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 DECEMBER 21-22, 2008
extended edition
SET 1
Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
Robert Erickson: Pacific Sirens
Pacific Sirens
New World Records/2003
Cleveland Chamber Symphony; conductor: Edwin London
SET 2
Charles Ives: December
The Light That is Felt
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman; text: Folgóre da San Gimignano
Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings
Bernadette Speach: Angels in the Snow
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
Antoine Berthiaume/Quentin Sirjacq/Norman Teale: Leaves and Snows
Leaves and Snows
Actuellecd/2005
Joelle Leandre/Quentin Sirjacq: Moon Journey
Out of Nowhere
Actuellecd/2008
SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: Music of Nights without Moon or Pearl
Music of Nights without Moon or Pearl
Cold Blue Music/2000
CalArts new Century Players; Conductor: David Rosenboom
SET 2
Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 2
b. Chinook Whispers
Facing North
ECM New Series/1992
M. Monk, Robert Een: pitch pipe, voice
Madelyne Byrne: Winter
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
sampled bowed crotales: Lisa Frisari; sampled voice: Malin Serner
Stanislav Kreitchi: Winter (from Four Fantasies)
Voices and Movement
Electroshock Records/2002
SET 3
Stuart Saunders Smith: Family Portraits--Embden Pond
At Sixty--Selections
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
alto flute: Lisa Cella; vibraphones: Amber Mace, Bobby Parker
Sylvia Smith: The Year Begins to be Ripe (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; text: Henry David Thoreau
John Cage The Year Begins to be Ripe
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002 (orig. 1998)
voice: Paul Hillier; closed piano: Alan Bennett; text: Henry David Thoreau
Sylvia Smith: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; text: James Joyce
Anthony De Mare: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (works by J. Cage/M. Monk)
Koch/1992
text: James Joyce
SET 4
Laetitia Sonami: Overture on Ice
Messiah Remix #
Cantaloupe Music/2004
source material: G.F. Handel, Messiah
Helmut Lachenmann: excerpts from Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern
a. In dieser Kalte
b. Trio und Reprise (Frier-Arie, 2. Teil)
c. Die Weihnachtslieder stiegen hoher
d. Abendsegen (Wenn ein Stern Fallt)
Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern (The Little Matchgirl)
ECM New Series/2004
SWR Synphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg/SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, concertmaster: Matthias Hermann; leader: Sylvain Cambreling; soprano: Eiko Morikawa, Nicole Tibbels; piano: Yukiko Sugawara, Tomoko Hemmi; sho: Mayumi Miyata; narrator: H. Lachenmann; text: Hans Christian Anderson; electronic realization: SWR experimental studio Freiburg; recorded 7/02, Konzerthaus Freiburg; conductor: Helmut Hanusch
Eve Beglarian: Be/Hold
Messiah Remix #
Cantaloupe Music/2004
source material: G.F. Handel, Messiah
SET 5
James Mobberley: Beams!
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
trombone plus tape: John Leisenring
James Mobberley: TNT
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33--
Music from iMPACT, UMKC #
Centaur Records/2002
double bass and tape: Robert Black
SET 6
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
Alexei Borisov: Dense Drift
Polished Surface of a Table
Electroshock Records/2004
SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Polytope de Cluny
Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
see also: Xenakis Electronic Works 2
SELECTIONS FROM: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Series 2003--2007 first 6 of 60:
60 x 60--2003--random 6 of 61*
16. Scott Brickman: Signiture Piece
36. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: The Warbler Garden
51. Robert Voisey: Ripples in the Sand
61. Christopher Ward: Dance Truman, Dance
25. Mary Jane Leach: Dido Remembered
19. Michael Kinney: Forrob--One Minute of Listening Pleasure
*I intended to program the first 6 selections, but CD player
malfunction gave me these 6 instead!
60 x 60--2004--first 6 of 60:
1. Justin Breme: Counting Time
2. Robert Gluck: Stazmin
3. Christian Banasik: Glass Cutter
4. John Allemeir: Just a Minute...
5. Mark Henry: Hacked Metal
6. Killick: Submersion/subversion/heart
60 x 60--2005--first 6 of 60:
1. Adam Sovkoplas: Train Racer
2. Mike McFerron: Minute Distance
3. Paul Clouvel: Pianobsession
4. John Bilotta: A 12 Step Rag for the Totally Co-Dependent
5. Leslie de Melcher: Jerusalem
6. John Link Clarient: Clarinet Fantasy
60 x 60--2006--first 6 of 60:
1. Ivan Zavada: Neutron
2. CDZabu (collective): Tobio
3. David Hahn: America Ist Nun Erwacht
4. Balie Todd: De and Reconstruction
5. Scott Smallwood: Whitecap
6. Christopher Cook: Gamaka
60 x 60--2007--first 6 of 60:
1. Adam Caird: Going To The March
2. Alphonse Izzo: Ground
3. Doug Geers: Verbosity One
4. John Schappert: Phase Shift
5. John Maters: Double Future Container Love Music
6. Christian McLeer: Black Lung
SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: On Being Invisible, Part 1
Invisible Gold
Pogus Productions/2000
Live electronic music involving extended musical interface
with the human nervous system
--fin--
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Martian Gardens for 12/14/2008
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 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
--fin--
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 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
--fin--
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Martian Gardens for 12/07/2008
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 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
--fn--
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 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
--fn--
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Martian Gardens for 11/30/2008
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 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
--fin--
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 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
--fin--
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
--fin--
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
--fin--
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Martian Gardens for 11/16/2008
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 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
--fin--
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 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
--fin--
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Martian Gardens for 11/09/2008
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 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
--fin--
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 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
--fin--
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