Martian Gardens for 7/13/2008

Martian Gardens 7/14/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Extended edition July 13, 2008, 21:30--01:00
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SET 1
New Band: Congressional Record (D. Drummond)
Harry Partch/Dean Drummond
Innova Recordings/2002
Newband; baritone: Robert Osborne
Texts: Sen. Jesse Helms, Kenneth Starr, esq., Rep. Joe Knollenberg

Harry Partch: Barstow--
Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at
Barstow, California (1941, rev. 1968)
The Harry Partch Collection, Vol. 2
New World Records/2002 (orig.CRI/1997)
The Harry Partch Ensemble, director: Danlee Mitchell; recorded 1982 Mills College

SET 2
George Crumb: Music of the Starry Night
Black Angels; Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
pianos: Luz Manriquez, Walter Morales
Percussion: Nena Lorenz, Brian Spurgeon, Michael Passaris,
Mark Shope
voice, whistles, recorder: Andres Cladera
conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo
Recorded at Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Alumni Concert Hall
Recording Studio, Pittsburg, PA, fall 2002

John Cage: Two-2 (63'33.528 - 70'19.669)
Two-2
Mode Records/2008
pianos: Rob Haskins, Laurel Karlik Sheehan
Recorded at Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY,
8/16/01

SET 3
Noah Creshevsky: Chamber Concerto
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik/2007

Arthur Kreiger: Meeting Places
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
The New York New Music Ensemble, conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky
Recorded at the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center,
SUNY Purchase, October 2001

SINGLE PLAY
The New York New Music Ensemble: Thirteen Loops (R. Steiger)
New Electro-Acoustic Music
Centaur Records
NYNME; conductor: Robert Black
Recorded 2/16/92 at Sound on Sound, NYC


SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Thallein
Ais-Gendy 3-Taurhiphanie-Thaellein
Neuma Records/1994
SONOR Ensemble of UCSD, conductor: Rand Steiger
Recorded February 1991, Warren Studios, UC San Diego

SET 4
Arie Shapira: Second Opinion
Different Compositions 1967--2003
Arie Shapira/2004
Israel Contemporary Players; conductor: Zsolt Nagy
Recorded May 2002, Dresden

Matthew Rosenblum: Ancient Eyes
Ancient Eyes
New World Records>CRI/1999
Prism Players; conductor: Bradley Lubman
Recorded November 1996, Master Sound, NYC

SET 5
Adrian Moore: Sieve
Traces
empreintes DIGITALes/2003

Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60--2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Bernard Falaise: Yeti
Clic
/Actuellecd/2008

SET 6
David Lee Myers/Marco Oppedisano: Hyperpituitary Giant
Tesla at Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America2008

Mark Petering: Digital Mouse
60 x 60--2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Julian Cartwright: Grasshopper
60 x 60--2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

The Hub: Noosphere
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Simon Wickham-Smith: Sandokai
Love & Lamentation
Pogus Productions/2008
text: Sekito Kisen; Organ sampled from Erik Satie

Martian Gardens 7/06/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
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SINGLE PLAY
from 60 x 60:
a. Eve Beglarian: My Heart is Trembling
b. Robert Sazdov: Old Soluna do Tetovo
c. Douglas Geers: Polk Pond
e. George Brunner: From Pinalan
f. Kilick: Submersion/subversion/heart
g. Joseph Vogel: Cat purring by an open window, Variation I
60 x 60: 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

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

SET 1
Henry Cowell: Dynamic Motion
Piano Music
Smithsonian Folkways/1993

George Crumb: Otherworldly Resonances (2005 rev.)
I. Double Helix
II. Celebration and Ritual
III. Palimpsest
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 11
Bridge Records/2008
Tableaux, Book II, for two amplified pianos
Quattro Mani--
pianos: Susan Grace and Alice Rybak

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Julius Eastman:
a. Spoken Introduction
b. Crazy Nigger (excerpts)
Unjust Maliaise
New World Records/2005
introduction: J. Eastman
pianos: Frank Ferko, Jannet Kattas, Patricia Martin, J. Eastman
Recorded in concert 1/16/1980 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

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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/1981
voices: Andrea Goodman, Monica Solem, Julius Eastman, Robert Een,
Paul Langland, M. Monk
cello: R. Een
Percussion: J. Eastman
Recorded at Hometown Studios, NYC, March, 1980

