Martian Gardens

Martian Gardens for 01/29/2012

2012-01-28T17:26:00.004-05:00

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for January 29, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Virgil Thomson: Three Parisian Portraits
a. Poltergeist -- A Portrait of Hans Arp
b. Aria -- A Portrait of Germaine Hugnet
c. Swiss Waltz -- A Portrait of Sophia Tauber-Arp
Early and as Remembered
New Albion Records/1991
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Trackmaster Studios, Buffalo, January 1989

SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Sparkler
...but not simpler...
Bridge Records/2011
Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Paul Mann; recorded at Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark, May 2009

SET ONE
John Cage: Five
The Number Pieces 6
Mode Records/2012
Essential Music -- blown bottles: Judith Gordon, Maya Gunji, John Kennedy, Eric Kivnick, Charles Wood; recorded at SUNY Purchase, May 1993

John Cage: Four⁶ (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set [various artists]
New World Records/2010
laptop: Paul DeMarinis; percussion, contact microphone, tape, live electronics, voice: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded 4/04/98 for the dance "Rondo," The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Morton Subotnick: 4 Butterflies -- Butterfly No. 1
Electronic Works Vol. 3
Mode Records/2011
for 4-track tape with two films (original mix 1973, new mix 2011)

SET THREE
James Correa: Spells
Portfolio
James Correa/2012
recorders: Luciane Cuervo; electronics: James Correa; recorded at Porto Alegre, Brazil

Eleanor Hovda: Borealis Music
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
Relâche Ensemble; recorded at Acoustical Concepts, Inc., Eddystone, Pennsylvania, 1991

SET FOUR
Philip Blackburn: Duluth Harbor Serenade
Ghostly Psalms
Innova Recordings/2012
sounds and instruments recorded at the DS Pride celebration, Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, Minnesota, Labor Day Weekend 2011

The Legendary Pink Dots: Oasis Malade
9 Lives to Wonder
Soleilmoon Recordings/1995

Sarah Peebles: White Powder/The Spider
Insect Groove
Cycling '74 Music Label/2002
voice: David Toop; sounds: Sarah Peebles; composed by Toop/Peebles

David Toop: Blind Eel Priestess
The Black Chamber
Sub Rosa/2003

SET FIVE
Paul Rudy: Degrees of Separation (Grandchild of Tree)
Toys in the Attic
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33 -- Electroacoustic Music
from the UMKC iMPACT Center [various artists]
Centaur Records/2002
amplified cactus: Nathan Davis; digital effects, tape, engineering: Paul Rudy

Paul Rudy: Tikkun Olam
Possible Worlds [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2011
electronics: Paul Rudy

Philip Mantione: HFone
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
samples, MAX/Msp "Headfuck" software: P. Mantione

SET SIX
Jonty Harrison: Unsound Objects
Articles Indefinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
composed at the composer's studio and the Electroacoustic Music Studios of The University of Birmingham; premiered in Banff, Alberta, 9/07/95

Victoria Fenner: Folded and Broken
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Arts Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
sounds recorded at Hogs Back Falls, Rideau River, Ottawa

Dan Stearns: Walking Woods
Golden Town
Spectropol Records/2011

SET SEVEN
Jerry Hunt: Transphalba
Lattice
CRI/1979

Jin Hi Kim and Joseph Celli: Types of Asia
No World Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1990
changgo: JHK drums; English horn (without reeds): Joseph Celli

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Martian Gardens for 01/22/2012

2012-01-24T14:55:00.003-05:00

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for January 22, 2012

With special guest: Craig Shepard
Also featuring: Dean Rosenthal, Jack Callahan, and Jeremy Starpoli

SINGLE PLAY
Trios with Christian Wolff: Track One
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, texts: Chris Mann, fretted and fretless electric guitars: Larry Polansky; recording, editing, processing: Tom Erbe; computer, electronics, recording: Douglas Repetto; piano, bass, percussion, melodics: C. Wolff; recorded in Hanover, NH, 1998

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Shepard: Grottes de L'Orbe, le 22 Juillet, 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser Records/2011
clarinet: Katie Porter

LIVE IN STUDIO
Craig Shepard: St. Cergue
pocket trumpet: Craig Shepard

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Shepard: Vallorbe, le 23 Juillet, 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser Records/2011
flute: Antoine Beuger; clarinet: Jürg Frey; cello: Marcus Kaiser; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit

LIVE IN STUDIO
Jack Callahan: Table Canons from Substantia Absolute Infinita
trombones: Craig Shepard, Jeremy Starpoli

SINGLE PLAY
Jürg Frey: from Chorals and vague canons
a. Choral 1
b. Choral 2
c. Canon 2
d. Canon 7
performed by the Peckinpah Trio --
electric guitar: Beat Keller, Christian Kobi: Saxophone; Craig Shepard: Trombone;
recorded at Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, 4/15/11

LIVE IN STUDIO
Larry Polansky: Christian Music
trombones: Craig Shepard, Jeremy Starpoli; melodica: Jack Callahan; electric guitar: Dean Rosenthal

SINGLE PLAY
Dean Rosenthal: I Think So Too
MIDI-programmed chapel organ; recorded in concert at Wesleyan University, 9/23/11

SINGLE PLAY
Jack Callahan: Toward (excerpt)
clarinet: Jürg Frey; cello: Stefan Thut; percussion: Jack Callahan; recorded at Boiler, Aarau, Switzerland, 6/07/11 6/07/2011

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Polansky
a. Study: Anna, the long and the short of it (from Three Anna Studies)
b. 51 Melodies
Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
a. voice: Anna Diamond Polansky; computer: L. Polansky; realized at the Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College; b. rock band -- electric guitars: L. Polansky, Nick Didkovsky; electric bass: Greg Anderson; drums: Leo Ciesa

SINGLE PLAY
Eleanor Hovda:
a. Shenai Sky
b. Recordings of an Ocean Cliff
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
shenai, oboe: Libby Van Cleve; electric guitar: Jack Vees; recorded at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bower, New York City

SINGLE PLAY
Somei Satoh: Sanyou
Sun Moon
New Albion Records/1994
shakuhachi: Akikazu Nakamura; jyunana-gen (seventeen string koto): Masako Kawamura; recorded at the Joyce Theater, New York City, January 1993

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Martian Gardens for 01/15/2012

2012-01-15T16:38:00.006-05:00

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 15, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Novella
Hyperrealism
Mutable Music/2003

SET ONE
Bang On A Can All-Stars: Sunray (D. Lang)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2011
cello: Ashley Bathgate; bass: Robert Black; piano: Vicky Chow; percussion: David Cossin; guitar: Mark Stewart; reeds: Evan Ziporyn; recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010

Marco Oppedisano: Kickstart
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars: M. Oppedisano

David Hahn: Charon Crosses the Styx
Your Time Is Up
David Hahn/2007
guitars: D. Hahn

SET TWO
Luciano Berio: O King
The Great Works for Voice
Mode Records/1995
Musician's Accord -- soprano: Christine Schadeberg; flute: Katherine Flanders Mukerji; clarinet: Sheldon Berkowitz; violin: Marshall Coid; cello: Ted Mook; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; conductor: Hayes Biggs; recorded at Sheppard Hall, City College of New York, 4/03/95

David Baker: Now That He is Safely Dead
Videmus -- Works by Anderson, Baker, Fox Wilson
New World Records/1992
Videmus chamber group; tenor: Willie Brown; director: Vivian Taylor; song from "Through This Vale of Tears" cycle; text: Carl Hines, "Now That He is Safely Dead"; recorded at the African American Meeting House, Boston, November 1991

Lou Harrison: Threnody
Rhymes with Silver
New Albion Records/2000
cello: Joan Jeanrenaud; violin: David Abel; viola: Benjamin Simon; piano: Julie Steinberg; percussion, vibraphone: William Winant; recorded at Fantasy Recordings; Berkeley, June 2000

Ingram Marshall: Entrada (At the River)
Evensongs
New Albion Records/1996
amplified strings: The Maia Quartet; recorded at SUNY Purchase, February 1996

SET THREE
James Corrêa: When I drift into my thoughts
Plural (Miranda/Corrêa)
Fumproarte/2002
recorded at the composer's studio in Rochester, New York, 1999, using Eduardo Reck Miranda's Chaosynth software

Brian Eno: Julie with...
Before and After Science
EG/1987 (orig. 1977)

Brian Eno: Emerald and Stone
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Warp Records/2010

Ned Bouhalassa: from mOrpheus
a. Orpheus' First Dream
b. Orpheus Wakes Up
Gratte-cité
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
sounds recorded in Québec and Berlin, realized at the composer's studio in Montréal, premiered at Elektra, Usine C, Montréal, 11/15/03

SET FOUR
Philip Mantione: Depth of Field
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
based on field recordings of "hoot" owls, Riverside, California, 3:00 a.m. 11/21/11

Alvin Lucier: Vespers (excerpt)
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
recorded in 1969 with the Environ-Ears Recording System designed by Listening Incorporated, Arlington, Mass.

David Dunn: Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond (edit)
Earth Ear Radio Volume 2 -- Winter 2002 [various artists]
EarthEar/2002

Gen Ken Montgomery: Bath Drain
Pondfloorsample
XI Records/2002

Rain Forest Pygmies: Honey-Gathering Song (field recording)
Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies of the North East Congo
Lyrichord/1992
recorded in the Ituri rainforest by Colin M. Turnbull, 1961

SET FIVE
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A Political Prisoner's Dream IV (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
recorded at York University, 1970s

Morton Subotnick: Until Spring -- Revisited
Electronic Works Vol. 3
Mode Records/2011
live electronics: M. Subotnick; live electronics, glass harp: Miguel Frasconi; recorded live at Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco, 4/06/07; original composition: 1975

Maggi Payne: Glassy Metals
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010

SET SIX
Bun-Ching Lam: ...Like Water (1st 1/2)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
violin: Jeanne-Marie Conquer; piano: Dimitri Vassilakis; percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg, Germany

Tod Machover: ...but not simpler...
...but not simpler...
Bridge Records/2011
iO Quartet; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 12/23/09

SINGLE PLAY
Bun-Ching Lam: ...Like Water (further excerpt)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
violin: Jeanne-Marie Conquer; piano: Dimitri Vassilakis; percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg, Germany

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 01/08/2012

2012-01-07T17:01:00.003-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for January 8, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Deep Listening Band: Invocation
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
DLB; voice: Julie Lyon Balliet; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, New York, 1993-1994

SET ONE
Charles Dodge: Folia
Music for Computers, Electronic Sound and Players
CRI/1974
ensemble conducted by Jacques-Louis Monod

Charles Dodge: Violin Variations I-IV
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
violin: Baird Dodge

SET TWO
Little Bang Theory: Toy Suite #5
Toy Suites and Themes
Tranmogrification/2011
toys, whistling, voice: F. Pahl; toys, voice: Terri Sarris; toys, drums, voice: Doug Shimmin

Ge Gan-Ru: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Lost Style
New Albion Records/2006
voice, toy orchestra: Margaret Leng Tan; text: Lu You; recorded at Classic Sound, New York City, 8/10/06

SET THREE
Philip Mantione: Social Immune System
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
based on field recordings at an Occupy LA Protest, 10/15/11; premiered at Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona

Brian Eno & David Byrne:
a. Help Me Somebody
b. Come with Us
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Nonesuch/2006 (orig. 1981)
instruments, objects, samples: Byrne/Eno with(a.) congas, metals: Steve Scales; drums: John Cooksey; recorded 1979-1980 at various locations

Musci-Venosta: The Snout in the Dark
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
treated voice, percussion, gamelan, kanun, nadaswaram, clarinet, kalimba, musical tube, Japanese market field recordings: Giovanni Venosta, Roberto Musci; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, 1991-1992

SET FOUR
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Goma Arábica
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recorded in 1995 at University of Edinburgh Electroacoustic Music Studios; orchestra: The Contemporary Music Group, conductor: Steve Davismoon

Mother Tongue: The Voice and The Ear
Touch.Sampler
Touch/1997
Mother Tongue: Andrew McKenzie, Dorothea Franck, Z'ev; recorded at Suitcase Studios, London, 1987

Sarah Peebles: 10 Below
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Arthur Gottschalk: Phase 59
60 x 60 2006-2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008

Sarah Peebles: Lift
Deep Wireless 5 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Chris Watson: Lemon-Rumped Tinkerbird
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch/1998
recorded in the Cameroon rain forest, June, 1997

Hsiao-Lan Wang: A Golden Leaf Drifts Downstream
Electroacoustic Works
Hsiao-Lan Wang/2003
for two tinkliks (Indonesian xylophones), and computer

SET FIVE
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape # 1
The Percussion Works I
Mode Records/2011
for two variable-speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano, and cymbal; performed by Joey Van Hassel; recorded at Robert J Werner Concert Hall, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 6/12/08

Alexei Borisov: My Voices
Polished Surface of a Table
Electroshock Records/2004

Øystein Kapperud: Leland Wrapped in Plastic
The Wire Tapper 26 [various artists]
The Wire magazine/2011

Chris Watson: Adult Cheetah
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch/1998
recorded in Pamuzinda, Zimbabwe, June, 1994

Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde [various artists]
Pogus Productions/2009
realized at Tangent Studio, London and the Electronic Music Studio, University of London, Goldsmith College; original release: Source Record No. 6; Source Records journal Vol. 5, No. 1, 1971

SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Dempster: Standing Waves 78/87
In The Great Abbey Of Clement VI
New Albion Records/1987
trombone, tape playback: S. Dempster; recorded at Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, California, 5/21/78

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 01/01/2012

2012-01-01T17:32:00.003-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for January 1, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Godfrey Winham: NP (Two Pieces for Computer-Synthesized Sound)
a. NP I
b. NP II
Computer Works [various artists]
CRI/1978
realized at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory at Princeton University, 1972

SET ONE
Hideko Kawamoto: Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly
Sonic Circuits VII [various artists]
Innova Recordings/1999

Morton Subotnick: Butterfly No. 3
Until Spring: Revisited; 4 Butterflies
Mode Records/2011
composition for 4-Channel tape (original mix 1973; new mix 2011)

Morton Subotnick: And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
New World Records/1997
The Amernet String Quartet; double bass: Bleda Elibal; MIDI keyboard: James Tocco; computer program: M. Subotnick; recorded at Corbett Studios, Cincinnati

SET TWO
James Corrêa: Danças & Intermezzi
a. Meta-Funk
b. Mirror of Sand
c. Winter Dance
d. Mirror of Granite
e. Circle of Fire
Plural [Corrêa/Miranda]
Fumproarte/2002
piano: Catarina Domenici; electronics: J.Corrêa; recorded at PUC Auditorium, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002

Ricardo Dal Farra: ...Due Giorni Dopo
Travels of the Spider -- Electroacoustic Music from Argentina [various artists]
Pogus Productions/1998
composed and produced at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of Padova's University, Italy, 1988; premiered at Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 1988

John Cage: Excerpt from Voiceless Essay
Ghosts and Monsters
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music --
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/Leonardo Music Journal/1998
vocalizations derived from a recitation of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), Henry David Thoreau; composition for for four computer-generated tapes, first performance 11/21/86, San Francisco, with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (dance: Points in Space); first broadcast BBC2, 7/18/87

SET THREE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Robotapithecos
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recorded at Tempo Reale Centre, Italy

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Rapports bruit/signal (éclats d’égalité)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at at the Studio 116C of Ina-GRM, Paris, and the composer's studio, Huddersfield, UK, 2009; premiered at the Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France, 12/06/09

John Bischoff: Override
The Lab 20th Anniversary CD [various artists]
The Lab/2004

Leo Kupper: Sabratrana (from Rezas Populares Do Brasil)
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/1999
mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; bass: Eduardo Janho-Abumrad; electronics: Leo Kupper; recorded in Brussels

SET FOUR
Richard Lainhart: Staring at the Moon
Ten Thousand Shades of Blue
XI Records/2001
bowed and struck vibraphone; interactive computer music system; recorded at SUNY Albany Electronic Music Studio and O-Town Media

In memory of Richard Lainhart, February 14, 1953 -- December 30, 2011

Paul Dresher: Chorale Times Two (from Concerto for Violin & Electro-Acoustic Band)
Cage Machine
New Albion Records/2004
violin soloist: David Abel; Electro-Acoustic Band -- keyboard: Phil Aaberg; bassoon: Paul Hanson; electric guitar: Paul Dresher; mallet percussion: Amy Knoles; recorded at the Dresher Ensemble studios, September 1999

SET FIVE
Meehan/Perkins Duo: Observations (T. Perich)
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; 1-bit microchip music program: Tristan Perich; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010

Sō Percussion: Drumming, Part Three (S. Reich)
Steve Reich -- Drumming
Cantaloupe Music/2005
recorded at the Hit Factory and Sony Music Studios, New York City, November 2004

SET SIX
Chaya Czernowin: Ina
Afatsim -- Chamber Music
Mode Records/1999
flute soloist and prerecorded flutes: John Fonville; recorded at the University of California, San Diego

Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster/Panaiotis: Nike
Deep Listening
New Albion Records/1989
conch shell, mouthpiece whistling, trombone, voice: Dempster; conch shell, metal pieces, voice: Oliveros; metal pieces, pipes, voice: Panaiotis; recorded in Fort Worden Cistern, Port Townsend, Washington, 1988

SET SEVEN
Frank Pahl: The Ice House
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011

Jin Hi Kim: No World Improvisations
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
komungo: Jin Hi Kim; Senegalese djambey: Mor Thiam; Australian didgeridoo: Adam Plack; double reed, mukhaveena: Joseph Celli; performed at American Music Week, Bonn, Germany

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/18/2011

2011-12-17T19:11:00.007-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for December 18, 2011

SET ONE
Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music [Randall/Vercoe/Dodge]
Nonesuch/1974
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Barry Vercoe: Synapse for Viola and Computer
Computer Works [Winham/Vercoe/Hoffman/Gressel]
CRI/1978
viola: Marcus Thompson; realized at the M.I.T. Experimental Electronic Music Studio

Frances White: A veil barely seen
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen; electroacoustics: F. White

SET TWO
Charles Dodge: Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
New Albion Records/1992
tenor: Enrico Caruso (sourced from Ruggerio Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci," aria: "Vesti la Giuba"); piano: Alan Feinberg

ZNR: Seynette
Barricade 3
ReR Megacorp/1994 (orig. 1977)
synthesizer, voice: Hector Zazou; piano: Joseph Racaille; violin: Gilly Bell; bass clarinet: Patrick Portella; flute: David Rueff; tenor saxophone: Andre Jaume; recorded at Gilly Bell's studio, Ventabren (Bouches-du-Rhône), France, January 1976

Hervé Zénouda: Reflets Fauves
Demain, dès l'aube...
Trace Label/2002
electric guitar: Thomas Petit; piano, percussion, electronics: H. Zénouda; recorded at Sudio de la Rotonde, Châtenay-Malabry, France

Arie Shapira: Ex Machina
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004
guitar: Ruben Serussi; electronic tape: Arie Shapira; recorded in Israel

SET THREE
Elainie Lillios: Listening Beyond...
Entre espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studio of the Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, 2007; premiered at the High Voltage concert in the Recital Hall at Louisiana State University, 12/03/07

Sarah Peebles: Nocturnal Premonitions
Music from Nature [various artists]
Terra Nova/1997

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme,
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recored at the Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music Studio, France, 2001

SET FOUR
James Corrêa: O jardim dos caminhos que se bifurcam
Plural [Corrêa & Miranda]
Fumproarte/2002
classical guitar, electronics: J. Corrêa; recorded at the Dreher Studio, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002

Adolfo Núñez: Jurel
Electroacoustic Music CD-R
Adolfo Núñez/2004
musique concrete sourced from flamenco performances; recorded at the studio of Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges, France, 1993

Alfredo Lagos/Giovanni Venosta/Massimo Mariani: Estudio sobre el ritmo
Metamorphoses
ReR Megacorp/1999
Spanish guitar: A. Lagos; treatments, engineering: G. Venosta, M. Mariani; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, July 1997

SET FIVE
Marco Capelli and Sintax Error: Selections from
In the Shadow of No Towers
a. The Flag
b. Maus 1
c. Maus 2
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narrator: John Turturro; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; recorded at Musicisti Associati, Naples, 2008 and Harvestworks, New York City, 2011

Heiner Goebbels: Selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 2: Gertrude Stein texts
a. Just Like That
b. On the Road
c. And We Said Goodbye
d. On the Radio
e. Different Nations
f. Out Where the West Begins*/Train Travelling
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten [Landscape with Distant Relatives]
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; SWR Baden-Baden
*music and lyrics: Arthur Chapman (1917)

Little Bang Theory: Dmitri Rides Again
Toy Suites and Themes
Transmogrification/2011
toys, whistling: F. Pahl; toys, voice: Terri Sarris; toys, drums: Dough Shimmin

Tom Waits: Russian Dance
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
Emax strings: Tom Waits; cello: Matt Brubeck; viola: Linda Deluca; bass: Bill Douglas; boots: Kathleen Brennan, Clive Butters, Tom Waits, Francis Thumm, Joe Marquez; recorded at Prairie Sun Recording Studios, Cotati, California

Tom Waits: Poor Little Lamb
Orphans -- Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Anti-/2006
performed by Tom Waits (voice, accordion); originally appearing in the 1987 motion picture "Ironweed"

Frank Pahl: The Mid-Century Modern Waltz
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
upright Vose piano, various noise-making objects: F. Pahl

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: Return -- A Triumph of Reason, part I
a. Beginning of the Universe
b. Earth, the beginning of our solar system
c. Descending Dance
d. Chord dance: Dance of Destruction
e. 12 b.c.
f. Comet
g. Giotto
h. 1862--Halley
i. CODA--return
j. D Major
The Key to Songs
New Albion Records/1986
Yamaha Computer Assisted Music Systems: M. Subotnick; recorded at the Enterprise, Burbank, California

SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Anticredos (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
performed by Songcircle, director: Gregory Rose; recorded in the Music Center, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March/April, 1982

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/11/2011

2011-12-10T15:34:00.010-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for December 11, 2011

HAPPY 103rd BIRTHDAY, ELLIOTT CARTER! DECEMBER 11, 1908

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 2/12/09

SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Sound Fields
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Oliver Knussen; recorded at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh, England, 6/20/09

Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano and Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
The Arditti Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY Purchase, 12/07/98

SET TWO
John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion Records/1994
prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 1993

Ingram Marshall: Introduction
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1991
piano, synthesizer: I. Marshall

Philip Glass: Metamorphosis Two
Solo Piano
CBS/1989
piano: P. Glass

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro
a. Kunsonoro kaj Gloro
b. Strofo 1
c. Strofo 2
d. Strofo 3
e. Strofo 4
f. Strofo 5
g. Strofo 6
h. Strofo 7
i. Mantro kaj Konsonoro
New Albion Records/1988
The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of the University of California at Berkeley, director: Philip Brett; text: the Heart Sūtra; harp: Karen Gottlieb; organ: Agnes Sauerbeck; American Gamelan -- Don R. Baker, Scott Evans, Gino Robari Forlin, Todd Manley, Peter Thielen; director: William Winant; gamelan builder: William Colvig; technician: Ron Engel; recorded at Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, November 7-8, 1987

SET THREE
Heiner Goebbels: selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 1: Gertrude Stein texts
a. The Sirens
b. In the 19th Century
c. Well Anyway
d. Did It Really Happen?
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; tonmeister: Max Federhofer, SWR Baden-Baden

John Young: selections from Ricordiamo Forlì
a. In Piazza Saffi
b. Interlude I
c. Bitter Storm
d. Ancient Tear
Lieu-temps
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
narrator: Franco Bianchini; text (Ancient Tear): Giosuè Carducci, "Pianto Antico." "Ricordiamo Forlì" was realized in 2005 in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and premiered on Radio New Zealand’s ConcertFM program, 7/25/06.

