Saturday, March 19, 2016

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Version, March 24, 2016


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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: March 24, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST

SINGLE PLAY
The Space Negros: Martians Have Landed
Dig Archeology 1975-1986
Arf Arf/1992
instruments, vocals: Erik Lindgren; recorded at 93 St. Josephine Street, Somerville, Massachusetts, Fall 1975; time: 1:32

SINGLE PLAY
Anne La Berge: Drive
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, texts, flute, MAX/MSP computer program: Anne La Berge (text performed as Mary Anderson, inventor of the windshield wiper; texts discussing the diesel engine; texts discussing the human uterus); additional voices: Amy Walker, Josh Griffin, Misha Mayers; recorded at Studio VOLSAP and Studio 150, Amsterdam, 2009; composition years: 2003-2006; time 25:13

SET ONE
Robert Ashley Act II (Years 15-28)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

Sumner Carnahan/Out of Context: Transmission
1" = 25 Mi.
Burning Books/2005
texts, voice: Sumner Carnahan; music: J.A. Deane; Out of Context (drums, percussion: Jefferson Voorhees, viola: Alicia Ultan; vocals: Molly Sturges; bassoon: Sam Rhodes; cello: Katie Harlow; acting, voice: John Flax; oud, electronics: Stefan Dill; sampler, live electronics: C.K. Barlow; cornet: Jon Baldwin; conductor, sampler, uniflute: J.A. Deane); recorded at Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque; December 10, 2004; total excerpts time: 11:10

SET TWO
John Oliver: selections from Time's Wheel
a. un/authorized invocation (3:37)
b. Exhibit: the censor that is Time inserts this sutra (2:47)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renée Sarojini Saklikar; computer processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total excerpts time: 6:23

Maggi Payne: Flaptics (M. Trayle)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
flute, vocalizations: Maggi Payne; interactive electronics: Mark Trayle; realized at CCM (Center for Contemporary Music), Mills College, Oakland California; composer: Mark Trayle; composition year: 1997; time: 6:47

Jacqueline Humbert: Mosquitolove (S. Ashley)
Chanteuse -- Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
voice: Jacqueline Humbert; soundscape, electronics realized by David Rosenboom at his studio at the California Institute of the Arts, composition, lyrics: Sam Ashley; time: 5:46

Sarah Peebles: Spring
from Tomoe (Revolving life) (version 4)
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
shō, mouth organ: Hiromi Yoshida; perucussion, Midi Katcontroller, noise-makers: Ikuo Kakehashi; MIDI keyboard, sampled sound, electronics, shō, noise-makers: Sarah Peebles; recorded at Shukoji, Kawasaki , Main Hall, September 25, 1993; time: 5:00

SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Mélanges (Pléïades movement I)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
percussion: red fish blue fish -- Gustavo Aguillar, Rob Esler, Ross Karre, Don Nichols, Morris Palter, Lisa Tolentino, director: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego; composition year: 1978; time: 8:52

Luc Ferrari: Etudes -- aux accidents
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
musique concrète: Luc Ferrari, realized at GRM, Paris,1958, time: 2:19

Steven Ricks: Sounded along dove dōve
Young American Inventions
New Focus Recordings/2015
electroacoustic music: Steven Ricks; composition year: 1999; time;  2:38

Larry Polansky: Baa Baa Birthday, Have You Any Star?
from Three Anna Studies
Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
voices: Anna Polansky, Eleanor Wilson; computer: Larry Polansky: composition year: 1995; time: 1:46

Eldad Tsabary: Creatures of the Ice
Demo
Eldad Tsabary/2006
multi-channel electronics: Eldad Tsabary (sound source: ice shards in Nunavut); composition year: 2006; time: 4:45

Triple Point: Pivot Point
Phase/Transitions
Pogus Productions/2014
instruments, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Noort; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 3:28

SET FOUR
Michael Vincent Waller: Profondo Rosso
The South Shore
XI Records/2015
Project SiS (piano: Charity Wicks; violin: Pauline Kim-Harris; cello: Christine: Kim); recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, New York; composition year: 2013; time: 4:42

