Martian Gardens for 02/27/2011

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 February 27, 2011

SET ONE
Liana Alexandra: Hora
60 x 60 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004

Liana Alexandra: Barcarolla
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

In memoriam Liana Alexandra May 27, 1947 -- January 10, 2011

SET TWO
George Crumb: Bringing in the Sheaves* (Shaw/Minor)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
mezzo-soprano: Jamie Van Eyck; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swathmore College, October, 2008
*from Voices from a Forgotten World: A Cycle of American Songs from North and South, East and West (American Songbook V)

Roland Auzet: Themen (C.R. Alsina)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Musique Aujord'hui; conductor: Jean-Marie Adrien; percussion: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville

SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
The Composer in the Computer Age: Mara Helmuth Sound Collaboration
Centaur Records/2007
created and recorded at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati

Phillip Bimstein: Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa
Larkin Gifford's Harmonica
Starkland/2006
oboe: Stephen Caplan; sounds recorded at Zion National Park, Utah

SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp: Beneath the Forest Floor
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
sounds recorded in British Columbia by Norbert Ruebsaat and H. Westerkamp,1991, produced at CBC's Advanced Audio Production Facility, Toronto

SET FOUR
Michael Pugliese: Peace Talks (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
sitar, percussion: Takehisa Kosugi; percussion: Michael Pugliese; recorded 11/13/90, Bangalore, India, for the dance "August Pace," (1989), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Fritz Hauser: Deep Time (version 2) (excerpt)
Deep Time
Deep Listening Institute/2005
percussion, tape: F. Hauser; accordion, Expanded Instrument System: Pauline Oliveros; EIS, electronics, small instruments: David Gamper; soprano and tenor saxophones: Urs Leimgruber; improvised 10/26/94

SET FIVE
Luc Ferrari: Visage 2
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Musique Nouvelle, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at l'Auditorium Abel Dubois, Mons, Belgium, 4/21/06

Lukas Foss: Echoi IV
Echoi/The Fragments of Archilochos/Non-Improvisation
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
piano: L. Foss; percussion: Jan Williams; cello: Douglas Davis; clarinet: Edward Yadzinski; recorded at the Buffalo and Erie County Library, 11/20/68

SET SIX
Nicole Grutter: What If? (from the collection Out of House and Home)
Deep Wireless 7 Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010

Fereshteh Toosi: If it Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Deep Wireless 6 Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009

Danielle Palardy Roger: Quien sabe (La Niña)
a. Prologue
b. Todos los bienes del mundo
c. El mar es bello
d. Pero agitato
e. ¡Coraje!
f. Los recites
g. El paso
h. Hacia l'America
Pinata, Niña, and Maria
Actuellecd.com/2008
Ensemble SuperMusique, director: Jean René; (b.)text: Juan del Encina c. 1490; recorded for Une Constellation de Mutants concert, Montreal, 4/02/08

SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith/Bob Ostertag: Voice of America, Part 1
Voice of America (Frith/Ostertag/Minton)
Rift Records/1982
guitar, tape, electronics, radio: F. Frith; synthesizers, electronics, radio: B. Ostertag; recorded at P.A.S.S., New York City, January, 1981

John Cage: Bird Cage, Part 6 (excerpt)
Bird Cage
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
realized by William Blakeney at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario, December, 1998; original source material recorded at SUNY Albany, 9/09/73

--FIN--