WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for December 20, 2009
(extended edition)
SINGLE PLAY
William S. Burroughs: The Junky's Christmas
Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (Burroughs/The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy)
Island Records/1993
voice, text: W.S. Burroughs; music: DHH; Hammond Organ, Synclavier: Pete Scaturro
SET ONE
George Crumb: A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979
a. The Visitation
b. Berceuse for the Infant Jesu
c. The Shepherd's Noël
d. Adoration of the Magi
e. Nativity Dance
f. Canticle of the Holy Night
g. Carol of the Bells
George Crumb Edition 1
Bridge Records/1991
piano: Lambert Orkis; recorded at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, MD, August, 1982
John Cage: Winter Music (for 20 pianos)
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music
Mode Records/2007 (orig. 1986)
The Callithumpian Consort; pianos: Alanna Battat, Johanna Kovitz, Guy Livingston, Mina Yang; director: Stephen Drury
SET TWO
Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
soprano: S. Botti; piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings; recorded 12/04/97, American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC
Diane Thome: Ringing Stillness, Pearl Light
Palaces of Memory -- Electro-Acoustic Music
Centaur Records/1995
piano: D. Thome; recorded at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest, WA
SINGLE PLAY:
Michael Byron: Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl
Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl
Cold Blue Music/2000
CalArts New Century Players; conductor: David Rosenboom; Recorded at Dizzy Gillespie Recording Studio, California Institute of the Arts, 2000
SET THREE
Scott Locke: Celestial Dreamscape (D. Kavasch)
a. Stillness of Moondrift
b. Sparkle of Starlight
Celestial Dreamscape -- A Century of Music for Clarinet
Everglade Records/2008
recorded at Weeks Center, University of Miami
Benjamin Broening: Arioso/Doubles
Third Practice -- Commissions and Premieres #
Centaur Records/2004
Bb clarinet: Arthur Campbell; recorded 11/03/02, Camp Concert Hall, University of Richmond
Daniel Koppelman: Nocturn/Doubles (B. Broening)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
recorded 2/27/08 at Ball State University Center for Music Engineering Technology
SINGLE PLAY
Eric Moe: Strange Exclaiming Music
a. Rhyme Does Not Pay
b. Cut Time
c. The Sorbet of Regret
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos Records/2009
violin: Curtis Macomber; piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded 5/24/05, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Peaceable Kingdom
September Canons
New World Records/2009
members of the Yale Philharmonia with tape accompaniment, conductor: Julian Pellicano; recorded 12/18/08, Sprague Hall, Yale University
SET FOUR
Meredith Monk: Epic I
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
recorded at Schaubuhne am Hallesches Ufer, Berlin, July, 1980
Shelley Hirsch:
a. Electric Menorrah
b. The Jewish People
c. Chant
O Little Town of East New York
Tzadik/1995
voice, text: S. Hirsch; music: S. Hirsch, David Weinstein; recorded at Harmonic Ranch and Harvestworks/Studio PASS, NYC
Larry Polansky and John Bischoff: Cocks Crow, dogs bark, this all men know...
The Time is Now. Words of Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, text: M.S. Carnahan; music: L. Polansky and J. Bischoff; recorded at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 1989; edited at La Trobe University Computer Music Studios, Melbourne, 1996
Thomas Buckner/Tom Hamilton: Segment H
Jump the Circle, Jump the Line
Mutable Music/2001
voice: T. Buckner, electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded live 12/01/00, EMF Engine 27, NYC
Robert Ashley: In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt)
10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces #
Other Minds, Inc./2003 (orig. 1975)
electronics: Paul DeMarinis; voice: R. Ashley; text: John Barton Wolgamot; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1973
Brenda Hutchinson: EEYAH! (excerpt -- nomenclature to ending)
The Aerial no. 4 #
Nonsequitur/1989
voice, text, drum, bell: B. Hutchinson
SET FIVE
Hans Fjellestad: Free Throw Prophet
Red Sauce Baby
Accretions/2000
woodwinds: Jason Robinson, Ellen Weller; church organ: H. Fjellestad; percussion: Marcos Fernandes, Kristen Cheadle; bagpipes ("Scotland the Brave," 1844): "The Wizard";basketball game recorded at the Zion Building, San Diego, 1999
Charles Amirkhanian:
a. Gold and Spirit