Peter Garland: selections from String Quartet No. 1,
"In Praise of Poor Scholars"
a. Rondeau "Nouveau" (4:12)
b. Like an elegant slow dance...(3:41)
String Quartets
Cold Blue Music/2009
performed by Apartment House; recorded at the School of Music at the University of East Anglia, U.K., September 14, 2008; composition year: 1986; excerpts time: 7:53

Luigi Dallapicolla: selections from Tartiniana Seconda
(Divertimenta for Violin & Piano)
I. Pastorale (2:18)
II. Tempo di Bourée (1:34)
III. Presto; Leggerissimo (1:43)
Musica da Camera (Dallapiccola/Petrassi)
Mode Records/2006
violin: Daniele Colombo; piano: Ciro Longobardi (of Ensemble Dissonanzen); recorded at Teatro delle Palme, Naples; February 21-23, 2005; composition year: 1956; excerpts time: 4:35

Otto Luening: Dramatic Scene
(Movement II from Sonata for Piano -- In Memoriam Ferruccio Busoni)
Music of Otto Luening
New World Records/2010 (orig. CRI LP/1975)
piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded November 5, 1974 (location unspecified); composition year: 1966; time: 4:59

SET FIVE
Mari Kimura: ComeCryWithMe (M. Paranosic)
Polytopia -- Music for Violin and Electronics
Bridge Records/2007
violin, electronics: Mari Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, Fall, 2004; composer: Milica Paranosic; composition year: 2005; time: 8:09

Allen Strange: Goddess
Music by Allen Strange
Permanent Press/2005
(for amplified violin and digital media); violin: Pat Strange; composition year: 2002; time: 15:26

SINGLE PLAY
Quartetski: selections from Quartetski Does Bartók
a. Répétition #26 (1:07)
b. Accompagnment en accords brisés #12 (2:42)
c. Méditiation #45 (206)
d. Rhythme syncopé #27 (0:33)
e. L'extrême-orient #58 (1:54)
f. Sixtes et accords #73 (0:35)
g. En augmentent - en diminuant #46
h. En mode Mixolydian #48
Quartetski Does Bartók
Ambiances Magnétiques/2016
Quartetski (electric guitar, melodica: Bernard Falaise; bass clarinette, soprano saxophone, melodica; electric bass, synthesizer: Pierre-Yves Martel; violin: Joshua Zubot; drums: Isaiah Ceccarelli), director: Pierre-Yves Martel; recorded at Studio Resther; Montreal, March 2015; composer: Bela Bartók, "Mikrokosmos"; composition years: 1926-1939; total excerpts time: 13:52

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Martian Gardens, Valley Free Radio Version, March 18, 2016


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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: March 10, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST

SINGLE PLAY
Dorothy Hindman: Drift
Tapping the Furnace
Innova Recordings/2013
(for saxophone quartet); Atlas Saxophone Quartet (Carey Polacek; Susan Cook; Shawn Tracy; Bryan Polacek); composition year: 2002; time: 5:13

SET TWO
Robert Ashley Act I (Years 1-14)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now (various artists)
Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1998
voice, percussion, synthesizer, electronics: Joan La Barbara; bowed pianos: Gaylord Mowfrey; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan, "One Pink Mask," recorded 1996; time: 3:23

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot
XI Records/2011
ambient arctic sounds: Charlie Morrow; composition year: 1997; time: 3:28

SET THREE
John Oliver: selections from The Archives
a. -- and her redactions (0:56)
b. Exhibit: When I dance a morning raga (1:41)
c. Exhibit: His brother excels (1:29)
d. Exhibit: Bombay girl (1:58)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renée Sarojini Saklikar; computer processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total excerpts time: 6:04

Laurie Anderson: Strange Perfumes
Homeland
Nonesuch Records/2010
vocals, percussion, keyboards: Laurie Anderson; vocal: Antony; marxophone, accordion, keyboards: Rob Burger; viola: Eyvind Kang; keyboards: Peter Scherer, percussion: Shahzad Ismaily; recorded in New York City, 2010; time: 7:25

Audrey Churgin: Arctic Sun Arctic Wind
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
voice, recordings: Audrey Churgin; drum dance and song: Rosalie Pissuk and son; composition year: 2004; time: 4:46

