Friday, June 5, 2009

Martian Gardens for 6/07/2009

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 JUNE 7, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Composition Project for Seniors
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007

SET ONE
Musicians of STSI Surakarta: Ladrang Golong (pelog lima)
Gamelan of Central Java -- III. Modes and Timbres
Felmay/2004
director: Joko Purwanto; recorded at STSI 7/23/03

David Rosenboom: Section VII (Impression)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims
New World Records/2009
piano in Pelog tuning: D.Rosenboom; pemade: I Nyoman Wenten; jegog, calung: William Winant; recorded live at CalArts 12/14/08

SET TWO
Iannis Xenakis: Tetras
Complete String Quartets
Mode Records/2009
The JACK Quartet; recorded at WDR studios, Koln, November, 2008

Arie Shapira: String Quartet
Different Compositions 1967--2003
unreleased
The Israeli Quartet for Contemporary Music; recorded at Haifa University 12/03/03

SET THREE
Sylvia Smith:
a. A Flower (J. Cage)
b. The Year Begins To Be Ripe (J. Cage; text: H.D. Thoreau)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: S. Smith; closed piano: Christie Finn

John Cage: The Year Begins To Be Ripe
Litany For The Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002
voice: Paul Hillier; closed piano: Alan Bennett; text: Henry David Thoreau

John Cage/Joan La Barbara: A Flower
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; closed piano: William Winant

John Cage: Seven Haiku (I-VII)
The Piano Works 6
Mode Records/2005
piano: Martine Joste

Gordon Mumma: from Gestures II/Mographs
a. Very Small Size Mograph (two hands)
b. Gestures II, section X
c. Gestures II, section 7
d. Very Small Size Mograph (four hands)
e. Very Small Size Mograph (four pianos, four hands)

David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
pianos: G. Mumma, D. Tudor; archival recordings

Morton Feldman:
a. Projection III
b. Intersection III
Composing by Numbers--The Graphic Scores 1950-1967
Mode Records/2005
pianos: Frank Denyer (a,b); F. Denyer, Philip Corner (a)

SET FOUR
Ann Cantelow: Memory of Loss
60 x 60 -- 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Alice Shields: Sacrifice
Apocalypse--An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993

Mike Vernusky & Greg Romero: Radio Ghosts (excerpt)
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: Future Remembrance
60 x 60 -- 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

SET FIVE
Ellen Band/David Lee Myers:
a. Ualen Lagoon (part 3)
b. Cape Uiqven (part 2)
Two Ships
Pogus Productions/2005

Jorge Antunes:
History of a People that will be Born or
Open-Letter to Vassilis Vassilikos and to
all the Pessimists, Parts II and III

Electroacoustic Music Vol. VII #
Electroshock Records/2002

Gen Ken Montgomery: Shortwave Band
Pondfloorsample
XI Records/2002

SET SIX
Elizabeth McNutt: The Twittering Machine (A. May)
Pipe Wrench -- Flute + Computer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000

Drew Krause: Tweety
Powder -- Computer Music
Innova Recordings/2009
flute: Margaret Lancaster

SINGLE PLAY
Carey Nutman: Victory of Carbon
Tang -- Electronic Music by Carey Nutman
MPS Music & Video/2005


RANDOM 60 x 60:
David Mooney: Exotic Fruits
Piotr Szewczyk: Cosmic Insects
Cezary Ostrowski: Interferences
Benedikt Brydern: Ancient Connections
Robert Voisey: Tongues


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