's work on MG because the installation nature of most of her work requires the experience of being there and thus is not conducive to radio play. Ms. Amacher was a great artist who never got as much recognition as she deserved.
On the December 6 edition of Martian Gardens, I included a long selection of Annea Lockwood's masterpiece "A Soundmap of the Danube." My selection was recorded in the Croatian region. Here is a short dance to more music from "A Sound Map of the Danube" performed by dancer and choreographer Paloma McGregor as part of the "60 x 60 Dance at Galapagos" series presented by last September 6 at Galapagos art space at D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn by "60 x 60" director Robert Voisey:
On the December 6 edition of Martian Gardens, I included a long selection of Annea Lockwood's masterpiece "A Soundmap of the Danube." My selection was recorded in the Croatian region. Here is a short dance to more music from "A Sound Map of the Danube" performed by dancer and choreographer Paloma McGregor as part of the "60 x 60 Dance at Galapagos" series presented by last September 6 at Galapagos art space at D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn by "60 x 60" director Robert Voisey:
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Martian Gardens for 12/06/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for December 6, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Flora
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
voice samples: Karol Bennett; tape: T. Machover; recorded July, 1989, at MIT Media Laboratory; Synclavier programming: Joseph Chung
SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: The Fragility Cycles ("Gambuh")
September Canons
New World Records/2009
gambuh (Balinese flute), Serge synthesizer, live processing: I. Marshall; recorded 1980, Swedish Radio, Stockholm
Maryanne Amacher: PLAYTHING Sound Character
A Storm of Drones #
Asphodel/1996
composed at the Banff Centre, 1992, Alberta; remastered by M. Amacher at The Compound, San Francisco, 1996; In memoriam Maryanne Amacher February 25, 1938 -- October 22, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
David Monacchi: Stati d' Acqua
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
sound sources: course of the Tiber River from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea; sound scan of a human fetus
SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Batina to Vukovar
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
recorded September 23-26, 2003, sounds include the Danube underwater at Batina, Croatia; herons at Skadarsko Lake, Kopački Rit Nature Park, Croatia, and the voice of fisherman Janos Horvat, Kopačevo, Kopački rit, Croatia.
SET TWO
Christopher DeLaurenti: After Beethoven
Favorite Intermissions
GD Stereo/2009
Yves Daoust: Ouverture
Bruits
empreintes DIGITales/2002
Recorded voices: Philippe Lavalette (as Philippe Aubert de Gaspé), Simon Finn (as Lord Durham), Pierre Mollett (as Monsignor Plessis), Louis Verdy (as Robert Nelson, Assembly of Lower Canada, Montreal), Interviewer: Catherine Perrin; recorded 1989 at Yves Daoust's studio; subject: historical Canadian independence movements
SET THREE
Miguel Chuaqui: La Persistencia de la Memoria (The Persistence of Memory)
Memoria -- Chamber and electroacoustic works
Centaur Records/2009
Disklavier: Heather Connor; recorded at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall, Salt Lake City, 10/05/08
Mara Helmuth: The Edge of Noise
Mara Helmuth--Sound Collaborations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36,
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Centaur Records/2007
NeXT Ens (Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music), computer: M. Helmuth
SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Tete et queue du dragon (1960)
a. Part 1
b. Part 2
Tautology and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Realized by the Groupe de recherches musicales du Service de la Recherche de la Radiodiffusion-Télévision française, directed by Pierre Schaeffer; Produced by Pierre Henry.
Luc Ferrari: Chanson 5 -- Chantons dans les silence
Chansons pour le Corps
Mode Records/1999
voice: Elise Caron; clarinets: Carol Mundinger, Sylvan Frydman; percussion: Christine Lagniel; piano: Michel Maurer; synthesizer: Michel Musseau, recorded in concert at GRM, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France Paris, 3/18/95
SET FIVE
David Lang: Street
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2002
Orekest de Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jatinen; recorded at MCO Studios, Hilversum, The Netherlands, April, 2009
David Lang: Sweet Air
Child
Cantaloupe Music/2003
Sentieri Selvaggi; conductor: Carlo Boccadoro; recorded at SMC Studios, Ivreea, Italy, December 2002
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for December 6, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Flora
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
voice samples: Karol Bennett; tape: T. Machover; recorded July, 1989, at MIT Media Laboratory; Synclavier programming: Joseph Chung
SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: The Fragility Cycles ("Gambuh")
September Canons
New World Records/2009
gambuh (Balinese flute), Serge synthesizer, live processing: I. Marshall; recorded 1980, Swedish Radio, Stockholm
Maryanne Amacher: PLAYTHING Sound Character
A Storm of Drones #
Asphodel/1996
composed at the Banff Centre, 1992, Alberta; remastered by M. Amacher at The Compound, San Francisco, 1996; In memoriam Maryanne Amacher February 25, 1938 -- October 22, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
David Monacchi: Stati d' Acqua
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
sound sources: course of the Tiber River from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea; sound scan of a human fetus
SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Batina to Vukovar
A Sound Map of the Danube
recorded September 23-26, 2003, sounds include the Danube underwater at Batina, Croatia; herons at Skadarsko Lake, Kopački Rit Nature Park, Croatia, and the voice of fisherman Janos Horvat, Kopačevo, Kopački rit, Croatia.
SET TWO
Christopher DeLaurenti: After Beethoven
Favorite Intermissions
GD Stereo/2009
Yves Daoust: Ouverture
Bruits
empreintes DIGITales/2002
Recorded voices: Philippe Lavalette (as Philippe Aubert de Gaspé), Simon Finn (as Lord Durham), Pierre Mollett (as Monsignor Plessis), Louis Verdy (as Robert Nelson, Assembly of Lower Canada, Montreal), Interviewer: Catherine Perrin; recorded 1989 at Yves Daoust's studio; subject: historical Canadian independence movements
SET THREE
Miguel Chuaqui: La Persistencia de la Memoria (The Persistence of Memory)
Memoria -- Chamber and electroacoustic works
Centaur Records/2009
Disklavier: Heather Connor; recorded at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall, Salt Lake City, 10/05/08
Mara Helmuth: The Edge of Noise
Mara Helmuth--Sound Collaborations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36,
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Centaur Records/2007
NeXT Ens (Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music), computer: M. Helmuth
SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Tete et queue du dragon (1960)
a. Part 1
b. Part 2
Tautology and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Realized by the Groupe de recherches musicales du Service de la Recherche de la Radiodiffusion-Télévision française, directed by Pierre Schaeffer; Produced by Pierre Henry.
Luc Ferrari: Chanson 5 -- Chantons dans les silence
Chansons pour le Corps
Mode Records/1999
voice: Elise Caron; clarinets: Carol Mundinger, Sylvan Frydman; percussion: Christine Lagniel; piano: Michel Maurer; synthesizer: Michel Musseau, recorded in concert at GRM, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France Paris, 3/18/95
SET FIVE
David Lang: Street
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2002
Orekest de Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jatinen; recorded at MCO Studios, Hilversum, The Netherlands, April, 2009
David Lang: Sweet Air
Child
Cantaloupe Music/2003
Sentieri Selvaggi; conductor: Carlo Boccadoro; recorded at SMC Studios, Ivreea, Italy, December 2002
--fin--
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Martian Gardens for 11/29/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 29, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Christian Wolff: Beginning
Long Piano
New World Records/2009
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded October, 2007, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
SET ONE
Eric Moe: I Have Only One Itching Desire
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble; recorded 3/23/06 at Legacy Hall, Columbus State University, Georgia
John Luther Adams: Velocities Crossing in Phase-Space
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded November, 1998, at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati
SET TWO
Katherine Kemler: Techno Yaman (R. Dick)
Lipstick
Centaur Records/2008
flute, drum machine/electronics: K. Kemler; recorded June, 2007, LSU Recital Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Elizabeth McNutt: The Blistering Price of Power (E. Lyon)
Pipe Wrench
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: E. McNutt; drum machine tape: Eric Lyon; recorded at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
SET THREE
Larry Nelson: Music for Flute and Electronic Sounds
The Starry Messenger
Albany Records/2005
flute: Christina Jennings; electronics: L. Nelson; recorded 9/18/04 at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore
Arthur Kreiger: Close Encounters
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
flute: Jayn Rosenfeld; electronics: A. Kreiger; recorded October, 2001, Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, SUNY, Purchase
SET FOUR
Cornelius Cardew: There is Only One Lie, There is Only One Truth
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
P.C.A. Singers and English Chamber Choir, conductor: Guy Protheroe; performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the Cornelius Cardew Memorial Concert, 5/16/82.
Joseph Waters: The Populist Manifesto
Joseph Waters
North Pacific Music/2000
soprano: Brenda Baker; accordion: Gernot Blume; saxophone: Tom Bergeron;cello: John Hubbard; percussion: Julie Spencer; text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
SET FIVE
James Paul Sain: Tag till...
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Paul Koonce: Hothouse
Walkabout and Back--Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2000
SET SIX
Dean Rosenthal: Antinomy
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
sampled voice/music: Henry Cowell
Henry Cowell: The Banshee
Piano Music
Smithsonian Folkways
spoken introduction, piano: H. Cowell, recorded 1963
Jeff Feddersen: This Time I Want Them All
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Sonic Circuits XI
Innova Recordings/2006
sampled voice: Henry Cowell; sound source: H. Cowell, "The Banshee"
Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records/2001
readers: Susan McCully, Phil Maki; text: Gertrude Stein, "The Making of Americans"; recorded 2000, W.I.N.C. Studio, West Newton, Mass.
John Cage: Voiceless Essay (excerpt)
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
text sources: Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," published 1849
John Cage: The best government is no government at all
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage
SINGLE PLAY
Andrew Byrne: Tracks
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded October, 2006, Patrych Studios, Bronx, NY
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 29, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Christian Wolff: Beginning
Long Piano
New World Records/2009
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded October, 2007, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
SET ONE
Eric Moe: I Have Only One Itching Desire
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble; recorded 3/23/06 at Legacy Hall, Columbus State University, Georgia
John Luther Adams: Velocities Crossing in Phase-Space
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded November, 1998, at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati
SET TWO
Katherine Kemler: Techno Yaman (R. Dick)
Lipstick
Centaur Records/2008
flute, drum machine/electronics: K. Kemler; recorded June, 2007, LSU Recital Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Elizabeth McNutt: The Blistering Price of Power (E. Lyon)
Pipe Wrench
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: E. McNutt; drum machine tape: Eric Lyon; recorded at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
SET THREE
Larry Nelson: Music for Flute and Electronic Sounds
The Starry Messenger
Albany Records/2005
flute: Christina Jennings; electronics: L. Nelson; recorded 9/18/04 at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore
Arthur Kreiger: Close Encounters
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
flute: Jayn Rosenfeld; electronics: A. Kreiger; recorded October, 2001, Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, SUNY, Purchase
SET FOUR
Cornelius Cardew: There is Only One Lie, There is Only One Truth
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
P.C.A. Singers and English Chamber Choir, conductor: Guy Protheroe; performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the Cornelius Cardew Memorial Concert, 5/16/82.
Joseph Waters: The Populist Manifesto
Joseph Waters
North Pacific Music/2000
soprano: Brenda Baker; accordion: Gernot Blume; saxophone: Tom Bergeron;cello: John Hubbard; percussion: Julie Spencer; text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
SET FIVE
James Paul Sain: Tag till...
