Sunday, December 14, 2008

Martian Gardens for 12/14/2008

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

PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 14, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Esprit Rude, Esprit Doux II (for Pierre Boulez)
Homages & Dedications
Naive Classique/2003
clarinet: Harmen de Boer; flute: Harrie Starreveld marimba: Herman Halewijn;
In honor of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday this Thursday, December 11, 2008

SET 1
Charles Ives: The Housatonic at Stockbridge
The Light That is Felt
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman;
text: Robert Underwood Johnson


Michael Byron: A Bird Revealing the Unknown Sky
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records/2008
piano: Joseph Kubera

SET 2
Luciano Berio: Gesti
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
recorder: Lucia Mense

Carrie Rose: Gesto (H. Brun)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
piano: Thomas Moore; piccolo: C. Rose

Herbert Brun: Gesto
Language, Message, Drummage
Electronic Music Foundation/
Smith Publications/2008
piano: Kathleen Keasey; piccolo: ?

Giacinto Scelsi: Rucke di Guck (1-3)
Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2002
piccolo: Clara Novakova; oboe: Cathy Milliken

SET 3
Eleanor Hovda: Costal Traces Tidepools 2
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
bowed grand piano innards: E. Hovda

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; additional voices: Bonnie Lander,
Lisette Abreu, Megha Jacob; tape of Pacific Ocean sounds: Robert Erickson


SET 4
Barry Schrader: Monkey King, Part II--
Monkey's Underwater Voyage-The Staff of the Milky Way
Monkey King
Innova Recordings/2008

Jon Appleton: Pacific Rimbombo
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 15 #
Centaur Records/1994
Max Mathews: Mathews Radio Drum

Artemiy Artemiev: Seaside Walk
The Warning
Electroshock Records/1993

SET 5
Paul Lansky:
a. Two by Two
b. Wordless
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007

David Behrman: Watercress Well
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
voice: Thomas Buckner; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo;
electronics: D. Behrman, Tom Hamilton; text: Siegfried Sassoon

SET 6
Ensemble SuperMusique: 8 Moments Brefs
Y'a du Bruit dans ma Cabane
Actuellecd/2008

Joane Hetu/Ensemble SuperMusique: Calcium Sloche, part 1
Nouvelle Musique D'Hiver
Actuellecd/2007

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Sunday, December 7, 2008

Martian Gardens for 12/07/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

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

PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 7, 2008

SET 1
Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60 2004/2005
Vox Novus/2007

John Cage: Indeterminacy #55 (concerning "Ha-Ha, your mushrooms are gone!")
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
piano/noises: David Tudor

Cindy Cox: Nature Is
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2007

John Cage Indeterminacy #86 (concerning Deception Pass, Puget Sound)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
piano/noises: David Tudor

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: selections from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
I. Improvisation
III. Moto Perpertuo
V. Canto
VIII. Canaries

The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Four
Bridge Records2001
timpani: Daniel Druckman
In honor of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday this Thursday, December 11, 2008

SET 2
Barbara Benary: Downtown Steel I
Sun on Snow
New World Records/2006
piano: Joseph Kubera; clarinet: Daniel Goode; soprano sax: Jon Gibson;
marimba: Bill Ruyle; drum set: Chris Nappi; trombone: Peter Zummo;
tuba: Marcus Rojas; percussion: Nick Didkovsky; vibraphone: B. Benary


Evan Ziporyn: Ngaben (for Sari Club)
Typical Music
New Albion Records/2005
Gamelan Galak Tika; New England Conservatory Philharmonic,
conductor: Dante Azolini


SET 3
Douglas Ovens: Improvisation #4B (Music Box)
Seven Improvisations
North/South Recordings/2004

Eric Moe: Songs and Dances of the Automobile
I. Mambo
II. Nocturne
III. Rubber Riff
IV. Lullaby with Variations
V. Piston Fling

On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Great Masters of Melody (P. DeMarinis)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)

SET 4
Sylvia Smith: Poems I, II, III (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
brake drums: Sylvia Smith; voice, text: Stuart Saunders Smith

Harry Partch: Pray for Me
Delusion of the Fury
Innova Recordings/1999 (orig. Sony/1971)
Ensemble conducted by Danlee Mitchell, supervised by H. Partch, Recorded at
UCLA, 1969


New Circle Five: Ghost Women
Dreaming Wide Awake
Deep Listening/2003

SET 5
Morton Feldman: Durations part 5
Indeterminate Music
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble; directors: Philipp Vandre, Thaddeus Watson