b. Walking Tune [A Room Music for Percy Grainger] (excerpt)
Walking Tune
Starkland/1998
(a.) sounds, electronics, chants, voices: C. Amirkhaninan, written for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics; (b.) violin, voice: Elizabeth Baker; Synclavier: Henry Kaiser; recorded at 1750 Arch Studios, Berkeley
SET SIX
Joane Hétu: Joyeux Temps (1-4)
Nouvelle Le Musique D'Hiver
Actuellecd/2007
Ensemble SuperMusique, narrator: Gilles Derome; recorded March, 2003, at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Ensemble SuperMusique: 8 Moments Brefs
Y'a du bruit dans ma cabane
Actuellecd/2008
recorded live in Montreal, 10/09/07
SET SEVEN
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
realized in 1998 at Norwegian Network for Technology, Acoustics, and Music (NoTAM), University of Oslo
Natasha Barrett: Microclimate III -- Glacial Loop
MusicWorks 99 CD compendium
MusicWorks magazine/2007
recorded in western Norway, 2007
SET EIGHT
Artemiy Artemiev: Waiting for the Winter
Cold
Electroshock Records/1995
electronics: A. Artemiev, recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, December, 1994
Richard Pinhas: Wintermusic (excerpt)
Iceland
Cuneiform Records/1992
recorded live at Heldon Stduios, Paris,1983
SET NINE
Forrest Fang: Ebb in Winter
Phantoms
Projekt Records/2009
electronics, instruments: F. Fang; recorded at the Hangar, Berkeley
Robert Scott Thompson: Stellar
Improbable Pianos
Aucourant Records/2007
pianos, electronics: RST, recorded in the Digital Domain, La Jolla, UCSD, 1988
SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon
Still Lives
Lovely Music, Ltd./2001
koto: Ryuko Mizutani; pure wave oscillator: A. Lucier; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn
--fin--
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Martian Gardens for 12/13/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for December 13, 2009
SET ONE
Meredith Monk:
a. Greensleeves (trad.)
b. Nota
c. Duet for Voice and Echoplex
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, guitar: M. Monk; Echoplex delay system: Daniel Zellman;
recorded at Meriden, CT, 1966 (a), New York City, 1977 (b), Expo-67, Montreal, 1967 (c)
Anthony De Mare:
a. Paris (M. Monk)
b. Memory Song (M. Monk)
Pianos and Voices (Music of Meredith Monk and John Cage)
Koch Classics/1992
recorded March, 1991, at Master Sounds Astoria, New York
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano & Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
Arditti String Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY, Purchase, December, 1998.
In celebration of Elliot Carter's 101st birthday, 12/11/09
SET TWO
Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars:
Another Glass of Wine to Give Succor to My Ailing Existence (trad./arr. F. London)
Carnival Conspiracy -- In the Marketplace All is Subterfuge
Piranha Musik/2005
featuring Curtis Hasselbring, trombone
The Legendary Pink Dots:
a. The Peculiar Fun Fair
b. The Gallery
Any Day Now
Play It Again Sam/1988
Recorded at Rain Farm, Klaverland, Netherlands, July, 1987
Frank London: Emma Goldman's Wedding
The Shvitz Soundtrack
Knitting Factory Records/1993
trumpet, voice, keyboard: F. London; drums: David Licht; bass: Sebastian Steinberg; violin: Alicia Svigals; vocals, accordion, keyboard: Lorin Sklamberg; guitar: Elliott Sharp; guitar: Marc Ribot; guitar: Robert Musso; trombone: Jim Leff; clarinet, tenor saxophone: Greg Wall; clarinet, alto saxophone: Matt Darriau, alto sax: Christopher Cauley; recorded by Bob Musso at Loho Studios, Face Studios, Knitting Factory, NYC.
Greg Wall's Later Prophets: Sheer Merooba (The Four Fold Song)
Ha'Orot
Tzadik/2009
saxophones, clarinet, shofar, moseno: Rabbi Greg Wall; piano: Shai Bachar; bass: Dave Richards; drums: Aaron Alexander; text: G. Wall; reader: Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein; recorded February, 2002, Bennett Studios, Englewood, NJ
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Quick, A Word of Truth!
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004
text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
SET THREE
Bob Gluck: Shofaralong
Electric Songs
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
live shofar, electronics: Gluck
Roger Kleier: Hyperplane
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Master Element Studios, NYC
Arie Shapira: Bass 2000
Electronics Plus
Arie Shapira/2000
double-bass: Yair Loewinson
SET FOUR
Jin Hi Kim: Eternal Way
Komungo 'Round the World
Seoul Records, Inc./1994
digeridoo: Adam Plack; komungo: JH Kim; recorded in NYC and Tokyo
Miao Xiaoyun: Yingzhou Ancient Tunes (trad.)