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Paul Koonce: Hothouse
Walkabout and Back--Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2000
SET SIX
Dean Rosenthal: Antinomy
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
sampled voice/music: Henry Cowell
Henry Cowell: The Banshee
Piano Music
Smithsonian Folkways
spoken introduction, piano: H. Cowell, recorded 1963
Jeff Feddersen: This Time I Want Them All
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Sonic Circuits XI
Innova Recordings/2006
sampled voice: Henry Cowell; sound source: H. Cowell, "The Banshee"
Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records/2001
readers: Susan McCully, Phil Maki; text: Gertrude Stein, "The Making of Americans"; recorded 2000, W.I.N.C. Studio, West Newton, Mass.
John Cage: Voiceless Essay (excerpt)
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
text sources: Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," published 1849
John Cage: The best government is no government at all
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage
SINGLE PLAY
Andrew Byrne: Tracks
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded October, 2006, Patrych Studios, Bronx, NY
--fin--
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Martian Gardens for 11/22/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 22, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: In C (excerpt)
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands
SET ONE
Heather O'Donnell: The Celestial Potato Fields (In Memoriam Charles Ives) (S. Corbett)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, January, 2008
George Crumb: Gamma Draconis (Celestial Mechanics III*)
The Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
first piano: Haewon Song; second piano: Robert Shannon; recorded at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, June, 2001
SET TWO
Tim Brady: Traces (Hommage a Charlie Christian)
My 20th Century
Actuellecd/2009
Bradyworks and Quatuor Mollinari; recorded at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, May, 2008
Martin Bresnick: Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon
My Twentieth Century
New World Records/2005
Povera Players; recorded live at Izumi Hall, Osaka, 9/24/03
SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
Sound Collaborations
Centaur Records/2007
Maine loons recorded by William Barklow, included on his CD "Voices of the Loon" on
Swallowtail Records
Mara Helmuth/Allen Otte: Loonspace
Implements of Actuation
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
percussion: A. Otte; recordings of Maine loons, ibid.
SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Etudes -- aux accidents (1958)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Iannis Xenakis: Concrete PH (1958)
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
Sawako Kato: Crab
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2001
Erik Santos: Himotku Niwa (Garden of Turning Pages)
KUU -- Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007
Noah Creshevsky: Breathless (opening)
Hyperrealism in Music 1992-2005
Noah Creshevsky/CD-R compiled 2005
SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Psalmus XXIII
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik/2007
vocal samples: Beth Griffith; baritone: Zach Kurth-Nelson
Timeless Pulse: Light**
Quintet
Mutable Music/2007
baritone: Thomas Buckner; percussion: George Marsh; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; live electronics: David Wessel; percussion: Jennifer Wilsey
Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: William Smith; psaltery, organ, electronic processor: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard University electronic music studio, fall, 1981
Raul LaFuret Pereyra: Song for Cave
Anillo en Abril
Goethe Institute of Cordoba/2003
Luiz Eduardo Casteloes: Mobile das letras
Musica Eletroacustica Brasileira, Vol. III #
Electroacoustic Music Society of Brazil/2004
contrabass: Andre Satos; electric guitar: Gabriel Santiago; percussion: Rodrigo Foti
SET SIX
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII #
Nuema Records/2006
Åke Parmerud: Renaissance
Jeu D'Ombres
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
John Cage: Quick, a Word of Truth!
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage
SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Koppelman: Unnatural Selection (C. Dobrian)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
*from George Crumb's Makrokosmos book Four
**Unsure of title as the CD times and titles are out of sync.
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 22, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: In C (excerpt)
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands
SET ONE
Heather O'Donnell: The Celestial Potato Fields (In Memoriam Charles Ives) (S. Corbett)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, January, 2008
George Crumb: Gamma Draconis (Celestial Mechanics III*)
The Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
first piano: Haewon Song; second piano: Robert Shannon; recorded at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, June, 2001
SET TWO
Tim Brady: Traces (Hommage a Charlie Christian)
My 20th Century
Actuellecd/2009
Bradyworks and Quatuor Mollinari; recorded at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, May, 2008
Martin Bresnick: Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon
My Twentieth Century
New World Records/2005
Povera Players; recorded live at Izumi Hall, Osaka, 9/24/03
SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
Sound Collaborations
Centaur Records/2007
Maine loons recorded by William Barklow, included on his CD "Voices of the Loon" on
Swallowtail Records
Mara Helmuth/Allen Otte: Loonspace
Implements of Actuation
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
percussion: A. Otte; recordings of Maine loons, ibid.
SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Etudes -- aux accidents (1958)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Iannis Xenakis: Concrete PH (1958)
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
Sawako Kato: Crab
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2001
Erik Santos: Himotku Niwa (Garden of Turning Pages)
KUU -- Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007
Noah Creshevsky: Breathless (opening)
Hyperrealism in Music 1992-2005
Noah Creshevsky/CD-R compiled 2005
SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Psalmus XXIII
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik/2007
vocal samples: Beth Griffith; baritone: Zach Kurth-Nelson
Timeless Pulse: Light**
Quintet
Mutable Music/2007
baritone: Thomas Buckner; percussion: George Marsh; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; live electronics: David Wessel; percussion: Jennifer Wilsey
Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: William Smith; psaltery, organ, electronic processor: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard University electronic music studio, fall, 1981
Raul LaFuret Pereyra: Song for Cave
Anillo en Abril
Goethe Institute of Cordoba/2003
Luiz Eduardo Casteloes: Mobile das letras
Musica Eletroacustica Brasileira, Vol. III #
Electroacoustic Music Society of Brazil/2004
contrabass: Andre Satos; electric guitar: Gabriel Santiago; percussion: Rodrigo Foti
SET SIX
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII #
Nuema Records/2006
Åke Parmerud: Renaissance
Jeu D'Ombres
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
John Cage: Quick, a Word of Truth!
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage
SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Koppelman: Unnatural Selection (C. Dobrian)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
*from George Crumb's Makrokosmos book Four
**Unsure of title as the CD times and titles are out of sync.
--fin--
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Martian Gardens for 11/15/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 15, 2009
SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Long Piano #63
Long Piano (Peace March 11)
New World Records/2009
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded October, 2007, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Christian Wolff: Pebbles (excerpt)
Complete Music for Violin & Piano
Mode Records/2003
violin: Marc Sabat; piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded 8/10/00 at Glenn Gould Studios, Toronto
SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 7 (New England Night Weave)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Jude Trexler; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC, October, 2008
Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; voice: Sylvia Smith
SET THREE
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Motion
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; arr. Anthony Fiumara; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands.
Matteo Sommacal: Counter Rotating in Vacuum
Minimamachta
Centaur Records/2009
Piccola Accademia degli Specchi; director: Giovanni Rosati; recorded summer, 2004, at Urban Recording Studio, CaswaDelleaMusica, Trieste, Italy
Miguel Del Aguila: from Clocks
a. Midnight Strikes
b. The Old Clock's Story
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio; recorded summer, 2008, First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas
Miguel Del Aguila: Cantando, semplice (from Pacific Serenade)
eXchange--Latin America #
CRI/2000
Pacific Serenade Ensemble; recorded live at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, 3/15/99
SET FOUR
Heather O'Donnell: The Missing Nail at the River (W. Zimmermann)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, April, 2007
Walter Zimmermann: Ursache und Vorwitz (Cause and Pertness)
Schatten der Ideen (Shadow of Ideas)
Mode Records/2003
Ensemble Recherche (with tape), recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, May, 1998
SINGLE PLAY
David Felder: November Sky*
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute: Rachel Rudich; computer sounds realized at SUNY, Buffalo, at the Banff Centre, Alberta; recorded at UC, San Diego
SINGLE PLAY
Eric Moe: Dead Elf Tugboat*
Kicking and Screaming
Albany Records/2003
flute: Rachel Rudich; keyboard sampler: E. Moe; recorded 11/09/98, American Academy of Arts and Letters
SET FIVE
Joan La Barbara:
a. Cathing (excerpt, first 68 seconds)
b. Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation (brief excerpt)
c. Autumn Signal (entire)
d. Hear What I Feel (brief except)
Voice Is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
a. voice: Cathy Berberian from radio interview, 6/19/77; b. voice: J. La Barbara; c. voice, Buchla synthesizer: JLB; text: JLB, inspired by Emmett Williams, "Sweethearts"; premiered 10/22/78, Metamusik Festival, Berlin; d. voice: JLB
Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 #
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
voice: G.L. Nelson; text: Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky"
SET SIX
Paul De Marinis: The Lecture of Comrade Stalin*
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music,
Leonardo Music Journal, CD Series Volume 8 #
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
voice, text: General Secretary Josef Stalin; musique concrete: P. De Marinis
Marcelo Radulovich: The Evil Ones
The Evil Ones
Marcelo Radulovich/2005
voice, text: President George W. Bush; musique concrete: M. Radulovich
A link regarding a special benefit for Mode Records at Abron's Art Center, 466 Grand Street, NYC, next Saturday, November 21st, featuring music by John Cage, John Zorn, and Philip Glass.
*Dr. Moe's "Dead Elf Tugboat" and Dr. Felder's "November Sky" got orphaned from their original sets. I had prepared for five hours rather than the normal three as I was slated to cover "A Thousand Plateaus," but since Mr. Berry returned from Maryland early on Sunday afternoon, he decided he'd like to do his program just the same. Oh well. I had a fantastic five hours lined up. I will broadcast most of what I cut from the original 11/15/09 program on the 11/22/09 program. I will post that playlist in a few days. I kept Moe's and Felder's works on this program because they both feature flutist Rachel Rudich, and I want to make sure I get "November Sky" programmed during November. I have two more programs in November, but I just arbitrarily prefer the middle of the month rather than late in the month. Anyway...
**full title: The Lecture of Comrade Stalin at the Extraordinary 8th Plenary Congress about the Draft Concept of the Constitution of the Soviet Union on November 25, 1936
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 15, 2009
SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Long Piano #63
Long Piano (Peace March 11)
New World Records/2009
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded October, 2007, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Christian Wolff: Pebbles (excerpt)
Complete Music for Violin & Piano
Mode Records/2003
violin: Marc Sabat; piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded 8/10/00 at Glenn Gould Studios, Toronto
SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 7 (New England Night Weave)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Jude Trexler; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC, October, 2008
Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; voice: Sylvia Smith
SET THREE
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Motion
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; arr. Anthony Fiumara; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands.
