Sunday, August 31, 2008

Martian Gardens for 8/31/08

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

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR AUGUST 31, 2008

SET 1
Robert Dow: Precipitation within Sight
Selected Works (2008)
Robert Dow/2008

Douglas Doherty: On the Toon in the Toon on the Tyne
Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield, and Newcastle
MPS Music & Video/2001

Andra McCartney: Moving Water
60 x 60-2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Eldad Tsabary: Creatures of the Ice
Demo
Eldad Tsabary/2006

SINGLE PLAY
Lejaren Hiller: A Portfolio for Diverse Performers and Tape
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
The Gregg Smith Singers, conductor: Gregg Smith

SET 2
Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (excerpt)
Kraanerg
Mode Records/2008
Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury

Judy Dunaway: For Balloon and String Quartet (Second Movement)
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006
Flux Quartet

Eric Moe: On the Tip of My Tongue (IV-Alternate Take)
On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996
bass clarinet: Tim Smith; keyboards: E. Moe

Michael Lipsey: Teeth of the Sea (E. Moe)
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2007

SET 3
Frank Denyer: Tentative Thoughts, Silenced Voices
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted violin, voice: Marieke Keser; muted viola, voice:
Elisabeth Smalt; Indian Santur: Jose Garcia Rodriguez;
percussion: Tobias Liebezeit, Juan Martinez Cortes;
voice/whistling tube: Christopher Best; voice/six reeds:
Trevor Wiggins; voice/eunuch flute: Patrick Ozzard-Low;
trumpet: Gertjan Loot


John Cage: Five
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002
Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices

SET 4
Al Margolis/If, Bwana: Issue
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
vocals: Lisa Barnard

Noah Creshevsky: Psalmus XXIII
To Know and Not to Know
Tzadik/2007
baritone: Zach Kurth-Nelson; vocal samples: Beth Griffith

SET 5
Sam Pluta: Jonty's Acousmatic Tube Ride
60 x 60-2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Jonty Harrison: Splintering
Evidence Materiale
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

Robert Scott Thompson: Fog Index (excerpt)
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Martian Gardens for 8/24/08

Martian Gardens 8/24/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR AUGUST 24, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Andrew Cole: Moog of Destruction
60 x 60--2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

SET 1
Little Bang Theory: Toy Suite #3
Elementary
Acidsoxx Musicks/2008

Lydia Kavina: Suite from "Ed Wood" part 1 (H. Shore)
Spellbound! Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Sospeso
conductor: Charles Peltz


Gina Biver: Skating Still
60 x 60--2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Monique Buzzarte: On the Outside, Looking In...
60 x 60--2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Ganesh Anandan/John Gzowski: I am Inside Looking Out
Shanti Project
Actuelle CD/2008

John Biggs: March of the Krumherhorns
60 x 60--2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Harry Parth: Dark Brother
Enclosure-2
Innova Recordings/1995
baritone: William Wendlandt; kithara: Lee Hoiby;
viola: H. Partch; Indian drum: Fralia Hancock;
text: Thomas Wolfe
Recorded 1945


SET 2
James Dashow: First Tangent to the Given Curve (part 1)
DeLio/Dashow
Capstone Records/1997
piano: Daniele Roi

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

Jon Christopher Nelson: the rain has a slap and a curve
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 27 #
Centaur Records1998
text: Robert Gregory


SET 3
Meredith Monk: Walking Song
Volcano Songs
ECM Records/1997
voices: M. Monk, Katie Geissinger

Lutz Glandien:
a. The Empty Lot
b. And the Snow
Lost in Rooms
ReR Megacorp/2003

Stan Link: [-(snow)]
In Amber Shadows
Alban Records/2006

Francoise Doherty: Windowsill
Deep Wireless 5 #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Agnes Szelag: Who Are You?
60 x 60--2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Mary Keily: Nightmare
Deep Wireless 5 #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Robert Iolini:
a. Mum Beats Son
b. Mum Dad Strangle
Songs from Hurt
ReR Megacorp/2005
guitar, production: R. Iolini; drums: Hamish Stewart
Interviews recorded for the Philip Crawford film "Hurt"


Arie Shapira: Thus Spake
Different Compositions 1967--2003
Arie Shapira/2004
voice: "abused child"
(electroacoustically processed voice of Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu)
text: Exodus XX


SET 4
Frank Denyer: Ghosts Again
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted violin: Marieke Keser (Barton Workshop)
flute: Jos Zwaanenburg (BW)
clarinet: John Anderson (BW)
female voice: Yula Andrews
percussion: Juan Martinez Cortes, Jose Garcia Rodriguez
male voices and percussion staves: Christopher Best,
Richard Gonski,Patrick Ozzard-Low, Michael Bassett,
Ian Wellens, Trever Wiggins
Recorded in Amsterdam 3/03/06


Steven Mackey: from Ars Moriendi
a. Don't Trouble Trouble
b. Everything in Moderation Including Moderation
Speak Like the People, Write Like the King
Bridge Records/2008
Borromeo String Quartet
Recorded at Princeton U., March 2007


SET 5
Michael Lowenstern: Joint Session (A. Kreiger)
Spasm--Works for Bass Clarinet
New World Records/1996

Michael Lipsey: Joining Hands (A. Kreiger)
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2007

SET 7
Lajaren Hiller: from Computer Cantata
a. Stroph IV; Epilog to Strophe IV
b. Stroph V; Epilog to Strophe V
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
University of Illinois Chamber Players
conductor: Jack McKenzie
soprano: Helen Hamm

Mark Trayle: 28
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Martian Gardens for 8/17/2008

Martian Gardens 8/17/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

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

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Martian Gardens 8/10/2008

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

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

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

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Martian Gardens for 8/03/2008

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

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

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Martian Grdens 7/27/2008

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

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

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

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

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.