The Art of the Chinese Lutes
ARC Music/1998
pipa: M. Xiaoyun; recorded February, 1997, ARC Music Studios, Sussex, UK
Mara Helmuth: Mountain Wind
Mara Helmuth--Sound Collaborations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36,
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Centaur Records/2007
pipa: Ming Ke; flute: I-Yin Tu; alto flute: Carlos Velez; bassoon: James Massol; violin: Timothy O'Neil; cello: Kaylie Duncan; computer: M. Helmuth; recorded at College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Stephen Montague: TiGiDA PiPa
Sonic Circuits VI #
Innova Recordings/1998
voices, woodblocks, claves: Songcircle, conductor: Gregory Rose; processing: S. Montague
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: 24 Seconds on Death
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004
text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
SET FIVE
Lawrence Moss: Korea (Live)
Unseen Leaves
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
clarinet: Esther Lamneck, NYU New Music Ensemble; recorded May, 2000, NYU Loewe Theater; Kurzweil sampler: L. Moss
Esther Lamneck: Lifelines (L. Moss)
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2007
clarinet: E. Lamneck
SET SIX
George Crumb:
a. Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory* (J. W. Howe)
b. Lonesome Road (N. Shilkret/G. Austin)
The Winds of Destiny -- American Songbook IV
The Complete Crumb Edition Volume 13
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman;recorded, November, 2005, at Swarthmore College.
*aka "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862)
"The Winds of Destiny," 2010 Grammy nominated for best Classical Contemporary Composition category.
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 2
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Steven Sehman; recorded in Studio 508, UMBC, May 2008
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Pleiades -- Melanges (excerpt)
b. Psappha (excerpt)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
red fish blue fish (a); Steven Schick (b); recorded at Warren Studios, UCSD
--fin--
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 December 13, 2009
SET ONE
Meredith Monk:
a. Greensleeves (trad.)
b. Nota
c. Duet for Voice and Echoplex
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, guitar: M. Monk; Echoplex delay system: Daniel Zellman;
recorded at Meriden, CT, 1966 (a), New York City, 1977 (b), Expo-67, Montreal, 1967 (c)
Anthony De Mare:
a. Paris (M. Monk)
b. Memory Song (M. Monk)
Pianos and Voices (Music of Meredith Monk and John Cage)
Koch Classics/1992
recorded March, 1991, at Master Sounds Astoria, New York
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano & Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
Arditti String Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY, Purchase, December, 1998.
In celebration of Elliot Carter's 101st birthday, 12/11/09
SET TWO
Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars:
Another Glass of Wine to Give Succor to My Ailing Existence (trad./arr. F. London)
Carnival Conspiracy -- In the Marketplace All is Subterfuge
Piranha Musik/2005
featuring Curtis Hasselbring, trombone
The Legendary Pink Dots:
a. The Peculiar Fun Fair
b. The Gallery
Any Day Now
Play It Again Sam/1988
Recorded at Rain Farm, Klaverland, Netherlands, July, 1987
Frank London: Emma Goldman's Wedding
The Shvitz Soundtrack
Knitting Factory Records/1993
trumpet, voice, keyboard: F. London; drums: David Licht; bass: Sebastian Steinberg; violin: Alicia Svigals; vocals, accordion, keyboard: Lorin Sklamberg; guitar: Elliott Sharp; guitar: Marc Ribot; guitar: Robert Musso; trombone: Jim Leff; clarinet, tenor saxophone: Greg Wall; clarinet, alto saxophone: Matt Darriau, alto sax: Christopher Cauley; recorded by Bob Musso at Loho Studios, Face Studios, Knitting Factory, NYC.
Greg Wall's Later Prophets: Sheer Merooba (The Four Fold Song)
Ha'Orot
Tzadik/2009
saxophones, clarinet, shofar, moseno: Rabbi Greg Wall; piano: Shai Bachar; bass: Dave Richards; drums: Aaron Alexander; text: G. Wall; reader: Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein; recorded February, 2002, Bennett Studios, Englewood, NJ
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Quick, A Word of Truth!
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004
text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
SET THREE
Bob Gluck: Shofaralong
Electric Songs
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
live shofar, electronics: Gluck
Roger Kleier: Hyperplane
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Master Element Studios, NYC
Arie Shapira: Bass 2000
Electronics Plus
Arie Shapira/2000
double-bass: Yair Loewinson
SET FOUR
Jin Hi Kim: Eternal Way
Komungo 'Round the World
Seoul Records, Inc./1994
digeridoo: Adam Plack; komungo: JH Kim; recorded in NYC and Tokyo
Miao Xiaoyun: Yingzhou Ancient Tunes (trad.)