Christian Wolff: For Morty
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop, conductor: James Fulkerson

Mark Applebaum: Entre Funerailles II
Disciplines
Innova Recordings/2004
vibraphone: Terry Longshore

SET 6
Stuart Saunders Smith: In Bingham
At Sixty
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
Recorded March 8, 2008, Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron
S.S. Smith: Maine English, Regular English

Alvin Curran Curran: From Center of Rainbow, Sounding (M. Goldstein)
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
violin sounding: Malcolm Goldstein; maritime sounds and lobstermen recorded in
Maine


Malcolm Goldstein: Autumn (exerpt)
The Seasons--Vermont
XI Records/1998
Ensemble recorded 2/26/83 at Real Art Ways, Hartford; autumnal
sounds recorded in Vermont


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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Martian Gardens for 11/30/2008

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

PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 30, 2008

SET 1
Elliott Carter: Asko Concerto
What Next?/Asko Concerto
ECM New Series/2003
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Peter Eotvos

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

SET 2
Sylvia Smith: In Hours Like These (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
orchestra bells: Syliva Smith, speaking voice; singing voice: Christie Finn
text: Vladimir Mayokovsky

Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
ibd.
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; voice: Sylvia Smith


Stuart Saunders Smith: Rose
At Sixty--Selections
11 West Records/2008
flute; voice: Carrie Rose; text: Anne Sexton

Carrie Rose: Legacy Variations #1 (Stuart Saunders Smith)
Book of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
flutes: Lisa Cella, Kathie Trahan, C. Rose

SET 3
Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera
a. Simbolo
b. Accenti
c. Contrapunctus Primus
d. Linee
e. Contrapunctus Secondus (Canon Contrario Motu)
f. Fregi
g. Andantino Amoroso e Contrapunctus Tertius (Canon Cancrizans)
h. Ritmi
i. Coloro
j. Ombre
k. Quartina

Musica da Camera (Dallapiccola/Petrassi)
Mode Records/2006
piano: Ciro Longobardi

Arthur Levering: Tesserae
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
piano: Donald Berman
viola: Jonathan Bagg


SINGLE PLAY
Lejaren Hiller: A Portfolio for Diverse Performers and Tape
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
Gregg Smith Singers, conductor: Gregg Smith; electronics realized
at the Experimental Studio, Polish National Radio, Warsaw


SET 4
Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37,
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
text: Lewis Carroll

Douglas Ovens: Improvisation #6 for Electronic Percussion and Tape
Seven Improvisations
North/South Recordings/2004

Noah Creshevsky: Independence Day
To Know and Not To Know
/Tzadik/2007

SET 5
Fred Frith + Danielle Palardy Roger: Sala Nera
Pas de Deux
Actuellecd/2008

Hans Fjellestad: Dual Resonance I
Dual Resonance
/Circumvention Music/2003
tenor saxophone: Jason Robinson
contrabass: Peter Kowald
Dana Reason: Piano
H. Fjellestad: piano, synthesizer

Alan Sondheim: 778
Ritual-All-7-78
ESP Disk/2008
trumpet: Robert Poholek; bass drums: JP;
vocals: Ruth Ann Hutchinson; xylophone: A. Sondheim
Recorded 1/67, Povidence, RI


Meredith Monk: Totentanz
Impermanence
ECM New Series/2003
piano, violin: Allison Sniffin; percussion: John Hollenbeck;
reeds: Bohdan Hilash; voices: Meredith Monk, Theo Blackmann


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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Martian Gardens for 11/23/2008

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

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

PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 23, 2008

SET 1
Elliott Carter: Scrivo in Vento
Eight Compositions (1948-1993)
Bridge Records/1994
flute: Harvey Sollberger

Gabriel Valverde: El Silencio ya no es el Silencio
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
harp: Sofia Ascuncion Claro

Christian Wolff: Untitled (1-3)
Look She Said--The Complete Works for Bass
Mode Records/2002
electric bass: Robert Black

Elliott Carter: Hiyoku
The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five--
Nine Compositions (1994-2002)
Bridge Records/2003
clarinets: Charles Neidich, Ayoko Oshima

SET 2
David First: Key Lights in a Palace Balloon
Resolver
O.O. Discs/1991
piano: Joseph Kubera

Michael Byron: It is the Night and Dawn of Constellations Irradiated (1st 1/2)
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records/2008
piano: Joseph Kubera

