Martian Gardens for 12/18/2011

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Program for December 18, 2011

SET ONE
Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music [Randall/Vercoe/Dodge]
Nonesuch/1974
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Barry Vercoe: Synapse for Viola and Computer
Computer Works [Winham/Vercoe/Hoffman/Gressel]
CRI/1978
viola: Marcus Thompson; realized at the M.I.T. Experimental Electronic Music Studio

Frances White: A veil barely seen
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen; electroacoustics: F. White

SET TWO
Charles Dodge: Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
New Albion Records/1992
tenor: Enrico Caruso (sourced from Ruggerio Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci," aria: "Vesti la Giuba"); piano: Alan Feinberg

ZNR: Seynette
Barricade 3
ReR Megacorp/1994 (orig. 1977)
synthesizer, voice: Hector Zazou; piano: Joseph Racaille; violin: Gilly Bell; bass clarinet: Patrick Portella; flute: David Rueff; tenor saxophone: Andre Jaume; recorded at Gilly Bell's studio, Ventabren (Bouches-du-Rhône), France, January 1976

Hervé Zénouda: Reflets Fauves
Demain, dès l'aube...
Trace Label/2002
electric guitar: Thomas Petit; piano, percussion, electronics: H. Zénouda; recorded at Sudio de la Rotonde, Châtenay-Malabry, France

Arie Shapira: Ex Machina
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004
guitar: Ruben Serussi; electronic tape: Arie Shapira; recorded in Israel

SET THREE
Elainie Lillios: Listening Beyond...
Entre espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studio of the Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, 2007; premiered at the High Voltage concert in the Recital Hall at Louisiana State University, 12/03/07

Sarah Peebles: Nocturnal Premonitions
Music from Nature [various artists]
Terra Nova/1997

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme,
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recored at the Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music Studio, France, 2001

SET FOUR
James Corrêa: O jardim dos caminhos que se bifurcam
Plural [Corrêa & Miranda]
Fumproarte/2002
classical guitar, electronics: J. Corrêa; recorded at the Dreher Studio, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002

Adolfo Núñez: Jurel
Electroacoustic Music CD-R
Adolfo Núñez/2004
musique concrete sourced from flamenco performances; recorded at the studio of Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges, France, 1993

Alfredo Lagos/Giovanni Venosta/Massimo Mariani: Estudio sobre el ritmo
Metamorphoses
ReR Megacorp/1999
Spanish guitar: A. Lagos; treatments, engineering: G. Venosta, M. Mariani; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, July 1997

SET FIVE
Marco Capelli and Sintax Error: Selections from
In the Shadow of No Towers
a. The Flag
b. Maus 1
c. Maus 2
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narrator: John Turturro; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; recorded at Musicisti Associati, Naples, 2008 and Harvestworks, New York City, 2011

Heiner Goebbels: Selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 2: Gertrude Stein texts
a. Just Like That
b. On the Road
c. And We Said Goodbye
d. On the Radio
e. Different Nations
f. Out Where the West Begins*/Train Travelling
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten [Landscape with Distant Relatives]
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; SWR Baden-Baden
*music and lyrics: Arthur Chapman (1917)

Little Bang Theory: Dmitri Rides Again
Toy Suites and Themes
Transmogrification/2011
toys, whistling: F. Pahl; toys, voice: Terri Sarris; toys, drums: Dough Shimmin

Tom Waits: Russian Dance
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
Emax strings: Tom Waits; cello: Matt Brubeck; viola: Linda Deluca; bass: Bill Douglas; boots: Kathleen Brennan, Clive Butters, Tom Waits, Francis Thumm, Joe Marquez; recorded at Prairie Sun Recording Studios, Cotati, California

Tom Waits: Poor Little Lamb
Orphans -- Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Anti-/2006
performed by Tom Waits (voice, accordion); originally appearing in the 1987 motion picture "Ironweed"

Frank Pahl: The Mid-Century Modern Waltz
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
upright Vose piano, various noise-making objects: F. Pahl

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: Return -- A Triumph of Reason, part I
a. Beginning of the Universe
b. Earth, the beginning of our solar system
c. Descending Dance
d. Chord dance: Dance of Destruction
e. 12 b.c.
f. Comet
g. Giotto
h. 1862--Halley
i. CODA--return
j. D Major
The Key to Songs
New Albion Records/1986
Yamaha Computer Assisted Music Systems: M. Subotnick; recorded at the Enterprise, Burbank, California

SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Anticredos (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
performed by Songcircle, director: Gregory Rose; recorded in the Music Center, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March/April, 1982

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/11/2011

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Program for December 11, 2011

HAPPY 103rd BIRTHDAY, ELLIOTT CARTER! DECEMBER 11, 1908

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 2/12/09

SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Sound Fields
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Oliver Knussen; recorded at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh, England, 6/20/09

Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano and Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
The Arditti Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY Purchase, 12/07/98

SET TWO
John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion Records/1994
prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 1993

Ingram Marshall: Introduction
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1991
piano, synthesizer: I. Marshall

Philip Glass: Metamorphosis Two
Solo Piano
CBS/1989
piano: P. Glass

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro
a. Kunsonoro kaj Gloro
b. Strofo 1
c. Strofo 2
d. Strofo 3
e. Strofo 4
f. Strofo 5
g. Strofo 6
h. Strofo 7
i. Mantro kaj Konsonoro
New Albion Records/1988
The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of the University of California at Berkeley, director: Philip Brett; text: the Heart Sūtra; harp: Karen Gottlieb; organ: Agnes Sauerbeck; American Gamelan -- Don R. Baker, Scott Evans, Gino Robari Forlin, Todd Manley, Peter Thielen; director: William Winant; gamelan builder: William Colvig; technician: Ron Engel; recorded at Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, November 7-8, 1987

SET THREE
Heiner Goebbels: selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 1: Gertrude Stein texts
a. The Sirens
b. In the 19th Century
c. Well Anyway
d. Did It Really Happen?
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; tonmeister: Max Federhofer, SWR Baden-Baden

John Young: selections from Ricordiamo Forlì
a. In Piazza Saffi
b. Interlude I
c. Bitter Storm
d. Ancient Tear
Lieu-temps
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
narrator: Franco Bianchini; text (Ancient Tear): Giosuè Carducci, "Pianto Antico." "Ricordiamo Forlì" was realized in 2005 in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and premiered on Radio New Zealand’s ConcertFM program, 7/25/06.

