WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 1, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; bass, accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely
SET ONE
Ilse Weber: I Wander Through Theresienstadt
Spiritual Resistance--Music from Theresienstadt
Bridge Records/2009
voice: Wolfgang Holzmair
Arie Shapira: Gideon Klein's Marterstraße
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004 (compiled)
piano: Uriel Tzachor; violin: Carmela Leiman; clarinet: Ilan Schul; vocal: A. Shapira; text: G. Klein, “Concert in the Attic of the Old School”
Gideon Klein: Tri pÃsne (Three Songs)]
a. Vodotrysk (The Fountain)
b. Polovina života (The Middle of Life)
c. Soumrak shůry sesouvá (Twilight Sank from High Above)
Spiritual Resistance--Music from Theresienstadt
Bridge Records/2009
baritone: Wolfgang Holzmair; piano: Russell Ryan; texts: (a)Johann Klaj,(b) Friedrich Hölderlin, (c) Goethe; recorded March, 2008, at the Music Room at Caramoor, Katonah, New York
Stefan Wolpe: Excerpts from Dr. Einstein's Address About Peace in the Atomic Era
Vocal Music
Bridge Records/2007
baritone: Patrick Mason; piano: Robert Shannon; text: Albert Einstein, February 12, 1950
SET TWO
Jim Fox: Colorless Sky Became Fog
Cold Blue Night @ REDCAT, 2/18/06 (CD-R)
Cold Blue Music/2006 (compiled)
hammered dulcimer: Theresa Diamond; piano: Bryan Pezzone; violin: Robin Lorentz; cellos: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Jessica Catron; double bass: Barry Newton; recorded 2/18/06 at REDCAT, Disney Hall, Los Angeles
Tim Brady: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously*
Scenarios -- Music for Electric Guitar, Electronics, and Tape
Justin Time Records/1994
George Todd: Wordscapes --
a. Word
b. Water Asleep
c. Green Idea
Green Ideas Furiously Asleep
Electronic Music Foundation/1996
Larry Kucharz: Green Wash no. 3
Ambient Green Washes
International Audiochrome/2005
SET THREE
Lynn Job: Lake House Letter
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
Susan Botti: 3 Poèmes de Jaccottet
a. Je ne veux plus me poser
b. La ou la terre s'achève
c. La Veillée funèbre
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; soprano: S. Botti; texts: Philippe Jacottet; recorded 12/04/97 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Michael Tenzer:
a. Invention
b. Etude
Let Others Name You
New World Records/2009
piano: Naoko Christ-Kato; recorded at Kammermusiksaal Musikhochschule, Lubeck, 2/22/05
Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
SET FOUR
Walter Zimmermann: Lied Im Wustenvogelton (Song in the Tone of a Desert Bird)**
The Echoing Green -- Chamber Works 1986-1989
Mode Records/2005
bass-flute: Dietmar Wiesner; piano: Hermann Kretschmar; Recorded at Studio Beginner, Berlin, 5/31/01
Maggi Payne: Interpolation -- Mobile pour flûte (1, 2, et 3)
(R. Haubenstock-Ramati)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
SET FIVE
John Cage: Three Seconds on Zen Buddhism
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
director: Frank Scheffer; text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
David Claman: The Next Number
Music by David Claman (CD-R)
David Claman/2005 (compiled)
Jackson Mac Low: Thanks
Open Secrets
XI Records/1992
voices: Anne Tardos; J. Mac Low; realization: Three superimposed duo-performances circa 1982-1993, texts: "Forties" (J. Mac Low), "Girl over the Eiffel Tower" (Tibor Tardos), "Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be" (Simone Signoret), WordPerfect magazine, March 1993 issue
Istvan Marta: October
The Wind Rises -- Electropleinair sound diary -- 1973, 1985-1986
ReR Megacorp/1998
sounds: Rain, distant thunder near Budapest
José Mataloni: Adivinanza
Magical Realism of Sound
José Mataloni/2003
David Claman: Loomings
Music by David Claman (CD-R)
David Claman/2005 (compiled)
SET SIX
Daniel Zajicek: Rituals
CD-R/2005
Ned Bouhalassa: Songe Errant
Gratte-cite (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004
James Mobberley: Caution to the Winds
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33 #
Toys in the Attic: Electroacoustic Music from the UMKC iMPACT Center
Centaur Records/2002
piano: Richard Cass
Charity Chan:
a. Cabinets of Curiosities I
b. Cabinets of Curiosities II
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd/2009
extended piano, objects: C. Chan
*Both Tim Brady and George Todd play on Noam Chomsky's famous grammatically correct but semantically nonsensical sentence, and in my opinion, there are far too many colorless "green" ideas nowadays pushed by commercial interests who, in the end, will only make our fading green world all the more colorless.
