Saturday, July 21, 2012

Martian Gardens for July 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 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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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Martian Gardens for July 15, 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 July 15, 2012

SET ONE
Ted Hearne: selections from Katrina Ballads
a. Anderson Cooper and Mary Landrieu
b. Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job
c. Interlude 2
Katrina Ballads
New Amsterdam Records/2010
a. soprano: Allison Semmes; baritone: Anthony Turner; b. tenor: Ted Hearne; a,b,c: The New Music Collective; recorded March 10-12, 2008 at Avatar Studios, Manhattan 

Curtis K. Hughes: selections from Say It Ain't So, Joe
a. Act 1, Interlude
b. Act 1, Scene 2 (Vice Presidential Debate--St. Louis) (excerpt)
c. Act 1, Scene 3 (I am the future of the Republican Party--August 28, 2008)
Say It Ain't So, Joe
Guerilla Opera/2011
a. Jennifer Ashe as Sarah Palin; Brian Church as Joe Biden; b. Aliana de la Guardia as Sarah Palin; a, b, c: Guerilla Opera; recorded at the Union Congregational Church, Hebron, NH, June 2-3, 2011 

SET TWO
Victoria Jordanova: Sonatina No. 1
a. Allegretto
b. Giacoso
c. Languido
d. Misterioso
Cosmogony 
ArpaViva Records/2012
piano: Victoria Jordanova 

Lisa Moore: Reservoir (Donnacha Dennehy)
Stainless Staining
Cantaloupe Music/2012
piano: Lisa Moore 

SET THREE
Dorota Czerner: St. Andrew's Night
Open Space 29 -- Barkin-Czerner-Boretz
Open Space/2012
voice, text: Dorota Czerner; electronic sound: Benjamin Boretz 

Larry Polansky: B'rey'sheet (In the beginning...) Cantillation Study #1
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
voice: Jody Diamond; live computers: Phil Burk, Larry Polansky; recording engineer: Tom Erbe; recorded live at Mills College, Oakland, January 1990 

SET FOUR
John Cage: Living Room Music
a. To Begin
b. Story
c. Melody
d. End
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Production; recorded at the Ruth Ford House, Aurora, Illinois, June 29, 2011 

Jin Hi Kim: Dragon Bond Rite
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
Asian drum group -- Korean janggo: Choi Jong-Sil; Japanese Ōtsuzumi: Shonosuke Okura; Indonesian kendang: I Gede Winartha Putu; Indian mizhavu: Unikrishina Nambiar 

Mark Applebaum: Asylum (Insight and Interjections)
Asylum
Innova Recordings/2006
ensemble xx. jahrhundert; conductor: Peter Burwik; percussion soloist: Berndt Thurner; recorded at the Vienna Modern Festival, Schömer-Haus; Klosterneuberg, Austria, November 14, 2004

SET FIVE
Christian Eloy: Ellipse
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005
electroacoustic music: Christian Eloy

Ingrid Drese: Paysage avec miroir
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio; premiered at L’Espace du son, M&R  Théâtre Marni, Brussels, October 17, 2007

SET SIX
R. Weis: Surrender Dorothy
Mystery of the Egg
R. Weis/1994
samples, sampler: R. Weis

Steve Moshier: Boy's Life -- Highway
Limestone Gates
Spectrapol/2012
electronic music: Steve Moshier

SET SEVEN
Annette Vande Gorne: Ce qu'a vu le ven d'Est (What the East Wind Saw)
Exils
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
electroacoustic music realized at Métamorphoses d'Orphée studio of Musique & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at Pianistici concert series, Cagliari, Sardinia, June 7, 2003 

Mark Trayle: Primitive Still Life (With Pairs)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30 [various artists]
Music form the Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology,
California Institute of the Arts
Centaur Records/2000
real-time computer music: Mark Trayle; recorded at CEAIT, November 1998

SET EIGHT
Anne Le Berge: 800 Speakers
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, flute, electronics: Anne Le Berge; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, summer 2009

Luc Ferrari: Chansons 3 -- Le Seins
Chansons pour le Corps/Et si tout entière maintenant
Mode Records/1999
clarinets: Carol Mundinger, Sylvan Frydman; percussion: Christine Lagniel; piano: Michel Maurer; synthesizer: Michel Musseau; recorded at GRM, Olivier Messiaen Hall, Maison de Radio France, Paris, March 18, 1995

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