Saturday, September 19, 2009

Martian Gardens for 9/20/2009

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 September 20, 2009

SET ONE
Jon Rose: The Chemical Contents of the Waters & Spells for Cures
The Fence/Bagni di Dolabella
ReR Megacorp/1998
The Orchestra of Ancient Guts, conducted by Dr. Johannes Rosenberg; voice: Sabine Sacchi; text: ancient Roman document; recorded in Rome, September 1993

John Young: from Ricordiamo Forli (Let's Remember Forli)
a. In Piazza Saffi
b. Interlude 1
c. Bitter Room
d. Ancient Tear

Lieu-temps
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
environmental recordings from Forli, Emilia-Romagni, Italy; narrator: Franco Bianchini; text (d): Giosu Carducci, reciter: Tarcisia Young; realized at De Montfort University, 2005

SET TWO
Sylvia Smith: In Hours Like These (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
orchestra bells, speaking voice: Sylvia Smith; singing voice: Christie Finn; text: Vladimir Mayaovky, "It's After One"

Stuart Saunders Smith:
a. Hearing Links
b. Links No. 5 (Sitting on the Edge of Nothing)

The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
a. narrator: Sylvia Smith; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC, January 2008; b. vibraphone: Aiyun Huang; offstage glockenspiel, chimes, percussion: Fabio Oliveira, A. Huang; recorded at Warren Studio A, UCSD, August 2008

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: Extensions 4
First Recordings--1950s
Mode Records/1999
pianos: Philipp Vandre; recorded in Frankfurt, 1996

Dean Rosenthal: For Morton Feldman
Dean Rosenthal CD-R 2009
voice sample: Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman: Three Clarinets, Cello, and Piano
Voices & Instruments
Mode Records/2002
The Barton Workshop; recorded in the Netherlands, 2000

SET FOUR
Robert Helps: Fanfares (I. Dahl)
New Music for the Piano
CRI/2001 (orig. 1971)

Eric Moe: Valse Mirage (R. Helps)
The Waltz Project Revisted -- New Waltzes for Piano
Albany Records/2004
recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2002

Michael Jon Fink: Two Pieces for Piano Solo
The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue #
Cold Blue Music/2003
recorded in Los Angeles, 1982

Xiting Yang: My Visiting Card
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Mark Vernon: The Indecisive Moment
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Dean Rosenthal: Sinfonieren
Dean Rosenthal CD-R 2009
voice sample: "Black is the Color," Cathy Berberian; arr. Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio: from Folk Songs
a. Black is the Color
b. I wonder as I wander

The Great Works For Voice
Mode Records/1995
soprano: Christine Schadeberg; Musician's Accord, conductor: Tania Leon; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC, 1/06/95

Margaret Lancaster: Have Faith! (J. Beyer)
Io
New World Records/2009
soprano: Beth Griffith; flute: M. Lancaster; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, July 2008

Johanna Beyer: Bees
Sticky Melodies
New World Records/2008
piano: Peter Dumsday; recorded in Melbourne, November 2008

SET FIVE
Evan Parker & Ned Rothenberg: The Artist's Response?
Live at Roulette
Animul Records/2007
soprano saxophone: E. Parker; alto saxophone: N. Rothenberg; recorded at The Roulette, NYC, 10/10/06

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Moment's Energy, Part 4
The Moment's Energy
ECM Records/2009
Eelectro-Acoustic Ensemble -- 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

Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton/Marilyn Crispell:
a. and the tints
b. a deeper red

Natives and Aliens
Leo Records/2001
saxophones> E. Parker; bass: B. Guy; percussion: P. Lytton; piano: M. Crispell; recorded at Gateway Studios, London, 5/24/96

SET SIX
Vincent Bergeron: Aux Limites
Le Savant Devait Arriver Avant Songeur
Vincent Bergeron/2008
voice: Vivika Eriksson; guitars: Marco Oppedisano; saxophones: Marco Rosano; trutruca: Markus Breuss

