Saturday, January 24, 2009

Martian Gardens for 1/25/2009

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

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

PROGRAM FOR JANUARY 25, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Mark Applebaum: Variations on Variations on a Theme by Mozart
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
for 18 prepared pianos, based on W.A. Mozart's "12 piano variations 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman'" KV1 265

SET ONE
Sylvia Smith:
a. Family Portraits: Delbert (Stuart Saunders Smith)
b. Xylophone Poems No. 1: Went Forth (ibid.)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008

Stuart Saunders Smith: ...And Points North...
a. Scene I
b. Scene II
c. Scene III
Breath: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2008
percussion: Steven Schick

Xylophone Poems - The Sylvia Smith Percussion Duo performs Jan. 30, 8 p.m., Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Fine Arts Center, Amherst.

SET TWO
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (disk 1, track 1, 2nd 1/2)
Treatise
Mode Records/2009
QUaX Ensemble, director: Petr Kotik; Recorded live, Prague, 10/15/67

Marcel Duchamp:
La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même.* Erratum Musical (1st 1/2)
Music by Marcel Duchamp
Edition Block/Paula Cooper Gallery/1991
Realized by Petr Kotik for the S.E.M. Ensemble
*The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even

SET THREE
Selections from 60 x 60 2005:
Polly Moller: Cold Blood
Douglas Cohen: Unwelcome 2005
Don Malone: RezGliss
The Norman Conquest: FAFM8
Vox Novus/2007

Alvin Lucier: Clocker (excerpt)
Clocker
Lovely Music, Ltd./1994

Diane Labrosse: Ticking Alarm Clocks
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
actuellecd.com/2007

Mendi + Keith Obadike: The Pink of Stealth
Crosstalk #
Bridge Reocrds/2008

Laurie Anderson: Poison
Bright Red/Tightrope
Warner Bros./1994

SET FOUR
Patti Monson: Under the Rainbow (M. Rosenblum)
High Art
Albany Records/2003

Al Margolis/If, Bwana: An Innocent, Abroad (track 3)
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
vocals: Lisa Barnard; flutes: Jacqueline Martelle, Jane Rigler;
electronics, processing: Al Margolis


SET FIVE
Elsa Justel: Midi de sable
Mats
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

Elsa Justel: Chi-pa-boo
Miniatures Concretes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Polansky: Simple Actions/Rules of Compossibility
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
voice, text: Chris Mann; live computers: L. Polansky

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Polytope de Cluny (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Martian Gardens for 1/18/2009

Martian Gardens for 1/18/1008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

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

PROGRAM FOR JANUARY 18, 2009

SET ONE
Beth Anderson: January Swale
Swales and Angels
New World Records/2004
Rubio String Quartet

Richard Brooks: Whirlwind (from Circular Motions)
The Phenomenon of Threes
Innova Recordings/2008
flute: Keith Underwood; clarinet: Esther Lamneck; piano: Martha Locker

Daniel Lentz: Point Conception [for 9 pianos] (excerpt)
Point Conception
Cold Blue Music/2008 (orig. 1984)
pianos: Arlene Dunlap

SET TWO
Patti Monson: High Art (M. Bresnick)
High Art
Albany Records/2003
piccolo: P. Monson; toy piano: Martin Bresnick

Patti Monson: Conspiracies (M. Bresnick)
Conspirare--Chamber Music for Solo Flute
CRI/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008

SET THREE
Salvatore Martirano: L's G.A. (excerpts)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22--
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective
Centaur Records/1995
texts: Abraham Lincoln/Michael Holloway; voice: Holloway; recorded at the U. of Ill. Experimental Music Studio, 1968

Musica Elettronica Viva: Mass. Pike
MEV 40
New World Records/2008
Alvin Curran, MacBook Pro, Kontakt-sampler and MIDI-keyboard, shofar,toy boom-boxes;Frederic Rzewski, piano, prepared piano, small instruments;Richard Teitelbaum, Kurzweil K2000 sampler keyboard and MacBook Pro with Ableton Live,crackle Box, small instruments;Recorded at the Festival of Contemporary Music, Tanglewood Music Center, 8/02/07

SET FOUR
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (disk 1, track 1, 1st 1/2)
Treatise
Mode Records/2009
QUaX Ensemble, director: Petr Kotik; Recorded live, Prague, 10/15/67

