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Martian Gardens for November 4, 2012


WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for November 4, 2012

SET ONE

Guy Klucevsek: The Nova Scotia Polka
Polka from the Fringe
Starkland/2012 (orig. 1992)
composer: Bobby Previte; violin: Mark Feldman; drums, marimba: Bobby Previte; recorded at Baby Monster Studios, New York City, January 1990, time: 8:23

Peter Garland: Nights in the Gardens of Maine
Cold Blue Two [various artists] 
Cold Blue Music/2012
accordion: Guy Klucevsek; recorded at Kilgore Recording studio, New York City, December 2010; composition year: 2010; time: 5:15

SET TWO
Hans Werner Henze: Carillon, Récitatif, Masque
a. Carillon
b. Récitatif
c. Masque
Musica da Camera
Mode Records/2008
members of Ensemble Dissonanzen (mandolin: Avi Avital; guitar: Marco Cappelli; harp: Lucia Bova); recorded at the Conservatorio S. Pietro a Majella, Sala Scarletti, Naples, Italy, 2006; composition year: 1974; time: 12:05

In memory of Hans Werner Henze (July 1, 1926 -- October 27, 2012)

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Intuition 
Detours
Unseen Worlds/2012
piano and electronics: BGT; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, July 21, 2010; composition years: 1987, 2010; time: 5:52

Brian Eno: Little Fishes
Another Green World
EG Records/1975
prepared piano and Farfisa organ: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Studios, London, summer 1975; time: 1:30

John Luther Adams: Mourning Dove
Songbird Songs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort; director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, October 3, 2006; composition years: 1974-1979, 2006; time: 5:50

SET THREE
Elodie Lauten: Power
Tronik Involutions
O.O. Discs/1996
electronics: Elodie Lauten; composition year: 1993; time: 7:06

Elodie Lauten: Revelation 
Piano Works
Unseen Worlds/2010
piano and sequencer loops: Elodie Lauten; recorded in New York City, 1983; composition year: 1983; time:   5:55

Kristin Norderval
a. Extreme Weather
b. Narco Kyrie
Aural Histories (Post-Ambient Arias for Voice and Electronics)
Deep Listening/2012
voice, electronics: Kristin Norderval; composition year: 2010; time: 3:14

John Cage: Music for Marcel Duchamp
As It Is
ECM Records/2012
prepared piano: Alexei Lubimov; recorded at Radio Studio DRS, Zurich, December 2011; composition year: 1947; time: 6:20

SET FOUR
Laurie Spiegel: Appalachian Grove I, II, and III
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
computers, synthesizer: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, May-June 1974; composition year: 1974; time: 16:28

Steve Moore: Protomorphosis
Light Universe
Cuneiform Records/2012
synthesizers: Steve Moore, recorded in 2011;  time: 8:53

SET FIVE
Monique Jean: 13'13 pour voix défigurées 
L'adieu au S.O.S.
Empreintes Digitales/2003
electroacoustic music for three-channel tape: Monique Jean; processed voices: Sylvio Archambault, Emmanuel Madan, Pascale Malaterre, Marie-France Marcotte, and Alain Pelletier; texts: Hélène Cixous, Alejo Carpentier; realized at Prim Studios, Montreal, 1997; composition year: 1997; time: 13:13

Lajaren Hiller: from Computer Cantata --
Prolog to Strophe III; Strophe III; Epilog to Strophe III
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
computer: Lajaren Hiller; recorded at the University of Illinois Digital Computer Laboratory; 1963; composition year: 1960; time: 5:42

SET SIX
Annie Gosfield: Daughters of the Industrial Revolution (excerpt)
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; cello: Felix Fan; drums, percussion: Ches Smith, Alex Lipowski; recorded at EastSide Studios, New York City; composition year: 2011; time: 5:35 (excerpt)

Einstürzende Neubauten: Steh au Berlin
Kollaps
Potomak/1987 (orig. 1981)
recorded and mixed in Germany, 1981; time: 3:47

Judy Dunaway: The Balloon Factory
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006
giant balloon, sampling, processing: Judy Dunaway; recorded at Harsh House, Jersey City, New Jersey; composition years: 2004-2006; time: 3:12

Enzo Minarelli: The Flavor is the Presence of Each Person
Fame
Open Space/2009
processed sounds: Enzo Minarelli; time: 2:48

SET SIX
Dorota Czerner: Caves
Open Space 24 -- Dorota Czerner/Elaine Barkin
Open Space/2009
voice,  text: Dorota Czerner; sound: Benjamin Boretz; recorded in 2009; time: 6:03

Judith Exley: The Cave of Tidal Sound
Open Space 16 [various artists]
Open Space/2004
two-channel tape: Judith Exley; composition date: 1993; time: 9:17

Tom Hamilton & Bruce Eisenbeil: Walleye Spawn
Shadow Machine
Pogus Productions/2009
Nord modular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; electric guitar: Bruce Eisenbeil; time: 5:51
 
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