Martian Gardens for 10/18/2009

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

Program for October 18, 2009
Extended edition 19:00--24:00

SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Woodwind Quintet
a. Molto vivo
b. Andante tranquillo
c. Allegro molto
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 1
Bridge Records/2009
Windscape: flute/piccolo: Tara Helen O'Connor; oboe: Randall Ellis; clarinet: Alan R. Kay; bassoon: Frank Morrelli; horn: David Jolley

SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Spectrum 3 -- for chamber Orchestra
Spectrum Pieces
New World Records/2009
The Barton Workshop; recorded in Het Bethianklooster, Amsterdam, c. 2008-2009

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Small Waves (excerpt, 15 min.)
Navigations for Strings/Small Waves
Mode Records/2003
piano: Hildegard Kleeb; trombone: Roland Dahinden; The Arditti Quartet; interactive amplified vessels of water; recorded June 2001 at Sendesaal Hessicher Rundfunk, Frankfurt

SET ONE
Scott Locke: Atanos I (K.H. Burns)
Celestial Dreamscape: A Century of Music for Clarinet
Everglade/2008
b-flat clarinet; Disklavier: S. Locke; recorded at the Weeks Center at the U. of Florida, Miami

Margaret Lancaster: Piker (L. Polansky)
Io
New World Records/2009
electric guitar: Larry Polansky; percussion: Matthew Gold; piccolo: M. Lancaster;
recorded July 2008 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Giacinto Scelsi: Rucke di Guck, part 1
Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2002
piccolo: Clara Novakova; oboe: Cathy Milliken; recorded in Chatillon, France

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Masaoka Kunimoto; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC, Feburary 2009

Adam Rudolph/Go: Organic Orchestra: Mirrors
Thought Forms
Meta Records/2009
recorded June 2006, Electric Lodge, Venice, California

John Luther Adams: In the Rain
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
recorded at Adams' cabin-studio, Fairbanks, Alaska

John Cage: 28 Seconds on Takehisa Kosugi (from "19 Questions")
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
director: Frank Scheffer; text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage

David Tudor: Rainforest Version I, for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (excerpt)
Rainforest
Mode Records/1998
live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; D. Tudor; recorded in New Delhi, 1990

SET THREE
The Beatles: Revolution 9*
The Beatles
EMI/1968

Eric Lyon: Liberation #1 ^
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004

SET FOUR
Artemiy Artemiev & Christopher DeLaurenti: Solar Speech
57 Minutes to Silence
Electroshock Records/2002

Christopher DeLaurenti: Before Petrushka
Favorite Intermissions
GD Stereo/2009

Noah Creshevsky: Favorite Encores
Favorite Encores
Pogus Productions/2008

SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Racing Through, Racing Unseen
Miniatures Concretes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

Vivian Adelberg Rudow:
a. Racing Inside the Milkyway
b. The Majesty of it All
I Didn't Want To Say Goodbye CD-R (compiled 2004)
Hollins & Park Music Company

Severed Heads: Wonder of All the World
Cuisine (with Piscatorial)
Nettwerk/1991

SINGLE PLAY
John Young: from Ricordiamo Forli
a. Forli -- November 1944
b. Family Story
c. Once in Malmissole
d. The Bomb
e. Epilogue
Lieu-temps DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

SET SIX
Derek Jarman: "The side effects of DHPG...I am going to sign it."
Blue
Elektra--Nonesuch/1994
voice, text: D. Jarman; music, sounds: Simon Fisher Turner

Coklacoma: The Discovery of Christian Science
Co Klo Pop
Decibel Records/1996

Mike Silverton/Tom Hamilton/Al Margolis:**
a. Asbestos Abatement, that closer to health
b. Fire and ice and a reliable chronometer
Analogue Smoque
Pogus Productions/2003
voice, text: M. Silverton; electronics, sound processing: T. Hamilton, A. Margolis

