Friday, January 16, 2015

Martian Gardens for January 18 & 21, 2015


MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 18, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: January 21, 2015
Host: Max Shea

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

SET ONE

John Luther Adams: 
a. Dream of the Canyon Wren (7:41)
b. MacLaren Summit (from The Wind in High Places) (4:56)
The Wind in High Places
Cold Blue Music/2015
a. Northwestern University Cello Ensemble, conductor: Hans Jorgen Jensen; b. The JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); a. & b. recorded at Oktaven Audio Yonkers, New York, July 29, 2014; a. composition year: 2013; b. composition year: 2011; total time: 11:37

Miguel del Aguila: Pacific Serenade
I. Cantando, semplice
II. Recitando, molto rubato

Exchange -- Latin America [various artists]
CRI/2000
Pacific Serenade Ensemble (clarinet: Gary Gray; violins: Miwako Watanabe, Connie Kupta; viola: Simon Oswell; viola: David Speltz); recorded at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angales, March 15, 1999; composition year: 1998; time: 7:15


SET TWO
Stockhausen: Refrain
Complete Early Percussion Works
Mode Records/2014
vibraphone, Alpine bells: Steven Schick; piano and woodblocks: piano, woodblocks: James Avery; celesta, antique cymbals: Pavlos Antoniadis; recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego, October 2-4, 2008; composition year: 1959; time: 10:15

The Respect Sextet: Pisces (Stockhausen)
Sirius Respect -- The Respect Sextet play the music of Stockhausen & Sun Ra
Mode Records -- Avant series/2009
composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen; The Respect Sextet recorded at Dubway Studios, New York City; April 1, 2007;  composition years: 1974-1975; time: 3:46

Klaxon Gueule: 
a. Du Creux (2:46)
b. Au Soudan  (2:22)
Pour en finir
Ambiances Magnetiques/2014
Klaxon Gueule (Michel F Côté, Bernard Falaise, Alexandere St. Onge); recorded in Montreal, June 2013; total time: 5:08

SET THREE
Martin Bresnick: A Message from the Emperor
Prayers Remain Forever
Starkland/2014
vibraphone, marimba, recitation: Michael Compitello, Ian Rosenbaum; text: Franz Kafka; recorded at Morse Recital Hall, Yale University School of Music; composition year: 2010; time: 10:50

Richard Maxfield: Bacchanal
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
narration, text: Edward Fields; violin: Fahrad Machkat, Robert Block: prepared violin: saxophone: Terry Jennings; underwater clarinet: Nicholas Roussakis; original music recorded at the Five Spot, Manhattan, circa 1962; composition year: 1963; time: 8:14


Thomas DeLio: Schwimmhäute (from ...zwischen den Worten)
Space/Image/Word/Sound (DVD)
Neuma Records/2014 
electronics, tape: Thomas Delio; reader: Benjamin Levy; text: Paul Celan; composition year: 2007; time: 3:23

SET FOUR
Roger Cochini: Chansons de Gestes 
Eva Ou Les Yeux Fermés -- Chrysopée Electronique (series)
Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique/1995
electroacoustic music realized at GMEB (IMEB), Bourges, France, 1977; time: 9:55

Triple Point: Photonic Dance
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: 4:43

Arcane Device: Mantra 3
Noise Matrix Mantras & Modular Waves
pulsewidth.com/2014
electronics: David Lee Myers; recorded in New York City, spring/summer, 2014; time: 5:40

SET FIVE
Elizabeth Anderson: Mimoyecques
L'envot
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music realized in 1994 and premiered at Hommage: Manifestation d’art international revisité 1944-1994, Forteresse de Mimoyecques, Landrethun-le-Nord, Pas-de-Calais, France; time: 13:38

Ron Nagorcka: Lunulata (from Just Bluffing for Quamby)
Atom Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
electroacoustic music in just intonation based on sounds recorded at Quamby Cliff, Tasmania; composition year: 2006; time: 7:44

SET SIX
Robert Scott Thompson: Drone Chroma 4 -- Gold
Frozen Light
Aucourant Records/2008
electronic ambient music composed and recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; time: 13:14

Richard Teitelbaum: Threshold Symphonies (excerpt)
Solo Live
Mutable Music/2012
Kurzweil 2000 Sampler Keyboard, piano, bells, slide whistle, Crackle Box, laptop: Richard Teitelbaum; composition year: 1973; excerpt time: 7:00

