WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR MAY 24, 2009
SET ONE
Iannis Xenakis: Tetora
String Quartets
Mode Records/2009
The JACK Quartet
The Arditti Quartet: Funf Satze (extracts) (A. Webern)
I. Heftig bewegt
II. Sehr langsam
III. Sehr bewegt
The Arditti Quartet 1974--1994
Auvides/1994
SET TWO
Neil Rolnick: from The Economic Engine
a. Traffic
b. Farm to Factory
c. Opaque Air
The Economic Engine
Innova Recordings/2009
Music from China ensemble & The Todd Reynolds String Quartet
James Mobberley: Dim Sum
a. Ashtrays at Sun Moon Lake
b. Peaceful Sailing, Serene Waters
c. Big Fat Smilin' Buddha
Music of James Mobberley
Unreleased
Music from China ensemble
SET THREE
Respect Sextet: Lights on a Satellite (S. Ra)
Sirius Respect -- The Respect Sextet Play the Music of Sun Ra & Stockhausen
Mode Records/2009
Annie Gosfield: Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
http://www.tzadik.com//2004
violin: George Kentros; satellite & radio transmissions: A. Gosfield
Respect Sextet: Set Sail for the Sun (K. Stockhausen)
Sirius Respect -- The Respect Sextet Play the Music of Sun Ra & Stockhausen
Mode Records/2009
SET FOUR
David Rosenboom: Section II (Symmetrical Harmonies in Chaotic Orbits)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock had Landed on the Pilgrims
New World Records/2009
Richard Pinhas/Heldon: Back to Heldon
Heldon I-Electronique Guerilla/Heldon II-It's Always Rock 'n' Roll
Cuneiform Records/1995 (orig. 1974-1975)
SET FIVE
Phil Kline: The Housatonic at Henry Street
Around the World in a Daze (DVD)
Starkland/2009
Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
Negativland: Sycamore
Escape from Noise
SST/1987
Pierre Desmarais: EnvironMentally Sound
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
Daniel Echenbaum: Car Accident
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004
Aaron Acosta: Traffic Under 60
ibid.
The Skein: Jingle Bitch
Cities and Eyes
Henceforth Records/2009
Mark Eden: Cremation Science
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Innova Recordings/2009
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: What Fell Through
Local Customs
Mutable Music/2009
flute: Jacqueline Martelle; clarinets: Richard Cohen; trombone: James Martin; contrabass: Terry Kppenburger; percussion: Rich O'Donnell;
electronic harmony generator: T. Hamilton
SET SIX
Morton Feldman: For Christian Wolff (excerpt)
For Christian Wolff
Bridge Records2008
The California E.A.R. Unit
John Luther Adams: In A Room
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Cloud Gazing
Sanctum
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
--fin--
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Martian Gardens for 5/17/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR MAY 17, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Bang on a Can: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory (A. Gosfield)
a. Part I
b. Part II
Bang on a Can Classics
Cantaloupe Music/2002
SET ONE
James Mobberley: Vox Metallica
Music of James Mobberley
(unreleased)
Frank Zappa: G-Spot Tornado
Jazz from Hell
Rykodisk/1986
Roger Kleier: Interlude (So Long Shea)
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
Frank Zappa: Telephone Conversation
We're Only In It for the Money
Rykodisk/1986 (orig. 1967)
James Mobberley: Aspenglow
Music of James Mobberley
(unreleased)
Alwin Nikolais: Pierrot--Dance 3
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993
SET TWO
Susan Fancher: Penelope's Song (J. Shatin)
In Two Worlds
Innova Recordings/2009
Maggi Payne: 60x3
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008
Laurie Spiegel: Remembering Home
ibid.
Alice Shields: Study for Voice and Tape
Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
elctronics, voice, and text ("The Sunbather"): A. Shields
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995
soprano: Bethany Beardsley; text: John Hollander,Based on the legend
of Procne and Philomel from the sixth book of Metamorphoses by Ovid.
