Saturday, March 27, 2010

Martian Gardens for 03/28/2010

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 28, 2010

SET ONE
Chinary Ung: Oracle
Luminous Spirals
Bridge Records/2010
Da Capo Chamber Players; recorded 11/17/08, UC San Diego

Chinary Ung: Cinnabar Heart
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2010
marimba, voice: Beverly Johnson; Pali text: C. Ung; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, summer 2009

Elliott Carter: Figment V
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
(16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Simon Boyar; recorded 9/22/09, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC

SET TWO
Elliott Carter: Fragment II
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
Arditti Quartet; recorded 2/20/00, St. Peter's Church, NYC

Roger Reynolds: Whispers Out of Time, movement IV --
The Surprise, The Tension are in the Concept
Whispers Out of Time/Transfigured Wind II
New World Records/1991
SONOR solists -- violin: János Négyesy; viola: Yun-Jie Liu; cello: Peter Farrell; contrabass: Bertram Turetzky; The San Diego Symphony Ensemble, conductor: Harvey Sollberger

Elliott Carter: Retrouvailles
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 12/20/00

Roger Reynolds: Epigram and Evolution
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 #
New World Records/2002
piano: Robert Ashley; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, 3/04/61

SET THREE
KIVA: 11 April 1991 (track one) (excerpt)
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
piano: Keith Humble; percussion: Jean-Charles François; trombone, violin: John Silber; violin, viola: Mary Oliver; recorded at the Center for Music Experiment, UC San Diego, 4/11/91

Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (CD 2, track two) (excerpt)
Treatise
Mode Records/2009
The QUaX Ensemble, director: Petr Kotik; recorded in Prague, 1967


SET FOUR
David Congo: Invention 1:16
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2009
recorded June 2009, West Springfield, Mass.

David Congo: Chronos II
Society of Composers, Inc. "Soundscapes" #
Capstone Records/2004

John Bischoff: Quarter Turn
Meridian Music -- Earth Music #
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, 2/05/99

The Hub: The Glass Hand (J. Bischoff)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
recorded for "Mob Ecstasy," KPFA-FM, Berkeley, 3/07/94

SET FIVE
Bill Alves: Redundant I
The Terrain of Possibilities
Electronic Music Foundation/1988
processed soprano: Eva Vazzana; text: Mark R. Harborth; Harvey Mudd College, 1985

ZNR: Seynète
Barricade 3
ReR Megacorp/1993
vocal, VC3, director: Hector Zazou; piano: Joseph Racaille; violins: Gilly Bell; bass clarinet: Patrick Portella; flute: David Rueff; tenor saxophone: Andre Jaume; recorded January, 1976, Gilly Bell studio, Ventabren, Bouches-du-Rhône

Erik Santos: Yuutsu Tatsumaki (Romance by the Sea)
KUU -- Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007
sample source: Suyuan sa Dagat by Rosendo Ejercito Santos, Jr.

SET SIX
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
female voice source material: Poppy Holden, Pippa Pierce; male voice source material: T. Wishart, Hugh Bernays; interrogator's voice source material: Graham Treacher; organic and mechanical sounds: T. Wishart; recorded at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May 1973 -- May 1977

Lab Report: Shoot and/or Defenestrate
Excision
Invisible Records/1997

Christian Banasik: Glass Cutter
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Mark Snyder: Alluvium
Messy
Mark Snyder/2009
recorded at Cleveland, Miss.

William Price: 2 Days in the Tank
Electoacoustic Works
William Price/cd-r compiled 2004
realized at Louisian State University, Birmingham; voice: W. Price; text: Charles Bukowski, "The Drunk Tank Judge"

SINGLE PLAY
John Young: Arriverderci
Lieu-temps (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
Stroma ensemble, conductor: Hamis McKeich; recorded at Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, NZ, 7/20/06

--FIN--

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Martian Gardens for 03/21/2010

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 21, 2010

SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Estancia
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010

Marco Cappelli: Amygdala (E. Sharp)
EGP -- Extreme Guitar Project
Mode Records/2006

SET TWO
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
16 Compositions, 2002-2009
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded 2/12/09, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory


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, voice, objects; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC

SINGLE PLAY
Glenn Gould: The Idea of North (excerpt)
The Solitude Trilogy (1967-1977)
CBC/1992
for five speaking voices

SET THREE
Larry Austin: Canadian Coastlines -- Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 19 -- The Composer in the Computer Age IV
A Larry Austin Retrospective 1967-1994
Centaur Records/1994
CBC Radio Ensemble, recorded live for "Two New Hours," 5/01/81, CBC Radio

Lawrence Moss: Into the Woods
Unseen Leaves -- Music for Electronics and Instruments
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: William Montgomery; recorded at Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, 2000

SET FOUR
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
female voice source material: Poppy Holden, Pippa Pierce; male voice source material: T. Wishart, Hugh Bernays; interrogator's voice source material: Graham Treacher; organic and mechanical sounds: T. Wishart; recorded at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May 1973 -- May 1977

KIVA: Two Poems of the Absurd & Two Poems on the Absurd
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
Tape collage by John Silber of KIVA performances -- DX7 synthesizer, voice, electronics: Keith Humble; percussion, voice, electronics: Jean-Charles François; violin: Mary Oliver; trombone, violin: John Silber; sampled voice: Antonin Artraud ("To Have Done With the Judgment of God," 1947); computer vocoder manipulation of J. Silber's sounds: Eric Lyon; original recordings 1987-1990, UC San Diego

SET FIVE
Felix Werder: Banker (2nd 1/2)
The Tempest
Pogus Productions/2007
synthesizers: F. Werder, Keith Humble; percussion: John Seale; guitar: Jochen Schubert; piano: Dennis Henning; realized by Peter Mumme (orig. release 1973)

Robert Ashley and Paul De Marinis: In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt)
In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women
Lovely Music, Ltd./2002
text: John Barton Wolgamot; voice: R. Ashley, electronics: P. De Marinis; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1973

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies XI-XIV
Rational Melodies
New World Records/2009
Dedalus ensemble; director: Didier Aschour; recorded at the Muse en Circuit studio,
Paris, 10/06/08


--FIN--