Scott Smallwood:**
a. Renulife
b. Parco
c. Re'juvin
d. Energex
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
all sounds produced by antiquated electrotherapy devices

SET SEVEN
Liam O'Gallagher: Border Dissolve in Audiospace
10+12:12--American Text Sound Pieces #
Other Minds, Inc./2003 (orig. 1975)
sounds: obsolete telephony; voices: L. O'Gallagher, numerous unknown telephone operators throughout North America

Negativland: Home Cable T.V. Repair Corner
The Willsaphone Stupid Show
Seeland/1993

Negativland: Weather Reports, the Weather Hotline
ibid.
edited from "The Willsaphone Stupid Show" originally broadcast in 1991 for Negativland's "Over the Edge" program on KPFA, Berkeley; voices: David Wills, Don Joyce, Buzzy Linhart, Chris Grigg, Richard Lyons.

^ Regarding "Liberation # 1: A big thank you to Dr. Eric Lyon for sending me some information on the voice samples for "Liberation #1," which facilitated my own research, in which I discovered the recordings are from a panel session at the Ronald Reagan Institute for Public Policy on 11/12/99, entitled , including snippets from a lecture by Paul Wolfowitz ("This is a strategy that would make the United States the enemy of the whole world..." (etc.), who would later be President George W. Bush's Deputy Secretary of Defense. Wolfowitz had served as Undersecretary of Defense Policy for George H.W. Bush's administration. At the time of the panel discussion, he was dean of Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. The panel host was former Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and the other voice, from what I can surmise ("On a personal note, I would like to thank Elliott Abrams for all he has done to make this conference so successful," etc.). Lyon composed this piece in February, 2003, one month before the U.S. invaded Iraq. Furthermore, Dr. Lyon commented in his email: "The number 1 might suggest that I had discounted the earlier Afghan liberation, but computer scientists count starting from 0. The duration of Liberation #1 is 9 minutes, 11 seconds, in reference to the 9/11 rhetoric that surrounded the march to war." Other samples come from a Christian radio host in Florida ("And that's the thing you have to realize") and the New York City rapper Necro ("look for me all over the world.")

** The selections from Silverton and Smallwood run somewhat concurrently.

*The Beatles' "Revolution 9" is rogrammed here in protest of know-it-all "rock historian" Ed Ward stating on NPR's "Fresh Air" program on September 18: "The really bad stuff like the White Album's Revolution number 9 is there for all to hear; the emperor standing naked." The remark was part of Ward's review of the remastered Beatles series released in September by Apple Corps, Ltd. via EMI. Not only was Ward's derision of "Revolution 9" a revelation of his own ignorance of the compositional beauty and historical significance of the recording, but it was a dismissal of the best-known composition in the genre of tape music/musique concrete. Certainly, the average NPR-listener will not buy a Pierre Schaeffer album this fall, but she might buy The Beatles remasters. It does the goals of Martian Gardens a disservice for a philistine such as Ed Ward to write off "Revolution 9" as "really bad stuff" rather than mention the origins of the piece and how it came to be. Absent the prejudice Mr. Ward introduces, perhaps the listener might be more open to the wonders of adventurous musics such as one hears on Martian Gardens. Well, that's my two cents, and I do not have the new Beatles remasters because I haven't got much more than two cents in this economy. -- Max
p.s. The origins of the texts and sounds of "Revolution 9" are obscure and subject to dispute among Beatle-ologists, but here is a link to a fairly good transcription.

One more note, a very special thanks to both Vickie Rudow (music broadcast this week) and to Dean Rosenthal (music broadcast last week) for inquiring after my well-being during a recent personal crisis.