**Zimmermann takes this title "Lied Im Wustenvogelton" (Song in the Tone of a Desert Bird) from a Nietzsche poem of the same name
--fin--
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
My fund drive gripe
Grumble, grumble, grumble.
Anyway, if you tried to call in during my Fund Drive program and did not get through, you probably called while I was speaking on microphone. There were no volunteers to answer phones. None. Zero Zip.
Hey, who cares about Martian Gardens?
Fund Drive week is the one week of the year during which I really get passionate about the idea that working on Martian Gardens for the other 51 weeks is totally...not worth it.
Therefore, I am changing the format to shake-your-booty funk-rock or maybe that AAA Adult Acoustic Alternative drivel all the folks here in the Happy Valley love so well.
Who gives a crap about John Cage or Pauline Oliveros? We wanna giddown and boogie!
Or maybe I could just broadcast Noam Chomsky speeches and New Age vegan gardeners talking wheat grass juice and herbal douche. Then I'd bring in tons of cash!
Meh. I'm just venting. I'll get over it. Negativity won't get the job done either
But, hey, you can still donate to the WMUA fund drive for the sake of Martian Gardens @ (413) 577-3000 or via the Donate link at wmua.org.
Thanx.
--Max
Anyway, if you tried to call in during my Fund Drive program and did not get through, you probably called while I was speaking on microphone. There were no volunteers to answer phones. None. Zero Zip.
Hey, who cares about Martian Gardens?
Fund Drive week is the one week of the year during which I really get passionate about the idea that working on Martian Gardens for the other 51 weeks is totally...not worth it.
Therefore, I am changing the format to shake-your-booty funk-rock or maybe that AAA Adult Acoustic Alternative drivel all the folks here in the Happy Valley love so well.
Who gives a crap about John Cage or Pauline Oliveros? We wanna giddown and boogie!
Or maybe I could just broadcast Noam Chomsky speeches and New Age vegan gardeners talking wheat grass juice and herbal douche. Then I'd bring in tons of cash!
Meh. I'm just venting. I'll get over it. Negativity won't get the job done either
But, hey, you can still donate to the WMUA fund drive for the sake of Martian Gardens @ (413) 577-3000 or via the Donate link at wmua.org.
Thanx.
--Max
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Martian Gardens for 10/25/2009
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 October 25, 2009
FUND DRIVE WEEK
SET ONE
Steve Roach & Roger King: Lost and Forgotten
Dust to Dust
Projekt/1998
Christopher Roberts: Traveling Alone
Last Cicada Singing
Cold Blue Music/2009
qin: C. Roberts
Alarm Will Sound: Movimento preciso e meccanico (G. Ligeti)
A/Rhythmia
Nonesuch Records
Alarm Will Sound; conductor: Alan Pierson
Gyorgy Ligeti: Continuum for Harpsichord
(six works)
Wergo/1988
harpsichord: Antoinette Vischer
SINGLE PLAY
Larry Nelson: Seven Clay Songs
a. Begin Here
b. Dense Clay List
c. O Let's Go Visit
d. Who Comes?