SET FOUR
Charles Amirkhanian: Church Car, Version 2
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voices: C. Amirkhanian, Anthony J. Gnazzo; recorded at California State University, Hayward, 1980

Pamela Z: 50 (for Charles Amirkhanian)
A Delay is Better
Starkland Records/2004
voice: Pamela Z

Daniel Lentz: You Can't See the Forest...Music
Cold Blue [various artists]
Cold Blue Music/2002 (orig. 1984)
for three speaker-drinkers, three malleted wine glasses, and red wine, cascading echo system; performers: D. Lentz, Garry Eister, Stan Carey

Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (Matthews/Ping/Klucevsek)
Play Nice
O.O. Dics/1999
voice: Jon Smith; gopichan: Eve Beglarian; text: adapted from a Chinese tea package: arr. Eve Beglarian recorded at Baby Monster, New York City

Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 1
b. Northern Lights 2
Facing North
ECM Records/1992
voice, piano, organ, pitch pipe: M. Monk; voice, pitch pipe: Robert Een; recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, April 1992

SET FIVE
James Tenney: Beast
Modern American Bass [various artists]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts; August 2006

James Tenney: Percussion Response (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Inderterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, February 2007

SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Postal Pieces
New World Records/2004
percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in the Netherlands, 2003

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/04/2011

2011-12-04T16:37:00.004-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for December 4, 2011

SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Look She Said (I-V)
Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass)
Mode Records/2002
bass, voice: Robert Black; recorded at Millard Auditorium, Hartt School, University of Hartford; 1/04/00

Joseph Iadone: Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
a. Con moto
b. Adagio
c. Scherzo
Modern American Bass [various composers]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; piano: John McDonald; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, August, 2006

SET TWO
Arthur Kreiger: Dance for Sarah
Electronic Works [Kreiger/Matthews/Tanenbaum]
New World Records - CRI/1982
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1976

Arthur Kreiger: Voyage
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
Buchla Synthesizers, electronics; premiered at the WBAI Free Music Store, NYC, 10/10/76

Péter Eötvös: Electrochronicle (Session: June 8, 1974)
Electrochronicle
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
stereo tape, live session recorded by WDR in 1974; electronics, electric organ: Péter Eötvös; electric organ: Mesias Maiguashca

Roxanne Turcotte: from Musée sonore (Sound Museum)
a. Est-ce que je rêve? (Am I Dreaming?)
b. Télé réalité (Reality TV)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at Productions RTM, 2003-2004, for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005

SET THREE
Mark Applebaum: Scipio Wakes Up (and Smells the Coffee)
Intellectual Property
Innova Recordings/2006
for 6 electroacoustic sound-sculptures (the Micro Mice), with electronic drumset, electronic marimba, violin, and bassoon; performance: The Paul Dresher Ensemble; electronic keyboards and sound sculptures: Phil Aaberg, Paul Dresher; violin and sound sculptures: Craig Fry; bassoon and sound sculptures: Paul Hanson; electronic marimba and sound sculptures: Amy Knoles; electronic drumset and sound sculptures: Gene Reffkin; recorded live at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, 4/20/96 and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 5/31/96

Mark Applebaum: Scipio ReMix
The Janus ReMixes -- Excercises in Auto-Plundering
Innova Recordings/1999
computer processing: Mark Applebaum

Herbert Brün: Wayfaring Sounds
Wayfaring Sounds -- Compositions for Instruments with Tape
Electrnic Music Foundation/1998
recorded at the Siemens Studio for electronic music, Munich, 1962

SET FOUR
Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta: Rozart
Digital Music
Mode Records/1990
electronics: E. Pimenta; sourced voice: Enrico Caruso; realized during E. Pimenta's participation on the Loop Committee for a performance of John Cage's Rozart Mix in New York City, 1989

Jorge Antunes: Hombres Tristes...*
Música Electroacústica Brasileira Vol. II [various artists]
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/1999
computers, synthesizer: J. Antunes; recorded at the Laboratorio de informática y electrónica Musical, CDMC, Madrid, summer 1998
*full title: Hombres Tristes Y Sin Titulo Rodeados De Pajaros En Noche Amarilla, Violeta Y Naranja [inspired by Joan Miró]

SET FIVE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba I
Southern Cones -- Music Out of Africa and South America
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
realized in at the University of York, 1990

Drew Krause: Lounge Hell
Powder
Innova Recordings/2007
realized in 2001, mastered at Legacy Sound, New Rochelle, September 2005

Barbara Held: The Well
Power and Responsibility: Converted to Streaming Between Machines
Leonardo Music Journal Volume 9 [various artists]
Electronic Music Foundation/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Blends
Blends
New Albion Records/2002
shakuhachi: Katsuya Yokoyama; Micromoog and Polymoog synthesizers: R. Teitelbaum; tabla and percussion: Trilok Gurtu; recorded at A&R Studios, New York City, 1983

SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Golem I
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 2 [various artists]
iEAR Studios at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1988
computer music performance system: R. Teitelbaum; realized 1987

--FIN-

Martian Gardens for 11/27/2011

2011-11-27T16:33:00.005-05:00

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for November 27, 2011

SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Palace Music (from Suite for National Steel Guitar)
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California 7/15/04

John Schneider/Just Strings: Three Intrusions [H. Partch]
I. The Rose
II. The Crane
III. The Waterfall
Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003
Adapted Guitar, voice: John Schneider; Diamond Marimba: Gene Sterling; texts: Ella Young (I, III), Tsurayuki (II)

Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Timbres Artificiales
Fragments of the Past
New Albion Records/2004
guitar: Jaime Marquez; recorded at Mahler Sound, Miami, Florida, April 2003

SET TWO
Dan Joseph: Wind Patterns
Tonalization (for the Afterlife)
Mutable Music/2011
hammer dulcimer: Dan Joseph; flute: Leah Paul; recorded at Spin Studios, Long Island City; July 2010

Martin Bresnick:
a. Farandula de Politicos -- Contra el Bien General
b. Farandula de Populacho
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, New Haven, 4/02/09

Larry Polansky: Rue Plats (Resting Place) (for Ben Johnston)
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
guitars: Toon Callier; harp: Jutta Troch; live guitar tuning, percussion: Jeroen Stevens; voice: W. Victor; text, melody: Morris Rosenfeld

Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
text: Federico Garcia Lorca, "Bodas de Sangre" (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 1995

SET THREE
Peter Zummo: Fresh Batteries
Experimenting with Household Chemicals
XI Records/1995
trombone, voice: Peter Zummo; amplified cello, keyboard bass, voice: Arthur Russell; marimba, voice: Bill Ruyle; recorded at various locations 1987-1991

Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975

Piero Milesi: Avanti La Tre
Within Himself
Cuneiform Records/2000
programming, keyboards: P. Milesi; sound effects, video: Luca Scarzella; recorded at Deffenu Recording Studio, Milan, 1991

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
vocals, trumpet: Susan Watts, clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontorovich; violin, vocals: Amy Zakar; bass, vocals: Heather Chriscaden Versace; tenor sax, alto sax: Audrey Betsy Welber; trumpet: Ben Holmes; piano: Adrian Banner; drums: Gregg Mervine; samples: The Klez Dispensers

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba X
Desde El Otro Lado -- Electroacoustic from Latin America (various artists)
O.O. Discs/1998

Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008
premiered in 1970 at the Osaka World's Fair for the Federation of Iron and Steel Companies' pavilion

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Les trois petits c… (A Woman in Berlin)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2010 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio in Ohain (Belgium) and at the composer’s studio and premiered on May 25, 2011; premiered at Trois visages des musiques électroacoustiques: musique électroacoustique et videomusique, Espace Senghor, Brussels

SET FIVE
Ragnar Grippe: Musique Douze
International Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records - CRI/1976
realized at Electronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm, 1975

Lisa Moore: Machine-like, but with some groove (A. Gosfield)
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010

SET SIX
Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms -- The Nerve Events Project (various artists)
Cuneiform Records/1993

Ingram Marshall: Gradual Requiem, Part 3
Fog Tropes
New Albion Records/1988 (orig. 1984)
mandolin: Foster Reed; voice, piano, Serge Modular synthesizer: I. Marshall; recorded at Möbius Studio, San Francisco

Otto Luening: Synthesis for Orchestra and Electronic Sound
Music of Riegger, McPhee & Luening
New World Records - CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor; electronics realized on the RCA synthesizer, synchronized at the Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center (1960)

SINGLE PLAY
Salvatore Martirano: Sampler -- Everything Goes When the Whistle Blows
a. Goes
b. Bnkquan 3
c. Drm 18.3
d. Add 1
e. Whistle, Train, Harpbird
f. BS 2Bak
g. End 1 Go
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 3 [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios and Computer Music Project at
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Centaur Records/1989
yahaSALmaMAC MIDI orchestra: S. Martirano; Zeta violin: Dorothy Martirano; recorded at the University of Illinois School of Music, 1989

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 11/20/2011

2011-11-19T18:21:00.007-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for November 20, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely

SET ONE
Haydée Schvartz: An Tasten (A Piano Study)[M. Kagel]
New Piano Music from Europe and The Americas
Mode Records/1993
piano: H. Schvartz; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, January 1992

David Lang: Cello (in memory of Anna Cholakian)
This Was Written by Hand
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: D. Lang; recorded at the Royal College of Music, London, January 2011

Anna Thorvoldsdottir: Hidden -- Rain
Rhízōma
Innova Recordings/2011
percussionist on grand piano: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Music Studios, San Diego

Lisa Moore: Languid and Layered [A. Gosfield]
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010

Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 2
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Steven Sehlman; recorded at Studio 508, University of Baltimore County, May 2008

SET TWO
Daria Semegen: Vignette
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 [various artists]
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Cathy Callis; recorded at Springer Hall, CUNY Staten Island, July 1999

Daria Semegen: Spectra (Electronic Composition No. 2)
Satan's Sermon and Other Electronic Fantasies [various artists]
New World Records - CRI/1980
realized at the Electronic Music Studio, SUNY Stony Brook

Ursula Mamlok: Kontraste
a. Humoresque
b. Largo e mesto
Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; harp: Ursula Holliger; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Köln Kammermusikaal

SET THREE
Meredith Monk: Autumn Variation
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
Todd Reynolds String Quartet; alto saxophone: Bohdan Hilash; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009

Meredith Monk: Do You Be
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, organ: M. Monk; recorded at Schaubuhne am Hallesches Ufer, Berlin, July 1980

Meredith Monk: Mapping
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: M. Monk, Ching Gonzalez; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009

Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
voice, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusik Festival, Berlin, 10/22/78

SET FOUR
Elainie Lillios: Threads
Entre Espaces [Between Spaces]
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
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 in Montréal, 11/13/98

Roxanne Turcotte: Moteur, on tourne![from Musée sonore]
Désordres DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," presented at Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005

Alvin Lucier: Sferics
Sferics and Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
radio signals for composition recorded at Church Park, Colorado, 8/27/81

David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees [excerpt]
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
sound frequencies for composition recorded inside pinyon pine trees, New Mexico, 2005

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Cartridge Music/11 Instruments
a CAGE of saxophones -- The Works For Saxophone Volumes 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
intersax -- soprano saxophone, artistic director: Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone: Martin Losert, tenor saxophone: Tobias Rüger, baritone saxophone: Reimar Volker; guests -- violin: Burkhard Schlothauer; viola: Johannes Platz; cello: Ulrich Maiß; contrabass: Alexander Frangenheim; piano: Michael Iber; accordion: Gerhard Scherer; percussion: Andreas Peters; recorded at several locations, mastered at the π-Farm, 2004

SET FIVE
François Bayle: Staccato (from Sept Preludes)
Camera Obscura and Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000
recorded at Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris, 1976, revised 2000

Mel Powell: Events for Tape Recorder
Music for Electronic & Older Instruments [Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell]
New World Records - CRI/1968
actors: Mildred Dunnock, Lee Bowman, Martha Scott; text: Hart Crane, "Legend" recorded 1963

Mel Powell: Immobiles (for chamber ensemble with tape)
Settings
New World Records/2003
California EAR Unit -- cello: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, violin: Robin Lorentz, flute: Dorothy Stone, piano: Vicki Ray, clarinet: Marty Walker, percussion: Amy Knoles; recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios, Burbank, California, December 2001

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Fatehpur (excerpt)
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 11/13/2011

2011-11-13T15:01:00.008-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for November 13, 2011

SET ONE
David Lang: Cage (In Memory of John Cage) [from Memory Pieces]
This Was Written by Hand
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Andrew Zolinsky; recorded at the Royal College of Music, London, January 2011

Alexander Berne & The Abandoned Orchestra: Flicker IV
Flickers of Mime -- The Death of Memes
Innova Recordings/2011

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Hrím
Rhízōma
Innova Recordings/2011
The CAPUT Ensemble, conductor: Snorri Sigfús Birgisson; recorded at Guðriðarkirkja, Reykjavik

SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Intersection I [1951]
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchrestra, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, November 2010

Colin McPhee: Nocturne [1958]
Riegger/Luening/Mcphee
New World Records - CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor

SET THREE
Pierre Alexandere Tremblay: Ces énigmes lumineuses
Quelques reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the studio of Miso Music Portugal, Lisbon; premiered at the Musica Viva Festival, Instituto Franco-Português, Lisbon, 9/23/10

Davíð Brynjar Franzson: The Principals of Order
A Guide for the Dead through the Underworld
Carrier Records - Deutschlandradio Kultur /2011
performed by Ensemble Adaptor

SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: The Story of Our Lives [1973-1974]
I. We are reading the story of our lives (a)
II. We are reading the story of our lives (b)
III. This morning I woke and believed
IV. Before you woke
V. If only there were a perfect moment in the book
VI. The day goes on
VII. The book will not survive
Synthesized Voices
New World Records - CRI/1976
voice synthesis and text: C. Dodge; realized at the Columbia University Center for Computing Activities and Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University

SET FOUR
Marco Capelli & Sintax Error: from In the Shadow of No Towers
a. TV News
b. Burning Tower I
c. Burning Tower II
d. Burning Tower III
e. Burning Tower IV
f. Finale
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narration: John Turturro; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; concept: M. Capelli; Sintax Error -- guitars, music box, live electronics: M. Capelli; keyboards, live electronics: Daniele Ledda; drums, percussion: Roberto Pelligrini; recorded at Musicisi Associati, Naples (2008); Harvestworks, New York City (2011)

Eve Beglarian: Landscaping for Privacy
Tell the Birds
New World Records/2006
voice, electronics: Eve Beglarian

Paul Burnell: Orange Juice
Deep Wireless 4 - Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2007

Mendi + Keith Obadike: Rodeo Red
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009

SET FIVE
Charles Amhirkhanian: Hypothetical Moments
Mental Radio
New World Records - CRI/1985
voice, ocarina, bells: C. Amhirkhanian; harpsichord (samples): Dennis Russell-Davies; recorded at New Wilderness Foundation, NYC, October 1981

John Giorno: Give It to Me, Baby
10+12:12 American Text Sound Pieces [various artists]
Other Minds/2003 [orig. 1975]
voice: Victoria Smitters; recorded at Giorno's studio, NYC (1967), Moog synthesizer processing: Robert Moog, Trumansberg, NY (1967)

Erik Belgum: Dick Tracy All Over His Body
The Aerial #4 - A Journal in Sound [various artists]
Nonseqitur/1994

Beth Anderson:
a. Yes Sir Ree
b. I Can't Stand It
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voice, texts: B. Anderson; percussion (a): Michael Blair; percussion (b): Wharton Tiers

SET SIX
David Behrman: Statement Against the War
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
voice: Thomas Buckner; trumbone: Peter Zummo; keyboards, electronics:
D. Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton

David Felder: November Sky
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute: Rachel Rudich; computer sounds realized at SUNY Buffalo; recorded at UC San Diego

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/23/2011

2011-10-22T16:42:00.005-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for October 23, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky:
a. Once
b. Jubilate
To Know and Not to Know
Tzadik/2007
a. soprano: Martha Cluver; b. soprano: Beth Griffith, vocal samples: Thomas Buckner

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Voice and Instruments
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
soprano: Martha Cluver; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, November 2010

SET ONE
Craig Shepard: Crêt de la Neuve, le 20 juillet 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser/2011
melodica: Christian Wolff

Sarah Peebles: Blue Moon Spirit
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
shō: Kō Ishikawa; recorded at Studio 246, Tokyo, 4/04/95

Philip Mantione: Valuri
Compilation for Max
P.M./2006
computer music for the installation "Wet Sounds" by Joel Cahen

Charles Wuorinen: ♩=60 (mvt. I. Concerto for Amplified Violin and Orchestra)
The Golden Dance
Albany Records/2004
violin: Paul Zukofsky; Radio-Sinfonie-Orchestra Frankfurt, conductor: Eliahu Inbal; recorded for Hessischer Rundfunk, February 1975

SET TWO
Denis Smalley: Pentes
Sources/scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustics; Northumbrian pipes: uncredited; realized at Ina-GRM, Paris, 1974; premiered at Auditorium 104 — Maison de Radio France, 3/20/75

Roxanne Turcotte:
a. Bourdons enjoués [Cheerful drones]
b. Delirium
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
a. electroacoustics; bagpipes, Breton bombard: Michael Dubeau; realized at the composer's studio; premiered at Festival Synthèse, Bourges, Cher, France, June 2004; b. electroacoustics, realized at the composer's studio; Électro-chocs 4: Travaux électroniques féminins, Salle multimédia — Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, 3/20/11

SET THREE
Ursula Mamlok: Five Capriccios
I. ♪=100
II. ♪=112
III. ♪=92
IV. ♩=104
V. ♪=54
Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; piano: Anton Kernjak; recorded at Radiostudio, Zurich, Switzerland, 2/12/11

Lydia Kavina:
a. Free Music No. 1 (P. Grainger, for four theremins, 1936)
b. Free Music No. 2 (P. Grainger, for six theremins, 1937)
c. Beatless Music (P. Grainger, for six theremins, 1937
Spellbound! Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
theremins: L. Kavina; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, 7/10/00

Otto Luening: Fantasy in Space
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
created at the home of Henry Cowell, Woodstock, NY, 1952

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Track 2 (Suite from "No Exit")
Film Music
New World Records/1990
musique concrète from the film of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit," directed by Orson Welles, 1962; produced by the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Ernö Király: The Sky (Nebo)
Phoenix -- The Music of Ernö Király (Király Ernö)
ReR Megacorp/1995
voice: uncredited; tape: K. Ernö; text: Stevan Raickovic; recorded in Hungary, 1961

Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: Wilma Smith; psaltery, organ, electronics: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard Electronic Music Studio, fall 1981

SET FOUR
J. C. Combs: Trinity 666 - The Last Train to Hell
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
created by J.C. Combs for ImprovFriday

White Noise: The Black Mass -- An Electric Storm in Hell
An Electric Storm
Island Records/1968
electronics: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson, David Vorhaus; percussion: Paul Lytton; vocals: John Whitman, Annie Bird, Val Shaw; recorded at Kaleidophon Studio, Camden Town, 1968

Barton McLean: Demons of the Night
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizers, computers: B. McLean; saxophone "horror licks": Albert Regini

SET FIVE
Ingram Marshall: Holy Ghosts
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2002
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve; live digital delay processing: I. Marshall

Eleanor Hovda: Glacier Track
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve; electric bass: Jack Vees; designed for performance in St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, NYC, acoustics replicated using the Soundfield SPS 422 Studio Microphone System and Lexicon Nuverb Processor, engineer: Arthur Bloom

SINGLE PLAY
Bun Ching-Lam: Lü (Journey)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkundemuseum, Heidelberg, Germany

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/16/2011

2011-10-16T18:37:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for October 16, 2011

SET ONE
Syntax Error:
a. Nadja's Story 1
b. Nadja's Story 2
c. Nadja's Story 3
d. In the Shadow of No Towers
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narrator: John Turturro; composer (a-d): Daniele Ledda; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; concept: Marco Capelli; recorded at Musicisti, Naples, 2008; Harvestworks, NYC, 2011

Itsnotyouitsme:
It might be a good time to leave this place and go mingle with our heroes
Everybody's Pain is Magnificent
New Amsterdam Records/2011
electric violin, casio sk-1, resonator guitar, effects, voice: Caleb Burhans; electric guitar, acoustic guitar, oud, fender rhodes, effects, voice: Grey McMurray; recorded at Glowing Ocean Studios, Clinton Studios, NYC

SET TWO
Lou Harrison: Serenade for Guitar
a. Round
b. Air
c. Infinite Canon
d. Usul -- Little Homage to Sinan
e. Sonata
Serenado
New Albion Records/2003
guitar: David Tanenbaum; percussion: William Winant (d. Gong, e. finger cymbals, medium drums, e. medium drums)

Lou Harrison: Suite No. 2
a. Jahla in the form of Ductia
b. Adagio, arioso
c. Sonata in Cm
d. A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen
e. Beverly's Troubadour Piece
f. Interview with Harrison and Schneider on Guitar (1981)
Por Gitaro -- Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
guitars, National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; a.-e. recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California, 7/05/04

SET THREE
Lou Harrison: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel
Por Gitaro -- Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harvey Mudd College, Pomona, California, 5/06/07

Bill Alves: Elegy for Lou Harrison
Imbal-Imbalan -- New Music for Gamelan
Spectral Harmonies/2010
HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; cello: Roger Lebow; recorded at Harvey Mudd College

SET FOUR

In memoriam David Gamper 1945 -- 2011

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

Deep Listening Band: Oliveros Gamper Duet
Tosca Salad
Deep Listening/1995
recorded at Trinity Methodist flute, trombone, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper; Church, Kingston, NY, 10/27/94

Zanana: Ghost Dog
Holding Patterns
Deep Listening/2005
trombone, didjeridu, conch, processing: Monique Buzzarté; voice, laptop: Kristin Nordeval; Expanded Instrument System: David Gamper; recorded at Harvestworks Digital Media, NYC

SET FIVE
Deep Listening Band: Metalorgy
The Ready-Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1992
small pipes, metal pieces: Stuart Dempster; voice, long tones: Thomas Eckert; small pipes, metal pieces: Pauline Oliveros; large pipes, metal pieces, voice accents: Panaiotis; recorded at the Cistern Chapel, Ft. Worden Cistern, Olympic Peninsula, WA, February 1990

Chris Brown: Iceberg (for William Winant)
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
crotales, glockenspiel, hi-hat: William Winant; computer-controlled analog electronics, digital delay: Chris Brown; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1989

SET SIX
Philip Mantione: ImXCocteau
Compilation for Max
P.M.
saxophone (source recording): Eric Roberts; desert field recordings; written for the soundtrack of ImXCocteau by Alysse Stepanian

James Tenney: Dialogue
Selected Recordings 1961-1969
New World Records/2003 (orig. Frog Peak Music, 1992)

SET SEVEN
Roxanne Turcotte: Attractions
a. Aurore boréale [Aurora Borealis]
b. Perséides [Perseids]
c. Crépitements et tourments [Crackling and Torment]
d. Profondeurs [Depths]
e. Souffles et alizés [Puffs and Trade Winds]
f. Tour de terre [Earth Trip]
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
installation video: François Doyon; presented at the Café du Monoument-National, Montreal, January, 2005

Natasha Barrett: Water Fall (Microclimate V)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/201
Microclimates sound intstallation premiered in Sleppet, Bergen, Norway, 9/01/07

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Night Traffic
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992
electronically filtered traffic sounds, recorded 1990

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/09/2011

2011-10-08T19:20:00.008-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for October 9, 2011

SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Panta Rhei (Time in Flux)
I. Agitato
II. Vivace Misterioso
III. Molto Tranquillo
IV. Allegro Energio
V. Distant
Volume 3
Brdige Records/2011
violin: Susanne Zapf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt; piano: Heather O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, Germany, 11/26/10

Heather O'Donnell: The Missing Nail at the River (W. Zimmermann)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany, April 2007

Margaret Leng Tan: Put My Little Shoes Away (trad; G. Crumb)
She Herself Alone--The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
voice, toy piano, toy percussion (quartet): M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, January 2010

George Crumb: Ghost-Nocturne -- for the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II)
Makrokosmos I & II
Mode Records/2004
amplified piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July 2003

George Crumb: Threnody I -- Night of the Electric Insects (Virgo)[Tutti]
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Seven
Unto the Hills/Black Angels
Brdige Records/2003
The Miró Quartet; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October 2002

