Saturday, July 13, 2013

Martian Gardens for July 14-15, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 14, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
July 15, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
 

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Estancia
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
composition year: 1999; time: 6:49

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Erickson: Summer Music
Orchestral, Chamber & Vocal Music
Naxos/2007 (orig. 1990)
(for violin and tape) violin: Mia Wu; recorded at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, June 1988, tape sound source: the brooks of Sequoia National Park, Sierra Nevada, California; composition year: 1974; time: 15:41

SET ONE
Henry Brant: Meteor Farm, parts 1-4
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 4
Innova Recordings/2006
(spatial music for numerous simultaneous groups) principal conductor: Henry Brant; guest conductor: Neely Bruce and Richard Winslow; Wesleyan University Orchestra, conductor: Roger Sollie; Wesleyan Singers, director: Neely Bruce; Wesleyan Gamelan, directors: Sumarsam with Sukanto Sastrodarsono; South Indian Trio (voice: S.A.K. Durga; mrdangam: David Nelson; tambura: David Claman); West African Drumming Ensemble, master drummer: Abraham Adzenyah; Wesleyan Big Band, director: Bill Barron; saxophones (altos: Susan Kidwell, Daniel Kolbert, tenor: Larry DeGarris); soprano soloists: Phyllis Bruce, Laura Cook; organ: Amy Snyder;  composition year: 1982; recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, March 6, 1982; parts 1-4 total time: 12:00

John Cage: Credo in US
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
(for percussion quartet and radio or phonograph) Percussion Group Cincinnati recorded at Werner Concert Hall, College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, May 26, 2006; Credo in US first version with LP: Dmitri Shostakovitch, Symphony No. 5, New York Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Leonard Bernstein; Columbia Records; composition year: 1942; time: 12:58

SET TWO
David Bithell: Hithering
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 39 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
Centaur Records/2012
(for trumpet and interactive computer environment); trumpet: David Bithell; composition year: 2009; time: 7:11

John Luther Adams: In the Rain
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
found sound tapes recorded in the 1970s by JLA; processing, mixing: JLA, Fairbanks, Alaska; time: 8:53

Bill Alves: The Terrain of Possibilities
The Terrain of Possibilities
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
(computer music by Bill Alves); sound sources in just intonation: Indonesian metal instruments, Korean bronze chimes, tam-tam, Western percussion instruments, piano, and voice; composition year: 1987; time: 6:57

SET THREE
Jorge Antunes:

Martian Gardens for July 14-15, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 14, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
July 15, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
 

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Estancia
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
composition year: 1999; time: 6:49

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Erickson: Summer Music
Orchestral, Chamber & Vocal Music
Naxos/2007 (orig. 1990)
(for violin and tape) violin: Mia Wu; recorded at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, June 1988, tape sound source: the brooks of Sequoia National Park, Sierra Nevada, California; composition year: 1974; time: 15:41

SET ONE
Henry Brant: Meteor Farm, parts 1-4
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 4
Innova Recordings/2006
(spatial music for numerous simultaneous groups) principal conductor: Henry Brant; guest conductor: Neely Bruce and Richard Winslow; Wesleyan University Orchestra, conductor: Roger Sollie; Wesleyan Singers, director: Neely Bruce; Wesleyan Gamelan, directors: Sumarsam with Sukanto Sastrodarsono; South Indian Trio (voice: S.A.K. Durga; mrdangam: David Nelson; tambura: David Claman); West African Drumming Ensemble, master drummer: Abraham Adzenyah; Wesleyan Big Band, director: Bill Barron; saxophones (altos: Susan Kidwell, Daniel Kolbert, tenor: Larry DeGarris); soprano soloists: Phyllis Bruce, Laura Cook; organ: Amy Snyder;  composition year: 1982; recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, March 6, 1982; parts 1-4 total time: 12:00

John Cage: Credo in US
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
(for percussion quartet and radio or phonograph) Percussion Group Cincinnati recorded at Werner Concert Hall, College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, May 26, 2006; Credo in US first version with LP: Dmitri Shostakovitch, Symphony No. 5, New York Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Leonard Bernstein; Columbia Records; composition year: 1942; time: 12:58

SET TWO
David Bithell: Hithering
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 39 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
Centaur Records/2012
(for trumpet and interactive computer environment); trumpet: David Blithell; composition year: 2009; time: 7:11

John Luther Adams: In the Rain
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
found sound tapes recorded in the 1970s by JLA; processing, mixing: JLA, Fairbanks, Alaska; time: 8:53

Bill Alves: The Terrain of Possibilities
The Terrain of Possibilities
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
(computer music by Bill Alves); sound sources in just intonation: Indonesian metal instruments, Korean bronze chimes, tam-tam, Western percussion instruments, piano, and voice; composition year: 1987; time: 6:57