The Art of the Chinese Lutes
ARC Music/1998
pipa: M. Xiaoyun; recorded February, 1997, ARC Music Studios, Sussex, UK
Mara Helmuth: Mountain Wind
Mara Helmuth--Sound Collaborations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36,
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Centaur Records/2007
pipa: Ming Ke; flute: I-Yin Tu; alto flute: Carlos Velez; bassoon: James Massol; violin: Timothy O'Neil; cello: Kaylie Duncan; computer: M. Helmuth; recorded at College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Stephen Montague: TiGiDA PiPa
Sonic Circuits VI #
Innova Recordings/1998
voices, woodblocks, claves: Songcircle, conductor: Gregory Rose; processing: S. Montague
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: 24 Seconds on Death
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004
text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage
SET FIVE
Lawrence Moss: Korea (Live)
Unseen Leaves
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
clarinet: Esther Lamneck, NYU New Music Ensemble; recorded May, 2000, NYU Loewe Theater; Kurzweil sampler: L. Moss
Esther Lamneck: Lifelines (L. Moss)
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2007
clarinet: E. Lamneck
SET SIX
George Crumb:
a. Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory* (J. W. Howe)
b. Lonesome Road (N. Shilkret/G. Austin)
The Winds of Destiny -- American Songbook IV
The Complete Crumb Edition Volume 13
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman;recorded, November, 2005, at Swarthmore College.
*aka "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862)
"The Winds of Destiny," 2010 Grammy nominated for best Classical Contemporary Composition category.
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 2
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Steven Sehman; recorded in Studio 508, UMBC, May 2008
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Pleiades -- Melanges (excerpt)
b. Psappha (excerpt)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
red fish blue fish (a); Steven Schick (b); recorded at Warren Studios, UCSD
--fin--
Sunday, December 6, 2009
A taste of Amecher and Lockwood
I was sad to hear earlier this fall from a mutual friend that the installation artist and composer Maryanne Amacher had died on October 22 at her Kingston, NY, home at the age of 70. I rarely broadcast Amacher's work on MG because the installation nature of most of her work requires the experience of being there and thus is not conducive to radio play. Ms. Amacher was a great artist who never got as much recognition as she deserved.
On the December 6 edition of Martian Gardens, I included a long selection of Annea Lockwood's masterpiece "A Soundmap of the Danube." My selection was recorded in the Croatian region. Here is a short dance to more music from "A Sound Map of the Danube" performed by dancer and choreographer Paloma McGregor as part of the "60 x 60 Dance at Galapagos" series presented by last September 6 at Galapagos art space at D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn by "60 x 60" director Robert Voisey:
On the December 6 edition of Martian Gardens, I included a long selection of Annea Lockwood's masterpiece "A Soundmap of the Danube." My selection was recorded in the Croatian region. Here is a short dance to more music from "A Sound Map of the Danube" performed by dancer and choreographer Paloma McGregor as part of the "60 x 60 Dance at Galapagos" series presented by last September 6 at Galapagos art space at D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn by "60 x 60" director Robert Voisey:
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Martian Gardens for 12/06/2009
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 December 6, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Flora
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
voice samples: Karol Bennett; tape: T. Machover; recorded July, 1989, at MIT Media Laboratory; Synclavier programming: Joseph Chung
SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: The Fragility Cycles ("Gambuh")
September Canons
New World Records/2009
gambuh (Balinese flute), Serge synthesizer, live processing: I. Marshall; recorded 1980, Swedish Radio, Stockholm
Maryanne Amacher: PLAYTHING Sound Character
A Storm of Drones #
Asphodel/1996
composed at the Banff Centre, 1992, Alberta; remastered by M. Amacher at The Compound, San Francisco, 1996; In memoriam Maryanne Amacher February 25, 1938 -- October 22, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
David Monacchi: Stati d' Acqua
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
sound sources: course of the Tiber River from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea; sound scan of a human fetus
SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Batina to Vukovar
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
recorded September 23-26, 2003, sounds include the Danube underwater at Batina, Croatia; herons at Skadarsko Lake, Kopački Rit Nature Park, Croatia, and the voice of fisherman Janos Horvat, Kopačevo, Kopački rit, Croatia.
SET TWO
Christopher DeLaurenti: After Beethoven
Favorite Intermissions
GD Stereo/2009
Yves Daoust: Ouverture
Bruits
empreintes DIGITales/2002
Recorded voices: Philippe Lavalette (as Philippe Aubert de Gaspé), Simon Finn (as Lord Durham), Pierre Mollett (as Monsignor Plessis), Louis Verdy (as Robert Nelson, Assembly of Lower Canada, Montreal), Interviewer: Catherine Perrin; recorded 1989 at Yves Daoust's studio; subject: historical Canadian independence movements
SET THREE
Miguel Chuaqui: La Persistencia de la Memoria (The Persistence of Memory)
Memoria -- Chamber and electroacoustic works
Centaur Records/2009
Disklavier: Heather Connor; recorded at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall, Salt Lake City, 10/05/08
Mara Helmuth: The Edge of Noise
Mara Helmuth--Sound Collaborations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36,
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Centaur Records/2007
NeXT Ens (Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music), computer: M. Helmuth
SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Tete et queue du dragon (1960)
a. Part 1
b. Part 2
Tautology and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Realized by the Groupe de recherches musicales du Service de la Recherche de la Radiodiffusion-Télévision française, directed by Pierre Schaeffer; Produced by Pierre Henry.