SET TWO
Chris Brown: Stupa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
vibraphone: William Winant; piano, computer: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July 2011

Larry Polansky: Canon #1
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
marimba: William Winant; recorded and processed at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, 1983/89

SET THREE
Larry Polansky: Canon #18 -- Trio Canon for Christian Wolff
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
fretless electric guitar: L. Polansky; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; percussion: Nathan Davis; recorded and processed at Brittrax, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and Los Angeles, summer 2002

Christian Wolff: Exercise 18
10 Exercises
New World Records/2006
electric guitar, percussion: Larry Polansky; piano, percussion: Frederic Rzewski; percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; soprano saxophone, percussion: Chiyoko Szlavnics; recorded at the Poggiolo Farm, Pozzuolo, Umbria, Italy, September 2005

Trios, featuring Christian Wolff: Track Two
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, texts: Chris Mann; electric guitars: Larry Polansky; computer, electronics, recording: Douglas Repetto; recording, processing: Tom Erbe; piano, bass, percussion, melodica: C. Wolff; recorded in Hanover, NH, January and April 1998

Chris Brown: Talking Drum (track 13)
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005
percussion: William Winant, Donald Robinson; bass: Lisle Ellis; keyboards, synthesizers: C. Brown; Robert Kauker, synthesizers: Nick Peck, Scot Graham-Lancaster; recorded at Beanbender's, Berkeley, 3/20/96

Lou Harrison: Fugue
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group -- flexatone, claves, maracas: W. Winant; metallophone, box, cowebells: Daniel Kennedy; meditation bells, brake drums, washtub: avid Rosenthal; bell-coils, bass drum, gongs, suspended Turkish cymbal, triangles: Todd Manley; recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, August 1993

SET FOUR
Laurie Spiegel: Crying Tone
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
Electrocomp 200 modular analog synthesizer: L. Spiegel

Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Weeping Rocker
I Didn't Want to Say Goodbye
V.A.R./2004
electronics: V.A.R

Elizabeth McNutt: Twittering Machine (A. May)
Pipe Wrench--Flute + Computer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: E. McNutt; computer program: Andrew May; recorded at SUNY Buffalo

Lawrence Moss: Flutepaths
New Paths
Innova Recordings/2011
flute: Sarah Eckman McIver; electronics: L. Moss; recorded at Dekelboum Concert Hall, College Park, MD

SET FIVE
David Mooney: Olbum's Furniture
Facts About Air
D.M./2009

Philip Mantione: Fabrics
Compilation for Max
P.M./2011

PGR: 13
A Hole of Unknown Depth
Silent Records/1995

SET SIX
Elainie Lillios: Stumbling Dance
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Finalist Concert of the III Concurso International de Música Electroacustica de São Paulo at Teatro Laura Abrahão, Brazil, 10/29/99

Jonty Harrison: Free Fall (from ReCycle)
Environs
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at the composer's studio, Birmingham, UK; Elektronisches Studio of the Musik-Akademie, Basel, Switzerland; processed at Studio Métamorphoses d’Orphée of Musiques & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at L’Espace du son — M&R, Théâtre Marni, Brussels, Belgium, 10/20/06

SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Buckner and Tom Hamilton: Segment C
Jump the Circle, Jump the Line
Mutable Music/2001
voice: T. Buckner; improvised electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded live for EMF at Engine 27, NYC, 12/01/00

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/02/2011

2011-10-01T16:24:00.005-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for October 2, 2011

SET ONE
Sō Percussion: Marimba (S. Mackey)
It Is Time
Cantaloupe Music/2011

Martin Bresnick:
a. Farándula simple
b. Farándula de charlatanes -- No saben el camino
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University School of Music, New Haven, CT, 4/02/09

Roger Reynolds: imAge/piano
Epigram and Evolution -- The Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Yuji Takahashi

SINGLE PLAY
Chou Wen-Chung: Twilight Colors
I. A Thread of Light (Contrapunctus Variabilis V)
II. Colors of Dawn (C.V. VI)
III. In the Mist (C.V. VII)
IV. Mountain Peaks Rising (C.V. VIII)
V. Coda: Their silhouettes neither parallel nor contrary (C.V. IX)
Clouds
Mode Records/2011
Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded at Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, 9/17/08

SINGLE PLAY
Bun-Ching Lam: Omi Hakkei
I. Night Rain at Karasaki
II. Awazu on a Fine Breezy Day
III. Wild Geese Descending in Katata
IV. Autumn Moon at Ishiyama
V. The Evening Glow of Seta Bridge
VI. Sails Returning to Yabase
VII. The First Snow of Mt. Hira
VIII. The Evening Bell of Mii Temple
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
flute: Angelika Bender; Dizi, xiao: Wolfgang Wendel; viola: Mariette Leners; erhu: Zhang Zhengfang; zheng: Xu Fengxia; harp: Isabelle Courret; conductor: BCL; recordded at the Portheim Palace of Heidelberg, German, 10/26/09

SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown: Gangsa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
The William Winant Percussion Group -- flat-gongs: Jordan Glenn, Krystof Golinski, Shayna Dunkelman, David Douglas; conductor: W. Winant; live computer processing: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July, 2010

SET TWO
The Hub: Falling Edge
Boundary Layer
Tzadik Records/2008
composers: Chris Brown, Mark Trayle; recorded live in concert at The Lab, San Francisco, 8/03/86

Mark Trayle: _28 (track 5)
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
laptop, electronics: M. Trayle

Bischoff/Brown/Erbe/Payne: CCM Flotsam #12-21
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artists)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
produced by the Staff of CCM, Mills College, Oakland, 1993

Maggi Payne: Flaptics (M. Trayle)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999

SET THREE
Elaine Lillios: Backroads
a. Shoe Factory
b. Tree Tunnel
c. Elevator
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered at Espace GO, Montreal, 9/13/02

Herbert Brün: More Dust
SAWDUST -- Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
composed on SAWDUST computer program, 1977; pieces published by Smith Publications

SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument--Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
multiple voices on multi-track tape; visual Arts Fellowship commission premiere: October, 1980, at The American Center for Students and Artists, Paris

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: It's Easy (Joan La Barbara and Chorus)
Dust -- An Opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
electronic orchestration: Tom Hamilton, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, R. Ashley

SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: The Intermediary (excerpt)
The Intermediary
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1982)
piano, electronics: BGT; computer: Joel Ryan

--FIN--

Nothing to Say and Saying it 09/27/2011

2011-09-28T13:02:00.003-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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NOTHING TO SAY AND SAYING IT
Tuesdays 22:00--24:00 EDT
Guest Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 27, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Clock DVA: Man-Amplifiers
Man-Amplified
Contempo/1991

SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Strategic Defense Initiative
Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971-1992
EM Records/2004

Test Dept: New World Order
Legacy [1990-1993] The Singles Plus More
Cleopatra Records/1995

David Hahn: Are You Sleeping, Now?
Your Time is Up
davidhanonline/2007

IF, BWANA: Screwed It Up Again
Radio Slaves
Monochrome Vision/2007

SET TWO
Eric Lyon: Liberation #1
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004

Daniel Koppelman: Psychic Driving (excerpt -- Rev. Jim Jones/Zion chorus)(E. Lyon)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008

Zoviet France: Ram (I was Jim Jones' attorney...)
Collusion
The Grey Area of Soleilmoon/1992
recorded September, 1984

Brian Eno: In Dark Trees
Another Green World
EG Records/1975

SET THREE
Bruce Haack: National Anthem to the Moon
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
additional vocals: Chris Kachulis; originally released on "The Electric Lucifer," 1970

The Moog Machine: Hey Jude (Lennon/McCartney)
Switche-On Rock
Columbia Records/1970
synthesizers, producer: Norman Dolph

White Noise: Here Come the Fleas (McDonald/Vorhaus)
An Electric Storm
Island Records/1968
vocals: Annie Bird, Val Shaw, John Whitman; electronics, EMS Synthi VC3: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson; percussion: Paul Lytton; production: David Vorhaus; recorded at Kalediophon Studio, Camden Town, UK

John Eaton: Blues Machine
First Performances -- The Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizers in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
Syn-Ket, rhythm section: J. Eaton

Frank Zappa: Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
We're Only In It for the Money/Lumpy Gravy
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. Verve/1968)
tape mixing: F. Zappa; sampled voice: Eric Clapton; recorded 1967

Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
tape mixing: K. Gaburo; recorded at the University of Illinois, 1970

Pierre Schaeffer: Étude aux sons animés
L'Oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
musique concrete: P. Schaeffer, Paris, 1958

Alice Shields: from Act Four
a. On the Dark Mountains
b. Dismemberment and Eating
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993
keyboards, synthesizers, Woman, Chorus: A. Shields; voice of Shiva: Michael Wilson; recorded at Quality Studios and the Columbia University Electronic Music Center, NYC

SET FOUR
Brigitte Robindoré: Comme Etrangers et Voyageurs sur la Terre
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Coninuum (various artists)
Mode Records/2001
CCMIX: B. Robindoré; percussion: Roland Auzet, Claire Talibart; Centre de Création Musicale Iannis, Alford, France

Philip Mantione: Dusk
Drainage Music
Scattered Music/2004
for installation "Music for Drainage" created by P. Mantione and Alysse Stepanian

SINGLE PLAY
Takehisa Kosugi: S.E Wave/E.W. Song
Music for Merce (various artists)
New World Records/2010
violin, voice, electronics: T. Kosugi; recorded for the dance "Squaregame," Tokyo, 12/15/76, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/25/2011

2011-09-24T16:46:00.003-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 25, 2011

MODE RECORDS CONCERT SERIES AT THE STONE
September 16-30
Located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC

SET ONE
Earle Brown: From Folio -- December 1952
Selected Early Works (1952--1965)
New World Records/2006
piano, computer, electronics: Michael Daugherty

Luc Ferrari: Tautologos 1
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

Margaret Leng Tan: Suite for Toy Piano (I-V) (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January, 2010

John Cage: from Four Walls, Act II
a. Scene IX
b. Scene X
The Works for Piano 5
Mode Records/2003
piano: Haydée Schwartz; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, October, 1995

MATMOS at AMHERST COLLEGE
Friday, September 30, 2011, 7 pm box office
Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center
53 College St., Amherst, MA 01004

SET TWO
Matmos: Exciter Lamp and the Variable Band
Supreme Balloon
Matador Records/2008
synthesizer: Drew Daniel, M.C. Schmidt

So Percussion & Matmos: Aluminum
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010
sampling, sequencing, electronics, emergency blanket: Drew Daniel; singing rods, beer cans, treadplate, brushes, editing; M.C. Schmidt; beer cans: Joshua Quillen, Adam Sliwinsky; beer cans, vibraphone, sequencing: Jason Treuting; vibraphone: Eric Beach; beer cans, processing: Lawson White; engineering: Brett Allen; recorded at the David Smith Room, Studio C, Clinton Recording Studios

SET THREE
So Percussion: Steel Drums (S. Mackey)
It Is Time -- So Percussion/Steve Mackey
Cantaloupe Music/2011
percussion: Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting; recorded at Guilford Sound, Guilford, VT; Good Child Music, NYC, Princeton University

Steven Mackey: from Micro-Concerto
I. Chords and Fangled Drumset
II. Interlude no. 1, Vibes solo
Heavy Light
New World Records/2004
MOSAIC quartet; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, December, 2003

Henry Brant: Labor Day, 1935, Florida Keys
Autumn Hurricanes
Innova Recordings/2006
musicians of Stetson University; chief conductor: H. Brant; recorded at Elizabeth Hall Auditorium, Stetson University, Deland, Florida, 4/28/86

SET FOUR
Elainie Lillios: Arturo
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the electroacoustic studios of the University of Birmingham, 1998; premiered at the Symposium on Music and Computers, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, 10/23/98

Biosphere: The Things I Tell You
Substrata
All Saints/1997
recorded at Aurora Lydstudio, Tromsø, Norway

SET FIVE
Anla Courtis with Armpit: Pocket Gallows
The Torrid
Porter Records/2011
recorded in Buenos Aires, 2003

David First: Pipeline Witness Apologies to Dennis, Section One
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
trombone: Christopher McIntyre; computer, Yamaha PC 16000 MIDI Controller: D. First

Lisa Moore: With enthusiasm and a little violence (A. Gosfield)
Lightning Singers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: L. Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT, Spring 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Tim Brady: from Three Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune
Scene 1. Montreal
a. prelude: Three Cities: You Must Remember (Pai-Chou-En)
b. Poem: To Pony, Aug. 31, 1935, and letter, Oct. 8, 1935 (N. Bethune
c. Poem: An Immigrant (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal)
d. Incantation 1, letter, Nov. 6, 1935 (N. Bethune)
e. Poem: Depression Suite (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal)
f. Letter: Oct. 8, 1935 (N. Bethune)
Three Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune
Ambiances Magnetiques/2006
baritone: Michael Donovan; Bradyworks, conductor: Pierre Simard; recorded at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, 2005

SET SIX
Annea Lockwood: Passau to Jochenstein
A Sound Map of The Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
sound sources: Passau -- Ilz (tributary) in the Triftsperre Felsendurchbruch (tunnel used by loggers) 11:50 am, 5/18/02; St Stephen Dam, 9:15 am, 5/20/02; Inn (tributary) 5/20/02; Rainer Moschak, teacher, Breitenberg, 5/17/02; Donaukraftwerk Jochenstein (Dam spillway, 11:55 am 5/20/02

Sylvia Smith: Pacific Sirens (R. Erickson)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records--Smith Publications/2008
timpani: S. Smith; bass flute: Lisa Cella; flute, alto flute: Carrie Rose; voice, bowed gongs, cymbals: Lee Hinkle; voices: Bonnie Lander, Megha Jacob, Lisette Abreu; tape of Pacific Ocean sounds: Pescadero Beach, California, 1969

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/18/2011

2011-09-17T17:58:00.005-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 18, 2011

MODE RECORDS CONCERT SERIES AT THE STONE
September 16-30
Located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC

SET ONE
Terumi Nerushima: He resonates five toes
Why Record? Life in the Age of Digital Performance (various Artists)
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
koto: T. Narushima; recorded by Warren Burt, 2008

Chris Brown: Cremation Procession, Bali
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005
recorded in Bali by Chris Brown, 1/03/96

SET TWO
Harry Partch: Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegans Wake
a. Isobel
b. Annah the Allmaziful
Enclosure Two -- Harry Partch collection
Innova Recordings/1995
soprano: Lola Harding; flutes: Dorothy Holden, Hilmar Luckhardt; Kithara: H. Partch; texts: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake; recorded by Walter Gilson, 1945

Harry Partch: November 15 -- Leaving Santa Barbara (from Bitter Music)
ibid.
voice: Warren Burt; piano: Sheila Guymer; recorded at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation-Broadcast Music, Melbourne, 1/23/92

Anthony De Mare:
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
b. Nowth Upon Nacht (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (works by Meredith Monk and John Cage)
Koch/1992
piano, voice: A. De Mare; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"

Otto Luening/Vladimir Ussachevsky: Incantation
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006(orig. CRI/1991)
tape music recorded at WKCR, Columbia University, 1953; engineer: Peter Mauzey

György Ligeti: Artikulation
Continuum/10 Stücke für Bläserquintett/Artikulation/Glissandi/2 Etüden/Volumina
Wergo/1988
recorded at the Electronic Music Studio of West German Radio, Cologne, 3/25/58

Ursula Mamlok: Sonar Trajectory
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966

Gordon Mumma: Song Without Words (in memoriam David Tudor)
David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
piano: G. Mumma

SET THREE
Frances White: Like the Lily
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen Ting; double bass: Troy Rinker, Jr., electronics; F. White

Chris Brown & Pauline Oliveros: Gravity Waves
Music in the Air
Deep Listening/2010
piano, electronics: C. Brown; accordion, Expanded Instrument System: P. Oliveros; recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08

SET FOUR
Henry Gwiazda: man-eating-chips-listening-to-a-violin
noTnoTesnoTrhyThms
Innova Recordings/2002
electronic cello: Jeffrey Krieger; sound effects, sampler: H. Gwiazda

Elsa Justel: Puntos, comas y refritos
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
8-track tape: E. Justel; realized in 2002 at the studio of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin; premiered in during a concert at the Akademie der Künste, 2003

SINGLE PLAY
Matthew Welch: Self/Non-Self and Luminosity in the Bardo
i. slow, delicate, softly tumultuous (harp solo)
ii. softly tumultuous, nervous, building tumult and texture (tutti)
iii. floating, flowing (tutti)
iv. luminosities
v. swelling, with breathing space, undulating
vi. escalating, nervousness, gaining tumult
vii. cadenza delicate, nervous, slow (harp solo)
Luminosity
Porter Records/2009
harp: Zeena Parkins; flute: Leah Paul; oboe: Christa Robinson; bass clarinet: Matt Bauder; bassoon: Katherine Young; violin: Jennifer Choi; viola: Leanne Darling; cello: Christopher Hoffmann; bass: Reuben Radding; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, December, 2008

SET FIVE
Coil: ANS (CD B, track 2 -- excerpt)
ANS
Threshold House (ltd. ed.)/2004
ANS Synthesizer: Jhonn Balance, Peter Christopherson, Ossian Brown, Thighpaulsandra; Moscow State University

Stanislav Kreitchi: Ruins in the Waste
Voices and Movement
Electroshock Records/2002
ANS synthesizer: S. Kreitchi; Moscow State University; mastered at Electroshock Records Studios, 2001

SET SIX
Richard Carrick: Moroccan Flow (Unfolding from Unity)
The Flow Cycle for Strings
New World Records/2011
cello: Alex Waterman

Jason Eckhardt: A Way [Tracing]
Undersong
Mode Records/2011
cello: Fred Sherry; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, NY, 1/11/11

SINGLE PLAY
Jin Hi Kim: Jupiter's Moons
Komungo
O.O. Discs/2001
electric komungo: JHK; Korean kagok singer: Kang Kwon Soon;
for Dong Dong Touching the Moons, commissioned by MassMoCA, premiered at The Kitchen,
NYC

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/11/2011

2011-09-11T18:25:00.006-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 11, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Roland Auzet: Rebonds A & B (I. Xenakis)
a. Rebonds B
b. Revonds A
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, Paris

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros: St. George and the Dragon (excerpt)
St. George and the Dragon/In Memoriam Mr. Whitney
Mode Records/1991
accordion: P.Oliveros; recorded at the Pomfret Chapel, The Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut, 3/10/91

Frances White: Walk Through "Resonant Landscape" No. 2
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007

The above three pieces will be performed at the
Mode Records Concert Series at the Stone
September 16-30
Located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC

SET TWO
Darren Copeland: They're Trying to Save Themselves
Lost and Found
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
commissioned by CBC Radio One for the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks; all sounds sourced from CNN immediately following the bombings of the World Trad Center towers, September 11, 2001; realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered on CBC Radio One, 9/11/02

Robert Normandeau: Chorus
a. Overture
b. Judaism
c. Christianity
d. Islam
e. War
f. Pain
g. Peace
Puzzles
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
dedicated to the victims of September 11, 2001; realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered on 7/13/02 during the Festival de musiques sacrées (Fribourg, Switzerland)

SINGLE PLAY
Alice Shields: Shenandoah --
Opening - Percussion - Senegalese Man - Percussion - Mennonite Woman - Percussion - Mixtec Indians - Percussion - Ukrainian Man - Percussion - Food - Percussion - Songs - Percussion - Ending
Shenandoah -- Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004
interviews recorded in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, 2001; percussion sampled from Indian and Middle Eastern instruments; created in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; commissioned by the School of Theatre and Dance of James Madison University for choreographer Mark Taylor; premiered at James Madison University, Harrison, Virginia, March 21-23, 2002

SET THREE
Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Alvin Curran: Endangered Species
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
Disklavier, samples, synthesizers: A. Curran

Robert Scott Thompson: Illusion of Orderly Progress
Blue Day
Auccourant Records/2000

Polly Moller: Cold Blood
60 x 60 2004-2005 (various artists)
Vox Novus/2007
voice, text: P. Moller

Read Miller: The Blueprint of a Promise
The Complete 10 Inch Series from Cold Blue (various artists)
Cold Blue Music/2003
voice, text, electronics: R. Miller; recorded at College Street Studio, Redlands, California, 4/01/81

SINGLE PLAY
Yasunao Tone: Geography and Music
Music for Merce (various artists)
New World Records/2010
voices: John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi; piano: David Tudor; qin (guqin): Martin Kalve; Chinese text reader: Yoshiharu Suenobu; texts extracted from geography sections of ancient Chinese encyclopedias; recorded in Lueven, Belgium, 10/20/83 for the dance "Roadrunners" (1979), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET FOUR
John Eaton: Blind Man's Cry
First Performances -- The Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizer in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2009
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; text: Tristan Corbiere; Syn-Ket: J. Eaton; Jaye Williams: Moog synthesizer; tapes, mixing: Wilson Allen

Noah Creshevsky: et puis (excerpt 1)
Hyperrealism in Music -- Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky 1992-2005*
Noa Creshevsky/2005
*unreleased; full version of et puis released on the CD Who on Centaur Records

Carey Nutman: Land Below the Wind - part 6
Land Below the Wind
MPS Music & Video/2011

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/04/2011

2011-09-04T12:54:00.004-04:00

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 04, 2011

SET ONE
Richard Carrick: In Flow
The Flow Cycle for Strings
New World Records2011
violin: Andrea Schultz

Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 9 (Duo Capriccioso)
The Music of Mario Davidovsky Volume 3
Bridge Records/2005
violin: Curtis Macomber; electronics; recorded at K.A.S. Music Sound, Astoria, NY

Todd Reynolds: End of Day
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
viola: T. Reynolds

SET TWO
Maya Beiser: I Was There (K. Kahlor)
Provenance
Innova Recordings/2011
oud: Bassam Saba; cello: M. Beiser; percussion: Shane Shanahan, Jamey Haddad; recorded at Kilgore Studios, New York City

Mohammed Saleh Abd Al-Saheb Lelo/Haitham Hasan: Bead Konto
Music of Islam Volume 4--Music of the Arabian Peninsula (Doha, Qatar)
Celestial Harmonies/1997
oud: Mohammed Saleh; percussion: Haitham Hasan

SET THREE
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary DVD
Mode Records/2011
performed by Steven Schick and red fish blue fish; National Gallery of Arts, Washington D.C.

