Saturday, January 24, 2009

Martian Gardens for 1/25/2009

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
Intern: Stephanie Lawrence
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR JANUARY 25, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Mark Applebaum: Variations on Variations on a Theme by Mozart
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
for 18 prepared pianos, based on W.A. Mozart's "12 piano variations 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman'" KV1 265

SET ONE
Sylvia Smith:
a. Family Portraits: Delbert (Stuart Saunders Smith)
b. Xylophone Poems No. 1: Went Forth (ibid.)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008

Stuart Saunders Smith: ...And Points North...
a. Scene I
b. Scene II
c. Scene III
Breath: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2008
percussion: Steven Schick

Xylophone Poems - The Sylvia Smith Percussion Duo performs Jan. 30, 8 p.m., Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Fine Arts Center, Amherst.

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

Marcel Duchamp:
La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même.* Erratum Musical (1st 1/2)
Music by Marcel Duchamp
Edition Block/Paula Cooper Gallery/1991
Realized by Petr Kotik for the S.E.M. Ensemble
*The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even

SET THREE
Selections from 60 x 60 2005:
Polly Moller: Cold Blood
Douglas Cohen: Unwelcome 2005
Don Malone: RezGliss
The Norman Conquest: FAFM8
Vox Novus/2007

Alvin Lucier: Clocker (excerpt)
Clocker
Lovely Music, Ltd./1994

Diane Labrosse: Ticking Alarm Clocks
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
actuellecd.com/2007

Mendi + Keith Obadike: The Pink of Stealth
Crosstalk #
Bridge Reocrds/2008

Laurie Anderson: Poison
Bright Red/Tightrope
Warner Bros./1994

SET FOUR
Patti Monson: Under the Rainbow (M. Rosenblum)
High Art
Albany Records/2003

Al Margolis/If, Bwana: An Innocent, Abroad (track 3)
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
vocals: Lisa Barnard; flutes: Jacqueline Martelle, Jane Rigler;
electronics, processing: Al Margolis


SET FIVE
Elsa Justel: Midi de sable
Mats
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

Elsa Justel: Chi-pa-boo
Miniatures Concretes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Polansky: Simple Actions/Rules of Compossibility
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
voice, text: Chris Mann; live computers: L. Polansky

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Polytope de Cluny (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Martian Gardens for 1/18/2009

Martian Gardens for 1/18/1008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
Intern: Stephanie Lawrence
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR JANUARY 18, 2009

SET ONE
Beth Anderson: January Swale
Swales and Angels
New World Records/2004
Rubio String Quartet

Richard Brooks: Whirlwind (from Circular Motions)
The Phenomenon of Threes
Innova Recordings/2008
flute: Keith Underwood; clarinet: Esther Lamneck; piano: Martha Locker

Daniel Lentz: Point Conception [for 9 pianos] (excerpt)
Point Conception
Cold Blue Music/2008 (orig. 1984)
pianos: Arlene Dunlap

SET TWO
Patti Monson: High Art (M. Bresnick)
High Art
Albany Records/2003
piccolo: P. Monson; toy piano: Martin Bresnick

Patti Monson: Conspiracies (M. Bresnick)
Conspirare--Chamber Music for Solo Flute
CRI/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008

SET THREE
Salvatore Martirano: L's G.A. (excerpts)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22--
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective
Centaur Records/1995
texts: Abraham Lincoln/Michael Holloway; voice: Holloway; recorded at the U. of Ill. Experimental Music Studio, 1968

Musica Elettronica Viva: Mass. Pike
MEV 40
New World Records/2008
Alvin Curran, MacBook Pro, Kontakt-sampler and MIDI-keyboard, shofar,toy boom-boxes;Frederic Rzewski, piano, prepared piano, small instruments;Richard Teitelbaum, Kurzweil K2000 sampler keyboard and MacBook Pro with Ableton Live,crackle Box, small instruments;Recorded at the Festival of Contemporary Music, Tanglewood Music Center, 8/02/07

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

AMM: Live at the Royal College of Art
Not Necessarily "English" Music #
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
Cornelius Cardew, Eddie Provost, Keith Rowe, Lou Gare, Lawrence Sheaff,
Recorded 3/28/66

Trios: Track Two
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
piano, bass, percussion, melodica: Christian Wolff; guitars: Larry Polansky; voice, text: Chris Mann; computer, electronics, recording, editing: Douglas Repetto, Tom Erbe; recorded January/April, 1998, Hanover, NH

Chris Mann: Told You So
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2007

Noah Creshevsky: Free Speech
ibid.
voice, text: Chris Mann; clarinet samples: Al Margolis; trombone samples: Monique Buzzarte

SET FIVE
Wendy Carlos: Stately Purcell
Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume One
East Side Digital/2005
from Henry Purcell, "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary," arr. Carlos

Steven Stucky: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (H. Purcell)
Music for Wind Ensemble
Albany Records/1997
Baylor University Wind Ensemble, conductor: Michael Haithcock; Purcell arr. Stucky

George Crumb: from Star-Child
a. Musica Apocalyptica
b. Seven Trumpets of the Apocalypse
c. Adventus Puerorum Luminus
70th Birthday Album
Bridge Records1999
The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Thomas Conlin; soprano: Susan Narucki, solo trombone: Joseph Alessi; The Warsaw
Boys' Choir; The Warsaw Philharmonic Choir; bell ringers:
Paul Cesarczyk, G. Crumb; recorded summer, 1999, Philharmonic
Hall, Warsaw, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC



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