Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Martian Gardens, Valley Free Radio Edition, April 8, 2016


TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast date: April 8, 2016
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT

HOUR ONE
Eyeless in Gaza: Lights of April
Drumming the Beating Heart
Cherry Red/1982
vocals, lyrics, instruments, electronics, noises: Peter Becker, Martyn Bates; time: 2:20

Robert Scott Thompson: Amorphia
Amorphia
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 1995)
computer music: Robert Scott Thompson; composition year: 1995; time: 16:04

Françoise Barrière: Trois modes d'air et de lamentations
a. Premier mouvement (5:33)
b. Second mouvement (6:57)
c. Troisième mouvement (6:17
Compendium International -- Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
accordion: Claudio Jacomucci; electroacoustic music: Françoise Barrière; realized at IMEB, Bourges, 2004-2005; total time: 18:57

Tildy Bayar: The Complexities of the Situation
Open Space 12 -- EE²: A Sound Album By Elaine Barkin (various artists)
Open Space/2000
piano, metal rods: Tildy Bayar; composition year: 1989; time: 7:07

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

HOUR TWO
Hildegard Westerkamp: Beneath the Forest Floor
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
sounds recorded in the Carmanah Valley, Vancouver Island, British Columbia by Hildegard Westerkamp, 1991; ravens recorded on the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia by Norbert Ruebsaat,  produced at CBC's Advanced Audio Production Facility, Toronto; time: 17:23

Happy 70th Birthday, Hildegard Westerkamp! (b. Osnabrück, Germany, April 8, 1946)

Robert Ashley Act III (Years 43-56)
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; text, composition: Robert Ashley; composition year: 2013; time: 15:15

John Oliver: selections from Trope 2 -- Speak
a. Elegy I (6:21)
b. Elegy II (4:31)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renee Sarojini Saklikar; computer, processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total selections time: 10:52

Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert*
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
electronics, sampling: Sarah Boothroyd; composition year: 2008; time: 2:34

Elainie Lillios: Toronto Island Contrasts*
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
electronics, sampling: Elainie Lillios; compositon year: 2008; time: 1:00

David Toop:*
a. A Second Nature (0:39)
b. Translucent World (0:37)
Museum of Fruit (Architettura Series Volume 3)
Caipirinha Productions/1999
synthesizers, electronics, instruments: David Toop; bioelectric fruit recordings: Michael Prime; recorded in London, Fall 1998; total selections time: 1:17

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*Selections in lieu of John Oliver's "Elegy III," which I postponed until next week due to time constraints.

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Version, April 7, 2016


Host: Max Shea 
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email: martiangardens@gmail.com

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Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 7, 2016

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

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Spring
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


SET ONE
Paul Lansky: Wayfaring Stranger (trad.)
Folk Images
Bridge Records/1995
computer music: Paul Lansky; Princeton University, 1991, time: 4:42

Moondog: selections from The Madrigals --
a. All is Loneliness (2:48)
b. Why Spend a Dark Night with Me? (0:59)
c. Coffee Beans (2:31)
d. Be a Hobo (1:18)
Round the World of Sound
performed by Dedalus & Muzzix, directors: Didier Aschour, Christian Pruvost; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville, France, November 2015; music and lyrics: Louis T. Hardin (Moondog); composition years: a. 1950, b. 1950, c. 1968, d. 1951; total selections time: 7:36

Philip Glass & Allen Ginsberg: Nagasaki Days (Everybody's Fantasy)
Hydrogen Jukebox
Elektra-Nonesuch/1993
The Philip Glass Vocal Ensemble; flute: Carol Winenc; reeds: Andrew Sterman; percussion: Frank Cassara, James Pugliese; keyboards, conductor: Martin Goldray; text: Allen Ginsberg; recorded at The Looking Glass Studios, New York City, 1992-1993; time: 4:56

Phil Kline: Wondrous Love (trad.)
John The Revelator -- A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
Lionheart vocal group; Ethel string quartet; recorded at the Church of St. Luke's in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August 2007; 
music, lyrics: traditional, arr. Kline; time: 2:42 

Paul Lansky: Ash Grove (trad.)
Folk Images
Bridge Records/1995
computer music; computerized voice: Paul Lansky; Princeton University, 1991, time: 2:50

SET TWO
Steve Reich: Sextet, Movement I - Fast
Third Coast Percussion/Steve Reich
Çedille Records/2016
percussion, keyboards (three marimbas, two bass drums, two vibraphones, crotales, sticks, tam-tams, piano, synthesizer): Third Coast Percussion; recorded at the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, December 15-19, 2014; composition years: 1984, 1985; total time: 11:17