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 10/11/2009

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for October 11, 2009

SET ONE
Yusef Lateef:
a. Street Musicians
b. In A Little Spanish Town ('Twas On a Night Like This)*
c. You're Somewhere Thinking Of Me
The Man With The Big Front Yard**
32 Jazz--Atlantic Records/1998
*Music by Mabel Wayne, lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young, sampled recording unknown
**Includes the albums "The Complete Yusef Lateef" (1968), "Yusef Lateef's Detroit" (1969), "Hush 'N' Thunder" (1972), "The Doctor is in...And Out" (1974)

Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph: A Feather in the Bright Sky
The World at Peace--Music for 12 Musicians
Meta Records/1997
wind instruments: Y. Lateef; percussion: Adam Rudolph; with ensemble of other musicians; recorded 6/16/95 at the Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles

Adam Rudolph: Palms that Flicker
Go: Organic Orchestra: 1
Meta Records/2003
Adam Rudolph's Organic Orchestra recorded 11/02/01, Electric Lodge, Venice, California

Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph perform for the Magic Triangle Solos & Duos series, Thursday, 10/15/09, 8:00 p.m., Bowker Auditorium, University of Massachusetts

SET TWO
Harry Partch: Windsong
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3
New World Records/2005 (orig. CRI/1997)
music for harmonic canon II, kithara II, adapted viola, surrogate kithara, chromelodeon, boo, diamond marimba, cloud chamber bowls, spoils of war, bass marimba; all instruments performed by Harry Partch for a film by Madeline Tourtelot, recorded in Chicago, winter 1958

Harry Partch: By the Rivers of Babylon (137th Psalm)
Enclosures 5--Harry Partch anthology
Innova Recordings/1998
voice: Nina Cutler; chromolodeon: Evelyn Garvey; kithara: Lyndel Davis; adapted viola: H. Partch; Gate 5 Ensemble conductor: John Garvey; recorded 1961, University of Illinois

Musci-Venosta: The Snout in the Dark
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
keyboards, sampler, field recordings: Giovanni Venosta; guitars, sampler, kalimba, musical tube, field recordings: Roberto Musci; recorded 1991 at FX Studio, Milan

Michael Lipsey: Words/Echoes (M. Rosenblum)
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2008
congas, bongos, tambourine: M. Lipsey; electronics, voice treatments: Mathew Rosnenblum; text: Gertrude Stein, “As A Wife Has A Cow: A Love Story”

SET THREE
Frank Denyer: Play
Faint Traces -- Chamber Works 1973--2001
Mode Records/2005
performed by The Barton Workshop; Recorded at Dartington Hall, 5/01/03

James Tenney: Spectrum 1
Spectrum Pieces
New World Records/2009
performed by The Barton Workshop; directors: Frank Denyer, James Fulkerson; recorded October 2008 in Het Bethanianklooster, Amsterdam

SET FOUR
Dean Rosenthal: Your Fine Promises
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/2009
voice: Joan La Barbara; text: Fujiwara no Mototoshi, translated by Kenneth Rexroth

Meredith Monk: Quarry Lullaby
Do You Be
ECM Records/1987
Robert Een, Ching Gonzalez, Andrea Goodman, Wayn Hankin, Naaz Hosseini, Nurit Tilles, M. Monk: voices; recorded 1986, Ludwigsburg and New York City

If, Bwana: Rushin' Lisa
"31"
GD Stereo/2009
synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; flute: Jacqueline Martelle; voice samples (present and absent): Lisa Barnard; recorded at Roulette, NYC, for the Interpretations concert series, March, 2008

Maggi Payne: White Night
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
flutes, synthesizers, electronics: M. Payne; recorded at CCM, Mills College

SET FIVE
David Hahn: America Ist Nun Erwacht (America Has Now Awakened)
David Hahn/2003
voice samples: President George W. Bush, Reichkanzler Adolf Hitler

Daniel Koppelman: Psychic Driving (E. Lyon)
Escapement (CD/DVD)
Everglade/2009
computer sounds: Eric Lyon; piano, reader (text 1): D. Koppelman; computer-generated voice sample: M. Albright (text 2); text 1: Reverend Jim Jones; text 2: Secretary of State Madeline Albright; Shaker hymn: Paulina Bates, "Come to Zion," performers unknown