Michael Lipsey: King of Denmark (M. Feldman)
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2008
percussion: M. Lipsey; recorded at David Cossin's apartment, New York City

SET FOUR
Harry Partch: End of Scene Three and all of Chorus Four --
from Revelation in the Courthouse Park, after the Bacchae of Euripides
Enclosure 5 -- Harry Partch anthology
Innova Recordings/1998
Gate 5 Ensemble, conductor John Garvey; performed for the Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois, 4/11/61

Jody Diamond: Hard Times (S. Foster)
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts; voice: J. Diamond; recorded at the ISI, Surakarta, July, 2001

SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Land Below the Wind -- Parts 1 & 2
Land Below the Wind
MPS Music & Video/2011

Robert Scott Thompson: Waters of Cabeus (A)
Elemental
Aucourant Records/2010

SET SIX
Christine Groult: Vertiges
La Condition Captive
Trace Label/2007

Gerard Pape: Funeral Sentences
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
sopranos: Janet Pape, Armelle Orieux; percussion: Roland Auzet; conductor: Alain Bancquart; texts: Anglican Book of Common Prayer, Funeral Sentences (after Henry Purcell); unnamed Jewish poem

Jacques Tremblay: L'enigme anima
Chroniques d'une séduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2009

SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: Central Section (excerpt)
Systems of Judgment
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 4
Centaur Records/1989
recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM), Mills College, completed in May, 1988

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 8/28/2011

2011-08-28T18:26:00.004-04:00

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for August 28, 2011

SET ONE
Henry Brant: 1955. Eleven Hurricanes. Atlantic Coast
Autumn Hurricanes -- The Henry Brant Collection Volume 5
Innova Recordings/2006
musicians of Stetson University, chief conductor: H. Brant; recorded at
Elizabeth Hall Auditorium, Stetson University, Deland Florida, 4/26/86

Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Music for Berlin
Celestial Voices
O.O. Discs/1998
flutes: Robert Dick; piano: Anthony DeMare, recorded at the University
of Maryland Baltimore County

SET TWO
Giacinto Scelsi: Manto I, II, III
The Works for Viola
Mode Records/2011
viola, voice: Vincent Royer; recorded at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, 2008

Richard Carrick: Shadow Flow
The Flow Cycle for Strings
New World Records/2011
viola: Dov Scheindlin

SET THREE
Benjamin Broening: Third Nocturne
Recombinant Nocturnes
Innova Recordings/2011
pianos: Daniel Koppelman; electronics; recorded at Camp Concert Hall,
Modlin Center for the Arts, University of Richmond, May, 2010

Robert Scott Thompson:
a. Origin
b. Lattice
Blue Day
Aucourant Records/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Less Than Two
Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
pianos: Jean-Charles François, Delores Stevens; percussion: Daniel Dunbar,
Daryl Pratt (orig. Lovely Music, Ltd./1984)

SET FOUR
Meredith Monk: Respite
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: Meredith Monk, Bruce Rameker, Ching Gonzalez, Allison Sniffin;
shruti boxes: Ellen Fisher, Bohdan Hilash, John Hollenbeck, B. Rameker,
C. Gonzalez, Katie Geisinger, A. Sniffin; violins: Todd Reynolds, Courtney
Orlando; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; recorded at the Academy
of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009

Hervé Zénouda: Les êtres indécis
Demain, dès l'aube
Trace Label/2002
alto saxophone: Cathy Heyden; electric guitar: Thomas Pettit; percussion:
Hervé Zénouda

Jon Hassell: Dream Theory
Dream Theory in Malaya
EG/1981
electronically filtered trumpet: J. Hassell; drums: Brian Eno; bass:
Michael Brook; recorded at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario

Jin Hi Kim & Gerry Hemingway: Saturn's Rings
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
electric komungo: JHK; percussion: G.Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury,
Massachusetts, 8/18/09

SINGLE PLAY
Sarah Boothroyd: All in Time
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011

SINGLE PLAY
Quatuor Bozzini: 2nd Movement
a. Pulsations
b. 38 Pièces
c. Shiatsu
d. Mélopées d'ADN
Quatuor Bozzini-Actuellecd/2011
recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 12/15/07

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Bonampak
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
ARP 2500 synthesizer: T. Hamilton; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; wind instruments: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1975

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 08/14/2011

2011-08-14T20:05:00.005-04:00

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for August 14, 2011

SET ONE
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary
Mode Records/2011
performed by Steven Schick and red fish blue fish; National Gallery of Arts, Washington D.C.

Gordon Mumma: Meanwhile, A Twopiece
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966
New World Records/2003
piano, percussion: Robert Ashley; French horn, percussion: G. Mumma; magnetic tape; recorded at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2/10/62

SET TWO
Evidence: Burden
Iris
Deep Listening/2007

Daniel Menche: Coughing Angel
Screaming Caress
Side Effects/1997

Anla Courtis and Daniel Menche: Harmful Rainstorm
The Torrid (Anla Courtis, et al.)
Porter Records/2011
rainstorm recording, live mix: D. Menche; harmonica sound sources: A. Courtis; recorded in Portland, Oregon, 2008

Anla Courtis: Invisible Clown Sonata
Tape Works
Pogus Productions/2006
Minimoog: A. Courtis

SET THREE
The Legendary Pink Dots: Femme Mirage
Asylum
Play It Again Sam/1985

Jenny Q Chai: Serenity (C. Ives)
New York Love Songs
Arpaviva Foundation, Inc./2010
amplified piano, voice: JQ Chai; text: J.G. Whittier

Charles Ives: August
The Light That Is Felt -- Songs of Charles Ives
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman; text: Folgore da San Gimignano, translation by Dante Gabriel Rosetti;

Hervé Zénouda: Jour de colère
Vies Secondes
Trace Label/1999
violin: Alain Petit; MIDI tuba: Pierre Pouget; MIDI programming: H. Zénouda; recorded at Le Cult Du Cargo studio, Paris

Paolo Angeli:
a. La Mulina (Parlando)
b. La Mulina de Pepa
ReR Megacorp/2005
recorded in Italy, 2002-2004

A Touch of the Sun: Geese
Not Necessarily "English" Music (various artists)
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
guitar: Peter Cusack; clarinet: Simon Mayo; recorded in London, c. 1974

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Ptoccata II
Petrophonics
Cuneiform Records/2000
additional musicians -- percussion: Terry Donahue, Ken Winokur; turntable: Pacey Foster; recorded at Sounds Interesting, Middleborough, Mass., 1999/2000

SET FOUR
Jason Eckhardt: 16
Undersong
Mode Records/2011
amplified flute: Claire Chase; International Contemporary Ensemble, conductor: Steven Schick; recorded at Sweeney Auditorium, Smith College, 3/19/08

Margaret Lancaster: Io (L. V. Vierk)
Io
New World Records/2009
electric guitar: Larry Polansky; marimba: Matthew Gold; flute: M. Lancaster;
recorded at 2nd Story Sound, New York City, 2/06/09

SET FIVE
F. Gerard Errante: Water Crossing (A. Shapiro)
Delicate Balance
Aucourant Records/2010
clarinet: F. G. Errante; electronics

Alex Shapiro: Bioplasm
Notes from the Kelp
Innova Recordings/2007
The Los Angeles Flute Quartet; recorded at Citrus City Studios, Glendora, CA, March 2004

SET SIX
Maggi Payne: System Test (Fire and Ice)
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010

Marcelle Deschênes: Indigo
a. Peur apprivoisée (Tamed Fear)
b. Trame de tension (Weft of Tension)
Petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur
a. Opening
b. Dance
The Electronic Works I
Mode Records/2001
Buchla synthesizer: M. Subotnick, 1978

--FIN--

The Ghost of Esperanto Volume 03

2011-08-13T16:42:00.003-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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THE GHOST OF ESPERANTO, VOLUME 03
Music from the archives of Esperanto
broadcast Sunday evenings 1995--2000 on WMUA
For automated station programming
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Recorded August 13, 2011

SET ONE
Single Cell Orchestra: Knock Out Drops (200 Proof Mix)
Single Cell Orchestra
Asphodel/1996

Orbital: The Box (1 & 2)
In Sides
FFRR-London Records/1996

SET TWO
Robert Black: Radio Sonata (J. Sellars)
State of the Bass
O.O. Discs/1994

Severed Heads: Snow
Gigapus
Volition/1994

Spoonfed Hybrid: Boys in Zinc
Spoonfed Hybrid
4AD/1994

Peter Lazonby: Humble Servant
Your Humble Servant
Braniak/1995

SET THREE
Leif Brush: Terrain Instruments Are Activated
The Aerial (various artists)
Nonsequitur/1994

Amorphous Androgynous: Fat Cat
Tales of Ephidrina
Astralwerks/1993

Bionaut: Astral Unraveler
Au Naturel
Tiny Bubbles Music/1996

SET FOUR
The Higher Intelligence Agency: Fleagle
Freefloater
Waveform/1996

Vidna Obmana: Challenging Boundaries
Assemblage Volume Two (various artists)
Extreme Records/1996

Muslimgauze: Beit Nuba
Citadel
Extreme Records/1994

SET FIVE
The Legendary Pink Dots: Stitching Time
Shadow Weaver
Play It Again Sam/1992

Gong:
a. Magick Mother Invocation
b. Master Builder
You
Decal/1991 (orig. Virgin/1974)

The Legendary Pink Dots: Oasis Malade
9 Lives to Wonder
Play It Again Sam/1994

Bill Nelson: Memory Babe
After the Satellite Sings
Gyroscope/1996

SET SIX
Alquimia & Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma: Foundations (Basamentos)
Dead Tongues (Lenguas Muertas)
Cuneiform Records/1996

Dead Can Dance: Dedicacé Outò
Spirit Chaser
4AD/1996

Hungry Ghost: Cloud Sculptors
Sugar Skulls
Tone Casualties/1995

This Mortal Coil: At First And Then
Filigree & Shadow
4AD/1986

Muslimgauze: Caste the First Stone
Salaam Alekum, Bastard
Staalplaat/1995

SET SEVEN
Richard Pinhas: Marie et Virginie Comp (Live)
Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale
Cuneiform/1995 (orig. 1978)

Steve Tibbetts:
a. Interlude
b. Alvin Goes to Tibet
Steve Tibbetts
Cuneiform/1995 (orig. 1977)

Ken Field: Takuskanskan
Subterranea
O.O. Discs/1996

SINGLE PLAY
Jeffrey Krieger: themythofAcceptance (H. Gwiazda)
Night Chains
CRI/1995

--FIN--

Martian Gardens: Auto-Archive Volume 2

2011-08-12T17:15:00.003-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Archived for Automation, Volume 02
Selections from the empreintes DIGITALes label
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Recorded August 12, 2011

SET 0NE
Robert Normandeau: Le Renard et la Rose (The Fox and The Rose)
a. Babbling and Rhythm
b. Nostalgia and Tone
c. Anger and Dynamics
d. Weariness and Space
e. Serenity and Texture
Figures
IMED 9944/1999

Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles DVD
IMED 0575/2005

SET TWO
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow
Isotasie
IMED 0262/2001

Natasha Barrett: Racing Through, Racing Unseen
Miniatures Concrètes (various artists)
IMED 9837/1998

SINGLE PLAY
Marc Tremblay: Cowboy Fiction
Bruit-Graffiti
IMED 9949/1999

SET THREE
Micheline Coulumbe Saint-Marcoux: Zones
Impulsion
IMED 0159/2001

Pete Stollery: Altered Images
Un Son Peut en Cacher un Autre
IMED 0678/2006

SINGLE PLAY
Roxanne Turcotte: Libellune
Libellune
IMED 0370/2003
wind instruments: Michel Dubeau

SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformations
IMED 1031/2010 (orig. 1996)

Elsa Justel: Puntos, comas y refritos (Points, commas and clichés)
Mâts
IMED 0785/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Jonty Harrison: Streams
Évidence matérielle
IMED 0052/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Voyage-Miroir
...Et Autres Utopies
IMED 0682/2006

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 08/07/2011

2011-08-07T21:31:00.006-04:00

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for August 07, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary DVD
Mode Records/2011
percussion: red fish blue fish, director: Steven Schick

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death
Part One
a. Refrain One
I. La Guitarra (The Guitar)
b. Refrain Two
II. Casida de Las Palomas Oscuras (Casida of the Dark Doves)
Part Two
c. Refrain Three
III. Canción de Jinete, 1860 (Song of the Rider, 1860)
d. Refrain Four
IV. Casida del Herido por el Agua (Casida of the Boy Wounded by Water)
Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death
Bridge Records/1991
Speculum Musicae -- baritone: Sanford Sylvan; electric guitar: David Starobin; electric contrabass: Donald Palma; electric piano and electric harpsichord: Aleck Karis; percussion: Daniel Druckman and Eric Charlston; texts: Federico García Lorca; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 6/17/90

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: The Angel of Death
Epigram and Evolution -- The Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Marilyn Nonken; technician: J.T. Rinker; The Slee Sinfonietta, conductor: Magnus Mårtensson; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY, Buffalo, 6/01/04 for the June in Buffalo Festival

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Ghost Words After Trees Fall
Ghost Words
Aucourant Records/2008
electronics: RST; commissioned by IMEB; composed in Bourges, 2007

SET ONE
F. Gerard Errante: Cherry Blossom and A Wrapped Thing (After Hokusai) (J. Shatin)
Delicate Balance
Aucourant Records/2010
clarinet: FGE; electronics: Judith Shatin

Russell Pinkston: Gerrymander
Third Practice -- Commissions and Premieres
New Music from the Third Practice Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music
at the University of Richmond
Centaur Records/2004
Bb clarinet: F. Gerard Errante; MAX/MSP: R. Pinkston; recorded at the Fine Arts Recording Studio, University of North Texas, 1/09/03

SET TWO
Lauzier/Martel/Myhr/Tétreault: Traitement Thermique
Disparition de l’usine éphémère
Actuellecd/2008
alto saxophone, bass clarinet, preparations: Phillippe Lauzier; viola de gamba, objects, preparations; acoustic guitar, objects, preparations: Kim Myhr; turntables: Martin Tétreault; recorded at Hotel2Tango, 7/23/08

Scott Smallwood: Sunkraft
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
antique electrotherapy machines: S. Smallwood

Diane Labrosse: Manual Coffee Mill
Music for Objects of the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd.com/2007
percolators; violin: Marie-Soleil Bélanger; flute, trumpet: Jean Derome; electric guitar: Bernhard Falaise; clarinet: Lori Freedman; accordion: D. Labrosse; viola: Jean Réne; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; musicians recorded at Studio 270 Montreal; percolators recorded at Studio Le 2e, Montreal

Stephen Vitiello: Circuit Tension
Bode Sound Project
Bode Archive -- Institute for Electric Arts/2006
Harald Bode electronic instruments: S. Vitiello, Andrew Deutsch, Peer Bode

Luc Ferrari:
a. Etudes aux accidents (1958)
b. Etudes sons tendus (1958)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

SET THREE
James Tenney: Phases (for Edgard Varèse)
Selected Works 1961-1969
New World Records/2003 (orig. Frog Peak Music/1992)
recorded at Bell Labs, 1963

Edgard Varèse: Intégrales
The Varèse Album
Wounded Bird/2007 (orig. Sony/1972)
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Robert Craft

--FIN--

Martian Gardens: Auto-Archive Volume 01

2011-08-03T17:40:00.002-04:00

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Archived for Automation, Volume 01
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Recorded August 03, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Steve Reich: Piano Phase
Early Works
Nonesuch/1987
Double Edge -- pianos: Nurit Tilles and Edmund Niemann;
recorded at RCA Studio A, New York City, May 1986

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass: Music In Fifths
Two Pages-Contrary Motion-Music in Fifths-Music in Similar Motion
Nonesuch/1994
electric organ: P. Glass; soprano saxophones: Jon Gibson, Dickie Landry; electronics, engineering: Kurt Munkacsi; recorded at Butterfly Studios, New York City, June 1973

SET
Sarah Peebles: Nocturnal Premonitions
Music from Nature -- A Terra Nova Compilation
Terra Nova/1997

Ingram Marshall: Cortez
Ikon and Other Early Works
New World Records/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Meredith Monk: Dolmen Music
a. Overture and Men's Conclave
b. Wa-Ohs
c. Rain
d. Pine Tree Lullaby
e. Calls
f. Conclusion
Dolmen Music
ECM New Series/1981
voices: Andrea Goodman, Julius Eastman, Monica Solem, Robert Een, Paul Langland, M. Monk; cello: R. Een; percussion: J. Eastman; recorded at Hometown Studios, New York City, March 1980

SINGLE PLAY
Leo Kupper: Amkéa
a. Récit 1
b. Vocalique
c. Récit 2
d. Mélodique
e. Glissandi Vocaux
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/1999
mezzo soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; recorded in Brussels, 1985

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Living Room Music
I. To Begin
II. Story
III. Melody
IV. End
The Choral Works I
Mode Records/1998
vocal group: Ars Nova, conductor: Támas Vetö; percussion: Gert Sorensen; recorded at Energy Field Studio, August 1997

SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: HMBIPRHLOTP* Section V (Humanity)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims
New World Records/2009
tabla: Swapan Chaudhari; piccolo, flute, bass flute: Vinny Golia; sarode: Aashish Khan; trumpet: Daniel Rosenboom; piano, computer: David Rosenboom; pemade: I Nyoman Wenten; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts, 11/01/08; historical performance -- David Rosenboom, Donald Buchla: two Buchla Series 300 Electronic Music Boxes; recorded at the Music Gallery, Toronto, 4/07/79

SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom and Donald Buchla: HMBIPRHLOTP* Section V
Rosenboom & Buchla -- Collaboration in Performance
1750 Arch Records/1979
Buchla synthesizers: D. Rosenboom, D. Buchla; orchestration, instrumentation: D. Buchla; electronic voice 1: D. Rosenboom; electronic voices 2,3,4: D. Buchla; recorded at 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, 4/21/78

*How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 07/31/2011

2011-07-31T05:37:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for July 31, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Henry Brant: Double-Crank Hand Organ Music
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2007
pianos: Gerrit Hommerson, H. Brant; percussion: Amy Snyder, Ernestine Stoop, Eduard van Regtaren Altena; recorded at De Ijsbreker, Holland Festival, 6/15/84

SET ONE
Henry Brant: Dormant Craters (1st 1/3)
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 9
Innova Recordings/2007
Pulse Percussion Ensemble; Gamelan Son of Lion; Tropical Shoul Steel Drums; solo percussion: Pheeroan akLaff, Michael Veal; conductor: H. Brant; recorded at Crowell Concert Hall Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, 9/11/98

Lou Harrison: Suite for Percussion
I. Moderato
II. Slow
III. Recitative Moderato Allegro
Music of Lou Harrison
CRI/1991 (orig. 1981)
The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Paul Pierce; recorded at Steinway Concert Hall, NYC, 1/28/65

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: from "Sanctuary" for Percussion and Live Electronics
a. Introduction
b. Chatter/Clatter (abbreviated)
c. Discussion
d. Oracle (abbreviated)
e. Discussion
f. Song (abbreviated)
Sanctuary DVD
Mode Records/2011
introduction, discussion: R. Reynolds; percussion solo: Steven Schick; red fish blue fish: Justin DeHartz, Ross Karre, Fabio Oliveira, Greg Stuart; live electronics; recorded at the University of California San Diego

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Traces
Epigram and Evolution -- Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano soloist: Yuji Takahashi; flute: Karen Reynolds; cello: Lin Barron; live electronics; recorded at the University of California San Diego

SET TWO
Quatuor Bozzini: Aberrare, movements I, II, III (M. Arnold)
Aberrare
Actuellecd//2011
QB -- violins: Charles-Étienne Marchand, Clemens Markel; viola: Stéphanie Bozzini; cello: Isabelle Bozzini; recorded at Église de Sainte Théodosie, Calixa-Lavallée, Québec, August 2010

Giacinto Scelsi: Coelocanth (I,II,III)
The Works for Viola
Mode Records/2011
viola: Vincent Royer; recorded at Ev. Kirche, Honrath, Germany, 2008-2009

Donald Crockett: Wet Ink
Night Scenes
New World Records/2011
violin: Gabriela Diaz; piano: Cary Smythe; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, December 2009

SET THREE
Charlie Morrow: Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves(excerpt)
Toot!
XI Records/2011
Camerata Trajectina, director: Louis Peter Grijp; recorded at VPRO Hilversum, Holland

Phil Kline: Northport
John The Revelator -- A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
Lionheart -- countertenor: Lawrence Lipnik; tenors: Michael Ryan-Wenger, John Olund; baritones: Richard Porterfield; bass: Kurt-Owen Richards; ETHEL -- violins: Cornelius Dufalo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson; recorded at the Church of Saint Lukes in the Fields, Greenwich Village, 8/07; Northport 324 -- Tune: Dr. R. R. Olson (1850), Lyrics: John Cennick (1743)

Charlie Morrow: Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves (excerpt)
ibid.

Phil Kline:
a. The Snow Fell
b. Alone
ibid.
a. The Snow Fell -- Music: P. Kline; Lyrics: David Shapiro (1927 b. Alone -- Music and lyrics: Ben H. Price (1914)

Charlie Morrow: Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves (excerpt)
ibid.

Phil Kline: Wondrous Love
ibid.
Music: William Walker (published 1835); Lyrics: Alexander Means (attributed)

Charlie Morrow: Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves (excerpt)
ibid.

SET FOUR
Diane Thome: Unseen Buds
Bright Air/Brilliant Fire
Centaur Records/2001
electronics: D. Thome, Lumiere Studio, University of Washington School of Music; University Chorale, conductor: Geoffrey Boers; text: Walt Whitman

Robert Scott Thompson:
a. Shadow of Water on Sky
b. Figures in the Mirror
Sanctum
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
electroacoustic music: R.S. Thompson

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Modhera (Pieces for Kohn)
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
synthesizers, custom electronics: T. Hamilton; bass drums, bowed cow bells, tabla, gamelan gongs, talking drums, marimba bars, timpani cymbals: Rich O'Donnell; flute, clarinet: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University Electronic Music Studio, St. Louis, 1975

--FIN--

The Ghost of Esperanto, Volume 02

2011-07-30T17:04:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

THE GHOST OF ESPERANTO, VOLUME 02
Music from the archives of Esperanto
broadcast Sunday evenings 1995--2000 on WMUA
For automated station programming
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Recorded July 30, 2011

SET ONE
Banco De Gaia: Last Train to Lhasa
Last Train to Lhasa
Planet Dog/1995

Brian Eno: Fractal Zoom (Mary's Birthday Mix)
Fractal Zoom maxi-single
Opal-Warner Bros./1992

SET TWO
Muslimgauze: Bazoft Rope
Vote Hezbollah
Soleilmoon/1993

Muslimgauze: Infidel (Arabesque Mix)
Infidel
Extreme Records/1994

Muslimgauze: Yasser Arafat's Radio
Hamas Arc
Staalplaat/1993

Muslimgauze: Yusef
Blue Mosque
Staalplaat/1995

SET THREE
Da Damn Phreak Noize Phunk: Dynamite Derby
Electric Crate Digger
K7/1999

Yello: Bananas to the Beat
1980-1985--The New Mix in One Go
Vertigo/1986

Starfish Pool: Dead Acid Society
Sounds from the Electronic Lounge
TMC-React/1998

Soma: Alchemical Nuptial
The Inner Cinema
Extreme Records/1996

The Orb: More Gills Less Fishcakes
Pomme Fritz
Island/1994

SET FOUR
Severed Heads: Better Hams and Heartbreaks (vs. Judy Lovelife, PhD.)
Haul Ass!
Sevcom/1998

Psychic TV: Sir Francis E. Dec (Kitten Sparkle Remix)
Origin of the Species Volume Too!
Invisible/1998

Plastikman: Okx
Sheet One
NovaMute/1993

Coldcut: Every Home a Prison (Shut Up & Dance Mix)
Let Us Replay
Ninjatune/1999
sampled voice: Jello Biafra

Legion of Green Men: Mosaic Eye--Evolutionary Approach
Spatial Specific
Plus 8-Virgin/1996

Plastikman: Helikopter
Sheet One
NovaMute/1993

SET FIVE
Immersion: Metal Sea
Swim ~ Water Communication
Swim/1997

The Gentle People: Groovin' With You (Intergalactic Harbour Mix)
The Freestyle Files--Crackers Delight
K7/1998

SET SIX
Aphex Twin: Analogue Bubblebath I
Classics
PIAS America/2002 (orig. R&S/1992)

Amorphous Androgynous: Mountain Goat
Tales of Ephidrina
Astralwerks/1993

Future Sound of London: Dead Skin Cells
Life Forms
Astralwerks/1994

Cluster and Eno: Ho Renomo
Eno Box 2 -- Instrumental
Virgin Records/1994

SET SEVEN
Cosmic Baby: Airplay
Fantasia
Logic Records/1994

Nikolai: Are You Ready to Flow?
Fluid -- The Best of Techno Volume 5
Sm :) e Communications/1995

Executor: Nothing To Fear (M.L. Gore)
Trancemode Express 1.01
Cleopatra Records/1996

The Irresistible Force: Moonrise (excerpt)
Global Chillage
Caroline Records-Rising High/1995

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 07/24/2011

2011-07-23T17:39:00.003-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for July 24, 2011

SET ONE
Laurie Anderson: The Geographic North Pole
The Ugly One With the Jewels
Warner Bros./1995

Jacqueline Humbert: Adieu (Humbert/Rosenboom)
Chanteuse -- Songs of a different sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004

Roger Reynolds: Religious Music (from The Ivanov Suite)
Electroacoustic Music
New World Records/1993
percussion: Steven Schick; piccolo: vocalist: Philip Larson; cello: Regina Mushabec; violin: János Négyesy; piccolo: John Fonville; trumpet: Edwin Harkins; members of the Suzuki Company of Toga; recorded at the University of California San Diego

