Martian Gardens for April 19 & 26, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
 WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 19, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 26, 2015 
Host: Max Shea  
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog        
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SET ONE
Olly Wilson: A City Called Heaven (I-III)
Music for Chamber Ensemble (various composers)
Neuma Records/1992
The Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded April 1989 (world premier); composition year: 1988; time: 20:06

Michael Gordon: Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Part 1 (5:48)
Part 2 (7:39)
Dystopia
Cantaloupe Music/2014
Bamberger Symphoniker, conductor: Jonathan Nott; recorded at the Beethovenfest Bonn, September 30, 2006 (world premier); composition year: 2006; total excerpt time: 13:31

SET TWO
Martin Bresnick: Josephine the Singer
Prayers Remain Forever
Starkland/2014
(for violin); violin: Sarita Kwok; recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University, composition year: 2011; time: 9:14

Alvin Lucier: Broken Line
Broken Line
Mode Records/2015
(for flute, vibraphone, and piano); Trio Nexus (flute: Erik Drescher; vibraphone: Martin Lorenz; piano: Sebastian Berwick); recorded at Siemensvilla Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, July 2012; composition year: 2006; time: 11:55

SET THREE
James Tenney: Poem
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy 
Mode Records/2007
(for flute); flute: Jos Zwaanenburg; recorded in Amsterdam, 2007; composition year: 1955; time: 2:12

James Tenney: Harmonium No. 3
Postcard from Heaven (various composers)
New World Records/2015
(for three harps); harps: Susan Allen, Ellie Choate, Marilu Donovan; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts, July 2014; composition year: 1980; time: 4:31

Elizabeth Panzer: Dancing in Place (E. Hovda)
Dancing in Place
O.O. Discs/1999
(composer: Eleanor Hovda, for harp); harp: Elizabeth Panzer; composition year: 1997; time: 3:30

Anne LeBaron: 
a. Submerged Cavern (1:41)
b. Full Fathom Funayurei (3:05)
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
(for harp, shakuhachi, and koto); harp: Anne LeBaron, shakuhachi: Kiku Day; koto: Kinku Nishi; recorded at Mills College, Oakland, 2005; composition year: 2005; total time: 4:46

Flute Force: Travelogue (E. Brown)
Eyewitness 
Innova Recordings/2001
(composer: Elizabeth Brown, for flutes); Flute Force (flute: Wendy Stern; flute, piccolo: Sheryl Henze; flute, alto flute: Gretschen Pusch; flute, bass flute: Rie Schmidt); recorded at SUNY Purchase 1998-2000; composition year: 1995; time: 8:41

SET FOUR
Elizabeth Brown: Seahorse 
Mirage
New World Records/2013
(for theremin and Partch instruments); theremin: Elizabeth Brown; Partch instruments: Newband (guitar 1: Dean Drummond; harmonic canon 1: Jared Soldiviero; chromolodeon: Dave Broom; diamond marimba: Bill Ruyle; bass marimba: Joel Bergen; zoomoozophone, juststrokerods: Joe Free; recorded at Leshowitz Recital Hall, Montclair State University, New Jersey, January 10, 2013; composition year: 2008; time: 9:09

Lydia Kavina: In the Whims of the Wind
Music from the Ether
Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/1999
(for theremin, coloratura soprano, and piano); theremin: Lydia Kavina; coloratura soprano: Elizabeth Parcells; piano: Joshua Pierce; recorded at John Ford Auditorium, Portland, Maine, June 22, 1997; composition year: 1994; time: 11:27

SINGLE PLAY*
Lydia Kavina: 
a. Free Music No. 1 (for four theremins) (1:33)
b. Free Music No. 2 (for six theremins) (1:19)
c. Beatless Music (for six theremins) (0:33)
Spellbound! Music for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
(composer: Percy Grainger); theremins: Lydia Kavina; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, New York, July 10, 2000; composition years: a. 1936, b. 1937, c. 1937; total time: 2:25
*TAINT Radio version only

SET FIVE
Wu Shu-Cheng: Axiometric Projection
Transient Images (various artists)
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
U.Il. EMS/2015
electroacoustic music for eight channel tape performance; composition year: 2013; time: 6:05

James O'Callaghan: Bodies-Soundings
Musicworks #121 (various artists)
Musicworks Magazine/2015
electronic music for acoustic guitar and toy piano via tactile transducer speakers; composition year: 2014; time: 10:20

Monique Jean: Un haut-parleur dans le désert 
(A Loudspeaker in the Desert) (from Figures du Temps)
L'adieu au S.O.S.
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 1998-1999; time: 5:50

SINGLE PLAY
Pauline Oliveros: Mnemonics III
Reverberations
Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (boxed set)
Important Records/2014
electronic music realized at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1964-1966; time: 17:34

Beatriz Ferreyra: La ba balle du chien chien a sa me mere
IMEB Compendium International 2001 Bourges (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2001
electroacoustic music realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 2001; time: 11:17

Zanana: What a Pretty Dog*
Holding Patterns
Deep Listening/2005
spoken voice: Barbara Berg; laptop, voice: Kirstin Norderval; trombone, conch, didgeridu, live processing: Monique Buzzarté; recorded live in concert in New York City, composition year: 2003; time: 8:51
*TAINT Radio version only
 
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Martian Gardens for April 12 & 15, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
 WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 12, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 15, 2015 
Host: Max Shea    
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog          
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SINGLE PLAY
Guido Arbonelli: 
a. The Towers' Angels (2:42)
b. DIS-SPLAY-ONE (1:08)
Namaste Suite
MPS Music & Video/2003
composers: a. Guido Arbonelli; b. Carey Nutman; clarinets: Guido Arbonelli; recorded at Guido Arbonelli's studio, Perugia, Italy; total excerpts time: 3:50

SET ONE
Roger Reynolds: Colombi Daydream 
Complete Cello Works
Mode Records/2014
cello: Alexis Descharmes; recorded at Salle Cortot, Paris, July 2014; composition year: 2010; time: 7:48