Larry Polansky: #14 Kid Canon
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
voices: Anna Diamond Polansky, Eliza Polli, Meghan Gallagher, Hester Godfrey, Nick Sinnott-Armstrong, Saskia Nislow, Kathie Lenhart; mixing, processing: Larry Polansky, Miriam Kolar; recorded at Brittrax, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and Los Angeles, summer 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 1:37

Larry Polansky: #13 DIY Canon/Java 2 (Goode Version)
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
tape, narration: Daniel Goode (source: Java 2, Midtown Manhattan Restaurant) processed by Daniel Goode and Larry Polansky, New York City, and Hanover, NH, March 2002; composition year: 2001; time: 3:15

Fred Frith: Levity
Prints -- Snapshots, Postcards, Messages, and Miniatures 1987-2001
ReR Megacorp/2003
electric guitar, electric guitar samples, other samples, electric guitar improv: Fred Frith; recorded at WDR Radio, January 1997; time: 2:36

Marco Oppedisano: Breathe
Resolute
Spectropol Records/2015
electroacoutistic electric guitar, electric guitar samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 2:34

SET FOUR
Luigi Nono: 
Selections from Como Una Ola Fuerza y Luz (Like a Wave of Strength and Light)
II. Piano Entry (6:55)
III. Dolcessimo Sereno (2:12)
Como una olo fuerza y luz, etc.
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
(for soprano, piano, orchestra, and tape; text: Julio Huasi, paen to Luciano Cruz); soprano: Slavka Taskova; piano: Maurizio Pollini; Symphony Orchestra of Bayerischen Radio, conductor: Claudio Abbado; composition years: 1971-1972; excerpts time: 9:07

Robert Normandeau: Jeu de langues
Palimpsestes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, premiered at the Musica Viva 2009 festival of the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal; September 19, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 11:50

Annea Lockwood: Buoyant
Ground of Being
Recital Records/2014
field recordings (water sounds, Flathead Lake, Montana; boat sounds, Hoboken Ferry Terminal, New Jersey and Lake Como, Italy); composition year: 2013; time: 6:18

SET FIVE
Ulrich Krieger: before/QUAKE
[Urban Dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for cello, piano, and percussion) California E.A.R. Unit (cello: Erika Duke-KirkPatric; piano: Vicky Ray; percussion: Amy Knoles); recorded at RBB Berlin, Kleiner Sendesaal, Germany, 2006; composition year: 2005; time: 5:35

Mary Lee Roberts: White Writing
I. Bird (1:52)
II. Night Foxes (4:00)
Open Space 9: Computer Works by Mary Lee Roberts
Open Space/1997
computer music: Mary Lee Roberts, mastered at Sonic Solutions, New York University; time: 5:52

Bischoff/Brown/Erbe/Payne: selections from CCM Flotsam
a. #20 (0:17)
b. #16 (0:10)
c. #8 (0:14
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artists)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
computer music: John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Tom Erbe, Maggi Payne; recorded at CCM, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1993; total time: 0:41

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Version, March 17, 2016


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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: March 10, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Kleier: Dark Matter
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
electric guitars, computers, processing: Roger Kleier; recorded at Master Element Studios, New York City; time: 5:28

SET ONE
Codona: Que Faser
Codona 2
ECM Records/1981
berimgau, talking drum, percussion, voice: Naná  Vasconcelos; sitar, tabla, mbira, timpani, voice: Collin Wolcott; melodica, flute, voice: Don Cherry; composer: Naná  Vasconcelos; recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany; time: 7:12

Dedicated to Naná Vasconcelos, August, 2, 1944 -- March 9, 2016

Don Cherry: Brown Rice
Brown Rice
A&M/1975
trumpet, electric piano, voice: Don Cherry; acoustic bass: Charlie Haden; drums: Billy Higgins; tenor saxophone: Frank Lowe; electric piano: Ricky Cherry; electric bongos: Bunchie Fox; voice: Vema Gillis; composer: Don Cherry; recorded at The Basement Recording Studio, New York City; time: 5:14

Meredith Monk: Dungeon
Key
Lovely Music, Ltd./1995 (orig. Increase LP/1971)
extended vocals: Meredith Monk; mrdingam drum: Collin Wolcott; time: 6:49