Meredith Monk: Clusters 2
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
The Montclair State University Singers; The M6 vocal group; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009

SET TWO
Somei Satoh: Burning Meditation
From the Depth of Silence
Mode Records/2004
baritone: Thomas Buckner; The Janáček Philharmonic, conductor: Petr Kotik; text: Kazuko Shiraishi; recorded at the Philharmonic Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 5/07/03

Somei Satoh: The Passion (excerpt)
Ostravská Banda on Tour
Mutable Music/2011
baritone: Thomas Buckner (JC); baritone: Gregory Purnhagen (Pilate); male choir; Ostravská Banda recorded at Czech Radio Ostrava Studio, 10/24/10

SET THREE
Noah Creshevsky: Twice
Who
Centaur Records/2000

Robert Normandeau: from Chorus
a. Overture
b. Judaisme
c. Christianisme
d. Islaminisme
Puzzles (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2005

Robert Scott Thompson: Ice
Sanctum
Electronic Music Foundation/2007

SET FOUR
Benjamin Boretz: Argument (from Language, as a music)
Open Space 10 (Randall/Boretz)
Open Space/1999
piano: B. Boretz; Center for Music Experiment, University of California, San Diego, 5/03/80

Howard Skempton: Durham Strike
Bolt from the Blue
Mode Records/2010
piano: Daniel Becker; recorded at Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, 10/02/07

Ursula Mamlok:
a. Sculpture I
b. Love Song of Two Pigeons
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Garrick Ohlsson; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 12/27/07

John Cage: A Valentine Out of Season (I, II, III)
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk (Sendesaal), Frankfurt, 2001-2002

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: À propos de K
Études Pour Kafka
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized in 2006 at the composer's studio in Avignon, France

SET FIVE
César Bolaños: Divertmento III
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
for clarinet, flute, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion instruments; premiered at the IV Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella, Beunos Aires, 10/24/67

Amy Horvey: Marionette Lazarus
Catchment
Paved Arts/2010
trumpet: A. Horvey; trumpet and organ sounds recorded in a pedestrian underpass in Saskatoon

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Tenzer: Undrleaf (Buk Katah)
Let Others Name You
New World Records/2009
for Balinese Gamelan and nonet of brass, winds, and piano; Sanggar Çudamani collective and Vancouver Players; recorded in Pengosekan, Bali, 7/09/06 (premiered at the Bali Arts Festival, Denpasar, Bali, 7/10/06); mastered in Vancouver, BC, by François Houle, Fall 2006

SINGLE PLAY
Evan Ziporyn: Three Island Duos (M. Tenzer)
a. Krk-y
b. Biak-words
c. Bouvet fanfare
This Is Not A Clarinet
Cantaloupe Music/2002
clarinets: E. Ziporyn; recorded in Roslindale and Lexington, Massachusetts, 1999-2001

--FIN--

The Ghost of Esperanto, Volume 01

2011-07-22T16:56:00.002-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

THE GHOST OF ESPERANTO, VOLUME 01
Music from the archives of Esperanto
broadcast Sunday evenings 1995--2000 on WMUA
For automated station programming
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Recorded July 22, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
M. Griffin/D. Fulton: Dark Observer
The Most Distant Point Known
Hypnos/2000

SET ONE
Tangerine Dream: Phaedra (abridged version)
152:33: A Brief History of Ambient, Volume 1
Virgin Records/1994

Klaus Schulze: Floating (excerpt)
The Essential 72-93
Caroline Records/1994

SINGLE PLAY
The Legendary Pink Dots: The Andromeda Suite
Chemical Playschool Volumes 8 & 9
Terminal Kaleidoscope/1995

SET TWO
Richard Pinhas:
a. Iceland (Part 1)
b. Iceland (Part 2)
Iceland
Cuneiform Records/1992 (orig. 1979)

John Cage: Voiceless Essay (excerpt)
Ghosts and Monsters --
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
text: Henry David Thoreau

Biosphere: The things I tell you
Substrata
All Saints Records/1997

SET THREE
Brian Eno: Web (Lascaux Mix)
Nerve Net
Opal Records--Warner Bros./1992
featuring Robert Fripp, guitar

Ambient Temple of Imagination: Ancestors
Planetary House Nation
Mindspore Records/1997

SINGLE PLAY
Artemiy Artemiev/Phillip B. Klingler: Murmurs Across the Surface
Dreams in Moving Space
Electroshock Records/2000

SET FOUR
Muslimgauze: Curfew, Gaza
Zul'm
Extreme Records/1992

Muslimgauze:
a. Palestine is our Islamic Land, Part 1
b. Palestine is our Islamic Land, Part 2
Arab Quarter
Staalplaat/1996

SINGLE PLAY
László Hortobágyi: Transreplica Meccano 88'
a. Intro-Kill
b. Bass Cult
c. Gregorianix
d. Kiráņá-Barock
e. Bali-Si Gat
f. Harmologix
g. Vocablá
h. Ite Pravonix Est
Transreplica Meccano -- Annales of Gáyan Uttejak Society
Staalplaat/1991

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 07/17/2011

2011-07-16T18:43:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for July 17, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Todd Reynolds: Icy Sleeves of Green v.2.0
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
violin, electric bass, octave violin: T. Reynolds

SET ONE
Judy Dunaway: Rubber Patchwork Quilt
Balloon Music
CRI/1998
balloons: J. Dunaway

Philip Corner: The Gold Stone
Pieces from the Past - By Philip Corner for the Violin of Malcolm Goldstein
Pogus Productions/2011
violin: M. Goldstein; recorded at Bregman Electro-Acoustic Studios, Dartmouth College, July 1991

SET TWO
Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
solo flute: C. Rose; recorded at the University of Maryland Baltimore County

Lei Liang: Lake
Milou
New World Records/2011
flutes: John Fonville, Jane Rigler; recorded at Warren Music Studio, University of California, San Diego, 1/23/11

Larry Polansky: V'leem'shol (And to rule ...) (Cantillation Study #2)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 11
The Virtuoso in the Computer Age II
Centaur Records/1992
five flutes: Ann La Berge; HMSL program: L. Polansky

SET THREE
Laurie Spiegel: Immersion
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
realized on McLeyvier computer-controlled analog synthesis music system, 1983

Artemiy Artemiev & Phillip B. Klingler: Broken Sleep in the Fracture Zone
A Moment of Infinity
Electroshock Records/2002
synthesizers: Artemiev, Klingler; recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, 2001

SET FOUR
Charlie Morrow: Marilyn Monroe Collage
Toot!
XI Records/2011
string trio (anon.), sound bites; performed at Sidney Janis Gallery, 1967

Michèle Bokanowski: Phone Variations (excerpt)
Michèle Bokanowski
Trace Label/2009
musique concrète realized 1986 and 1988 at the composer's studio, Paris

SET FIVE
Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux: Zones
Impulsion
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
realized at the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 1971

Carter Scholz: Jet
8 Pieces
Frog Peak Muisc/2000
realized at Frog Peak Music, Lebanon, NH

Scott Smallwood:
a. Electreat
b. Ropiquet
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
sounds sourced from antique electrotherapy devices

SET SIX
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

John Luther Adams: Thunder
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2002-2003

The New Music Consort: Pulse (H. Cowell)
Pulse
New World Records/1990
percussion: Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman, Michael Pugliese, Mark Renodn, William Trigg; Terri Weber; conductor: Claire Heldrich; recorded at BMG studios, NYC

SINGLE PLAY
Luciano Berio: Sequenza II (for harp)
The Complete Sequenzas, Alternate Sequenzas, & Works for Solo Instruments
Mode Records/2006
harp: Susan Jolles; recorded at Shephard Hall, CUNY, 7/07/95

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 07/10/2011

2011-07-09T17:48:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for July 10, 2011

SET ONE
Malcolm Goldstein: Eight Whiskus (J. Cage)
Sounding the New Violin
What Next?/1997
recorded at Bregman Electro-Acoustic Studios, Dartmouth College, July, 1991

Philip Corner: Gamelan Maya
Pieces from the Past: By Philip Corner for the Violin of Malcolm Goldstein
Pogus Productions/2011
recorded at the Experimental Music Foundation, New York City, 12/11/84

SET TWO
Quatuor Bozzini: from 1st Movement
a. La relais
b. Demi-vérité A
c. Demi-vérité B
d. La nouvelle -- Joane
e. Identité 1
f. ADN-Spirales
g. Identité 2
h. La nouvelle -- Jean 1
i. Demi-vérité C
Le mensonge et l’identité
Actuellecd/2011
violin, voice: Charles-Étienne, Clemens Merkel; viola, voice: Stephanie Bozzini; cello, voice: Isabelle Bozzini; recorded at Studo 270, Montreal, 12/15/10

Mari Kimura: Six Caprices for Subharmonics
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
violin: M. Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks and Systems Two, New York City

SET TWO
Anne La Berge: Away
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, electronics: A. La Berge; recorded at studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, 2009

Todd Reynolds: Outerborough
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
violin, electronics: T. Reynolds

SET THREE
José Mataloni: Magma
Magical Realism of Sound/2003

Tim Hodgkinson: Vers Kongsu II
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
clarinet: T. Hodgkinson; bass clarinet: Vinny Golia; percussion: Gustavo Aguilar; Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Iancu Dumitrescu; recorded in Ploiești, October, 2003

Yan Jun: Kitchen Performance 2
Post-Minimalism
Trace Label/2007

SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: Apparent Horizon
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010

Mario Verandi: Evil Fruit
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

SET FIVE
Arie Shapira: Birds' Shop
Electronics Plus/2000

Charlie Morrow: A Future Harvest
Toot!
XI Records/2011
recorded for Studio of Acoustic Art, WDR, Cologne

Martin Supper: Fragment
Music Around Benjamin Boretz--Open Spaces 2005
Open Space/2005
two-channel tape; voice: Hans Zischler

Daniel Blinkhorn: Toy Bagatelle
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2011

Barnwave: Prancing
Why Record? Life in the Age of Digital Performance
Electronic Music Foundation/2008

David Mooney: The Llama Strut
Rhythmic Sections
Arizona University Recordings/2002

Gilles Gobeil: La Nuit (from Ombres, espaces, silences...)
Trois Songes DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Famine
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
electronics: T. Machover; Electric Phoenix (soprano: Judith Rees, mezzo-soprano: Mary King, tenor: Daryl Brunswick, bass: Terry Edwards); text: Rose Moss; recorded at October Sound, London, January, 1987

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 07/03/2011

2011-06-29T16:48:00.006-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for July 03, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Corner: Piece for String Instrument #5
Pieces from the Past--By Philip Corner for the Violin of Malcolm Goldstein
Pogus Productions/2011
violin: M. Goldstein; recorded at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, 12/11/84

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Apartment House 1776
Orchestral Works I
Mode Records/1994
New England Conservatory Philharmonia
Voices--
Protestant: Walter Buckingham
Native American: Darrell Dunn
African American: Semenya McCord
Sephardi: Chiam Parchi
New England Conservatory Orchestra, conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, March, 1991

SET ONE
Philip Glass: Prematurely Air-Conditioned Supermarket (from Trial 2/Prison)
Einstein on the Beach
Electra/Nonesuch/1993
The Philip Glass Ensemble and Chorus, conductor: Michael Riesman; spoken voice: Lucinda Childs; Sheryl Sutton; texts: L. Childs; Christopher Knowles

Tom Hamilton: Jamaica Center
Off-Hour Wait State -- Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
voice: Thomas Buckner; percussion: Jonathan Haas; alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; electronic environment: T. Hamilton

SET TWO
Laurie Anderson: Another Day in America
Homeland
Nonesuch-Elektra/2010
drums, percussion: Ben Witman, bass guitar: Skúli Sverrisson, viola: Eyvind Kang, background vocals: Antony Hegarty; vocals, percussion, violin: L. Anderson; recorded in New York City

Laurie Anderson: Statue of Liberty
Live in New York, September 19-20, 2001
Electra/Nonesuch/2002
vocals, violin, keyboards: L. Anderson; bass: Skúli Sverrisson; percussion: Jim Black; electronics: Peter Scherer; recorded at Town Hall, NYC, 2001

Paul Lansky: Ride
Ride
Bridge Records/2000

Paul Lansky: Wordless
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Three Summers Heat--
a. Just Now the Sea-Green Banners Fly
b. Just Now the Early Peach is Red
c. It's Midsummer and Too Hot to Walk
d. Summer Earth is Windless. Heat Still Presses
e. Light Clothes! Few Clothes!
f. I Remember Desire like White Light
g. I Raise my Head to Look at T'ung Trees
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29#
Music from VCCM: Virginia Center for Computer Music--
University of Virginia
Centaur Records/1999
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Tzu Yeh; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, August, 1998

SET THREE
William Price: Let Freedom Ring
Electroacoustic Works (2004)
created at the Electro-Acoustic Music Studios, Louisiana State University

Trever Wishart: Fireworks (from Tongues of Fire)
MusicWorks 98
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
premiered at Synthese Festival, Bourges, France, 1994

Trevor Wishart: American Triptych
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
premiered at Groupe de Recherches Musicales' Cycle Acousmatique series, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Radio France, Paris,01/08/00

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: The Fourth of July
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961--1966 #
New World Records/2003
premiered at the ONCE Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 02/25/61

SET FOUR
Mary Lee Roberts: White Writing
a. Bird
b. Night Foxes
6 Compositions
Open Space/1997
mastered at New York University, 1997

Mara Helmuth: Meeting the Free Dreamer
Open Space 16 (Barkin/Carlé/Exley/Helmuth)
Open Space/2004
computerized piano sequences: M. Helmuth

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 06/26/2011

2011-06-25T17:14:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for June 26, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Meredith Monk: Summer Variation
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: Katie Geissinger, Bruce Rameker; violin: Todd Reynolds; violin: Courtney Orlando; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; bass clarinet: Bodhan Hilash; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, November, 2009

SET ONE
Todd Reynolds: and the sky was still there (D. T. Little)
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
violin: T. Reynolds; Ableton live programming, production: David T. Little; conversation: Amber Ferenz, D.T. Little; sample: Utah Phillips

Robert Ashley: Ingrid
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd/2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert, R. Ashley; text: J. Humbert; electronics: Tom Hamilton, R. Ashley; recorded in Rome, 1985

Katie McMurran: You and I
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2011

Pamela Z: Pop Titles 'You'
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2005

Trevor Wishart: Globalalia (excerpt)
Musicworks 98
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
premiered in Berlin, 2004

SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: The Emperor's Birthday
Ikon and Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
realized at Marshall's studio, Berkeley, 1974-1975

Kurt Schwitters: dritter teil -- scherzo-trio-scherzo
Ursonate
Wergo/1993
poetry written by K. Schwitters 1922-1932; recorded c. 1932

Jackson Mac Low: 38th and 39th Merzgedichte (in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters)
Open Secrets
XI Records/1993
recorded at Kursalon Hübner, Vienna, April 4, 1992

Charles Dodge: He Destroyed Her Image
OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music: 1948-1980
Ellipsis Arts/2000
realized at Bell Labs, 1972

Marcelo Radulovich: Evolution
Mercurio
Titicacaman/2008

SET THREE
Hervé Zénouda: Reflets Fauves
Demain, des l'aube
Trace Label/2002
electric guitar: Thomas Petit; drums, programming: H. Zénouda

Gen Ken Montgomery: Friedhof
Birds+Machines
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at Conrad Schnitzler's studio, Berlin, 1986

Charlie Morrow: Central Park 1850
Toot!
XI Records/2011
sound source: Cornell Ornithological Lab; engineered by C. Morrow in Barton, VT

Charlie Morrow: Feather
Toot!
XI Records/2011
MIDI, samples: C. Morrow; recorded in Barton, VT

Eno/Moebius/Rodelius: Old Land
After the Heat
Caroline Records/1996 (orig. Sky Records/1977)

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: selections from Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer Evening
a. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
b. Wanderer-Fantasy
c. The Advent
d. Myth
Black Angels/Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
pianos: Luz Monriquez, Walter Morales; percussion: Nena Lorenz, Brian Spurgeon, Michael Passaris, Mark Shope; whistles, recorder: Andrés Cladera; conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded at Alumni Concert Hall and Recording Studio, Carnegie Mellon School of Music, autumn 2002

SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: Glassy Metals
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electroacoustic music: M. Payne; Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College

Christine Groult: Pierres cantabiles
La Condition Captive
Trace Label/2007
electroacoustic music: C. Groult; Le Chazel, Paris

SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
samples: Ellen Band

Hubert Howe: Computer Variations (1967-68)
J K R Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his Friends
The Open Space/2007
realized at Queen's College and Bell Labs

SET SIX
J.C. Combs: The Giant Eye of the 5th Dimension
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded for ImprovFriday

Natasha Barrett:
Avoid Being Eaten by Mimicking Other Less Palatable Species (ABEMOLPAS)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
recorded a the composer's studio, Oslo, 2003-2004

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 06/19/2011

2011-06-18T16:17:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for June 19, 2011

SET ONE
Dorota Czerner: Caves
Open Space 24 (Czerner/Barkin)
The Open Space/2009
voice, poem: D. Czerner; sound: Benjamin Boretz; recorded by B. Boretz, 2009

John Cage: Solo for Voice 52 (Aria No. 2) (Relevant)
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002
voice: Paul Hillier; text: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"; electronics: Shabda Owens; recorded in Germany, 1996

SET TWO
John Oswald: Track Two (excerpt)
Timefields & Maritides
MusicWorks Magazine/2006
field recordings: Peter Huse (from "P.E.I. Foghorn And Islanders," recorded on Prince Edward Island, 1974)

Charlie Morrow: TOOT N BLINK Chicago
Toot!
XI Records/2011
boat horns recorded on Lake Michigan in 1982; disc jockeys: Ed Herrmann and Chris Merrick

Jorge Antunes: Sinfonia Das Diretas (Direct Elections Symphony) (excerpt)
Sinfonia Das Diratas
Sistrum Edições Musicais Ltda/1995
for choir, ensemble, electronic effects and car horns; composed for Diretas Já, 1984

SET THREE
Chantal Dumas: The Piano Tuning
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011
electroacoustic music, voice: C. Dumas; text: Fortner Anderson

Anne La Berge: 800 Speakers
Speak
New World Records/2011
flute, computer, voice: A. La Berge; text from "Resonant Dendrites" lecture, 2006; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, 2009

Marcelle Deschênes: Big Bang III
petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music: M.Deschênes; realized at Bruit Blanc studio, Montreal, 1992

SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: FIZZ
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electroacoustic music: M. Payne; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College

Michèle Bokanowski: Trois Chambres D'Inquiétude (part 2)
Michèle Bokanowski
Trace Label/2009
Musique concrète realized at Bokanowski's studio, Paris, 1975-1976, final mix at Studios du GMEB, Bourges, France

SET FIVE
Frank Denyer: Out of the Shattered Shadows I
Faint Traces -- Chamber Works 1973-2001
Mode Records/2005
The Barton Workshop -- flutes: Jos Zwaanenburg; spinet & harmonium: Catherine Laws; banjo: Alan Thomas; percussion: Damien Harron; recorded at Dartington Hall, UK, 7/07/2007

James Tenney: Percussion Response (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, 2007

SET SIX
Ray Green: Three Inventories of Casey Jones (One, Two, and Three)
Restless, Endless, Tactless -- Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo and the Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Waco, Texas

Ziya Tabassian: Varashan
Tombak
Actuellecd.com/2007
percussion: Z. Tabassian; recorded at DeTour Sound Studio, Montreal, 2005

Hervé Zénouda: Homothétie
Vies Secondes
Trace Label/1999
percussion samples: H. Zénouda; recorded at Le Culte du Cargo studio, Paris

Guillermo E. Brown: Electroprayer 5.0
Mendi+Keith Obadike present Crosstalk
Bridge Records/2008
voice and electronics: G. E. Brown; recorded at Brown Sound Studio, Brooklyn

SET SEVEN
J.K. Randall: Intimacy (A Polemic)(excerpts)
Open Space 10 (Randall/Boretz)
The Open Space/1999
text, voice: J.K. Randall

J.K. Randall: Mudgett -- Monologues by a mass murderer
a. Electronic Prelude
b. Toronto
Computer Music (Randall/Vercoe/Dodge)
Nonesuch Records/1974
computer music, text compilation: J.K. Randall; soprano: Melinda Kessler; created at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1965 (subject: Herman Webster Mudgett alias H.H. Holmes)

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 6/12/2011

2011-06-10T14:30:00.005-04:00

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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for June 12, 2011

SET ONE
Burton Beerman: Dayscapes
I. Sighs and Deep Breaths
II. Farmer's Dance
III. Left Over Moonlight
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
clarinet, live electroacustics: B. Beerman

Prism Quartet: Inkling (R. Etezady)
Dedication
Innova Recordings/2011
recorded at Solid Sound, Ann Arbor, September 2009

Cornelius Dufalo: from Suite for Electric Violin
a. Carillon
b. Allamande
c. Interlude
Dream Streets
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at BiCoastal Recordings, New York City

SET TWO
Steven Mackey: A Matter of Life and Death (parts III & IV)
Open Space 4 (Mackey/Randall)
Open Space/1993
amplified piano: S. Mackey;recorded at Princeton University, May 1987

Steven Mackey: Fusion Tune
Banana/Dump Truck
Albany Records/2005
cello: Fred Sherry, guitar: S. Mackey; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, October 2001

Marco Capelli Acoustic Trio: Le Policier Désarmé
Les Nuages en France
Mode Records/Avant series/2011
double bass: Ken Filiano; percussion: Satoshi Takeishi; guitar: M. Capelli;
recorded at Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, 3/27/10

Wadada Leo Smith's Organic: The Dhikr of Radiant Hearts, Part II
Heart's Reflections
Cuneiform Records/2011
recorded at Firehouse 12 Studios, New Haven, CT

SET THREE
Dean Rosenthal: Underpinnings
Post-Minimalism -- 4 Countries/19 Composers
Trace Label/2007
Calarts New Millennium Players

Maggi Payne: HUM
The Extended Flute
New World Records/1999
flutes, electronics: M. Payne

Ben Thigpen: h
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
composed at Les Ateliers UPIC, Paris

SET FOUR
Hervé Zénouda: Tout ou Rien
Demain, dès l'aube...
Trace Label/2002
alto saxophone: Cathy Heyden; electric guitar: Thomas Petit; percussion, computer music: H. Zénouda; recorded at Campus Studio, University Paris 13

Vertical Squirrels: Danse des araignées mécaniques
Hold True (Accroche-toi)
Actullecd/2010
recorded in Guelph, 2009

Carey Nutman: Log-a-Rhythm
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music and Video/2009
computer music: C. Nutman

Hugh Le Caine: A Noisome Postilence
Compositions/Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999
tape music: H. Le Caine; recorded 1958, courtesy of the Music Division of the National Library of Canada, Ottawa

Alvin Lucier: Sferics
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
recording supervised by Prof. Ron Kuivila, produced at the Wesleyan University Experimental Music Studio, December 2007

SET FIVE
Daniel Leduc: Trasverser les Grandes Eaux
Le Voyage d'Hiver
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
electroacoustic music> D. Leduc; recorded at SODEC, Montreal

Christine Groult: La Condition Captive
La Condition Captive
Trace Label/2007
commissioned by Ministère de la culture & Caen soirs d’été Festival, composed in 2003

Elaine Barkin: Out Back (from Five Collages)
Open Space 3 (Barkin/Boretz)
Open Space/1991
for dancer-choreographer Peggy Cicerska; tape sources and participants: Cynthia Woll, Warren Burt, Paul Humphreys, E. Barkin; created in 1986

SINGLE PLAY
Anne La Berge: Brokenheart
Speak
New World Records/2011
piano insides: Cor Fuhler; pre-recorded instruments built by Wessel Westerweld; computer music, voice, text: A. La Berge; recorded at VOLSAP, Amsterdam, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
John Luther Adams: Four Thousand Holes (1st 1/2)
Four Thousand Holes
Cold Blue Music/2011
piano: Stephen Drury; vibraphone, orchestra bells: Scott Deal; electronics: J.L. Adams; recorded in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 06/05/2011

2011-06-04T17:38:00.004-04:00

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for June 5, 2011

SET ONE
Pierre Boulez: Tombeau À La Mémoire Du Prince Max Egon Zu Fürstenberg
Boulez -- Orchestral Works & Chamber Music
Col Legno/2000
soprano: Eva-Maria Rogner; Ensemble Domaine Musical Paris, conductor: P. Boulez; recorded at Donaueschinger Musiktage, October, 1959

Ostravská banda: Dispersion (P. Załubska)
On Tour
Mutable Music/2011
Ostravská banda, conductor: Petr Kotík; recorded at La Fabrika, Prague, Contempuls Festival, 11/05/10

Victoria Jordanova: In a Landscape (J. Cage)
In a Landscape
ArpaViva Foundation, Inc./2007

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Credo in US (Second Version)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
The Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Robert J Werner Concert Hall, College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, May 2006, radio transmissions, 78-rpm recordings: Beethoven, Symphony No. 3; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4; Wagner, Lohengrin - Prelude to Act III; von Suppe, Light Cavalry Overture

SET TWO
Paul Lansky:
a. Say That Again
b. As Things Were
Alphabet Book
Bridge Records/2002
readers: P. Lansky; Hannah McKay

J.K. Randall: notebook A
1. rock&roll
2. symphonies
3. choir
4. hardscrabble
ars antiqua/a garland of midi
Open Space/2008

J.K. Randall: contrapunktus XI.2 (in memoriam David Lewin)
ibid.