David Mooney: Wheel
Facts About Air -- Heavy Mental Music
Opaque Melodies/2009

SET SIX
Robert Normandeau: from Chorus (Dedicated to the victims of 9/11)
a. Confrontation (War)
b. Douleur (Pain)
c. Paix (Peace)
Puzzles DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2005

Francisco Lopez: ConOps (excerpt)
ConOps
GD Stereo/2009

Lionel Marchetti/Olivier Capparos: Equus (part 1)
Equus (Grand Vehicule)
Pogus Productions/2009
text: Eric Vuillard

SINGLE PLAY
MICE: World Radio Quilt
a. Cape Town, South Africa
b. Chennai, India
c. Shainghai, China
d. Walvis Baia, Nambia
e. Dakar, Senegal
f. Casablanca, Morocco
g. Gibralter, UK/Spain
h. Cadiz, Spain
MICE World Tour
Ecosono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble directed by Matthew Burtner

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/04/2009

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

Program for October 4, 2009

SET ONE
Terry Riley: Zamorra
The Book of Abbeyozzud
New Albion Records/1999
guitars: David Tanenbaum, Gyan Riley

Gyan Riley: Sonata Quasifantokastica
I. Tokata
II. Fantasy for Hoda
III. Quasitremelodo
Food for the Bearded
New Albion Records/2002
guitars: G. Riley
Upcoming performances of Terry and Gyan Riley:
New Albion Weekend at Bard College, Friday, October 9, 2009, and at Le Poisson Rouge, Sunday, October 11, 2009

SET TWO
Frances White: Like the Lily
Centre Bridge--Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen Ting; double bass: Troy Rinker, Jr.

Hsiao-Lan Wang: Refrain
Electroacoustic Works
hsiaolanwang.com/2003
Chinese dulcimer, computer: H-L Wang

SET THREE
Mark Applebaum: from Sum=Parts
a. 56 1/2 ft. a labyrinth for chamber orchestra
b. Integrity -- for two percussion & piano
56 1/2 ft.
Innova Recordings/2006
Inauthentica ensemble, conductor: Mark Menzies; percussion: Justin DeHart, Elyssa Shalla; piano: Liam Viney; recorded at Skywalker Sound 2/21/05

Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 6 (Song Interiors)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Justin DeHart; piano: Katalin Lukacs; recorded at Warren Studio A, UCSD, August 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Tenzer: Unstable Center (Puser Belah)
Let Others Name You
New World Records/2009
Genta Buana Sari and Sanggar Cudamani collectives; recorded 6/19/03, Pengossekan, Bali

SET FOUR
Pierre Schaeffer: from Suite pour 14 Instruments
a. Vagotte/Gavotte
b. Sphoradie
L'oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
broadcast on Paris-Inter, autumn 1949

James Tenney: String Complement (with Ergodos II)
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
performed by the Barton Workshop; recorded in Amsterdam, winter 2007

SET FIVE
David Mooney: Olbum's Furniture
Facts About Air -- Heavy Mental Music
Opaque Melodies/2009

Kenneth Gaburo: Dante's Joynte
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000

David Berezan: Cyclo
La Face Cachee
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
realized at BEAST (Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound Theatre), 2003

SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: October Music--Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 9/27/2009

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for September 27, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: Barabas
The Book of Abbeyozzud
New Albion Records/1999
guitar: David Tanenbaum

SET ONE
John Cage:
a. Triple-Paced (first version)
b. Triple-Paced (second version)
The Works for Piano 4
Mode Records/2002
piano,prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan

Charity Chan:
a. Penny for your Thoughts
b. Spinning Too Fast to Doubt
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd/2009
piano: C. Chan

Andrew Byrne: from Fata Morgana--Mirages on the Horizon
a. Third Mirage
b. Fourth Mirage
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
prepared piano: Stephen Gosling