In honor of Dr. Babbitt's 93rd birthday (b. May 10, 1916)
SET THREE
Mary Simoni: Doxology
Alternating Currents--Electronic Works from the University of Michigan #
Centaur Records/2000
Hildegurls: Act III (Hildegarde/E. Beglarian)
Electric Ordo Virtutum
Innova Recordings/2009
adapted from Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum
SET FOUR
Garth Knox: La Valse de la Vineuse
Viola Spaces
Mode Records/2009
clarinet: Carol Robinson; violin: Nathalie Chabot; cello: Agnes Vesterman
G. Knox: Viola d'Amore
Chaya Czernowin: String Quartet
Afatsim
Mode Records/1999
Arditti String Quartet, featuring Garth Knox, Viola
SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Creshevsky/Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2008
violin samples: M. Kimura
Mari Kimura: ComeCryWithMe (M. Paranosic)
Polytopia
Bridge Records/2007
Milica Paranosic: Lulla
a. Closer I
b. Kukka
c. Waltz
d. Closer II
Electrocoustic Music Volume VIII #
Electroshock Records/2002
SET SIX
The Skein: Jingle Bitch
Cities and Eyes
Henceforth Records/2009
Taxonomy: Solenne-Vivo
10 Taxonomical Movements
actullecd.com/2009
Laurie Anderson: Time To Go
Women in Electronic Music 1977 #
New World Records/2006 (orig. 1977)
guitar, organ: Scott Johnson; voice, violin: L. Anderson
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR MAY 17, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Bang on a Can: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory (A. Gosfield)
a. Part I
b. Part II
Bang on a Can Classics
Cantaloupe Music/2002
SET ONE
James Mobberley: Vox Metallica
Music of James Mobberley
(unreleased)
Frank Zappa: G-Spot Tornado
Jazz from Hell
Rykodisk/1986
Roger Kleier: Interlude (So Long Shea)
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
Frank Zappa: Telephone Conversation
We're Only In It for the Money
Rykodisk/1986 (orig. 1967)
James Mobberley: Aspenglow
Music of James Mobberley
(unreleased)
Alwin Nikolais: Pierrot--Dance 3
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993
SET TWO
Susan Fancher: Penelope's Song (J. Shatin)
In Two Worlds
Innova Recordings/2009
Maggi Payne: 60x3
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008
Laurie Spiegel: Remembering Home
ibid.
Alice Shields: Study for Voice and Tape
Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
elctronics, voice, and text ("The Sunbather"): A. Shields
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995
soprano: Bethany Beardsley; text: John Hollander,Based on the legend
of Procne and Philomel from the sixth book of Metamorphoses by Ovid.
In honor of Dr. Babbitt's 93rd birthday (b. May 10, 1916)
SET THREE
Mary Simoni: Doxology
Alternating Currents--Electronic Works from the University of Michigan #
Centaur Records/2000
Hildegurls: Act III (Hildegarde/E. Beglarian)
Electric Ordo Virtutum
Innova Recordings/2009
adapted from Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum
SET FOUR
Garth Knox: La Valse de la Vineuse
Viola Spaces
Mode Records/2009
clarinet: Carol Robinson; violin: Nathalie Chabot; cello: Agnes Vesterman
G. Knox: Viola d'Amore
Chaya Czernowin: String Quartet
Afatsim
Mode Records/1999
Arditti String Quartet, featuring Garth Knox, Viola
SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Creshevsky/Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2008
violin samples: M. Kimura
Mari Kimura: ComeCryWithMe (M. Paranosic)
Polytopia
Bridge Records/2007
Milica Paranosic: Lulla
a. Closer I
b. Kukka
c. Waltz
d. Closer II
Electrocoustic Music Volume VIII #
Electroshock Records/2002
SET SIX
The Skein: Jingle Bitch
Cities and Eyes
Henceforth Records/2009
Taxonomy: Solenne-Vivo
10 Taxonomical Movements
actullecd.com/2009
Laurie Anderson: Time To Go
Women in Electronic Music 1977 #
New World Records/2006 (orig. 1977)
guitar, organ: Scott Johnson; voice, violin: L. Anderson
--fin--
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Martian Gardens for 5/10/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR MAY 10, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love
cello: Paula S.V. Childress; tape: V.A. Rudow
SET ONE
Gyorgy Kurtag: from Kafka Fragments, Part I
a. The Good March in Step...
b. Like a Pathway in Autumn
c. Hiding-Places
d. Restless
e. Restless
f. Berceuse I
g. Nevermore--Excommunication
Kafka Fragments
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Tony Arnold; violin: Movses Pogassian; texts: Franz Kafka
Milton Babbitt: Quatrains
Music of Milton Babbitt
Bridge Records/2003
soprano: Tony Arnold; clarinets: Charles Neidich, Ayako Oshima; text: John Hollander
Anne LeBaron: Deconstruction (from Transfiguration)
Pope Joan, Transfiguration
New World Records/2007
soprano: Lucy Shelton; flute: Camilla Hoitenga; harp: June Han;
percussion: William Trigg; conductor: Rand Steiger; text: Djuna Barnes
SET TWO
Peter Garland: Rondo "nouveau"
(from String Quartet No. 1, "In Praise of Poor Scholars")
String Quartets
Cold Blue Music/2009
Apartment House string quartet
Mary Ellen Childs: Hocket
Dream House
Innova Recordings/2007
ETHEL string quartet
Mary Ellen Childs: Whistling in the Dark
Kilter
XI Records/1995
accordion: Guy Klucevsek
SET THREE
Tom Hamilton: Corral
Local Customs
Mutable Music/2009
flute: Jacqueline Martelle; clarinets: Richard Cohen; trombone:
James Martin; contrabass: Terry Kppenburger; percussion: Rich O'Donnell;
electronic harmony generator: T. Hamilton
Al Margolis: Innocent
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
vocals: Lisa Bernard; flutes: Jacqueline Martelle and
Jane Rigler; electronics, processing: A. Margolis
SET FOUR
Alvin Lucier: 947
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
flute: Jacqueline Martelle
Alvin Lucier: Fideliotrio
Wind Shadows
New World Records/2005
The Barton Workshop
Frank Denyer: Out of the Shattered Shadows 2
Faint Traces
Mode Records/2005
The Barton Workshop
George Crumb:
a. The Pregnant Earth: A Psalm for Noontide
b. Nobody Knows de Trouble I See (trad.)