Matteo Sommacal: Counter Rotating in Vacuum
Minimamachta
Centaur Records/2009
Piccola Accademia degli Specchi; director: Giovanni Rosati; recorded summer, 2004, at Urban Recording Studio, CaswaDelleaMusica, Trieste, Italy
Miguel Del Aguila: from Clocks
a. Midnight Strikes
b. The Old Clock's Story
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio; recorded summer, 2008, First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas
Miguel Del Aguila: Cantando, semplice (from Pacific Serenade)
eXchange--Latin America #
CRI/2000
Pacific Serenade Ensemble; recorded live at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, 3/15/99
SET FOUR
Heather O'Donnell: The Missing Nail at the River (W. Zimmermann)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, April, 2007
Walter Zimmermann: Ursache und Vorwitz (Cause and Pertness)
Schatten der Ideen (Shadow of Ideas)
Mode Records/2003
Ensemble Recherche (with tape), recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, May, 1998
SINGLE PLAY
David Felder: November Sky*
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute: Rachel Rudich; computer sounds realized at SUNY, Buffalo, at the Banff Centre, Alberta; recorded at UC, San Diego
SINGLE PLAY
Eric Moe: Dead Elf Tugboat*
Kicking and Screaming
Albany Records/2003
flute: Rachel Rudich; keyboard sampler: E. Moe; recorded 11/09/98, American Academy of Arts and Letters
SET FIVE
Joan La Barbara:
a. Cathing (excerpt, first 68 seconds)
b. Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation (brief excerpt)
c. Autumn Signal (entire)
d. Hear What I Feel (brief except)
Voice Is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
a. voice: Cathy Berberian from radio interview, 6/19/77; b. voice: J. La Barbara; c. voice, Buchla synthesizer: JLB; text: JLB, inspired by Emmett Williams, "Sweethearts"; premiered 10/22/78, Metamusik Festival, Berlin; d. voice: JLB
Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 #
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
voice: G.L. Nelson; text: Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky"
SET SIX
Paul De Marinis: The Lecture of Comrade Stalin*
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music,
Leonardo Music Journal, CD Series Volume 8 #
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
voice, text: General Secretary Josef Stalin; musique concrete: P. De Marinis
Marcelo Radulovich: The Evil Ones
The Evil Ones
Marcelo Radulovich/2005
voice, text: President George W. Bush; musique concrete: M. Radulovich
A link regarding a special benefit for Mode Records at Abron's Art Center, 466 Grand Street, NYC, next Saturday, November 21st, featuring music by John Cage, John Zorn, and Philip Glass.
*Dr. Moe's "Dead Elf Tugboat" and Dr. Felder's "November Sky" got orphaned from their original sets. I had prepared for five hours rather than the normal three as I was slated to cover "A Thousand Plateaus," but since Mr. Berry returned from Maryland early on Sunday afternoon, he decided he'd like to do his program just the same. Oh well. I had a fantastic five hours lined up. I will broadcast most of what I cut from the original 11/15/09 program on the 11/22/09 program. I will post that playlist in a few days. I kept Moe's and Felder's works on this program because they both feature flutist Rachel Rudich, and I want to make sure I get "November Sky" programmed during November. I have two more programs in November, but I just arbitrarily prefer the middle of the month rather than late in the month. Anyway...
**full title: The Lecture of Comrade Stalin at the Extraordinary 8th Plenary Congress about the Draft Concept of the Constitution of the Soviet Union on November 25, 1936
--fin--
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Martian Gardens for 11/08/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 8, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Heather O'Donnell: Study No. 21: Some Southpaw Pitching! (C. Ives)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, April, 2007
SINGLE PLAY
Steve Reich: City Life
a. Check it out
b. Pile driver/alarms
c. It's been a honeymoon...can't take no mo'
d. Heartbeats/boats and buoys
e. Heavy smoke
The Minimalists #
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding; conductor: Jessi Jaatinen; arrangements, sampler: Anthony Fiumara; piano: Sepp Grotenhuis; clarinets: Fie Schouten, Dominique Zwartele; recorded April 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands.
SET ONE
Jonty Harrison: Free Fall (from ReCycle)
Environs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
Massimo Carlentini: Recycling recycled
Electroacoustic Music From Sicily #
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: Alessandra Marino
SET TWO
Francesco Galante: El Mio Paese e la Notte
Electroacoustic Music Volume VI #
Electroshock Records/1999
Adolfo Nuñez: The Nightingales Sing
Electroacoustic Music of Adolfo Nuñez
CD-R/2004 (compiled)
voice: Patrician Mikishka; text: Elizabeth Parsons
SET THREE
David Monacchi: Nightingale
ECO-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation--Earth Ear/2003
flute; environmental sounds: D. Monacchi; nightingales and incidental sounds recorded in the Marche region of Italy.
Pink Floyd: Cirrus Minor*
Soundtrack from the film More
EMI/1969
Farfisa and Hammond organs, Binson Echoric platter echo: Richard Wright; acoustic guitar: David Gilmour; composition, vocals, lyrics: Roger Waters; other sound effects include samples from a field recording of bird songs entitled "Dawn Chorus," and a field recording of a nightingale, both issued by HMV in 1961 (according to Wikipedia, veracity uncertain).
Chris Watson: Mozambique Nightjar
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch Records/1998
recorded October 1996 on the banks of the Zimbezi River, Zimbabwe
SET FOUR
Richard Maxfield: Pastoral Symphony
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
Bob Gluck: Cape Cod Imaginary Landscape (1974)
Electric Songs
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
David Dunn: Skydrift (excerpt)
Music, Language and Environment
Innova Recordings/1996
voices: Ellen Band, Ric Cupples, Dennis Dunn, Peter, Hamlin, Gene Johnson, Phil Keeney, Chris Robbins, Ronnald Robboy, Peter Seibel, Paul William Simons; flutes: Norbert Bach, Donna Caruso, David Savage, Jeri Webb; clarinets: Duane Lakin-Thomas, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Paredes, Larry Rhodes; trumpets: Alan Brewer, David Dickey, Larry Fant, Jack Logan,; trombones: Bob Burns, Ruessel Estes, Mark Mayer, Jeff Peterson, engineer: Eugene Wahl; realized 12/11/77 at Little Blair Valley, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
SET FIVE
Alvin Lucier: Nothing is Real (Lennon/McCartney)
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music,
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8 #
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
piano: Margaret Leng Tan; arr. A. Lucier; "Nothing is Real" is based on the melodic structure of The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967), first released on the 1991 Capitol CD "Hyper Beatles" performed by Aki Takahashi, the Margaret Leng Tan version was recorded at Radio Bremen, February 1998.
Eldad Tsabary: Julia
DEMO
Eldad Tsabary/CD-R compiled 2006
A 2005 electronic music composition based on the melodic line of The Beatles' "Julia" (1968), though, unlike Lucier's piece above, Tsabary renders the melody itself abstract enough not to warrant legal credit to Lennon/McCartney.
Richard Karpen: Denouement**
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 12 #
Centaur Records/1992
SET SIX
Ignaz Schnick/Martin Tetreault: Cave 12 part 2
Live
Actuellecd/2009
Francisco Lopez: ConOps (excerpt)
ConOps
GD Stereo/2009
*I will leave who said it unsaid, but he said, "You're playing Pink Floyd? I thought you just did high art on Martian Gardens."
Well, if Pink Floyd isn't "high" art, I don't know what is.
**Karpen's 1991 computer music piece segues well with Tsabary's "Julia," but my selection of it above several other candidates relates to an eye-rolling comment Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) made in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on November 5. This is in regard to Al Gore, John Kerry, big words, French words, and big French words.
In his insipid defense of Al Gore's former running mate in the 2004 presidential elections, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), who is now fighting behest of the health insurance crime syndicates to keep the health care of the American people under fascist tyranny, Gore declared: "I would urge people to wait until the denouement of this health care debate to see where it falls out because I do believe that Harry Reid is going to be successful in passing it very soon." (emphasis mine).
Along with the bogus narrative defaming Kerry's military service pushed by the equally bogus "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," the right-wing attacked Kerry for his refined demeanor and good diction. We were all raised to believe these were positive attributes, but since George W. Bush was badly wanting for either, it was the Republican strategy to call Kerry's manner "elitist." They also appealed to longstanding American bigotry against the French by getting their pundits to say Mr. Kerry "looks French." What did this mean? French people look a lot of different ways. I suppose you could claim anybody of Indo-European heritage "looks French." It is scary how well the right-wing's vapid trashing of Kerry worked. It kept him on the defensive side for the entire campaign season. Certainly, Mr. Kerry's advisers told him not to use big words and not to use French words, and there was Al Gore (believe you me, the same rules apply to him) on national television using a big French word! But now it is late in 2009, and Mr. Gore is so irrelevant that even the troglodytes at FOX News didn't bother commenting. Thus, we see the denouement of Sen. Gore political career.
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 8, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Heather O'Donnell: Study No. 21: Some Southpaw Pitching! (C. Ives)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, April, 2007
SINGLE PLAY
Steve Reich: City Life
a. Check it out
b. Pile driver/alarms
c. It's been a honeymoon...can't take no mo'
d. Heartbeats/boats and buoys
e. Heavy smoke
The Minimalists #
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding; conductor: Jessi Jaatinen; arrangements, sampler: Anthony Fiumara; piano: Sepp Grotenhuis; clarinets: Fie Schouten, Dominique Zwartele; recorded April 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands.
SET ONE
Jonty Harrison: Free Fall (from ReCycle)
Environs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
Massimo Carlentini: Recycling recycled
Electroacoustic Music From Sicily #
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: Alessandra Marino
SET TWO
Francesco Galante: El Mio Paese e la Notte
Electroacoustic Music Volume VI #
Electroshock Records/1999
Adolfo Nuñez: The Nightingales Sing
Electroacoustic Music of Adolfo Nuñez
CD-R/2004 (compiled)
voice: Patrician Mikishka; text: Elizabeth Parsons
SET THREE
David Monacchi: Nightingale
ECO-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation--Earth Ear/2003
flute; environmental sounds: D. Monacchi; nightingales and incidental sounds recorded in the Marche region of Italy.
Pink Floyd: Cirrus Minor*
Soundtrack from the film More
EMI/1969
Farfisa and Hammond organs, Binson Echoric platter echo: Richard Wright; acoustic guitar: David Gilmour; composition, vocals, lyrics: Roger Waters; other sound effects include samples from a field recording of bird songs entitled "Dawn Chorus," and a field recording of a nightingale, both issued by HMV in 1961 (according to Wikipedia, veracity uncertain).
Chris Watson: Mozambique Nightjar
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch Records/1998
recorded October 1996 on the banks of the Zimbezi River, Zimbabwe
SET FOUR
Richard Maxfield: Pastoral Symphony
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
Bob Gluck: Cape Cod Imaginary Landscape (1974)
Electric Songs
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
David Dunn: Skydrift (excerpt)
Music, Language and Environment
Innova Recordings/1996
voices: Ellen Band, Ric Cupples, Dennis Dunn, Peter, Hamlin, Gene Johnson, Phil Keeney, Chris Robbins, Ronnald Robboy, Peter Seibel, Paul William Simons; flutes: Norbert Bach, Donna Caruso, David Savage, Jeri Webb; clarinets: Duane Lakin-Thomas, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Paredes, Larry Rhodes; trumpets: Alan Brewer, David Dickey, Larry Fant, Jack Logan,; trombones: Bob Burns, Ruessel Estes, Mark Mayer, Jeff Peterson, engineer: Eugene Wahl; realized 12/11/77 at Little Blair Valley, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
SET FIVE
Alvin Lucier: Nothing is Real (Lennon/McCartney)
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music,
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8 #
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
piano: Margaret Leng Tan; arr. A. Lucier; "Nothing is Real" is based on the melodic structure of The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967), first released on the 1991 Capitol CD "Hyper Beatles" performed by Aki Takahashi, the Margaret Leng Tan version was recorded at Radio Bremen, February 1998.
Eldad Tsabary: Julia
DEMO
Eldad Tsabary/CD-R compiled 2006
A 2005 electronic music composition based on the melodic line of The Beatles' "Julia" (1968), though, unlike Lucier's piece above, Tsabary renders the melody itself abstract enough not to warrant legal credit to Lennon/McCartney.
Richard Karpen: Denouement**
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 12 #
Centaur Records/1992
SET SIX
Ignaz Schnick/Martin Tetreault: Cave 12 part 2
Live
Actuellecd/2009
Francisco Lopez: ConOps (excerpt)
ConOps
GD Stereo/2009
*I will leave who said it unsaid, but he said, "You're playing Pink Floyd? I thought you just did high art on Martian Gardens."