James Dashow: Disclosures 
Electro Acoustic Music II (various artists)
Neuma Records/1991
(for cello and computer); cello: Lucca Paccagnella; digital sound synthesis realized at the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, and EDI-PAN Studio, Rome Italy; composition years: 1988-1989; time: 14:46

SET TWO
Frank Zappa: The Perfect Stranger
Boulez conducts Zappa -- The Perfect Stranger
Barking Pumpkin/1992 (orig. 1984)
Ensemble InterContemporain, conductor: Pierre Boulez; recorded at IRCAM, Paris, July 1984; composition year: 1983; time: 12:42

Michael Gordon: Dystopia (excerpt)
Dystopia
Cantaloupe Music/2014
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor: David Robertson; recorded at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, January 12, 2008; composition year: 2007; excerpt time: 10:00

SET THREE
Pierre Henry: La Voile de Orphée II (short version)
(digital download)
musique concrète realized by Pierre Henry in collaboration with Pierre Schaeffer at  Club d'Essai studio, RTF (Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française), for the opera Orphèe 53, premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival, 1953; composition years: 1951-1953; time: 15:38

John Eaton: Thoughts on Rilke
First Performances
Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizers in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; Syn-Kets: John Eaton, Jane Schoonover Smith; vibration plate, sound mixing: Paolo Ketoff; text: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnets to Orpheus, Part II, Sonnet 10," composition year: 1966; time: 10:57

SET FOUR
Francis Dhomont: Vol d'Arondes (Flight of the Swallows)
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
electroacoustic music realized at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée multichannel studio, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at  the 6th International Acousmatic Festival L’Espace du son in the XL Théâtre du Grand Midi, Brussels, November 21, 1999; composition years: 1999, revised 2001; time: 11:25

Robert Scott Thompson: Flora of Fynbos
Repeated by Dreams
Aucourant Records/2014
computer/electroacoustic music: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2014; time: 14:43

SET FIVE
John Cage: Second Construction
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, June 2011; composition year: 1940; time: 7:50

Tim Patterson: Five Miniatures (J. Bergamo)
1. 0:45
2. 0:21
3. 0:26
4. 0:18
5. 0:46
Like Style, Dig? The Music of John Bergamo
Innova Recordings/2015
(composer: John Bergamo, for percussion quartet); percussion: Tim Patterson, Tom Ross, Joseph Murfin, Jack Alcorn; arr. Tim Patterson; recorded at Blast House Studios, Madison, Wisconsin; arr. composition year: 1966; time: 2:31

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Cruising Speed (from Travel Diary) (P. Lansky)
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
composer: Paul Lansky; percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010; composition year: 2007; time: 4:15

Harold Davidson: Auto Accident
Restless, Endless, Tactless: Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo & The Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, December 14, 2009; composition year: 1935; time: 2:45

SET SIX
Harry Partch:  The Dreamer That Remains -- A Study in Loving
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
New World Records/2005 (orig. CRI/1997) 
The Harry Partch Ensemble: Orchestra with Partch instruments, conductor; Jack Logan; intoning voice: Harry Partch; narrator, Brash Musician: Mark Hoffman; The Voice, Second Musician: Danlee Mitchell; chorus: Katherine Bjornson, Alexis Glatly, Michael Crosier; text: Harry Partch; recorded in San Diego, California, 1972; composition year: 1972; time: 10:29
 
Harry Partch: Ring Around the Moon -- A Dance for Here and Now
a. Phase One: Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!) (2:48)
b. Phase Two: One, two, three, four -- X,Y, Zee (2:12)
c. Phase Three: Shake hands now, boys,  and at the sound of the bell come out fighting! (2:55)
d. Phase Four: Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoit toity...(Look out! He's Got a gun!) (1:26)
[Movement II from Plectra and Percussion Dances -- Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater]
Plectra and Percussion Dances
An Evening of Dance Theater
Bridge Records/2014
PARTCH ensemble (ingredients may include -- diamond marimba, Eroica, cymbal: Erin Barnes; voice: Paul Berkoids; kithara: Alison Bjorkedahl; canon, surrogate kiethara, Eroica: Matt Cook; cloud chamber bowls, chromelodeon: David Johnson; saxophone: Ulrich Krieger; percussion: Yumi Lee; canon: Tom Peters; guitars, canons: John Schneider; adapted viola: Derek Stein; bowls, bass marimba, Eroica, fight bell: Nick Terry; bass marimba, voice: T.J. Roy; guitar, canons: Alex Wand); recorded at Disney Hall/Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, June 9, 2013; composition years: 1949-1950; total time: 9:20 

SET SEVEN
Pauline Oliveros: Big Slow Bog (excerpt)
Reverberations -- Tape and Electronic Music 1961-1970
Important Records/2014
electronics: Pauline Oliveros; realized at Mills Tape Music Center, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1966-1967;  excerpt time: 5:00

Douglas Doherty: Heart of the City (excerpt)*
On the Edge of Chaos
MPS Music and Video/2012
(electroacoustic music); recorded at the composer's Studio, Newcastle, England; street preacher recorded at Grey's Monument, Newcastle Upon Tyne; composition year: 2000; excerpt time: 3:13

Pas Musique: Inside the Spectrum*
Inside the Spectrum
Alrealon Musique/2015
electronics, sound collage: Robert L. Pepper, Michael Durek, Amber Brien; John V. Worthey; time: 3:56

The Human League: Dreams of Leaving*
Travelogue
Virgin/1988 (orig. Virgin LP/1980)
vocals: Philip Oakey; synthesizers, lyrics: Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh, Philip Adrian Wright; recorded at Monumental Pictures Studio, Sheffield, UK, 1980; time: 5:52

*TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for April 5 & 8, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
 WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 29, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 1, 2015 

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

SET ONE
J.C. Combs: Apparition
Gazing
Spectropol Records/2013
piano: J.C. Combs; time: 5:36

