Martian Gardens 6/08/08

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: http://martiangardens.blogspot.com/
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

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

SET 1
Lou Harrison: Suite for National Steel Guitar--
a. Jahla
b. Solo
c. Palace Music
d. Threnody to the Memory of Oliver Daniel
e. Serenado por Gitaro
Por Guitaro--Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
National Steel Guitar: John Schneider

John Schneider: Plaint & Variations on 'Song of Palestine' (L. Harrison)
a. Plaint
b. Variations
Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003

SET 2
Karen Tanaka: Invisible Curve
Invisible Curve*
New World Records/2008
*music of Chen Yi and Karen Tanaka
performed by the Azure Ensemble

Roland Auzet: Metallic Cristal (K. Tanaka)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2007

SET 3
Steven Ricks: A Glimpse Beyond the Zero
60 x 60--2004/2005 #
voxnovus.com/2007

Steven Ricks: Beyond the Zero
Mild Violence
Bridge Records
violin: Curtis Macomber

Malcolm Goldstein: Configurations in Darkness
A Sounding of Sources
New World Records

SET 4
David Lee Myers/Marco Oppedisano:
a. Pheromones
b. Chopsocky
Tesla at Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America

William C. Harrington: The Tcotchke*
Noise Noise
William C. Harrington/2008
*sic

Marco Oppedisano: The End is Near
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Capstone Records/2004

Gen Ken Montgomery: Static/Hiss
Pond-floor-sample
XI Records/2002

Ellen Band/David Lee Myers: Ualen Lagoon (part 3)
Two Ships
Pogus Productions/2005

SET 5
Ellen Band: Closet Bird
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2001

Richard Maxfield: Night Music
New Sounds in Electronic Music #
CBS-Odyssey/1967

SET 6
David Dunn: Mimus Polyglottos
Music, Language and Environment
Innova Recordings/1996

Elsa Justel: Chi-Pa-Poo
Miniatures Concretes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

Martian Gardens 6/01/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
http://www.wmua.org/
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
expanded edition
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: http://martiangardens.blogspot.com/
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SET 1
George Crumb: The Sleeper
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 11
Bridge Records/2008
mezzo-soprano: Jan DeGatani
piano: Gilbert Kalish
text: Edgar Allen Poe
Recorded in concert 2/25/87

George Crumb:
a. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
b. Music of the Starry Night
Black Angels; Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
from Makrokosmos II: Music for a Summer Evening
amplified pianos: Luz Manriquez, Walter Morales
percussion: Brian Spurgeon, Michael Passaris, Mark Shope
voices, whistles, recorder: Andres Cladera
conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo

SET 2
Roland Auzet: Oroc.pat
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2007

Steven Ricks: Dividing Time
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
Talujon Percussion Quartet

SET 3
The Hub: Lou Drift
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
Dedicated to Lou Harrison

Lou Harrison: Fugue
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group

Ron George: Gupta Sloka Chand
The Floating Bubble
Innova Recordings/2008
composed/conducted by John Bergamo
percussion: R. George, Amy Knowles, David Johnson
Three movements: Peshkar; Khyal; Jhala

SET 4
Giacinto Scelsi: Kshara
Works for Double Bass
Mode Records/2007
double basses: Robert Black, John Eckhardt
Three movements, untitled

Iannis Xenakis: Theraps
Music for Strings
Mode Records/2005
double bass: John Eckhardt

SET 5
Johanna Beyer: Ballad of the Star-Eater
Sticky Melodies
New World Records/2008
soprano: Merlyn Quaife
clarinet: Craig Hill
text: Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet

Johanna Beyer: Music of the Spheres
Women in Electronic Music--1977 #
New World Records/1997 (orig. 1750 Arch/1977)
The Electric Weasel Ensemble

Jorge Antunes: Three Chromophonic Studies
I. Study for Green and Red Circles
II. Study for Blue and Orange Spirals
III. Study for Yellow and Violet Points
Savage Songs (1961--1970)
Pogus Productions/2003

SET 6
Meredith Monk: Scared Song
Do You Be
ECM Records/1987
piano: Nurit Tilles; voice, synthesizer: M. Monk

Joan La Barbara: Circular Song
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
Recorded in concert at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, 2/26/76