Luc Ferrari: Chanson 5 -- Chantons dans les silence
Chansons pour le Corps
Mode Records/1999
voice: Elise Caron; clarinets: Carol Mundinger, Sylvan Frydman; percussion: Christine Lagniel; piano: Michel Maurer; synthesizer: Michel Musseau, recorded in concert at GRM, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France Paris, 3/18/95
SET FIVE
David Lang: Street
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2002
Orekest de Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jatinen; recorded at MCO Studios, Hilversum, The Netherlands, April, 2009
David Lang: Sweet Air
Child
Cantaloupe Music/2003
Sentieri Selvaggi; conductor: Carlo Boccadoro; recorded at SMC Studios, Ivreea, Italy, December 2002
--fin--
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 December 6, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Flora
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
voice samples: Karol Bennett; tape: T. Machover; recorded July, 1989, at MIT Media Laboratory; Synclavier programming: Joseph Chung
SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: The Fragility Cycles ("Gambuh")
September Canons
New World Records/2009
gambuh (Balinese flute), Serge synthesizer, live processing: I. Marshall; recorded 1980, Swedish Radio, Stockholm
Maryanne Amacher: PLAYTHING Sound Character
A Storm of Drones #
Asphodel/1996
composed at the Banff Centre, 1992, Alberta; remastered by M. Amacher at The Compound, San Francisco, 1996; In memoriam Maryanne Amacher February 25, 1938 -- October 22, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
David Monacchi: Stati d' Acqua
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
sound sources: course of the Tiber River from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea; sound scan of a human fetus
SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Batina to Vukovar
A Sound Map of the Danube
recorded September 23-26, 2003, sounds include the Danube underwater at Batina, Croatia; herons at Skadarsko Lake, Kopački Rit Nature Park, Croatia, and the voice of fisherman Janos Horvat, Kopačevo, Kopački rit, Croatia.
SET TWO
Christopher DeLaurenti: After Beethoven
Favorite Intermissions
GD Stereo/2009
Yves Daoust: Ouverture
Bruits
empreintes DIGITales/2002
Recorded voices: Philippe Lavalette (as Philippe Aubert de Gaspé), Simon Finn (as Lord Durham), Pierre Mollett (as Monsignor Plessis), Louis Verdy (as Robert Nelson, Assembly of Lower Canada, Montreal), Interviewer: Catherine Perrin; recorded 1989 at Yves Daoust's studio; subject: historical Canadian independence movements
SET THREE
Miguel Chuaqui: La Persistencia de la Memoria (The Persistence of Memory)
Memoria -- Chamber and electroacoustic works
Centaur Records/2009
Disklavier: Heather Connor; recorded at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall, Salt Lake City, 10/05/08
Mara Helmuth: The Edge of Noise
Mara Helmuth--Sound Collaborations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36,
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Centaur Records/2007
NeXT Ens (Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music), computer: M. Helmuth
SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Tete et queue du dragon (1960)
a. Part 1
b. Part 2
Tautology and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Realized by the Groupe de recherches musicales du Service de la Recherche de la Radiodiffusion-Télévision française, directed by Pierre Schaeffer; Produced by Pierre Henry.
Luc Ferrari: Chanson 5 -- Chantons dans les silence
Chansons pour le Corps
Mode Records/1999
voice: Elise Caron; clarinets: Carol Mundinger, Sylvan Frydman; percussion: Christine Lagniel; piano: Michel Maurer; synthesizer: Michel Musseau, recorded in concert at GRM, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France Paris, 3/18/95
SET FIVE
David Lang: Street
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2002
Orekest de Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jatinen; recorded at MCO Studios, Hilversum, The Netherlands, April, 2009
David Lang: Sweet Air
Child
Cantaloupe Music/2003
Sentieri Selvaggi; conductor: Carlo Boccadoro; recorded at SMC Studios, Ivreea, Italy, December 2002
--fin--
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Martian Gardens for 11/29/2009
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 29, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Christian Wolff: Beginning
Long Piano
New World Records/2009
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded October, 2007, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
SET ONE
Eric Moe: I Have Only One Itching Desire
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble; recorded 3/23/06 at Legacy Hall, Columbus State University, Georgia
John Luther Adams: Velocities Crossing in Phase-Space
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded November, 1998, at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati
SET TWO
Katherine Kemler: Techno Yaman (R. Dick)
Lipstick
Centaur Records/2008
flute, drum machine/electronics: K. Kemler; recorded June, 2007, LSU Recital Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Elizabeth McNutt: The Blistering Price of Power (E. Lyon)
Pipe Wrench
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: E. McNutt; drum machine tape: Eric Lyon; recorded at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
SET THREE
Larry Nelson: Music for Flute and Electronic Sounds
The Starry Messenger
Albany Records/2005
flute: Christina Jennings; electronics: L. Nelson; recorded 9/18/04 at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore
Arthur Kreiger: Close Encounters
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
flute: Jayn Rosenfeld; electronics: A. Kreiger; recorded October, 2001, Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, SUNY, Purchase
SET FOUR
Cornelius Cardew: There is Only One Lie, There is Only One Truth
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
P.C.A. Singers and English Chamber Choir, conductor: Guy Protheroe; performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the Cornelius Cardew Memorial Concert, 5/16/82.