Well, if Pink Floyd isn't "high" art, I don't know what is.
**Karpen's 1991 computer music piece segues well with Tsabary's "Julia," but my selection of it above several other candidates relates to an eye-rolling comment Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) made in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on November 5. This is in regard to Al Gore, John Kerry, big words, French words, and big French words.
In his insipid defense of Al Gore's former running mate in the 2004 presidential elections, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), who is now fighting behest of the health insurance crime syndicates to keep the health care of the American people under fascist tyranny, Gore declared: "I would urge people to wait until the denouement of this health care debate to see where it falls out because I do believe that Harry Reid is going to be successful in passing it very soon." (emphasis mine).
Along with the bogus narrative defaming Kerry's military service pushed by the equally bogus "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," the right-wing attacked Kerry for his refined demeanor and good diction. We were all raised to believe these were positive attributes, but since George W. Bush was badly wanting for either, it was the Republican strategy to call Kerry's manner "elitist." They also appealed to longstanding American bigotry against the French by getting their pundits to say Mr. Kerry "looks French." What did this mean? French people look a lot of different ways. I suppose you could claim anybody of Indo-European heritage "looks French." It is scary how well the right-wing's vapid trashing of Kerry worked. It kept him on the defensive side for the entire campaign season. Certainly, Mr. Kerry's advisers told him not to use big words and not to use French words, and there was Al Gore (believe you me, the same rules apply to him) on national television using a big French word! But now it is late in 2009, and Mr. Gore is so irrelevant that even the troglodytes at FOX News didn't bother commenting. Thus, we see the denouement of Sen. Gore political career.
--fin--
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Martian Gardens for 11/01/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 1, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; bass, accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely
SET ONE
Ilse Weber: I Wander Through Theresienstadt
Spiritual Resistance--Music from Theresienstadt
Bridge Records/2009
voice: Wolfgang Holzmair
Arie Shapira: Gideon Klein's Marterstraße
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004 (compiled)
piano: Uriel Tzachor; violin: Carmela Leiman; clarinet: Ilan Schul; vocal: A. Shapira; text: G. Klein, “Concert in the Attic of the Old School”
Gideon Klein: Tri písne (Three Songs)]
a. Vodotrysk (The Fountain)
b. Polovina života (The Middle of Life)
c. Soumrak shůry sesouvá (Twilight Sank from High Above)
Spiritual Resistance--Music from Theresienstadt
Bridge Records/2009
baritone: Wolfgang Holzmair; piano: Russell Ryan; texts: (a)Johann Klaj,(b) Friedrich Hölderlin, (c) Goethe; recorded March, 2008, at the Music Room at Caramoor, Katonah, New York
Stefan Wolpe: Excerpts from Dr. Einstein's Address About Peace in the Atomic Era
Vocal Music
Bridge Records/2007
baritone: Patrick Mason; piano: Robert Shannon; text: Albert Einstein, February 12, 1950
SET TWO
Jim Fox: Colorless Sky Became Fog
Cold Blue Night @ REDCAT, 2/18/06 (CD-R)
Cold Blue Music/2006 (compiled)
hammered dulcimer: Theresa Diamond; piano: Bryan Pezzone; violin: Robin Lorentz; cellos: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Jessica Catron; double bass: Barry Newton; recorded 2/18/06 at REDCAT, Disney Hall, Los Angeles
Tim Brady: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously*
Scenarios -- Music for Electric Guitar, Electronics, and Tape
Justin Time Records/1994
George Todd: Wordscapes --
a. Word
b. Water Asleep
c. Green Idea
Green Ideas Furiously Asleep
Electronic Music Foundation/1996
Larry Kucharz: Green Wash no. 3
Ambient Green Washes
International Audiochrome/2005
SET THREE
Lynn Job: Lake House Letter
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
Susan Botti: 3 Poèmes de Jaccottet
a. Je ne veux plus me poser
b. La ou la terre s'achève
c. La Veillée funèbre
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; soprano: S. Botti; texts: Philippe Jacottet; recorded 12/04/97 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Michael Tenzer:
a. Invention
b. Etude
Let Others Name You
New World Records/2009
piano: Naoko Christ-Kato; recorded at Kammermusiksaal Musikhochschule, Lubeck, 2/22/05
Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
SET FOUR
Walter Zimmermann: Lied Im Wustenvogelton (Song in the Tone of a Desert Bird)**
The Echoing Green -- Chamber Works 1986-1989
Mode Records/2005
bass-flute: Dietmar Wiesner; piano: Hermann Kretschmar; Recorded at Studio Beginner, Berlin, 5/31/01
Maggi Payne: Interpolation -- Mobile pour flûte (1, 2, et 3)
(R. Haubenstock-Ramati)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
SET FIVE
John Cage: Three Seconds on Zen Buddhism
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
director: Frank Scheffer; text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
David Claman: The Next Number
Music by David Claman (CD-R)
David Claman/2005 (compiled)
Jackson Mac Low: Thanks
Open Secrets
XI Records/1992
voices: Anne Tardos; J. Mac Low; realization: Three superimposed duo-performances circa 1982-1993, texts: "Forties" (J. Mac Low), "Girl over the Eiffel Tower" (Tibor Tardos), "Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be" (Simone Signoret), WordPerfect magazine, March 1993 issue
Istvan Marta: October
The Wind Rises -- Electropleinair sound diary -- 1973, 1985-1986
ReR Megacorp/1998
sounds: Rain, distant thunder near Budapest
José Mataloni: Adivinanza
Magical Realism of Sound
José Mataloni/2003
David Claman: Loomings
Music by David Claman (CD-R)
David Claman/2005 (compiled)
SET SIX
Daniel Zajicek: Rituals
CD-R/2005
Ned Bouhalassa: Songe Errant
Gratte-cite (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004
James Mobberley: Caution to the Winds
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33 #
Toys in the Attic: Electroacoustic Music from the UMKC iMPACT Center
Centaur Records/2002
piano: Richard Cass
Charity Chan:
a. Cabinets of Curiosities I
b. Cabinets of Curiosities II
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd/2009
extended piano, objects: C. Chan
*Both Tim Brady and George Todd play on Noam Chomsky's famous grammatically correct but semantically nonsensical sentence, and in my opinion, there are far too many colorless "green" ideas nowadays pushed by commercial interests who, in the end, will only make our fading green world all the more colorless.
**Zimmermann takes this title "Lied Im Wustenvogelton" (Song in the Tone of a Desert Bird) from a Nietzsche poem of the same name
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 1, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; bass, accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely
SET ONE
Ilse Weber: I Wander Through Theresienstadt
Spiritual Resistance--Music from Theresienstadt
Bridge Records/2009
voice: Wolfgang Holzmair
Arie Shapira: Gideon Klein's Marterstraße
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004 (compiled)
piano: Uriel Tzachor; violin: Carmela Leiman; clarinet: Ilan Schul; vocal: A. Shapira; text: G. Klein, “Concert in the Attic of the Old School”
Gideon Klein: Tri písne (Three Songs)]
a. Vodotrysk (The Fountain)
b. Polovina života (The Middle of Life)
c. Soumrak shůry sesouvá (Twilight Sank from High Above)
Spiritual Resistance--Music from Theresienstadt
Bridge Records/2009
baritone: Wolfgang Holzmair; piano: Russell Ryan; texts: (a)Johann Klaj,(b) Friedrich Hölderlin, (c) Goethe; recorded March, 2008, at the Music Room at Caramoor, Katonah, New York
Stefan Wolpe: Excerpts from Dr. Einstein's Address About Peace in the Atomic Era
Vocal Music
Bridge Records/2007
baritone: Patrick Mason; piano: Robert Shannon; text: Albert Einstein, February 12, 1950
SET TWO
Jim Fox: Colorless Sky Became Fog
Cold Blue Night @ REDCAT, 2/18/06 (CD-R)
Cold Blue Music/2006 (compiled)
hammered dulcimer: Theresa Diamond; piano: Bryan Pezzone; violin: Robin Lorentz; cellos: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Jessica Catron; double bass: Barry Newton; recorded 2/18/06 at REDCAT, Disney Hall, Los Angeles
Tim Brady: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously*
Scenarios -- Music for Electric Guitar, Electronics, and Tape
Justin Time Records/1994
George Todd: Wordscapes --
a. Word
b. Water Asleep
c. Green Idea
Green Ideas Furiously Asleep
Electronic Music Foundation/1996
Larry Kucharz: Green Wash no. 3
Ambient Green Washes
International Audiochrome/2005
SET THREE
Lynn Job: Lake House Letter
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
Susan Botti: 3 Poèmes de Jaccottet
a. Je ne veux plus me poser
b. La ou la terre s'achève
c. La Veillée funèbre
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; soprano: S. Botti; texts: Philippe Jacottet; recorded 12/04/97 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Michael Tenzer:
a. Invention
b. Etude
Let Others Name You
New World Records/2009
piano: Naoko Christ-Kato; recorded at Kammermusiksaal Musikhochschule, Lubeck, 2/22/05
Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
SET FOUR
Walter Zimmermann: Lied Im Wustenvogelton (Song in the Tone of a Desert Bird)**
The Echoing Green -- Chamber Works 1986-1989
Mode Records/2005
bass-flute: Dietmar Wiesner; piano: Hermann Kretschmar; Recorded at Studio Beginner, Berlin, 5/31/01
Maggi Payne: Interpolation -- Mobile pour flûte (1, 2, et 3)
(R. Haubenstock-Ramati)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
SET FIVE
John Cage: Three Seconds on Zen Buddhism
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
director: Frank Scheffer; text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
David Claman: The Next Number
Music by David Claman (CD-R)
David Claman/2005 (compiled)
Jackson Mac Low: Thanks
Open Secrets
XI Records/1992
voices: Anne Tardos; J. Mac Low; realization: Three superimposed duo-performances circa 1982-1993, texts: "Forties" (J. Mac Low), "Girl over the Eiffel Tower" (Tibor Tardos), "Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be" (Simone Signoret), WordPerfect magazine, March 1993 issue
Istvan Marta: October
The Wind Rises -- Electropleinair sound diary -- 1973, 1985-1986
ReR Megacorp/1998
sounds: Rain, distant thunder near Budapest
José Mataloni: Adivinanza
Magical Realism of Sound
José Mataloni/2003
David Claman: Loomings
Music by David Claman (CD-R)
David Claman/2005 (compiled)
SET SIX
Daniel Zajicek: Rituals
CD-R/2005
Ned Bouhalassa: Songe Errant
Gratte-cite (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004
James Mobberley: Caution to the Winds
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33 #
Toys in the Attic: Electroacoustic Music from the UMKC iMPACT Center
Centaur Records/2002
piano: Richard Cass
Charity Chan:
a. Cabinets of Curiosities I
b. Cabinets of Curiosities II
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd/2009
extended piano, objects: C. Chan
*Both Tim Brady and George Todd play on Noam Chomsky's famous grammatically correct but semantically nonsensical sentence, and in my opinion, there are far too many colorless "green" ideas nowadays pushed by commercial interests who, in the end, will only make our fading green world all the more colorless.
**Zimmermann takes this title "Lied Im Wustenvogelton" (Song in the Tone of a Desert Bird) from a Nietzsche poem of the same name
--fin--
Monday, October 26, 2009
My fund drive gripe
Grumble, grumble, grumble.