John Cage: Spontaneous Earth
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano (The Works for Piano 8)
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandre

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 10 (Who are we? Where are we?)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka

Stuart Saunders Smith: Tunnels
Crux
O.O. Discs/1992
percussion, noises: Thomas Goldstein; voice, text: S.S. Smith

Elizabeth Panzer: Re: Elizabeth (G. Matamoros)
Dancing in Place
O.O. Discs/1999
harp: E. Panzer; tapes: Gustavo Matamoros

SET THREE
John Young: from Ricordiamo Forli (Let's Remember Forli)
a. Winter
b. Pippo
c. The Garden
d. A Little Italian Farm
e. Interlude 2 -- Florence
Lieu-temps (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
environmental recordings from Forli, Emilia-Romagni, Italy; narrator: Franco Bianchini; realized at De Montfort University, 2005

Robert Iolini:
a. Secrets
b. Breaking the Seal
Electroacoustic, Chamber Ensemble, Soundscapes, and Works for Radio
ReR Megacorp/2001
excerpts from the radiphonic opera "Vanunu"; mezzo-soprano: Yolanda Podalski; bass baritone: Clive Birch; libretto: David Nerlich; composition, samples, performance, production: R. Iolini; recorded for The Listening Room, ABC Studios Ultimo, Sydney, 1994

SET FOUR
Steve Fisk: Terrible Weapons
Over and Thru the Night
K Records/1993
Bellzouki, tapes: Ben Fisk; tapes, sampler, optagon, Arp 2600: S. Fisk; voice samples: Ronald Reagan

Rodney Waschka: Help Me Remember -- Dancing
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 14 #
Centaur Records/1993

David R. Mooney: WMD: Naming Names
Facts About Air -- Heavy Mental Music
Opaque Melodies/2009

Marcelle Deschenes: Lux (excerpt)
petits Big Bangs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
voice: Gael Andrews; texts: Robert Oppenheimer; Ernest Rutherford;George Bernard Shaw; Immanuel Kant; Renee Bourassa; sound samples: A. Thibault -- "OUT," "Quarks' Muzik," M. Deschenes -- "deUS irae"; realized 1985 at Bruit Blanc Studio, Montreal

Alice Shields:
a. Someone, I Say, Will Remember Us
b. The Dawn Wind
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993

SET FIVE
Mary Jane Leach: Feu de Joie
Celestial Fires
XI Records
bassoon: Shannon Peet

Alex Shapiro: Deep
Notes from the Kelp
Innova Recordings/2007
contrabassoon: Leslie Lashinsky; percussion: Dan Morris; electronics: A. Shapiro

Frank Felice: "...and so the hole was dug"
Sidewalk Music
Capstone Records/2002
bassoon: Doug Spaniol; so-called tape: F. Felice

SET SIX
Joseph Klein: Dog (after W.S. Merwin)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 27
bassoon: Kristin Wolfe Jensen; soprano: Heidi Dietrich Klein; dog: Poppy; text: W.S. Merwin, "Dog"; recorded at CEMI, Denton, TX, September 1997

Paul Koonce: The Flywheel Dream
Walkabout and Back
Mode Records/2000

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 9/20/2009

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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 20, 2009

SET ONE
Jon Rose: The Chemical Contents of the Waters & Spells for Cures
The Fence/Bagni di Dolabella
ReR Megacorp/1998
The Orchestra of Ancient Guts, conducted by Dr. Johannes Rosenberg; voice: Sabine Sacchi; text: ancient Roman document; recorded in Rome, September 1993

John Young: from Ricordiamo Forli (Let's Remember Forli)
a. In Piazza Saffi
b. Interlude 1
c. Bitter Room
d. Ancient Tear
Lieu-temps
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
environmental recordings from Forli, Emilia-Romagni, Italy; narrator: Franco Bianchini; text (d): Giosu Carducci, reciter: Tarcisia Young; realized at De Montfort University, 2005