AMM: Live at the Royal College of Art
Not Necessarily "English" Music #
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
Cornelius Cardew, Eddie Provost, Keith Rowe, Lou Gare, Lawrence Sheaff,
Recorded 3/28/66

Trios: Track Two
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
piano, bass, percussion, melodica: Christian Wolff; guitars: Larry Polansky; voice, text: Chris Mann; computer, electronics, recording, editing: Douglas Repetto, Tom Erbe; recorded January/April, 1998, Hanover, NH

Chris Mann: Told You So
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2007

Noah Creshevsky: Free Speech
ibid.
voice, text: Chris Mann; clarinet samples: Al Margolis; trombone samples: Monique Buzzarte

SET FIVE
Wendy Carlos: Stately Purcell
Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume One
East Side Digital/2005
from Henry Purcell, "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary," arr. Carlos

Steven Stucky: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (H. Purcell)
Music for Wind Ensemble
Albany Records/1997
Baylor University Wind Ensemble, conductor: Michael Haithcock; Purcell arr. Stucky

George Crumb: from Star-Child
a. Musica Apocalyptica
b. Seven Trumpets of the Apocalypse
c. Adventus Puerorum Luminus
70th Birthday Album
Bridge Records1999
The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Thomas Conlin; soprano: Susan Narucki, solo trombone: Joseph Alessi; The Warsaw
Boys' Choir; The Warsaw Philharmonic Choir; bell ringers:
Paul Cesarczyk, G. Crumb; recorded summer, 1999, Philharmonic
Hall, Warsaw, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC



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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Martian Gardens for 1/11/1009

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

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

PROGRAM FOR JANUARY 11, 2009

set 1
Anne LeBaron: Concerto for Active Frogs
Rana, Ritual & Revelations
Mode Records/1992
The New Music Consort, conductor: Anne Lebaron; tenor sax,
animal calls: George Cartwright; trombone: Jim Stanley
percussion, tape: William Trigg; baritone voice: David Shea;
chorus: Rodney Thomaston, Susan Botti, Adam Weisman, Julie Marti,
Christina Wheeler, David Anthony, Debra Degenhardt, Michael Rosensky


Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes-Gradual Requiem-Gambuh I
New Albion Records/1988 (orig. 1984)
trumpets: Jim Muller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kenelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty; fog horns, ambient sounds conductor: John Adams

set 2
Alvin Curran: World Music (Curran/W.L. Smith)
Maritime Rites #
New World Records/2008
trumpet, seal horn: Wadada Leo Smith;
foghorns, sea vessels, maritime sounds recorded throughout the U.S. northeastern seaboard c. 1985


Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms--The Nerve Events Project #
Cuneiform Records/1993

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: The Zamzam Well a
Stream of a Pure Light
The Year of the Elephant
Pi Recordings/2002
bass: Malachi Favors Maghostut; drums, synthesizer: Jack DeJohnette; piano, synthesizer: Anthony Davis; trumpet, flugelhorn: Smith

set 3

David Congo: Nocturne
Voyage
Capstone Records/2006

Jorge Antunes: Canto do Pedeiro (Mason's Song)
Savage Songs (1961--1970)
Pogus Productions/2003

Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux: Contrastances
Impulsion
empreintes DIGITALes/2001

Les Poules: Beaute--
a. Peuple d'Etoiles
b. Grandeur Royale
Phenix
Actuellecd.com/2008
saxophone, voice: Joane Hetu; sampler: Diane Labrosse; percussion: Danielle Palardy Roger

set 4
Musica Elettronica Viva: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Pt. 1 (excerpt)
MEV 40
New World Records/2008
soprano saxophone: Steve Lacy; trombone: Garrett List; Serge modular synthesizer, piccolo trumpet, voice: Alvin Curran; Richard Teitelbaum: PolyMoog/MicroMoog synthesizers, SYM 1 microcomputer; piano, electronically prepared piano:Frederic Rzewski; Recorded 4/82

Richard Teitelbaum: Golem 1 (excerpt)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 2 #
Centaur Records/1988

set 5
Lawrence Moss: Suite for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano
The Phenomenon of Threes
Innova Recordings/2008
flute: Keith Underwood; clarinet: Esther Lamneck; piano: Martha Locker

