Martian Gardens for 01/23/2009

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 January 23, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Otto Luening: Moonflight
Pioneers of Electronic Music
New World Records/2006
created at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968

Henry Cowell: The Tides of Manaunaun
Piano Music
Smithsonian-Folkways/1993 (orig. 1963)
piano: H. Cowell

Philip Corner:
a. Short Piano Piece IV
b. Short Piano Piece IX
c. Short Piano Piece XIII
40 Years and One -- Philip Corner Plays the Piano
XI Records/2001
piano: P. Corner; recorded at IIWII studios, Weehawken, NJ, January, 1998

Gamelan Son Of Lion: Sad/Happy (D. Goode)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
clarinet: Daniel Goode

SET TWO
John Cage: Music Walk
The Works for Piano I
Mode Records/1995
piano, short radio, objects: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, Mass., March 1993

John Cage: Inlets (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
conch shells with water: Paeder Mercier, Mel Mercier, J. Cage
recorded at Roubaix, France, 10/27/1983; dance: Inlets (1977), Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET THREE
Christian Wolff: Or 4 People (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
piano, melodica: C. Wolff; live electronics, violin, harmonica: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded in New York, 7/23/1999; dance: Rune (1959), Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Christian Wolff: Snowdrop
Tilbury Pieces/Snowdrop
Mode Records/1999
violin, viola: Dimitrios Polisoidis; piano: Hildegard Kleeb; trombone: Roland Dahinden; recorded at Sender Freies, Berlin, May, 1996

SET FOUR
So Percussion & Matmos: Swamp
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010

So Percussion & Trollstilt: Matisse's Garden Lesson
Five (and-a-half)Gardens
Shhh Productions/2007
recorded at Princeton University

Chen Yi: Jing Marimba
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: Gordon Stout; recorded at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, 7/05/09

SET FIVE
Neil Rolnick: MONO Prelude
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
laptop, voice: N. Rolnick; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, February, 2010

Madelyn Byrne: Arrival
Sounding Out! (DVD extracts)
Everglade Records/2010

SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: La Neige
a. Neige 1-2
b. Neige 5-3
c. Neige 4-2
d. Regarder la neige tomber
Récits de neige
Actuellecd/2010
performed by Ensemble SuperMusique, recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, Montreal, 2008; texts: a: Dyane Raymond, b: Lise Hétu, c: Luc Proulx; d: Miranda Nienson

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Austin: Caritas
Source--Music of the Avant Garde (Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971)
Pogus Productions/2009
PDP-10 computer, Buchla Electronic Music System: L. Austin, realized 1969 for the Artificial Intelligence Project, Stanford University

SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: Negro Hall
Lisbon Concert
New Albion Records/1996
piano: T. Riley; recorded at the Festival dos Capuchos, Teatro São Luís, Lisbon, Portugal, 7/16/95

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