American Songbooks II & IV
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman
SET FIVE
Annie Gosfield: A Sideways Glance from an Electric Eye
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Innova Recordings/2007
Annie Gosfield: Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
Flux Quartet; Talujon Percussion Quartet
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR MAY 10, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love
cello: Paula S.V. Childress; tape: V.A. Rudow
SET ONE
Gyorgy Kurtag: from Kafka Fragments, Part I
a. The Good March in Step...
b. Like a Pathway in Autumn
c. Hiding-Places
d. Restless
e. Restless
f. Berceuse I
g. Nevermore--Excommunication
Kafka Fragments
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Tony Arnold; violin: Movses Pogassian; texts: Franz Kafka
Milton Babbitt: Quatrains
Music of Milton Babbitt
Bridge Records/2003
soprano: Tony Arnold; clarinets: Charles Neidich, Ayako Oshima; text: John Hollander
Anne LeBaron: Deconstruction (from Transfiguration)
Pope Joan, Transfiguration
New World Records/2007
soprano: Lucy Shelton; flute: Camilla Hoitenga; harp: June Han;
percussion: William Trigg; conductor: Rand Steiger; text: Djuna Barnes
SET TWO
Peter Garland: Rondo "nouveau"
(from String Quartet No. 1, "In Praise of Poor Scholars")
String Quartets
Cold Blue Music/2009
Apartment House string quartet
Mary Ellen Childs: Hocket
Dream House
Innova Recordings/2007
ETHEL string quartet
Mary Ellen Childs: Whistling in the Dark
Kilter
XI Records/1995
accordion: Guy Klucevsek
SET THREE
Tom Hamilton: Corral
Local Customs
Mutable Music/2009
flute: Jacqueline Martelle; clarinets: Richard Cohen; trombone:
James Martin; contrabass: Terry Kppenburger; percussion: Rich O'Donnell;
electronic harmony generator: T. Hamilton
Al Margolis: Innocent
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
vocals: Lisa Bernard; flutes: Jacqueline Martelle and
Jane Rigler; electronics, processing: A. Margolis
SET FOUR
Alvin Lucier: 947
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
flute: Jacqueline Martelle
Alvin Lucier: Fideliotrio
Wind Shadows
New World Records/2005
The Barton Workshop
Frank Denyer: Out of the Shattered Shadows 2
Faint Traces
Mode Records/2005
The Barton Workshop
George Crumb:
a. The Pregnant Earth: A Psalm for Noontide
b. Nobody Knows de Trouble I See (trad.)
American Songbooks II & IV
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman
SET FIVE
Annie Gosfield: A Sideways Glance from an Electric Eye
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Innova Recordings/2007
Annie Gosfield: Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
Flux Quartet; Talujon Percussion Quartet
--fin--
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Martian Gardens for 4/26/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR APRIL 26, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Voile
Music for Strings
Mode Records/2005
Ensemble Resonanz; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke
SET ONE
John Cage: First Construction in Metal
The 25th Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
Wergo/1994
Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, director: Paul Price
recorded at Town Hall, NYC, 5/15/58
John Cage:
a. Sonata I
b. Sonata II
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano 1946--1948
CRI/1995
prepared piano: Mario Ajemian
John Cage:
a. Prelude for Meditation
b. Root of an Unfocus
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandre
SET TWO
Henry Brant: Meteor Farm, Parts 1-6
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 4--
Meteor Farm: A Spatial Concert of Ceremonies
Innova Recordings/2006
Wesleyan University Orchestra, Wesleyan Singers,
Wesleyan Concert Choir, Wesleyan Gamelan, South Indian Trio,
West African drumming ensemble, Wesleyan Big Band, saxophones
with choir, soprano soloists; conductors: Neely Bruce,
Richard Winslow, H. Brant;
Recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts,
Wesleyan University, 3/06/82
Wendy Mae Chambers:
a. Snake Dancer
b. Hoodoo Root Doctor
12-Squared
New World Records/1998
percussion: Michael Pugliese, Randy Crafton, Jason Cirker,
Charles Kieger, Andy Bowman, Kory Grossman, Mark Belair,
Don McMilllan, Frank Cassara, David Cossin, Jimmy Musto;
conductor: Dominic Donato;
Recorded at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, 7/21/94
SET THREE
Annea Lockwood:
a. Micro Glass Shaken
b. Glass Rod Vibrating
The Glass World
What Next? Recordings/1997
Michael Lipsey: Words/Echoes (M. Rosenblum)
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2007
Sylvia Smith: Poems I, II, III (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
