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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 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
--FIN--
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
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
--FIN--
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
--FIN--
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