SET FOUR
Charles Amirkhanian: Church Car, Version 2
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voices: C. Amirkhanian, Anthony J. Gnazzo; recorded at California State University, Hayward, 1980

Pamela Z: 50 (for Charles Amirkhanian)
A Delay is Better
Starkland Records/2004
voice: Pamela Z

Daniel Lentz: You Can't See the Forest...Music
Cold Blue [various artists]
Cold Blue Music/2002 (orig. 1984)
for three speaker-drinkers, three malleted wine glasses, and red wine, cascading echo system; performers: D. Lentz, Garry Eister, Stan Carey

Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (Matthews/Ping/Klucevsek)
Play Nice
O.O. Dics/1999
voice: Jon Smith; gopichan: Eve Beglarian; text: adapted from a Chinese tea package: arr. Eve Beglarian recorded at Baby Monster, New York City

Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 1
b. Northern Lights 2
Facing North
ECM Records/1992
voice, piano, organ, pitch pipe: M. Monk; voice, pitch pipe: Robert Een; recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, April 1992

SET FIVE
James Tenney: Beast
Modern American Bass [various artists]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts; August 2006

James Tenney: Percussion Response (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Inderterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, February 2007

SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Postal Pieces
New World Records/2004
percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in the Netherlands, 2003

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/04/2011

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Program for December 4, 2011

SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Look She Said (I-V)
Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass)
Mode Records/2002
bass, voice: Robert Black; recorded at Millard Auditorium, Hartt School, University of Hartford; 1/04/00

Joseph Iadone: Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
a. Con moto
b. Adagio
c. Scherzo
Modern American Bass [various composers]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; piano: John McDonald; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, August, 2006

SET TWO
Arthur Kreiger: Dance for Sarah
Electronic Works [Kreiger/Matthews/Tanenbaum]
New World Records - CRI/1982
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1976


Arthur Kreiger: Voyage
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
Buchla Synthesizers, electronics; premiered at the WBAI Free Music Store, NYC, 10/10/76

Péter Eötvös: Electrochronicle (Session: June 8, 1974)
Electrochronicle
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
stereo tape, live session recorded by WDR in 1974; electronics, electric organ: Péter Eötvös; electric organ: Mesias Maiguashca


Roxanne Turcotte: from Musée sonore (Sound Museum)
a. Est-ce que je rêve? (Am I Dreaming?)
b. Télé réalité (Reality TV)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at Productions RTM, 2003-2004, for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005

SET THREE
Mark Applebaum: Scipio Wakes Up (and Smells the Coffee)
Intellectual Property
Innova Recordings/2006
for 6 electroacoustic sound-sculptures (the Micro Mice), with electronic drumset, electronic marimba, violin, and bassoon; performance: The Paul Dresher Ensemble; electronic keyboards and sound sculptures: Phil Aaberg, Paul Dresher; violin and sound sculptures: Craig Fry; bassoon and sound sculptures: Paul Hanson; electronic marimba and sound sculptures: Amy Knoles; electronic drumset and sound sculptures: Gene Reffkin; recorded live at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, 4/20/96 and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 5/31/96

Mark Applebaum: Scipio ReMix
The Janus ReMixes -- Excercises in Auto-Plundering
Innova Recordings/1999
computer processing: Mark Applebaum

Herbert Brün: Wayfaring Sounds
Wayfaring Sounds -- Compositions for Instruments with Tape
Electrnic Music Foundation/1998
recorded at the Siemens Studio for electronic music, Munich, 1962

SET FOUR
Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta: Rozart
Digital Music
Mode Records/1990
electronics: E. Pimenta; sourced voice: Enrico Caruso; realized during E. Pimenta's participation on the Loop Committee for a performance of John Cage's Rozart Mix in New York City, 1989

Jorge Antunes: Hombres Tristes...*
Música Electroacústica Brasileira Vol. II [various artists]
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/1999
computers, synthesizer: J. Antunes; recorded at the Laboratorio de informática y electrónica Musical, CDMC, Madrid, summer 1998
*full title: Hombres Tristes Y Sin Titulo Rodeados De Pajaros En Noche Amarilla, Violeta Y Naranja [inspired by Joan Miró]

SET FIVE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba I
Southern Cones -- Music Out of Africa and South America
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
realized in at the University of York, 1990

Drew Krause: Lounge Hell
Powder
Innova Recordings/2007
realized in 2001, mastered at Legacy Sound, New Rochelle, September 2005

Barbara Held: The Well
Power and Responsibility: Converted to Streaming Between Machines
Leonardo Music Journal Volume 9 [various artists]
Electronic Music Foundation/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Blends
Blends
New Albion Records/2002
shakuhachi: Katsuya Yokoyama; Micromoog and Polymoog synthesizers: R. Teitelbaum; tabla and percussion: Trilok Gurtu; recorded at A&R Studios, New York City, 1983

SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Golem I
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 2 [various artists]
iEAR Studios at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1988
computer music performance system: R. Teitelbaum; realized 1987
--FIN-

Martian Gardens for 11/27/2011

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Program for November 27, 2011

SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Palace Music (from Suite for National Steel Guitar)
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California 7/15/04

John Schneider/Just Strings: Three Intrusions [H. Partch]
I. The Rose
II. The Crane
III. The Waterfall
Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003
Adapted Guitar, voice: John Schneider; Diamond Marimba: Gene Sterling; texts: Ella Young (I, III), Tsurayuki (II)

Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Timbres Artificiales
Fragments of the Past
New Albion Records/2004
guitar: Jaime Marquez; recorded at Mahler Sound, Miami, Florida, April 2003

SET TWO
Dan Joseph: Wind Patterns
Tonalization (for the Afterlife)
Mutable Music/2011
hammer dulcimer: Dan Joseph; flute: Leah Paul; recorded at Spin Studios, Long Island City; July 2010

Martin Bresnick:
a. Farandula de Politicos -- Contra el Bien General
b. Farandula de Populacho
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, New Haven, 4/02/09

Larry Polansky: Rue Plats (Resting Place) (for Ben Johnston)
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
guitars: Toon Callier; harp: Jutta Troch; live guitar tuning, percussion: Jeroen Stevens; voice: W. Victor; text, melody: Morris Rosenfeld

Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
text: Federico Garcia Lorca, "Bodas de Sangre" (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 1995

SET THREE
Peter Zummo: Fresh Batteries
Experimenting with Household Chemicals
XI Records/1995
trombone, voice: Peter Zummo; amplified cello, keyboard bass, voice: Arthur Russell; marimba, voice: Bill Ruyle; recorded at various locations 1987-1991

Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975

Piero Milesi: Avanti La Tre
Within Himself
Cuneiform Records/2000
programming, keyboards: P. Milesi; sound effects, video: Luca Scarzella; recorded at Deffenu Recording Studio, Milan, 1991