SET THREE
Jorge Antunes: Invocação em defesa da máquina
I. A máquina não desumanziza a música (2:35)
II. Reflexão (1:03)
III. A música humaniza a máquina (5:13)
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for 4 percussionists, 4 metronomes, and electronic sounds); percussion: Adriano Letzel, Arturo Uribe, Bruno Cabrera, Catarina Percinio, Clenio Henrique, Rosângela Rhafaelle, Rubens Lopes, Sérgio Coutinho; recorded at Teatro Maria de Lourdes Sekeff, the Art Institute of UNESP, São Paulo, March 27, 2010; composition year: 1968; total time: 8:51

Bülent Arel: Mimia II - Frieze
Music for Computers, Electronic Sounds, and Players [various artists]
CRI/1973 (CD-R transfer/2009)
computer music realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1969; time: 13:10

SET FOUR
Steven Naylor: Bitter Orchids
Lieux imaginaires
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music); sounds recorded at the marketplace in Chiang Mai, Thailand, realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, 2000, time: 11:17

Patrick Lenfant: Khem
Compendium International 2006 Bourges [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
(computer music); realized at Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), France, 2006; time: 12:20

SET FIVE
Chaya Czernowin: Ina
Afatism -- Chamber Music
Mode Records/1999
(for live and prerecorded flutes); live solo bass flute, six flutes on tape: John Fonville; recorded at the University of Calfornia San Diego; composition year: 1988; time: 11:13

Burr Van Nostrand: Hälfte des Lebens*
a. Stanza 1
c. Interlude: Schwangesang # 2
d. Stanza 2
Voyage in a White Building I
New World Records/2013
(*Movement 4 from Fantasy Manual for Urban Survival); flute: Robert Stallman; cello: Jay Humeston; prepared piano: Haerman Weiss; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, October 17, 1972; composition year: 1972; time: 12:21

SET SIX
Chris Cochrane: Santiago Penando Estas (V. Parra)
The Aerial # 2 [various artists]
Nonsequitur/1990
composer: Violeta Parra; voice, percussion: Chris Cochrane; composition year: 1963, arranged by C. Cochrane, 1989; time: 3:30

Leo Ciesa:
a. Them Figurative Bagatelles (2:22)
b. Three Abrasive Croissants (0:40)
Coat of Arms -- Music for Solo Drumset
Soundyard/2012
drumset: Leo Ciesa; recorded at Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey, October 11, 2009; total time: 2:42

No Safety: Heavenly Pass
Live at the Knitting Factory Works
Knitting Factory Works/1993
(composer: Zeena Parkins); bass, vocals: Ann Rupel; guitar, tape, vocals: Chris Cochrane, harp, sampler, eggs, vocals: Zeena Parkins; guitar: Doug Seidel; trap drums: Tim Spelios; recorded at the Knitting Factory, Tribeca, July 1993; time: 2:21

R. Weis: This is Trash
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
samples (wad of painter's tape hitting aluminum trash can; improvised 5 tone vocal phrase I); sampler: R. Weis; recorded at R. Weis' studio, Pittsburgh; time: 4:39

Yello:
Assistant's Cry (1:49)
Bostich (2:11)
Solid Pleasure
Ralph Records/1980
vocals: Dieter Meier; tapes, sound effects: Carlos Peron; guitar: Chico Hablas; drums: Felix Haug; recorded in Zurich, 1979-1989; total time: 4:00

Colin  Stetson: High Above a Grey Green Sea
Musicworks #116 [various artists]
Musicworks Magazine/2013
bass saxophone, vocals: Colin Stetson; recorded in Montreal, 2012; time: 4:25

SET SEVEN
Steven Ricks:
Irritating One Way or Another (That is to Say Keeping Us from Ossifying)
(electroacoustic music); realized by Steven Ricks, 2012; time: 3:04

Amy Knoles: Phone Call
Men in the Cities
Echograph/1999
percussion, electronics: Amy Knoles; voice: Richard Hines; text: David Maciver, "Danish Bits," recorded in Los Angeles, 1999; time: 10:32

From Touch.Sampler 2:
a. Air Traffic Control (0:37)
b. The Hafler Trio: Replacement (1:27)
c. Runaway Train (3:39)
Touch.Sampler 2 [various artists]
Touch Records/1997
a. recorded over Siberia on ANA flight 201 from Tokyo, 1990; recorded on answering machines between Amsterdam and London, January 1988, c. Alfie, railroad controller, and Weslie, train engineer, recorded March 9, 1948, New Brunswick, Canada; total selection time: 5:44

Liam O'Gallagher: Border Dissolve in Audiospace
10+12:12 -- American Text Sound Pieces [various artists]
Other Minds/2003 (orig. 1750 Arch LP/1975)
(for voice, telephony, and unsuspecting telephone operators); telephone caller: Liam O'Gallagher; recorded in San Francisco, 1970; time: 12:42