Vincent Bergeron/Berger Rond: Audiomachie
Audiomachia/Logomachie
Vincent Bergeron/2008
voice: Vivika Eriksson; drums: Jorg Fischer; Frederic Szymanski, Bob Marsh: other instruments; additional voice: Amy Kohn; recorded in Montreal, 2009

Marco Oppedisano: Three Short Electronic Pieces
a. What's that Noise?
b. Did You Hear That
c. The End is Near
Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar
OKS Recordings of North America/2007

Arie Shapira: Illabi-Illabi
Electronics Plus
Arie Shapira/2000
soprano: Narda Moria; violin: Ron Porat; text: Shaul Tchernichovsky, "Sachki-Sachki"

SINGLE PLAY
Risto Holopainen: Mechanical Magpies
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Martian Gardens for 9/13/2009

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 September 13, 2009

SET ONE
J.B. Floyd/Thomas Buckner/George Marsh:
a. In Crossing the Busy Street
b. He Took A Cup From The Smiling Proprieter
c. In A Deli Off Times Square

In Crossing the Busy Street
Mutable Music/2009
piano: J.B. Floyd; baritone: Thomas Buckner; text: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Mooore

Robert Ashley: from Celestial Excursions , Act II
a. The List
b. Asylum/Depression
c. Asylum/What about the Kids?
d. Asylum/Baguette
e. Asylum/Love That Stuff

Celestial Excursions
Lovely Music, Ltd./2005
singers: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara, R. Ashley; text: R. Ashley; piano: Blue Gene Tyranny; electronics, processing: Tom Hamilton, R. Ashley

J.B. Floyd: New York, New York (From--A Hundred Little 3-D Pictures)
Transporting Transmittance
Mutable Music/2003
piano: J.B. Floyd; baritone: Thomas Buckner; text: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Mooore

Margaret Lancaster: from Piker (L. Polansky)
a. Daughter of Piker
b. I Know You!
c. You're No Piker!
d. You're A Piker!

Io
New World Records/2009
solo piccolo: M. Lancaster; sections a, b, and d are based on the following Shaker tunes: a. "Love, More Love," b. "O the Simple Gifts of God," and "Little Trumpet," d. "Hop Up and Jump Up"

SINGLE PLAY
Edmund Campion: A Complete Wealth of Time
Outside Music
Albany Records/2008
pianos: Gloria Cheng, Vicki Ray

SET TWO
Andrew Byrne: For piano Crotales and Glockenspiel (from Part III: Desert Weather)
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
piano: Stephen Gosling; percussion: David Shively

Drew Krause: Ding
Ding
Capstone Records
McCormick Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Robert McCormick; piano: D. Krause
recorded April, 2000, Springs Theatre, Tampa


Morris Palter: Tire Tike Dha (J. Dillon)
Remedy
Centaur Records/2000
solo percussion: M. Palter

SET THREE
MICE: Kanja
MICE World Tour
EcoSono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble, director: Matthew Burtner

Scott Wilson: Gotlandic Miscellanea
Deep Wireless 6--Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009

Jonty Harrison: Streams (1st 1/2)
Environs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

SET FOUR
Marcelle Deschenes:
a. Big Bang II
b. Big Bang III

petits Big Bangs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2006

Laurie Spiegel: Immersion
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

SET FIVE
Henry Brant: December 8, 1900, Galveston Bay
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 5 -- Atlantic Hurricanes
Innova Recordings/2006
Musicians of Stetson University, Florida, conductors: H. Brant, Amy Snyder, et al.

Gerard Pape: Ascension Au Purgatoire (parts I, II, IV)
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
percussion: Roland Auzet, Stochos programming: Sinan Bokesoy; CCMIX assistant: Stefan Tieje

SINGLE PLAY
Kenneth Gaburo: Maledetto (excerpt)
Maledetto/Antiphony VIII
Pogus Productions/2008
narrator: Alan Johnson; duet: Elinor Barron, Bruce Liebig; quartet: soprano: Winifried Golden, alto: Linda Vickerman, tenor, Howard Crook, bass: Philip Larson; directed by K. Gaburo; text: K. Gaburo

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