Joseph Waters: The Populist Manifesto
Joseph Waters
North Pacific Music/2000
soprano: Brenda Baker; accordion: Gernot Blume; saxophone: Tom Bergeron;cello: John Hubbard; percussion: Julie Spencer; text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
SET FIVE
James Paul Sain: Tag till...
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Paul Koonce: Hothouse
Walkabout and Back--Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2000
SET SIX
Dean Rosenthal: Antinomy
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
sampled voice/music: Henry Cowell
Henry Cowell: The Banshee
Piano Music
Smithsonian Folkways
spoken introduction, piano: H. Cowell, recorded 1963
Jeff Feddersen: This Time I Want Them All
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Sonic Circuits XI
Innova Recordings/2006
sampled voice: Henry Cowell; sound source: H. Cowell, "The Banshee"
Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records/2001
readers: Susan McCully, Phil Maki; text: Gertrude Stein, "The Making of Americans"; recorded 2000, W.I.N.C. Studio, West Newton, Mass.
John Cage: Voiceless Essay (excerpt)
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
text sources: Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," published 1849
John Cage: The best government is no government at all
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage
SINGLE PLAY
Andrew Byrne: Tracks
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded October, 2006, Patrych Studios, Bronx, NY
--fin--
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 29, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Christian Wolff: Beginning
Long Piano
New World Records/2009
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded October, 2007, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
SET ONE
Eric Moe: I Have Only One Itching Desire
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble; recorded 3/23/06 at Legacy Hall, Columbus State University, Georgia
John Luther Adams: Velocities Crossing in Phase-Space
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded November, 1998, at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati
SET TWO
Katherine Kemler: Techno Yaman (R. Dick)
Lipstick
Centaur Records/2008
flute, drum machine/electronics: K. Kemler; recorded June, 2007, LSU Recital Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Elizabeth McNutt: The Blistering Price of Power (E. Lyon)
Pipe Wrench
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: E. McNutt; drum machine tape: Eric Lyon; recorded at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
SET THREE
Larry Nelson: Music for Flute and Electronic Sounds
The Starry Messenger
Albany Records/2005
flute: Christina Jennings; electronics: L. Nelson; recorded 9/18/04 at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore
Arthur Kreiger: Close Encounters
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
flute: Jayn Rosenfeld; electronics: A. Kreiger; recorded October, 2001, Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, SUNY, Purchase
SET FOUR
Cornelius Cardew: There is Only One Lie, There is Only One Truth
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
P.C.A. Singers and English Chamber Choir, conductor: Guy Protheroe; performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the Cornelius Cardew Memorial Concert, 5/16/82.
Joseph Waters: The Populist Manifesto
Joseph Waters
North Pacific Music/2000
soprano: Brenda Baker; accordion: Gernot Blume; saxophone: Tom Bergeron;cello: John Hubbard; percussion: Julie Spencer; text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
SET FIVE
James Paul Sain: Tag till...
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Paul Koonce: Hothouse
Walkabout and Back--Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2000
SET SIX
Dean Rosenthal: Antinomy
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
sampled voice/music: Henry Cowell
Henry Cowell: The Banshee
Piano Music
Smithsonian Folkways
spoken introduction, piano: H. Cowell, recorded 1963
Jeff Feddersen: This Time I Want Them All
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Sonic Circuits XI
Innova Recordings/2006
sampled voice: Henry Cowell; sound source: H. Cowell, "The Banshee"
Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records/2001
readers: Susan McCully, Phil Maki; text: Gertrude Stein, "The Making of Americans"; recorded 2000, W.I.N.C. Studio, West Newton, Mass.