J.C. Combs: Cross Station
Safe Passage
ImprovFriday Event Sessions
Electroshock Records/2010
electronics, samples: J.C. Combs; time: 1:42

SET TWO
Pas Musique: Ancient Evil Aliens
Inside the Spectrum
Alrealon Musique/2015
electronics, sound collage: Robert L. Pepper, Michael Durek, Amber Brien; John V. Worthey; time: 5:51

Jack Vees: Rocket Baby
Surf Music Again
CRI/1996
narrator: Tony Forkush; electric cello, sequencer (MIDI cello): Jeff Krieger; text about UFO radio transmissions: unknown; time: 14:15

SET THREE
Dariusz Mazorowski: Secrets of Aerial Photography
Non Acoustic Symphony
Neuma Records/2015
(electroacoustic music); recorded at the De eM Studio, Gdansk, Poland, 2011-2013; time: 6:55

Tim Patterson: Blanchard Canyon (J. Bergamo)
Like Style, Dig? The Music John Bergamo
Innova Recordings/2015
(composer: John Bergamo, for five amplified suspended cymbals); cymbals: Peter Schmeling, Jack Schroeder, Brian Short, Tim Patterson, Gregory Thornburg; arr. Tim Patterson; composition year: 1985; time: 13:39

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Carbon Copies
Broken Line
Mode Records/2015
(for recordings of "any indoor or outdoor environment" and instruments); indoor noises (making coffee, water dripping, caged bird) and studio mimicry recorded by Trio Nexus (Erik Drescher, Sebestian Berweck, Martin Lorenz) at Siemensvilla Berlin Lankwitz, Germany, July 2012 composition year: 1989 ; time: 20:16

SET FOUR
Warren Burt: 11:21:23 (A Drone on Mom and Felix's Birthdays)
Harmonic Colour Fields (1996-97)
Pogus Productions/2003
Kinetic Music Machine, computer, synthesizer: Warren Burt; time: 16:10

Ron Nagorcka: Modulations
Atom Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
(for tape, synthesizers, live electronics, and modulated tape outtakes); composition years: 1974, 1983, 2012 (original composition commissioned for the Melbourne Autumn Festival of Organ and Harpsichord, 1974); time: 6:01

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (excerpt 1st 1/5)
Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
Bridge Records/2015
piano: Aleck Karis; violin: Curtis Macomber; viola: Danielle Farina; cello: Christopher Finckel; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, December 13, 2013; composition year: 1987; excerpt time: 15:00

SINGLE PLAY
John Luther Adams: Become Ocean
Become Ocean
Cantaloupe Music/2014
commissioned by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra; premiered by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Ludovic Morlot; Benaroya Hall, Seattle, June 2013; composition year: 2012; time: 42:14

SET FIVE*
Brian Eno: Becalmed
Another Green World
E.G.-Jem/1987 (orig. LP/1975)
synthesizer, piano: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Studios, London, summer 1975; time: 3:56

Artemiy Artemiev: Night City
Forgotten Themes
Electroshock Records/2000
synthesizers, computer: Artemiy Artemiev; recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow; composition year: 1989; time: 3:31

Joel Taylor: Forest Creatures and Their Plans
Night Stories
Spectropol Records/2013
electronics, instruments: Joel Taylor; time: 4:38

*TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for March 29 & April 1, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 5, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 8, 2015 

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

SINGLE PLAY
Jacqueline Humbert: Attunement (D. Rosenboom)
Chanteuse 
Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
composer: David Rosenboom; voice: Jacqueline Humbert; electronics: David Rosenboom; recorded at David Rosenboom's studio, California Institute of the Arts; composition year: 1999; time: 4:25

SET ONE
Dariusz Mazurowski: The Great Red Spot of Jupiter
Non Acoustic Symphony
Neuma Records/2015
(electroacoustic music); recorded at the De eM Studio, Gdansk, Poland, 2011-2013; time: 6:55

David Lee Myers & Marco Oppedisano: An Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot
Tesla at Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008
electric guitar, samples: Marco Oppedisano; feedback circuits, noises, samples: David Lee Myers; time : 3:52

Pas Musique: Listening to Interstellar Space
Inside the Spectrum
Alrealon Musiques/2015
electronics, sound collage: Robert L. Pepper, Michael Durek, Amber Brien; John V. Worthey; time: 5:00

Nocturnal Emissions: Sunspot Activity XII
Sunspot Activity
Earthly Delights/1997
electronics: Nigel Ayers; recorded at the composer's studio, Cornwall, UK, time: 6:57

SINGLE PLAY
Pauline Oliveros: Time Perspectives
Reverbertations -- Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (boxed set)
Important Records/2014
musique concrete on four channels of tape: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the composer's studio, San Francisco; composition year: 1961; time: 19:38

SET TWO
Alvin Lucier: Risonanza 
Broken Line
Mode Records/2015
(for resonant objects and optional electronics); sine waves via G2 Nord synthesizer, electric exciters, oil barrel, crash symbol; recorded by Trio Nexus (Erik Drescher, Sebestian Berweck, Martin Lorenz) at Siemensvilla Berlin Lankwitz, Germany, July 2012; time: 13:12

Nick Didkovsky: from Ice Cream Time
a. Seltzer Session II (7:26)
b. Seltzer Session I (0:20)
c. Ice Cream Time Song (0:11)
Ice Cream Time
New World Records/2007
electric guitar, laptop: Nick Didkovsky; sampling, live sampling, processing: Thomas Dimuzio; saxophones:  ARTE Quartett (soprano and baritone: Beat Hofstetter; alto and baritone saxophone: Sascha Armbruster; tenor saxophone: Andream Formenti; baritone saxophone: Beat Kappeler); recorded at SRG (Swiss National Radio) Studio 2, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2006; total time: 7:46

Nick Didkovsky: 
a. A Fire in God's Path (0:40)
b. Son of Lion (0:11)
The $100 Guitar Project (various artists)
Bridge Records/2013
the $100 guitar: Nick Didkovsky: total time: 0:51

