Martian Gardens for 5/24/2009

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 MAY 24, 2009

SET ONE
Iannis Xenakis: Tetora
String Quartets
Mode Records/2009
The JACK Quartet

The Arditti Quartet: Funf Satze (extracts) (A. Webern)
I. Heftig bewegt
II. Sehr langsam
III. Sehr bewegt
The Arditti Quartet 1974--1994
Auvides/1994

SET TWO
Neil Rolnick: from The Economic Engine
a. Traffic
b. Farm to Factory
c. Opaque Air
The Economic Engine
Innova Recordings/2009
Music from China ensemble & The Todd Reynolds String Quartet

James Mobberley: Dim Sum
a. Ashtrays at Sun Moon Lake
b. Peaceful Sailing, Serene Waters
c. Big Fat Smilin' Buddha
Music of James Mobberley
Unreleased
Music from China ensemble

SET THREE
Respect Sextet: Lights on a Satellite (S. Ra)
Sirius Respect -- The Respect Sextet Play the Music of Sun Ra & Stockhausen
Mode Records/2009

Annie Gosfield: Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
http://www.tzadik.com//2004
violin: George Kentros; satellite & radio transmissions: A. Gosfield

Respect Sextet: Set Sail for the Sun (K. Stockhausen)
Sirius Respect -- The Respect Sextet Play the Music of Sun Ra & Stockhausen
Mode Records/2009

SET FOUR
David Rosenboom: Section II (Symmetrical Harmonies in Chaotic Orbits)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock had Landed on the Pilgrims
New World Records/2009

Richard Pinhas/Heldon: Back to Heldon
Heldon I-Electronique Guerilla/Heldon II-It's Always Rock 'n' Roll
Cuneiform Records/1995 (orig. 1974-1975)

SET FIVE
Phil Kline: The Housatonic at Henry Street
Around the World in a Daze (DVD)
Starkland/2009

Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Negativland: Sycamore
Escape from Noise
SST/1987

Pierre Desmarais: EnvironMentally Sound
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Daniel Echenbaum: Car Accident
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004

Aaron Acosta: Traffic Under 60
ibid.

The Skein: Jingle Bitch
Cities and Eyes
Henceforth Records/2009

Mark Eden: Cremation Science
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Innova Recordings/2009

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: What Fell Through
Local Customs
Mutable Music/2009
flute: Jacqueline Martelle; clarinets: Richard Cohen; trombone: James Martin; contrabass: Terry Kppenburger; percussion: Rich O'Donnell;
electronic harmony generator: T. Hamilton

SET SIX
Morton Feldman: For Christian Wolff (excerpt)
For Christian Wolff
Bridge Records2008
The California E.A.R. Unit

John Luther Adams: In A Room
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Cloud Gazing
Sanctum
Electronic Music Foundation/2007

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Martian Gardens for 5/17/2009

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 MAY 17, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Bang on a Can: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory (A. Gosfield)
a. Part I
b. Part II
Bang on a Can Classics
Cantaloupe Music/2002

SET ONE
James Mobberley: Vox Metallica
Music of James Mobberley
(unreleased)

Frank Zappa: G-Spot Tornado
Jazz from Hell
Rykodisk/1986

Roger Kleier: Interlude (So Long Shea)
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009

Frank Zappa: Telephone Conversation
We're Only In It for the Money
Rykodisk/1986 (orig. 1967)

James Mobberley: Aspenglow
Music of James Mobberley
(unreleased)

Alwin Nikolais: Pierrot--Dance 3
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993

SET TWO
Susan Fancher: Penelope's Song (J. Shatin)
In Two Worlds
Innova Recordings/2009

Maggi Payne: 60x3
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008

Laurie Spiegel: Remembering Home
ibid.

Alice Shields: Study for Voice and Tape
Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
elctronics, voice, and text ("The Sunbather"): A. Shields

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995
soprano: Bethany Beardsley; text: John Hollander,Based on the legend
of Procne and Philomel from the sixth book of Metamorphoses by Ovid.
In honor of Dr. Babbitt's 93rd birthday (b. May 10, 1916)

SET THREE
Mary Simoni: Doxology
Alternating Currents--Electronic Works from the University of Michigan #
Centaur Records/2000

Hildegurls: Act III (Hildegarde/E. Beglarian)
Electric Ordo Virtutum
Innova Recordings/2009
adapted from Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum

SET FOUR
Garth Knox: La Valse de la Vineuse
Viola Spaces
Mode Records/2009
clarinet: Carol Robinson; violin: Nathalie Chabot; cello: Agnes Vesterman
G. Knox: Viola d'Amore

Chaya Czernowin: String Quartet
Afatsim
Mode Records/1999
Arditti String Quartet, featuring Garth Knox, Viola

SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Creshevsky/Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2008
violin samples: M. Kimura

Mari Kimura: ComeCryWithMe (M. Paranosic)
Polytopia
Bridge Records/2007

Milica Paranosic: Lulla
a. Closer I
b. Kukka
c. Waltz
d. Closer II
Electrocoustic Music Volume VIII #
Electroshock Records/2002

SET SIX
The Skein: Jingle Bitch
Cities and Eyes
Henceforth Records/2009

Taxonomy: Solenne-Vivo
10 Taxonomical Movements
actullecd.com/2009

Laurie Anderson: Time To Go
Women in Electronic Music 1977 #
New World Records/2006 (orig. 1977)
guitar, organ: Scott Johnson; voice, violin: L. Anderson

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