Andrew Byrne: Desert Terrain, part 1, section 1
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
processed piano: Stephen Gosling; percussion: David Shivley; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, New York, October 2006; time: 5:30

Tim Patterson: Three Pieces for the Winter Solstice (J. Bergamo)
I. 2:26
II. 0:23
III. 2:52
Like Style, Dig? The Music of John Bergamo
Innova Recordings/2015
marimba: Tim Patterson, composer: John Bergamo, arr. Tim Patterson; recorded at Blast House Studios, Madison, Wisconsin; composition year: 1968; time: 2:31

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

Bill Alves: Spectral Motion
The Terrain of Possibilities
EMF/1988
Synclavier II music system: Bill Alves; composition year: 1988; time: 5:47

Bill Alves: Tingklik Toccata
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2008
electronics: Bill Alves; Balinese tingklik: Linda Michelou; electronics and gong: Jean-Pierre Michelou; shakuhachi: Bill Shozan Schultz; recorded at Harvey Mudd College; composition year: 1996; time: 4:47

The New Music Consort: Double Music (J. Cage, L. Harrison)
Pulse
New World Records/1990
percussion: Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman, Claire Heldrich, William Trigg; recorded at Studio A, BMG, New York City; composers: John Cage and Lou Harrison; composition year: 1941; time: 6:52

SET FOUR
Quatuor Bozzini: selections from Aldo Clementi: Momento
a. Canone Version 1 (1:09)
b. Tribute (4:43)
c. Canone Version 2 (1:10)
Aldo Clementi -- Memento
Ambiances Magnetiques/2016
violins: Clemens Merkel, Erik Carlson; viola: Stephanie Bozzini; cello: Isabelle Bozzini; recorded at Sendesaal, Bremen, fall 2014; composer: Aldo Clementi; composition years: a.,c. 1997; b. 1988; total selections time: 7:02

Aldo Clementi: Ouverture
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
for 12 flutes (4 piccolos, 4 flutes in C, 4 alto flutes); flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; recorded at Laboratorio d Acustica e Architettonica, Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venazia, Italy, April 2005; composition year: 1984; time: 7:07

Bruno Maderna: Musica su due demensioni 
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
(for flute and tape); flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; sound direction: Alvise Vidolin; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1958; time: 13:17

SET FIVE
Luciano Berio: Perspectives
(MP3)
tape music realized at Studio di Fonologia della RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana di Milano), 1957; time: 6:41

Pierre Schaeffer: Selections from Symphonie pour un homme seul
a. Prosopopée I (2:58)
b. Partita (1:11)
c. Valse (0:57)
d. Erotic (1:21)
L'oeuvre Musicale
EMF/1998
musique concrete realized at Studio d' Essai (ORTF), 1949-1950, premiered at Ecole Auditorium of the Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris, March 18, 1950; total selections time: 6:28

Peter Van Zandt Lane: Scene V -- The Jester
Hakcpolitic -- An Electroacoustic Ballet
Innova Recordings/2014
(for electroacoustic music and ensemble); Juventas New Music Ensemble; recorded at Fraser Studio, WGBH, Boston, 2014; time: 3:16

Steven Ricks: Young American Inventions REMIX
Young American Inventions
New Focus Recordings/2015
for solo piano and electronics; piano: Scott Holden; recorded at Madsen Recital Hall, Brigham Young University, April 26, 2007; remixed 2014; time: 3:13

Péter Eötvös: selections from Electrochronicle Sessions
a. June 6, 1974 (0:39)
b. June 12, 1974 (2:32)
Electrochronicles
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
stereo tape: Péter Eötvös, electric organ: Mesias Maiguashica; recorded live at WDR, Cologne, 1974; total selections time: 3:11

SET SIX
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
cricket song and environmental sounds recorded in the "Zone of Silence" in the desert of Northern Mexico; completed at Westerkamp's Studio, Vancouver, BC, 1987; composition year: 1987; time: 10:55

Happy 70th Birthday, Hildegard Westerkamp (b. Osnabrück, Germany, April 8, 1946)

Robert Morris/David Mott: Rapport (excerpt)
Rapport
Open Space/2011
synthesizer: Robert Morris; tape delay system; David Mott; recorded at the Yale Electronic Music Studios, November 18, 1973; excerpt time: 5:15  

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