Martian Gardens for 06/19/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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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 June 19, 2011

SET ONE
Dorota Czerner: Caves
Open Space 24 (Czerner/Barkin)
The Open Space/2009
voice, poem: D. Czerner; sound: Benjamin Boretz; recorded by B. Boretz, 2009

John Cage: Solo for Voice 52 (Aria No. 2) (Relevant)
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002
voice: Paul Hillier; text: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"; electronics: Shabda Owens; recorded in Germany, 1996

SET TWO
John Oswald: Track Two (excerpt)
Timefields & Maritides
MusicWorks Magazine/2006
field recordings: Peter Huse (from "P.E.I. Foghorn And Islanders," recorded on Prince Edward Island, 1974)
Charlie Morrow: TOOT N BLINK Chicago
Toot!
XI Records/2011
boat horns recorded on Lake Michigan in 1982; disc jockeys: Ed Herrmann and Chris Merrick

Jorge Antunes: Sinfonia Das Diretas (Direct Elections Symphony) (excerpt)
Sinfonia Das Diratas
Sistrum Edições Musicais Ltda/1995
for choir, ensemble, electronic effects and car horns; composed for Diretas Já, 1984

SET THREE
Chantal Dumas: The Piano Tuning
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011
electroacoustic music, voice: C. Dumas; text: Fortner Anderson

Anne La Berge: 800 Speakers
Speak
New World Records/2011
flute, computer, voice: A. La Berge; text from "Resonant Dendrites" lecture, 2006; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, 2009
Marcelle Deschênes: Big Bang III
petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music: M.Deschênes; realized at Bruit Blanc studio, Montreal, 1992
SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: FIZZ
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electroacoustic music: M. Payne; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College

Michèle Bokanowski: Trois Chambres D'Inquiétude (part 2)
Michèle Bokanowski
Trace Label/2009
Musique concrète realized at Bokanowski's studio, Paris, 1975-1976, final mix at Studios du GMEB, Bourges, France

SET FIVE
Frank Denyer: Out of the Shattered Shadows I
Faint Traces -- Chamber Works 1973-2001
Mode Records/2005
The Barton Workshop -- flutes: Jos Zwaanenburg; spinet & harmonium: Catherine Laws; banjo: Alan Thomas; percussion: Damien Harron; recorded at Dartington Hall, UK, 7/07/2000

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

SET SIX
Ray Green: Three Inventories of Casey Jones (One, Two, and Three)
Restless, Endless, Tactless -- Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo and the Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Waco, Texas

Ziya Tabassian: Varashan
Tombak
Actuellecd.com/2007
percussion: Z. Tabassian; recorded at DeTour Sound Studio, Montreal, 2005

Hervé Zénouda: Homothétie
Vies Secondes
Trace Label/1999
percussion samples: H. Zénouda; recorded at Le Culte du Cargo studio, Paris

Guillermo E. Brown: Electroprayer 5.0
Mendi+Keith Obadike present Crosstalk
Bridge Records/2008
voice and electronics: G. E. Brown; recorded at Brown Sound Studio, Brooklyn

SET SEVEN
J.K. Randall: Intimacy (A Polemic)(excerpts)
Open Space 10 (Randall/Boretz)
The Open Space/1999
text, voice: J.K. Randall

J.K. Randall: Mudgett -- Monologues by a mass murderer
a. Electronic Prelude
b. Toronto
Computer Music (Randall/Vercoe/Dodge)
Nonesuch Records/1974
computer music, text compilation: J.K. Randall; soprano: Melinda Kessler; created at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1965 (subject: Herman Webster Mudgett alias H.H. Holmes)

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