SET TWO
Sylvia Smith: In Hours Like These (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
orchestra bells, speaking voice: Sylvia Smith; singing voice: Christie Finn; text: Vladimir Mayaovky, "It's After One"

Stuart Saunders Smith:
a. Hearing Links
b. Links No. 5 (Sitting on the Edge of Nothing)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
a. narrator: Sylvia Smith; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC, January 2008; b. vibraphone: Aiyun Huang; offstage glockenspiel, chimes, percussion: Fabio Oliveira, A. Huang; recorded at Warren Studio A, UCSD, August 2008

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: Extensions 4
First Recordings--1950s
Mode Records/1999
pianos: Philipp Vandre; recorded in Frankfurt, 1996

Dean Rosenthal: For Morton Feldman
Dean Rosenthal CD-R 2009
voice sample: Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman: Three Clarinets, Cello, and Piano
Voices & Instruments
Mode Records/2002
The Barton Workshop; recorded in the Netherlands, 2000

SET FOUR
Robert Helps: Fanfares (I. Dahl)
New Music for the Piano
CRI/2001 (orig. 1971)

Eric Moe: Valse Mirage (R. Helps)
The Waltz Project Revisted -- New Waltzes for Piano
Albany Records/2004
recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2002

Michael Jon Fink: Two Pieces for Piano Solo
The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue #
Cold Blue Music/2003
recorded in Los Angeles, 1982

Xiting Yang: My Visiting Card
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Mark Vernon: The Indecisive Moment
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Dean Rosenthal: Sinfonieren
Dean Rosenthal CD-R 2009
voice sample: "Black is the Color," Cathy Berberian; arr. Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio: from Folk Songs
a. Black is the Color
b. I wonder as I wander
The Great Works For Voice
Mode Records/1995
soprano: Christine Schadeberg; Musician's Accord, conductor: Tania Leon; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC, 1/06/95

Margaret Lancaster: Have Faith! (J. Beyer)
Io
New World Records/2009
soprano: Beth Griffith; flute: M. Lancaster; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, July 2008

Johanna Beyer: Bees
Sticky Melodies
New World Records/2008
piano: Peter Dumsday; recorded in Melbourne, November 2008

SET FIVE
Evan Parker & Ned Rothenberg: The Artist's Response?
Live at Roulette
Animul Records/2007
soprano saxophone: E. Parker; alto saxophone: N. Rothenberg; recorded at The Roulette, NYC, 10/10/06

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Moment's Energy, Part 4
The Moment's Energy
ECM Records/2009
Eelectro-Acoustic Ensemble -- trumpet, piccolo trumpet: Peter Evans; sho: Ko Ishikawa; clarinet, bass clarinet, shakuhachi: Ned Rothnenberg; violin, live electronics: Philipp Wachsmann; piano, prepared piano: Agusti Fernandez; double-bass: Barry Guy; percussion, live electronics: Paul Lytton; signal processing: Lawrence Casserly; sample/signal processing: Joel Ryan; computer processing: Walter Prati; live electronics: Richard Barrett, Paul Obermayer; sound projection: Marco Vecchi; recorded November, 2007, at Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, UK

Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton/Marilyn Crispell:
a. and the tints
b. a deeper red
Natives and Aliens
Leo Records/2001
saxophones> E. Parker; bass: B. Guy; percussion: P. Lytton; piano: M. Crispell; recorded at Gateway Studios, London, 5/24/96

SET SIX
Vincent Bergeron: Aux Limites
Le Savant Devait Arriver Avant Songeur
Vincent Bergeron/2008
voice: Vivika Eriksson; guitars: Marco Oppedisano; saxophones: Marco Rosano; trutruca: Markus Breuss