Thomas Dimuzio: Fog Rolls
The $100 Guitar Project (various artists)
Bridge Records/2013
the $100 guitar: Thomas Dimuzio; time: 2:38

SET THREE
Richard Carrick: Namdaemun 
Cycles of Evolution
New World Records/2015
members of the New York Philharmonic, conductor: Richard Carrick; recorded at the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, May 31, 2014; composition year: 2014; time: 5:15

Michael Gordon: Dystopia (excerpt)
Dystopia
Cantaloupe Music/2014
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor: David Robertson; recorded at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, January 12, 2008; composition year: 2007; excerpt time: 9:30

Paul Dolden: Revenge of the Repressed, Resonance #2
L'ivresse de la Vitesse 1 (Intoxicated by Speed)
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
soprano saxophone: François Houle; electric guitar, electroacoustic music: Paul Dolden; recorded at the composer's studio, Vancouver, BC, 1993, remastered: 2000-2001; composition year: 1993: time: 7:48

SET FOUR
Guido Arbonelli: from Namaste suite (for clarinets)
a. Bird Escapes Cage Takes Flight (0:57)
b. Cappriccio (1:36)
c. Frammentio"d" (0:55)
d. Lungocircuito (2:00)
e. Rap secondo  (0:56)
Namaste suite
MPS Music & Video/2003
composers: a. Robert Carl, b. Dinu Ghezzo; c. Luca Ortelli; Alessandra Salvati; Stefano Gianotti; clarinets: Guido Arbonelli; recorded at L.C. Mobile Studio, Perugia, Italy; total excerpts time: 6:25

Giacinto Scelsi: Tre pezzi
I. 2:45
II. 2:51
III. 3:10
Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2002
(for Eb clarinet); Eb clarinet: Carol Robinson; recorded in Chatillon, France; composition year: 1954; total time: 7:46

Esther Lamneck: Abyss (D. Ghezzo)
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2007
(composer: Dinu Ghezzo, for clarinet and computer); clarinet: Esther Lamneck; recorded at Vecchio Mulino Produzione, Balbona-Lucca, Italy, 2002--2007; time: 8:10

SET FIVE
Felix Werder: V/Line
The Tempest
Pogus Productions/2007
(computer music); realized by Warren Burt; composition year: 1992; time: 10:51

Benjamin Boretz: Group Variations II
Open Space 5 (Boretz/Randall)
Open Space Magazine/1998
(computer music); realized by Benjamin Boretz at Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton University; 1967-1970; re-recorded by Paul Lansky, 1993; time: 12:00

Milton Babbitt: Occasional Variations
Occasional Variations
Tzadik Records/2003
RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer: Milton Babbitt; realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968-1971; time: 9:54

Godfrey Winham: NP (Two pieces for synthesized sound)*
a. NP I (1:23)
b. NP II (1:27)
Computer Generations (various artists)
CRI/1978
(computer music); realized at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton University, 1972; total time: 2:51

Joel Gressel: P-Vibes -- Three Canons I*
Computer Generations (various artists)
CRI/1978
(computer music); realized at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton University, 1972; time: 2:36

*TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for March 22 & 25, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 22, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: March 25, 2015 

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

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage:
a. Our Spring will Come (4:30)
b. And the Earth Shall Bear Again (3:25)
The Works for Piano 8
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at the Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 2001-2002;  composition years: a.. 1943, b. 1942; total time: 7:55

SET ONE
Coil: The Last Rites of Spring
Gold is the Metal
Some Bizzare/1988
electronics, sampling: John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Stephen J. Thrower, Otto Avery; time: 2:00

Noah Creshevsky: 
a. Interlude 3 (0:58)
b. Spring (9:56)
The Four Seasons
Tzadik Records/2013
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; ingredients may include -- clarinets: Sherman Friedland, Al Margolis; clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontoravich; tenor and alto saxes: Audrey Betsy Welber; tenor sax: Tedross Avery; trumpet: Ben Holmes; trumpet voice: Susan Watts; trombone: Monique Buzzarte; drums: Ray Marchica, Gregg Mervine; voice: Tomomi Adachi, Jeremiah Crawly, Amy Denio, Beth Griffith, Kathy Hanson, Chris Mann, Maria Mannisto; guitars, voice: Gary Heidt; guitars, Rodney Jones, Marco Oppedisano; banjo: Rich Gross; violins: Maria Kimura, Amy Zakar; basses: Orin Buck, Lonnie Plaxico, Heather Chriscaden Versace; composition years: 1992--2013; master composition year: 2013; total time: 10:54

Harald Bode: 
a. Geklebte Musik Experiment (0:22)
b. Kowloon (2:39)
Bode Sound Project (various artists)
Institute for Electronic Arts/2005
Bode electronic instruments: Harald Bode; produced at the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, New York, total time: 3:00

Laurie Spiegel: Clockworks
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012  (orig. Philo LP/1981)
electronic music recorded on the GROOVE system, Bell Labs, March 1975; time: 5:20

Victor Cerullo: Artificial Dream
Visions
Electroshock Records/2003
electronics: Victor Cerullo; recorded at  Planet 10 Studio, Mestre, Italy; time: 3:44

Philip Perkins: Examination
Mister Anyhow -- Live in the Studio 2011-14
Fun Music/2014
electronics, sampling, processing: Philip Perkins; recorded at the composer's studio, San Francisco; time: 3:22

Mami Chan: Donkey Hop
Chime 5 -- Musique du Jouet (various artists)
Novel Cell Poem/2001
instruments, toys, noises: Mami Chan; time: 2:34

SET TWO
Lan Tung: Ba Ban Variations
Music Works #121 (various artists)
Music Works Magazine/2015
Proliferasian (erhu: Lan Tung; trumpet, electronics: J.P. Carter; drums: Kevin Romain; bass: Russell Sholberg); Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Chih Shang Chen; recorded at the Sound of Dragon Music Festival, at the Performance Centre of the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia; May 10, 2014; composition year: 2010; time: 7:36