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
vocals, trumpet: Susan Watts, clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontorovich; violin, vocals: Amy Zakar; bass, vocals: Heather Chriscaden Versace; tenor sax, alto sax: Audrey Betsy Welber; trumpet: Ben Holmes; piano: Adrian Banner; drums: Gregg Mervine; samples: The Klez Dispensers

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba X
Desde El Otro Lado -- Electroacoustic from Latin America (various artists)
O.O. Discs/1998

Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008
premiered in 1970 at the Osaka World's Fair for the Federation of Iron and Steel Companies' pavilion

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Les trois petits c… (A Woman in Berlin)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2010 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio in Ohain (Belgium) and at the composer’s studio and premiered on May 25, 2011; premiered at Trois visages des musiques électroacoustiques: musique électroacoustique et videomusique, Espace Senghor, Brussels

SET FIVE
Ragnar Grippe: Musique Douze
International Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records - CRI/1976
realized at Electronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm, 1975

Lisa Moore: Machine-like, but with some groove (A. Gosfield)
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010

SET SIX
Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms -- The Nerve Events Project (various artists)
Cuneiform Records/1993

Ingram Marshall: Gradual Requiem, Part 3
Fog Tropes
New Albion Records/1988 (orig. 1984)
mandolin: Foster Reed; voice, piano, Serge Modular synthesizer: I. Marshall; recorded at Möbius Studio, San Francisco

Otto Luening: Synthesis for Orchestra and Electronic Sound
Music of Riegger, McPhee & Luening
New World Records - CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor; electronics realized on the RCA synthesizer, synchronized at the Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center (1960)

SINGLE PLAY
Salvatore Martirano: Sampler -- Everything Goes When the Whistle Blows
a. Goes
b. Bnkquan 3
c. Drm 18.3
d. Add 1
e. Whistle, Train, Harpbird
f. BS 2Bak
g. End 1 Go
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 3 [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios and Computer Music Project at
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Centaur Records/1989
yahaSALmaMAC MIDI orchestra: S. Martirano; Zeta violin: Dorothy Martirano; recorded at the University of Illinois School of Music, 1989

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 11/20/2011

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Program for November 20, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely

SET ONE
Haydée Schvartz: An Tasten (A Piano Study)[M. Kagel]
New Piano Music from Europe and The Americas
Mode Records/1993
piano: H. Schvartz; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, January 1992

David Lang: Cello (in memory of Anna Cholakian)
This Was Written by Hand
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: D. Lang; recorded at the Royal College of Music, London, January 2011

Anna Thorvoldsdottir: Hidden -- Rain
Rhízōma
Innova Recordings/2011
percussionist on grand piano: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Music Studios, San Diego

Lisa Moore: Languid and Layered [A. Gosfield]
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010

Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 2
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Steven Sehlman; recorded at Studio 508, University of Baltimore County, May 2008

SET TWO
Daria Semegen: Vignette
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 [various artists]
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Cathy Callis; recorded at Springer Hall, CUNY Staten Island, July 1999

Daria Semegen: Spectra (Electronic Composition No. 2)
Satan's Sermon and Other Electronic Fantasies [various artists]
New World Records - CRI/1980
realized at the Electronic Music Studio, SUNY Stony Brook

Ursula Mamlok: Kontraste
a. Humoresque
b. Largo e mesto
Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; harp: Ursula Holliger; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Köln Kammermusikaal

SET THREE
Meredith Monk: Autumn Variation
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
Todd Reynolds String Quartet; alto saxophone: Bohdan Hilash; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009

Meredith Monk: Do You Be
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, organ: M. Monk; recorded at Schaubuhne am Hallesches Ufer, Berlin, July 1980

Meredith Monk: Mapping
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: M. Monk, Ching Gonzalez; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009

Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
voice, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusik Festival, Berlin, 10/22/78

SET FOUR
Elainie Lillios: Threads
Entre Espaces [Between Spaces]
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the 19th EuCuE concert series at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University in Montréal, 11/13/98

Roxanne Turcotte: Moteur, on tourne![from Musée sonore]
Désordres DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," presented at Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005

Alvin Lucier: Sferics
Sferics and Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
radio signals for composition recorded at Church Park, Colorado, 8/27/81

David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees [excerpt]
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
sound frequencies for composition recorded inside pinyon pine trees, New Mexico, 2005


SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Cartridge Music/11 Instruments
a CAGE of saxophones -- The Works For Saxophone Volumes 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
intersax -- soprano saxophone, artistic director: Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone: Martin Losert, tenor saxophone: Tobias Rüger, baritone saxophone: Reimar Volker; guests -- violin: Burkhard Schlothauer; viola: Johannes Platz; cello: Ulrich Maiß; contrabass: Alexander Frangenheim; piano: Michael Iber; accordion: Gerhard Scherer; percussion: Andreas Peters; recorded at several locations, mastered at the π-Farm, 2004

SET FIVE
François Bayle: Staccato (from Sept Preludes)
Camera Obscura and Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000
recorded at Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris, 1976, revised 2000

Mel Powell: Events for Tape Recorder
Music for Electronic & Older Instruments [Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell]
New World Records - CRI/1968
actors: Mildred Dunnock, Lee Bowman, Martha Scott; text: Hart Crane, "Legend" recorded 1963

Mel Powell: Immobiles (for chamber ensemble with tape)
Settings
New World Records/2003
California EAR Unit -- cello: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, violin: Robin Lorentz, flute: Dorothy Stone, piano: Vicki Ray, clarinet: Marty Walker, percussion: Amy Knoles; recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios, Burbank, California, December 2001

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Fatehpur (excerpt)
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 11/13/2011

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Program for November 13, 2011

SET ONE
David Lang: Cage (In Memory of John Cage) [from Memory Pieces]
This Was Written by Hand
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Andrew Zolinsky; recorded at the Royal College of Music, London, January 2011

Alexander Berne & The Abandoned Orchestra: Flicker IV
Flickers of Mime -- The Death of Memes
Innova Recordings/2011

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Hrím
Rhízōma
Innova Recordings/2011
The CAPUT Ensemble, conductor: Snorri Sigfús Birgisson; recorded at Guðriðarkirkja, Reykjavik

SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Intersection I [1951]
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchrestra, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, November 2010

Colin McPhee: Nocturne [1958]
Riegger/Luening/Mcphee
New World Records - CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor

SET THREE
Pierre Alexandere Tremblay: Ces énigmes lumineuses
Quelques reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the studio of Miso Music Portugal, Lisbon; premiered at the Musica Viva Festival, Instituto Franco-Português, Lisbon, 9/23/10