Vincent Bergeron/Berger Rond: Audiomachie
Audiomachia/Logomachie
Vincent Bergeron/2008
voice: Vivika Eriksson; drums: Jorg Fischer; Frederic Szymanski, Bob Marsh: other instruments; additional voice: Amy Kohn; recorded in Montreal, 2009

Marco Oppedisano: Three Short Electronic Pieces
a. What's that Noise?
b. Did You Hear That
c. The End is Near
Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar
OKS Recordings of North America/2007

Arie Shapira: Illabi-Illabi
Electronics Plus
Arie Shapira/2000
soprano: Narda Moria; violin: Ron Porat; text: Shaul Tchernichovsky, "Sachki-Sachki"

SINGLE PLAY
Risto Holopainen: Mechanical Magpies
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 9/13/2009

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

Program for September 13, 2009

SET ONE
J.B. Floyd/Thomas Buckner/George Marsh:
a. In Crossing the Busy Street
b. He Took A Cup From The Smiling Proprieter
c. In A Deli Off Times Square
In Crossing the Busy Street
Mutable Music/2009
piano: J.B. Floyd; baritone: Thomas Buckner; text: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Mooore

Robert Ashley: from Celestial Excursions , Act II
a. The List
b. Asylum/Depression
c. Asylum/What about the Kids?
d. Asylum/Baguette
e. Asylum/Love That Stuff
Celestial Excursions
Lovely Music, Ltd./2005
singers: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara, R. Ashley; text: R. Ashley; piano: Blue Gene Tyranny; electronics, processing: Tom Hamilton, R. Ashley

J.B. Floyd: New York, New York (From--A Hundred Little 3-D Pictures)
Transporting Transmittance
Mutable Music/2003
piano: J.B. Floyd; baritone: Thomas Buckner; text: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Mooore

Margaret Lancaster: from Piker (L. Polansky)
a. Daughter of Piker
b. I Know You!
c. You're No Piker!
d. You're A Piker!
Io
New World Records/2009
solo piccolo: M. Lancaster; sections a, b, and d are based on the following Shaker tunes: a. "Love, More Love," b. "O the Simple Gifts of God," and "Little Trumpet," d. "Hop Up and Jump Up"

SINGLE PLAY
Edmund Campion: A Complete Wealth of Time
Outside Music
Albany Records/2008
pianos: Gloria Cheng, Vicki Ray

SET TWO
Andrew Byrne: For piano Crotales and Glockenspiel (from Part III: Desert Weather)
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
piano: Stephen Gosling; percussion: David Shively

Drew Krause: Ding
Ding
Capstone Records
McCormick Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Robert McCormick; piano: D. Krause
recorded April, 2000, Springs Theatre, Tampa

Morris Palter: Tire Tike Dha (J. Dillon)
Remedy
Centaur Records/2000
solo percussion: M. Palter

SET THREE
MICE: Kanja
MICE World Tour
EcoSono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble, director: Matthew Burtner

Scott Wilson: Gotlandic Miscellanea
Deep Wireless 6--Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009

Jonty Harrison: Streams (1st 1/2)
Environs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

SET FOUR
Marcelle Deschenes:
a. Big Bang II
b. Big Bang III
petits Big Bangs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2006

Laurie Spiegel: Immersion
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

SET FIVE
Henry Brant: December 8, 1900, Galveston Bay
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 5 -- Atlantic Hurricanes
Innova Recordings/2006
Musicians of Stetson University, Florida, conductors: H. Brant, Amy Snyder, et al.