Henry Brant: Whoopee in D
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2008
Netherlands Wind Ensemble, conductor: Henry Brant; recorded at the Holland Music Festival, Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 8, 1984; composition years: 1938, 1984; time: 4:25

Michael Gordon: Dystopia (excerpt, 1st 1/3)
Dystopia
Cantaloupe Music/2014
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor: David Robertson; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, January 12, 2008; composition year: 2007; excerpt time: 10:00

SET THREE
Mari Kimura: GuitarBotana 
Polytopia
Bridge Records/2007
violin: Mari Kimura; GuitarBot: LEMUR; (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots); composition year: 2004; time: 6:20

Tom Hamilton & Bruce Eisenbeil: Mars Fell on Alabama 
Shadow Machine
Pogus Productions/2009
electric guitar: Bruce Eisenbeil; nord modular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Pickle Factory, New York City, 2008; time: 4:09

Tom Hamilton: Bonampak
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
ARP 2500 Synthesizer, processing: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Technisonic Studios, St. Louis; recorded in 1975; time: 9:31

The Freight Elevator Quartet: How Does it Feel to Be Going Out of Style?
Fix It In Post (Live, 1997-2000)
Cycling '74/2000
(ingredients may include); synthesizers, MAX/MSP programming, laptop, keyboards, bass, guitar: R. Luke Dubois; didjeridoo, digital synthesizers, banjo, percussion: Paul Feuer; cello, effects processing, drum programming: Rachael Finn;  drum programming, sampler performance, synthesizers, production: Stephen Krieger; recorded live someplace, October 31, 1997; time: 4:18

SET FOUR
Barbara Monk Feldman: The Chaco Wilderness
a. A Letter of Green (2:42)
b. A Sentence of Blue (5:24)
c. A Poem of White (1:31)
Soft Horizons
New World Records/2015
The Downtown Ensemble (flute: Margaret Lancaster; clarinet: Daniel Goode; guitar, mandolin: Larry Polansky; piano: Joseph Kubera; vibraphone: Chris Nappi; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 2014; total time: 9:42

John Luther Adams: from Four Canticles of the Sky
a. Sky with Four Suns (4:24)
b. Sky with Four Moons (4:34)
The Wind in High Places
Cold Blue Music/2014
Northwestern University Cello Ensemble, conductor: Hans Jørgen Jensen; recorded at Oktaven Studio, Yonkers, New York, July 29, 2014; composition year: 2013; total time: 8:58

SET FIVE
Jon Christopher Nelson: Scatter
Cultures Électroniques 16  (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2002
music for multi-channel tape; composition year: 1999, revised 2000; time: 8:42

Giuseppe Rapisarda: Almaquae
Electroacoustic Music from Sicily
EMF/2003
electracoustic music on tape; realized at the Electronic Music School of the Istituto Musicale Vincenzo Bellini of Catania, Sicily; 2001; time: 8:09

SET SIX
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring (Side Two)
Volume 2 -- Electronic Works
Mode Records/2004
for 4-channel tape; synthesizer, tape: Morton Subotnick; recorded at CalArts, 1975; remastered 2003; time: 14:17

Pauline Oliveros: Three Pieces
Three Pieces I (5:02)
Three Pieces II (3:21)
Three Pieces III ((4:00)
Reverberations
Tape & Electronic Music 1961 -- 1970
Important Records/2014
composed and recorded at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, 1966; total time: 12:23

Myron Schaeffer: Dance R 4 ÷ 3*

Electronic Music [various artists]
Folkways/1967 
electronics: Myron Schaeffer; recorded at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studios; composition year: 1961; time: 3:10

*TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for March 15 & 18, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 15, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: March18, 2015 
Host: Max Shea  
online playlists:
 Martian Gardens blog      
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SINGLE PLAY
Bernard Rands: ...in the receding mist
Music for Chamber Ensemble (various composers)
Neuma Records/1992
(for violin, viola, cello, and harp); The Boston Musica Viva, director: Richard Pittman; composition year: 1988; time: 10:35

SET ONE
Richard Carrick: The Veins of Marble
Cycles of Evolution
New World Records/2015
Either/Or, conductor: Richard Carrick; recorded at the Either/Or Spring Festival, The Kitchen, New York City, May 30, 2013; composition years: 2000, 2013; time: 8:34

Florent Ghys: Melody from Mars
Télévision
Cantaloupe Music/2014
alto double bass; voice, text, percussion: Florent Ghys;  recorded at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn; composition year: 2014; time: 7:45

Christian Wolff:  Jasper, Part 1
Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass)
Mode Records/2002
bass: Robert Black; violin: Robin Lorenz; recorded at Millard Auditorium, Hartt School of Music, Hartford, Connecticut, January 13, 2000; composition year: 1991; time: 5:19

SET TWO
John Cage: Four³ (excerpt)
The Number Pieces I
Mode Records/1996
(for rainsticks, violin, and two pianos); violin, rainsticks; Ami Flammer; piano, rainsticks: Martine Josete; piano, rainsticks: Dominique Alchourroun; rainsticks: Jean Michaut; recorded at Radio France, Paris, January 1994; composition year: 1991 (for Merce Cunningham's dance "Beach Birds;" excerpt time: 6:00

Frances White: Birdwing
CDCM Cmputer Music Series Volume 25 (various artists)
The International Computer Music Association Commission Awards 1994-1996
Centaur Records/1997
(for computer and shakuhachi); shakuhachi: Tomie Hahn; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, November 1996; composition year: 1996; time: 15:06

SET THREE
Tod Dockstader & James Reichert: Omniphony 1, Movement I
Omniphony 1 
ReR Megacorp/2002
(musique concrete for chamber ensemble, processed ensemble, magnetic tape, and loudspeakers);  instrumentalists: bassoon: Elias Carmen; cello: Harvey Shapiro; b-flat clarinet: Stanley Drucker; flute: Harvey Estrin; French horn: Joseph Singer; baritone horn: Abraham Pearlstein; oboe: Harry Shulman; percussion: Walter Rosenberger, Herbert Harris; piano, celesta: John Carter; timpani: Morris Lang; bass trombone: Richard Hixon; trumpet: Raymond Crisara. conductor: James Reichert; composed and recorded in 1966; time: 10:27