e. Drenched Tidings
f. Ben-Ray Dots
g. Begin Again
The Starry Messenger--Chamber Music of Larry Nelson
Albany Records/2005
soprano: Sharla Nafziger; piano: Charles Abramovic; text: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
SINGLE PLAY
Barney Childs: Clay Music
The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue Music
Cold Blue Music/2003
instrumentation--Space whistles, transverse flute, tuba flutes, small necklace ocarinas, middle-sized ocarinas (tuned in E and C), bass ocarina, pipes, Aztec pipes, double pipe, triple pipes; performers: Susan Rawcliffe Lisette Rabinow, Georgia Lwan, Scott Wilkinson; recorded in Los Angeles 2/28/81
SET TWO
Forrest Fang: A Walk Through the Clouds
Phantoms
Projekt/2009
Jorge Reyes: Danza de los Peyoteros
Niereka
Silent Records/1993
Rhomb:
a. Empty Roads
b. Vacant Cities
Hidden Topographies
The Foundry/1998
SINGLE PLAY
Diane Thome: Ringing, Stillness, Pearl Light
Palaces of Memory
Centaur Records/1995
piano: D. Thome; recorded at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest Park, Washington
SET THREE
Mark Trayle: Primitive Still Life (With Pairs)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30 #
Transmigration Mussic: Music from the Center for Experiments in
Art, Information, and Technology, California Institute of Arts
Centaur Records/2000
recorded at CEIT, 1998
Ronald Perera: Alternate Routes
Crossing the Meridian
CRI/1998
produced at Bregman Electronic Music Studios, Dartmouth, 1971
SET FOUR
Max Neuhaus: Four Amplified Cymbals (E. Brown)
Electronics and Percussion
Columbia Masterworks/1969
realized 1964
Earle Brown: Octet I (for eight loudspeakers)
Selected Works 1952-1965
New World Records/2006
realized via the Project for Music and Magnetic Tape, Columbia University, 1953
Pauline Oliveros: Something Else
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
realized with Lafayette tone generators, noise source, tape delay, Mills College, 1966
SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Mycenae Alpha
CCMIX Paris --- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum #
Mode Records/2001
realized at UPIC, Paris, 1978
--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 October 25, 2009
FUND DRIVE WEEK
SET ONE
Steve Roach & Roger King: Lost and Forgotten
Dust to Dust
Projekt/1998
Christopher Roberts: Traveling Alone
Last Cicada Singing
Cold Blue Music/2009
qin: C. Roberts
Alarm Will Sound: Movimento preciso e meccanico (G. Ligeti)
A/Rhythmia
Nonesuch Records
Alarm Will Sound; conductor: Alan Pierson
Gyorgy Ligeti: Continuum for Harpsichord
(six works)
Wergo/1988
harpsichord: Antoinette Vischer
SINGLE PLAY
Larry Nelson: Seven Clay Songs
a. Begin Here
b. Dense Clay List
c. O Let's Go Visit
d. Who Comes?
e. Drenched Tidings
f. Ben-Ray Dots
g. Begin Again
The Starry Messenger--Chamber Music of Larry Nelson
Albany Records/2005
soprano: Sharla Nafziger; piano: Charles Abramovic; text: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
SINGLE PLAY
Barney Childs: Clay Music
The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue Music
Cold Blue Music/2003
instrumentation--Space whistles, transverse flute, tuba flutes, small necklace ocarinas, middle-sized ocarinas (tuned in E and C), bass ocarina, pipes, Aztec pipes, double pipe, triple pipes; performers: Susan Rawcliffe Lisette Rabinow, Georgia Lwan, Scott Wilkinson; recorded in Los Angeles 2/28/81
SET TWO
Forrest Fang: A Walk Through the Clouds
Phantoms
Projekt/2009
Jorge Reyes: Danza de los Peyoteros
Niereka
Silent Records/1993
Rhomb:
a. Empty Roads
b. Vacant Cities
Hidden Topographies
The Foundry/1998
SINGLE PLAY
Diane Thome: Ringing, Stillness, Pearl Light
Palaces of Memory
Centaur Records/1995
piano: D. Thome; recorded at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest Park, Washington
SET THREE
Mark Trayle: Primitive Still Life (With Pairs)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30 #
Transmigration Mussic: Music from the Center for Experiments in
Art, Information, and Technology, California Institute of Arts
Centaur Records/2000
recorded at CEIT, 1998
Ronald Perera: Alternate Routes
Crossing the Meridian
CRI/1998
produced at Bregman Electronic Music Studios, Dartmouth, 1971
SET FOUR
Max Neuhaus: Four Amplified Cymbals (E. Brown)
Electronics and Percussion
Columbia Masterworks/1969
realized 1964
Earle Brown: Octet I (for eight loudspeakers)
Selected Works 1952-1965
New World Records/2006
realized via the Project for Music and Magnetic Tape, Columbia University, 1953
Pauline Oliveros: Something Else
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
realized with Lafayette tone generators, noise source, tape delay, Mills College, 1966
SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Mycenae Alpha
CCMIX Paris --- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum #
Mode Records/2001
realized at UPIC, Paris, 1978
--fin--
Friday, October 23, 2009
Important message: WMUA Fund Drive Week!