Anyway, if you tried to call in during my Fund Drive program and did not get through, you probably called while I was speaking on microphone. There were no volunteers to answer phones. None. Zero Zip.
Hey, who cares about Martian Gardens?
Fund Drive week is the one week of the year during which I really get passionate about the idea that working on Martian Gardens for the other 51 weeks is totally...not worth it.
Therefore, I am changing the format to shake-your-booty funk-rock or maybe that AAA Adult Acoustic Alternative drivel all the folks here in the Happy Valley love so well.
Who gives a crap about John Cage or Pauline Oliveros? We wanna giddown and boogie!
Or maybe I could just broadcast Noam Chomsky speeches and New Age vegan gardeners talking wheat grass juice and herbal douche. Then I'd bring in tons of cash!
Meh. I'm just venting. I'll get over it. Negativity won't get the job done either
But, hey, you can still donate to the WMUA fund drive for the sake of Martian Gardens @ (413) 577-3000 or via the Donate link at wmua.org.
Thanx.
--Max
Anyway, if you tried to call in during my Fund Drive program and did not get through, you probably called while I was speaking on microphone. There were no volunteers to answer phones. None. Zero Zip.
Hey, who cares about Martian Gardens?
Fund Drive week is the one week of the year during which I really get passionate about the idea that working on Martian Gardens for the other 51 weeks is totally...not worth it.
Therefore, I am changing the format to shake-your-booty funk-rock or maybe that AAA Adult Acoustic Alternative drivel all the folks here in the Happy Valley love so well.
Who gives a crap about John Cage or Pauline Oliveros? We wanna giddown and boogie!
Or maybe I could just broadcast Noam Chomsky speeches and New Age vegan gardeners talking wheat grass juice and herbal douche. Then I'd bring in tons of cash!
Meh. I'm just venting. I'll get over it. Negativity won't get the job done either
But, hey, you can still donate to the WMUA fund drive for the sake of Martian Gardens @ (413) 577-3000 or via the Donate link at wmua.org.
Thanx.
--Max
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Martian Gardens for 10/25/2009
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 October 25, 2009
FUND DRIVE WEEK
SET ONE
Steve Roach & Roger King: Lost and Forgotten
Dust to Dust
Projekt/1998
Christopher Roberts: Traveling Alone
Last Cicada Singing
Cold Blue Music/2009
qin: C. Roberts
Alarm Will Sound: Movimento preciso e meccanico (G. Ligeti)
A/Rhythmia
Nonesuch Records
Alarm Will Sound; conductor: Alan Pierson
Gyorgy Ligeti: Continuum for Harpsichord
(six works)
Wergo/1988
harpsichord: Antoinette Vischer
SINGLE PLAY
Larry Nelson: Seven Clay Songs
a. Begin Here
b. Dense Clay List
c. O Let's Go Visit
d. Who Comes?
e. Drenched Tidings
f. Ben-Ray Dots
g. Begin Again
The Starry Messenger--Chamber Music of Larry Nelson
Albany Records/2005
soprano: Sharla Nafziger; piano: Charles Abramovic; text: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
SINGLE PLAY
Barney Childs: Clay Music
The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue Music
Cold Blue Music/2003
instrumentation--Space whistles, transverse flute, tuba flutes, small necklace ocarinas, middle-sized ocarinas (tuned in E and C), bass ocarina, pipes, Aztec pipes, double pipe, triple pipes; performers: Susan Rawcliffe Lisette Rabinow, Georgia Lwan, Scott Wilkinson; recorded in Los Angeles 2/28/81
SET TWO
Forrest Fang: A Walk Through the Clouds
Phantoms
Projekt/2009
Jorge Reyes: Danza de los Peyoteros
Niereka
Silent Records/1993
Rhomb:
a. Empty Roads
b. Vacant Cities
Hidden Topographies
The Foundry/1998
SINGLE PLAY
Diane Thome: Ringing, Stillness, Pearl Light
Palaces of Memory
Centaur Records/1995
piano: D. Thome; recorded at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest Park, Washington
SET THREE
Mark Trayle: Primitive Still Life (With Pairs)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30 #
Transmigration Mussic: Music from the Center for Experiments in
Art, Information, and Technology, California Institute of Arts
Centaur Records/2000
recorded at CEIT, 1998
Ronald Perera: Alternate Routes
Crossing the Meridian
CRI/1998
produced at Bregman Electronic Music Studios, Dartmouth, 1971
SET FOUR
Max Neuhaus: Four Amplified Cymbals (E. Brown)
Electronics and Percussion
Columbia Masterworks/1969
realized 1964
Earle Brown: Octet I (for eight loudspeakers)
Selected Works 1952-1965
New World Records/2006
realized via the Project for Music and Magnetic Tape, Columbia University, 1953
Pauline Oliveros: Something Else
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
realized with Lafayette tone generators, noise source, tape delay, Mills College, 1966
SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Mycenae Alpha
CCMIX Paris --- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum #
Mode Records/2001
realized at UPIC, Paris, 1978
--fin--
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 October 25, 2009
FUND DRIVE WEEK
SET ONE
Steve Roach & Roger King: Lost and Forgotten
Dust to Dust
Projekt/1998
Christopher Roberts: Traveling Alone
Last Cicada Singing
Cold Blue Music/2009
qin: C. Roberts
Alarm Will Sound: Movimento preciso e meccanico (G. Ligeti)
A/Rhythmia
Nonesuch Records
Alarm Will Sound; conductor: Alan Pierson
Gyorgy Ligeti: Continuum for Harpsichord
(six works)
Wergo/1988
harpsichord: Antoinette Vischer
SINGLE PLAY
Larry Nelson: Seven Clay Songs
a. Begin Here
b. Dense Clay List
c. O Let's Go Visit
d. Who Comes?
e. Drenched Tidings
f. Ben-Ray Dots
g. Begin Again
The Starry Messenger--Chamber Music of Larry Nelson
Albany Records/2005
soprano: Sharla Nafziger; piano: Charles Abramovic; text: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
SINGLE PLAY
Barney Childs: Clay Music
The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue Music
Cold Blue Music/2003
instrumentation--Space whistles, transverse flute, tuba flutes, small necklace ocarinas, middle-sized ocarinas (tuned in E and C), bass ocarina, pipes, Aztec pipes, double pipe, triple pipes; performers: Susan Rawcliffe Lisette Rabinow, Georgia Lwan, Scott Wilkinson; recorded in Los Angeles 2/28/81
SET TWO
Forrest Fang: A Walk Through the Clouds
Phantoms
Projekt/2009
Jorge Reyes: Danza de los Peyoteros
Niereka
Silent Records/1993
Rhomb:
a. Empty Roads
b. Vacant Cities
Hidden Topographies
The Foundry/1998
SINGLE PLAY
Diane Thome: Ringing, Stillness, Pearl Light
Palaces of Memory
Centaur Records/1995
piano: D. Thome; recorded at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest Park, Washington
SET THREE
Mark Trayle: Primitive Still Life (With Pairs)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30 #
Transmigration Mussic: Music from the Center for Experiments in
Art, Information, and Technology, California Institute of Arts
Centaur Records/2000
recorded at CEIT, 1998
Ronald Perera: Alternate Routes
Crossing the Meridian
CRI/1998
produced at Bregman Electronic Music Studios, Dartmouth, 1971
SET FOUR
Max Neuhaus: Four Amplified Cymbals (E. Brown)
Electronics and Percussion
Columbia Masterworks/1969
realized 1964
Earle Brown: Octet I (for eight loudspeakers)
Selected Works 1952-1965
New World Records/2006
realized via the Project for Music and Magnetic Tape, Columbia University, 1953
Pauline Oliveros: Something Else
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
realized with Lafayette tone generators, noise source, tape delay, Mills College, 1966
SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Mycenae Alpha
CCMIX Paris --- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum #
Mode Records/2001
realized at UPIC, Paris, 1978
--fin--
Friday, October 23, 2009
Important message: WMUA Fund Drive Week!
The WUMA Fund Drive is on from October 27 through November 2. WMUA will be accepting donations and giving away fantastic gifts in appreciation of your support. Help support your favorite independent radio station during WMUA’s annual Fund Drive. To pledge your support during the fund drive please call (413) 577-3000. You can also donate online at wmua.org and click the "donate" link on the right under the banner.
A big thank you to Rob Voisey for donating 60 x 60 CDs as special premiums for Martian Gardens. Mr. Voisey's 60 x 60 project has been running since 2002. Not only does 60 x 60 feature works by some of the finest artists in contemporary music, but it covers all the types of music I broadcast on Martian Gardens. These are double-discs, each featuring 60 minute-long works by 60+ artists, totaling over 120 complete, individual works. I wil be offering these often-featured 60 x 60 CDs as a premium for your generous contribution of $20.00 or more.
Other standard premiums for various denominations include WMUA t-shirts, caps, and tote bags. Ask the fund drive operator about these and other premiums when you call (413) 577-3000 with your pledge in support of WMUA and Martian Gardens.
In addition, I am offering a double CD-R: "Martian Gardens 2009: Favorite Short Works." This special premium comes with your pledge of just $10.00. The goal of MG is to disseminate contempoary, electroacoustic, electronic, and avant-garde chamber musics composed present day and throughout the past century deserving of greater recognition in our culture. The shorter works, generally under four minutes, allows me to develop an anthology of the diverse canon of musics broadcast on Martian Gardens.*
The labels that release the recordings I play on MG are make do on a break-even or non-profit basis. The proprietors of labels such as Mode, New World Records, Bridge, Pogus, empreintes DIGITales, Vox Novus, Centaur, ECM, and Innova Recordings do their work for the same reason I produce Martian Gardens every week: Dedication to great music. That is why I post a link to each one every time I broadcast a recording from these labels on MG. I cannot thank them enough for making Martian Gardens possible and they are all deserving of your support as discerning music consumers!
My program during WMUA's annual Fund Drive week is always a challenge for me. I violate all fund drive protocol when I say I hate to be obliged to ask listeners for money. If I had my druthers, I wouldn't do it all. Then something struck me a few months ago. A Martian Gardens detractor challenged me:
"How many people actually listen to Martian Gardens?"
"I don't know, and I don't care!," I scoffed.
This statement is only half true. I do too care. I want everybody with a radio in the Pioneer Valley and everybody with Internet acess to listen to every Martian Gardens every Sunday! The salient point is I have the luxury of saying "I don't know, and I don't care." Nobody on commercial or public radio can even afford to think such a thing. That is where the annual fund drive comes in. Two-thirds of WMUA's funding comes to us from student activities fees from the University of Massachusetts and from the businesses that purchase underwriting with the station. In fact, the bulk of the Fund Drive pledges are made during the 16-hour Polkathon on Fund Drive Saturday from fans of WMUA's phenomenally popular weekend polka programs.
Thus, I do not have to worry about such serious business as market shares, underwriting clients, and pleading for every dime every listener can possibly give. You know what a National Public Radio pledge drive sounds like and I don't have to sound like that! I never intend to alienate any listener, but if a listener screams, "What is that terrible noise?," and reaches for the dial, I do not have to worry about it. Martian Gardens has carte blanche to explore the any avenue of avante-garde music and sound art without fear of reprisal. There have been years when Martian Gardens has raised hundreds of dollars and there have been years when MG has raised nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero. No money at all. This is not a factor determining whether my application to renew Martian Gardens every semester gets approved by station management. What you really tell WMUA's management with your pledge of any denomination is that you support the rarest commodity in American broadcasting: Complete freedom.