Gerard Pape: Ascension Au Purgatoire (parts I, II, IV)
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
percussion: Roland Auzet, Stochos programming: Sinan Bokesoy; CCMIX assistant: Stefan Tieje

SINGLE PLAY
Kenneth Gaburo: Maledetto (excerpt)
Maledetto/Antiphony VIII
Pogus Productions/2008
narrator: Alan Johnson; duet: Elinor Barron, Bruce Liebig; quartet: soprano: Winifried Golden, alto: Linda Vickerman, tenor, Howard Crook, bass: Philip Larson; directed by K. Gaburo; text: K. Gaburo

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Martian Gardens for 9/06/2009

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 September 6, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Designs
I. Lento
II. Capriccioso
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 1
Bridge Records/2009
violin: David Bowlin; piano: Jacob Greenberg

SET ONE
John Cage:
a. Tossed as it is Untroubled (Meditation)
b. Prelude for Meditation
Complete Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
piano: Philipp Vandre

Charity Chan:
a. Sea Nocks
b. Silent Sands
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd/2009
piano, objects: C. Chan

Eleanor Hovda: Coastal Traces Tidepools 1
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
grand piano innards: E. Hovda; waterphone: Jack Vees

SET TWO
Catherine Jauniaux/Tim Hodgkinson: Kebadaya
Fluvial
Ad Hoc Records/2005 (orig. 1983)
percussion: Charles Bullen; percussion; balafon, percussion: Mario Boyer; voice: C. Jauniaux

Andrew Byrne: Part I. Desert Terrain
a. For processed piano and percussion
b. For solo piano
c. For solo crotales
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
piano: Stephen Gosling; percussion: David Shivley

Stuart Saunders Smith: Over
At Sixty--Selections
Smith Publications/2008
orchestra bells: Kevin Lewis; recorded March, 2008, Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron

SINGLE PLAY
Gilles Gobeil: Ombres, espaces, silences...
a. Vol de Reve
b. Descente au Tombeau
c. La Nuit
d. Vision
Trois Songes
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

SET THREE
MICE: Anemoi
MICE World Tour
EcoSono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble created by Matthew Burtner; cello: Zoe Kinney; soprano saxophone: M. Burtner; voice: W. Aniseh Khan Burtner; texts: Anaximenes of Miletus, Democritus, Aristotle, Theophrastus of Eresus, Titus Lucretius; real-time wind performance in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Paul Lansky: Say That Again
Alphabet Book
Bridge Records/2002

Edmund Campion: Losing Touch
Outside Music
Albany Records/2008
vibraphone with fixed electronics: Christopher Froh

SET FOUR
Leo Kupper: O ar vivo (from Rezas Populares do Brazil)
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/2002
mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; bass: Eduardo Janho-Abumrad

Noah Creshevsky: Antipasto
Hyperrealism in Music
Noah Creshevsky/2005

Serban Nichifor: Animal Farm
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Asha Srinivasan: Analogy
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Henry Cowell: Antinomy (Fourth Encore to Dynamic Motion)
Piano Music
Smithsonian/Folkways/1993 (orig. 1963)

Dean Rosenthal: Antinomy -- Henry Cowell
Dean Rosenthal CD-R 2009
voice samples: H. Cowell

Tim Hodgkinson: Vers Kongsu II
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
clarinet solo: T. Hodgkinson; bass clarinet: Vinny Golia; percussion: Gustoavo Aguilar; Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Iancu Dumitrescu; recorded in Ploesti, Romania, October 2003

SET FIVE
Morton Subotnick: It Begins...
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30 --
Transmigration Music: Music from the Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology, California Institute of the Arts
Centaur Records/2000
voices: Thomas Buckner; Joan La Barbara, I Nyoman Wenten; introduction to media poem "Intimate Immensity," performed at CEAIT, May 1999

Dean Rosenthal: Buddhist Sprouting Sound Vessel
Dean Rosenthal CD-R 2009
voice samples: Thomas Buckner

David Behrman: Watercress Well
My Dear Siegfried/QSRL -- 5 Pieces
XI Records/2005
baritone: Thomas Buckner; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo; keyboards, electronics: D. Behrman; text: Siegfried Sassoon; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton

SINGLE PLAY
Frances White: Birdwing (excerpt)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 25
The International Computer Music Association
Commission Awards--1994-96
Centaur Records/1997
shakuhachi: Tomie Hahn

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