Martian Gardens for 8/17/2008

Martian Gardens 8/17/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
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PROGRAM FOR AUGUST 17, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage/Lejaren Hiller: HPSCHD
Musicworks 98 #
Musicworks Magazine/2007
harpsichord: Robert Conant
electronics: Joel Chadabe

SINGLE PLAY
Lejaren Hiller: from Computer Cantata
a. Prolog to Strophe I; Strophe I
b. Prolog to Strophe II; Strophe II
c. Prolog to Strophe III; Strophe III
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008 (orig. Heliodor Records/1965)
University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players
conductor: Jack McKenzie
soprano: Helen Hamm

Salvatore Martirano: Underworld
CDCM Computer Music Volume 22-
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective 1962-92
Centaur Records/1995 (orig. Heliodor Records/1967)
University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players
Conductor: David Gilbert

SET 1
Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (excerpt)
Kraanerg
Mode Records/2008
Callithumpian Consort
conductor: Stephen Drury

Helmut Lachenmann: Mouvement--Vor Der Erstarrung (excerpt)
Schwankungen am Rand
ECM New Series/2002
Ensemble Modern
Director: Peter Eotvos

Gloria Coates: from The Force for Peace in War
a. Recitative--Telegramm von Dachau
b. Aria--All These Dyings
Indian Sounds
New World Records/2002
Musica-viva-ensemble Dresden
Conductor: Jurgen Wirrmann
soprano: Sigune von Osten

SET 2
Frank Denyer: Woman, Viola, and Crow
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted viola, voice, percussive sounds: Elizabeth Smalt

Chaya Czernowin: Six Miniatures and a Simultaneous Song
Shu Hai Practices Javelin
Mode Records/2002
ELISION Ensemble
conductor: Simon Hewett
text: Zohar Eitan

SET 3
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere in Search of Heaven A.D. 999
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner

Eve Beglarian: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Tell the Birds
New World Records/2006
MATA Ensemble
voice: Lisa Bielawa
text: William Blake

SET 4
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Weeping Rocker
I Didn't Want to Say Goodbye
Vivian Adelburg Rudow/2004

Vivian Adelberg Rudo: Lavender
ibid.

*******
Selections from 60 x 60--2006/2007 at random during this program, consecutively:
Dorothy Hindman: Bathtime
Serban Nichifor: Animal Farm
Brad Decker: Lo siento
Thomas Bailey: Separation Anxiety
Ken Steen: forty-nine
Zachary Kurth-Nelson: Ives in Space

Martian Gardens 8/10/2008

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PROGRAM FOR AUGUST 10, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Music for Jackson Pollock
First Recordings: 1950s
Mode Records/1999
cellos: Daniel Stern

SET 1
Morton Feldman: Music for Jackson Pollock
I. Signature
II. Jackson Pollock Speaks
III. Shadow
IV. Glass
V. Glass (Second Sequence)
First Recordings: 1950s
Mode Records/1999
cellos: Daniel Stern
speaker: Jackson Pollock
Original soundtrack to a film by Hans Namuth


Michael Lipsey: King of Denmark (M. Feldman)
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2007

Stuart Saunders Smith: Polka in Treblinka
Breath--The Perucssion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2004
xylophone: Dale Speicher
bass drum: Matt Apanius
snaredrum, high-hat: Chris Leonard

Nils Bultmann: The Madness
Terminally Unique
Mutable Music/2008
djembe: Paddy Cassidy
tenor saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell
Parry Karp: Cello
N. Bultmann: Viola

SET 2
Arie Shapira: Achtung Rapunzel
Arie Shapira/2007
Meitar Ensemble
mezzo soprano: Ayelet Amotz
text: Brothers Grimm

Elizabeth Austin: An die Nachgeborenen (To Those Born Later)
I. Truly, I Live in Dark Times
II. I Came to the Cities in a Time of Disorder
III. You Who will Emerge from the Flood
Reflected Light
Capstone Records/1995
Chamber Choir of the Staatliche Hochschule for Musik,
Heidelberg--Mannheim
conductor: Gerald Kegelmann
piano: Sibylle Dotzauer
soloists: Vernika Winter, Kristen Grunenpult, Alex Bassermann
text: Bertolt Brecht

SET 3
The Dale Warland Singers: Bright Faces (M.E. Childs)
Choral Currents
Innova Recordings/1991
text: Sappho

