Martian Gardens for July 22, 2012

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 July 22, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Kenneth Gaburo: Lemon Drops
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios (1958--2008) [various artists]
University of Illinois School of Music/2008 

SET ONE
Robert Carl: A Clean Sweep
From Japan
New World Records/2012
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown; fixed media: Robert Carl; recorded at Riverview Recording Studios, Gill, Massachusetts; June 26 and July 3, 2010

Frances White: Centre Bridge
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown; electronic sound: Frances White

SINGLE PLAY
Anne La Berge: Brokenheart
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, text, flute, electronics: Anne La Berge; piano: Cor Fuhler; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, Summer 2009

SET TWO
Takehisa Kosugi: S.E. Wave/E.W. Song (excerpt)
Music for Merce (1952-2009)
New World Records/2010
violin, voice, live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; recorded December 15, 1976, Tokyo, for the dance Squaregame,  the Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Victoria Jordanova: Genesis
Cosmogony 
ArpaViva/2012
piano, electronics: Victoria Jordanova

SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Okho
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
percussion -- red fish blue fish: Terry Longshore, Brett Reed, David Shively; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego

Marcelle Deschênes: Lux (excerpt)
Petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
electroacoustic music composed with Alain Thibault for a multimedia presentation by Renée Bourassa

SET FOUR
Stephen Dembski: for Toy Piano
Milton Babbitt -- A Composer's Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
toy piano: Ju-Ping Song

Stephen Dembski: Digit
Stephen Dembski
CRI/1989
clarinet with electronics: Laura Flax; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, May 21, 1984

Dorota Czerner: Fireflies
Open Space 29 -- Barkin, Cznerner, Boretz
Open Space/2012
voice, text: Dorota Czerner; electronic sound: Benjamin Boretz

Ellen Band: Closet Bird
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2001
field and audio recordings: Ellen Band

David Dunn: Tabula Angelorum Bonorum 49 (Segment 5)
Angels and Insects
Nonsequitur Foundation/1995
sounds and voice manipulations: David Dunn; modeled on the Enochian heptarchy by Edward Kelley

Dr. Ox: Zinc Finger
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM, Oslo, December 2006

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Le Renard et la Rose
Figures
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio in Montreal; premiered at the Banff Centre for the Arts, September 6, 1995

Anne LeBaron: Concerto for Active Frogs
Rana, Ritual, and Revelations
Mode Records/1992
tape collage of frogs of the U.S. and Mexico: Anne LeBaron; The New Music Consort; conductor: Anne Le Baron

SET SIX
John Luther Adams: In the Rain
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
tapes recorded by John Luther Adams; musique concrete composed at Adams' studio in Fairbanks, Alaska

Hideko Kawamoto: Summer Rain -- Dawn
Music from SEAMUS volume 11
SEAMUS/2002
electroacoustic music: Hideko Kawamoto

SINGLE PLAY
Hideko Kawamoto: Night Ascends from the Ear like a Butterfly
Sonic Circuits VII [various artists]
Innova Recordings/1999
electroacoustic music: Hideko Kawamoto

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