The WUMA Fund Drive is on from October 27 through November 2. WMUA will be accepting donations and giving away fantastic gifts in appreciation of your support. Help support your favorite independent radio station during WMUA’s annual Fund Drive. To pledge your support during the fund drive please call (413) 577-3000. You can also donate online at wmua.org and click the "donate" link on the right under the banner.
A big thank you to Rob Voisey for donating 60 x 60 CDs as special premiums for Martian Gardens. Mr. Voisey's 60 x 60 project has been running since 2002. Not only does 60 x 60 feature works by some of the finest artists in contemporary music, but it covers all the types of music I broadcast on Martian Gardens. These are double-discs, each featuring 60 minute-long works by 60+ artists, totaling over 120 complete, individual works. I wil be offering these often-featured 60 x 60 CDs as a premium for your generous contribution of $20.00 or more.
Other standard premiums for various denominations include WMUA t-shirts, caps, and tote bags. Ask the fund drive operator about these and other premiums when you call (413) 577-3000 with your pledge in support of WMUA and Martian Gardens.
In addition, I am offering a double CD-R: "Martian Gardens 2009: Favorite Short Works." This special premium comes with your pledge of just $10.00. The goal of MG is to disseminate contempoary, electroacoustic, electronic, and avant-garde chamber musics composed present day and throughout the past century deserving of greater recognition in our culture. The shorter works, generally under four minutes, allows me to develop an anthology of the diverse canon of musics broadcast on Martian Gardens.*
The labels that release the recordings I play on MG are make do on a break-even or non-profit basis. The proprietors of labels such as Mode, New World Records, Bridge, Pogus, empreintes DIGITales, Vox Novus, Centaur, ECM, and Innova Recordings do their work for the same reason I produce Martian Gardens every week: Dedication to great music. That is why I post a link to each one every time I broadcast a recording from these labels on MG. I cannot thank them enough for making Martian Gardens possible and they are all deserving of your support as discerning music consumers!
My program during WMUA's annual Fund Drive week is always a challenge for me. I violate all fund drive protocol when I say I hate to be obliged to ask listeners for money. If I had my druthers, I wouldn't do it all. Then something struck me a few months ago. A Martian Gardens detractor challenged me:
"How many people actually listen to Martian Gardens?"
"I don't know, and I don't care!," I scoffed.
This statement is only half true. I do too care. I want everybody with a radio in the Pioneer Valley and everybody with Internet acess to listen to every Martian Gardens every Sunday! The salient point is I have the luxury of saying "I don't know, and I don't care." Nobody on commercial or public radio can even afford to think such a thing. That is where the annual fund drive comes in. Two-thirds of WMUA's funding comes to us from student activities fees from the University of Massachusetts and from the businesses that purchase underwriting with the station. In fact, the bulk of the Fund Drive pledges are made during the 16-hour Polkathon on Fund Drive Saturday from fans of WMUA's phenomenally popular weekend polka programs.
Thus, I do not have to worry about such serious business as market shares, underwriting clients, and pleading for every dime every listener can possibly give. You know what a National Public Radio pledge drive sounds like and I don't have to sound like that! I never intend to alienate any listener, but if a listener screams, "What is that terrible noise?," and reaches for the dial, I do not have to worry about it. Martian Gardens has carte blanche to explore the any avenue of avante-garde music and sound art without fear of reprisal. There have been years when Martian Gardens has raised hundreds of dollars and there have been years when MG has raised nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero. No money at all. This is not a factor determining whether my application to renew Martian Gardens every semester gets approved by station management. What you really tell WMUA's management with your pledge of any denomination is that you support the rarest commodity in American broadcasting: Complete freedom.
