Sunday, December 21, 2014

Martian Gardens for December 21 & 24, 2014


MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 21, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: December24, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY

George Crumb: Agnus Dei [SYMBOL] Capricorn 
Makrokosmos, Volume II, Part Three
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 8 
Bridge Records/2005
amplified piano: Robert Shannon; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2003; time: 3:34

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: Qixingshan
Open Space 32 (Boretz/Morris)
Open Space/2014
(for string quartet); Momenta Quartet (violins: Emili-Anne Gendron, Ada Kridler; viola: Stephanie Griffin; cello: Michael Haas); recorded at the Eastman School of Music, 2014; composition year: 2011; time: 19:00

SET ONE
Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies XIII-XV
XIII (2:01)
XIV (3:23)
XV (1:28)
Correct Music
Populist Records/2012
violin: Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh; recorded at the home of Dr. William Rutherford, Mount Washington, California; composition year: 1982: total excerpts time: 7:52

Morton Feldman: selections from Trio
a. PII S3 M8 B1 (3:37)*
b. P15 S2 M6 B1 (1:33)*
c. P16 S1 M4 B1 (3:21)*
d. P17 S1 M8 B1 (4:03)*
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat; cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, April 2006; composition year: 1980; *Page, System, Measure, Bar; total excerpts time: 12:33

Philip Glass: Music with Changing Parts (excerpt)
Music with Changing Parts
Nonesuch Records/1994
electric organ, alto flute: Philip Glass; electric, violin, voice: Barbara Benary; electric organ: Steve Chambers; electric organ, soprano saxophone: flute vice: Jon Gibson; soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone; piccolo, flute; voice: Dickie Landry; electric piano: Arthur Murphy; trumpet, flute, voice: Robert Prado; engineer, electronics: Kurt Munkacsi; recorded in New York City, 1971-1973; composition years: 1970-1973; excerpt time: 5:00

SET TWO
Elizabeth Anderson: Solar Winds
L'envol
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music on 8 tracks of tape realized at Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium, 2012; premiered at the  8th festival Visiones Sonoras organized by the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS), National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, October 27, 2012; time: 9:37

Maggi Payne: Solar Wind
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
stereo electronic tape and video: Maggi Payne; composition year: 1982, based on the image of shockwave interactions of Saturn and Venus with the solar wind; time: 9:46

SET THREE
John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi: Five Stone Wind (excerpt)
Music for Merce Cunningham
Mode Records/1991
amplified violin, live electronics, bamboo flute:Takehisa Kosugi; nine clay pots and tapes: Michael Pugliese; live electronics: David Tudor; music for the Merce Cunningham dance "Five Stone Wind" (1988); recorded in May 1988, Washington D.C.; composition year: 1988; excerpt time: 5:00

Annea Lockwood: excerpts from The Glass World
a. Glissandi (0:24)
b. Dialogue: Bottles & Jars (1:42)
The Glass World
¿What Next? Recordings/1997 (original Tangent LP 1970)
glass objects played by Annea Lockwood from The Glass World concert series 1966-1973; total excerpts time: 3:06


Erik Nyström: Catabolisms
Morphogenèse
electroacoustic music realized at the Electroacoustic Studio of City University London, 2011-2012, premiered at the SuperCollider Symposium 2012 at City University London, April 27, 2012; time: 12:15

SET FOUR
John Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music (electronic version) 
Music from the Tudorfest (various artists)
San Francisco Tape Music Center 1964
simultaneous performance of Atlas Eclipticalis (for orchestra, 1961) and Winter Music (for piano, 1957); electronics: Michael Callahan, perucssion: John Chowning; trombone: Stuart Dempster; piano: Werner Jepson; horn: Douglas Leedy; viola, viola d'amore: Robert Mackler; horn, tuba: Pauline Oliveros; piano: Dwight Peltzer; piano: Ann Riley; double bass: Loren Rush; trumpet: Stanley Shaff; viola: Linn Subotnick: clarinet: Morton Subotnick; piano: David Tudor; flute, piccolo: Ian Underwood; timpani: Jack van der Wyck; conductor: Ramon Sender; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, April 3, 1964; excerpt time: 11:45

Morris Palter: Zyklus (K. Stockhausen)
Remedy, solo percussion (various composers)
composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen for solo percussion; solo percussion: Morris Palter; recorded at Warren Music Facility, University of California San Diego, January 2003; composition year: 1959; time: 9:15

SET FIVE
Triple Point: Venus Rising
Phase/Transitions
Triple Point (Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Nort): electronics, sound systems; recorded at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 3:34

Thomas DeLio: XXXIII -- XXVII
Selected Compositions (1991 - 2013)
(computer music on tape); composition year: 2007; time: 3:33

SET SIX
Dean Anderson: Divinations (W. Kraft)
Divinations
composer: William Kraft for solo percussion; solo percussion: Dean Anderson; recorded at Soundmirror, Inc., Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; composition year: 1995; time: 12:20

Stuart Saunders Smith: Tunnels*
Crux
(for musician/actor); percussion, actor: Thomas Goldstein; composition year: 1982; time: 7:06

David MacBride: Envolop*
Conundrum
The Percussion Music of David MacBride, featuring Benjamin Toth
Innova Recordings/2002
percussion: Benjamin Toth; recorded at Sound Situation, Glastonbury, Connecticut, May 13, 1996; composition year: 1971; time: 4:40

*Taint Radio version only

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