SET 3
Jody Redhage: Paint Box (A. Clyne)
MusicWorks 102 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2008

Craig Hultgren: The Artist and his Model (C. N. Mason)
Music of the NEXT Moment
Innova Recordings/1995

Charles Norman Mason: The Starling Clock Wound
60 X 60 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Les Poules: Serpents Luisants
Phenix
Actuellecd/2008

Shelley Hirsch: Burst
States
Tellus-Harvestworks/1997

SET 4
Peter Gordon: I'm Dreaming in the Sun and Dreaming in the Moon
Star Jaws
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1978)
guitars: Steve Bartek; drums: Tony Johnson; backup vocals: Lynne Morrow,
Jane Sharp; flute: Maggi Payne; bassoon: Arthur Stidfole; electric piano:
"Blue" Gene Tyranny; Karl Young: clarinet, tenor sax;
B. Gordon: vocals, alto sax, piano; lyrics: Kathy Acker;
recorded at CCM, Mills College, 1977


Coil: Restless Day
Scatology
Force & Form/1984 (CD version 1988)

Coil: The Last Rites of Spring
Gold is the Metal
Some Bizzare/1987
sample: I. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Part II--
"The Glorification of the Chosen One"


Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: (Excerpts from) The Rite of Spring
Dawn of the Cycads--The Complete Ace of Heart Recordings (1983-1987)
Cuneiform Records/2008
I. Stravinsky, arr. BSOTM

SET 5
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Rendezvous (J. Bischoff)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)

The Hub: Perry Mason in East Germany (J. Bischoff)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008

Nicolas Chausseau: James Bond vs. the Venominator
60 X 60 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus 60 x 60/2008

XEX: SNGA (Soviet Nerve Gas Attack)
Group: XEX
smackshire.com/2004
This website appears to be defunct

William C. Harrington: We All Marched Together
Nuclear Menace
Tanatone Records/2007

SET 6
Jon Christopher Nelson: Dhoormages
I. Variations on a Door, Not a Sigh
II. I Am Sitting in a...
III. Waterrun
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2003

Alice Shields: Dance Piece No. 3
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Martian Gardens for 11/16/2008

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: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 16, 2008

SET 1
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Cuban Lawyer, Juan Blanco
Electroacoustic Music Volume IX #
Electroshock Records/2004
voice: Juan Blanco
In memoriam Juan Blanco 1919-2008

David Rosenboom: Station Oaxaca
Future Travel
New World Records/2007 (orig. 1978/1981)
voice: Jacqueline Humbert

Twisted Tutu: God B's Lullaby (A. Jarvinen)
Play Nice
O.O. Discs/1999
text: James Merrill

Pauline Olveros: Bye Bye Butterfly
Women in Electronic Music 1977 #
New World Records/2007 (orig. 1977)

SET 2
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: The Intermediary, A
The Intermediary
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1982)

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Now Plus One
The Somwhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner
violins: Conrad Harris/Pauline Kim
viola: Lev Zhurbin
cello: Ariane Lallemand
bass: Jay Elfinbein
piano, text: BGT


SET 3
Elliott Carter: 90+
The Complete Music for Piano
Bridge Records/1997
piano: Charles Rosen

Elliott Carter: Retrouvailles
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
piano: Ursula Oppens

Iannis Xenakis: Palimpsest
Works for Piano
Mode Records/2006 (orig. 1999)
piano: Aki Takahashi
The Society for New Music; conductor: Charles Peltz

SET 4
George Crumb: Black Angels--Thirteen Images from the Dark Land
a. Night of the Electric Insects
b. Sounds of Bones and Flutes
c. Lost Bells
d. Devil Music
e. Danse Macabre
f. Pavana Lachrymae (Der Tod und das Madchen)
g. Black Angels
h. Sarabanda de la Muerte Oscura
i. Lost Bells (echo)
j. God-music
k. Ancient Voices
l. Ancient Voices (echo)
m. Night of the Electric Insects

Black Angels/Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
Cuarteto Latnioamercano; members of the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic,
conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo

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

SET 5
Fred Frith: Selluloid Restaurant/The Old Man Puts Out the Fire
Step Across the Border
ReR Megacorp/2003

Fred Frith/Danielle Palardy Roger: L'Auberge des Quatra Vents 1+2
Pas De Deux
Actuellecd/2008

Danielle Palardy Roger: Le Glas
Bruiducoeur--Prieres des Infideles
Actuellecd/2006