Davíð Brynjar Franzson: The Principals of Order
A Guide for the Dead through the Underworld
Carrier Records - Deutschlandradio Kultur /2011
performed by Ensemble Adaptor

SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: The Story of Our Lives [1973-1974]
I. We are reading the story of our lives (a)
II. We are reading the story of our lives (b)
III. This morning I woke and believed
IV. Before you woke
V. If only there were a perfect moment in the book
VI. The day goes on
VII. The book will not survive
Synthesized Voices
New World Records - CRI/1976
voice synthesis and text: C. Dodge; realized at the Columbia University Center for Computing Activities and Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University

SET FOUR
Marco Capelli & Sintax Error: from In the Shadow of No Towers
a. TV News
b. Burning Tower I
c. Burning Tower II
d. Burning Tower III
e. Burning Tower IV
f. Finale
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narration: John Turturro; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; concept: M. Capelli; Sintax Error -- guitars, music box, live electronics: M. Capelli; keyboards, live electronics: Daniele Ledda; drums, percussion: Roberto Pelligrini; recorded at Musicisi Associati, Naples (2008); Harvestworks, New York City (2011)

Eve Beglarian: Landscaping for Privacy
Tell the Birds
New World Records/2006
voice, electronics: Eve Beglarian

Paul Burnell: Orange Juice
Deep Wireless 4 - Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2007

Mendi + Keith Obadike: Rodeo Red
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009

SET FIVE
Charles Amhirkhanian: Hypothetical Moments
Mental Radio
New World Records - CRI/1985
voice, ocarina, bells: C. Amhirkhanian; harpsichord (samples): Dennis Russell-Davies; recorded at New Wilderness Foundation, NYC, October 1981

John Giorno: Give It to Me, Baby
10+12:12 American Text Sound Pieces [various artists]
Other Minds/2003 [orig. 1975]
voice: Victoria Smitters; recorded at Giorno's studio, NYC (1967), Moog synthesizer processing: Robert Moog, Trumansberg, NY (1967)

Erik Belgum: Dick Tracy All Over His Body
The Aerial #4 - A Journal in Sound [various artists]
Nonseqitur/1994

Beth Anderson:
a. Yes Sir Ree
b. I Can't Stand It
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voice, texts: B. Anderson; percussion (a): Michael Blair; percussion (b): Wharton Tiers

SET SIX
David Behrman: Statement Against the War
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
voice: Thomas Buckner; trumbone: Peter Zummo; keyboards, electronics:
D. Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton

David Felder: November Sky
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute: Rachel Rudich; computer sounds realized at SUNY Buffalo; recorded at UC San Diego

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/23/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for October 23, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky:
a. Once
b. Jubilate
To Know and Not to Know
Tzadik/2007
a. soprano: Martha Cluver; b. soprano: Beth Griffith, vocal samples: Thomas Buckner

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Voice and Instruments
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
soprano: Martha Cluver; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, November 2010

SET ONE
Craig Shepard: Crêt de la Neuve, le 20 juillet 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser/2011
melodica: Christian Wolff

Sarah Peebles: Blue Moon Spirit
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
shō: Kō Ishikawa; recorded at Studio 246, Tokyo, 4/04/95

Philip Mantione: Valuri
Compilation for Max
P.M./2006
computer music for the installation "Wet Sounds" by Joel Cahen

Charles Wuorinen: ♩=60 (mvt. I. Concerto for Amplified Violin and Orchestra)
The Golden Dance
Albany Records/2004
violin: Paul Zukofsky; Radio-Sinfonie-Orchestra Frankfurt, conductor: Eliahu Inbal; recorded for Hessischer Rundfunk, February 1975

SET TWO
Denis Smalley: Pentes
Sources/scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustics; Northumbrian pipes: uncredited; realized at Ina-GRM, Paris, 1974; premiered at Auditorium 104 — Maison de Radio France, 3/20/75

Roxanne Turcotte:
a. Bourdons enjoués [Cheerful drones]
b. Delirium
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
a. electroacoustics; bagpipes, Breton bombard: Michael Dubeau; realized at the composer's studio; premiered at Festival Synthèse, Bourges, Cher, France, June 2004; b. electroacoustics, realized at the composer's studio; Électro-chocs 4: Travaux électroniques féminins, Salle multimédia — Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, 3/20/11

SET THREE
Ursula Mamlok: Five Capriccios
I. ♪=100
II. ♪=112
III. ♪=92
IV. ♩=104
V. ♪=54
Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; piano: Anton Kernjak; recorded at Radiostudio, Zurich, Switzerland, 2/12/11

Lydia Kavina:
a. Free Music No. 1 (P. Grainger, for four theremins, 1936)
b. Free Music No. 2 (P. Grainger, for six theremins, 1937)
c. Beatless Music (P. Grainger, for six theremins, 1937
Spellbound! Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
theremins: L. Kavina; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, 7/10/00

Otto Luening: Fantasy in Space
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
created at the home of Henry Cowell, Woodstock, NY, 1952

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Track 2 (Suite from "No Exit")
Film Music
New World Records/1990
musique concrète from the film of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit," directed by Orson Welles, 1962; produced by the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Ernö Király: The Sky (Nebo)
Phoenix -- The Music of Ernö Király (Király Ernö)
ReR Megacorp/1995
voice: uncredited; tape: K. Ernö; text: Stevan Raickovic; recorded in Hungary, 1961

Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: Wilma Smith; psaltery, organ, electronics: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard Electronic Music Studio, fall 1981

SET FOUR
J. C. Combs: Trinity 666 - The Last Train to Hell
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
created by J.C. Combs for ImprovFriday

White Noise: The Black Mass -- An Electric Storm in Hell
An Electric Storm
Island Records/1968
electronics: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson, David Vorhaus; percussion: Paul Lytton; vocals: John Whitman, Annie Bird, Val Shaw; recorded at Kaleidophon Studio, Camden Town, 1968

Barton McLean: Demons of the Night
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizers, computers: B. McLean; saxophone "horror licks": Albert Regini

SET FIVE
Ingram Marshall: Holy Ghosts
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2002
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve; live digital delay processing: I. Marshall

Eleanor Hovda: Glacier Track
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve; electric bass: Jack Vees; designed for performance in St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, NYC, acoustics replicated using the Soundfield SPS 422 Studio Microphone System and Lexicon Nuverb Processor, engineer: Arthur Bloom

SINGLE PLAY
Bun Ching-Lam: Lü (Journey)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkundemuseum, Heidelberg, Germany

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/16/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for October 16, 2011

