Martian Gardens for December 1 & 23, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 1, 2013

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webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date: December 23, 2013
Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
 
SET ONE
Iannis Xenakis: O-Mega
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
(for percussion & ensemble) percussion: Steven Schick; International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, January 2010; composition year: 1997; time: 3:52

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Percussion, Opus 14 (J. Beyer)
Restless, Endless, Tactless 
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
(composer: Johanna Beyer) percussion: Todd Meehan, Doug Perkins; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Glennis McRary Music Building, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, December 15, 2009; composition year: 1939; time: 3:17

SET TWO
Yvar Mikhashoff: Little House I Used to Live In (Introduction)  
Panorama of American Piano Music (boxed set)
From Antheil to Zappa 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Frank Zappa) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1970; time: 3:15

Fishers O'Wufmen: Loup Garou
Fishers O'Wufman
Frank Pahl/2013
keyboards, piano, siren, harp, melodica, ukulele, voice: Frank Pahl; synthesizers, bird calls: Dennis Palmer; drums, horn, ukulele; Bob Stagner; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan, April 2012; time: 5:07

Pahl-Mer: Player Piano Flu
Pahl-Mer
Frank Pahl/2013
ruined player piano with hi-speed motors and microcontroller sequencer on strings, piano overdub: Frank Pahl; synthesizers, samples: Dennis Palmer

Ross Bolleter: Unfinished Business
Crow Country
Pogus Productions/2000
ruined bar piano exposed to the elements: Ross Bolleter; recorded at Nallan Sheep Station, Western Australia, July 1987; mastered at Goodshit Studios, Perth, Australia, September 1987; time: 11:15

SET THREE
Richard Teitelbaum: Intersections
Piano Plus -- Piano Music 1963-1998
New World Records/2013
piano: Frederic Rzewski; recorded at CBC, Toronto, 1965; composition year: 1963; time: 5:53

Yvar Mikhashoff: Four Piano Pieces No. 4 (F. Rzewski)
Panorama of American Piano Music (boxed set)
From Antheil to Zappa 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Frederic Rzewski) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1977; time: 3:15

Ursula Mamlok: Love Song of Two Pigeons
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Garrick Ohlson; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 27, 2007; composition years: 1991, 1993; time: 0:56

Ursula Mamlok: Three Bagatelles
I. Grazioso (0:38)
II. Very calm (1:08)
III. Playful (1:08)
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 4
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Holger Groschopp; recorded at Berlin Gärtnerstraße, September 2012; composition year: 1987; total time: 2:56

SET FOUR
Steven Ricks: Boundless Light
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
(for solo flute and electronics) flute: Carlton Vickers; premiered at Brigham Young University, October 9, 2004; composition year: 2003; time: 8:07

Bang On A Can All-Stars: from Four Player Piano Studies  
a. Study 3C (3:24)
b. Study 11 (3:29)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2012
(composer: Conclon Nancarow; arranger: Evan Ziporyn) Bang On A Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate, bass: Robert Black, piano: Vicky Chow, percussion: David Cossin, guitar: Mark Stewart, reeds, gongs: Evan Ziporyn) recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010; composition years: 1948-1960; Ziporyn arrangement: 2010; total excerpt time: 6:53

Bang On A Can All-Stars: from Life  
(with film by Marijke van Warmerdam) 
a. Part III: In the distance (1:30)
b. Part IV: Light (2:15)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2012
(composer: Louis Andriessen) Bang On A Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate, bass: Robert Black, piano: Vicky Chow, percussion: David Cossin, guitar: Mark Stewart, reeds, gongs: Evan Ziporyn) recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010; composition year: 2009; total excerpt time:3:45

SET FIVE
Viv Corringham: Town with Sea
Walking
Innova Recordings/2013
vocals, interviews, field recordings; Viv Corringham; recorded in Porto, Portugal; composition years: 2009-203; time: 9:35

Steven Naylor: Bitter Orchids
Lieux Imaginaires 
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music, field recordings) source materials recorded in Chiang Mai marketplace, Thailand, 1990; realized at the University of Birmingham Electroacoustic Music Studios, UK, 2000; premiered at the MET Concert Series, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, December 9, 2000; composition year: 2000; time: 11:17

SET SIX
Morton Feldman: from Three Voices
a. a non accented legato (1:15)
b. snow falls (2:24)
c. legato (3:30)
Three Voices for Joan La Barbara
New Albion Records/1989
voices: Joan La Barbara; text: Frank O'Hara ("Wind"), recorded in Los Angeles; composition year: 1982; total excerpts time: 6:09

Mary Lee Roberts: Eusebio Consumed
I. Eusebio reconciled with his passions (5:26)
II. Dialoguing with the Ventana sea nymphs (4:34)
III. Re-birthing, back to the womb (4:02)
6 Compositions/Open Space 9 (Roberts)
Open Space/1997
(computer music) mastered on Sonic Solutions at New York University by Mary Lee Roberts, 1997; total time: 14:02

SET SEVEN
Philip Mantione: Earthquake V1
Salvatore
Philip Mantione/2013
electronic composition based on seismic data gathered from Southern California Earthquake Data Center at CalTech, 3/23/13; time: 10:20

David R. Mooney: Elevation
Interior Landscape
David R. Mooney/2013
field recordings from Pittsburgh: David Mooney; time: 14:06

SINGLE PLAY
Natasha Barrett: Under the Sea Floor (Coring and Strata)
(from the Sub Terra Cycle)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
marine and geological recordings: Natasha Barrett; recorded in a fjord and on a drilling ship at Oslo, Norway;  realized for 10-track tape at the composer's studio, Oslo, 2007-2008; time: 6:30


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