Saturday, January 28, 2012

Martian Gardens for 01/29/2012

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 January 29, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Virgil Thomson: Three Parisian Portraits
a. Poltergeist -- A Portrait of Hans Arp
b. Aria -- A Portrait of Germaine Hugnet
c. Swiss Waltz -- A Portrait of Sophia Tauber-Arp

Early and as Remembered
New Albion Records/1991
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Trackmaster Studios, Buffalo, January 1989

SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Sparkler
...but not simpler...
Bridge Records/2011
Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Paul Mann; recorded at Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark, May 2009

SET ONE
John Cage: Five
The Number Pieces 6
Mode Records/2012
Essential Music -- blown bottles: Judith Gordon, Maya Gunji, John Kennedy, Eric Kivnick, Charles Wood; recorded at SUNY Purchase, May 1993

John Cage: Four6 (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set [various artists]
New World Records/2010
laptop: Paul DeMarinis; percussion, contact microphone, tape, live electronics, voice: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded 4/04/98 for the dance "Rondo," The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Morton Subotnick: 4 Butterflies -- Butterfly No. 1
Electronic Works Vol. 3
Mode Records/2011
for 4-track tape with two films (original mix 1973, new mix 2011)
SET THREE
James Correa: Spells
Portfolio
James Correa/2012
recorders: Luciane Cuervo; electronics: James Correa; recorded at Porto Alegre, Brazil

Eleanor Hovda: Borealis Music
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
Relâche Ensemble; recorded at Acoustical Concepts, Inc., Eddystone, Pennsylvania, 1991

SET FOUR
Philip Blackburn: Duluth Harbor Serenade
Ghostly Psalms
Innova Recordings/2012
sounds and instruments recorded at the DS Pride celebration, Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, Minnesota, Labor Day Weekend 2011

The Legendary Pink Dots: Oasis Malade
9 Lives to Wonder
Soleilmoon Recordings/1995

Sarah Peebles: White Powder/The Spider
Insect Groove
Cycling '74 Music Label/2002
voice: David Toop; sounds: Sarah Peebles; composed by Toop/Peebles

David Toop: Blind Eel Priestess
The Black Chamber
Sub Rosa/2003

SET FIVE
Paul Rudy: Degrees of Separation (Grandchild of Tree)
Toys in the Attic
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33 -- Electroacoustic Music
from the UMKC iMPACT Center [various artists]

Centaur Records/2002
amplified cactus: Nathan Davis; digital effects, tape, engineering: Paul Rudy

Paul Rudy: Tikkun Olam
Possible Worlds [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2011
electronics: Paul Rudy

Philip Mantione: HFone
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
samples, MAX/Msp "Headfuck" software: P. Mantione

SET SIX
Jonty Harrison: Unsound Objects
Articles Indefinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
composed at the composer's studio and the Electroacoustic Music Studios of The University of Birmingham; premiered in Banff, Alberta, 9/07/95

Victoria Fenner: Folded and Broken
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Arts Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
sounds recorded at Hogs Back Falls, Rideau River, Ottawa

Dan Stearns: Walking Woods
Golden Town
Spectropol Records/2011

SET SEVEN
Jerry Hunt: Transphalba
Lattice
CRI/1979

Jin Hi Kim and Joseph Celli: Types of Asia
No World Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1990
changgo: JHK drums; English horn (without reeds): Joseph Celli

-- FIN --

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Martian Gardens for 01/22/2012

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 January 22, 2012

With special guest: Craig Shepard
Also featuring: Dean Rosenthal, Jack Callahan, and Jeremy Starpoli

SINGLE PLAY
Trios with Christian Wolff: Track One
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, texts: Chris Mann, fretted and fretless electric guitars: Larry Polansky; recording, editing, processing: Tom Erbe; computer, electronics, recording: Douglas Repetto; piano, bass, percussion, melodics: C. Wolff; recorded in Hanover, NH, 1998

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Shepard: Grottes de L'Orbe, le 22 Juillet, 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser Records/2011
clarinet: Katie Porter

LIVE IN STUDIO
Craig Shepard: St. Cergue
pocket trumpet: Craig Shepard

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Shepard: Vallorbe, le 23 Juillet, 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser Records/2011
flute: Antoine Beuger; clarinet: Jürg Frey; cello: Marcus Kaiser; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit

LIVE IN STUDIO
Jack Callahan: Table Canons from Substantia Absolute Infinita
trombones: Craig Shepard, Jeremy Starpoli

SINGLE PLAY
Jürg Frey: from Chorals and vague canons
a. Choral 1
b. Choral 2
c. Canon 2
d. Canon 7

performed by the Peckinpah Trio --
electric guitar: Beat Keller, Christian Kobi: Saxophone; Craig Shepard: Trombone;
recorded at Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, 4/15/11


LIVE IN STUDIO
Larry Polansky: Christian Music
trombones: Craig Shepard, Jeremy Starpoli; melodica: Jack Callahan; electric guitar: Dean Rosenthal

SINGLE PLAY
Dean Rosenthal: I Think So Too
MIDI-programmed chapel organ; recorded in concert at Wesleyan University, 9/23/11

SINGLE PLAY
Jack Callahan: Toward (excerpt)
clarinet: Jürg Frey; cello: Stefan Thut; percussion: Jack Callahan; recorded at Boiler, Aarau, Switzerland, 6/07/11 6/07/2011

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Polansky
a. Study: Anna, the long and the short of it (from Three Anna Studies)
b. 51 Melodies

Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
a. voice: Anna Diamond Polansky; computer: L. Polansky; realized at the Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College; b. rock band -- electric guitars: L. Polansky, Nick Didkovsky; electric bass: Greg Anderson; drums: Leo Ciesa

SINGLE PLAY
Eleanor Hovda:
a. Shenai Sky
b. Recordings of an Ocean Cliff

The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
shenai, oboe: Libby Van Cleve; electric guitar: Jack Vees; recorded at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bower, New York City

SINGLE PLAY
Somei Satoh: Sanyou
Sun Moon
New Albion Records/1994
shakuhachi: Akikazu Nakamura; jyunana-gen (seventeen string koto): Masako Kawamura; recorded at the Joyce Theater, New York City, January 1993

-- FIN --