SET ONE
Syntax Error:
a. Nadja's Story 1
b. Nadja's Story 2
c. Nadja's Story 3
d. In the Shadow of No Towers
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narrator: John Turturro; composer (a-d): Daniele Ledda; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; concept: Marco Capelli; recorded at Musicisti, Naples, 2008; Harvestworks, NYC, 2011

Itsnotyouitsme:
It might be a good time to leave this place and go mingle with our heroes
Everybody's Pain is Magnificent
New Amsterdam Records/2011
electric violin, casio sk-1, resonator guitar, effects, voice: Caleb Burhans; electric guitar, acoustic guitar, oud, fender rhodes, effects, voice: Grey McMurray; recorded at Glowing Ocean Studios, Clinton Studios, NYC

SET TWO
Lou Harrison: Serenade for Guitar
a. Round
b. Air
c. Infinite Canon
d. Usul -- Little Homage to Sinan
e. Sonata
Serenado
New Albion Records/2003
guitar: David Tanenbaum; percussion: William Winant (d. Gong, e. finger cymbals, medium drums, e. medium drums)

Lou Harrison: Suite No. 2
a. Jahla in the form of Ductia
b. Adagio, arioso
c. Sonata in Cm
d. A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen
e. Beverly's Troubadour Piece
f. Interview with Harrison and Schneider on Guitar (1981)
Por Gitaro -- Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
guitars, National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; a.-e. recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California, 7/05/04

SET THREE
Lou Harrison: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel
Por Gitaro -- Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harvey Mudd College, Pomona, California, 5/06/07

Bill Alves: Elegy for Lou Harrison
Imbal-Imbalan -- New Music for Gamelan
Spectral Harmonies/2010
HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; cello: Roger Lebow; recorded at Harvey Mudd College

SET FOUR

In memoriam David Gamper 1945 -- 2011

Deep Listening Band: Processional
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
organ, overtone, flutes, electronics: David Gamper; just tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; trombones, didjeridu, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; voice: Julie Lyon Balliet; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, NY, June 1993

Deep Listening Band: Oliveros Gamper Duet
Tosca Salad
Deep Listening/1995
recorded at Trinity Methodist flute, trombone, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper; Church, Kingston, NY, 10/27/94

Zanana: Ghost Dog
Holding Patterns
Deep Listening/2005
trombone, didjeridu, conch, processing: Monique Buzzarté; voice, laptop: Kristin Nordeval; Expanded Instrument System: David Gamper; recorded at Harvestworks Digital Media, NYC

SET FIVE
Deep Listening Band: Metalorgy
The Ready-Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1992
small pipes, metal pieces: Stuart Dempster; voice, long tones: Thomas Eckert; small pipes, metal pieces: Pauline Oliveros; large pipes, metal pieces, voice accents: Panaiotis; recorded at the Cistern Chapel, Ft. Worden Cistern, Olympic Peninsula, WA, February 1990

Chris Brown: Iceberg (for William Winant)
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
crotales, glockenspiel, hi-hat: William Winant; computer-controlled analog electronics, digital delay: Chris Brown; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1989

SET SIX
Philip Mantione: ImXCocteau
Compilation for Max
P.M.
saxophone (source recording): Eric Roberts; desert field recordings; written for the soundtrack of ImXCocteau by Alysse Stepanian

James Tenney: Dialogue
Selected Recordings 1961-1969
New World Records/2003 (orig. Frog Peak Music, 1992)

SET SEVEN
Roxanne Turcotte: Attractions
a. Aurore boréale [Aurora Borealis]
b. Perséides [Perseids]
c. Crépitements et tourments [Crackling and Torment]
d. Profondeurs [Depths]
e. Souffles et alizés [Puffs and Trade Winds]
f. Tour de terre [Earth Trip]
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
installation video: François Doyon; presented at the Café du Monoument-National, Montreal, January, 2005

Natasha Barrett: Water Fall (Microclimate V)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/201
Microclimates sound intstallation premiered in Sleppet, Bergen, Norway, 9/01/07

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Night Traffic
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992
electronically filtered traffic sounds, recorded 1990

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/09/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for October 9, 2011

SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Panta Rhei (Time in Flux)
I. Agitato
II. Vivace Misterioso
III. Molto Tranquillo
IV. Allegro Energio
V. Distant
Volume 3
Brdige Records/2011
violin: Susanne Zapf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt; piano: Heather O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, Germany, 11/26/10

Heather O'Donnell: The Missing Nail at the River (W. Zimmermann)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany, April 2007

Margaret Leng Tan: Put My Little Shoes Away (trad; G. Crumb)
She Herself Alone--The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
voice, toy piano, toy percussion (quartet): M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, January 2010

George Crumb: Ghost-Nocturne -- for the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II)
Makrokosmos I & II
Mode Records/2004
amplified piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July 2003

George Crumb: Threnody I -- Night of the Electric Insects (Virgo)[Tutti]
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Seven
Unto the Hills/Black Angels
Brdige Records/2003
The Miró Quartet; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October 2002

SET TWO
Chris Brown: Stupa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
vibraphone: William Winant; piano, computer: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July 2011

Larry Polansky: Canon #1
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
marimba: William Winant; recorded and processed at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, 1983/89

SET THREE
Larry Polansky: Canon #18 -- Trio Canon for Christian Wolff
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
fretless electric guitar: L. Polansky; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; percussion: Nathan Davis; recorded and processed at Brittrax, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and Los Angeles, summer 2002

Christian Wolff: Exercise 18
10 Exercises
New World Records/2006
electric guitar, percussion: Larry Polansky; piano, percussion: Frederic Rzewski; percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; soprano saxophone, percussion: Chiyoko Szlavnics; recorded at the Poggiolo Farm, Pozzuolo, Umbria, Italy, September 2005

Trios, featuring Christian Wolff: Track Two
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, texts: Chris Mann; electric guitars: Larry Polansky; computer, electronics, recording: Douglas Repetto; recording, processing: Tom Erbe; piano, bass, percussion, melodica: C. Wolff; recorded in Hanover, NH, January and April 1998

Chris Brown: Talking Drum (track 13)
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005
percussion: William Winant, Donald Robinson; bass: Lisle Ellis; keyboards, synthesizers: C. Brown; Robert Kauker, synthesizers: Nick Peck, Scot Graham-Lancaster; recorded at Beanbender's, Berkeley, 3/20/96

Lou Harrison: Fugue
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group -- flexatone, claves, maracas: W. Winant; metallophone, box, cowebells: Daniel Kennedy; meditation bells, brake drums, washtub: avid Rosenthal; bell-coils, bass drum, gongs, suspended Turkish cymbal, triangles: Todd Manley; recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, August 1993