Maggi Payne: Flaptics
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
intereactive electronics: Mark Trayle
SET FOUR
Robert Normandeau: Overture (from Clair de terre)
Clair de Terre
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
Robert Normandau: Chorus
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Innova Recordings/2007
SET FIVE
John Luther Adams: In a Room
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
Richard Lainhart: Staring at the Moon
Ten Thousand Shades of Blue
XI Records/2001
Brian Eno: Dawn, Marshland
Eno Boxed Set
Virgin Records/1993
SET SIX
Don Cherry/Nana Vasconcelos/Collin Walcott: Like That of Sky
The Codona Trilogy
ECM Records/2008
Jorge Reyes: Body Song
Solar--A Music Travelogue, Volume 1#
Soleilmoon Records/1997
Joan La Barbara: Shamansong (excerpt)
Shamansong
New World Records/1998
voice, percussion, computer, synthesizers: J. La Barbara; tar, dumbek:
Polly Tapia Ferber; cello: Erica Duke Kirkpatrick; gender: Kristina Melcher
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR APRIL 26, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Voile
Music for Strings
Mode Records/2005
Ensemble Resonanz; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke
SET ONE
John Cage: First Construction in Metal
The 25th Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
Wergo/1994
Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, director: Paul Price
recorded at Town Hall, NYC, 5/15/58
John Cage:
a. Sonata I
b. Sonata II
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano 1946--1948
CRI/1995
prepared piano: Mario Ajemian
John Cage:
a. Prelude for Meditation
b. Root of an Unfocus
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandre
SET TWO
Henry Brant: Meteor Farm, Parts 1-6
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 4--
Meteor Farm: A Spatial Concert of Ceremonies
Innova Recordings/2006
Wesleyan University Orchestra, Wesleyan Singers,
Wesleyan Concert Choir, Wesleyan Gamelan, South Indian Trio,
West African drumming ensemble, Wesleyan Big Band, saxophones
with choir, soprano soloists; conductors: Neely Bruce,
Richard Winslow, H. Brant;
Recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts,
Wesleyan University, 3/06/82
Wendy Mae Chambers:
a. Snake Dancer
b. Hoodoo Root Doctor
12-Squared
New World Records/1998
percussion: Michael Pugliese, Randy Crafton, Jason Cirker,
Charles Kieger, Andy Bowman, Kory Grossman, Mark Belair,
Don McMilllan, Frank Cassara, David Cossin, Jimmy Musto;
conductor: Dominic Donato;
Recorded at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, 7/21/94
SET THREE
Annea Lockwood:
a. Micro Glass Shaken
b. Glass Rod Vibrating
The Glass World
What Next? Recordings/1997
Michael Lipsey: Words/Echoes (M. Rosenblum)
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2007
Sylvia Smith: Poems I, II, III (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
Maggi Payne: Flaptics
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
intereactive electronics: Mark Trayle
SET FOUR
Robert Normandeau: Overture (from Clair de terre)
Clair de Terre
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
Robert Normandau: Chorus
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Innova Recordings/2007
SET FIVE
John Luther Adams: In a Room
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
Richard Lainhart: Staring at the Moon
Ten Thousand Shades of Blue
XI Records/2001
Brian Eno: Dawn, Marshland
Eno Boxed Set
Virgin Records/1993
SET SIX
Don Cherry/Nana Vasconcelos/Collin Walcott: Like That of Sky
The Codona Trilogy
ECM Records/2008
Jorge Reyes: Body Song
Solar--A Music Travelogue, Volume 1#
Soleilmoon Records/1997
Joan La Barbara: Shamansong (excerpt)
Shamansong
New World Records/1998
voice, percussion, computer, synthesizers: J. La Barbara; tar, dumbek:
Polly Tapia Ferber; cello: Erica Duke Kirkpatrick; gender: Kristina Melcher
--fin--
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Martian Gardens for 4/19/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR APRIL 19, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Private Lives
Auxesis (Amirkhanian/Creshevsky)
Centaur Records/1995
SET ONE
Gyorgy Kurtag: Kafka Fragments, Part III
a. To have? To be?
b. Coitus as Punishment -- Canticulus Mariae Magdalenae
c. My Fortress
d. I am dirty, Milena...
e. Miserable Life (Double)
f. The Closed Circle
g. Destination, Path, Hesitation -- for Marta
h. As Tightly -- for Beatrice and Peter Stein
i. Hiding-Places (Double)
j. Offensively Jewish
k. Amazed, we saw the great horse
l. Scene on a Tram (1910: "In a dream I asked the dancer
Eduardowa if she would kindly dance the Csardas once more...")
