Martian Gardens for 10/02/2011

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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 October 2, 2011

SET ONE
Sō Percussion: Marimba (S. Mackey)
It Is Time
Cantaloupe Music/2011

Martin Bresnick:
a. Farándula simple
b. Farándula de charlatanes -- No saben el camino
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University School of Music, New Haven, CT, 4/02/09

Roger Reynolds: imAge/piano
Epigram and Evolution -- The Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Yuji Takahashi

SINGLE PLAY
Chou Wen-Chung: Twilight Colors
I. A Thread of Light (Contrapunctus Variabilis V)
II. Colors of Dawn (C.V. VI)
III. In the Mist (C.V. VII)
IV. Mountain Peaks Rising (C.V. VIII)
V. Coda: Their silhouettes neither parallel nor contrary (C.V. IX)
Clouds
Mode Records/2011
Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded at Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, 9/17/08

SINGLE PLAY
Bun-Ching Lam: Omi Hakkei
I. Night Rain at Karasaki
II. Awazu on a Fine Breezy Day
III. Wild Geese Descending in Katata
IV. Autumn Moon at Ishiyama
V. The Evening Glow of Seta Bridge
VI. Sails Returning to Yabase
VII. The First Snow of Mt. Hira
VIII. The Evening Bell of Mii Temple
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
flute: Angelika Bender; Dizi, xiao: Wolfgang Wendel; viola: Mariette Leners; erhu: Zhang Zhengfang; zheng: Xu Fengxia; harp: Isabelle Courret; conductor: BCL; recordded at the Portheim Palace of Heidelberg, German, 10/26/09

SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown: Gangsa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
The William Winant Percussion Group -- flat-gongs: Jordan Glenn, Krystof Golinski, Shayna Dunkelman, David Douglas; conductor: W. Winant; live computer processing: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July, 2010

SET TWO
The Hub: Falling Edge
Boundary Layer
Tzadik Records/2008
composers: Chris Brown, Mark Trayle; recorded live in concert at The Lab, San Francisco, 8/03/86

Mark Trayle: _28 (track 5)
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
laptop, electronics: M. Trayle

Bischoff/Brown/Erbe/Payne: CCM Flotsam #12-21
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artists)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
produced by the Staff of CCM, Mills College, Oakland, 1993

Maggi Payne: Flaptics (M. Trayle)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999

SET THREE
Elaine Lillios: Backroads
a. Shoe Factory
b. Tree Tunnel
c. Elevator
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered at Espace GO, Montreal, 9/13/02

Herbert Brün: More Dust
SAWDUST -- Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
composed on SAWDUST computer program, 1977; pieces published by Smith Publications

SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument--Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
multiple voices on multi-track tape; visual Arts Fellowship commission premiere: October, 1980, at The American Center for Students and Artists, Paris

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: It's Easy (Joan La Barbara and Chorus)
Dust -- An Opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
electronic orchestration: Tom Hamilton, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, R. Ashley

SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: The Intermediary (excerpt)
The Intermediary
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1982)
piano, electronics: BGT; computer: Joel Ryan

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Nothing to Say and Saying it 09/27/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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NOTHING TO SAY AND SAYING IT
Tuesdays 22:00--24:00 EDT
Guest Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 27, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Clock DVA: Man-Amplifiers
Man-Amplified
Contempo/1991

SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Strategic Defense Initiative
Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971-1992
EM Records/2004

Test Dept: New World Order
Legacy [1990-1993] The Singles Plus More
Cleopatra Records/1995

David Hahn: Are You Sleeping, Now?
Your Time is Up
davidhanonline/2007

IF, BWANA: Screwed It Up Again
Radio Slaves
Monochrome Vision/2007

SET TWO
Eric Lyon: Liberation #1
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004

Daniel Koppelman: Psychic Driving (excerpt -- Rev. Jim Jones/Zion chorus)(E. Lyon)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008

Zoviet France: Ram (I was Jim Jones' attorney...)
Collusion
The Grey Area of Soleilmoon/1992
recorded September, 1984

Brian Eno: In Dark Trees
Another Green World
EG Records/1975

SET THREE
Bruce Haack: National Anthem to the Moon
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
additional vocals: Chris Kachulis; originally released on "The Electric Lucifer," 1970

The Moog Machine: Hey Jude (Lennon/McCartney)
Switche-On Rock
Columbia Records/1970
synthesizers, producer: Norman Dolph

White Noise: Here Come the Fleas (McDonald/Vorhaus)
An Electric Storm
Island Records/1968
vocals: Annie Bird, Val Shaw, John Whitman; electronics, EMS Synthi VC3: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson; percussion: Paul Lytton; production: David Vorhaus; recorded at Kalediophon Studio, Camden Town, UK

John Eaton: Blues Machine
First Performances -- The Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizers in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
Syn-Ket, rhythm section: J. Eaton

Frank Zappa: Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
We're Only In It for the Money/Lumpy Gravy
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. Verve/1968)
tape mixing: F. Zappa; sampled voice: Eric Clapton; recorded 1967

Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
tape mixing: K. Gaburo; recorded at the University of Illinois, 1970

Pierre Schaeffer: Étude aux sons animés
L'Oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
musique concrete: P. Schaeffer, Paris, 1958

Alice Shields: from Act Four
a. On the Dark Mountains
b. Dismemberment and Eating
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993
keyboards, synthesizers, Woman, Chorus: A. Shields; voice of Shiva: Michael Wilson; recorded at Quality Studios and the Columbia University Electronic Music Center, NYC

SET FOUR
Brigitte Robindoré: Comme Etrangers et Voyageurs sur la Terre
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Coninuum (various artists)
Mode Records/2001
CCMIX: B. Robindoré; percussion: Roland Auzet, Claire Talibart; Centre de Création Musicale Iannis, Alford, France

Philip Mantione: Dusk
Drainage Music
Scattered Music/2004
for installation "Music for Drainage" created by P. Mantione and Alysse Stepanian

SINGLE PLAY
Takehisa Kosugi: S.E Wave/E.W. Song
Music for Merce (various artists)
New World Records/2010
violin, voice, electronics: T. Kosugi; recorded for the dance "Squaregame," Tokyo, 12/15/76, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

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