Tod Dockstader: Apocalypse, Part 2
OHM -- The Early Gurus of Electronic Music -- 1948-1980 (various artists)
Ellipsis Arts/2000
(for magnetic tape); composition year: 1961; time: 2:01

Tod Dockstader & David Lee Myers: Assembly
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005
ecological sound recordings, electronics, processing: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers; time:6:20

In memory of Tod Dockstader (March 20, 1932 - February 27, 2015)

SET FOUR
Jean Derome: Le Fruit du Hasard
MusicWorks #121 (various artists)
MusicWorks Magazine/2015
(for saxophone, ensemble, and chance operations via coin toss); saxophone: Jean Derome; with Ensemble SuperMusique; recorded in Montreal, 2012; time: 10:07

Fünf: 
a. Chaleur (3:39)
b. Radis for the Road (2:23)
La règle
Ambiances Magnetiques/2014
electronics, receivers, amplifiers, devices: Magali Babin, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Martine H. Crispo, Anne-Françoise Jacques, Emilie Mouchous, Erin Sexton; recorded in Montreal, 2011-2014; total time: 6:02

David R. Mooney: Can't Get There from Here (Concert Version)
Interior Landscape
David R. Mooney/2013
field recordings, processing: David R. Mooney; recorded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; processed at the composer's studio, Pittsburgh; time: 3:53

Pierre Schaeffer: Plutôt Harmonique (from Trièdre Fertile)
L'oeuvre musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
musique concrete recorded at the Groupe de Recherche Musicales, Paris, 1975; time: 3:05

SET FIVE
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Ces énigmes lumineuses 
(Three Radiant Enigmas)
Quelques reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music realized at the studio of Miso Music Portugal, Lisbon; premiered at the Musica Viva Festival, Instituto Franco-Português, Lisbon, September 23, 2010; composition year: 2010; time: 12:29

Carey Nutman: No Place for Theory
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music & Video/2010
electronic music: Carey Nutman; recorded at the composer's studio Houghton-Le-Spring, England; time: 10:48

SET SIX
Pauline Oliveros: Rattlesnake Mountain
Accordion & Voice
Important Records/2006 (orig. Lovely Music LP/1982)
microtonally tuned accordion: Pauline Oliveros; composition year: 1982; time: 22:00

Jon Gibson: Song 1
Two Solo Pieces, plus Melody IV Part I, Melody II, Song 1
Felmay/Newtone Records/2006
violin: Barbara Benary; cello Arthur Russell; cello: Martha Siegel; soprano saxophone: Jon Gibson; recorded at Washington Square Church, New York City, March 3, 1974; composition year: 1972; time: 7:58

Malcolm Goldstein: Configurations in Darkness*
A Sounding of Sources
New World Records/2008
solo violin: Malcolm Goldstein; recorded at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, August 24, 2002; composition year: 1995; time: 10:01
* TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for March 8 & 11, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 8, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: March11, 2015
Host: Max Shea  online playlists:
 Martian Gardens blog    
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SINGLE PLAY
James Mobberley: Strap on Your Lobster (from Icarus Wept) 
Music of James Mobberley
CD-R/2009
trumpet: Keith Benjamin; fixed media: James Mobberley; composition years: 1995-1997; time: 3:48

SET ONE
Florent Ghys:
a. Blazer et/ou Cravate (1:57)
b. This is the Album of the Future (5:51)
Télévision
Cantaloupe Music/2014
alto double bass, voice, text, other instruments, and noise-makers: Florent Ghys;  recorded at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn; composition year: 2014; time: 7:45

Harry Breuer: Paris 2079
Electronic Toys 2 (various artists)
A Retrospective of Early Synthesizer Music
Q.D.K. Media/2000
synthesizers: Harry Breuer; time: 2:19 

Morton Subotnick: Crime or Miracle
And the Butterflies Begin to Sing  
New World Records/1997
electronics: Morton Subotnick; The Amernet String Quartet (violins: Kyoko Kashiwagi, Marcia Littley de Arias; viola: Malcolm Johnson; cello: Javier Arias-Flores); recorded at Corbett Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, composition year: 1988; time: 3:24

Elainie Lillios: Shoe Factory (from Backroads)
Entre espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio, Bowling Green, Ohio; premiered at Rien à voir (12) concert series presented by Réseaux at Espace GO, Montreal, September 13, 2002; composition date: 2002; time: 3:51

Delia Derbyshire: Know Your Car (Get Out and Under)
BBC Radiophonic Workshop [A Retrospective] (Various Artists)
BBC Music/2000
electronic music: Delia Derbyshire; written by Adams/Clarke; arr. Derbyshire; recorded at BBC Radiophonic Workshop, London, 1963; time: 0:57

Robert Black: Radio Sonata (J. Sellars)
State of the Bass
O.O. Discs/1994
(composer: James Sellars, for double bass and computer-operated synthesizers); double bass: Robert Black; composition year: 1992; time: 3:23

SET TWO
Rune Lindblad: Dimstråk (Op. 203)
Objekt-2 -- Electronic and Concrete Music 1962-1988
Pogus Productions/1998
electronic music: Rune Lindblad; composition years: 1987-1988; time: 3:23

Stan Link: 
a. Cavatina (0:54)
b. [-snow)] (1:00)

In Amber Shadows
Albany Records/2006
a. electronic music: Stan Link; voice: Barbara Bins; composition year: 2003; b. electronic music: Stan Link; total time: 1:54

Daniel Koppelman: Psychic Driving (E. Lyon)
Escapement (DVD) (various composers)
Everglade/2009
(composer: Eric Lyon, for piano, MIDI controller, voice, and computer); computer sounds: Eric Lyon; piano, reader (text 1): D. Koppelman; computer-generated voice sample: text 1: Reverend Jim Jones; text 2: Secretary of State Madeline Albright; Shaker hymn: Paulina Bates, "Come to Zion," performers unknown; composition year: 2000; time: 18:51

