Martian Gardens for May 18 & 21, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
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Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 11, 2014

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webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: May 14, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Lord, Let Me Fly!
from Voices from the Heartland
American Songbook VII
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 16
Bridge Records/2014
soprano: Ann Crumb; bass baritone: Patrick Mason; Orchestra 2001 (amplified piano: Marcantonio Barone; percussion: Brenda Weckerly, David Nelson, Greg Giannascoli, William Kerrigan); conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swarthmore College, October 2012; composition year: 2010; time: 2:16
 
SET ONE
Stuart Saunders Smith: A Gift for Bessie
A River Rose -- Music for Violin
New World Records/2014
violin: Airi Yoshioka; piano: John Novacek; bassoon: Sue Heineman; percussion: Lee Hinkle; recorded at the Recital Hall of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2013; composition year: 1971; time: 10:15

Barrie Webb & Peter Neville: The Memory of the Glance of God (E. Duncan)
Hoy! -- New Music for Trombone and Percussion
MPS Music and Video/2006
composer: Eve Duncan; trombone: Barrie Webb; percussion: Peter Neville; recorded at Melba Hall, Melbourne, Australia, April 18, 2004; time: 11:56

SET TWO
Ming Tsao: (Un)Cover
Pathology of Syntax
Mode Records/2014
(for trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, cellos, and 2 percussionists); Ensemble Ascolta, conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer; recorded at Donaueschinger Musiktage, October 19, 2008; composition year: 2008; time: 9:09

Chaya Czernowin: Six miniatures and a simultaneous song
Shu Hai Practices Javelin
Mode Records/2002
(for a trio: voice, viola, guitar; and a quartet: bass flute, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, cello); ELISION Ensemble, conductor: Simon Hewett; recorded at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia, 2002; composition year: 1998; time: 11:30

Bora Yoon: Finite Infinity
Sunken Cathedral
Innova Recordings/2014
voice, instruments, sound design: Bora Yoon; time: 4:38

Howard Skempton: Lyric Study
Bolt from the Blue
Mode Records/2010
piano: Daniel Becker; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, September 26, 2007; time: 0:45

hour two

SET THREE
Malcolm Goldstein: Spring
The Seasons -- Vermont
XI Records/1998
double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Woods; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; saxophones, vibraphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; vocalizing, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, February 26, 1983; composition year: 1980-1982;  time: 7:30

Greg Dixon: Cedar Forest
Electronic Music Midwest [various artists]
Irritable Hedgehog Music/2014
(computer music); pre-recorded sounds: Greg Dixon; guitar: Nevada Hill; melodica: Rachel Yoder; modular synthesizer: David Townsend; composition year: 2013; time: 5:58

Tod Dockstader & David Lee Myers: Glottalk
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005
amphibian sound recordings, electronics, processing: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers; time: 4:04

David Lee Myers & Marco Oppedisano: Storm and Drain
Tesla at Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008
feedback, noise, samples: David Lee Myers; guitars, samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 5:02

SET FOUR
Marco Oppedisano: Nocturne
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars, samples, processing: Marco Oppedisano; time: 4:19

Paul Lansky: Memory Pages
More Than Idle Chatter
Bridge Records/1994
(computer music); NeXT computer, Cmix software: Paul Lansky; text, readers: Hannah MacKay, Paul Lansky; time: 13:10

J.K. Randall: Remembrance of Things Past
from A Garland of MIDI: Intermezzo in Midi
Ars Antiqua/A Garland of  Midi
Open Space/2008
(computer music); Midi processing: J.K. Randall; composition year: 2008; time: 3:45

Lynn Job: Lake House Letter
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
electronics, samples: Lynn Job; time: 1:00

Charles Norman Mason: The Startling Clock Wound
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
electronics, samples: Charles Norman Mason; time: 1:00

Laurie Spiegel: Remembering Home
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
synthesizers, electronics: Laurie Spiegel; time: 0:55

hour three

SET FIVE
Charles Dodge: Cascando (excerpt)
Cascando --A realization of Samuel Beckett's radio play
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
Opener: John Nesci; Voice: computer synthesis based on a reading by Steven Gilborn; Music: computer synthesis based on the character Voice; composition year: 1977; excerpt time: 6:25

Elainie Lillios: Arturo
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music: Elainie Lillios; realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham (BEAST), UK, 1998; premiered at the First Symposium on Music and Computers, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, October 23, 1998; time: 13:35

SET SIX
Melody Sumner Carnahan: The X,Y, Z of it
The X, Y, Z of it
Burning Books/2000
text: Melody Sumner Carnahan; principal voice: Robert Ashley and Joan La Barbara; additional voice: Paul Goddard, Peter Kowitz, Sarah Aubrey, Vanessa Downing; studio direction: Richard Buckham; sound design assistance: Michael Sumner; music composition: Mayim Alpert and Spilt (David Smith, James Hurley); solar flares recorded by Tom Ashcraft; recorded at ABC Radio, Studio Arts, Sydney, Australia; time: 29:25

Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim; time: 0:45

Thierry Gauthier: Cycles I
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
computer, microloops: Thierry Gauthier; time: 0:56


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