Joseph Waters: Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos
Joseph Waters
North Pacific Music/2000
texts: traditional songs of Australia's Yolngu people
voices--soprano: LeaAnne Denbeste; mezzo: Sue Hale; tenor:
Scott Thomi; bass: Craig Kingsbury; wind sextet--flute: Nancy Teskey;
english horn: Allen Juza; clarinet: Betsy Hornick; bassoon: David Becker;
horn: Kevin Calvert; trumpet: Jim O'Banion

SET 4
Carrier Band: Video Voice
Voice Coil
Deep Listening/2008

Joseph Celli: Video Sax
Video Ears Music Eyes
O.O. Discs/1995
saxophones: Ulrich Krieger

SET 5
Robert Scott Thompson: Stochos I
Amorphia
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 1995)

Cindy McTee: from "M" Music -- Baroque Bypass
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 18
Centaur Records/1994
alto saxophone: Debra Richtmeyer

Wendy Carlos: Sonata in G Major (Scarlatti)
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
East Side Digital/2001 (orig. 1969)

Earle Brown: from Folio
a. November 1952
b. December 1952
Selected Workds 1952-1965
New World Records/2006

SET 6
Noah Creshevsky: Free Speech
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008
voice: Chris Mann

Al Margolis: Deck for Chair, Too
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008

Noah Creshevsky: Sonota
The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971--1992
EM Records/2004

Al Margolis/If,Bwana: Natraj
Rex Xhu Ping
Pogus Productions/2004

Martian Gardens for 8/03/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SET 1
Severed Heads: Saturday Night + Man Dat Hip
Clifford Darling Please Don't Live in the Past
sevcom.com/1986

Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000

Un Drame Musical Intantane: French Resistance
Dry Lungs II
Placebo Records/1986

Charles Dodge: In Celebration
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 18
Centaur Records/1994
text: Mark Strand

SET 2
Henry Gwiazda:
a. wM out take (1992)
b. Claudia and Paul 2:13 a.m. (2008)
Henry Gwiazda

Stan Link: Terra Alta
In Amber Shadows
Albany Records/2006

Stan Link: Endless Song
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

SET 3
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere in Arizona 1970
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner

Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim

Robert Ashley: Another Classic Moonshot
Concrete--An Opera
Lovely Music, Ltd.2008
voices: Sam Ashley,T. Buckner, J. La Barbara, Jacqueline Humbert
sound design: R. Ashley, Tom Hamilton

SET 4
John Cage: Cartridge Music (excerpts)
Music for Merce Cunningham
Mode Records/1991
realization: David Tudor;
phonograph cartridges, objects: Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese; D. Tudor

Mark Trayle: 3
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008

SET 5
Frederico Richter: Metamorfoses
Musica Eletroacustica Brasileira Volume II #
Sociedade Brasileira de Musica Eletroacustica/1999

Arie Shapira: Schneewittchen und die vier Boren* (2008)
Arie Shapira
*Snow White and the Four Bears

SET 6
Robert Scott Thompson: Light is a Liquid
The Wind at Beni Midar
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 2000)

Thomas DeLio: ...a different liquid
Music of Thomas DeLio and James Dashow
Capstone Records/1997
voice/text: Peter Inman

Martian Grdens 7/27/2008

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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SINGLE PLAY
The Carrier Band: Frozen Speaker
Voice Coil
Deep Listening Institute, Ltd./2008

SET 1
Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II
Capstone Records/2001
Text: Gertrude Stein; Readers: Susan McCully, Phil Maki

Frank Zappa & The Mothers: It Can't Happen Here
Freak Out!
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1965)

Shelley Hirsch/Jon Rose/Chris Cutler: After Hours/The Colour of Blood
The ReR Quarterly Vol. 4, No.2 #
ReR Megacorp/1997

SET 2
Robert Voisey: Sagittarius
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Arie Shapira: Ilabi-Ilabi
Electronics Plus
Arie Shapira/2000
soprano: Narda Moria; violin: Ron Porat; text: S. Tcherrnochowsky

Shelley Hirsch: Now I Am Yours
a. Landscape
b. Silencio
c. Algarabia: Lenguaje Ininteligible
States
Tellus/Harvestworks/1997
music for the film Nina Danino film "I Am Yours," text: N. Danino

