Sunday, October 14, 2012

Martian Gardens for October 14, 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 October 14, 2012

SINGLE PLAY

Guy Klucevsek: Guy De Polka (M. J. Leach)
Polka from the Fringe
Starkland/2012 (orig. 1992)
Guy Klucevsek and Ain't Nothin' But A Polka Band; recorded at  Baby Monster Studios; 1990-91; composition year: 1987; time: 3:08

SET ONE
James Mobberley: Alter Ego
A Collection of Pieces
CD-R/2012
cello: Carter Enyeart; fixed media: James Mobberley; time: 12:24

Walter Zimmermann: Taula (from Taula/Novo Ben)
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012
viola: Nikolas Schlierf; recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, July 16, 2010; text: Roman Llull; composition year: 2003; time: 7:04

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Echoes of Time and the River
Four Processionals for Orchestra (Echoes II)
I. Frozen Time
II. Remembrance of Time
III. Collapse of Time
IV. Last Echoes of Time
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Six
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Thomas Conlin; recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw, Poland, August 2002; text: Federico Garcia Lorca composition year: 1967; time: 18:49

SET TWO
Benjamin Broening: Arioso/Doubles
Trembling Air
Eighth Blackbird; recorded at Camp Concert Hall, University of Richmond, October 2008; composition year: 2002; time: 7:46 

Eric Moe: Eight Point Turn
Kick & Ride
Boston Modern Orchestra Project; conducted: Gil Rose; drum set: Robert Schulz; recorded at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, February 7, 2008; composition year: 2001; time: 12:30

SET THREE
Bob James Trio: Wolfman 
Explosions
ESP-Disk'/2008 (orig. 1965)
piano: Bob James; bass: Barre Phillips; drums: Robert Pozar; electronic tape collage: Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, Bob James; recorded at Bell Sound Studios, May 10, 1965; composition date: 1964 (Wolfman tapes -- Robert Ashley); time: 6:08

Robert Ashley: Fives
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 [various artists]
The Camerata Quartet; pianos: Bob James and Robert Ashley; percussion: Robert Pozar and David Maves; double bass: Bertram Turetzky; conductor: Edwin London; recorded February 9, 1963, Ann Arbor;  composition year: 1962; time: 12:36

SET FOUR
Charlie Morrow: Breath Chant
Toot!
breath and chanting with four-track overdub improvisation and four loudspeakers: Charlie Morrow; recorded in 1971; composition date: 1971; time: 5:40

Mary Jane Leach: Feu de Joie
Celestial Fires
bassoon: Shannon Peet; composition year: 1992; time: 8:51

Annie Gosfield: Cranks and Cactus Needles
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
The Pearls Before Swine Experience (viola: George Kentros; flute: Sara Hammerström; cello: Mats Olofsson; piano: Marten Landström); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, New York; composition year: 2000; time: 7:32

SET FIVE
Leo Kupper: Aviformes (parts 3-7)
Digital Voices
soprano: Barbara Zanichelli; processing, electronics: Leo Kupper; recorded at Studio de Recherches, Brussels, compoistion year: 2009; time: 7:00

Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
voices: Joan La Barbara; recorded at The American Center for Students and Artists, Paris, France, October 1980; composition year: 1980; time: 14:16

SET SIX
Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux: Zones
Impulsion
keyboard instruments, electronic processing: MCSM; recorded at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, December 1971--January 1972; premiered at the Festival international d’Art contemporain, Royan, France, March 25, 1972; composition year: 1971; time: 9:02

Robert Carl: A Clean Sweep
From Japan
New World Records/2012
shakuhachis: Elizabeth Brown, Robert Carl; fixed media: Robert Carl; composition year: 2005; time: 13:02

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