Martian Gardens for 8/30/2009

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

Program for August 30, 2009

SET ONE
Emmanuel Madan: Freedom Highway
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005

Charles Amirkhanian: Gold and Spirit
Walking Tune
Starkland/2007

Jorge Antunes: Os Textos
Sinfonia Das Diretas (Symphony of Horns)
Sistrum/2004
conductor: J. Antunes; text: Jose Cunha & TT Catalao; voice: Chico Expedito; chorus: Tonto de Tanto Canto
automobile horn symphony recorded 6/01/1984

SET TWO
Larry Polansky: Canon #12 Doggerel (from 3 New Hampshire Songs)
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
The New York Vocal Index, directors: John Potter, William Brooks; Text (abecedarius)from "The Shaker Manifesto, July, 1882," recorded June, 2002, University of York

Barton McLean: Forgotten Shadows (excerpt)
Forgotten Shaddows
New World Records/2000
soprano: Priscilla McLean; text: Thomas Moore, Sir John Stevens, "Oft in the Stilly Night," unidentified tunes by unidentified marching bands, recorded in Petersburg and Cincinnatus, NY

George Crumb: Nobody Knows de trouble I see (trad.)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 13 --
American Songbooks II & IV
Bridge Records
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman
recorded October, 2006, at Swartmore College

Joel Chadabe: Follow Me Sofly (excerpt)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 24 #
Centaur Records/1997
percussion: Jan Williams; J. Chadabe: Synclavier; recorded at SUNY Buffalo, November,1984

SET THREE
Louis DuFort: Grain de Sable (1st 1/2)
Materiaux Composes
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

MICE: Sandprints
MICE World Tour
EcoSono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble created by Matthew Burtner
sounds on Sandprints: Microphones in the Nambian Desert, performers whistling

The Universal Quartet: Gron Galaske
The Universal Quartet
Blackout Music/2009
Tranderg-Lateef-Rudolph-Osgood;Kasper Trandberg: trumpet; Yusef Lateef: C and Alto Flute, Oboe, Tenor saxophone, bambooo flut, Syrian dobule bamboo flute, Xhosa Overtone Flute, Shanai,moon flute, piano vocal; Kresten Osgood: Drums and Percussion; recorded August, 2008, Copenhagen

Joan La Barbara: Shamansong (excerpt)
Shamonsong
New World Records/1998
voice, percussion, computer, electronic keyboard, synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; hand drums, tar, and dummbeck; cello: Erika Duke Kirkpatrick; gender: Kiristina Melcher; recorded at Diablo Canyon and Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1991, revised 1998, engineered by J. La Barbara and David Dunn

SET FOUR
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Moment's Energy 2
The Moment's Energy
ECM Records/2009
EAS -- trumpet, piccolo trumpet: Peter Evans; sho: Ko Ishikawa; clarinet, bass clarinet, shakuhachi: Ned Rothnenberg; violin, live electronics: Philipp Wachsmann; piano, prepared piano: Agusti Fernandez; double-bass: Barry Guy; percussion, live electronics: Paul Lytton; signal processing: Lawrence Casserly; sample/signal processing: Joel Ryan; computer processing: Walter Prati; live electronics: Richard Barrett, Paul Obermayer; sound projection: Marco Vecchi; recorded November, 2007, at Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, UK

Helmut Lachenmann: Mouvement (-- von der Erstarrung) (exerpt)
Schwankungen am Rand
ECM New Series/2003
Ensemble Modern Orchestra; director: Peter Eotvos; recorded at Frankfurt Radio, November, 1984

Luigi Nono: A Floresta e Jovem e Cheja de Vida (excerpt)
Voices of Protest
Mode Records/2001
sound direction, live mix: Gerard Pape; clarinet: Carol Robinson; soprano solo: Elisabeth Grard; tape performance: trumpet William O. Smith, soprano: Liliana Poli; voices: actresses of The Living Theater; texts assembled by Giovanni Pirelli; choir: Vox Novus; recorded in Paris; texts (selected): Fidel Castro, Frantz Fanon, Patrice Lumumba, Pedro Duno

SET FIVE
David Dunn: Entrainments 2 (excerpt)
Music, Language, and Environment
Innova Recordings/1996
recorded Azalea Glen, Cuyamaca State Park, May 19, 1985; speaking voices: Ronald Robboy,Lizbeth Rymland, Stephen Storer; oscillators: L. Rymland, Dan Schwarz; computer engineering: D. Dunn,
Peter Seibel

Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing (excerpt)
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
synthesizers, electronics, voice: R. Ashley; voice: Mimi Johnson; recorded 1967

Jerry Hunt: Transform (Stream)
Lattice
CRI/1996 (orig.1979)

Jorge Reyes: El Huarachito
El Costumbre
Extreme Records/1993
flower pots: Juan Carlos Lopez; flower pots, metal noises, voice, Tarahumara drum; final Zapateado: Regina Quintero; recorded in El Cuarto de Maquinas, San Luis Patosi, Mexico

SET SIX
Alice Shields: Vegetable Karma (excerpt)
Shenandoah -- Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2005

Robert Normandeau: Chorus
a. overture
b. Jadaisme
c. Christianisme
d. Islaminisme
Puzzles (DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2005

Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Shadow of a Doubt
Favorite Encores
Pogus Productions/2008

--FIN--