SET FOUR
Laurie Spiegel: Crying Tone
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
Electrocomp 200 modular analog synthesizer: L. Spiegel

Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Weeping Rocker
I Didn't Want to Say Goodbye
V.A.R./2004
electronics: V.A.R

Elizabeth McNutt: Twittering Machine (A. May)
Pipe Wrench--Flute + Computer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: E. McNutt; computer program: Andrew May; recorded at SUNY Buffalo

Lawrence Moss: Flutepaths
New Paths
Innova Recordings/2011
flute: Sarah Eckman McIver; electronics: L. Moss; recorded at Dekelboum Concert Hall, College Park, MD

SET FIVE
David Mooney: Olbum's Furniture
Facts About Air
D.M./2009

Philip Mantione: Fabrics
Compilation for Max
P.M./2011

PGR: 13
A Hole of Unknown Depth
Silent Records/1995

SET SIX
Elainie Lillios: Stumbling Dance
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Finalist Concert of the III Concurso International de Música Electroacustica de São Paulo at Teatro Laura Abrahão, Brazil, 10/29/99

Jonty Harrison: Free Fall (from ReCycle)
Environs
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at the composer's studio, Birmingham, UK; Elektronisches Studio of the Musik-Akademie, Basel, Switzerland; processed at Studio Métamorphoses d’Orphée of Musiques & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at L’Espace du son — M&R, Théâtre Marni, Brussels, Belgium, 10/20/06

SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Buckner and Tom Hamilton: Segment C
Jump the Circle, Jump the Line
Mutable Music/2001
voice: T. Buckner; improvised electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded live for EMF at Engine 27, NYC, 12/01/00

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/02/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for October 2, 2011

SET ONE
Sō Percussion: Marimba (S. Mackey)
It Is Time
Cantaloupe Music/2011

Martin Bresnick:
a. Farándula simple
b. Farándula de charlatanes -- No saben el camino
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University School of Music, New Haven, CT, 4/02/09

Roger Reynolds: imAge/piano
Epigram and Evolution -- The Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Yuji Takahashi

SINGLE PLAY
Chou Wen-Chung: Twilight Colors
I. A Thread of Light (Contrapunctus Variabilis V)
II. Colors of Dawn (C.V. VI)
III. In the Mist (C.V. VII)
IV. Mountain Peaks Rising (C.V. VIII)
V. Coda: Their silhouettes neither parallel nor contrary (C.V. IX)
Clouds
Mode Records/2011
Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded at Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, 9/17/08

SINGLE PLAY
Bun-Ching Lam: Omi Hakkei
I. Night Rain at Karasaki
II. Awazu on a Fine Breezy Day
III. Wild Geese Descending in Katata
IV. Autumn Moon at Ishiyama
V. The Evening Glow of Seta Bridge
VI. Sails Returning to Yabase
VII. The First Snow of Mt. Hira
VIII. The Evening Bell of Mii Temple
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
flute: Angelika Bender; Dizi, xiao: Wolfgang Wendel; viola: Mariette Leners; erhu: Zhang Zhengfang; zheng: Xu Fengxia; harp: Isabelle Courret; conductor: BCL; recordded at the Portheim Palace of Heidelberg, German, 10/26/09

SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown: Gangsa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
The William Winant Percussion Group -- flat-gongs: Jordan Glenn, Krystof Golinski, Shayna Dunkelman, David Douglas; conductor: W. Winant; live computer processing: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July, 2010

SET TWO
The Hub: Falling Edge
Boundary Layer
Tzadik Records/2008
composers: Chris Brown, Mark Trayle; recorded live in concert at The Lab, San Francisco, 8/03/86

Mark Trayle: _28 (track 5)
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
laptop, electronics: M. Trayle

Bischoff/Brown/Erbe/Payne: CCM Flotsam #12-21
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artists)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
produced by the Staff of CCM, Mills College, Oakland, 1993

Maggi Payne: Flaptics (M. Trayle)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999

SET THREE
Elaine Lillios: Backroads
a. Shoe Factory
b. Tree Tunnel
c. Elevator
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered at Espace GO, Montreal, 9/13/02

Herbert Brün: More Dust
SAWDUST -- Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
composed on SAWDUST computer program, 1977; pieces published by Smith Publications

SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument--Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
multiple voices on multi-track tape; visual Arts Fellowship commission premiere: October, 1980, at The American Center for Students and Artists, Paris

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: It's Easy (Joan La Barbara and Chorus)
Dust -- An Opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
electronic orchestration: Tom Hamilton, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, R. Ashley

SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: The Intermediary (excerpt)
The Intermediary
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1982)
piano, electronics: BGT; computer: Joel Ryan

--FIN--

Nothing to Say and Saying it 09/27/2011

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NOTHING TO SAY AND SAYING IT
Tuesdays 22:00--24:00 EDT
Guest Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 27, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Clock DVA: Man-Amplifiers
Man-Amplified
Contempo/1991

SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Strategic Defense Initiative
Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971-1992
EM Records/2004

Test Dept: New World Order
Legacy [1990-1993] The Singles Plus More
Cleopatra Records/1995

David Hahn: Are You Sleeping, Now?
Your Time is Up
davidhanonline/2007

IF, BWANA: Screwed It Up Again
Radio Slaves
Monochrome Vision/2007

SET TWO
Eric Lyon: Liberation #1
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004

Daniel Koppelman: Psychic Driving (excerpt -- Rev. Jim Jones/Zion chorus)(E. Lyon)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008

Zoviet France: Ram (I was Jim Jones' attorney...)
Collusion
The Grey Area of Soleilmoon/1992
recorded September, 1984

Brian Eno: In Dark Trees
Another Green World
EG Records/1975

SET THREE
Bruce Haack: National Anthem to the Moon
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
additional vocals: Chris Kachulis; originally released on "The Electric Lucifer," 1970

The Moog Machine: Hey Jude (Lennon/McCartney)
Switche-On Rock
Columbia Records/1970
synthesizers, producer: Norman Dolph

White Noise: Here Come the Fleas (McDonald/Vorhaus)
An Electric Storm
Island Records/1968
vocals: Annie Bird, Val Shaw, John Whitman; electronics, EMS Synthi VC3: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson; percussion: Paul Lytton; production: David Vorhaus; recorded at Kalediophon Studio, Camden Town, UK

John Eaton: Blues Machine
First Performances -- The Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizers in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
Syn-Ket, rhythm section: J. Eaton

Frank Zappa: Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
We're Only In It for the Money/Lumpy Gravy
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. Verve/1968)
tape mixing: F. Zappa; sampled voice: Eric Clapton; recorded 1967

Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
tape mixing: K. Gaburo; recorded at the University of Illinois, 1970

Pierre Schaeffer: Étude aux sons animés
L'Oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
musique concrete: P. Schaeffer, Paris, 1958

Alice Shields: from Act Four
a. On the Dark Mountains
b. Dismemberment and Eating
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993
keyboards, synthesizers, Woman, Chorus: A. Shields; voice of Shiva: Michael Wilson; recorded at Quality Studios and the Columbia University Electronic Music Center, NYC

SET FOUR
Brigitte Robindoré: Comme Etrangers et Voyageurs sur la Terre
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Coninuum (various artists)
Mode Records/2001
CCMIX: B. Robindoré; percussion: Roland Auzet, Claire Talibart; Centre de Création Musicale Iannis, Alford, France

Philip Mantione: Dusk
Drainage Music
Scattered Music/2004
for installation "Music for Drainage" created by P. Mantione and Alysse Stepanian

SINGLE PLAY
Takehisa Kosugi: S.E Wave/E.W. Song
Music for Merce (various artists)
New World Records/2010
violin, voice, electronics: T. Kosugi; recorded for the dance "Squaregame," Tokyo, 12/15/76, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/25/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 25, 2011

MODE RECORDS CONCERT SERIES AT THE STONE
September 16-30
Located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC

SET ONE
Earle Brown: From Folio -- December 1952
Selected Early Works (1952--1965)
New World Records/2006
piano, computer, electronics: Michael Daugherty

Luc Ferrari: Tautologos 1
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

Margaret Leng Tan: Suite for Toy Piano (I-V) (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January, 2010

John Cage: from Four Walls, Act II
a. Scene IX
b. Scene X
The Works for Piano 5
Mode Records/2003
piano: Haydée Schwartz; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, October, 1995

MATMOS at AMHERST COLLEGE
Friday, September 30, 2011, 7 pm box office
Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center
53 College St., Amherst, MA 01004

SET TWO
Matmos: Exciter Lamp and the Variable Band
Supreme Balloon
Matador Records/2008
synthesizer: Drew Daniel, M.C. Schmidt

So Percussion & Matmos: Aluminum
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010
sampling, sequencing, electronics, emergency blanket: Drew Daniel; singing rods, beer cans, treadplate, brushes, editing; M.C. Schmidt; beer cans: Joshua Quillen, Adam Sliwinsky; beer cans, vibraphone, sequencing: Jason Treuting; vibraphone: Eric Beach; beer cans, processing: Lawson White; engineering: Brett Allen; recorded at the David Smith Room, Studio C, Clinton Recording Studios

SET THREE
So Percussion: Steel Drums (S. Mackey)
It Is Time -- So Percussion/Steve Mackey
Cantaloupe Music/2011
percussion: Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting; recorded at Guilford Sound, Guilford, VT; Good Child Music, NYC, Princeton University

Steven Mackey: from Micro-Concerto
I. Chords and Fangled Drumset
II. Interlude no. 1, Vibes solo
Heavy Light
New World Records/2004
MOSAIC quartet; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, December, 2003

Henry Brant: Labor Day, 1935, Florida Keys
Autumn Hurricanes
Innova Recordings/2006
musicians of Stetson University; chief conductor: H. Brant; recorded at Elizabeth Hall Auditorium, Stetson University, Deland, Florida, 4/28/86

SET FOUR
Elainie Lillios: Arturo
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the electroacoustic studios of the University of Birmingham, 1998; premiered at the Symposium on Music and Computers, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, 10/23/98

Biosphere: The Things I Tell You
Substrata
All Saints/1997
recorded at Aurora Lydstudio, Tromsø, Norway

SET FIVE
Anla Courtis with Armpit: Pocket Gallows
The Torrid
Porter Records/2011
recorded in Buenos Aires, 2003

David First: Pipeline Witness Apologies to Dennis, Section One
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
trombone: Christopher McIntyre; computer, Yamaha PC 16000 MIDI Controller: D. First

Lisa Moore: With enthusiasm and a little violence (A. Gosfield)
Lightning Singers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: L. Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT, Spring 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Tim Brady: from Three Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune
Scene 1. Montreal
a. prelude: Three Cities: You Must Remember (Pai-Chou-En)
b. Poem: To Pony, Aug. 31, 1935, and letter, Oct. 8, 1935 (N. Bethune
c. Poem: An Immigrant (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal)
d. Incantation 1, letter, Nov. 6, 1935 (N. Bethune)
e. Poem: Depression Suite (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal)
f. Letter: Oct. 8, 1935 (N. Bethune)
Three Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune
Ambiances Magnetiques/2006
baritone: Michael Donovan; Bradyworks, conductor: Pierre Simard; recorded at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, 2005

SET SIX
Annea Lockwood: Passau to Jochenstein
A Sound Map of The Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
sound sources: Passau -- Ilz (tributary) in the Triftsperre Felsendurchbruch (tunnel used by loggers) 11:50 am, 5/18/02; St Stephen Dam, 9:15 am, 5/20/02; Inn (tributary) 5/20/02; Rainer Moschak, teacher, Breitenberg, 5/17/02; Donaukraftwerk Jochenstein (Dam spillway, 11:55 am 5/20/02

Sylvia Smith: Pacific Sirens (R. Erickson)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records--Smith Publications/2008
timpani: S. Smith; bass flute: Lisa Cella; flute, alto flute: Carrie Rose; voice, bowed gongs, cymbals: Lee Hinkle; voices: Bonnie Lander, Megha Jacob, Lisette Abreu; tape of Pacific Ocean sounds: Pescadero Beach, California, 1969

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Martian Gardens for 09/18/2011

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 18, 2011

MODE RECORDS CONCERT SERIES AT THE STONE
September 16-30
Located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC

SET ONE
Terumi Nerushima: He resonates five toes
Why Record? Life in the Age of Digital Performance (various Artists)
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
koto: T. Narushima; recorded by Warren Burt, 2008

Chris Brown: Cremation Procession, Bali
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005
recorded in Bali by Chris Brown, 1/03/96

SET TWO
Harry Partch: Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegans Wake
a. Isobel
b. Annah the Allmaziful
Enclosure Two -- Harry Partch collection
Innova Recordings/1995
soprano: Lola Harding; flutes: Dorothy Holden, Hilmar Luckhardt; Kithara: H. Partch; texts: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake; recorded by Walter Gilson, 1945

Harry Partch: November 15 -- Leaving Santa Barbara (from Bitter Music)
ibid.
voice: Warren Burt; piano: Sheila Guymer; recorded at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation-Broadcast Music, Melbourne, 1/23/92