John Cage: Voiceless Essay (excerpt)
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
text sources: Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," published 1849
John Cage: The best government is no government at all
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage
SINGLE PLAY
Andrew Byrne: Tracks
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded October, 2006, Patrych Studios, Bronx, NY
--fin--
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Martian Gardens for 11/22/2009
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 22, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: In C (excerpt)
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands
SET ONE
Heather O'Donnell: The Celestial Potato Fields (In Memoriam Charles Ives) (S. Corbett)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, January, 2008
George Crumb: Gamma Draconis (Celestial Mechanics III*)
The Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
first piano: Haewon Song; second piano: Robert Shannon; recorded at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, June, 2001
SET TWO
Tim Brady: Traces (Hommage a Charlie Christian)
My 20th Century
Actuellecd/2009
Bradyworks and Quatuor Mollinari; recorded at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, May, 2008
Martin Bresnick: Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon
My Twentieth Century
New World Records/2005
Povera Players; recorded live at Izumi Hall, Osaka, 9/24/03
SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
Sound Collaborations
Centaur Records/2007
Maine loons recorded by William Barklow, included on his CD "Voices of the Loon" on
Swallowtail Records
Mara Helmuth/Allen Otte: Loonspace
Implements of Actuation
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
percussion: A. Otte; recordings of Maine loons, ibid.
SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Etudes -- aux accidents (1958)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Iannis Xenakis: Concrete PH (1958)
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
Sawako Kato: Crab
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2001
Erik Santos: Himotku Niwa (Garden of Turning Pages)
KUU -- Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007
Noah Creshevsky: Breathless (opening)
Hyperrealism in Music 1992-2005
Noah Creshevsky/CD-R compiled 2005
SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Psalmus XXIII
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik/2007
vocal samples: Beth Griffith; baritone: Zach Kurth-Nelson
Timeless Pulse: Light**
Quintet
Mutable Music/2007
baritone: Thomas Buckner; percussion: George Marsh; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; live electronics: David Wessel; percussion: Jennifer Wilsey
Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: William Smith; psaltery, organ, electronic processor: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard University electronic music studio, fall, 1981
Raul LaFuret Pereyra: Song for Cave
Anillo en Abril
Goethe Institute of Cordoba/2003
Luiz Eduardo Casteloes: Mobile das letras
Musica Eletroacustica Brasileira, Vol. III #
Electroacoustic Music Society of Brazil/2004
contrabass: Andre Satos; electric guitar: Gabriel Santiago; percussion: Rodrigo Foti
SET SIX
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII #
Nuema Records/2006
Åke Parmerud: Renaissance
Jeu D'Ombres
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
John Cage: Quick, a Word of Truth!
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage
SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Koppelman: Unnatural Selection (C. Dobrian)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
*from George Crumb's Makrokosmos book Four
**Unsure of title as the CD times and titles are out of sync.
--fin--
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 22, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: In C (excerpt)
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands
SET ONE
Heather O'Donnell: The Celestial Potato Fields (In Memoriam Charles Ives) (S. Corbett)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, January, 2008
George Crumb: Gamma Draconis (Celestial Mechanics III*)
The Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
first piano: Haewon Song; second piano: Robert Shannon; recorded at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, June, 2001
SET TWO
Tim Brady: Traces (Hommage a Charlie Christian)
My 20th Century
Actuellecd/2009
Bradyworks and Quatuor Mollinari; recorded at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, May, 2008
Martin Bresnick: Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon
My Twentieth Century
New World Records/2005
Povera Players; recorded live at Izumi Hall, Osaka, 9/24/03
SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
Sound Collaborations
Centaur Records/2007
Maine loons recorded by William Barklow, included on his CD "Voices of the Loon" on
Swallowtail Records
Mara Helmuth/Allen Otte: Loonspace
Implements of Actuation
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
percussion: A. Otte; recordings of Maine loons, ibid.
SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Etudes -- aux accidents (1958)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
Iannis Xenakis: Concrete PH (1958)
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
Sawako Kato: Crab
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2001
Erik Santos: Himotku Niwa (Garden of Turning Pages)
KUU -- Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007
Noah Creshevsky: Breathless (opening)
Hyperrealism in Music 1992-2005
Noah Creshevsky/CD-R compiled 2005
SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Psalmus XXIII
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik/2007
vocal samples: Beth Griffith; baritone: Zach Kurth-Nelson
Timeless Pulse: Light**
Quintet
Mutable Music/2007
baritone: Thomas Buckner; percussion: George Marsh; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; live electronics: David Wessel; percussion: Jennifer Wilsey
Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: William Smith; psaltery, organ, electronic processor: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard University electronic music studio, fall, 1981
Raul LaFuret Pereyra: Song for Cave
Anillo en Abril
Goethe Institute of Cordoba/2003
Luiz Eduardo Casteloes: Mobile das letras
Musica Eletroacustica Brasileira, Vol. III #
Electroacoustic Music Society of Brazil/2004
contrabass: Andre Satos; electric guitar: Gabriel Santiago; percussion: Rodrigo Foti
SET SIX
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII #
Nuema Records/2006
Åke Parmerud: Renaissance
Jeu D'Ombres
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
John Cage: Quick, a Word of Truth!