SET 6
David Morneau: Sunrise
Selected Works
5of4/2008

Eldad Tsabary: Julia
Demo
Yaeldad/2006

Diego Luzuriaga: excerpts from Viento en el Viento
Southern Cones--Music out of Africa and South America #
Electronic Music Foundation/2000


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Sunday, November 9, 2008

Martian Gardens for 11/09/2008

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

PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 9, 2008

SET 1
David Morneau: Soft Shoe (for November 9)
60 x 365
60 x 365

Random selections from the Vox Novus 60 x 60 series: 2003--2007
David Mooney: Ducks in Motion (2003)
John Schappert: A Minute of Madness (2004)
Piotr Szewczyk: Cosmic Insects (2005)
Xiting Yang: My Visiting Card (2006)
Christian McLeer: Black Lung (2007)

SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Sonata (R. Ashley)
a. Sonata I
b. Sonata II
c. Sonata III
d. Sonata I+II+II (trio)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)

SET 2
Mark Applebaum: On the Nature of the Modern Age
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings2008
Duo Runedako

Neil Rolnick: Gate Beats
Shadow Quartet
Innova Recordings2005

SET 3
Carlos Delgado: Polemics
Exchange--Latin America
CRI/1999
piano: Max Midroit

Carlos Delgado: Fugaz
Society of Composers, Inc. -- Chamber Works
Capstone Records/1998
tenor saxophone: Rene Morgensen

Roger Heaton/Corrado Canonici: Night Scenes (C. Delgado)
Cassandra
Capstone Records/1998

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)
a. Vocalise (...for the Beginning of Time); Variations on Sea-Time
b. Sea Theme
c. Archezoic (Var.I)
d. Proterozoic (Var. II)
e. Paleozoic (Var. III)
f. Mesozoic (Var. IV)
g. Cenozoic (Var. V)
h. Sea Nocturne (...for the End of Time)

Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
The International Contemporary Ensemble

SET 4
Stuart Saunders Smith: Wind in the Channel
Wind in the Channel
O.O. Discs/1997
tenor recorder, voice, percussion: Julia Whybron

Alvin Lucier: Ever Present
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
Drescher-Okabe-Armbruster Trio

SINGLE PLAY
Gordon Mumma: Synfonia for 12 Instruments and Magnetic Tape
Music from the ONCE Festival--1961-1966
New World Records/2003
ONCE Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Wayne Dunlap

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Sunday, November 2, 2008

Martian Gardens for 11/02/2008

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

PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 2,2008

FUND DRIVE WEEK--NO REGULAR SET LIST

Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island/1993

NewBand: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
NewBand Plays Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994

John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Phillip Vandre

Robert Voisey: Hunger
Vox Novus E.P.
Vox Novus/2004

Robert Asheley: I Aged I Didn't Grow Up
Concrete--An Opera
Lovely Music, Ltd/2008
vocals: Jacqueline Humbert; Joan La Barbara, Thomas Buckner,
Sam Ashley; sound design: Tom Hamilton


Jacqueline Humbert: Profile
Chanteuse--Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
piano accompaniment, additional vocals: Lindsay Claire Rosenboom

Mike Silverton/Tom Hamilton/Al Margolis:
The Clouds, To Whom do They Belong?
Analoque Smoque
Pogus Productions/2003

Noah Creshevesky: Variations
Man & Superman
Centaur Records/1992

David Congo: MIDI Variations
Voyage
Capstone Records/2006

David First: Thought You Said Sherbet*
The Alternative Schubertiade #
CRI/1999
*based on the first nine measures of Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade

Gyorgy Ligeti: Musica Ricercata parts I-VII
I. Sostenuto-Misurato-Prestissimo
II. Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale
III. Allegro con spirito
IV. Tempo de Valse (poco vivace--a l'orgue de Barbarie)
V. Rubato Lamentoso

Edition 5--Mechanical Music
Sony/1997
barrel organ: Pierre Charial

Gordon Mumma: 11 Sushi Horizontals
1. For Jackson Mac Low
2. For Alexis at 22
3. For Agnes Martin
4. For James Klosty
5. For Jonathan at 12
6. Erdos number...for Paul Erdos
7. For Christopher at 15 (time flies like two arrows)
8. For Carolyn Brown
9. For Bun-Ching Lam
10. For Anatole Leikin
11. For Charles Shere

Music for Solo Piano (1960--2001)
New World Records/2008
piano: Daan Vanewalle

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