Saturday, August 13, 2011

The Ghost of Esperanto Volume 03

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

THE GHOST OF ESPERANTO, VOLUME 03
Music from the archives of Esperanto
broadcast Sunday evenings 1995--2000 on WMUA

For automated station programming
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Recorded August 13, 2011

SET ONE
Single Cell Orchestra: Knock Out Drops (200 Proof Mix)
Single Cell Orchestra
Asphodel/1996

Orbital: The Box (1 & 2)
In Sides
FFRR-London Records/1996

SET TWO
Robert Black: Radio Sonata (J. Sellars)
State of the Bass
O.O. Discs/1994

Severed Heads: Snow
Gigapus
Volition/1994

Spoonfed Hybrid: Boys in Zinc
Spoonfed Hybrid
4AD/1994

Peter Lazonby: Humble Servant
Your Humble Servant
Braniak/1995

SET THREE
Leif Brush: Terrain Instruments Are Activated
The Aerial (various artists)
Nonsequitur/1994

Amorphous Androgynous: Fat Cat
Tales of Ephidrina
Astralwerks/1993

Bionaut: Astral Unraveler
Au Naturel
Tiny Bubbles Music/1996

SET FOUR
The Higher Intelligence Agency: Fleagle
Freefloater
Waveform/1996

Vidna Obmana: Challenging Boundaries
Assemblage Volume Two (various artists)
Extreme Records/1996

Muslimgauze: Beit Nuba
Citadel
Extreme Records/1994

SET FIVE
The Legendary Pink Dots: Stitching Time
Shadow Weaver
Play It Again Sam/1992

Gong:
a. Magick Mother Invocation
b. Master Builder

You
Decal/1991 (orig. Virgin/1974)

The Legendary Pink Dots: Oasis Malade
9 Lives to Wonder
Play It Again Sam/1994

Bill Nelson: Memory Babe
After the Satellite Sings
Gyroscope/1996

SET SIX
Alquimia & Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma: Foundations (Basamentos)
Dead Tongues (Lenguas Muertas)
Cuneiform Records/1996

Dead Can Dance: Dedicacé Outò
Spirit Chaser
4AD/1996

Hungry Ghost: Cloud Sculptors
Sugar Skulls
Tone Casualties/1995

This Mortal Coil: At First And Then
Filigree & Shadow
4AD/1986

Muslimgauze: Caste the First Stone
Salaam Alekum, Bastard
Staalplaat/1995

SET SEVEN
Richard Pinhas: Marie et Virginie Comp (Live)
Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale
Cuneiform/1995 (orig. 1978)

Steve Tibbetts:
a. Interlude
b. Alvin Goes to Tibet

Steve Tibbetts
Cuneiform/1995 (orig. 1977)

Ken Field: Takuskanskan
Subterranea
O.O. Discs/1996

SINGLE PLAY
Jeffrey Krieger: themythofAcceptance (H. Gwiazda)
Night Chains
CRI/1995

--FIN--

Friday, August 12, 2011

Martian Gardens: Auto-Archive Volume 2

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Archived for Automation, Volume 02

Selections from the empreintes DIGITALes label
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Recorded August 12, 2011

SET 0NE
Robert Normandeau: Le Renard et la Rose (The Fox and The Rose)
a. Babbling and Rhythm
b. Nostalgia and Tone
c. Anger and Dynamics
d. Weariness and Space
e. Serenity and Texture

Figures
IMED 9944/1999

Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles DVD
IMED 0575/2005

SET TWO
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow
Isotasie
IMED 0262/2001

Natasha Barrett: Racing Through, Racing Unseen
Miniatures Concrètes (various artists)
IMED 9837/1998

SINGLE PLAY
Marc Tremblay: Cowboy Fiction
Bruit-Graffiti
IMED 9949/1999

SET THREE
Micheline Coulumbe Saint-Marcoux: Zones
Impulsion
IMED 0159/2001

Pete Stollery: Altered Images
Un Son Peut en Cacher un Autre
IMED 0678/2006

SINGLE PLAY
Roxanne Turcotte: Libellune
Libellune
IMED 0370/2003
wind instruments: Michel Dubeau

SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformations
IMED 1031/2010 (orig. 1996)

Elsa Justel: Puntos, comas y refritos (Points, commas and clichés)
Mâts
IMED 0785/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Jonty Harrison: Streams
Évidence matérielle
IMED 0052/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Voyage-Miroir
...Et Autres Utopies
IMED 0682/2006

--FIN--

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Martian Gardens for 08/07/2011

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 August 07, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary DVD
Mode Records/2011
percussion: red fish blue fish, director: Steven Schick

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death
Part One
a. Refrain One
I. La Guitarra (The Guitar)
b. Refrain Two
II. Casida de Las Palomas Oscuras (Casida of the Dark Doves)
Part Two
c. Refrain Three
III. Canción de Jinete, 1860 (Song of the Rider, 1860)
d. Refrain Four
IV. Casida del Herido por el Agua (Casida of the Boy Wounded by Water)

Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death
Bridge Records/1991
Speculum Musicae -- baritone: Sanford Sylvan; electric guitar: David Starobin; electric contrabass: Donald Palma; electric piano and electric harpsichord: Aleck Karis; percussion: Daniel Druckman and Eric Charlston; texts: Federico García Lorca; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 6/17/90

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: The Angel of Death
Epigram and Evolution -- The Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Marilyn Nonken; technician: J.T. Rinker; The Slee Sinfonietta, conductor: Magnus Mårtensson; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY, Buffalo, 6/01/04 for the June in Buffalo Festival

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Ghost Words After Trees Fall
Ghost Words
Aucourant Records/2008
electronics: RST; commissioned by IMEB; composed in Bourges, 2007

SET ONE
F. Gerard Errante: Cherry Blossom and A Wrapped Thing (After Hokusai) (J. Shatin)
Delicate Balance
Aucourant Records/2010
clarinet: FGE; electronics: Judith Shatin

Russell Pinkston: Gerrymander
Third Practice -- Commissions and Premieres
New Music from the Third Practice Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music
at the University of Richmond

Centaur Records/2004
Bb clarinet: F. Gerard Errante; MAX/MSP: R. Pinkston; recorded at the Fine Arts Recording Studio, University of North Texas, 1/09/03

SET TWO
Lauzier/Martel/Myhr/Tétreault: Traitement Thermique
Disparition de l’usine éphémère
Actuellecd/2008
alto saxophone, bass clarinet, preparations: Phillippe Lauzier; viola de gamba, objects, preparations; acoustic guitar, objects, preparations: Kim Myhr; turntables: Martin Tétreault; recorded at Hotel2Tango, 7/23/08

Scott Smallwood: Sunkraft
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
antique electrotherapy machines: S. Smallwood

Diane Labrosse: Manual Coffee Mill
Music for Objects of the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd.com/2007
percolators; violin: Marie-Soleil Bélanger; flute, trumpet: Jean Derome; electric guitar: Bernhard Falaise; clarinet: Lori Freedman; accordion: D. Labrosse; viola: Jean Réne; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; musicians recorded at Studio 270 Montreal; percolators recorded at Studio Le 2e, Montreal

Stephen Vitiello: Circuit Tension
Bode Sound Project
Bode Archive -- Institute for Electric Arts/2006
Harald Bode electronic instruments: S. Vitiello, Andrew Deutsch, Peer Bode

Luc Ferrari:
a. Etudes aux accidents (1958)
b. Etudes sons tendus (1958)

Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

SET THREE
James Tenney: Phases (for Edgard Varèse)
Selected Works 1961-1969
New World Records/2003 (orig. Frog Peak Music/1992)
recorded at Bell Labs, 1963

Edgard Varèse: Intégrales
The Varèse Album
Wounded Bird/2007 (orig. Sony/1972)
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Robert Craft

--FIN--