Martian Gardens for 3/29/2009

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 MARCH 29, 2009
Extended version 21:00--02:20

SINGLE PLAY
Hilda Paredes: Cotidales
Listen How They Talk--Chamber Music 1998-2001
Mode Records/2005

SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Variations for Solo Flute
Chamber Works of Ursula Mamlok
CRI/2002 (orig. 1984)
flute: Samuel Baron

Morton Feldman: For Christian Wolff (excerpt)
For Christian Wolff
Bridge Records/2008
flute: Dorothy Stone; piano, celesta: Vicki Ray

Donal Fox: Jazz Sets and Tone Rows
Videmus
New World Records/1992
Videmus Records
saxophone: Oliver Lake; piano: D. Fox

SET TWO
Sarah Peebles: Aqua Babble
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
Ondes Martenot: Takashi Harada; string telephone installation: Kazue Mizushima;
electroacoustics, sho, toys: S. Peebles

Annea Lockwood: Esztergom to Keselyus
A Soundmap of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008

SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Buckner: Night and Fog (A. Lockwood)
a. 1921
b. The Visitor (1979)
c. 1923
Full Spectrum Voice
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
percussion: Michael Pugliese; baritone saxophone: J.D. Parran
texts: Osip Mandelstam (a, c), Carolyn Forche (b)

SET THREE
Larry Austin: from Singing!...The Music of My Own Time
a. Warmup
b. Lunch
Octo Mixes
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
baritone: Thomas Buckner

Tom Hamilton: Lexington/3rd Avenue
Off-Hour Wait State--Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
baritone: Thomas Buckner; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson

SET FOUR
Gamelan Son of Lion: Telling Time (M. Frasconi)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009

Neil B. Rolnick: Rerebong
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
Gamelan instruments: Gamelan Son of Lion;
real-time digital Processing: N. Rolnick

SET FIVE
Lou Harrison: Music for Violin with Various Instruments--
European, Asian, and African:
I. Allegro, Vigoroso
II. Largo
III. Allegro moderato
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
violin: David Abel; mbira 1, chinese drums: William Winant; mbira 2, reed organ:
Julie Steinberg; mbira 3, psaltery: Jennifer Cass; Gordon Smith: mbira 4

Rainer Wiens: Kalimba Duo
MusicWorks 103 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2009
kalimbas: Thom Gossage, R. Wiens

Christopher Coleman: My Grandfather's Kalimba
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2003

SET SIX
John Cage: Empty Words with Music for Piano (1st 1/3)
Cage Performs Cage
Mode Records/2009
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; voice: J. Cage

John Cage: Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment*--Grave Adagio
The Number Pieces 4
Mode Records/2007
recorders: Trio Dolce
*full title: Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon,
and Six Short Variations on the Subject of the Solo

SINGLE PLAY
Arrigo Lora-Totino: English Phonemes
Source: Music of the Avant-Garde #
Pogus Productions/2009
Source Records No. 5, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1971.
Realized by Christina Coriale and Kim Loughan, Stockholm,
recorded by Ola Kejving at Sveriges Radio; edited/engineered
for Source Magazine by Rudolph De Grood

SET SEVEN
Elsa Justel: Gwerz (to Horacio Vaggione)
Mats
empreintes DIGITALes/2004

Horacio Vaggione: KITAB
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 21 #
Centaur Records/1995
bass clarinet: Andy Connell; piano: Delores Duran; contrabass:
Christy Crews; conductor: Pablo Furman

SET EIGHT
Diane Labrosse: Rotary Dial Phones
Music for Objects on the Edge of Extinction
Actuellecd/2007

Stan Link: [-(Snow)]
In Amber Shadows
Albany Records/2006

Stuart Saunders Smith: Family Portraits: Delbert
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
percussion, voice: Sylvia Smith

Stan Link: Endless Song
60 x 60 2006+2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Stuart Saunders Smith: Xylophone Poem No. 1: Went Forth
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
xylophone, voice: Sylvia Smith

Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60 2006+2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim

Morton Subotnick: All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis
And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
New World Records/1997
California E.A.R. Unit: keyboards: Gloria Cheng; cello: Erika Duke (Kirkpatrick);
percussion: Amy Knoles; flute: Dorothy Stone; voices: Joan La Barbara, Gene
Youngblood, M. Subotnick; text: Max Ernst

SET NINE
Annie Gosfield: EWA 7, part 2*:
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
electric guitar: Roger Kleier; electronics: Ikue Mori; drums and percussion:
Jim Pugliese, Sam Cain; sampling keyboard: A. Gosfield; metal factory percussion on cylinders and combustion chamber: Hans-Gunter Brodmann, Matthias Rosenbauer
* full title EWA 7, part 2: Puncher--The Product of Force and Motion; Pipes:
Transmission of ayellow pipe, mechanical firing of a yellow pipe

Einsturzende Neubauten: Salamandrina
Strategies Against Architecture III
Mute Records/2001

The Hub: Hub X 6
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Steven Mackey: Fusion Tune
Banana Dumptruck
Albany Records/2005
cello: Fred Sherry; guitar: S. Mackey


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