Pamela Z: Obsession, Addiction, and the Aristotelian Curve
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2005
harp: Barbara Imhoff; composition: Imhoff, Z

SINGLE PLAY
Randall Smith: Convergence
Sondes--Multiple Soundings
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
concert accordion: Joseph Petric

Martian Gardens 5/25/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: http://martiangardens.blogspot.com/
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SINGLE PLAY
Hyo-Shin Na: Walking, Walking
(piano: Thomas Schultz)
ALL THE NOISES
New World Records/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel*
(soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: John Hollander)
PHILOMEL
New World Records/1995
*In belated honor of Milton Babbitt's 92nd birthday, 5/10/08

SET 1
Eleanor Hovda: Leaning Into and Away
(Prism Players*)
ARIADNE MUSIC
O.O. Discs/1998
*Featuring Dominic Donato

Steven Ricks: Haiku
(Dominic Donato: Tibetan prayer bowls, tam-tams)
MILD VIOLENCE
Bridge Records/2008

SET 2
E. Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba X
Desde El Outro Lado--Electroacoustic Music from Latin America#
O.O. Discs/1998

Alwin Nikolais: Pierrot--Dance 3
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993

The Hub: Wheelies
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008

SET 3
Elsa Justel: Du Libe Tu?
Deep Wireless 5--Radio Art Compilation#
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Russell Pinkston: All Around Me
Four Electroacoustic Dance Suites*
Centaur Records/2005
*CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 34

SET 4
The Hub: The Minister of Pitch
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008

Simon Wickham-Smith: Love & Lamentation II
Love & Lamentation
Pogus Productions/2008

SET 5
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring (Side One)
Sidewinder/Until Spring
Mode Records/2004

David Tudor: Rainforest (excerpt)
(live electronics: D. Tudor; Takehisa Kosugi)
RAINFOREST
Mode Records/1998

Martian Gardens 5/18/08

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 22:00--24:00 EDT
Abrreviated edition XIII
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: http://martiangardens.blogspot.com/
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR MAY 18, 2008

SET 1
Johanna Beyer: The Federal Music Project
(The Astra Choir; conductor: John McCaughey)
STICKY MELODIES
New World Records/2008

John Cage: Four-2--Version 2
(Ars Nova)
THE CHORAL WORKS I
Mode Records/1998

Jorge Antunes: Cromorfonetica
(Coro Pro-Arte Ensemble Graz; conductor: Karl Ernst Hoffmann)
NO SE MATA LA JUSTICIA!
Paulinas/2003

SET 2
Roland Auzet: Mecano I/Mecano II (P. Jadlowski)
Percussions
Mode Records/2007

Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux: Arksalartoq
(text: Noel Audet, Gilles Marsolais)
IMPULSIONS
empreintes DIGITALes/2001

SET 3
The League of Automatic Music Composers:* Oakland 1
TLOAMC 1978-1983
New World Records/2007

The Hub:**
a. Peyote
b. The Glass Hand
BOUNDARY LAYER
Tzadik/2008

*John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Jim Horton
** John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Mark Trayle, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster

SET 4
Sarah Peebles: Lift
Deep Wireless 5 #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Sarah Peebles: Phoenix Calling (Dance Version)*
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996

*Ikuo Kakehashi: Tuned Percussion; Hriomi Yshida/S.Peebles: Sho; Bugaku Percession Ensemble;
Andy Morris: Claves (taped)

SET 5
Anne Cammon: India Songs
a. General Meditation Camp, Dagshai
b. In a Hot Country
c. Silent Meditation Camp, Dagshai
d. An Indicepherable Knowledge
(Text, voice: A. Cammon; music, processing: Rob Voisey)
BRANT LYON & FRIENDS
LogoChrysalis Productions

Pauline Oliveros: Poem of Change
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998

SINGLE PLAY
Richard Karpen: Life Study no. 5
Solo/Tutti
Centaur Records/2004

Martian Gardens 5/11/08

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
http://www.wmua.org/
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 22:00--24:00 EDT
Abrreviated edition XII
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: http://martiangardens.blogspot.com/
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR MAY 11, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love
(cello: Paula Skolnick-Virizlay Childress)
WITH LOVE/PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND
Hollins & Park/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Plays Well With Others
(Paul Dresher Ensemble's Electroacoustic Band; text, voice: N. Rolnick)
DIGITS
Innova Recordings/2006