Kafka Fragments
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Tony Arnold; violin: Movses Pogossian; texts: Franz Kafka
Gyorgy Kurtag: Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánsky
(extracts 11-15)
a. Sehr Fleissend
b. Sostenuto, quasi giusto
c. Sostenuto, con slancio
d. Disperato, vivo
e. Larghetto
1974 Arditti Quartet 1994
Disques Montaigne/1994
SET TWO
German Romero: Ramas
Arditti Quartet -- Mexico
Mode Records/2006
amplified solo violin: Irvine Arditti
Arie Shapira: Violin 2008
Arie Shapira/2008
solo violin with playback: Gilead Hildesheim
SET THREE
John Luther Adams: At a Still Point
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
John Luther Adams: Solitary and Time-Breaking Waves
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2006
Percussion Group Cincinnati
SET FOUR
Henry Brant: from Rainforest
a. Prologue
b. Vegetation
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 6
Innova Recordings/2009
conductors: H. Brant, Amy Snyder;
recorded at Aspen Music Festival, 7/30/89
Chen Yi: YangKo
Sound of the Five
New World Records/2009
violin: Ron Blessinger; percussion: Neil DePonte;
percussion: Gordon Rencher
SET FIVE
Patti Monson: Pattibox (R. Woolf)
High Art -- Chamber Music for Solo Flute
Albany Records/2009
Patti Monson: Noa Noa (K. Saariaho)
Conspirare -- Chamber Music for Solo Flute
CRI/2000
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Normandeau: Eden
Puzzles DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
SINGLE PLAY
Rune Lindblad: Maskinlandskap
Objekt 2 -- Electronic and Concrete Music
Pogus Productions/1998
RANDOM PLAY AT POINTS THROUGHOUT
from 60 x 60 2005 on Vox Novus
Malcolm W. Rector: Two
Marihiko Hara: In 399 BC
Piotr Szewezyk: Cosmic Insects
Polly Moller: Cold Blood
Christopher Bailey: NanoSymph in 4 Movements
Michael Vernusky: Roppongi Skeins
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR APRIL 19, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Private Lives
Auxesis (Amirkhanian/Creshevsky)
Centaur Records/1995
SET ONE
Gyorgy Kurtag: Kafka Fragments, Part III
a. To have? To be?
b. Coitus as Punishment -- Canticulus Mariae Magdalenae
c. My Fortress
d. I am dirty, Milena...
e. Miserable Life (Double)
f. The Closed Circle
g. Destination, Path, Hesitation -- for Marta
h. As Tightly -- for Beatrice and Peter Stein
i. Hiding-Places (Double)
j. Offensively Jewish
k. Amazed, we saw the great horse
l. Scene on a Tram (1910: "In a dream I asked the dancer
Eduardowa if she would kindly dance the Csardas once more...")
Kafka Fragments
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Tony Arnold; violin: Movses Pogossian; texts: Franz Kafka
Gyorgy Kurtag: Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánsky
(extracts 11-15)
a. Sehr Fleissend
b. Sostenuto, quasi giusto
c. Sostenuto, con slancio
d. Disperato, vivo
e. Larghetto
1974 Arditti Quartet 1994
Disques Montaigne/1994
SET TWO
German Romero: Ramas
Arditti Quartet -- Mexico
Mode Records/2006
amplified solo violin: Irvine Arditti
Arie Shapira: Violin 2008
Arie Shapira/2008
solo violin with playback: Gilead Hildesheim
SET THREE
John Luther Adams: At a Still Point
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
John Luther Adams: Solitary and Time-Breaking Waves
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2006
Percussion Group Cincinnati
SET FOUR
Henry Brant: from Rainforest
a. Prologue
b. Vegetation
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 6
Innova Recordings/2009
conductors: H. Brant, Amy Snyder;
recorded at Aspen Music Festival, 7/30/89
Chen Yi: YangKo
Sound of the Five
New World Records/2009
violin: Ron Blessinger; percussion: Neil DePonte;
percussion: Gordon Rencher
SET FIVE
Patti Monson: Pattibox (R. Woolf)
High Art -- Chamber Music for Solo Flute
Albany Records/2009
Patti Monson: Noa Noa (K. Saariaho)
Conspirare -- Chamber Music for Solo Flute
CRI/2000
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Normandeau: Eden
Puzzles DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
SINGLE PLAY
Rune Lindblad: Maskinlandskap
Objekt 2 -- Electronic and Concrete Music
Pogus Productions/1998
RANDOM PLAY AT POINTS THROUGHOUT
from 60 x 60 2005 on Vox Novus
Malcolm W. Rector: Two
Marihiko Hara: In 399 BC
Piotr Szewezyk: Cosmic Insects
Polly Moller: Cold Blood
Christopher Bailey: NanoSymph in 4 Movements
Michael Vernusky: Roppongi Skeins
--fin--
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Martian Gardens for 4/12/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR APRIL 12, 2009
SET ONE
Jorge Liderman: from That is Already...
