Saturday, February 16, 2013

Martian Gardens for February 17-18, 2013


MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 17, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
February 18, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST


SET ONE
Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Summer Phantoms -- Nocturne
Here (And There)
Innova Recordings/2013
composer/fixed media: Brian Belet; piano: Jeri-Mae Astolfi; recorded at Left Edge Studio, Campbell, California, summer 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 11:06

Kristi McGarity: So many days to be here
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2003
electroacoustic music: Kristi McGarity; composition year: 2002; time: 10:20

SET TWO
Frances White: The Ocean Inside
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
Eighth Blackbird (alto flute: Tim Munro; clarinet: Michael J. Maccaferri; violin: Matt Albert; cello: Nicholas Photinos; piano: Lisa Kaplan; percussion: Matthew Duvall), with electronics; composition year: 2007; time: 14:35

Heather O'Donnell: The missing nail at the river
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
composer: Walter Zimmermann; piano, toy piano: Heather O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, January 2008; composition year: 2006; time: 5:50

SET THREE
Leo Kupper: Paroles sur Langue*
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
bass-baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; electronic processing: Leo Kupper; recorded at Studio de Recherches, Brussels; composition year: 2006; time: 8:06
* intended for last week's program, but ran out of time

Morton Subotnick: Until Spring (Beginning) (Side One)
Electronic Works Volume. 2
Mode Records/2004
synthesizer, four-channel tape recorded in 1975; remastered by Morton Subotnick; time: 15:01

SET FOUR
Robyn Schulkowsky:
a. Armadillo Part II (5:05)
b. Armadillo Part III (5:29)
Armadillo
New World Records/2012
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; drums: Fredy Studer; drums: Joey Baron; recorded in Poggiolo, Italy, and Zürich, Switzerland, 2006-2009; composition years: 1990-2007

Joey Baron: Unleashing the Dobermans
Raised Pleasure Dot
New World Records/1994
drums: Joey Baron; tenor saxophone: Ellery Eskelin; trombone: Steve Swell; recorded at Sear Sound, New York City, February 1993; time: 2:14

Laurie Anderson:
a. Muddy River (3:02)
b. In Our Sleep (2:31)
Bright Red/Tight Rope
Warner Bros./1994
vocals, keyboards: Laurie Anderson, drums: Joey Baron; backing vocals: Phil Ballou (a); surdo bass drum, tambourine: Cyro Baptista (b.); keyboards, drum treatments: Brian Eno (b.), guitar: Gerry Leonard (b.), vocals, guitar: Lou Reed (b.); recorded at the Lobby, New York City

SET FIVE
The $100 Guitar Project, selections:
a. Ken Field: Sonic Wrubble (1:51)
b. Nick Didkovsky: Feeble Little Weakling (0:18)
c. Mark Stewart: Hum! Scratch!! Rub!!! (2:56)
d. Taylor Levine: Fish Eye (2:15)
e. Nick Didkovsky: A Fire in God's Path (0:40)
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013

Joseph Byrd: Prelude to "The Mystery Cheese-Ball"
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
balloons: members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble; recorded at Mission Sound, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 2012; composition year: 1961; time: 3:41

Judy Dunaway: Champaign in Mexico City -- Fragment Set #1
Balloon Music
CRI/1998
balloons: Judy Dunaway; electronics: Dan Evans Farkas; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, composition year: 1997; time: 5:13

Steven Ricks: Ossifying (Keeping us from)
Ricksmusic CD-R (2013)
time: 3:15

Mary Ellen Childs: Dessication
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2013
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin: Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ultan; percussion: Peter O'Gorman; recorded at WildSound Studio, Minneapolis, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 1:48

SET SIX
NON/Boyd Rice: Seven Sermons to the Dead
Back to Mono
Mute Records/2012
music by NON; text: Carl Jung; recorded live in New York City, 2009; time: 3:25

Test Dept: More of Everything
Materia Prima
Invisible/2001
recorded live in Europe, 1986-1988, specifics unspecified; time: 6:57

Endless Pie: Galileo Uses Propaganda
Endless Pie
pfMENTUM/2012
trumpet, flugelhorn, voice, electronics: Jeff Kaiser; prepared piano: Phil Skaller; recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego, November 2010; time: 6:07

Damon Holzborn: If we're all going to get it
Trummerflora -- Rubble 1 (Trummerflora Collective)
Accretions/2004
sound collage: Damon Holzborn; time: 3:30

SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: The Waves
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
New Albion Records/1992
soprano: Joan La Barbara;  text: Virginia Woolf; computer synthesis: Charles Dodge, John Stautner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; composition year: ?; time: 12:42


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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Martian Gardens for February 10-11, 2013


MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 10, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
February 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

(Final update: February 10, 2012 at 23:37)

SET ONE
Coil: The Snow (Out in the Cold)
The Snow EP
Wax Trax!/1991
remixed by Peter Christopherson; recorded at Matrix Studios, London, 1991, time: 7:43

Jonas Braasch: Snow Drifts
Quartet for the End of Space
(Oliveros/Lopez/Van Nort/Braasch)
Pogus Productions/2011
recorded at RPI, Troy, New York, and the Deep Listening Foundation, Kingston, New York, 2010; time: 7:15

Coil: The Snow (Driftmix)
The Snow EP
Wax Trax!/1991
remixed by Peter Christopherson; recorded at Matrix Studios, London, 1991, time: 2:35

