Martian Gardens: 5/11/14

Friday, May 16, 2014

Martian Gardens for May 18 & 21, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
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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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Bells and Whistles for May 15, 2014

BELLS AND WHISTLES
A survey of world music and its derivatives

WMUA .ORG
Thursdays, Summer 2014 live broadcast/webcast
12:00 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 15, 2014

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

SINGLE PLAY
Syamsudin: Sigumendar
Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra (various artists)
Sublime Frequencies/2005
collected from Indonesian radio by Alan Bishop (2004);
style: Rabab Dangdut (Indonesian pop music with violin (Rabab)

SINGLE PLAY
Kecak Ganda Sari: excerpts
a. Introduction (3:52)
b. Forest Scene (6:11)
c. Sita's Abduction (5:48)
d. Interlude (4:38)
Kecak from Bali
Bridge Records/2005
Kecak Ganda Sari, I Gusti Putra, director; recorded September 17, 1987, Bona Kelod, Gianyar, Bali; style: Kecak, Indonesian dance drama; total excerpts time: 19:00

SET ONE
Dody Satya Ekagustdiman: Diya
Asmat Dream - New Music Indonesia, Vol. 1 (Sunda)
Lyrichrord/1992
Instruments: Kacapi, sandpaper, rubber-headed clay drums, flextone, voices, genta bell, suling, iron saron, triangle, tin cans, glass bottles, small gongs, woks, found objects; players: Dody, Ismet Ruchimat, Agus Sukmana, Dinda S.U. Budhi, Didi Wiardi, Yaya Suryadi; recorded at Jugla Studios in Bandung, West Java, June 1989; producers: Larry Polansky and Jody Diamond; style: Sundanese music murni (concert music); time: 13:22

Jody Diamond: Hard Times
In That Bright World - Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
voice: Jody Diamond; musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta, Central Java; recorded at Studio 19, Indonesian Institute of the Arts, July 2001; style: Javanese Gamelan based on American folk song ("Hard Times Come Again No More," Stephen Foster, 1854); composition year: 1984, revised 2001; time: 11:31

SET TWO
Larry Polansky: Bedhaya Guthrie/Bedhaya Sadra
Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
clarinet, kemanak: Daniel Goode; Central Javanese pelog gendèr, kemanak; HMSL software: Larry Polansky; recorded at P.A.S.S./Harvestworks, New York City, circa 1994; style: Bedhaya (ritualized dance of Java) morphed via software with American folk song (Woody Guthrie, "Ranger's Command," 1945) and the Bedhaya tune "Bedhaya Sadra," (I Wayan Sadra, 1990); composition years: 1989-1990; time: 9:24

Gamelan Orchestra Of The Yogyakarta Royal Palace:
Gendhing Lintang Karahinan (Morning Star)
Gamelan of the Kraton
Celestial Harmonies/1997
court musicians of the Gamelan Orchestra recorded at the residence of Drs. G.B.P.H. Yudhaningrat,Yogyakarta, Indonesia; produced by David Parsons; style: Javanese palace Gamelan music in Ghending structure; time: 13:34

SET THREE
Pauline Oliveros: Lion's Tale
CDCM Computer Music Series, Volume 7 [various artists]
iEAR Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Instute, Troy, New York
Centaur Records/1990
digital sampler, computer: Carter Scholz, engineer: Robert Rich; recorded at Sound Scape Productions, California; samples: Berekely Gamelan; style: Gamelan structured music composed for digital sampler; time: 15:06

Gamelan Son of Lion: Music Box (J. Kruskal)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
composer: Jody Kruskal; Gamelan Son of Lion (Barbary Benary, David Demnitz, Miguel Frasconi, Daniel Goode, Patrick Grant, Lisa Karrer, Judy Kruskal, Laura Liben, Denman Maroney, John Morton, David Simons; guests: Anna Dembska, Marija Ilic, Joseph Kubera, Bill Ruyle); recorded at Hungry Hollow Studio, Georgetown, Ontario; composition year: 2003; style: Gamelan suling (flutes), with violins; time: 5:30

SINGLE PLAY
Newband: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
Newband Play Microtonal Works (various composers)
Mode Records/1994
composer: Harry Partch; Newband (Dean Drummond, Frank Cassara, Dominic Donato, Nina Kellman, Michael Lipsey, Tod Mook, James Pugliese, Elizabeth Rodgers): Partch instruments; recorded at Master Sound, Astoria, New York, 1991 and 1993; composition year: 1958, revised 1967; style: Partch-developed microtonal tuning for theater; time: 18:24

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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Martian Gardens for May 11 & 14, 2014

Mark Applebaum: The Mind Altering Concert, Part 4
The Bible Without God
Innova Recordings/2005
solo Mouseketier, live electronics: Mark Applebaum; recorded at Trayon Hall, Stanford University, April 7, 2005; time: 11:44

SET FIVE
Odeya Nini: Everyday Cantor
Vougheauxyice (Voice)
pfMENTUM/2014
voice, water sounds: Odeya Nini; recorded at Joshua Tree, California, September 25, 20102; time: 3:07

José Mataloni: Adivinanza
Magical Realism of Sound
José Mataloni/2003
(electroacoustic music); realized at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina; time: 3:14

Deep Listening Band: Processional
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
voice: Julie Lyon Balliet; trombones, didjeridu, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; just tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; organ, overtone flutes, electronics: David Gamper; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kinsgston, New York, June 1993; time: 8:45

Joane Hétu:
a. Fragment Bruitiste (1:00)
b. Cochonne (4:53)
La femme territoire ou 21 fragments d’humus
Actuellecd/2012
conductor, voice, objects, melodica: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; accordion, voice: Alice Tougas St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussions, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; text (b): Joane Hétu; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012; total excerpts time: 5:53

SET SIX
Carey Nutman: Moonspin 2000
The Sea and the Snake
MPS Music & Video/2013
electronic music: Carey Nutman; time: 10:21

The Hub: Peyote
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/20008
interactive computer network: The Hub; session: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Mark Trayle; recorded in Albany, California, 1986; time: 6:35

Bobby Lombardi: do you love me?*
Music from SEAMUS Volume 5 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1996
(for two-channel tape based on text from William S. Burroughs, "The Ticket that Exploded"); electric guitar samples: Bobby Lombardi; realized at the composer's studio, Belgium, 1993-1994; time: 7:11

William S. Burroughs: Throat Microphone Experiment*
The Best of William Burroughs [boxed set]
Giorno Poetry Systems/1998
throat microphone, subvocal speech: WSB; recorded circa 1965; time: 1:00

* TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only

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