a. Marcato e com Spirito
b. Vivo
Wind-Up Toys
Albany Records/2005
piano: Gloria Cheng
Jorge Liderman: from Glimpses -- Parts 7-13
Barcelonazo
Bridge Records/2008
Kiev Philharmonic, conductor: Robert Ian Winstin
Gyorgy Kurtag: from Signs, Games and Messages
a. Signs I
b. Signs II
c. Signs III
d. Signs IV
Signs, Games and Messages
ECM New Series/2003
Orlando Trio
SET TWO
John Cage: Empty Words with Music for Piano (short excerpt)
Cage Performs Cage
Mode Records/2009
voice: J. Cage; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff;
recorded at SUNY Buffalo, 4/91
John Cage:
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music, Performance I, 6:30 pm (short excerpt)
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music
Mode Records/2007 (orig. 1986)
The New Performance Group; conductor: J. Cage
recorded at Cornish Theater, Seattle, 12/11/83
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (short excerpt)
Treatise
Mode Records/2009
QUaX Ensemble; director: Petr Kotik;
recorded in Prague, 10/15/67
Sun Ra: Gods on a Safari
Featuring Pharaoh Sanders & Black Harold
ESP-Disk' Ltd
Recorded at Judson Hall, NYC, 13/31/64
Leroy Jenkins: Dive for the Oyster, Dip for the Pearl
Solo
Lovely Music, Ltd./1998
Terry Jenoure: Cuando Tia Balla
Promises
She Imagines Records/2004
Meredith Monk: Shadow Song
Do You Be
ECM New Series/1987
Meredith Monk: Keeping Warm
Facing North
ECM New Series/1992
voices: M. Monk, Robert Een
SET THREE
Henry Brant: Labor Day, 1935, Florida Keys
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 5 -- Autumn Hurricanes
Innova Recordings/2005
Musicians of Stetson University, Florida,
as eight spatially separated groups
chief conductor: H. Brant; collaborating conductors:
Tim Maloney, Robert Rich, Thomas Sleeper, Amy Snyder;
recorded 4/26/86, Elizabeth Hall Auditorium
George Antheil: Ballet Macanique
Fighting the Waves
RCA/1996
Ensemble Modern; conductor: H.K. Gruber
Recorded 6/94 for German Radio, Frankfurt
SET FOUR
James Mulcro Drew: Solemn Acts in Rain
Animating Degrees Zero
New World Records/2009
violin: Marieke Keser; piano: Frank Denyer
Garth Knox: Jonah and the Whale
Viola Spaces
Mode Records/2009
viola: G. Knox; tuba: Gerard Buquet
SET FIVE
Paul Lansky: Chatter of Pins
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk
Bridge Records/2008
voices: Hannah McKay, P. Lansky; text: "A Paper of Pins" (trad.)
Shelley Hirsch: War of Dreams
States
Tellus--Harvestworks
voice: S. Hirsch; texts: Angela Carter
SET SIX
Jaques Tremblay: from Empathies Entropiques
a. Tryptique Russe
b. Ganga is Divine
Chroniques d'une Seduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
Annea Lockwood:
a. Floating World, Part 1
b. Thousand Year Dreaming, Part 1: Breathing and Dreaming
Thousand Year Dreaming
Pogus Productions/2007
Art Baron, conch shell, trombone, didjeridu; Libby Van Cleve, oboe, English horn;
Jon Gibson, didjeridu; Annea Lockwood, voice; J.D. Parran, clarinet, contrabass clarinet;
Michael Pugliese, tam-tam, clapping sticks; N. Scott Robinson, conch shell,
frame drums, pod rattle, tam-tam; John Snyder, didjeridu, waterphone;
Charles Wood, tam-tam, stones; Peter Zummo, trombone, didjeridu
SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Timing (P. Harmonic)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
voice: Phil Harmonic; synthesizer: BGT
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR APRIL 12, 2009
SET ONE
Jorge Liderman: from That is Already...