Robert Morris: Out and Out
Music of Robert Morris
Albany Records/2005
clarinet: Marianne Gythfeldt; piano: Margaret Kampmeier

set 6
Daniel Lentz: Point Conception [for 9 pianos] (excerpt)
Point Conception
Cold Blue Music/2008 (orig. 1984)
pianos: Arlene Dunlap

Quattro Mani: 10 is a Lovely Number [from It All Adds Up]
(P. Lansky)
Kindred Spirits
Bridge Records/2008
pianos: Susan Grace, Alice Rybak

Meredith Monk: Maybe 1
Impermanence
ECM Records/2008
piano: John Hollenbeck, Allison Sniffin,
M. Monk,Katie Geissinger, Ellen Fisher, Theo Bleckmann,
Ching Gonzalez, Bohdan Hilash


Marty Walker: Song(s) of the Sirens (D. Lentz)
Dancing on Water
Cold Blue Music/2001
voice: Amy Knoles; piano: Bryan Pezzone; clarinet: Walker

--fin--

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Martian Gardens for 1/04/2009

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 JANUARY 4, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Martin Bresnick: Three Intermezzi, I, II, III
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
cello: Ole Akahoshi

SET 1
Lou Harrison: from Serenade--Usul-little homage to Sinan
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; Just Strings

Seth Josel: Water on the Mountain...Fire in Heaven [Section B] (J. Tenney)
Long Distance
CRI/1995

Seth Josel: Until it Blazes (E. Beglarian)
The Stroke That Kills
New World Records/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Musica Elettronica Viva: Stop the War (1st 1/2)
MEV 40
New World Records/2008
piano: Frederic Rzewski; VC3-Putney synthesizer, piccolo trumpet, mbira
thumb piano, miscellaneous: Alvin Curran; trombone: Garret List; percussion:
Gregory Reeve; modular Moog synthesizer: Richard Teitelbaum; marimabaphone:
Karl Berger; recorded at WBAI 12/31/72


SET 2
Luciano Berio: Sequenza V
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
trombone: Stuart Dempster

Stuart Dempster: Standing Waves (excerpt)
In the Great Abbey of Clement VI
1750 Arch/1979
Recorded at Palais des Papes, Avignon, 8/76

Deep Listening Band: Dream Time
Tosca Salad
Deep Listening/1995

SET 3
Noah Creshevsky: Intrada
Favorite Encores
Pogus Productions/2008
voice samples: Chris Mann

Arie Shapira: Freudiger's Testimony
The Kastner Trial Opera
Arie Shapira/1992

Alice Shields: Scene Six--The Sea
Apocalypse--An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993

Jocy De Oliveira: Milk of Love
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000

Aura Bogado: Rocket
Deep Wireless 2--Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006

Selections from: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Concert 2004 13-18 of 60:
13. David McIntire: Nearly Hidden
14. Sandeep Bhangwati: All Over Again
15. Allen Strange: Return to Misty Magic Land
16. Aaron Acosta: Wave
17. Ray Cole: Sodium
18. Serban Nichifor: One Minute of Eternity

SET 4
Toshimaru Nakamura/Mark Trayle: Stationary part 3
Stationary
Creative Sources Recordings/2008

The Hub: Crybaby
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008

Ensemble SuperMusique: Discussion au Living Room
Y'a du Bruit dans ma Cabane
actuellecd/2008

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Martian Gardens for 12/28/2008

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 28-29, 2008
extended edition

SET 1
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
Dawn of the Cycads
Cuneiform Records/2008

Bernard Falaise: Clic
Clic
Actuellecd/2008

Little Bang Theory: Tumbleweed
Elimentary
Acdisoxx Recordings2008

Frank Pahl:
a. Creatures, Real and Mythical, Part 1
b. Creatures, Part 2
The Romantic Side of Schizophrenia
FOT Records/1994
featuring the Blue Sun Quintent

SET 2
David Lee Myers & Marco Oppedisano: Throttle Body Lifter
Tesla At Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008

John Oswald: Massive
Plexure
Disk Union/1993

David Shea: Trio for Samplers
Shock Corridor
Disk Union/1992

SELECTIONS FROM: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Concert 2003 first 6 of 60:
1. Douglas Cohen: Welcome 2004
2. Allen Strange: Shadowboxer
3. Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
4. Noah Creshevsky: Try
5. Gene Pritsker: Junk Fragment
6. Daniel Eichenbaum: Car Accident