SET 2
Joan Jeanrenaud: Song of Songs (K. Tanaka)
Metamorphosis
New Albion Records
cello: J. Jeanrenaud; electronics: Karen Tanaka

Karen Tanaka: Water and Stone
Invisible Curve
New World Records/2008
The Azure Ensemble; conductor: Gerald Steichen

SET 1
John Cage: Two-2 (excerpt 10)
Two-2
Mode Records/2008

Martian Gardens 6/29/2008

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Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
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PROGRAM FOR JUNE 29, 2008

SET 1
Giacinto Scelsi: from Ko-Tha "Three Dances of Shiva" (parts II/III)
The Works for Double Bass
Mode Records/2007
double bass: Robert Black

Bertram Turetzky: Outline--An Improvisation Chart (P. Oliveros)
The Contemporary Contrabass
Nonesuch Records/1970
flutes: Nancy Turetzky;percussion: Ronald George
title out of print

SET 2
Giacinto Scelsi:
a. Taigaru II
b. Sauh II
Incantations--The Art Song of Giacinto Scelsi
New Albion Records/2005
voice: Marianne Schuppe

Johanna Beyer: Three Pieces for Choir
a. The Main Deep
b. The Composers Forum Laboratory
c. The People, Yes!
Sticky Melodies
New World Records/2008
a. The Astra Choir, conductor: John McCaughey; text: James Stephens
b. ibid., piano: Kim Bastin; text: J. Beyer
c. ibid., text: Carl Sandburg

SET 3
Patti Monson: Afterlight (R. Dick)
Conspirare--Chamber Music for Solo Flute
CRI/2000

Steven Ricks: Boundless Light
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
flute: Carlton Vickers; electronics: S. Ricks

SET 4
Alwin Nikolais: Pierrot--Dance 3
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993

Bernard Falaise:
a. Allo
b. Tricheur
c. Watt
Clic
Actuellecd/2008

David Lee Myers/Marco Oppedisano: Roog
Tesla At Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008

Pril Smiley: Kolyosa
Pioneers of Electronic Music #
New World Records/2006
original release: CRI/1991

SET 5
Kenneth Gaburo: Maledetto (excerpt)
Maledetto/Antiphony VIII
Pogus Productions/2008
narrator: Allen Johnson
director, text: K. Gaburo
original release: Lingua II--Maledetto, CRI/1974

David Jaggard: Mary & Ann
Sonic Circuits VIII #
Innova Recordings/2000
voice: D. Jaggard; text: Samuel Beckett, "Watt"

SINGLE PLAY
Russell Pinkston: Memory of Absence
Four Electroacoustic Dance Suites--
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 34
Centaur Records/2005
narrator: Jose Bustamante;
texts: Norbert Ruebsaat, Jorge Luis Borges

SINGLE PLAY
Marco Capelli: Marked by a Hat (A. Gosfield)
EGP--Extreme Guitar Project
Mode Records/2006

Martian Gardens 6/22/08

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
expanded edition 20:05--00:25
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PROGRAM FOR JUNE 22, 2008

SET 1
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: The Large S
Forked Tongue
Cuneiform Records/2008

Ornette Coleman: Doughnut
Town Hall, 1962
ESP Disk/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Marcelo Radulovich: 917
Index
Titicacaman/2008

SET 2
Marcos Fernandes: Port of Call
Hybrid Vigor
Accretions/2002

Miya Masaoka: For Birds, Planes & Cello (excerpt)
For Bird, Planes and Cello
Solitary B/2008
field recordings: Marcos Fernandes
cello: Joan Jeanrenaud

SET 3
Miya Masaoka: While I was walking, I heard a sound...Part 1
While I was walking, I heard a sound
Solitary B/2008
Volti, San Francisco Choral Society, conductor: Robert Geary
Ensemble of the Piedmont Choirs
Sound of Color Ensemble

Mary Jane Leach: Call of the Dance
Ariadne's Lament
New World Records/1998
New York Treble Singers, conductor: Virgina Davidson
soprano soloist: Arlene Travis; texts: Homer, Timocreon, Euripides

SET 4
Steve Reich: from Daniel Variations
a. I saw a dream
b. My name is Daniel Pearl
(I'm a Jewish American from Encino, California)
Daniel Variations
Nonesuch Records/2008
Los Angeles Master Chorale; conductor: Grant Gershon
texts: a. Book of Daniel 4:5; b. D. Pearl

