Martian Gardens for April 20 & 23, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 20, 2014

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webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 23, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
Phil Kline: Northport
John the Revelator -- A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
(Northport 324: Tune: Dr. R. R. Olson,1850, Lyrics: John Cennick, 1743; arr. Phil Kline); Lionheart choir, recorded at the Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August 2007; composition year: 2007; time: 2:36

SET ONE
Yvar Mikhashoff: Souvenir (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, 1991-1992; composition year: 1983; time: 7:03

George Crumb: Easter Dawning
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
carillon bells: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, September 2001; composition year: 1992; time: 4:06

George Crumb: Pastoral Drone
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Six
Bridge Records/2003
organ: Gregory D'Agostino; recorded at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City; December 11, 2001; composition year: 1982; time: 6:55

John Cage: Souvenir
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at the Nederluleå Church, Gammelstad, Luleå, Sweden, 2007; composition year: 1983; time: 6:50

SET TWO 
Robert Voisey: Constellations (seven 1-minute pieces)
a. Orion
b. Chameleon
c. Eridanus
d. Sagittarius 
e. Gemini
f. Vela
g. Aries
Electronic Music Midwest [various artists]
Irritable Hedgehog Music/2014
voice, electronics: Robert Voisey; total time: 7:07

Jim Cole and Spectral Voices: From the Birds
Sky
Spectral Spiral Music/2000
voices recorded in a 120-foot water tower in Connecticut, July 5, 1994; time: 6:06

Deep Listening Band: Phantom
The Ready Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1991
voice, trombone: Stuart Dempster; voice, accordion: Pauline Oliveros; voices: Thomas Eckert, Panaiotis; recorded at the Cistern Chapel (subterranean cistern), Fort Worden, Washington, 1988; time: 8:49

hour two
Updated April 22, 2014

SET THREE
Rand Steiger: A Menacing Plume
A Menacing Plume
New World Records/2014
(for ensemble and electronics); Talea Ensemble (flutes: Tara Helen O'Connor; oboes: Arthur Sato; clarinets: Rane Moore; piano: Steven Beck, percussion: Matthew Gold, Alex Lipowski: percussion: violin: Yuki Numata Besnick; viola: Elizabeth Weisser; cello: Chris Gross; conductor: James Baker; digital audio signal processing: Miller Puckette, Rand Steiger; recorded at Oktaven Studio, Yonkers, January 2013; composition year: 2011; time: 16:32

Glenn Kotche: Triple Fantasy
Adventureland
Cantaloupe Music/2014
performed by Eighth Blackbird and Kronos Quartet; recorded at Electrical Audio, Chicago; composition year: 2008; time: 5:42

SET FOUR
Sumner Carnahan & Out of Context:
a. Stripped (6:32)
b. Again (5:42)
One Inch Equals 25 Miles
Burning Books/2005
words: Melody Sumner Carnahan; music: J.A. Deane; Out of Context (cornet: Jon Baldwin; sampler, live sampling: C.K. Barlow; oud, electronics: Stefan Dill; voice, acting: John Flax; cello: Katie Harlow; bassoon: Sam Rhodes; vocalist: Molly Sturges; viola: Alcia Ultan; drums, percussion: Jefferson Voorhees; sampler, uniflute, conductor: J.A. Deane); recorded at Outpost Recording Space, Albuquerque, December 10, 2004; time: 12:14

Radio Morocco: Radio Tangier Internationale
Radio Morocco
Sublime Frequencies/2004
radio transmissions recorded, edited, and assembled by Allen Bishop in 1983; time: 3:43

Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
electronics, sampling: Sarah Boothroyd; composition year: 2008; time: 2:34

Elainie Lillios: Toronto Island Contrasts
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
electronics, sampling: Elainie Lillios; compositon year: 2008; time: 1:00

Anne La Berge: 800 Speakers
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, flute, electronics: Anne La Berge; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, summer 2009, composition years: 2001-2009; time: 3:51

hour three
Updated April 22, 2014
TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only

SET FIVE
Benjamin Boretz: The Memory of  All That
(A Holy Sonnet of John Donne for Milton Babbitt)
Open Space 31 
Open Space/2014
mezzo soprano: Megan Berti; piano: Zuzanna Szewcyk Kwon; recorded at the Eastman School of Music, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 12:38

Milton Babbitt: Occasional Variations
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2004
RCA Mark II synthesizer: Milton Babbitt; recorded at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center; composition years: 1968-1971; time: 9:54

SET SIX
Beth Anderson: Shakuhachi Run
The Praying Mantis and the Bluebird
MSR Classics/2013
shakuhachi: Andrew Bolotowsky; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, New York City, August 2012; composition year: 1981; time: 4:41

Frances White: Choshi (trad.)
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; time: 4:56

Judith Shatin: Grito del Corazón
Time to Burn
Innova Recordings/2014
(for clarinets and electronics) clarinets: F. Gerard Errante, D. Gause; composition year: 2001; time: 5:18

SET SEVEN
Carey Nutman: Amphibia
The Sea and the Snake
MPS Music & Video/2013
electronic music: Carey Nutman; composition year: 2013;  time: 12:28

Rudiger Gleisberg: African Moods
Electroacoustic Music Volume 3 [various artists]
Electroshock Records/1999
electronic music: Rudiger Gleisberg; composition year: 1998; time: 7:32

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