Coil: Disco Hospital
Love's Secret Domain
Wax Trax!/1991

David Hahn: Don't Fuck Giraffes
David Hahn E.P.
davidhahnonline/2005

SET 3
Ingram Marshall: The Emporer's Birthday
IKON--And Other Early Works
New World Records/2000

Chris Cutler and Thomas DiMuzio: Percolation/Floating Plates
Quake
ReR Megacorp/1999

Thomas DiMuzio: Cold Fusion Off Broadway
Mono-Poly
Asphodel/Gench/2003

SET 4
Henry Brant: Altitude 8750
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2008
The Telluride Glacial Spatial Ensemble, conductor: H. Brant; vocal ensemble conducted by Bruce Neely; text: John Lifton; recorded at Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO, 7/15/90

Lejaren Hiller: Computer Cantata--Strophe V; Epilog to Strophe V
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
soprano: Helen Hamm; Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players,
conductor: Jack McKenzie


SET 5
Sylvia Smith: A Flower (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith

John Cage/Joan La Barbara: A Flower
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; closed piano: William Winant

Sylvia Smith: Forever and Sunsmell (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; Chinese tom-toms: Sylvia Smith; Ayano Kataoka: Chinese cymbal; text: e.e. cummings

John Cage/Joan La Barbara: Forever and Sunsmell
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; percussion: William Winant, suspended cymbal: Scott Evans; text: e.e. cummings

Jacqueline Humbert: Via Dolorita, Street of Sorrows, Street of Sighs (J. La Barbara)
Chanteuse--Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004

SET 6
Michael Hamman: Discourse/current
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records
text, voice: Chris Mann

Larry Polansky: #10--Four Boys Mannin'
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
text, voice: Chris Mann

Pamela Z: Geekspeak
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Alice Shields: Shenandoah
Shenandoah--Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Quatuor Bozzini: Koan for String Quartet
Arbor Vitae (Music of James Tenney)
Actuellecd/2008

SET 7
Philip Glass: Pruit Igoe
Koyaanisqatsi
Island--Antilles/1983
Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Michael Riesman; chorus: Western Wind Ensemble

Kronos Quartet: Arioso [from Quasi una Fantasia] (H.M. Gorecki)
Released/Unreleased 1985-1995
Nonesuch Records/1995

Martin Boykan: Movement IV from String Quartet No. 2
City of Gold
CRI/1999
Pro Arte Quartet

SET 8
James Tenney: Ergodos I
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007

Quatuor Bozzini: Clouds for Iannis Xenakis
Arbor Vitae (Music of James Tenney)
Actuellecd/2008

Iannis Xenakis: Mists
Works for Piano
Mode Records/2006 (orig. 1999)
piano: Aki Takahashi

Matthew Burtner: Mists
Portals of Distortion
Innova Recordings/2002

SET 9
Andrew Imbrie: Dandelion Wine
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
Collage Music Ensemble; conductor: David Hoose

Roger Sessions: Two Tableaux and Malinche's Aria from Montezuma
ibid.
soprano: Susan Narucki; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Fred Sherry; flute:
Tara Helen O'Connor; clarinet: Charles Neidich; percussion: Daniel Druckman,
James Baker; piano: Donald Berman; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky;
arr. Richard Aldag


Jack Beeson: Prescription for Living*
ibid.
soprano: Susan Narucki; baritone: Chris Pedro Trakas; piano: Donald Berman
*from Beeson's opera "Doctor Heidegger's Fountain of Youth," and included in
"An American Academy in Rome Songbook"


SET 10
New Millennium Ensemble: Percussion Duo (C. Wuorinen)
H.C.E. -- Here Comes Everybody
CRI/1998
percussion: John Ferrari; piano: Margaret Kampmeier

Charles Wuorinen: Time's Encomium Part 2 (excerpt)
Time's Encomium--For Synthesized Sound & Processed Synthesized Sound
Nonesuch Records/1969

SINGLE PLAY
Edgard Varese: Ameriques
Xenakis/Varese
Mode Records/1997
Carnegie-Mellon Philharmonic, Conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo
Recorded in Pittsburgh, 4/95


--fin--

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Martian Gardens for 12/21/2008

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 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 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

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