a. Marcato e com Spirito
b. Vivo
Wind-Up Toys
Albany Records/2005
piano: Gloria Cheng
Jorge Liderman: from Glimpses -- Parts 7-13
Barcelonazo
Bridge Records/2008
Kiev Philharmonic, conductor: Robert Ian Winstin
Gyorgy Kurtag: from Signs, Games and Messages
a. Signs I
b. Signs II
c. Signs III
d. Signs IV
Signs, Games and Messages
ECM New Series/2003
Orlando Trio
SET TWO
John Cage: Empty Words with Music for Piano (short excerpt)
Cage Performs Cage
Mode Records/2009
voice: J. Cage; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff;
recorded at SUNY Buffalo, 4/91
John Cage:
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music, Performance I, 6:30 pm (short excerpt)
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music
Mode Records/2007 (orig. 1986)
The New Performance Group; conductor: J. Cage
recorded at Cornish Theater, Seattle, 12/11/83
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (short excerpt)
Treatise
Mode Records/2009
QUaX Ensemble; director: Petr Kotik;
recorded in Prague, 10/15/67
Sun Ra: Gods on a Safari
Featuring Pharaoh Sanders & Black Harold
ESP-Disk' Ltd
Recorded at Judson Hall, NYC, 13/31/64
Leroy Jenkins: Dive for the Oyster, Dip for the Pearl
Solo
Lovely Music, Ltd./1998
Terry Jenoure: Cuando Tia Balla
Promises
She Imagines Records/2004
Meredith Monk: Shadow Song
Do You Be
ECM New Series/1987
Meredith Monk: Keeping Warm
Facing North
ECM New Series/1992
voices: M. Monk, Robert Een
SET THREE
Henry Brant: Labor Day, 1935, Florida Keys
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 5 -- Autumn Hurricanes
Innova Recordings/2005
Musicians of Stetson University, Florida,
as eight spatially separated groups
chief conductor: H. Brant; collaborating conductors:
Tim Maloney, Robert Rich, Thomas Sleeper, Amy Snyder;
recorded 4/26/86, Elizabeth Hall Auditorium
George Antheil: Ballet Macanique
Fighting the Waves
RCA/1996
Ensemble Modern; conductor: H.K. Gruber
Recorded 6/94 for German Radio, Frankfurt
SET FOUR
James Mulcro Drew: Solemn Acts in Rain
Animating Degrees Zero
New World Records/2009
violin: Marieke Keser; piano: Frank Denyer
Garth Knox: Jonah and the Whale
Viola Spaces
Mode Records/2009
viola: G. Knox; tuba: Gerard Buquet
SET FIVE
Paul Lansky: Chatter of Pins
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk
Bridge Records/2008
voices: Hannah McKay, P. Lansky; text: "A Paper of Pins" (trad.)
Shelley Hirsch: War of Dreams
States
Tellus--Harvestworks
voice: S. Hirsch; texts: Angela Carter
SET SIX
Jaques Tremblay: from Empathies Entropiques
a. Tryptique Russe
b. Ganga is Divine
Chroniques d'une Seduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
Annea Lockwood:
a. Floating World, Part 1
b. Thousand Year Dreaming, Part 1: Breathing and Dreaming
Thousand Year Dreaming
Pogus Productions/2007
Art Baron, conch shell, trombone, didjeridu; Libby Van Cleve, oboe, English horn;
Jon Gibson, didjeridu; Annea Lockwood, voice; J.D. Parran, clarinet, contrabass clarinet;
Michael Pugliese, tam-tam, clapping sticks; N. Scott Robinson, conch shell,
frame drums, pod rattle, tam-tam; John Snyder, didjeridu, waterphone;
Charles Wood, tam-tam, stones; Peter Zummo, trombone, didjeridu
SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Timing (P. Harmonic)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
voice: Phil Harmonic; synthesizer: BGT
--fin--
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Martian Gardens for 4/05/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR APRIL 5, 2009
SET ONE
Henry Brant: from Rainforest
a. Indigenous Peoples
b. Destruction
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 6
Innova Recordings/2006
conductors: Amy Snyder, H. Brant;
libretto: Daniel Abd al-Hayy Moore
Environmental spatial oratorio for
four singers and instrumental ensemble,
performed at the 1989 Aspen Music Festival
Henry Cowell: Atlantis (2nd 1/2)
a. Pleasure Dance of the Sea Soul
b. Withdrawal of the Sea Soul to the Sea
c. Combat Between Sea and Earth Monsters
d. The Triumph of the Sea Monster
Dancing With Henry--New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell
Mode Records/2001
California Parallele Ensemble; conductor: Nicole Paiement;
soprano: Patrice Maginnis; mezzo-soprano: Wendy Hillhouse;
baritone: Leroy Kromm; libretto: Alice Pike Barney
SET TWO
Hans Werner Henze: Ein kleines Potpourri aus der Oper "Boulevard Solitude"
a. Berceuse-Gavotte-Galop
b. Manon Lescaut schriebt einin Brief
c. Perpetuum Mobile
Musica da Camera
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Dissonanzen
Neil Rolnick: Uptown Jump
The Economic Engine
Innova Recordings/2009
MAYA trio
SET THREE
Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Book of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
Robert Erickson: Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra
Auroras
New World Records/2008
cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Boston Modern Orchestra Project;
conductor: Gil Rose
SET FOUR
Steven Mackey: Deal (1st 1/2)
Banana/Dump Truck
Albany Records/2005
electric guitar: S. Mackey; drums: Ray Dillard;
Boston Modern Orchestra Project; conductor: Gil Rose
Steven Mackey: Psychedelic Sketch
Heavy Light
New World Records/2004
MOSAIC ensemble
SET FIVE
George Crumb: All My Trials (Death's Lullaby)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 13
Bridge Records/2008
soprano: Ann Crumb; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman
George Crumb: Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, Part One
a. Refrain One
b. I. La Guitarra (The Guitar)
c. Refrain Two
d. II. Casida de las Palomas Oscuras (Casida of the Dark Doves)
Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, etc.