Judy Dunaway: The Rubber Forest
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006

LaDonna Smith: Erogenous Journey
Dice 2: [She Says]
Ishtar Records-Tellus/1997

SET 3
Ivan Elezovic: Monologue*
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008
*on Giacinto Scelsi's "Quattro Pezzi"

Giacinto Scelsi: from Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola)
a. 1st Movement
b. 2nd Movement
The Orchestral Works 2
Mode Records/2007
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Peter Rundel
Recorded in Vienna 11/04/2005

Anne LeBaron: Transfiguration--Deconstruction
Pope Joan/Deconstruction
New World Records/2007
soprano: Lucy Shelton; flute: Camilla Hoitenga; harp: June Han;
percussion: William Trigg; conductor: Rand Steiger; text: Djuna Barnes
Recorded 5/13/06, Recital Hall of the Performing Arts, SUNY Purchase

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Oneiromancy
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation, Ltd./2001

SET 4
Frank Felice: Separation Anxiety*
Sidewalk Music
Capstone Records/2001
From "Psychotica (Six Etudes for the Very Nervous)"

Polly Moller: Kissing a Woman
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Thomas Bailey: Separation Anxiety
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Darren Copeland: Always Becoming Somebody Else
Perdu et Retrouve DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

Martian Gardens 7/20/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
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THE 60 x 60 SPECIAL
Featuring Robert Voisey

William Pfaff "The Color of Snow"
Gene Pritsker "A CaSamppella"
William Price "Ignorant Bliss No. 4"
Cherilyn Young "Celtic X Chromosome"
Les Scott "Sublight"
Russell D. Cannon "Musical Mechanics"
Nivedita Shivraj "Rain Dance," "Day Break"
Lynn Job "Carraige Baine"
Cory Kasprzyk "Crunch Time"
Brian Kershner "Improviso"
Eleonor Sandresky "The Turquiose Teacup"
Richard Arnest "My Radiance Indwelling"
Jane Wang "I Hate"
Sean Francis Conway "How to Say Goodbye" Cellular Counterpoint" "Three Two One"
Richard Campanelli "CROWS (corvus brachyrynchos)
John Akins "You've Got...60 Seconds"
Adam Basanta "Shiva Creates, Destroys"
Richard Biting "Coyote Faucet" "Entrances and Exits" "It's Not Real" "Needles" Shells"
Daniel Blinkhorn "Wash"
Belin Castro "Beauty Love," "Excess"
James Brody "ZAZON60"
Mike Moser-Booth "Refragment [bang(
Anthony Catalano "Worried for Nothing"
Massimo Fragala "Akatastasia"
Elaine Lillios "Stargazing"
Laurie Spiegel "Multiscale Sweeps"
David Congo "Invention 59.3"
Robert Rocco "Synthesia 2008"
Lynn Job "Blue Sand"
Heather Frasch "Ice Texture '59"
Emmanuelle Gibello "to remember"
David Gunn "fourmis dans mon panatalon"
Todd Harrop "Calypso"
Matthew Hetz "Violin Concerto"
Joel Hickman "Tone Poem for Electric Guitars, Violins and Violas"
Marie Incontrera "You Will Become Whole"
Bob Siebert "Loops for Science"
Rodney Waschka "Strange Moon"
Jordan McLean "Inside the Hadronron Collider"
Chris Mann "Proof"
Garry Wickliffe "The Z Relationship"
Jeremy Bible and Jason Henry "sxt"
Katja and Martin Krusche "Spruhen"
Logan Kevin "Surbiton Road"
Frank Levin "Lunch Break" "Mc Coppin Square"
Dale Perkins "Sodom and Gommorrah"
Susan Matthews "60x60 Cartography"
David Morneau "Tonight on 60x60" "60x60 Redux"
Tim Mukherjee "Kronecker Delta"
Michelangelo Pepe "Playing with Clocks"
Jose Luis Marie Montero ?
(canadian) Aaron Acosta
(canadian) "Lost Voices"
(canadian) Atkinson Lester "Touch of Evil"
(canadian) Yoganathan
(canadian) Gintas K
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
David Hahn "Big Donut"

Sequence approximate.

Martian Gardens for 7/13/2008

Martian Gardens 7/14/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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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
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

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

SINGLE PLAY
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.

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/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