How much is freedom worth to you?
--Max
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
*In deference to Mr. Voisey, none of the 60 x 60 pieces will appear on the Martian Gardens 2009 CD-R.
A big thank you to Rob Voisey for donating 60 x 60 CDs as special premiums for Martian Gardens. Mr. Voisey's 60 x 60 project has been running since 2002. Not only does 60 x 60 feature works by some of the finest artists in contemporary music, but it covers all the types of music I broadcast on Martian Gardens. These are double-discs, each featuring 60 minute-long works by 60+ artists, totaling over 120 complete, individual works. I wil be offering these often-featured 60 x 60 CDs as a premium for your generous contribution of $20.00 or more.
Other standard premiums for various denominations include WMUA t-shirts, caps, and tote bags. Ask the fund drive operator about these and other premiums when you call (413) 577-3000 with your pledge in support of WMUA and Martian Gardens.
In addition, I am offering a double CD-R: "Martian Gardens 2009: Favorite Short Works." This special premium comes with your pledge of just $10.00. The goal of MG is to disseminate contempoary, electroacoustic, electronic, and avant-garde chamber musics composed present day and throughout the past century deserving of greater recognition in our culture. The shorter works, generally under four minutes, allows me to develop an anthology of the diverse canon of musics broadcast on Martian Gardens.*
The labels that release the recordings I play on MG are make do on a break-even or non-profit basis. The proprietors of labels such as Mode, New World Records, Bridge, Pogus, empreintes DIGITales, Vox Novus, Centaur, ECM, and Innova Recordings do their work for the same reason I produce Martian Gardens every week: Dedication to great music. That is why I post a link to each one every time I broadcast a recording from these labels on MG. I cannot thank them enough for making Martian Gardens possible and they are all deserving of your support as discerning music consumers!
My program during WMUA's annual Fund Drive week is always a challenge for me. I violate all fund drive protocol when I say I hate to be obliged to ask listeners for money. If I had my druthers, I wouldn't do it all. Then something struck me a few months ago. A Martian Gardens detractor challenged me:
"How many people actually listen to Martian Gardens?"
"I don't know, and I don't care!," I scoffed.
This statement is only half true. I do too care. I want everybody with a radio in the Pioneer Valley and everybody with Internet acess to listen to every Martian Gardens every Sunday! The salient point is I have the luxury of saying "I don't know, and I don't care." Nobody on commercial or public radio can even afford to think such a thing. That is where the annual fund drive comes in. Two-thirds of WMUA's funding comes to us from student activities fees from the University of Massachusetts and from the businesses that purchase underwriting with the station. In fact, the bulk of the Fund Drive pledges are made during the 16-hour Polkathon on Fund Drive Saturday from fans of WMUA's phenomenally popular weekend polka programs.
Thus, I do not have to worry about such serious business as market shares, underwriting clients, and pleading for every dime every listener can possibly give. You know what a National Public Radio pledge drive sounds like and I don't have to sound like that! I never intend to alienate any listener, but if a listener screams, "What is that terrible noise?," and reaches for the dial, I do not have to worry about it. Martian Gardens has carte blanche to explore the any avenue of avante-garde music and sound art without fear of reprisal. There have been years when Martian Gardens has raised hundreds of dollars and there have been years when MG has raised nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero. No money at all. This is not a factor determining whether my application to renew Martian Gardens every semester gets approved by station management. What you really tell WMUA's management with your pledge of any denomination is that you support the rarest commodity in American broadcasting: Complete freedom.
How much is freedom worth to you?
--Max
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
*In deference to Mr. Voisey, none of the 60 x 60 pieces will appear on the Martian Gardens 2009 CD-R.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Martian Gardens for 10/18/2009
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 October 18, 2009
Extended edition 19:00--24:00
SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Woodwind Quintet
a. Molto vivo
b. Andante tranquillo
c. Allegro molto
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 1
Bridge Records/2009
Windscape: flute/piccolo: Tara Helen O'Connor; oboe: Randall Ellis; clarinet: Alan R. Kay; bassoon: Frank Morrelli; horn: David Jolley
SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Spectrum 3 -- for chamber Orchestra
Spectrum Pieces
New World Records/2009
The Barton Workshop; recorded in Het Bethianklooster, Amsterdam, c. 2008-2009
SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Small Waves (excerpt, 15 min.)
Navigations for Strings/Small Waves
Mode Records/2003
piano: Hildegard Kleeb; trombone: Roland Dahinden; The Arditti Quartet; interactive amplified vessels of water; recorded June 2001 at Sendesaal Hessicher Rundfunk, Frankfurt
SET ONE
Scott Locke: Atanos I (K.H. Burns)
Celestial Dreamscape: A Century of Music for Clarinet
Everglade/2008
b-flat clarinet; Disklavier: S. Locke; recorded at the Weeks Center at the U. of Florida, Miami
Margaret Lancaster: Piker (L. Polansky)
Io
New World Records/2009
electric guitar: Larry Polansky; percussion: Matthew Gold; piccolo: M. Lancaster;
recorded July 2008 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Giacinto Scelsi: Rucke di Guck, part 1
Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2002
piccolo: Clara Novakova; oboe: Cathy Milliken; recorded in Chatillon, France
SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Masaoka Kunimoto; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC, Feburary 2009
Adam Rudolph/Go: Organic Orchestra: Mirrors
Thought Forms
Meta Records/2009
recorded June 2006, Electric Lodge, Venice, California
John Luther Adams: In the Rain
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
recorded at Adams' cabin-studio, Fairbanks, Alaska
John Cage: 28 Seconds on Takehisa Kosugi (from "19 Questions")
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
director: Frank Scheffer; text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
David Tudor: Rainforest Version I, for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (excerpt)
Rainforest
Mode Records/1998
live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; D. Tudor; recorded in New Delhi, 1990
SET THREE
The Beatles: Revolution 9*
The Beatles
EMI/1968
Eric Lyon: Liberation #1 ^
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004
SET FOUR
Artemiy Artemiev & Christopher DeLaurenti: Solar Speech
57 Minutes to Silence
Electroshock Records/2002
Christopher DeLaurenti: Before Petrushka
Favorite Intermissions
GD Stereo/2009
Noah Creshevsky: Favorite Encores
Favorite Encores
Pogus Productions/2008
SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Racing Through, Racing Unseen
Miniatures Concretes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
Vivian Adelberg Rudow:
a. Racing Inside the Milkyway
b. The Majesty of it All
I Didn't Want To Say Goodbye CD-R (compiled 2004)
Hollins & Park Music Company
Severed Heads: Wonder of All the World
Cuisine (with Piscatorial)
Nettwerk/1991
SINGLE PLAY
John Young: from Ricordiamo Forli
a. Forli -- November 1944
b. Family Story
c. Once in Malmissole
d. The Bomb
e. Epilogue
Lieu-temps DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
SET SIX
Derek Jarman: "The side effects of DHPG...I am going to sign it."
Blue
Elektra--Nonesuch/1994
voice, text: D. Jarman; music, sounds: Simon Fisher Turner
Coklacoma: The Discovery of Christian Science
Co Klo Pop
Decibel Records/1996
Mike Silverton/Tom Hamilton/Al Margolis:**
a. Asbestos Abatement, that closer to health
b. Fire and ice and a reliable chronometer
Analogue Smoque
Pogus Productions/2003
voice, text: M. Silverton; electronics, sound processing: T. Hamilton, A. Margolis
Scott Smallwood:**
a. Renulife
b. Parco
c. Re'juvin
d. Energex
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
all sounds produced by antiquated electrotherapy devices
SET SEVEN
Liam O'Gallagher: Border Dissolve in Audiospace
10+12:12--American Text Sound Pieces #
Other Minds, Inc./2003 (orig. 1975)
sounds: obsolete telephony; voices: L. O'Gallagher, numerous unknown telephone operators throughout North America
Negativland: Home Cable T.V. Repair Corner
The Willsaphone Stupid Show
Seeland/1993
Negativland: Weather Reports, the Weather Hotline
ibid.
edited from "The Willsaphone Stupid Show" originally broadcast in 1991 for Negativland's "Over the Edge" program on KPFA, Berkeley; voices: David Wills, Don Joyce, Buzzy Linhart, Chris Grigg, Richard Lyons.
^ Regarding "Liberation # 1: A big thank you to Dr. Eric Lyon for sending me some information on the voice samples for "Liberation #1," which facilitated my own research, in which I discovered the recordings are from a panel session at the Ronald Reagan Institute for Public Policy on 11/12/99, entitled , including snippets from a lecture by Paul Wolfowitz ("This is a strategy that would make the United States the enemy of the whole world..." (etc.), who would later be President George W. Bush's Deputy Secretary of Defense. Wolfowitz had served as Undersecretary of Defense Policy for George H.W. Bush's administration. At the time of the panel discussion, he was dean of Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. The panel host was former Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and the other voice, from what I can surmise ("On a personal note, I would like to thank Elliott Abrams for all he has done to make this conference so successful," etc.). Lyon composed this piece in February, 2003, one month before the U.S. invaded Iraq. Furthermore, Dr. Lyon commented in his email: "The number 1 might suggest that I had discounted the earlier Afghan liberation, but computer scientists count starting from 0. The duration of Liberation #1 is 9 minutes, 11 seconds, in reference to the 9/11 rhetoric that surrounded the march to war." Other samples come from a Christian radio host in Florida ("And that's the thing you have to realize") and the New York City rapper Necro ("look for me all over the world.")
** The selections from Silverton and Smallwood run somewhat concurrently.
*The Beatles' "Revolution 9" is rogrammed here in protest of know-it-all "rock historian" Ed Ward stating on NPR's "Fresh Air" program on September 18: "The really bad stuff like the White Album's Revolution number 9 is there for all to hear; the emperor standing naked." The remark was part of Ward's review of the remastered Beatles series released in September by Apple Corps, Ltd. via EMI. Not only was Ward's derision of "Revolution 9" a revelation of his own ignorance of the compositional beauty and historical significance of the recording, but it was a dismissal of the best-known composition in the genre of tape music/musique concrete. Certainly, the average NPR-listener will not buy a Pierre Schaeffer album this fall, but she might buy The Beatles remasters. It does the goals of Martian Gardens a disservice for a philistine such as Ed Ward to write off "Revolution 9" as "really bad stuff" rather than mention the origins of the piece and how it came to be. Absent the prejudice Mr. Ward introduces, perhaps the listener might be more open to the wonders of adventurous musics such as one hears on Martian Gardens. Well, that's my two cents, and I do not have the new Beatles remasters because I haven't got much more than two cents in this economy. -- Max
p.s. The origins of the texts and sounds of "Revolution 9" are obscure and subject to dispute among Beatle-ologists, but here is a link to a fairly good transcription.
One more note, a very special thanks to both Vickie Rudow (music broadcast this week) and to Dean Rosenthal (music broadcast last week) for inquiring after my well-being during a recent personal crisis.
--fin--
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 October 18, 2009
Extended edition 19:00--24:00
SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Woodwind Quintet
a. Molto vivo
b. Andante tranquillo
c. Allegro molto
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 1
Bridge Records/2009
Windscape: flute/piccolo: Tara Helen O'Connor; oboe: Randall Ellis; clarinet: Alan R. Kay; bassoon: Frank Morrelli; horn: David Jolley
SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Spectrum 3 -- for chamber Orchestra
Spectrum Pieces
New World Records/2009
The Barton Workshop; recorded in Het Bethianklooster, Amsterdam, c. 2008-2009
SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Small Waves (excerpt, 15 min.)