SET THREE
Stockhausen: Zyklus
Complete Early Percussion Works
Mode Records/2014
solo percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at Theatre A, University of California San Diego, October 2008; composition year: 1959; time: 10:30

Robert Normandeau: Hamlet-Machine without actors
Dômes
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 2014; adapted from music composed for Heiner Müller's play Hamletmachine (1977), staged by Brigitte Haentjens in Montreal, (2001) ; composition years: 2003, 2014; time: 8:15

Robert Iolini: "Edwin Armstrong"
Iolini
ReR Megacorp/2002
electroacoustic chamber ensemble; time: 3:42

SET FOUR
Deep Listening Band: Invocation by Ione
Dunrobin Sonic Gems (live)
Deep Listening/2014
voice: Ione; instruments, sound systems: Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Stuart Dempster, Jessie Stewart, Jonas Braasch, Johannes Welsch; recorded at the Dunrobin Sonic Gym, Ottawa, Ontario; total excerpt time: 7:35

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

Guido Arbonelli: 
a. Continuous Cities (After Calvino) (K. Steen) (1:09)
b. Flash (J.L. Darbellay) (1:40)
c. Song 1 ( P. Rosato) (1:52)
Namaste suite
MPS Music & Video/2003
clarinets: Guido Arbonelli; recorded at Guido Arbonelli's studio, Perugia, Italy; total excerpt time: 4:40

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Shinrin-yoku
Elemental
Aucourant Records/2010
electroacoustic music: RST; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2010; time: 22:08

SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Spectrum 3
Spectrum Pieces
New World Records/2009
(for chamber orchestra); The Barton Workshop, directors: Frank Denyer, James Fulkerson; composition year: 1995; time: 18:04

SET FOUR
George Crumb: Night of the Four Moons
I. La luna está muerta, muerta... (2:33)
II. Cuando sale la luna (3:29)
III. Otro Adán oscuro está sonando... (2:50)
IV. ¡Huye luna, luna, luna! (8:26)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 11
Bridge Records/2008
The Aeolian Chamber Players -- alto flute/piccolo: Erich Graf; banjo: Lewis Kaplan; cello: Paul Tobias; percussion: Raymond DesRoches; mezzo soprano: Jan DeGaetani; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca; recorded 1974; composition year: 1969; total time: 17:28
  
In memory of Tod Dockstader (1932-2015)

Tod Dockstader & David Lee Myers: Glottalk*  
Pond  
ReR Megacorp/2005
amphibian sound recordings, electronics, processing: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers; time: 4:04
 *TAINT Radio version only
 
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Martian Gardens for February 22 & 25, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
   
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 22, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 25, 2015  

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

SET ONE
Roger Reynolds: they come/different and the same 
(from Odyssey, an opera in the mind)
The Paris Pieces
Neuma Records/1996
mezzo-soprano: Marie Kobayashi; bass baritone: Philip Larsen; Ensemble InterContemporain, conductor: David Robertson; computer processing at IRCAM; composition year: 1989-1993; time: 9:11

Roger Reynolds: 
a. In the Dark (1:02)
b. Focus on a beam, emptied of thinking outward... (11:10)
Complete Works for Cello
Mode Records/2014
a. reading: James Merrill; b. cello: Alexis Descharmes; a. recorded at the University of California San Diego, September 2014; b. recorded at Salle Cortet, Paris, July 2014; total time: 12:12

SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu & Ensemble SuperMusique: La Neige
a. Neige 1-2
b. Neige 5-3
c. Neige 4-2
d. Regarder la neige tomber (Watch the snow fall)
Récits de neige
Ambiances Magnetiques/2010
performed by Ensemble SuperMusique, recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, Montreal, 2008; texts: a: Dyane Raymond, b: Lise Hétu, c: Luc Proulx; d: Miranda Nienson; total time: 18:27

SINGLE PLAY
Elizabeth Anderson: Ether
L'envol
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music realized at  Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain, Belgium, the electroacoustic studios of City University, London, and the the Studio Akousma of the Academy of Soignies, Belgium; 2001, CCMIX, Paris, 2000; premiered at the 8th international acousmatic festival L’Espace du son at the Théâtre Marni, Brussels, October 3, 2001; dedicated to the victims of the 9/11 attacks; time: 13:43

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Vespers
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
music for hand-held echolocation devices in a room; composition year: 1968-1969; time: 16:00

SET TWO
Judy Dunaway: Champagne in Mexico City (Fragment Set 2)
Balloon Music
CRI/1998
balloons: Judy Dunaway; electronics: Dan Evans Farkas; composition year: 1997; time: 7:48

Pauline Oliveros: Bottoms Up
Reverberations -- Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
Important Records/2014
electronics: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, 1966; time: 12:50

SET THREE
Triple Point: Jupiter Smiles
Phase/Transitions
Pogus Productions/2014
Triple Point (Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort, Jonas Braasch): electronics, instruments, sound systems; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 3:31

Marco Oppedisano: 
a. Hoodlum Priest (N. Creshevsky)
b. Eternal Lovers
Guitars in Brooklyn, Live 5.21.03
Marco Oppedisano/2005
composer: Noah Creshevsky; vocal samples: Thomas Buckner; electric guitar, guitar samples: Marco Oppedisano: composition year: 2002; b. composer, electroacoustic electric guitar: Marco Oppedisano time: 6:20

Barry Lewis: 
a. Tremas (2:07)
b. Square Sweep (2:04)
Curves and Jars 2 -- Fractal Music
MPS Music & Video/2015
computer music: Barry Lewis; recorded at Projects UK Studio, Newcastle, UK, 1994; total time: 4:11

