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Martian Gardens for December 8-9, 2013


MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 8 2013

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

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update: December 8, 2013 @ 23:40)


SET ONE

Fishers O'Wufmen: Okami Yasha
Fishers O'Wufmen
Frank Pahl/2013
keyboards, harp, melodica, clarinet, voice: Frank Pahl; synthesizers, bird calls: Dennis Palmer; drums, horn: Bob Stagner; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan, April 2012; time: 5:24

Elaine Barkin: Poem
Open Space 16 [various artists]
Open Space/2004
UCLA Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conductor: Thomas Lee; composition year: 1999; time: 4:53

Yvar Mikhashoff: Quest (J. Cage)
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: John Cage) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1935; time: 1:10

Noah Creshevsky: Canto di Malavita (excerpt 2)
Hyperrealism in Music
Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky 1992-2005
Noah Creshevsky/2005
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 2002; time: 1:00 

Yvar Mikhashoff: Souvenir -- Portrait of Paul Bowles (V. Thomson)
Panorama of American Piano Music [various artists]
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Virgil Thomson) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1935; time:0:58

DJ Spooky: Being Black
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk
Bridge Records/2009
electronics: Paul Miller; voice, text: Ursula Rucker; time: 1:13

Yvar Mikhashoff:  Tora! Tora! Tora! 
(Makrokosmos Vol. 2 - VIII) (G. Crumb)
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: George Crumb) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1973; time: 2:28

ETHEL String Quartet: Movement 3 (D. Byron)
(from String Quartet No. 2: Four Thoughts on Marvin Gaye) 
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
(composer: Don Byron) ETHEL (violins: Cornelius Dufallo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson); recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, New Jersey; June 2010; composition year: 2006); time: 2:06

Yvar Mikhashoff: Dance (S. Paulus) 
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Stephen Paulus) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1987; time: 2:03

SET TWO
Frank Zappa: 
a. Food Gathering in Post-Industrial America, 1992 (2:52)
b. Welcome to the United States (6:19)
The Yellow Shark
Barking Pumpkin/1993
Ensemble Modern, conductor: Frank Zappa; recorded at Alte Opera, Frankfurt, September 1992; composition year: 1992; total time: 8:11

In fond memory of Frank Zappa 
(December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993)

Alvin Curran: Animal Behavior
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 [various artists]
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
samples, sampler: Alvin Curran; recorded at CCM, Mills College, Oakland, California; composition year: 1992; time: 13:00

In celebration of Alvin Curran's 75th birthday
(b. December 13, 1938)

SET THREE
Richard Teitelbaum: In the Accumulate Mode
Piano Plus -- Piano Music 1963 -- 1998
New World Records/2013
Digital Piano System (three computer-assisted pianos): Richard Teitelbaum; recorded at the San Francisco Exploratorium, 1982; composition year: 1982; time: 14:13

Xenia Pestova: An Wem -- Notes from Underground (D. Hurst)
Shadow Piano
Innova Recordings/2013
(composer: Derek Hurst, for toy piano and electronics) toy piano: Xenia Pestova; recorded at Streetlight Sound, Somerville, Massachusetts; composition year: 2007; time: 5:48

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Omega (3:52)*
b. Thalleïn (18:33)
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), conductor: Steven Schick; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California, San Diego, January 2010; composition year: 1984; time: 18:31
*WMUA version only

SET FOUR
Mel Powell: Events for Tape Recorder
Music for Electronic and Older Instruments
(Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell)
CRI/1968 (CD transfer via New World Records/2011)
(for magnetic tape and voices) voices: Mildred Dummock, Lee Bowman, Martha Scott; composition year: 1963; time: 6:56

Mary Lee Roberts: White Writing
I. Bird (1:51)
II. Night Foxes (3:59)
6 Compositions/Open Space 9
Open Space/1997
(for computer) mastered at NYU Sonic Solutions, New York University, 1997; total time: 5:50

Neil B. Rolnick: Macedonian AirDrumming
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
(for MIDI performance system and AirDrums) performer: Neil Rolnick; recorded in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1990; composition year: 1990; time: 8:10

SET FIVE
Marco Oppedisano: Mechanical Uprising
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
electric guitars, electric bass, processing, samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 8:11

Philip Mantione: Deadman Overlook
Salvatore
Petroglyph Music/2013
electronic sounds realized on car stereos, Mullholland  Drive, California; composition year: 2012; time: 9:56

SET SIX
Alvin Lucier: Carbon Copies
Still and Moving Lines
Pogus Productions/2013
(for saxophone, flute, piano, and playback) performed by DECIBEL (flute: Cat Hope, saxophone: Lindsay Vickery, piano: Stuart James, electronic playback: Malcolm Riddoch); recorded at the Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth; composition year: 1989; time: 18:29

Matthew Burtner: (dis) Sensus (excerpts)
a. Dissensus (0:31)
b. Sxape (3:57)
c. Modification 1 (0:24)
d. Modification 2 (0:37)
e. Sensus (1:35)
Noise Plays Burtner
Innova Recordings/2013
saxophone: Matthew Burtner; computer: Nathan Brock; NOISE (flute: Lisa Cella; violin: Mark Menzies; cello: Franklin Cox; guitar: Colin McAllister; percussion: Morris Palter); recorded at the University of San Diego, Studio A; composition year: 2008; total excerpts time: 7:14

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