SET THREE
John Rahn: The New Mother - 2 Excerpts
a. overture
b. Not Bad Enough
J K R pass 3 -- music for jim randall's 75th birthday by his friends
Open Space/2007
for five female voices, ten instruments, and electronic sound; libretto: Suzanne Rahn (adapted from Lucy Clifford)

John Rahn: Kali
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 12
Composers in the Computer Age -- 1
Centaur Records/1992
composed and recorded in at the University of Washington, Seattle, February 1986

SET FOUR
Anne La Berge: ur_DU
Speak
New World Records/2011
vocals: Stephie Büttrich; texts: A. Le Berge, Marie Curie; computer music: A. La Berge; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, summer 2009

Diane Labrosse: Black & white TV sets
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd/2007
violin: Marie-Soleil Bélanger; flute, fake trumpet: Jean Derome; electric guitar: Bernard Falaise; clarinet: Lori Freedman; accordion: D. Labrosse; viola: Jean René; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; with eight television sets; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal

Hugh Le Caine: Ninety-Nine Generators
Compositions/Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999
touch-sensitive organ: H. Le Caine (1956)

SET FIVE
Richard Pinhas:
a. Toward Belfast
b. Polywaves Intermed
Rhizosphere/Live, Paris 1982
Cuneiform Records/1994 (orig. 1977/1982)
drums, percussion: Clement Bailly; Minimoogs: Patrick Gauthier; bass: Bernard Paganotti; synthesizers, electronics, guitars: R. Pinhas; recorded at Bobino, Paris, 1982

Amon Tobin: Journeyman
ISAM
Ninja Tune/2011

Daniel Blinkhorn: relatively loud tones (from terra subfronica)
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011

Ivan Zavada: Neutron
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008

Tilmann Dehnard: Rohrschach
ibid.

SET SIX
Evidence: Bridge
Iris
Deep Listening/2007

Darren Copeland: Let Me Out (excerpt)
Trans_Canada -- ZKM/Karlsruhe DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2009

Matthew Burtner: Prismic Generation
Signal Ruins DVD
EcoSono/2009

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Tauriphanie
Aïs/Gendy3/Taurhiphanie/Thalleïn
Neuma Records/1994
for 2 channels magnetic tape, 4 loudspeakers, realized on the UPIC system at CEMAMu (CCMIX), Paris, 1987-1988

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 05/29/2011

2011-05-29T16:01:00.005-04:00

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for May 29, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Katherine Kemler: Revamper (A. La Berge)
Lipstick
Centaur Records/2008
recorded at LSU Recital Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, June 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Anne La Berge: Drive
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, flute, electronics: A. La Berge; text: A. La Berge as Mary Anderson, inventor of the windshield wiper; texts discussing the diesel engine and the human uterus: uncredited; recorded in Amsterdam, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: Downtime
Music Around Benjamin Boretz--Open Spaces 2005
Perspectives of New Music/The Open Space/2005
piano and percussion: B. Boretz

SET ONE
Gerard Pape: Ascension au Pergatoire (I-V)
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
percussion: Roland Auzet; Stachos programming: Sinan Bokesoy; musical assistant at CCMIX: Stafan Tiedje; recorded in Paris at the Recontres festival

Joane Hétu: Mais y’est où l’ch’min? (from Paysages)
Récits de neige
Actuellecd.com/2010
Ensemble Supermusique; text: Christine Simonin; recorded at Théâtre la Chapelle, Montreal, winter, 2008

SET TWO
Quartet for the End of Time: Cyber Talk (P. Oliveros)
Quartet for the End of Time
Pogus Productions/2011
recorded at RPI and the Deep Listening Institute, 2010

Pamela Z: Geekspeak
A Delay is Better
Starkland Records/2004

Paul Collins: Phone in Phone in (from Radio Spots)
Deep Wireless 8--Radio Arts Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011

Chris Trimmer: Noise
ibid.

SET THREE
Aldo Clementi: Parafrasi 2
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
alto flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; recorded at Labratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettronica, Foundazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, Italy, April 2005

Alexandra Gardner: New Skin
Luminoso
Innova Recordings/2006
alto flute: Barbara Held; computer: A. Gardner

SET FOUR
David Borden: Esty Point, Summer 1978
Places, Times & People
Cuneiform Records/1994
keyboards: D. Borden; cello: Hank Roberts; violin: Judy Hyman; guitar: Gabriel Borden

Codona: Inner Organs (D. Cherry)
The Codona Trilogy
ECM Records/2009
Codona: Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos, Collin Wolcott; recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Lidwigsburg, September, 1982

Meredith Monk:
a. Do You Be?
b. Vision
Key
Lovely Music, Ltd./1995 (orig. 1977)

Meredith Monk: Burn
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Todd Reynolds Quartet, recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Nick Didkovsky: Calm
Ice Cream Time
New World Records/2007

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 05/22/2010

2011-05-22T15:57:00.004-04:00

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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for May 22, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
NOW Ensemble: Awake (P. Burke)
Awake
New Amsterdam Records/2011
recorded at the Church of the Immaculate Conception; Montclair, NJ, August 2010

SET ONE
Okkyung Lee: Danji
Noisy Love Songs
Tzadik/2011
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; trumpet: Peter Evans; piano: Craig Taborn; percussion, electronics: Satoshi Takeishi; bass: Christopher Tordini; cello: O. Lee; recorded at Eastside Sound, NYC

Jenny Q Chai: from New York Love Songs (V. Jordanova)
a. Prayer
b. Bite
New York Love Songs
ArpaViva Foundation, Inc./2010
piano, amplified piano,jingle bells, vocals: J. Q. Chai; lyrics: Victoria Jordanova

Meredith Monk:
a. Shift
b. Fathom
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
(a) Todd Reynolds Quartet, bass clarinet: Bohdan Hilash, percussion: John Hollenbeck; (b) voice, shruti box: M. Monk; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009

SET TWO
Noah Creshevsky: Drummer
The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971-1992
EM Records/2004

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 2, "March No. I" (for Percussion Quintet)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Robert J Werner Concert Hall, Cincinnati; 11/06/07

Lou Harrison: Simfony #13
Drums Along the Pacific -- Music by Lou Harrison
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group; recorded at Fantasy Records, Berkeley, August 2002

SET THREE
George Cacioppo: Dream Concert for Organ and Small Percussion Orchestra
Perspectives of New Music/Open Space (François/Cacioppo)
The Open Space/2009
organ: William Albright; percussion: unknown; recorded at "Final Concert" of the International Symposium of Contemporary Organ Music, South Church, New Britain, CT, 6/15/76

George Cacioppo: Bestiary I: Eingang
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
soprano: Janet Pape; Atelier de Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles, conductor: Lionel Arnaud; recorded 3/26/04

SET FOUR
Mike Vernusky: Dallas
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011
Cody Kirk as Clint Hill, Michael Kranes as Arlen Specter, narrator: T. Lynn Mikeska; playwright: Greg Romero

Mike Vernusky: Under (3)
Music for Film and Electro-Theatre
Quiet Design/2009

Vertical Squirrels: Nomads, Sparrows, & Machines
Hold True (Accroche-toi)
Actuellcd.com/2010

SET FIVE
Yves Daoust: About Time
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011

Yves Daoust: Ouverture
Bruits
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
voices: Philippe Lavelette as Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Simon Finn as Lord Durham, Pierre Mollet as Mgr. Joseph-Octave Plessis, Louis Verdy as Robert Nelson, interviewer: Catherine Perrin; realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 1989

SET SIX
Quartet for the End of Space: Snow Drifts (J. Braasch)
Quartet for the End of Space
Pogus Productions/2011
recorded at the Arts Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., Kingston, NY, 2010

Mary Lee Roberts: Winter Cranes
6 Compositions
The Open Space/1997

Gordon Mumma: Mesa
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
bandoneón: David Tudor; live-electronic cybersonic processing: G. Mumma; recorded in Paris, 11/09/1966

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 05/15/2011

2011-05-15T14:07:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for May 15, 2011

SET ONE
Build: Behavior Patterns
Place
New Amsterdam Records/2011
recorded at Peter Karl Studios, Brooklyn, July 2010

Joseph Bertelozzi: The Homecoming
The Bronze Collection
Blue Wings Press/2003
recorded at Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY, 5/07/03

Henry Cowell: Return
Restless, Endless, Tactless --
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo and the Baylor Percussion Group recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2/10/2010

Okkyung Lee: One Hundred Years Old Rain (The Same River Twice)
Noisy Love Songs
Tzadik/2011
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; trumpet: Peter Evans; piano: Craig Taborn; percussion, electronics: Satoshi Takeishi; bass: Christopher Tordini; cello: O. Lee; recorded at Eastside Sound, NYC

SET TWO
Meredith Monk: Ascent
Songs of Ascension
ECM New Series/2011
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble; Todd Reynolds Quartet; The M6 vocal sextet; Montclair State University Singers, conductor: Heather J. Buchanan; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009

Muhal Richard Abrams: SoundDance, Part 1
SoundDance
Pi Recordings/2011
piano: M.R. Abrams; laptop, trombone: George Lewis; recorded at AACM Concerts, NYC, 9/24/2010

SET THREE
Victoria Jordanova: Secret Life of Bees
a. Swarm
b. Beehive
c. Go to Work
In a Landscape
ArpaViva Foundation, Inc./2007
electric harp: V. Jordanova

The Gregg Smith Singers: From Shook Foil (C.N. Mason)
Like Shining
Living Artist Recordings/2005
soloist: Eileen Clark; tape: Charles Norman Mason; text: Gerard Manley Hopikins, "God's Grandeur"

SET FOUR
Larry Austin: Max Mathews Episode
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 15
The Virtuoso in the Computer Age V --
Music for the Mathews/Boie Radio Drum and Radio Baton
Centaur Records/1994
from Transmission Two: The Great Excursion; conversation: L. Austin, M. Mathews; University of California Chamber Chorus, conductor: Philip Brett; keyboards: Chris Brown; celletto: Chris Chafe; percussion and Radio Drum: William Winant; computer systems: L. Austin; Jay Kadis, Randall Packer, Todd Winkler; featuring the voice of Max Mathews; "Daisy Bell," written by Harry Dacre (1892); live recording at Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley and live broadcast on KPFA, 2/26/1990

In Memoriam Max V. Mathews 11/13/26 -- 4/21/11

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 4, "March No. 2" for 12 radios (First Version)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
CCM Percussion Ensemble, conductor: James Culley; recorded at Robert J. Werner Concert Hall, University of Cincinnati, 5/25/06

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 1
ibid
for 2 variable-speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano and cymbal; performer: Joey Van Hassel; recorded at Robert J. Werner Concert Hall, University of Cincinnati, 6/12/08

SINGLE PLAY
Ostravská Banda: Concert for Piano and Orchestra (J. Cage)
On Tour
Mutable Music/2011
piano: Joseph Kubera; Ostravská Banda, conductor: Petr Kotík; recorded at the Prague Contemporary Music Festival, 11/05/10

SET FIVE
Judith Exley: The Cave of Tidal Sounds
Open Space 16 #
The Open Space/2004
created at the Electronic Music Studio of the Victoria University School of Music, Wellington, New Zealand; sounds sourced from Makara Beach, Wellington, 1993

Denis Smalley: Tides -- Sea Flight
Sources/Scenes
empreintes DIGITALes/2000
created at the University of Toronto Computer Systems Research Group, the Experimental Studio of Finnish Radio, and the Ina-GRM, Paris; completed at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1984

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: UN(-)1 (MIDI realization)
Open Space 13
The Open Space/1992
mastered 2001 by Mary Lee Roberts

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 05/08/2011

2011-05-08T14:48:00.005-04:00

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for May 08, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love
Vivian Adelberg Rudow/2004
cello cases (prepared tape): V.A. Rudow; cello: Paula Skolnick-Virizlay

SET ONE
NOW Ensemble: Velvet Hammer (S. Friar)
Awake
New Amsterdam Records/2011
recorded at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Montclair, NJ, August 2010

Ostravská Banda: Riti Neurali (L. Francesconi)
On Tour
Mutable Music/2011
violin: Hana Kotková; recorded at St. Wenceslas Church, Ostrava, live for Czech Radio, 10/25/2010

SET TWO
Okkyung Lee: Upon a Fallen Tree
Noisy Love Songs
Tzadik/2011
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; trumpet: Peter Evans; piano: Craig Taborn; percussion, electronics: Satoshi Takeishi; bass: Christopher Tordini; cello: O. Lee; recorded at Eastside Sound, NYC

Lei Liang: Winged Creatures -- A Cadenza for Harpsichord
Milou
New World Records/2011
harpsichord: Takae Ohnishi; violin: Kate Hatmaker, Jeff Zehngut; cello: Chia-Ling Chien; recorded at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, 9/15/10

John Luther Adams: ...and bells remembered...
Four Thousand Holes
Cold Blue Music/2011
The Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury; chimes: Jeffrey Means; vibraphone: Joseph Becker; orchestra bells: John Andress; bowed vibraphone: Joseph LaPalomento; bowed crotales: Bill Holden; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston

SET THREE
John Cage: Credo in Us (First Version)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Robert J. Werner Concert Hall, College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 5/26/06; phonograph record used in performance: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, New York Philharmonic/Leonard Berstein

Herbert Brün: Infraudibles with percussion
Wayfaring Sounds
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Percussion Group Cincinnati; computer music via tape: H. Brün

SET FOUR
J.K. Randall: Cleophila
Cleophila-The Fish-Svejk-Some Old Troubadour Songs
The Open Space/1999
voice: Martha Elliott; text: Sir Philip Sydney (The Old Arcadia)

J.K. Randall: Ars Antiqua w/ banjo
Ars Antiqua/A Garland of MIDI
The Open Space/2008

Eve Beglarian: Making Hey
JKR Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his Friends
The Open Space/2007
voice, keyboard: E. Beglarian; bass: Matt Fieldes; percussion: Damian Bassman

Tildy Bayar: One Past of "Past is Part of..."
(from "Three Readings," E. Barkin, 1988)
ee² -- A Sound Album by Elaine Barkin
The Open Space/2000

Elaine Barkin: Exploring the Rigors of in Between (August 1991)
ibid.
flute: Alice MacGonigal; French horn: Louise MacGillivray; violin: Marcy Dicterow-Vaj; viola: Lynn Lusher Grants; cello: Erika Duke Kirkpatrick, conductor: Daniel Kessner

Judith Shatin: Homemade Music
JKR Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his Friends
The Open Space/2007

SET FIVE
Quartet for the End of Space: Untitled #270 (F. López)
Quartet for the End of Space
Pogus Productions/2011
source material from Quartet improvisations at the RPI Arts Department, Troy, NY, 2010, and the Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, NY, 2010

Maggi Payne: Solar Wind
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
flute, synthesizers, electronics: M. Payne

SINGLE PLAY
Annette Vande Gorn: from Vox Alia
a. Giocoso
b. Amoroso
c. Innocentemente
Exils (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
realized from 1992-2000 at the Metamorphoses d'Orphee studo, Ohain, Belgium with sound material obtained from the SYTER and MARS systems of the INA-GRM studios, Paris

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 04/24/2011

2011-04-24T14:01:00.004-04:00

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 24, 2011

SET ONE
George Crumb: Easter Dawning
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
carillon: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, September, 2001

Lou Harrison: Easter Cantata
a. Sinfonia
b. Audabe
c. Mary's Song at the Tomb
d. Narrative
e. Alleluia
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
contralto: Michelle Rivard; tenor: Brian Staufenbiel; University of California, Santa Cruz, Chamber Singers; California Parallèle Ensemble and members of the UCSC orchestra; conductor: Nicole Paiement; recorded at the recital hall of the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001

SET TWO
Akemi Naito: from Voyage
a. Movement I
b. Movement II
Mindscape
Bridge Records/2006
flute: Tara Helen O'Connor; viola: Richard O'Neil; harp: June Han; recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, NY, 4/09/06

Ursula Mamlok: Der Andreasgarten
I. Dunkel...
II. Noch Schläft
III. Und Morgens...
IV. Kleiner Kolibri...
V. Libelle
VI. Rote Scheibe
VII. Taubenflug...
VIII. Andreasgarten...
IX. Der Mond...
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
mezzo-soprano: Rebecca Jo Loeb; flutes: Tara Helen O'Connor; harp: June Han; text: Dwight Mamlok; recorded Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, NY, 12/22/09

SET THREE
Lei Liang: Harp Concerto
Milou
New World Records/2011
harp: June Han; The Manhattan Sinfonietta; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky; recorded at Merkin Concert Hall, NYC, 2/18/09

Victoria Jordanova: Once Upon a Time
a. Ballade
b. Danse
Requiem for Bosnia
CRI/1994
harp: V. Jordanova

SET FOUR
Merce Cunningham event performance: September 12, 1998, Minneapolis
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; turntables: Christian Marclay

Malcolm Goldstein: Spring
The Seasons--Vermont
XI Records/1998
double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Brooks; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: M. Goldstein; saxophones, vaccuphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; voice, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, 2/26/83

Annea Lockwood: Floating World, Part 1
Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World
Pogus Productions/2007
environmental recordings from around the world

SET FIVE
Shane Hoose: Balance
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38
Music for Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
electronics: S. Hoose; percussion: Roger B. Schupp

Daniel Terrugi: Gestes de l'écrit
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
recorded by D. Terrugi at Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu (Centre d'Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales -- now CCMIX: Center for Computer Music Iannis Xenakis), 1994

SINGLE PLAY
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company: Easter
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. 1970-1973
Cuneiform Records/1999
recorded at the R.A. Moog Co., Trumansburg, NY, 1970

SET SIX
John Morton: Ta-wee
Solo Traveler--Music for Music Boxes
Innova Recordings/2007
music boxes, music box comb, sound processing: John Morton

Amy Horvey: Overture to the Queen of the Music Boxes (Horvey/Goldschneider)
Interview
Actuellecd/2009
trumpet: A. Horvey; music boxes, toy instruments, tuning forks, digital electronics: Jeff Morton; recorded at St. Philip's Church and Studio 270, Montreal

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Floating World, Part 2 (excerpt)
Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World
Pogus Productions/2007
environmental recordings from around the world

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 04/17/2011

2011-04-17T16:37:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 17, 2011

SET ONE
Benjamin Boretz: Violin Concerto, Movement I
Violin Concerto
The Open Space/2010
violin: Charles Castleman; The Eastman Composers' Orchestra; conductor: Geoffrey Pope; recorded March, 2010

Roger Sessions: Two Tableux and Malinche's aria from Montezuma
Americans in Rome -- Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Fred Sherry; flute: Helen O'Connor; clarinet: Charles Neidich; percussion: Daniel Druckman, James Baker; piano: Donald Berman; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 12/04/04

SET TWO
James Newton: from Mass
a. Kyrie
b. Gloria
Sacred Works
New World Records/2011
soprano: Elissa Johnston; mezzo soprano: Tracy Van Fleet; tenor: Daniel Chaney; bass baritone: Abdiel Gonazelez; flute: Gary Woodward; clarinet: Gary Bovyer; violin: Ralph Morrison; viola: Kazi Pitelka; cello: Cecilia Tsan; bass: David Young; piano: Vicki Ray; percussion: Lynn Vartan; conductor: Grant Gershorn; recored at Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Music, August, 2009

Kitty Brazelton: Motet
Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band; laptop, soundtracks, conductor: K. Brazelton; text: Eccles. 3:1-8, 15; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, NY

SET THREE
Giacinto Scelsi: Okanagon
The Works for Double Bass
Mode Records/2007
double bass: Robert Black; harp: June Han; tam-tam: Tom Kolor; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC, 10/10/04

John Cage: Four⁶
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
laptops: Paul DeMarinis, Jim O'Rourke; percussion, contact mic, tape, live electronics, voice: Takehisa Kosugi; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded 4/04/98, Berkeley, California, for the dance "Rondo" (1996), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET FOUR
Gregory Cornelius: Earth and Green*
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
for pitched and non-pitched electroacoustic sounds, recorded at MACCM
*after Mark Rothko's painting

Elainie Lillios: Toronto Island Contrasts
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009
aircraft, voices, and environmental sounds recorded in the Toronto Islands, Lake Ontario

John Oswald: Midday
Timefields & Maritides
MusicWorks Magazine/2006
sound collage featuring Albert Mayr and sounds from his "Horos Harmonica," (realized at Ontario College of Art, 11/15/84) and "Rhythme Trouvé—Onde Marine 2"; recordings by Tina Pearson and Gordon Monahan, Robert Stevenson

David Monacchi: Echoes of a Sonic Habitat
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electroic Music Foundation/Ear To The Earth/2008
original sounds recorded in Montefeltro, Italy, echoic effects and further sounds recorded at the Großer Wasserspeicher cisterns, Berlin

SINGLE PLAY
Wendy Carlos: Spring
Sonic Seasonings and Land of the Midnight Sun
East Side Digital/1998
electronics: W. Carlos (orig. 1972)

SET FIVE
Roland Auzet: Mecano 1 et 2 (P. Jodlowski)
a. Mecano 1 -- Percussion - Machine (toms)
b. Mecano 2 -- Percussion - Machine (Metal)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
percussion: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, Paris

Joseph Bertolozzi: Meltdown
Bridge Music
Delos Music/2009
percussed surfaces of the Mid-Hudson Bridge: J. Bertolozzi

Fetisch Park: Reiz
Alluvial
Extreme Records/1997

SINGLE PLAY
Jonty Harrison: Undertow
Environs DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
created at Harrison's studio, Birmingham, UK, 2007

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 04/10/2011

2011-04-10T16:03:00.005-04:00

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 10, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
James Newton: Sanctus (from Mass)
Sacred Works
New World Records/2011
soprano: Elissa Johnston; mezzo soprano: Tracy Van Fleet; tenor: Daniel Chaney; bass baritone: Abdiel Gonazelez; flute: Gary Woodward; clarinet: Gary Bovyer; violin: Ralph Morrison; viola: Kazi Pitelka; cello: Cecilia Tsan; bass: David Young; piano: Vicki Ray; percussion: Lynn Vartan; conductor: Grant Gershorn; recored at Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Music, August, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Sanctus
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
computers, samplers: N. Rolnick; realized at Wittenberg Studio, Bearsville, NY; iEAR Studios, Renseselaer Polytechnic Institute; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, recorded at iEAR, 10/13/90

SET ONE
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Rebonds B
b. Rebonds A
Mode Records/2006
Percussion Works
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego

Johanna Beyer:
a. IV
b. Percussion, Opus 14
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 Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; a. recorded 12/15/09; b. recorded 02/09/10