Barry Schrader: Bachahama
a. Figure 0.1
b. Air
c. Figure 0.2
EAM --Electro Acoustic Music
Innova Recordings/2002
(an electronic deconstruction of Bach's C Minor Fugue, Air on the G String, and Triptych)

an electronic deconstruction of Bach's C minor fugue and Air on the G string, and Triptych - See more at: http://barryschrader.com/eam/#sthash.7t3l5y8q.dpuf

an electronic deconstruction of Bach's C minor fugue and Air on the G string, and Triptych - See more at: http://barryschrader.com/eam/#sthash.7t3l5y8q.dpuf

electroacoustics: Barry Schrader; recorded at the composer's studio, Valencia, California; composition years: 1986, revised 2000; total time: 7:07

SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Visage 2
Madame Shanghai/Après Presque Rien/Visage 2
Mode Records/2011
(for brass, piano, and percussion) Musiques Nouvelles, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at l'Auditorium Abel Dubois à Mons, Belgium, April 21, 2006; composition years: 1955-1956; time: 10:02

Steven Ricks: Haiku
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2003
Tibetan prayer bowls, tam tams: Dominic Donato; electronics: Steven Ricks; premiered at SUNY Purchase, September 2006; composition year: 2006; time: 9:15

SET FIVE
Artemiy Artemiev:
a. Freezing (3:26)
b. Cold (10:25)
Cold
Electroshock Records/1995
electronics: A. Artemiev, recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, December, 1994; time: 13:51
 
Richard Pinhas:
a. Iceland, Part 1 (1:05)
b. Short Transition (0:35)
c. Greenland (8:56)
Iceland
Cuneiform Records/1992 (org. Polydor LP/1979)
 synthesizers, guitar: Richard Pinhas; Mini-Moog: Jean-Phillippe Goude; recorded in Heldon Electronic Music Studio and Ramsès Studio, Paris, 1979; time: 10:30


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Martian Gardens for February 15 & 18, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
   
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 15, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 18, 2015  

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

SET ONE
Roger Reynolds: imagE/Cello
Complete Cello Works
Mode Records/2014
cello: Alexis Descharmes; recorded at Salle Cortot, Paris, July 2014; composition year: 2007; time: 4:47

Barry Lewis: Snowflake Halls
Curves and Jars 2 -- Fractal Music
MPS Music & Video/2014
computer music recorded in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, 1994; time: 2:19

SINGLE PLAY
Barbara Monk Feldman: String Quartet No. 1 (Desertscape)
I. 11:34
II. 19:22
Soft Horizons
New World Records/2015
FLUX Quartet (violins: Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris; viola: Max Mandel; cello: Felix Fan); recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 2014; composition year: 2004; total time: 31:03

SINGLE PLAY
Barbara Monk Feldman: The Northern Shore
The Northern Shore
Mode Records/2012
Sabat/Clarke -- violin: Mark Sabat; piano: Stephen Clarke; percussion: Dirk Rothbrust; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, Germany, August 26, 2003; composition year: 1997; time: 28:26

SET TWO
Ron Nagorcka: Atom Bomb (excerpt)
Atom Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
(for cassette tape recorders, toy instruments, and other devices); The Golden Fur New Music Project (Samuel Dunscombe, Judith Hamann, James Rushford); realized by Golden Fur, 2010, Australia; composition year: 1977; excerpt time: 7:00

Gavin Bryars with Tom Waits: 
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (radio edit)
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet/"Low" Symphony (promo)
Point Music/1993
vocals: Tom Waits; tape loop: Gavin Bryars; orchestra: The Gavin Bryars Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman; recorded at Looking Glass Studios, New York City; composition years: 1971, revised 1993; excerpt time: 6:20

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Wireless Fantasy
Music for Electronic and Older Instruments (Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell)
CRI/1968
electronics, tape collage: Vladimir Ussachevsky; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, composition year: 1960; time: 4:41

Meredith Monk: Candy Bullets and Moon
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, bass: Meredith Monk; drums, organ: Don Preston; recorded at Garrick's Theatre, New York City, July 1967; time: 4:22

SET THREE
John Cage: The Ten Thousand Things (excerpt)
The Ten Thousand Things
Microfest Records/2013
narrator: John Cage; prepared piano:Vicki Ray; prepared piano: Aron Kallay; double bass: Tom Peters; percussion: William Winant; Cage's narration recorded at UCLA, 1962; other instruments for The Ten Thousand Things recorded at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles, Mills College in Oakland, Second Story Studios in Venice, CA, and Private Island Trax, Hollywood, CA; engineer: John Schneider (except Matt Snyder at Private Island Trax); recorded 2008-2012; composition years: 1954, 1955, 1956; excerpt time: 10:00

Carey Nutman: One Thing at a Time (Homage to John Cage)
One Thing at a Time (CD single)
MPS Music & Video/1992
tape collage: Carey Nutman; recorded in 1992; time: 11:15

SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: Red Horse Headache (excerpt)
Reverberations - Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (boxed set)
Important Records/2014
electronics: Pauline Oliveros; realized at the University of California San Diego Electronic Music Studio 1967-1970; excerpt time: 12:00

Merzbow: Ambient Study for Kinbaku-bi Part 2
Music for Bondage Performance 2
Extreme Records/1996
electronics, noises: Masami Akita; recorded at ZSF Produkt Studio, Tokyo, 1990-1994; time: 6:04

Roxanne Turcotte: Tout en rouge (Everything in Red)
Fenêtres intérieures
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
tape collage, electroacoustics: Roxanne Turcotte; realized at RTM Studios, Montreal, 2012-2014; time: 4:33

SET FIVE
Beatriz Ferreyra: Siesta Blanca (Winter)
Les Saisons 1972 [GMEB] -- 2002 [IMEB] (various artists)
IMEB/2002  
electroacoustic music on tape: Beatriz Ferreyra; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France; composition year: 1972; time: 14:30

Joane Hétu & Ensemble SuperMusique: Réveil brutal
Récits de neige
Ambiances Magnetiques/2010
recorded in Montreal, 2008; time: 3:30 

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