SET SEVEN
Imoo-Kallay Duo: The Question Mark's Black Ink (Alves)
Five Conversations About Two Things
Populist Records/2014
composer: Bill Alves; percussion: Yuri Imoo; piano: Aron Kallay; composition year: 1986; time: 17:53

Arthur Jarvinen: Edible Black Ink
Edible Black Ink
O.O. Discs/1996
electric guitar: Peter Zaferes; composition year: 1989; time: 1:15

SINGLE EIGHT
Bill Alves:  Concerto for Violin and Gamelan, Movement II
Mystic Canyon
Microfest Records/2013
The HMC American Gamelan; violin: Susan Jensen; composition year: 2008; time: 9:21

Arthur Jarvinen: Count Your Change
Edible Black Ink
O.O. Discs/1996
electric guitar: Peter Zaferes; composition year: 1989; time: 1:10


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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Martian Gardens for January 11 & 14, 2015


MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 11, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: January 14, 2015
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY

Daniel Lentz: Pacific Coast Highway
In the Sea of Ionia
Cold Blue Music/2014
piano: Aron Kallay; recorded at Architecture, Los Angeles, 2014; composition year: 2014; time: 7:30

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Concert for Piano and Orchestra
Music from the Tudorfest (various artists)
San Francisco Tape Music Center 1964
New World Records/2014
(for piano and orchestra) piano: David Tudor, trombone: Stuart Dempster; piano: Warner Jepson; horn: Douglas Leedy; viola, viola d'amore: Robert Mackler; horn, tuba: Pauline Oliveros; double bass: Loren Rush; viola: Linn Subotnick; clarinet: Morton Subotnick; flute, piccolo: Ian Underwood; conductor: Ramon Sender; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, April 3, 1964; composition years: 1957-1958; time: 26:07

SINGLE PLAY
Stockhausen: Kontakte
Complete Early Percussion Works
Mode Records/2014
(for piano, percussion, and 4-channel tape) percussion: Steven Schick; piano, percussion: James Avery; recorded at Theater A, University of California San Diego, October 2-4, 2008; composition years: 1958-1960; time: 35:00

SET ONE
Robert Normandeau: Pluies noires (Black Rain)
Dômes
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
(electroacoustic music) realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 2008; premiered at Música Viva 2008, Pequeno Auditório, Lisbon, Portugal, September 25, 2008; revised 2014; time: 11:16

Fünf: Gelée de pommes (Apple Jelly)
La règle
Ambiances Magnétiques/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; time: 2:00

The Hub: Hot Potato
Boundary Layer
Tzadik Records/2008
(for computer network ensemble and electronic instruments) computer network: The Hub (John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Tim Perkis, Mark Trayle, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster), with students from the Music Conservatory  of Cuneo, Italy (Giacomo Albert, Carlo Ambrogio, Gianluca Delfino, Bruno Fulurizio Sorba, Gianluca Verlingieri, computers); recorded at New York University, November 2006; time: 6:36

SINGLE PLAY
Carey Nutman: DADA Twenty Eleven
Lang
MPS Music and Video/2014
electronics, computers, composition: Carey Nutman; recorded at the composer's studio, Houghton-Le-Spring, England; composition year: 2011; time: 24:49

SET TWO
Vertical Squirrels: Signal Hill
Time of the Sign
Ambiances Magnétiques/2014
guitars, percussion, synthesizer: Daniel Fischilin; piano, melodica: Ajay Heble; bass, baritone saxophone, pedal steel guitar, percussion, homemade instruments, foghorns, surf, and harbor recoordings: Lewis Melville; percussion: Ted Warren; flute, soprano saxophone: Jane Bunnett; hurdy gurdy: Ben Grossman; recorded in Ontario, Canada (Toronto, Guelph, Hamilton), June 2012; time: 9:16 

Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes & Gradual Requiem
New Albion/1988 (orig. 1984)
trumpets: Jim Miller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kenelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty, conductor: John Adams; fog horns and ambient sounds recorded around San Francisco Bay; ensemble recorded at Tres Virgos Studio, San Rafael, California, 1982; time: 9:50

SINGLE PLAY
Deep Listening Band: Amethyst
Dunrobin Sonic Gems (Live)
Deep Listening/2014
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: 25:58

Deep Listening Band: Balloon Payment
The Ready Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1991
balloon set up and pop: Gordon Hempton and Al Swanson; time: 0:45

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