Lou Harrison: Music for Remy
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
flute: Leta Miller; percussion: William Winant; recorded at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: In Bingham
At Sixty -- Selections
11 West Records/2008
voice: S.S. Smith; recorded at Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron, March, 2008

Stuart Saunders Smith: By Language Embellished: I
a. Prologue
b. Scene I
c. Scene II
d. Scene III
e. Scene IV
f. Epilogue
Music/Theater -- New Dimensions (DeLio/Smith)
Centaur Records/2003
voice, percussion: Kristen Loree; producing director: John Bartlit; texts: S.S. Smith

SET THREE
John Cage/David Tudor: Story No. 50
(concerning smuggling cigarettes with Merce Cunningham)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
voice, text, music: J. Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; recorded at Columbia Teachers College, 1959, by Mel Kaiser

John Cage: Voiceless Essay
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
recorded 3/17/88 in New York City for the dance "Points in Space" (1986) The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Renée T. Coulombe: 12th Consciousness
Sounding Out! DVD
Everglade Records/2010

SET FOUR
Robert Morris: Rapport -- November 23, 1975 (excerpt)
Rapport
The Open Space/2011
synthesizer: R. Morris; tape delay system: David Mott; recorded at Yale Electronic Studio, New Haven, 11/23/75

Darren Copeland: Let Me Out (excerpt)
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized at the compoer's studio, Tornonto, 2006

SET FIVE
Mikel Kuehn: Chiaroscuro
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
recorded at MACCM; interactive electronics: M. Kuehn; cello: Craig Hultgren

Craig Hultgren: The Artist and His Model (C.N. Mason)
Music of the NEXT Moment
Innova Recordings/1995
electronic tape: Charles Norman Mason; cello: C. Hultgren

SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Sonata I (R. Ashley)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
grand piano: BGT; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1978

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 04/03/2011

2011-04-02T15:47:00.004-04:00

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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 3, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Luciano Berio: O King
The Great Works for Voice
Mode Records/1995
soprano: Christine Schadeberg; flute: Katherine Flanders Mukherji; clarinet: Sheldon Berkowitz; violin: Marshall Coid; cello: Ted Mook; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; conductor: Hayes Biggs; recorded 4/03/95, Sheppard Hall, CCNY

In commemoration of the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee

SET ONE
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring ("Side One")
Volume 2 -- Electronic Works
Mode Records/2004
electronics: M. Subotnick (orig. 1975); digital remastering: Steve Puntilillo, Sonicraft, NJ

Joel Chadabe: Spring
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
electronics: J. Chadabe; percussion: Jan Williams

SET TWO
Michael Thompson: Derailed
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
electronics M. Thompson; recorded at MACCM, 2002

Natasha Barrett: Mobilis in Mobili (from Tradewinds)
Bouteilles de Klein DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
field recordings from oceans, harbors, and the 100-year-old ship The Anne Christina realized at the composer's studio, Oslo, 2006, samples: Storm Weather Shanty Choir; narration: Capt. Jon Varhus of the Anne Christina; title Mobilis in Mobili inspired by Jule's Verne's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

Djalma Farias: Telas Sonoras No. 3
Música Eletroacústica Brasileira, Vol. III #
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/2004
realized at the composer's studio, Brasilia, cello: Ocello Mendonça

SET THREE
Robert Morris: Rapport -- December 16, 1975, 8 pm (excerpt)
Rapport
The Open Space/2010
synthesizer: R. Morris; tape delay system: David Mott; recorded at Yale Electronic Studio, New Haven, 12/16/75

Jerry Hunt: Transform (Stream): Monopole
Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams
O.O. Discs/1992
voice, device arrays: J. Hunt

SET FOUR
Judy Dunaway: Etude No. 1 for Balloon and Violin
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006
balloon: J. Dunaway; violin: Tom Chiu; recorded at Harsh House, Jersey City, NJ

Aaron Drake: Number 4 from 10 Etudes for Balloon
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

John Cage/David Tudor: Story No. 76 (Henry Cowell's Oriental Music Class)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
voice, text, music: J. Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; recorded at Columbia Teachers College, 1959, by Mel Kaiser

Monks of the Drukpa Order: Nyule Drelwa
Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan, Volume 3
Temple Rituals & Public Ceremonies
Lyrichord/1994 (orig. 1971)
recorded by John Levy at the Nyingmapa Monastery, Kyichu Lhakhang, Paro Valley, Bhutan, 1971

SET FIVE
Laurie Anderson:
a. Cunningham Stories (At the age of twelve...)
b. Cunningham Stories (Every Morning...)
c. Cunningham Stories (The Cunningham Company...)
A Chance Operation -- The John Cage Tribute #
Koch International Classics/1993
music: L. Anderson; texts: J. Cage

John King: longtermparking
Music for Merce boxed set #
New World Records/2010
laptop: J. King; recorded in London, 9/10/02, for the dance "Fluid Canvas" (2002), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SINGLE PLAY
Annie Gosfield: Lightheaded and Heavyhearted
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Tzadik/2004
Flux Quartet; recorded at Avatar Studios, 6/07/04

SINGLE PLAY
Ellen Band/David Lee Myers: Ualen Lagoon (1-3)
Two Ships
Pogus Productions/2005

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 03/27/2011

2011-03-27T15:11:00.007-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 27, 2011

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros: Bye Bye Butterfly
Women In Electronic Music 1977 #
New World Records/2006
electronics, tape recorders, turntable: P. Oliveros; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1965

Kraftwerk:
a. Geiger Counter
b. Radio-Activity
Radioactivity
Capitol/1975

Douglas Geers: Atomic Tango
Sonic Circuits IX #
Innova Recordings/2002
recorded at NoTAM, Oslo, April, 2001

SET TWO
George Crumb: Somebody Got Lost In a Storm* (trad.)
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
baritone: Patrick Mason; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swathmore College, October, 2008
*from Voices from a Forgotten World: A Cycle of American Songs from North and South, East and West (American Songbook V)

Tod Machover:
a. Loneliness and Transition
b. Dr. Stone's Scene
VALIS
Bridge Records/1988
baritone: Patrick Mason (Horselover Fat); bass: Terry Edwards (Dr. Stone); percussion: Daniel Ciampolini; piano, keyboards: Emma Stephenson; electronics, conductor: T. Machover; text: Phillip K. Dick; libretto: T. Machover; recorded at the Experimental Media Facility, M.I.T., February, 1988

Laurie Spiegel: Riding the Storm
Unseen Worlds
Scarlet Records/1991
Music Mouse, electronics: L. Spiegel

Terumi Narushima: He Resonates Five Toes
Why Record? Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
koto: T. Narushima; recorded by Warren Burt

Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A Political Prisoner's Dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
composed at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May, 1973-May, 1977

Daniel Eichenbaum: Car Accident
60 x 60 2003 #
Capstone Records/2003

George Crumb: Black Angels -- Departure
I. Threnody I: Night of the Electric Insects (Tutti)
II. Sounds of Bones and Flutes (Trio)
III. Lost Bells (Duo)
IV. Devil-music (Solo: Cadenza accompagnata)
V. Danse Macabre (Duo)
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol 7
Bridge Records/2003
The Miró Quartet; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October, 2002

SET TWO
Shar: Chopped Meat
Pop Music
Outerrealm Records/2002
balloons, vibrator: Judy Dunaway; drums, percussion: Trixa Arnold; Ilja Komarov; bass, Egyptian fiddle; recorded at Studio LH, Luzern, Switzerland

Einstürzende Neubauten: Krieg In Den Städten (War in the Cities)
Strategies Against Architecture 1980-1983
Mute Records/1988 (orig. 1983)

Luigi Russolo: Risveglio di una città (Awakening of a City) (orig. 1913)
Futurism & Dada Reviewed #
Sub Rosa/1988
performed 1977 on a reproduced Intonarumori by Mario Abate and Pietro Verardo at the Historical Contemporary Art Archive of the Venice Biennale

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, 12/14/09

John Cage: [First] Construction in Metal
The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
Wergo/1994
Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, director: Paul Price; piano: David Tudor, assisted by Merce Cunningham; recorded at Town Hall, 5/15/58

SET THREE
Elainie Lillios: Au deuxième étage
Miniatures Concrètes #
empreintes DIGITALES/1999

Elainie Lillios: Veiled Resonance
I. The Beauty of Inflections
II. The Blackbird Whistling (...or just after)
III. The Beauty of Innuendos
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
soprano saxophone: Steve Duke; interactive electronics E. Lillios

SET FOUR
Aldo Clementi: Serenata
Works with Guitar
Mode Records/2007
guitar: Geoffrey Morris; ELISION Ensemble, conductor: Carl Rosman;
recorded at Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne, Australia

Aldo Clementi: Passacaglia
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; tape realized at Centro Tempo Reale, Florence; recorded at Laboratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica -- Fondazione Scula di San Giorgio, Venice, April, 2005

In memoriam Aldo Clementi May 25, 1925 -- March 3, 2011

SET FIVE
Jon Gibson: Equal Distribution
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
flute, live electronics: J. Gibson; recorded in New York City, 10/08/78 for the dance "Fractions I," The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Jon Gibson: Song 1
Two Solo Pieces, plus Melody IV Part I, Melody II, Song 1
Felmay/Newtone Records
violin: Barbara Benary; cello Arthur Russell; cello: Martha Siegel; soprano saxophone: J. Gibson; recorded at Washington Square Church, NYC, 3/03/74

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Bregquelle to Immendingen (excerpt)
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd/2008
field recordings from Öhrlein Farm, near Furtwangen, Germany, 4/30/02

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 03/20/2011

2011-03-19T14:39:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 20, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: Rafales
a. Rafales 2
b. Rafales 1
3. Rafales 3
Récits de Neige
Actullecd/2010
Ensemble SuperMusique; texts: Pierre Tanguay ("Our Shack"), Jean Derome ("The Birth of Raphaëlle"), Scott Thomson ("Beautiful Flakes"); recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, winter, 2008

SET ONE
Marilyn Shrude: Trope
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
acoustic and prerecorded alto saxophones: James Fusik, Jeffrey Heisler, John Sampen; recorded at MACCM, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Marilyn Shrude: A Window Always Open on the Sea
I. In the name of a name lost
II. Harsh is the voice that summons
III. Down sunglazed bluffs
IV. Mother-of-pearl glow
V. The tide spreads, enters coppery inlets
VI. As the sun drowns
VII. Hermit of the heart...Nothing is changed for a name
The Core Ensemble--Bending the Light
New World Records/1999
cello: Andrew Mark, piano: Hugh Hinton, percussion: Michael Parola; movement titles: Michael Mott ("Autumn Odysseus");recorded at Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College, 1996-1997

SINGLE PLAY
Stefan Wolpe: Passacaglia (from Four Studies on Basic Rows)
Music of Stefan Wolpe Volume Six
Bridge Records/2011
piano: David Holzman; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, 2008-2010

SINGLE PLAY
Stefan Wolpe: Passacaglia (op. 23)
Wolpe in Jerusalem (1934-1938)
Mode Records/2006
WDR Sinfonieorchestger Köln; conductor: Jannes Kalitzke; recorded at Philharmonie Köln, Novemeber, 2002

SET TWO
Arie Shapira: Second Opinion
Different Compositions 1967-2003/2004
Israel Contemporary Players, conductor: Zsolt Nagy; recorded in Dreseden, May, 2002

Mathew Rosenblum: Ancient Eyes
Ancient Eyes
CRI/1999
Prism Players, conductor: Bradley Lubman; recorded at Master Sound, Astoria, NY, November, 1996

SET THREE
Matthew Burtner: A'aa
MICE World Tour -- Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble
EcoSono/2009
lava flows recorded at the Pacaya volcano, Gutemala

Barton McLean: Ice Canyons
Sound Worlds
Innova Recordings/2010
B. Mclean: Composer's Playpen software, MIDI keyboard, recorded at McLean Mix, Petersburg, NY

Audrey Churgin: Arctic Sun Arctic Wind
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
drum dance and song performed by Rosalie Pissuk and son, Rankin Inlet, Nunavut; other sounds and narration: A. Churgin

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Jitterbug
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
electric guitar, viola, live electronics: John King; laptop, zither: David Behrman; live electronics: Stephen Moore; recorded 1/26/08, Stanford, California, for the dance "eyeSpace" (2007), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET FOUR
John Cage/David Tudor/Takehisa Kosugi: Five Stone Wind (Excerpt)
Five Stone Wind/Cartridge Music
Mode Records/1991
amplified violin, live electronics, bamboo flute: T. Kosugi; clay pots, tapes: Michael Pugliese; live electronics: D. Tudor; recorded in Paris, September, 1988, for the dance "Five Stone Wind," The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 03/13/2011

2011-03-13T16:16:00.004-04:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 13, 2011

SET ONE
Doris Humphrey: Dance Rhythms
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, 2/10/10

Ursula Mamlok: Sculpture I
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Garrick Ohlsson; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October, 2007

SET TWO
Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Creshevsky/Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2008
violin samples: M. Kimura

Mari Kimura: Vitessimo for Augmented Violin
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
IRCAM Augmented Violin: M. Kimura; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, engineer: Tom Hamilton

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Roaratorio -- An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
a. Part Three (to Line 594)
b. Part Four (To End)
Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002 (orig. 1992)
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier; voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; text: James Joyce; premiered 10/22/79, West German Radio, Cologne

SINGLE PLAY
Yasunao Tone: Geography and Music
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
voice: John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi; piano: David Tudor; qin (guqin): Martin Kalve; Chinese text reader: Yoshiharu Suenobu; texts extracted from geography sections ancient Chinese encyclopedias; recorded in Lueven, Belgium, 10/20/83 for the dance "Roadrunners" (1979), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET THREE
Larry Austin: Tárogató!
Octo Mixes -- Octophonic Computer Music: 1996-2001
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
soprano saxophone: Stephen Duke: recorded/processed tárogató: Esther Lamneck; computer music composed at gaLarry, Denton, Texas, 1998; tárogató recorded at NYU, 4/29/97; saxophone recorded at DRM, Dallas, 9/07/01

Esther Lamneck/Roberto Fabbriciani: Winds of the Heart, parts 8-11
Winds of the Heart
Innova Recordings/2010
tárogató: E. Lamneck; HyperBass flute: R. Fabbriciani; recorded at Studio Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy, 2008

SET FOUR
David Rosenboom: Prologue
Systems of Judgment--CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 4
CCM: Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, Oakland
Centaur Records/1989
recorded at CCM, 1987-1988

David Rosenboom: Music from--On Being Invisible II
(Hypatia Speaks to Jefferson in a Dream)
a. In the Beginning...Reasoned Mind
b. Evolution with Singular Events
c. Political Assertions
d. The Mathematics of Miscegenation
e. Logan's Speech
f. Philosophical Musings with a Sense of Reminiscing
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30
Music from the Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology,
California Institute of the Arts
Centaur Records/2000
narrator: Sam Ashley; dream voices of Hypatia and TJ: Teri DeSario and Roxanne Merryfield; brainwaves and computer performance: D. Rosenboom; texts: Thomas Jefferson, Cherokee Chief Logan, D. Rosenboom, and material attributed to contemporaries of Hypatia of Alexandria; recorded at CEAIT, October, 1999

SET FIVE
Amy Horvey: Apparatus Inconcinnus (R. Purchase)
Interview
Actullecd.com/2010
trumpet, voice: A. Horvey; text based on an anecdote by Daniil Kharms; recorded at St. Philip's Church and Studio 270, Montreal

Mark Applebaum:
a. Entre Funérailles I
b. Theme in Search of Variations III
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
a. trumpet: Brian McWhorter; recorded at PINK, 2/22/08; b. performed by Beta Collide; recorded at PINK, 3/02/08

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Akea
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
piano: Aki Takahashi; The Jack Quartet; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 6/23/08

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 03/06/2011

2011-03-06T15:44:00.005-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 6, 2011

SET ONE
Barry Truax: The Shaman Ascending
Tranx_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
vocal samples: Derrick Christian, bass; realized at the composer's studio, mixed at the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 2004-2005

Jorge Reyes: Arbol Sagrado
The Flayed God
Staalplaat/1994
composed and performed by J. Reyes; recorded at El Cuarto de Maquinas, Mexico City, 1990

SINGLE PLAY
Johanna Beyer: Three Movements for Percussion
a. Restless
b. Endless
c. Tactless
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, 12/15/09

SET TWO
Luc Ferrari: Madame de Shanghai
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Scottish Flute Trio; samples: Asians on Avenue d'Ivry, Li Ping Ting: Madame de Shanghai; Orson Welles from "The Lady from Shangahi" (1947); Scottish Flute Trio recorded at The Tolbooth Arts Centre, Stirling, Scotland, August, 2006; tape realized at Ateliers UPIC/CCMIX, Paris; musical assistant: Brigitte Robindoré

The Hub: The Minister of Pitch (T. Perkis)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
computers, electronics: John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster; recorded at Mills College, 5/13/88

SET THREE
Alwin Nikolais: Revels--Dance 3 (1986)
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993
electronics: A. Nikolais

Merce Cunningham Event group: September 14, 1996, Annemasse, France
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
laptop, percussion: David Behrman; electric violin, live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; steel pan, objects: Fast Forward

David Behrman: Interspecies Smalltalk, Scene 1
Leapday Night
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
violin: Takehisa Kosugi; computers, electronics: D. Behrman; commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the dance "Pictures" (1984)

SET FOUR
John Luther Adams: Roar
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska, 2002-2003

John Luther Adams: Solitary and Time-Breaking Waves (for 4 tam-tams)
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati, November, 1998

SET FIVE
Alvin Lucier: Twonings (1st 1/2)
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2011
cello: Charles Curtis; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn; engineer: Tom Hamilton

Alvin Lucier: Fan
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
kotos: Miki Maruta, Ryuko Mizutani, Kayoko Nakagawa, Yoko Nishi; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 2/08/05, engineer: Tom Hamilton

SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Faith
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
piano: Bob Gluck; laptop: N. Rolnick; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 02/27/2011

2011-02-26T16:43:00.003-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for February 27, 2011

SET ONE
Liana Alexandra: Hora
60 x 60 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004

Liana Alexandra: Barcarolla
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

In memoriam Liana Alexandra May 27, 1947 -- January 10, 2011

SET TWO
George Crumb: Bringing in the Sheaves* (Shaw/Minor)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
mezzo-soprano: Jamie Van Eyck; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swathmore College, October, 2008
*from Voices from a Forgotten World: A Cycle of American Songs from North and South, East and West (American Songbook V)

Roland Auzet: Themen (C.R. Alsina)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Musique Aujord'hui; conductor: Jean-Marie Adrien; percussion: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville

SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
The Composer in the Computer Age: Mara Helmuth Sound Collaboration
Centaur Records/2007
created and recorded at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati

Phillip Bimstein: Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa
Larkin Gifford's Harmonica
Starkland/2006
oboe: Stephen Caplan; sounds recorded at Zion National Park, Utah

SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp: Beneath the Forest Floor
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
sounds recorded in British Columbia by Norbert Ruebsaat and H. Westerkamp,1991, produced at CBC's Advanced Audio Production Facility, Toronto

SET FOUR
Michael Pugliese: Peace Talks (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
sitar, percussion: Takehisa Kosugi; percussion: Michael Pugliese; recorded 11/13/90, Bangalore, India, for the dance "August Pace," (1989), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Fritz Hauser: Deep Time (version 2) (excerpt)
Deep Time
Deep Listening Institute/2005
percussion, tape: F. Hauser; accordion, Expanded Instrument System: Pauline Oliveros; EIS, electronics, small instruments: David Gamper; soprano and tenor saxophones: Urs Leimgruber; improvised 10/26/94

SET FIVE
Luc Ferrari: Visage 2
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Musique Nouvelle, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at l'Auditorium Abel Dubois, Mons, Belgium, 4/21/06

Lukas Foss: Echoi IV
Echoi/The Fragments of Archilochos/Non-Improvisation
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
piano: L. Foss; percussion: Jan Williams; cello: Douglas Davis; clarinet: Edward Yadzinski; recorded at the Buffalo and Erie County Library, 11/20/68

SET SIX
Nicole Grutter: What If? (from the collection Out of House and Home)
Deep Wireless 7 Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010

Fereshteh Toosi: If it Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Deep Wireless 6 Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009

Danielle Palardy Roger: Quien sabe (La Niña)
a. Prologue
b. Todos los bienes del mundo
c. El mar es bello
d. Pero agitato
e. ¡Coraje!
f. Los recites
g. El paso
h. Hacia l'America
Pinata, Niña, and Maria
Actuellecd.com/2008
Ensemble SuperMusique, director: Jean René; (b.)text: Juan del Encina c. 1490; recorded for Une Constellation de Mutants concert, Montreal, 4/02/08

SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith/Bob Ostertag: Voice of America, Part 1
Voice of America (Frith/Ostertag/Minton)
Rift Records/1982
guitar, tape, electronics, radio: F. Frith; synthesizers, electronics, radio: B. Ostertag; recorded at P.A.S.S., New York City, January, 1981

John Cage: Bird Cage, Part 6 (excerpt)
Bird Cage
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
realized by William Blakeney at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario, December, 1998; original source material recorded at SUNY Albany, 9/09/73

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 02/20/2010

2011-02-20T13:30:00.004-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for February 20, 2011

SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Sintra
I. With Intensity
II. Very Fast
III. Calmly
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2011
alto flute: Claire Chase; cello: David Eggar; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October, 2007

Elliott Carter: Enchanted Preludes
Eight Compositions (1948-1993)
Bridge Records/1994
flute: Harvey Sollberger; cello: Fred Sherry; recorded at Astoria Sound, NYC, 5/20/93

Carrie Rose: Legacy Variations #99 (S. S. Smith)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
flutes: Lisa Cella, Carrie Rose, Kathie Trahan

SINGLE PLAY
Bunita Marcus: Adam & Eve
Bang On A Can Vol. 3 -- "Live"
CRI/1994
Bang On A Can--flute: Susan Stenger, violin: Marilyn Gibson, cello: Joshua Gordon, percussion: Yiu Kwong Chung and Tom Goldstein, piano: Sheri Bauer; conductor: Bunita Marcus

SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry (Region 3)
Crippled Symmetry
Bridge Records/1999
The California EAR Unit--flute and bass flute: Dorothy Stone, vibraphone and glockenspiel: Arthur Jarvinen; piano and celeste: Vicki Ray

Alvin Lucier: Broken Line
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2010
flute: Robert Dick; vibraphone: Danny Tunick; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn

SET THREE
Newspeak: Brennschluß (P. Muchmore)
Sweet Light Crude
New Amsterdam Records/2010
lyrics: Brian Phillips; recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, NYC

Zeitgeist:
a. Mutagenesis (D. Wolff)
b. Stück (P. Blackburn)
Here and Now -- Celebrating Thirty Years of Zeitgeist
Innova Recordings/2011

Alvin Curran: Romulus and Remus Make a Ruckus
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
for sound installation and projection by Kristin Jones; sound by Domenico Sciajno, University of Rome, June, 2003

SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: Après presque rien
a. Le lever du jour au bord de la mer
b. Le désir de vivre
c. Ainsi continue la nuit dans ma tête multiple
d. Avec filles
e. Le remontée du village
f. Presque rien (aka. Exploitation des Concepts no. 5)
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
ensembles -- Art Zoyd and Musique Nouvelles, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at Auditorium Abel Dubois, Mons, Belgium, 4/21/06; electronics -- recorded at CCMIX, Paris, directed by Gérard Pape, assistant: Patricia Dallio; samplers, keyboards: Nathalie Négro, P. Dallio

SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: Jamais Froid
a. Neige
b. Flakes
c. Jamais Froid
d. Paysages
Récits de Neige
Actuellecd.com/2010
Ensemble SuperMusique; text: Gilles Derome; recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, winter, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Neural Network Plus (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi; recorded in Lisbon, 6/05/94, for the dance "Enter" (1992), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 02/13/2011

