Martian Gardens for 3/01/2009

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 MARCH 1, 2009
extended version 20:30--24:00

SET ONE
John Cage: excerpts from The City Wears a Slouch Hat
a. Opening Stroll
b Holdup
c. Nightclub
d. passerby
The Lost Works
Mode Records/1996
"The Voice": Paul Schmidt; directed and performed by Essential Music;
radio play: Kenneth Patchen
Original broadcast: May 31, 1942 on the Columbia Broadcasting System's "Columbia Workshop" series from WBBM, Chicago, performed by the University of Chicago Orchestra

Harry Partch: excerpts from Bitter Music--
a. August 7--Between Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, Oregon
b. August 15
c. October 22--Nearing Monterey
Enclosures 2--Harry Partch
Innova Recordings/1995
voice: Warren Burt; piano: Sheila Guymer; broadcast ABC Melbourne 1/23/92

Warren Burt: excerpts from Rewi Poems
a. Dedication
b. Stopover at Chang Ja Yaotse
c. Kashgar, 1957
d. Old Men, New Man
Poems of Rewi Alley
Sonic Gallery/2006
reader: John Britton; musical setting: W. Burt; texts: R. Alley

SET TWO
The Art of Noise: Opus 4
In Visible Silence
Chrysalis Records/1986

Pamela Z: Pop Titles You
A Delay Is Better
Starkland Records/2004

Pamela Z: Declaratives in First Person
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2008

Laurie Anderson:
a. Democratic Way
b. If You Can't Talk About It, Point To It
(For Ludwig Wittgenstein and Reverend Ike)
United States Live
Warner Bros./1984

David Evan Jones: Writing Out Loud
60 x 60--2003 #
Vox Novus/2004

Andre Cormier: 380
60 x 60--2005 #
Vox Novus/2006

Robert Ashley: The Angel of Loneliness
Dust
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
voice: Sam Ashley; chorus: Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara, Thomas Buckner, R. Ashley; synthesizer: "Blue" Gene Tyranny; electronics: R. Ashley; Tom Hamilton

SET THREE
Meredith Monk: Little Breath
Impermanence
ECM New Series/2008
voices: Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger, Allison Sniffin, M.Monk; bass clarinet: Bohdan Hailash; elephant bells: John Hollenbeck

Meredith Monk: Walking Song
Volcano Songs
ECM New Series/1997
voices: Katie Geissinger, M. Monk

Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source--Music of the Avant Garde
Pogus Productions/2009
Source Record No. 6, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1971; Recorded at the Electronic Music Studio,
Goldsmith College for Source

Gamelan Son of Lion: Music Box (J. Kruskal)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2008

SET FOUR
Susan Botti: from Cosmosis--
a. Interlude
b. the 2nd Night
Brooklyn Bridge #
Equilibrium/2005
University of Michigan Symphony Band, conductor: Michael Haithcock;
Women of the University of Michigan Chamber Choir,
director: Jerry Blackstone; soprano: S. Botti; text: Mary Swenson

George Crumb: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (trad.)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol.13: American Songbooks II & IV
Bridge Records/2008
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman

SET FIVE
Edmund Campion: Domus Aurea
Outside Music
Albany Records/2008
vibraphone: William Winant; piano: Julia Steinberg

Roland Auzet: Losing Touch (E. Campion)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2007

SET SIX
Alwin Nicolais: Blank on Blank--Excerpt
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993

Diane Labrosse: Manual Coffee Mill
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
Actullecd.com/2007
violin: Marie-Soleil Belanger; viola: Jean Rene

Jacques Tremblay: Espresso espressivo
Chroniques d'une Seduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

SET SEVEN
Sylvia Smith: Mureau (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
Smith Publications/2008
text: Henry David Toreau

David Tudor/John Cage: Rainforest II/Mureau (excerpt)
Rainforest II/Mureau
New World Records/2000
text: Henry David Thoreau

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