Bridge Records/1991
Speculum Musicae: baritone: Sanford Sylvan; electric guitar:David Starobin; electric contrabass: Donald Palma; electric
piano and electric harpsichord: Aleck Karis; percussion:
Daniel Druckman, Eric Charlston; text: Federico Garcia Lorca
SET SIX
Kenneth Gaburo: Mouthpiece II
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2002
voice, text: K. Gaburo
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room
Source: Music of the Avant-Garde #
Pogus Productions/2009
voice; text: A. Lucier
Source Record No. 3, Vol. 4, No. 1, Issue 7, July 1970
realized by Alvin Lucier in his living room at 454 High Street,
Middletown, CT; recorded by Lucier, edited/engineered by
Rudolf De Grood
SET SEVEN
Ellen Band: Closet Bird (excerpt)
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2001
Al Margolis/If, Bwana: Cicada 4AA
6848
Gravity-Swarm Recordings/2008
-fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR APRIL 5, 2009
SET ONE
Henry Brant: from Rainforest
a. Indigenous Peoples
b. Destruction
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 6
Innova Recordings/2006
conductors: Amy Snyder, H. Brant;
libretto: Daniel Abd al-Hayy Moore
Environmental spatial oratorio for
four singers and instrumental ensemble,
performed at the 1989 Aspen Music Festival
Henry Cowell: Atlantis (2nd 1/2)
a. Pleasure Dance of the Sea Soul
b. Withdrawal of the Sea Soul to the Sea
c. Combat Between Sea and Earth Monsters
d. The Triumph of the Sea Monster
Dancing With Henry--New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell
Mode Records/2001
California Parallele Ensemble; conductor: Nicole Paiement;
soprano: Patrice Maginnis; mezzo-soprano: Wendy Hillhouse;
baritone: Leroy Kromm; libretto: Alice Pike Barney
SET TWO
Hans Werner Henze: Ein kleines Potpourri aus der Oper "Boulevard Solitude"
a. Berceuse-Gavotte-Galop
b. Manon Lescaut schriebt einin Brief
c. Perpetuum Mobile
Musica da Camera
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Dissonanzen
Neil Rolnick: Uptown Jump
The Economic Engine
Innova Recordings/2009
MAYA trio
SET THREE
Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Book of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
Robert Erickson: Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra
Auroras
New World Records/2008
cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Boston Modern Orchestra Project;
conductor: Gil Rose
SET FOUR
Steven Mackey: Deal (1st 1/2)
Banana/Dump Truck
Albany Records/2005
electric guitar: S. Mackey; drums: Ray Dillard;
Boston Modern Orchestra Project; conductor: Gil Rose
Steven Mackey: Psychedelic Sketch
Heavy Light
New World Records/2004
MOSAIC ensemble
SET FIVE
George Crumb: All My Trials (Death's Lullaby)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 13
Bridge Records/2008
soprano: Ann Crumb; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman
George Crumb: Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, Part One
a. Refrain One
b. I. La Guitarra (The Guitar)
c. Refrain Two
d. II. Casida de las Palomas Oscuras (Casida of the Dark Doves)
Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, etc.
Bridge Records/1991
Speculum Musicae: baritone: Sanford Sylvan; electric guitar:David Starobin; electric contrabass: Donald Palma; electric
piano and electric harpsichord: Aleck Karis; percussion:
Daniel Druckman, Eric Charlston; text: Federico Garcia Lorca
SET SIX
Kenneth Gaburo: Mouthpiece II
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2002
voice, text: K. Gaburo
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room
Source: Music of the Avant-Garde #
Pogus Productions/2009
voice; text: A. Lucier
Source Record No. 3, Vol. 4, No. 1, Issue 7, July 1970
realized by Alvin Lucier in his living room at 454 High Street,
Middletown, CT; recorded by Lucier, edited/engineered by
Rudolf De Grood
SET SEVEN
Ellen Band: Closet Bird (excerpt)
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2001
Al Margolis/If, Bwana: Cicada 4AA
6848
Gravity-Swarm Recordings/2008
-fin--
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