Navigations for Strings/Small Waves
Mode Records/2003
piano: Hildegard Kleeb; trombone: Roland Dahinden; The Arditti Quartet; interactive amplified vessels of water; recorded June 2001 at Sendesaal Hessicher Rundfunk, Frankfurt
SET ONE
Scott Locke: Atanos I (K.H. Burns)
Celestial Dreamscape: A Century of Music for Clarinet
Everglade/2008
b-flat clarinet; Disklavier: S. Locke; recorded at the Weeks Center at the U. of Florida, Miami
Margaret Lancaster: Piker (L. Polansky)
Io
New World Records/2009
electric guitar: Larry Polansky; percussion: Matthew Gold; piccolo: M. Lancaster;
recorded July 2008 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Giacinto Scelsi: Rucke di Guck, part 1
Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2002
piccolo: Clara Novakova; oboe: Cathy Milliken; recorded in Chatillon, France
SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Masaoka Kunimoto; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC, Feburary 2009
Adam Rudolph/Go: Organic Orchestra: Mirrors
Thought Forms
Meta Records/2009
recorded June 2006, Electric Lodge, Venice, California
John Luther Adams: In the Rain
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
recorded at Adams' cabin-studio, Fairbanks, Alaska
John Cage: 28 Seconds on Takehisa Kosugi (from "19 Questions")
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
director: Frank Scheffer; text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
David Tudor: Rainforest Version I, for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (excerpt)
Rainforest
Mode Records/1998
live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; D. Tudor; recorded in New Delhi, 1990
SET THREE
The Beatles: Revolution 9*
The Beatles
EMI/1968
Eric Lyon: Liberation #1 ^
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004
SET FOUR
Artemiy Artemiev & Christopher DeLaurenti: Solar Speech
57 Minutes to Silence
Electroshock Records/2002
Christopher DeLaurenti: Before Petrushka
Favorite Intermissions
GD Stereo/2009
Noah Creshevsky: Favorite Encores
Favorite Encores
Pogus Productions/2008
SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Racing Through, Racing Unseen
Miniatures Concretes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
Vivian Adelberg Rudow:
a. Racing Inside the Milkyway
b. The Majesty of it All
I Didn't Want To Say Goodbye CD-R (compiled 2004)
Hollins & Park Music Company
Severed Heads: Wonder of All the World
Cuisine (with Piscatorial)
Nettwerk/1991
SINGLE PLAY
John Young: from Ricordiamo Forli
a. Forli -- November 1944
b. Family Story
c. Once in Malmissole
d. The Bomb
e. Epilogue
Lieu-temps DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
SET SIX
Derek Jarman: "The side effects of DHPG...I am going to sign it."
Blue
Elektra--Nonesuch/1994
voice, text: D. Jarman; music, sounds: Simon Fisher Turner
Coklacoma: The Discovery of Christian Science
Co Klo Pop
Decibel Records/1996
Mike Silverton/Tom Hamilton/Al Margolis:**
a. Asbestos Abatement, that closer to health
b. Fire and ice and a reliable chronometer
Analogue Smoque
Pogus Productions/2003
voice, text: M. Silverton; electronics, sound processing: T. Hamilton, A. Margolis
Scott Smallwood:**
a. Renulife
b. Parco
c. Re'juvin
d. Energex
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
all sounds produced by antiquated electrotherapy devices
SET SEVEN
Liam O'Gallagher: Border Dissolve in Audiospace
10+12:12--American Text Sound Pieces #
Other Minds, Inc./2003 (orig. 1975)
sounds: obsolete telephony; voices: L. O'Gallagher, numerous unknown telephone operators throughout North America
Negativland: Home Cable T.V. Repair Corner
The Willsaphone Stupid Show
Seeland/1993
Negativland: Weather Reports, the Weather Hotline
ibid.
edited from "The Willsaphone Stupid Show" originally broadcast in 1991 for Negativland's "Over the Edge" program on KPFA, Berkeley; voices: David Wills, Don Joyce, Buzzy Linhart, Chris Grigg, Richard Lyons.
^ Regarding "Liberation # 1: A big thank you to Dr. Eric Lyon for sending me some information on the voice samples for "Liberation #1," which facilitated my own research, in which I discovered the recordings are from a panel session at the Ronald Reagan Institute for Public Policy on 11/12/99, entitled , including snippets from a lecture by Paul Wolfowitz ("This is a strategy that would make the United States the enemy of the whole world..." (etc.), who would later be President George W. Bush's Deputy Secretary of Defense. Wolfowitz had served as Undersecretary of Defense Policy for George H.W. Bush's administration. At the time of the panel discussion, he was dean of Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. The panel host was former Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and the other voice, from what I can surmise ("On a personal note, I would like to thank Elliott Abrams for all he has done to make this conference so successful," etc.). Lyon composed this piece in February, 2003, one month before the U.S. invaded Iraq. Furthermore, Dr. Lyon commented in his email: "The number 1 might suggest that I had discounted the earlier Afghan liberation, but computer scientists count starting from 0. The duration of Liberation #1 is 9 minutes, 11 seconds, in reference to the 9/11 rhetoric that surrounded the march to war." Other samples come from a Christian radio host in Florida ("And that's the thing you have to realize") and the New York City rapper Necro ("look for me all over the world.")
** The selections from Silverton and Smallwood run somewhat concurrently.
*The Beatles' "Revolution 9" is rogrammed here in protest of know-it-all "rock historian" Ed Ward stating on NPR's "Fresh Air" program on September 18: "The really bad stuff like the White Album's Revolution number 9 is there for all to hear; the emperor standing naked." The remark was part of Ward's review of the remastered Beatles series released in September by Apple Corps, Ltd. via EMI. Not only was Ward's derision of "Revolution 9" a revelation of his own ignorance of the compositional beauty and historical significance of the recording, but it was a dismissal of the best-known composition in the genre of tape music/musique concrete. Certainly, the average NPR-listener will not buy a Pierre Schaeffer album this fall, but she might buy The Beatles remasters. It does the goals of Martian Gardens a disservice for a philistine such as Ed Ward to write off "Revolution 9" as "really bad stuff" rather than mention the origins of the piece and how it came to be. Absent the prejudice Mr. Ward introduces, perhaps the listener might be more open to the wonders of adventurous musics such as one hears on Martian Gardens. Well, that's my two cents, and I do not have the new Beatles remasters because I haven't got much more than two cents in this economy. -- Max
p.s. The origins of the texts and sounds of "Revolution 9" are obscure and subject to dispute among Beatle-ologists, but here is a link to a fairly good transcription.
One more note, a very special thanks to both Vickie Rudow (music broadcast this week) and to Dean Rosenthal (music broadcast last week) for inquiring after my well-being during a recent personal crisis.
--fin--
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Martian Gardens for 10/11/2009
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 October 11, 2009
SET ONE
Yusef Lateef:
a. Street Musicians
b. In A Little Spanish Town ('Twas On a Night Like This)*
c. You're Somewhere Thinking Of Me
The Man With The Big Front Yard**
32 Jazz--Atlantic Records/1998
*Music by Mabel Wayne, lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young, sampled recording unknown
**Includes the albums "The Complete Yusef Lateef" (1968), "Yusef Lateef's Detroit" (1969), "Hush 'N' Thunder" (1972), "The Doctor is in...And Out" (1974)
Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph: A Feather in the Bright Sky
The World at Peace--Music for 12 Musicians
Meta Records/1997
wind instruments: Y. Lateef; percussion: Adam Rudolph; with ensemble of other musicians; recorded 6/16/95 at the Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles
Adam Rudolph: Palms that Flicker
Go: Organic Orchestra: 1
Meta Records/2003
Adam Rudolph's Organic Orchestra recorded 11/02/01, Electric Lodge, Venice, California
Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph perform for the Magic Triangle Solos & Duos series, Thursday, 10/15/09, 8:00 p.m., Bowker Auditorium, University of Massachusetts
SET TWO
Harry Partch: Windsong
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3
New World Records/2005 (orig. CRI/1997)
music for harmonic canon II, kithara II, adapted viola, surrogate kithara, chromelodeon, boo, diamond marimba, cloud chamber bowls, spoils of war, bass marimba; all instruments performed by Harry Partch for a film by Madeline Tourtelot, recorded in Chicago, winter 1958
Harry Partch: By the Rivers of Babylon (137th Psalm)
Enclosures 5--Harry Partch anthology
Innova Recordings/1998
voice: Nina Cutler; chromolodeon: Evelyn Garvey; kithara: Lyndel Davis; adapted viola: H. Partch; Gate 5 Ensemble conductor: John Garvey; recorded 1961, University of Illinois
Musci-Venosta: The Snout in the Dark
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
keyboards, sampler, field recordings: Giovanni Venosta; guitars, sampler, kalimba, musical tube, field recordings: Roberto Musci; recorded 1991 at FX Studio, Milan
Michael Lipsey: Words/Echoes (M. Rosenblum)
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2008
congas, bongos, tambourine: M. Lipsey; electronics, voice treatments: Mathew Rosnenblum; text: Gertrude Stein, “As A Wife Has A Cow: A Love Story”
SET THREE
Frank Denyer: Play
Faint Traces -- Chamber Works 1973--2001
Mode Records/2005
performed by The Barton Workshop; Recorded at Dartington Hall, 5/01/03
James Tenney: Spectrum 1
Spectrum Pieces
New World Records/2009
performed by The Barton Workshop; directors: Frank Denyer, James Fulkerson; recorded October 2008 in Het Bethanianklooster, Amsterdam
SET FOUR
Dean Rosenthal: Your Fine Promises
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/2009
voice: Joan La Barbara; text: Fujiwara no Mototoshi, translated by Kenneth Rexroth
Meredith Monk: Quarry Lullaby
Do You Be
ECM Records/1987
Robert Een, Ching Gonzalez, Andrea Goodman, Wayn Hankin, Naaz Hosseini, Nurit Tilles, M. Monk: voices; recorded 1986, Ludwigsburg and New York City
If, Bwana: Rushin' Lisa
"31"
GD Stereo/2009
synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; flute: Jacqueline Martelle; voice samples (present and absent): Lisa Barnard; recorded at Roulette, NYC, for the Interpretations concert series, March, 2008
Maggi Payne: White Night
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
flutes, synthesizers, electronics: M. Payne; recorded at CCM, Mills College
SET FIVE
David Hahn: America Ist Nun Erwacht (America Has Now Awakened)
David Hahn/2003
voice samples: President George W. Bush, Reichkanzler Adolf Hitler
Daniel Koppelman: Psychic Driving (E. Lyon)
Escapement (CD/DVD)
Everglade/2009
computer sounds: Eric Lyon; piano, reader (text 1): D. Koppelman; computer-generated voice sample: M. Albright (text 2); text 1: Reverend Jim Jones; text 2: Secretary of State Madeline Albright; Shaker hymn: Paulina Bates, "Come to Zion," performers unknown
David Mooney: Wheel
Facts About Air -- Heavy Mental Music
Opaque Melodies/2009
SET SIX