2011-02-12T15:37:00.004-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for February 13, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass/Robert Wilson: Knee 5
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch Records/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; women's chorus; voice: Jasper McGruder; text: Samuel M. Johnson, "Two Lovers"; recorded 1993

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: The Ghosts of Alhambra (Spanish Songbook I)
I. Alba (Dawn)
II. Las Seis Cuerdas (The Six Strings)
III. Danza (Dance)
IV. Paisaje (Landscape)
V. ¡AY!
VI. Malagueña
VII. Memento
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
baritone: Patrick Mason; guitar: David Starobin; percussion: Daniel Druckman; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca;
recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, June, 2010

SET ONE
J.K. Randall: through Lapland
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba #
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Jean Geoffroy; recorded at Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, July 3, 2009

J.K. Randall:
a. Quartets in Paris
b. Quartersines
Computer Music #
Nonesuch/1974
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Paul Lansky: The Joy of F# Minor
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007

Steve Mackey: Wish It Were
Lost & Found
Bridge Records/2007

SET TWO
Ursula Mamok: Sonar Trajectory
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
realized at the Columba-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966

Daria Semegen: Electronic Composition No. 1
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
realized at the C-PEMC, 1971

Brad Garton: Dan's Toys
Go Go Go - Music from the Computer Music Center, Columbia University #
Columbia University Computer Music Center/2000

SET THREE
So Percussion ~ Trollstilt: Martin's Garden
Five (and-a-half) Gardens
Shhh Productions/2007

Bernadette Speach: Chosen Voices
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
prepared guitar: Jeffrey Schanzer; toy piano: B. Speach; recorded at LRP Studios, New York City, 2000-2001

Christian Wolff: For Morty
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (Chamber Works Vol. 2)
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop; recorded at the Hilversum Conservatorium, Hilversum, The Netherlands, 1994-1998

Morton Feldman: For Violin, Cello, and Vibraphone (from Durations)
Intermediate Music
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble, recorded at HR-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, 1996-1997

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Ixion
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
pianos: John Cage, David Tudor; recorded in rehearsal for the dance "Summerspace" (1958)

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Brief an den Vater
Études pour Kafka
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
vocalizations: Hans Tutschku; narration: Martin Engler; text: Franz Kafka; realized in 2006 at Dhomont's studio, Avignon

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Almost New York
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2010
flutes: Robert Dick; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 02/06/2010

2011-02-06T12:54:00.005-05:00

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for February 6, 2010

HOMAGE TO MILTON BABBITT
May 10, 1916 -- January 29, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
David Starobin: Danci (M. Babbitt)
Newdance
Bridge Records/1998
guitar: D. Starobin; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, NY

SET ONE
Milton Babbitt: String Quartet No. 2
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2004
The Composer's Quartet -- violin: Matthew Raimondi, violin: Anahid Ajemian, viola: Jean Dupouy, cello: Michael Rudiakov

Milton Babbitt: All Set, for Jazz Ensemble
Spectrum -- New American Music, Volume V
Nonesuch Records/1974
The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, conductor: Arthur Weisberg

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
Mark II RCA Synthesizer: M. Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: Dylan Thomas; created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1961

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: John Hollander (based on Ovid's "Philomena"), created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964

SET TWO
Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer
New Electronic Music from Leaders of the Avant-Garde
Columbia/1968
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt, created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964

Milton Babbitt: Occasional Variations
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2004
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt, created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968-1971

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: An Elizabethan Sextette
I. When I Was Fair and Young
II. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
III. Your Face, Your Tongue, Your Wit
IV. Can Doleful Notes to Measured Accents Set
V. First Love
VI. Neopolitan
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
voices: Susan Jacquemot, Janet Steele, Johanna Arnold, Nancy Bergman, Barbara Ann Martin, Martha Rafferty-Page, conductor: Harvey Sollberger; texts: I. attributed to Elizabeth I; II. Barnabe Googe; III. attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh; IV. Samuel Daniel; V. Thomas Campion; VI. Michael East; recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York, 12/19/84

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Groupwise
ibid.
The Group for Contemporary Music, conductor: Daniel Shulman; recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York, 12/23/84

SET THREE
William Anderson: Sheer Pluck (M. Babbitt)
Diary of a Seducer
CRI/2000
guitar: W. Anderson

Dorothy Stone: None But the Lonely Flute (M. Babbitt)
None But the Lonely Flute
New World Records/2000
flute: D. Stone

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Swan Song No.1
The Music of Milton Babbitt
Bridge Records/2003
Cygnus Ensemble; conductor: Jeffrey Millarsky; recorded at Eonta Sound, Bronxville, 2003

--FIN--

Milton Babbitt -- May 10, 1916 -- January 29, 2011

2011-01-30T14:53:00.003-05:00

The total serialist composer and electronic music pioneer Milton Babbitt died Saturday at the age of 94.

Milton Babbitt: Portrait of a Serial Composer
A film by Robert Hilferty and Laura Karpman on NPR Music. The filmmaker Robert Hilferty passed away before he could complete this documentary. Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman, one of Babbitt's students at the Julliard School, completed the film. It provides a wonderful introduction to the composer, his music, and his life -- and no mention of "Who Cares If You Listen"!

Sylvia Babbitt predeceased Milton in 2005. They are survived by their daughter Betty Ann Duggan and two grandchildren.

Here the late Dr. Babbitt discusses his work for which he is most famous, his time at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Video courtesy of Dr. Eric Chasalow of Brandeis University:

Martian Gardens for 01/30/2009

2011-01-29T15:08:00.006-05:00

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 30, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
David Starobin: Solo e Duettini (M. Babbitt)
New Music With Guitar, Vol. 5
Bridge Records/1993
In memory of Milton Babbitt who died January 29th, 2011, at age 94

SINGLE PLAY
Ted Hearne:
a. Bridge to Gretna
b. Anderson Cooper and Mary Landrieu
c. Brownie, You're doing a Heck of a Job
Katrina Ballads
New Amsterdam Records/2010
b. soprano: Allison Semmes; c. baritone: Anthony Turner; c. tenor: T. Hearne; recorded with large ensemble at Avatar Studios, Manhattan March, 2008

Phil Kline: Three Rumsfeld Songs
a. As We Know
b. That Many Vases
c. Near-Perfect Clarity
Zippo Songs
Cantaloupe Music/2004
The Zippo Band--vocals: Theo Bleckmann; violin: Todd Reynolds; guitars: Phil Kline; percussion: David Cossin; texts: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from Pentagon briefings; recorded at Ft/Lb Studio, Brooklyn, 2003

SET TWO
Ben Johnston: String Quartet No. 5
String Quartets Nos. 1,5, & 10
New World Records/2011
The Kepler Quartet; recorded at the Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church, Milwaukee, 7/21/2010

Arlene Zallman: Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
cello: Hekun Wu; piano: Elise Yun; recorded at The Sonic Temple, Roslindale, Mass., July, 2001

SET THREE
Arvo Pärt: Affannoso (mvt. II Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles")
Symphony No. 4
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic; conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, January, 2009

Ingram Marshall: Rave, Parts I & II
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2002
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve

SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: In Memoriam: Nikola Tesla, Cosmic Engineer (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
voices, live electronics, acoustical-space sound activators: John Cage, Gordon Mumma, Jean Rigg, David Tudor; dance: Canfield (1969); recorded on tour, 1972, Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Henry Brant: Revenge Before Breakfast
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2007
piccolo: Paul Taub; clarinet: Gregg Miller; violin: Ella Marie Gray; cello: Walter Gray; percussion: Matthew Kocmieroski, Thomas Eckert; accordion: Laurie Andres, conductor: Henry Brant; recorded in Poncho Hall, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, 2/12/85

SINGLE PLAY
New Band: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994
New Band performed on original PARTCH INSTRUMENTS; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, Queens, 1991-1993

SET FIVE
Danielle Palardy Roger: Qui connaît (La Pinta)
a. Tout le monde en place
b. Nuit sombre
c. Réveil brutal
d. Ah l'aventure
e. Gloire, fortune, renommée et chance
f. Tous les biens de ce monde
Pinta, Niña, & Maria
Actuellecd/2010
performed by the ensemble GGRIL; recorded 8/12/2007

Tim Hodgkinson: Fragor
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006

SINGLE PLAY
Takehisa Kosugi: Spacings
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: T. Kosugi; dance: Doubles (1984), recorded in New York City, 3/20/1988, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

--FIN--

About Merce Cunningham

2011-01-24T17:39:00.003-05:00

A little video about the modern dance choreographer Merce Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009):

New World Records released Music for Merce, a 10-CD boxed-set dedicated to the music accompanying Cunningham's work over his five-decade career as director of The Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Martian Gardens for 01/23/2009

2011-01-22T18:27:00.006-05:00

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 23, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Otto Luening: Moonflight
Pioneers of Electronic Music
New World Records/2006
created at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968

Henry Cowell: The Tides of Manaunaun
Piano Music
Smithsonian-Folkways/1993 (orig. 1963)
piano: H. Cowell

Philip Corner:
a. Short Piano Piece IV
b. Short Piano Piece IX
c. Short Piano Piece XIII
40 Years and One -- Philip Corner Plays the Piano
XI Records/2001
piano: P. Corner; recorded at IIWII studios, Weehawken, NJ, January, 1998

Gamelan Son Of Lion: Sad/Happy (D. Goode)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
clarinet: Daniel Goode

SET TWO
John Cage: Music Walk
The Works for Piano I
Mode Records/1995
piano, short radio, objects: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, Mass., March 1993

John Cage: Inlets (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
conch shells with water: Paeder Mercier, Mel Mercier, J. Cage
recorded at Roubaix, France, 10/27/1983; dance: Inlets (1977), Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET THREE
Christian Wolff: Or 4 People (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
piano, melodica: C. Wolff; live electronics, violin, harmonica: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded in New York, 7/23/1999; dance: Rune (1959), Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Christian Wolff: Snowdrop
Tilbury Pieces/Snowdrop
Mode Records/1999
violin, viola: Dimitrios Polisoidis; piano: Hildegard Kleeb; trombone: Roland Dahinden; recorded at Sender Freies, Berlin, May, 1996

SET FOUR
So Percussion & Matmos: Swamp
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010

So Percussion & Trollstilt: Matisse's Garden Lesson
Five (and-a-half)Gardens
Shhh Productions/2007
recorded at Princeton University

Chen Yi: Jing Marimba
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: Gordon Stout; recorded at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, 7/05/09

SET FIVE
Neil Rolnick: MONO Prelude
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
laptop, voice: N. Rolnick; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, February, 2010

Madelyn Byrne: Arrival
Sounding Out! (DVD extracts)
Everglade Records/2010

SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: La Neige
a. Neige 1-2
b. Neige 5-3
c. Neige 4-2
d. Regarder la neige tomber
Récits de neige
Actuellecd/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

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Austin: Caritas
Source--Music of the Avant Garde (Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971)
Pogus Productions/2009
PDP-10 computer, Buchla Electronic Music System: L. Austin, realized 1969 for the Artificial Intelligence Project, Stanford University

SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: Negro Hall
Lisbon Concert
New Albion Records/1996
piano: T. Riley; recorded at the Festival dos Capuchos, Teatro São Luís, Lisbon, Portugal, 7/16/95

--FIN--

Hearne, Small, Rolnick

2011-01-16T11:42:00.007-05:00

Another selection from Katrina Ballads by Ted Hearne. This one is called "Anderson Cooper." Like the rest of the texts from "Katrina Ballads," Hearne uses words straight from the media at the time of Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005.

This is another performance of Washington D.C. pianist Haskell Small of "Lullaby of War."

ETHEL performs Neil Rolnick's "Gene Pool" featured on his latest CD "Extended Family" (Innova Recordings)

Click on videos to watch directly from YouTube.

Martian Gardens for 01/16/2011

2011-01-15T13:04:00.009-05:00

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 16, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
David Behrman: ...for nearly an hour... (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
voices: Valda Setterfeld, Carolyn Brown, Barbara Dilley Lloyd, Beverly Emmons, for the dance "Walkaround Time," recorded in Buffalo, 1968

SINGLE PLAY
David Baker: Through This Vale of Tears
I. Thou Dost Lay Me in the Dust of Death
II. If There Be Sorrow
III. My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
IV. Parades to Hell
V. Deliver My Soul
VI. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
VII. Now That He Is Safely Dead
VIDEMUS
New World Records/1992
tenor: William Brown; violins: Lynn Chang, Marylou Speaker Churchill, viola: Marcus Thompson; cello: Mark Churchill; piano, artist director: Vivian Taylor; recorded at The African American Meeting House, Boston, 1991; texts: I., III., V. Psalm 22; II. Mari Evans; IV. Solomon Edwards; VI. traditional; VII. Carl Hines
In memoriam Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, January 15, 1929 -- April 4, 1968

SINGLE PLAY
Ted Hearne: from Katrina Ballads
a. Prologue: Keeping its Head Above Water
b. When we awoke it was to that familiar phrase: New Orleans dodged a bullet
c. Hardy Jackson 8.30.05
d. Interlude 1
e. Dennis Hastert
Katrinia Ballads
New Amsterdam Records/2010
a. mezzo-soprano: Abby Fischer; text: Eric Berger, The Houston Chronicle (12.01.01); b. horn: Nathan Koci; title: Pamela Davidson-Ehlers, American Federation of Government Employees; c. baritone: Anthony Turner; text: Hardy Jackson, resident of Biloxi, ABC Television; e. tenor: Isaiah Robinson; text: Dennis E. Hastert (R-IL), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; recorded with 16-member chorus and ensemble in March, 2008, Avatar Studios, Manhattan

SET ONE
Amy Horvey: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola (G. Scelsi)
Interview
Actuellecd/2009
trumpet: A. Horvey; recorded at St. Philip's Church and Studio 270, Montreal, August, 2009

Giacinto Scelsi: from Suite no. 5: Il Circo
I. Deciso
II. "quarter note" = 120
III. Grazioso
IV. "quarter note" = 108
V. Spigliato
The Piano Works 4
Mode Records/2010
piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Extended Family
a. The Gene Pool
b. Siblings
c. Cousins & Uncles & Aunts
d. Loss
e. The Gathering
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
ETHEL string quartet; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, February, 2010

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Family Portraits
a. Sylvia
b. Ivy
c. Earle
Crux
O.O. Discs/1992
piano: Thomas Moore

John Cage:
a. Totem Ancestor
b. Ad Lib
c. Jazz Study
d. Music for Marcel Duchamp
The Works for Piano 4
Mode Records/2002
pianos: Margaret Leng Tan

SINGLE PLAY
Toshi Ichiyanagi: Activities for Orchestra
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
viola: David Behrman; piano, voice, percussion: John Cage; horns, live electronics: Gordon Mumma; piano, live electronics: David Tudor; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; percussion: Max Neuhaus; for the dance "Scramble" (1967), recorded on tour, May, 1968

SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: Visages V (Parts 1-3)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 01/09/2011

2011-01-09T15:19:00.005-05:00

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 9, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Giacinto Scelsi: Hispania (Trypyque pour Piano)
I. Mosso, con spirito
II. Moderato
III. Mosso
The Piano Works 4
Mode Records/2010
piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Haskell Small: Lullaby of War
I. War is Kind
II. No
III. Recitative VIII (excerpts)
IV. Naming Souls
V. Look Down, Fair Moon
VI. Guernica Pantoum
Lullaby of War/Renoir's Feast/3 Etudes in Sound
Naxos/2011
piano: Soheil Nasseri; narrator: Martin Rayner; texts: I. Stephen Crane; II. Joy Harjo; III. Yvan Goll; IV. Uri Zvi Greenberg; V. Walt Whitman; VI. Paula Tatarunis

SINGLE PLAY
Toca Loca: Bring Them Home! (F. Rzewski)
Shed
Henceforth Records/2010
piano: Simon Docking; percussion: Ajyun Huang; percussion: Fernando Rocha; piano, conductor: Gregory Oh; recorded at Walter Hall, University of Toronto

SET ONE
Gidon Kremer: Eight Hymns (In Memoriam Andrei Tarkovsky) (S. Kovacs Tickmayer)
a. Calmo
b. Tranquilo
c. Pesante
d. Sereno
e. Molto Tranquilo
f. Dolce
g. Molto Semplice
Hymns and Prayers
ECM Records/2010
violin: Gidon Kremer; piano: Khatia Buniatishvili; vibraphone: Andrei Pushkarev; Kremerata Baltica orchestra, conductor: Roman Kofman; recoreded at Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus, Lockenhaus, July, 2008

Anthony De Mare: Statue of Liberty (L. Anderson)
Speak! The Speaking-Singing Pianist
Innova Recordings/2010
Recorded at Rolston Recital Hall, Banff, November, 2008

SET TWO
Nicolas Bernier: Writing Machine
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)(DVD Extract) #
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
voice: André Garant; commissioned by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: Certain Gravities
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
voice: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Curran: The Works (excerpt)
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
recorded in Rome, circa 1974

SINGLE PLAY
Sylvia Smith: Mureau (J. Cage)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
Smith Publications/2008
voices: S. Smith; text: Henry David Thoreau's Journal, arranged by I Ching chance operations by John Cage

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 01/02/2011

2010-12-26T14:43:00.004-05:00

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Program for January 2, 2011

SET ONE
Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; soprano: S. Botti; text: e.e. cummings;
recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 12/04/97

Arlene Zallman: Nightsongs
Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
soprano: Karol Bennett; flute: Leone Buyse; clarinet: Michael Webster; texts: Wendell Berry, Joseph Freiherr von Echendorff; recorded at Duncan Hall, The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, February, 2007

Tod Machover: Flora
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
voice samples: Karol Bennett; recorded at the MIT Media Lab, 1989

SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes II
Kingdom Come
Nonesuch Records/2001
Kronos Quartet; fog horns recorded in San Francisco Bay; recorded at Skywalker Sound, August, 1996

Arvo Pärt: Movement III
Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles"
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, January, 2009

SET THREE
John Cage:
a. Our Spring Will Come
b. And the Earth Shall Bear Again
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at the Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 2001-2002

Martin Bresnick: For the Sexes -- The Gates of Paradise (1 & 2)
The Essential Martin Bresnick [DVD supplement]
Cantaloupe Music/2006
piano and voice: Lisa Moore; text and images: William Blake; computer animation: Puppetsweat Theater

Steve Reich: Double Sextet, Movement I -- Fast
Double Sextet -- 2 x 5
Nonesuch Records/2010
Eighth Blackbird; recorded at WFMT Studio, Chicago, August 27-28, 2009

SET FOUR
Mark Applebaum:
a. Martian Anthropology 7
b. Martian Anthropology 8
c. Martian Anthropology 9
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
The Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band; recorded at Theater Artaud, San Francisco, March 31 & April 1, 2006

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: La Rage (Raging Rabies)
a. Renard Fou
b. Techno-Sexe: vol d'aeroport
c. Entrevue Avec le Proprio
d. Prendre le Contrôle de la Tour
e. Epilogue: pas d'avenir
La Rage
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
recorded at the Electroacoustic Music Studios at the University of Huddersfield, UK, 2004-2005

SET FIVE
Pierre Schaeffer: Cinq études de bruits (Five Studies of Noises)
a. Railroad Study
b. Whirligig Study
c. Study in Purple
d. Study in Black
e. Study in Pathos
L' Oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Musique Concrete recorded in France, 1948

César Bolaños: Intesidad y Altura
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
premiered in the hall of the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 11/21/64

SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp: Für Dich -- For You
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)#
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
electroacoustic recordings: H. Westerkamp; text: Rainer Maria Rilke "Liebes-Lied," translated by Norbert Ruebsaat; readers: Wendelin Bartley, Susan Benson, Anne Bourne, Loui Ettling, Peter Grant, Andra McCartney, Norbert Ruebsaat, R. Murray Schafer, Agnes Westerkamp, H. Westerkamp; realized at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 2005

SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Rainforest (1968)
David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Teatro Novo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7/30/68

Gordon Mumma: Song Without Words (In Memoriam David Tudor)
ibid.
solo piano: G. Mumma

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/19/2010

2010-12-18T13:39:00.008-05:00

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for December 19, 2010
Extended Edition

SINGLE PLAY
William S. Burroughs: The Junky's Christmas
Spare Ass Annie & Other Tales
Island Records/1993
narration, text: W.S. Burroughs; music: Michael Franti, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

SET ONE
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: Uncle Bernie's Farm
Absolutely Free
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1967)

Shelley Hirsch/Jon Rose/Chris Cutler:
After Hours/The Colour of BLOOD
The ReR Quarterly Vol. 4/No.2 #
ReR Megacorp/1997
voice: S. Hirsch; violin, keyboard, voice: J. Rose; electronics, percussion: C. Cutler; recorded at Radio Student, Ljublana, Slovenia, 11/15/93

Laurie Anderson: New York Social Life
Women in Electronic Music 1977 #
New World Records/2006
voice, telephone: L. Anderson; tambura: Scott Johnson

If, Bwana: DTTO Lisa
"Assemble.age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley

Shelley Hirsch: Blanche Dubois (Hirsch/Weinstein)
States
Tellus--Harvestworks/1997
text, vocals: S. Hirsch; keyboards, vocals: David Weinstein; recorded at Roulette, New York City

SET TWO
Linda Dusman: Magnificat 4 -- Ida Ida
Singing Out! [DVD] #
Everglade Records/2010
voice: L. Dusman, text: Gertrude Stein

Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records/2001
tape: L. Dusman; readers: Susan McCully, readers: Phil Maki; text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at W.I.N.C. Studio, West Newton, Massachusetts

SET THREE
Eric Chasalow
a. Fast Forward
b. Over the Edge
Over The Edge
New World Records/1993
(a) percussion: Amy Knoles, Arthur Jarvinen, tape: E. Chasalow (b) flute: Patricia Spencer, tape: E. Chasalow; realized at BEAM, Brandeis, University

Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: In The Land of Perfect Days
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
vocalizations: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

So Percussion:
a. Recitative (track 5)
b. Chorus (track 6)
Threads (Music by Paul Lansky)
Cantaloupe Music/2010
Eric Beach, Jason Treuting, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski: percussion; recorded at Avatar Studios, 2008

SET FOUR
Arvo Pärt: Movement I -- Con Sublimità
Symphony No. 4, "Los Angeles"
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, January, 2009

Martin Bresnick: I. Semplice, Inesorabile (from Trio for piano, violin, and cello)
The Essential Martin Bresnick
Cantaloupe Music/2006
performed by the Jupiter Trio; recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University, 12/16/05

SINGLE PLAY
Giacinto Scelsi: Uaxuctum--The Legend of the Mayan City
(which they themselves destroyed for religious reasons) I-V
The Orchestral Works 2
Mode Records/2006
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Peter Rundel; Concentus Vocalis, director: Herbert Böck; recorded at the Festival 'Wien Modern,' Vienna Concert House 11/04/05

SET FIVE
Judith Shatin: Penelope's Song
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electronics: J. Shatin; violin: Hasse Borup

Stuart Saunders Smith: Books of Flutes
Double Image
11 West Records/2005
flute: Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer

SET SIX
Alvin Curran: For MG
Lost Marbles
Tzadik Records/2004
piano, tape: A. Curran; recorded for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, 1992

Ingrid Drese: Papillon, abîme, nuit (Butterfly, Abyss, Night)
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized at Drese's studio, Belgium, 1999

SET SEVEN
Frances White: Like the Lily
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen Ting; double bass: Troy Rinker, Jr., electronics: F. White

Natasha Barrett: Sub Terra Cycle -- Sand Island
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
realized at Barrett's studio, Oslo, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Dimitri Voudouris: 1:ΘΦ4
ΑΛΘ=Φ/UVIVI/1:ΘΦ4/ΟΝΤΑ
Pogus Productions/2010

--FIN--

Barrett and Pärt

2010-12-18T10:14:00.004-05:00

Oslo-based sound artist Natasha Barrett (b. 1972 Norwich, UK) performs section from her "Sub Terra Cycle" for German radio:

Performance from Arvo Pärt's Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles"
(Mvt. III - Deciso) (Arvo Pärt, b. 1935 Estonia)

Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen - conductor

Royal Albert Hall
Friday 20 August 2010 - UK Premiere