Anthony De Mare:
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
b. Nowth Upon Nacht (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (works by Meredith Monk and John Cage)
Koch/1992
piano, voice: A. De Mare; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"

Otto Luening/Vladimir Ussachevsky: Incantation
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006(orig. CRI/1991)
tape music recorded at WKCR, Columbia University, 1953; engineer: Peter Mauzey

György Ligeti: Artikulation
Continuum/10 Stücke für Bläserquintett/Artikulation/Glissandi/2 Etüden/Volumina
Wergo/1988
recorded at the Electronic Music Studio of West German Radio, Cologne, 3/25/58

Ursula Mamlok: Sonar Trajectory
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966

Gordon Mumma: Song Without Words (in memoriam David Tudor)
David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
piano: G. Mumma

SET THREE
Frances White: Like the Lily
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen Ting; double bass: Troy Rinker, Jr., electronics; F. White

Chris Brown & Pauline Oliveros: Gravity Waves
Music in the Air
Deep Listening/2010
piano, electronics: C. Brown; accordion, Expanded Instrument System: P. Oliveros; recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08

SET FOUR
Henry Gwiazda: man-eating-chips-listening-to-a-violin
noTnoTesnoTrhyThms
Innova Recordings/2002
electronic cello: Jeffrey Krieger; sound effects, sampler: H. Gwiazda

Elsa Justel: Puntos, comas y refritos
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
8-track tape: E. Justel; realized in 2002 at the studio of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin; premiered in during a concert at the Akademie der Künste, 2003

SINGLE PLAY
Matthew Welch: Self/Non-Self and Luminosity in the Bardo
i. slow, delicate, softly tumultuous (harp solo)
ii. softly tumultuous, nervous, building tumult and texture (tutti)
iii. floating, flowing (tutti)
iv. luminosities
v. swelling, with breathing space, undulating
vi. escalating, nervousness, gaining tumult
vii. cadenza delicate, nervous, slow (harp solo)
Luminosity
Porter Records/2009
harp: Zeena Parkins; flute: Leah Paul; oboe: Christa Robinson; bass clarinet: Matt Bauder; bassoon: Katherine Young; violin: Jennifer Choi; viola: Leanne Darling; cello: Christopher Hoffmann; bass: Reuben Radding; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, December, 2008

SET FIVE
Coil: ANS (CD B, track 2 -- excerpt)
ANS
Threshold House (ltd. ed.)/2004
ANS Synthesizer: Jhonn Balance, Peter Christopherson, Ossian Brown, Thighpaulsandra; Moscow State University

Stanislav Kreitchi: Ruins in the Waste
Voices and Movement
Electroshock Records/2002
ANS synthesizer: S. Kreitchi; Moscow State University; mastered at Electroshock Records Studios, 2001

SET SIX
Richard Carrick: Moroccan Flow (Unfolding from Unity)
The Flow Cycle for Strings
New World Records/2011
cello: Alex Waterman

Jason Eckhardt: A Way [Tracing]
Undersong
Mode Records/2011
cello: Fred Sherry; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, NY, 1/11/11

SINGLE PLAY
Jin Hi Kim: Jupiter's Moons
Komungo
O.O. Discs/2001
electric komungo: JHK; Korean kagok singer: Kang Kwon Soon;
for Dong Dong Touching the Moons, commissioned by MassMoCA, premiered at The Kitchen,
NYC

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Martian Gardens for 09/11/2011

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 11, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Roland Auzet: Rebonds A & B (I. Xenakis)
a. Rebonds B
b. Revonds A
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, Paris

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros: St. George and the Dragon (excerpt)
St. George and the Dragon/In Memoriam Mr. Whitney
Mode Records/1991
accordion: P.Oliveros; recorded at the Pomfret Chapel, The Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut, 3/10/91

Frances White: Walk Through "Resonant Landscape" No. 2
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007

The above three pieces will be performed at the
Mode Records Concert Series at the Stone
September 16-30
Located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC

SET TWO
Darren Copeland: They're Trying to Save Themselves
Lost and Found
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
commissioned by CBC Radio One for the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks; all sounds sourced from CNN immediately following the bombings of the World Trad Center towers, September 11, 2001; realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered on CBC Radio One, 9/11/02

Robert Normandeau: Chorus
a. Overture
b. Judaism
c. Christianity
d. Islam
e. War
f. Pain
g. Peace
Puzzles
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
dedicated to the victims of September 11, 2001; realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered on 7/13/02 during the Festival de musiques sacrées (Fribourg, Switzerland)

SINGLE PLAY
Alice Shields: Shenandoah --
Opening - Percussion - Senegalese Man - Percussion - Mennonite Woman - Percussion - Mixtec Indians - Percussion - Ukrainian Man - Percussion - Food - Percussion - Songs - Percussion - Ending
Shenandoah -- Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004
interviews recorded in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, 2001; percussion sampled from Indian and Middle Eastern instruments; created in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; commissioned by the School of Theatre and Dance of James Madison University for choreographer Mark Taylor; premiered at James Madison University, Harrison, Virginia, March 21-23, 2002

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

Alvin Curran: Endangered Species
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
Disklavier, samples, synthesizers: A. Curran

Robert Scott Thompson: Illusion of Orderly Progress
Blue Day
Auccourant Records/2000

Polly Moller: Cold Blood
60 x 60 2004-2005 (various artists)
Vox Novus/2007
voice, text: P. Moller

Read Miller: The Blueprint of a Promise
The Complete 10 Inch Series from Cold Blue (various artists)
Cold Blue Music/2003
voice, text, electronics: R. Miller; recorded at College Street Studio, Redlands, California, 4/01/81

SINGLE PLAY
Yasunao Tone: Geography and Music
Music for Merce (various artists)
New World Records/2010
voices: John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi; piano: David Tudor; qin (guqin): Martin Kalve; Chinese text reader: Yoshiharu Suenobu; texts extracted from geography sections of ancient Chinese encyclopedias; recorded in Lueven, Belgium, 10/20/83 for the dance "Roadrunners" (1979), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET FOUR
John Eaton: Blind Man's Cry
First Performances -- The Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizer in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2009
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; text: Tristan Corbiere; Syn-Ket: J. Eaton; Jaye Williams: Moog synthesizer; tapes, mixing: Wilson Allen

Noah Creshevsky: et puis (excerpt 1)
Hyperrealism in Music -- Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky 1992-2005*
Noa Creshevsky/2005
*unreleased; full version of et puis released on the CD Who on Centaur Records

Carey Nutman: Land Below the Wind - part 6
Land Below the Wind
MPS Music & Video/2011

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