Robert Normandeau: from Chorus (Dedicated to the victims of 9/11)
a. Confrontation (War)
b. Douleur (Pain)
c. Paix (Peace)
Puzzles DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
Francisco Lopez: ConOps (excerpt)
ConOps
GD Stereo/2009
Lionel Marchetti/Olivier Capparos: Equus (part 1)
Equus (Grand Vehicule)
Pogus Productions/2009
text: Eric Vuillard
SINGLE PLAY
MICE: World Radio Quilt
a. Cape Town, South Africa
b. Chennai, India
c. Shainghai, China
d. Walvis Baia, Nambia
e. Dakar, Senegal
f. Casablanca, Morocco
g. Gibralter, UK/Spain
h. Cadiz, Spain
MICE World Tour
Ecosono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble directed by Matthew Burtner
--FIN--
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 October 11, 2009
SET ONE
Yusef Lateef:
a. Street Musicians
b. In A Little Spanish Town ('Twas On a Night Like This)*
c. You're Somewhere Thinking Of Me
The Man With The Big Front Yard**
32 Jazz--Atlantic Records/1998
*Music by Mabel Wayne, lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young, sampled recording unknown
**Includes the albums "The Complete Yusef Lateef" (1968), "Yusef Lateef's Detroit" (1969), "Hush 'N' Thunder" (1972), "The Doctor is in...And Out" (1974)
Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph: A Feather in the Bright Sky
The World at Peace--Music for 12 Musicians
Meta Records/1997
wind instruments: Y. Lateef; percussion: Adam Rudolph; with ensemble of other musicians; recorded 6/16/95 at the Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles
Adam Rudolph: Palms that Flicker
Go: Organic Orchestra: 1
Meta Records/2003
Adam Rudolph's Organic Orchestra recorded 11/02/01, Electric Lodge, Venice, California
Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph perform for the Magic Triangle Solos & Duos series, Thursday, 10/15/09, 8:00 p.m., Bowker Auditorium, University of Massachusetts
SET TWO
Harry Partch: Windsong
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3
New World Records/2005 (orig. CRI/1997)
music for harmonic canon II, kithara II, adapted viola, surrogate kithara, chromelodeon, boo, diamond marimba, cloud chamber bowls, spoils of war, bass marimba; all instruments performed by Harry Partch for a film by Madeline Tourtelot, recorded in Chicago, winter 1958
Harry Partch: By the Rivers of Babylon (137th Psalm)
Enclosures 5--Harry Partch anthology
Innova Recordings/1998
voice: Nina Cutler; chromolodeon: Evelyn Garvey; kithara: Lyndel Davis; adapted viola: H. Partch; Gate 5 Ensemble conductor: John Garvey; recorded 1961, University of Illinois
Musci-Venosta: The Snout in the Dark
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
keyboards, sampler, field recordings: Giovanni Venosta; guitars, sampler, kalimba, musical tube, field recordings: Roberto Musci; recorded 1991 at FX Studio, Milan
Michael Lipsey: Words/Echoes (M. Rosenblum)
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2008
congas, bongos, tambourine: M. Lipsey; electronics, voice treatments: Mathew Rosnenblum; text: Gertrude Stein, “As A Wife Has A Cow: A Love Story”
SET THREE
Frank Denyer: Play
Faint Traces -- Chamber Works 1973--2001
Mode Records/2005
performed by The Barton Workshop; Recorded at Dartington Hall, 5/01/03
James Tenney: Spectrum 1
Spectrum Pieces
New World Records/2009
performed by The Barton Workshop; directors: Frank Denyer, James Fulkerson; recorded October 2008 in Het Bethanianklooster, Amsterdam
SET FOUR
Dean Rosenthal: Your Fine Promises
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/2009
voice: Joan La Barbara; text: Fujiwara no Mototoshi, translated by Kenneth Rexroth
Meredith Monk: Quarry Lullaby
Do You Be
ECM Records/1987
Robert Een, Ching Gonzalez, Andrea Goodman, Wayn Hankin, Naaz Hosseini, Nurit Tilles, M. Monk: voices; recorded 1986, Ludwigsburg and New York City
If, Bwana: Rushin' Lisa
"31"
GD Stereo/2009
synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; flute: Jacqueline Martelle; voice samples (present and absent): Lisa Barnard; recorded at Roulette, NYC, for the Interpretations concert series, March, 2008
Maggi Payne: White Night
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
flutes, synthesizers, electronics: M. Payne; recorded at CCM, Mills College
SET FIVE
David Hahn: America Ist Nun Erwacht (America Has Now Awakened)
David Hahn/2003
voice samples: President George W. Bush, Reichkanzler Adolf Hitler
Daniel Koppelman: Psychic Driving (E. Lyon)
Escapement (CD/DVD)
Everglade/2009
computer sounds: Eric Lyon; piano, reader (text 1): D. Koppelman; computer-generated voice sample: M. Albright (text 2); text 1: Reverend Jim Jones; text 2: Secretary of State Madeline Albright; Shaker hymn: Paulina Bates, "Come to Zion," performers unknown
David Mooney: Wheel
Facts About Air -- Heavy Mental Music
Opaque Melodies/2009
SET SIX
Robert Normandeau: from Chorus (Dedicated to the victims of 9/11)
a. Confrontation (War)
b. Douleur (Pain)
c. Paix (Peace)
Puzzles DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
Francisco Lopez: ConOps (excerpt)
ConOps
GD Stereo/2009
Lionel Marchetti/Olivier Capparos: Equus (part 1)
Equus (Grand Vehicule)
Pogus Productions/2009
text: Eric Vuillard
SINGLE PLAY
MICE: World Radio Quilt
a. Cape Town, South Africa
b. Chennai, India
c. Shainghai, China
d. Walvis Baia, Nambia
e. Dakar, Senegal
f. Casablanca, Morocco
g. Gibralter, UK/Spain
h. Cadiz, Spain
MICE World Tour
Ecosono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble directed by Matthew Burtner
--FIN--
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Martian Gardens for 10/04/2009
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 October 4, 2009
SET ONE
Terry Riley: Zamorra
The Book of Abbeyozzud
New Albion Records/1999
guitars: David Tanenbaum, Gyan Riley
Gyan Riley: Sonata Quasifantokastica
I. Tokata
II. Fantasy for Hoda
III. Quasitremelodo
Food for the Bearded
New Albion Records/2002
guitars: G. Riley
Upcoming performances of Terry and Gyan Riley:
New Albion Weekend at Bard College, Friday, October 9, 2009, and at Le Poisson Rouge, Sunday, October 11, 2009
SET TWO
Frances White: Like the Lily
Centre Bridge--Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen Ting; double bass: Troy Rinker, Jr.
Hsiao-Lan Wang: Refrain
Electroacoustic Works
hsiaolanwang.com/2003
Chinese dulcimer, computer: H-L Wang
SET THREE
Mark Applebaum: from Sum=Parts
a. 56 1/2 ft. a labyrinth for chamber orchestra
b. Integrity -- for two percussion & piano
56 1/2 ft.
Innova Recordings/2006
Inauthentica ensemble, conductor: Mark Menzies; percussion: Justin DeHart, Elyssa Shalla; piano: Liam Viney; recorded at Skywalker Sound 2/21/05
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 6 (Song Interiors)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Justin DeHart; piano: Katalin Lukacs; recorded at Warren Studio A, UCSD, August 2008
SINGLE PLAY
Michael Tenzer: Unstable Center (Puser Belah)
Let Others Name You
New World Records/2009
Genta Buana Sari and Sanggar Cudamani collectives; recorded 6/19/03, Pengossekan, Bali
SET FOUR
Pierre Schaeffer: from Suite pour 14 Instruments
a. Vagotte/Gavotte
b. Sphoradie
L'oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
broadcast on Paris-Inter, autumn 1949
James Tenney: String Complement (with Ergodos II)
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
performed by the Barton Workshop; recorded in Amsterdam, winter 2007
SET FIVE
David Mooney: Olbum's Furniture
Facts About Air -- Heavy Mental Music
Opaque Melodies/2009
Kenneth Gaburo: Dante's Joynte
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
David Berezan: Cyclo
La Face Cachee
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
realized at BEAST (Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound Theatre), 2003
SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: October Music--Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
--FIN--
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Martian Gardens for 9/27/2009
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 September 27, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: Barabas
The Book of Abbeyozzud
New Albion Records/1999
guitar: David Tanenbaum
SET ONE
John Cage:
a. Triple-Paced (first version)
b. Triple-Paced (second version)
The Works for Piano 4
Mode Records/2002
piano,prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan
Charity Chan:
a. Penny for your Thoughts
b. Spinning Too Fast to Doubt
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd/2009
piano: C. Chan
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
John Cage: Spontaneous Earth
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano (The Works for Piano 8)
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandre
SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 10 (Who are we? Where are we?)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka
Stuart Saunders Smith: Tunnels
Crux
O.O. Discs/1992
percussion, noises: Thomas Goldstein; voice, text: S.S. Smith
Elizabeth Panzer: Re: Elizabeth (G. Matamoros)
Dancing in Place
O.O. Discs/1999
harp: E. Panzer; tapes: Gustavo Matamoros
SET THREE
John Young: from Ricordiamo Forli (Let's Remember Forli)
a. Winter
b. Pippo
c. The Garden
d. A Little Italian Farm
e. Interlude 2 -- Florence
Lieu-temps (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
environmental recordings from Forli, Emilia-Romagni, Italy; narrator: Franco Bianchini; realized at De Montfort University, 2005
Robert Iolini:
a. Secrets
b. Breaking the Seal
Electroacoustic, Chamber Ensemble, Soundscapes, and Works for Radio
ReR Megacorp/2001
excerpts from the radiphonic opera "Vanunu"; mezzo-soprano: Yolanda Podalski; bass baritone: Clive Birch; libretto: David Nerlich; composition, samples, performance, production: R. Iolini; recorded for The Listening Room, ABC Studios Ultimo, Sydney, 1994
SET FOUR
Steve Fisk: Terrible Weapons
Over and Thru the Night
K Records/1993
Bellzouki, tapes: Ben Fisk; tapes, sampler, optagon, Arp 2600: S. Fisk; voice samples: Ronald Reagan
Rodney Waschka: Help Me Remember -- Dancing
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 14 #
Centaur Records/1993
David R. Mooney: WMD: Naming Names
Facts About Air -- Heavy Mental Music
Opaque Melodies/2009
Marcelle Deschenes: Lux (excerpt)
petits Big Bangs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
voice: Gael Andrews; texts: Robert Oppenheimer; Ernest Rutherford;George Bernard Shaw; Immanuel Kant; Renee Bourassa; sound samples: A. Thibault -- "OUT," "Quarks' Muzik," M. Deschenes -- "deUS irae"; realized 1985 at Bruit Blanc Studio, Montreal
Alice Shields:
a. Someone, I Say, Will Remember Us
b. The Dawn Wind
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993
SET FIVE
Mary Jane Leach: Feu de Joie
Celestial Fires
XI Records
bassoon: Shannon Peet
Alex Shapiro: Deep
Notes from the Kelp
Innova Recordings/2007
contrabassoon: Leslie Lashinsky; percussion: Dan Morris; electronics: A. Shapiro
Frank Felice: "...and so the hole was dug"
Sidewalk Music
Capstone Records/2002
bassoon: Doug Spaniol; so-called tape: F. Felice
SET SIX
Joseph Klein: Dog (after W.S. Merwin)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 27
bassoon: Kristin Wolfe Jensen; soprano: Heidi Dietrich Klein; dog: Poppy; text: W.S. Merwin, "Dog"; recorded at CEMI, Denton, TX, September 1997
Paul Koonce: The Flywheel Dream
Walkabout and Back
Mode Records/2000
--FIN--
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