How much is freedom worth to you?
--Max
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
*In deference to Mr. Voisey, none of the 60 x 60 pieces will appear on the Martian Gardens 2009 CD-R.
A big thank you to Rob Voisey for donating 60 x 60 CDs as special premiums for Martian Gardens. Mr. Voisey's 60 x 60 project has been running since 2002. Not only does 60 x 60 feature works by some of the finest artists in contemporary music, but it covers all the types of music I broadcast on Martian Gardens. These are double-discs, each featuring 60 minute-long works by 60+ artists, totaling over 120 complete, individual works. I wil be offering these often-featured 60 x 60 CDs as a premium for your generous contribution of $20.00 or more.
Other standard premiums for various denominations include WMUA t-shirts, caps, and tote bags. Ask the fund drive operator about these and other premiums when you call (413) 577-3000 with your pledge in support of WMUA and Martian Gardens.
In addition, I am offering a double CD-R: "Martian Gardens 2009: Favorite Short Works." This special premium comes with your pledge of just $10.00. The goal of MG is to disseminate contempoary, electroacoustic, electronic, and avant-garde chamber musics composed present day and throughout the past century deserving of greater recognition in our culture. The shorter works, generally under four minutes, allows me to develop an anthology of the diverse canon of musics broadcast on Martian Gardens.*
The labels that release the recordings I play on MG are make do on a break-even or non-profit basis. The proprietors of labels such as Mode, New World Records, Bridge, Pogus, empreintes DIGITales, Vox Novus, Centaur, ECM, and Innova Recordings do their work for the same reason I produce Martian Gardens every week: Dedication to great music. That is why I post a link to each one every time I broadcast a recording from these labels on MG. I cannot thank them enough for making Martian Gardens possible and they are all deserving of your support as discerning music consumers!
My program during WMUA's annual Fund Drive week is always a challenge for me. I violate all fund drive protocol when I say I hate to be obliged to ask listeners for money. If I had my druthers, I wouldn't do it all. Then something struck me a few months ago. A Martian Gardens detractor challenged me:
"How many people actually listen to Martian Gardens?"
"I don't know, and I don't care!," I scoffed.
This statement is only half true. I do too care. I want everybody with a radio in the Pioneer Valley and everybody with Internet acess to listen to every Martian Gardens every Sunday! The salient point is I have the luxury of saying "I don't know, and I don't care." Nobody on commercial or public radio can even afford to think such a thing. That is where the annual fund drive comes in. Two-thirds of WMUA's funding comes to us from student activities fees from the University of Massachusetts and from the businesses that purchase underwriting with the station. In fact, the bulk of the Fund Drive pledges are made during the 16-hour Polkathon on Fund Drive Saturday from fans of WMUA's phenomenally popular weekend polka programs.
Thus, I do not have to worry about such serious business as market shares, underwriting clients, and pleading for every dime every listener can possibly give. You know what a National Public Radio pledge drive sounds like and I don't have to sound like that! I never intend to alienate any listener, but if a listener screams, "What is that terrible noise?," and reaches for the dial, I do not have to worry about it. Martian Gardens has carte blanche to explore the any avenue of avante-garde music and sound art without fear of reprisal. There have been years when Martian Gardens has raised hundreds of dollars and there have been years when MG has raised nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero. No money at all. This is not a factor determining whether my application to renew Martian Gardens every semester gets approved by station management. What you really tell WMUA's management with your pledge of any denomination is that you support the rarest commodity in American broadcasting: Complete freedom.
How much is freedom worth to you?
--Max
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
*In deference to Mr. Voisey, none of the 60 x 60 pieces will appear on the Martian Gardens 2009 CD-R.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Martian Gardens for 10/18/2009
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 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--
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 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--
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Martian Gardens for 10/11/2009
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 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--
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 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--
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Martian Gardens for 10/04/2009
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 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--
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