Martian Gardens for 2/15/2009

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 FEBRUARY 15, 2009
Extended edition 20:15-24:00

SET ONE
Gamelan Son of Lion: She (Really) Had to Go (J. Morton)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2008

John Morton: Through the Wall
Solo Traveler--Music for Music Boxes
Innova Recordings/2007

John Cage:
a. from Suite for Toy Piano: Suite part III
b. from The Seasons, Ballet in One Act: Prelude, Spring
The Seasons
ECM New Series/2000
toy piano: Margaret Leng Tan
American Composers Orchestra, conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

SET TWO
James Mulcro Drew: Bonaroo Breaks (Street Funeral Music)
Animating Degree Zero
New World Records/2009
trombones: Hilary Jeffery, James Fulkerson; drums: Tobias Liebzeit

Port-au-Prince Drumming Demonstration
Angels in the Mirror--Vodou Music
Ellipsis Arts/1997
field recording, anonymous Yanvalou/Kongo drummers

Coil: Herald (Acapulco March)
Horse Rotorvator
Some Bizzare/2001 (orig. 1986)
field recording of marching band, Acapulco, Mexico

Philip Blackburn: excerpt from Habenera
Habanera--A Soundwalk Through Old Havana, Cuba
Innova Recordings/2004
field recording featuring Cuban television program

Coil: The Golden Section
Horse Rotorvator
Some Bizzare/2001 (orig. 1986)
narrator: Paul Vaughn

SET THREE
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (disk 1, track 2, 1st 1/2)
Treatise
Mode Records/2009
QUaX Ensemble, director: Petr Kotik; Recorded live, Prague, 10/15/67

Somei Satoh: Burning Meditation
From the Depth of Silence
Mode Records/2004
The Janacek Philharmonic; conductor: Peter Kotik; baritone: Thomas Buckner; text: Kazuko Shiraishi;
Recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 5/07/03

SET FOUR
Larry Polansky: (B'rey'sheet) (In The Beginning...)
(Cantillation Study #1)
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
voice: Jody Diamond; live computers: Phil Burk, L. Polansky; recording engineer: Tom Erbe, Mills College Concert Hall, January 1990; text source: Masoretic Cantillation of the Pentateuch

Larry Polansky: (And to rule...) (Cantillation Study #2)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 11 #
Centaur Records/1992
flutes: Ana La Berge; melodic structure: Masoretic Cantillation of the Pentateuch

Phil Burk: Squiggle
Hallways--Eleven Musicians and HMSL #
Frog Peak Music/1993
performed by Jeanne Parson and P. Burk, Mills College CCM, 1992

SET FIVE
Morton Subotnick: Jacob's Room, Part II
Touch/Jacob's Room
Wergo/1989
soprano: Joan La Barbara; cello: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick; text: Virginia Woolf

Shelley Hirsch: In the Basement
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2008

Shelley Hirsch:
a. Dipped
b. Franklin K. Lane/I worked my ass off
O Little Town of East New York
Tzadik/1995

SET SIX
Barton McLean: Forgotten Shadows (excerpt)
Forgotten Shadows
CRI/2000

Noah Creshevsky:
a. Shadow of a Doubt (Opening)
b. Shadow of a Doubt (excerpt)
Hyperrealism in Music: Electroacoustic Music by
Noah Creshevsky 1992-2006
CD-R

Penn Kemp & Chris Meloche: mattermater--prelude
Deep Wireless 4, Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2007

Trevor Wishart: from Two Women--Facets
Voice Prints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
voice sample: Princess Diana

Mary Keily: Nightmare
Deep Wireless 5, Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Benjamin Chadabe: Minutes...
State of the Union 2001 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

Joel Chadabe: Minutes...
ibid.

Joel Chadabe: Modalities
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 7--
iEAR Studios, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute #
Centaur Records/1990

SET SEVEN
Theodore Lotis: Arioso Dolente/Beethoven Op.110
Epoque de L'eau
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

Bodil Rorbech: ...de la Terre (K. Saariaho)
Violin Vision
Albany Records/2005

SET EIGHT
Steven Ricks: Beyond the Zero
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2007
violin: Curtis Macomber

Mathew Adkins: Abstract/Ambient
[60] Project
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Charles Amirkhanian: Walking Tune (A Room Music for Percy Grainger) (excerpt)
Walking Tune
Starkland/2007


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