SET TWO
Butch Morris: The Bartok Comprovisation
Dust to Dust
New World Records/1991
drums: Andrew Cyrille; keyboards: Wayne Horvitz; vibraphone: Brian Carrott; clarinet: Marty Ehrlich; guitar: Jean-Paul Bourelly; harp: Zeena Parkins; oboe: John Purcell; piano: Myra Melford; trombone: J.A. Dean; violin: Jason Hwang; English horn: Vickey Bodner; recorded at Skyline Studios, New York City, November 1991

In memory of Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris (February 10, 1947 -- January 29, 2013)  

Noah Creshevsky: In Memoriam
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
cello: Juho Laitinen; electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 2008; time: 5:20

Phil Kline: Premonition
Glow in the Dark
CRI/1998
music for 25 tape players; composition year: 1997; time: 5:16

Roscoe Mitchell: Methane Snow
Solo (3)
Mutable Music/2004
alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; recorded Audio for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin, 2003; time: 2:01

SET THREE
Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
soprano: Susan Botti; piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings; composition year: 1990; time: 4:45

John Cage: Five Songs
a. little four paws
b. little Christmas tree
c. in Just-
d. hist whilst
e. Tumbling hair
As It Is
ECM/2012
piano: Alexei Lubimov; voice: Natalia Pshenichnikova; texts: e.e. cummings; recorded at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich; December 2011; time: 8:34

Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Swirling Sky
Here (And There)
Innova Recordings/2013
composer: Ed Martin; piano: Jeri Mae Astolfi, with electronic accompaniment; recorded at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 6:23

Charity Chan: Silent Sands
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd.com/2009
extended piano, objects: Charity Chan; regarded at Guelph, Ontario, July 2008; time: 3:17

SET FOUR
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow (Microclimate II)
Isotasie
Empreintes Digitales/2001
electroacoustic music: Natasha Barrett; realized at the Norwegian network for Technology, Acoustics and Music, Oslo, 1998; premiered the Music Factory Contemporary Music Festival, Bergen, May 26, 1999; time: 15:39

Madelyn Byrne: Winter
Lesbian American Composers [various artists]
CRI/1998
bowed crotales: Lisa Frisari; voice: Malin Serner; electronic processing: Madelyn Byrne; realized at Columbia University's Computer Music Center, 1997; composition year: 1997; time: 7:31

SINGLE PLAY
Mary Ellen Childs: selections from Wreck
a. First Wave (part 1)
b. First Wave (part 2)
c. Spirit Duet
d. Duet
e. Kalli
f. The Lake
g. Chant
h. Second Wave
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2013
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin: Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ultan; percussion: Peter O. Gorman; remixing on Spirit Duet: James Patrick; sound montage on Kalli: James Patrick and Chris Cunningham; recorded at WildSound Studio, Minneapolis; written for Black Label Movement dance company; composition year: 2011; selections time: 22:00

SET FIVE
Mary Ellen Childs: Four of One of Another
Kilter
XI Records/1996
accordion: Guy Klucevsek; Soho Quartet (violins: Mary Rowell, Mark Feldman; viola: Lois Martin; cello: Erik Friedlander); recorded at Baby Monster Studios, New York City; 1991, composition year: 1988; time: 11:27

Guy Klucevsek: Oa Poa Polka
Polka from the Fringe
Starkland Recordings/2012 (orig. 1992)
composer: Mary Ellen Childs; accordion: Guy Klucevsek; recorded at Baby Monster Studios, New York City, 1991, composition year: 1988, time: 3:59

SINGLE PLAY*
Mauricio Kagel: Phonophonie
Transicion II/Phonophonie
Mode Records/2003
bass voices (live/prerecorded): Nicholas Isherwood; tapes and sound direction: Stefano Bassanese; offstage voice: Time Greacen; sounds on tape -- percussion: Dimitri Fiorin voices: Piera Acone, Elena Barbalich, Daniele Del Giudice, Xavier Tavet; recorded in Venice and Paris, 1999-2001; composition years: 1963-1964); time: 22:54 (edited time: 16:50)
*TAINT RADIO version only

SET SIX*
George Cacioppo: Advance of the Fungi
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
bass voices: Nicholas Isherwood; Atelier du Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles (clarinets: Branko Pavloski, Simone Gauser, Erika Bliznik; trombones: Hiroyuki Morooka, Simon Maillard, Gabriel Leloup; norns: Isabelle Varrauz, Li-chi Yang; percussion: Bénédicte Albanhac), conductor:  Renaud François; record at Conservatoire National de Région de Versailles; composition year (1964); time: 13:57 (edited time 11:45 on TAINT RADIO version)

Gerard Pape: Weaveworld Prologue
Ascension to Purgatory 
Mode Records/2006
bass voice: Nicholas Isherwood; Atelier du Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles (flute: Miraka Nasu; oboe: Louis Hedde; clarinet: Krista Martynes; bassoon: Alexandre Ouzounoff; trumpet: François Pallies; horn: Isabelle Varrauz; trombone: Hiroyuki Morooka; violins; Takuro Ikewzawa, Violaine Reboul; viola Estelle Marsal; cello: Floaraine Vieux-Rochas; contrabass: Hui-yng Yang; percussion: Pierre Lacroix), conductor: Lionel Arnaud; record at Conservatoire National de Région de Versailles; composition year: 1998; time: 10:39


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