--FIN--
I. A máquina não desumanziza a música (2:35)
II. Reflexão (1:03)
III. A música humaniza a máquina (5:13)
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for 4 percussionists, 4 metronomes, and electronic sounds); percussion: Adriano Letzel, Arturo Uribe, Bruno Cabrera, Catarina Percinio, Clenio Henrique, Rosângela Rhafaelle, Rubens Lopes, Sérgio Coutinho; recorded at Teatro Maria de Lourdes Sekeff, the Art Institute of UNESP, São Paulo, March 27, 2010; composition year: 1968; total time: 8:51

Bülent Arel: Mimia II - Frieze
Music for Computers, Electronic Sounds, and Players [various artists]
CRI/1973 (CD-R transfer/2009)
computer music realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1969; time: 13:10

SET FOUR
Steven Naylor: Bitter Orchids
Lieux imaginaires
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music); sounds recorded at the marketplace in Chiang Mai, Thailand, realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, 2000, time: 11:17

Patrick Lenfant: Khem
Compendium International 2006 Bourges [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
(computer music); realized at Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), France, 2006; time: 12:20

SET FIVE
Chaya Czernowin: Ina
Afatism -- Chamber Music
Mode Records/1999
(for live and prerecorded flutes); live solo bass flute, six flutes on tape: John Fonville; recorded at the University of Calfornia San Diego; composition year: 1988; time: 11:13

Burr Van Nostrand: Hälfte des Lebens*
a. Stanza 1
c. Interlude: Schwangesang # 2
d. Stanza 2
Voyage in a White Building I
New World Records/2013
(*Movement 4 from Fantasy Manual for Urban Survival); flute: Robert Stallman; cello: Jay Humeston; prepared piano: Haerman Weiss; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, October 17, 1972; composition year: 1972; time: 12:21

SET SIX
Chris Cochrane: Santiago Penando Estas (V. Parra)
The Aerial # 2 [various artists]
Nonsequitur/1990
composer: Violeta Parra; voice, percussion: Chris Cochrane; composition year: 1963, arranged by C. Cochrane, 1989; time: 3:30

Leo Ciesa:
a. Them Figurative Bagatelles (2:22)
b. Three Abrasive Croissants (0:40)
Coat of Arms -- Music for Solo Drumset
Soundyard/2012
drumset: Leo Ciesa; recorded at Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey, October 11, 2009; total time: 2:42

No Safety: Heavenly Pass
Live at the Knitting Factory Works
Knitting Factory Works/1993
(composer: Zeena Parkins); bass, vocals: Ann Rupel; guitar, tape, vocals: Chris Cochrane, harp, sampler, eggs, vocals: Zeena Parkins; guitar: Doug Seidel; trap drums: Tim Spelios; recorded at the Knitting Factory, Tribeca, July 1993; time: 2:21

R. Weis: This is Trash
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
samples (wad of painter's tape hitting aluminum trash can; improvised 5 tone vocal phrase I); sampler: R. Weis; recorded at R. Weis' studio, Pittsburgh; time: 4:39

Yello:
Assistant's Cry (1:49)
Bostich (2:11)
Solid Pleasure
Ralph Records/1980
vocals: Dieter Meier; tapes, sound effects: Carlos Peron; guitar: Chico Hablas; drums: Felix Haug; recorded in Zurich, 1979-1989; total time: 4:00

Colin  Stetson: High Above a Grey Green Sea
Musicworks #116 [various artists]
Musicworks Magazine/2013
bass saxophone, vocals: Colin Stetson; recorded in Montreal, 2012; time: 4:25

SET SEVEN
Steven Ricks:
Irritating One Way or Another (That is to Say Keeping Us from Ossifying)
(electroacoustic music); realized by Steven Ricks, 2012; time: 3:04

Amy Knoles: Phone Call
Men in the Cities
Echograph/1999
percussion, electronics: Amy Knoles; voice: Richard Hines; text: David Maciver, "Danish Bits," recorded in Los Angeles, 1999; time: 10:32

From Touch.Sampler 2:
a. Air Traffic Control (0:37)
b. The Hafler Trio: Replacement (1:27)
c. Runaway Train (3:39)
Touch.Sampler 2 [various artists]
Touch Records/1997
a. recorded over Siberia on ANA flight 201 from Tokyo, 1990; recorded on answering machines between Amsterdam and London, January 1988, c. Alfie, railroad controller, and Weslie, train engineer, recorded March 9, 1948, New Brunswick, Canada; total selection time: 5:44

Liam O'Gallagher: Border Dissolve in Audiospace
10+12:12 -- American Text Sound Pieces [various artists]
Other Minds/2003 (orig. 1750 Arch LP/1975)
(for voice, telephony, and unsuspecting telephone operators); telephone caller: Liam O'Gallagher; recorded in San Francisco, 1970; time: 12:42

--FIN--