Nicolas Caloia
a. L'Horizon (2:58)
b. Restent des Absents (1:09)
c. L'Allemeuse (3:14)
Les Bonnes Histoires
Ambiances Magnetiques/2016
double bass, percussion, drum machine: Nicolas Caloia; piccolo, bass flute, tenor saxophone: Jean Derome; voice: Gabriel Dharmoo; clarinets, bells: Lori Freedman; voice, texts Genevieve LeTarte; recorded in Montreal, July 2015; total time: 7:21

SET TWO
Robert Ashley Act I (Years 1-14)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now (various artists)
Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1998
voice, percussion, synthesizer, electronics: Joan La Barbara; bowed pianos: Gaylord Mowfrey; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan, "One Pink Mask," recorded 1996; time: 3:23

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot
XI Records/2011
ambient arctic sounds: Charlie Morrow; composition year: 1997; time: 3:28

SET THREE
John Oliver: Trope 1 -- Mourning
a. Exhibit No. 1: She boards the plane (7:40)
b. Exhibit No. 2: He runs down the hallway (1:35)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renee Sarojini Saklikar; computer, processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total time: 8:15

Polly Moller: Three-Quarters (Nabanusit and Contoocook)
Diogenes
Northwestern Music/2003
flute, voice, guitar, percussion, programming, various instruments: Polly Moller; recorded at Lucky Dog Studios, Eugene, Oregon; time: 4:07

Rapoon
a. Bodhran and Ran (1:27)
b. Banjo Arabiata (2:41)
Cultural Forgeries
Alrealon Music/2014
bodhran, banjo, other instruments: Robin Storey; total time: 4:08

Musci - Venosta: Dusty Zebra
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
electric guitar: Luciano Margorani; composition, Japanese percussion tape loops, Congolese field recordings: Roberto Musci, Giovanni Venosta; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, time: 3:40

Jin Hi Kim: & Gerry Hemingway: Saturn's Ring
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
composition, electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; percussion, drums: Gerry Hemingway; recorded Shutesbury, Massachusetts, August 18, 2010; time: 3:37

SET FOUR
Philip Mantione: Fabrics
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
computer music: Philip Mantione; composition year: 2010; time: 8:42

Elainie Lillios: Threads
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music realized at the electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the 19th EuCuE concert series at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University, Montreal, November 13, 1998; composition year: 1998; time: 4:50

Eduardo Kusnir: La Panderia (The Bakery)
Lily
Mnemosyne Musique Media/1996
electroacoustic music realized at the Instituto di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1970, composition year: 1970; time: 9:20

SET FIVE
Mathew Rosenblum: Two Harmonies
a. Gymnopedie for Art Jarvinen (3:52)
b. Fantasy for Roberta Liss (3:00)
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
viola: Wendy Richman; percussion: Timothy Feeney; piano: Shirly Yoo; recorded at SUNY Fredonia, New York, February 5, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 6:52

Anna Rubin: Remembering
Electric Music
Capstone Records/2004
(for soprano, piano, and tape) soprano: Judith Kellock; piano: Karl Paulnack; recorded March 6, 1993 (location unspecified); composition years: 1989; revised: 1993; time: 14:40

SET SIX
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

Ulrich Krieger: before/QUAKE
[Urban Dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for cello, piano, and percussion) California E.A.R. Unit (cello: Erika Duke-KirkPatric; piano: Vicky Ray; percussion: Amy Knoles); recorded at RBB Berlin, Kleiner Sendesaal, Germany, 2006; composition year: 2005; time: 5:35

Mary Lee Roberts: Things Fall Apart
Open Space 9: Computer Works by Mary Lee Roberts
Open Space/1997
computer music: Mary Lee Roberts, mastered at Sonic Solutions, New York University; time: 7:40

Robert Scott Thompson: Cloud Fragments
Frontier
Mirage/1998
synthesizers, electronics: Robert Scott Thompson; time: 5:38

Laurie Spiegel: Hurricane's Eye
from Two Archetypes
Unseen Worlds
Scarlet Records/1991
computer music: Laurie Spiegel; composition year: 1990; time: 3:36

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