Tom Waits: 'Tain't No Sin (Donaldson/Lesie)
(vocal: William S. Burroughs; bass clarinet, Emex: Greg Cohen; Waits: marimba Emax)
THE BLACK RIDER
Island Records/1993

Eve Beglarian: Landscaping for Privacy
(text: Linda Norton)
TELL THE BIRDS
New World Records/2006

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: A Day on the Planet Gilbert
(voice: Sam Ashley)
CONCRETE--AN OPERA
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008

SET 2
Giacinto Scelsi: Ko Tha--Three Dances of Shiva
(double bass: Robert Black)
THE WORKS FOR DOUBLE BASS
Mode Records/2007

Robert Black: Two in the Hand (R. Zvonar/R. Black)
(double bass: R. Black/electronics: Robert Zvonar)
State of the Bass
O.O. Discs/1994

SINGLE PLAY
Henry Brant: Nomads*
The Henry Brant Collection Vol. 2
Innova Recordings/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Joe McPhee/John Heward: Improvisation 10
(pocket trumpet, soprano sax: J. McPhee; drums, kalimba: J. Heward)
VOICES - 10 IMPROVISATIONS
Mode Records/ 2007


*Henry Brant: Nomads
Oberlin Wind Ensemble and Brass Ensemble
Henry Brant: Guest Conductor
Steve Fallon: Voice
Dave Dimmock: Saxophone
Adam Rudolph: Drumset
IN MEMORIAM HENRY BRANT
September 15, 1913 -- April 26, 2008

Martian Gardens 5/04/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
http://www.wmua.org/
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 22:00--24:00 EDT
Abrreviated edition XI
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: http://martiangardens.blogspot.com/
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR MAY 4, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Henry Brant: Ghosts and Gargoyles I-X
(The New York Flute Club)
MUSIC FOR MASSED FLUTES
New World Records/2006

R.I.P. Henry Brant
September 15, 1913 -- April 26, 2008
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/29/BALI10DAE2.DTL

SET 1
Roland Auzet: Metalic Cristal (K. Tanaka)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2007

Ron George: Sleep and Waking (mvt. I-III) ) (B. Johnston)
The Floating Bubble
Innova Recordings/2008

SET 2
Diane Labrosse: Best Of
(sampler: D. LaBrosse; electric guitar: Bernard Falaise)
MUSICWORKS 100 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2008

Francis Dhomont: Here and There
...Et Autres Utopies
empreintes DIGITALes/2006

SET 3
Simon Wickham-Smith: The Kin-Kindness of Beforehand
(text, voice: Rachel Becker)
LOVE & LAMENTATION
Pogus Productions/2008

Simon Wickham-Smith: Just Kidding
a. Paraquat
b. Unsafeday
c. Brickliff
d. The Machine Says It
ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC IX #
Electroshock Records/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Inzell to Traismauer
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008

SET 4
Noah Creshevsky: Breathless*
Who
Centaur/2000

Noah Creshevsky: denoument
60 x 60 2004/2005 #
voxnovus.com/2007


*Dedicated to Ruth Anderson and Annea Lockwood

Tabula Rasa

Max Shea
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, MA 01003
http://www.wmua.org/
live webcast

TABULA RASA
Wednesday, 4/30/2008
20:00--22:00
Substitute host for Victor Signore
http://www.martiangardens.blogspot.com/

SELECTIONS

Kenneth Gaburo: Lingua II--Maledetto*
Maledetto/Antiphony VIII
Pogus Productions/2008

Thomas Buckner: Conceptuality/Life (P. Kotik)
(baritone: T. Buckner; S.E.M. Ensemble; text: R. Buckminster Fuller)
NEW MUSIC FOR BARITONE & CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Mutable Music/2008

Phill Niblock: Disseminate Ostrava
(Ensemble OCNM/Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Petr Kotik)
DISSEMINATE
Mode Records/2004

David Hahn: Magnetic Tangents
Your Time is Up
davidhahnonline.com/2007


*Kenneth Gaburo: Maledetto
Narrator: Alan Johnson
Duet: Elinor Barron, Burice Leibg
Quartet: Soprano--Winifred Golden; Alto: Lindo Vickerman;
Tenor--Howard Crook; bass: Philip Larson
Directed by K. Gaburo