Philip Glass/Allen Ginsberg:
a. Nagasaki Days (Numbers in Red Notebook)
b. Nagasaki Days (Everybody's Fantasy)
Hydrogen Jukebox
Nonesuch Records/1993
a. voice: Allen Ginsberg b. Philip Glass Vocal Ensemble
texts: A. Ginsberg

SET 5
Lou Harrison:
from Suite No.1--
a. Tandy's Tango
b. Sonata in Ishartum
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel Guitar: John Schneider

Lou Harrison:
a. 1981 Interview
b. In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel
ibid.
a. voice: L. Harrison; b. HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves;
National Steel Guitar: J. Schneider

Ganesh Anandan/Joh Gzowski:
a. Ah, but if
b. The left hemisphere should intervene
c. We would hesitate and fumble
Shanti Project
actuellecd/2008
a. Shruti stick: G. Anandan; 19-tone guitar: J. Gzowski;
b. Kanijra, voice, tin can: G. Anandan; electric Dowel, guitar: J. Gzowski
c. metallophone: G. Anandan; Harry Partch guitar: J. Gzowski

SET 6
Tania Leon: Satine
Singin' Sepia
Bridge Records/2008
pianos: Qattro Mani--Susan Grace, Alice Rybak

Paul Lansky: It All Adds Up
I. Tie Yer Shoelaces
II. As I Was Saying
III. Ten is a Lovely Number
IV. Flat Seven
V. Enfolded
VI. Topology
Kindred Spirits
Bridge Records/2008
pianos: Qattro Mani--Susan Grace, Alice Rybak

SET 7
Arthur Levering: Echoi
a. Movement I
b. Movement II
c. Movement III
Still Raining, Still Dreaming
New World Records/2008
violin: Nicholas Kitchen; piano: Donald Berman

Glsss Farm Ensemble: Kaleidoskop (Y. Troxler)
a. Kaleidoskop I
b. Kaleidoskop II
c. Kaleidoskop III
In Four
Innova Recordings/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Roland Auzet: Amour grand terrible champ critique (I, II, III) (A. Bancquart)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008

SET 8
The Hub:
a. Hertz Donut
b. Perry Mason in East Germany
Boundary Layer
Tzadik Records/2008

Mark Trayle: Primitive Still Life (With Pairs)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30 #
Music from the Center for Experiments in Art,
Information and Technology, California
Institute of the Arts
Cenaur Records/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Nufaru to the Black Sea
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008

Martian Gardens 6/15/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
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PROGRAM FOR JUNE 15, 2008

SET 1
Lou Harrison: Suite No. 2
a. Jahla in the form a Ductia
b. Adiagio, ariosos
c. Sonata in Cm
d. A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichson
e. Beverly's Troubadour Piece
Por Gitaro--Suites for Tuned Guitars.
Mode Records/2008
performance: John Schneider/Just Strings

Jem Finer: Banjo Raga
MusicWorks 100 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2008

Leo Kupper: Electro-Acoustic Santur, part 3
Electro-Acoustic
Pogus Productions/1996

SET 2
Tim Brady & Topology: Struck Twice by Lightning
Scat---Because we all have voices and stories to tell
Actuellecd/2008
viola: Bernard Hoey

The Kronos Quartet: America-Before the War* (S. Reich)
Released and Unreleased 1985-1995
Nonesuch Records/1995
*From Steve Reich's "Different Trains"

SET 3
Chen Yi: Wu Yu
I. Praying for Rain
II. Shifan Gong-and-Drum
Invisible Curve*
New World Records/2008
*music of Chen Yi and Karen Tanaka
performed by the Azure Ensemble

Mario Davidovsky: Synchronism No. 6
The Music of Mario Davidovsky Volume 3
Bridge Reocrds/2005
piano: Aleck Karis

SET 4
The Hub: Tesla Sync
Boundar Layer
Tzadik/2008

David Lee Myers/Marco Oppedisano:
a. Thottle Body Lifter
b. An Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot
Tesla at Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008

Tod Dockstader/David Lee Myers: Crepitata
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005

Mark Applebaum: from The Bible Without God
a. 48 Objects
b. Keys, Strings, and Pencils
c. Circulation
The Bible Without God
Innova Recordings/2005
performed by Mark Applebaum and student ensemble

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: Interchangeability
Concrete--An Opera
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
voice: Jacqueline Humbert

SINGLE PLAY
Eric Lyon: Red Dwarfs from Outer Space
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004

Martian Gardens 6/08/08

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
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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
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
expanded edition
Host:Max Shea
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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