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage
SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Koppelman: Unnatural Selection (C. Dobrian)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
*from George Crumb's Makrokosmos book Four
**Unsure of title as the CD times and titles are out of sync.
--fin--
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Martian Gardens for 11/15/2009
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 15, 2009
SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Long Piano #63
Long Piano (Peace March 11)
New World Records/2009
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded October, 2007, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Christian Wolff: Pebbles (excerpt)
Complete Music for Violin & Piano
Mode Records/2003
violin: Marc Sabat; piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded 8/10/00 at Glenn Gould Studios, Toronto
SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 7 (New England Night Weave)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Jude Trexler; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC, October, 2008
Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; voice: Sylvia Smith
SET THREE
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Motion
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; arr. Anthony Fiumara; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands.
Matteo Sommacal: Counter Rotating in Vacuum
Minimamachta
Centaur Records/2009
Piccola Accademia degli Specchi; director: Giovanni Rosati; recorded summer, 2004, at Urban Recording Studio, CaswaDelleaMusica, Trieste, Italy
Miguel Del Aguila: from Clocks
a. Midnight Strikes
b. The Old Clock's Story
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio; recorded summer, 2008, First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas
Miguel Del Aguila: Cantando, semplice (from Pacific Serenade)
eXchange--Latin America #
CRI/2000
Pacific Serenade Ensemble; recorded live at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, 3/15/99
SET FOUR
Heather O'Donnell: The Missing Nail at the River (W. Zimmermann)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, April, 2007
Walter Zimmermann: Ursache und Vorwitz (Cause and Pertness)
Schatten der Ideen (Shadow of Ideas)
Mode Records/2003
Ensemble Recherche (with tape), recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, May, 1998
SINGLE PLAY
David Felder: November Sky*
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute: Rachel Rudich; computer sounds realized at SUNY, Buffalo, at the Banff Centre, Alberta; recorded at UC, San Diego
SINGLE PLAY
Eric Moe: Dead Elf Tugboat*
Kicking and Screaming
Albany Records/2003
flute: Rachel Rudich; keyboard sampler: E. Moe; recorded 11/09/98, American Academy of Arts and Letters
SET FIVE
Joan La Barbara:
a. Cathing (excerpt, first 68 seconds)
b. Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation (brief excerpt)
c. Autumn Signal (entire)
d. Hear What I Feel (brief except)
Voice Is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
a. voice: Cathy Berberian from radio interview, 6/19/77; b. voice: J. La Barbara; c. voice, Buchla synthesizer: JLB; text: JLB, inspired by Emmett Williams, "Sweethearts"; premiered 10/22/78, Metamusik Festival, Berlin; d. voice: JLB
Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 #
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
voice: G.L. Nelson; text: Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky"
SET SIX
Paul De Marinis: The Lecture of Comrade Stalin*
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music,
Leonardo Music Journal, CD Series Volume 8 #
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
voice, text: General Secretary Josef Stalin; musique concrete: P. De Marinis
Marcelo Radulovich: The Evil Ones
The Evil Ones
Marcelo Radulovich/2005
voice, text: President George W. Bush; musique concrete: M. Radulovich
A link regarding a special benefit for Mode Records at Abron's Art Center, 466 Grand Street, NYC, next Saturday, November 21st, featuring music by John Cage, John Zorn, and Philip Glass.
*Dr. Moe's "Dead Elf Tugboat" and Dr. Felder's "November Sky" got orphaned from their original sets. I had prepared for five hours rather than the normal three as I was slated to cover "A Thousand Plateaus," but since Mr. Berry returned from Maryland early on Sunday afternoon, he decided he'd like to do his program just the same. Oh well. I had a fantastic five hours lined up. I will broadcast most of what I cut from the original 11/15/09 program on the 11/22/09 program. I will post that playlist in a few days. I kept Moe's and Felder's works on this program because they both feature flutist Rachel Rudich, and I want to make sure I get "November Sky" programmed during November. I have two more programs in November, but I just arbitrarily prefer the middle of the month rather than late in the month. Anyway...
**full title: The Lecture of Comrade Stalin at the Extraordinary 8th Plenary Congress about the Draft Concept of the Constitution of the Soviet Union on November 25, 1936
--fin--
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 15, 2009
SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Long Piano #63
Long Piano (Peace March 11)
New World Records/2009
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded October, 2007, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Christian Wolff: Pebbles (excerpt)
Complete Music for Violin & Piano
Mode Records/2003
violin: Marc Sabat; piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded 8/10/00 at Glenn Gould Studios, Toronto
SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 7 (New England Night Weave)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Jude Trexler; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC, October, 2008
Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; voice: Sylvia Smith
SET THREE
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Motion
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; arr. Anthony Fiumara; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands.
Matteo Sommacal: Counter Rotating in Vacuum
Minimamachta
Centaur Records/2009
Piccola Accademia degli Specchi; director: Giovanni Rosati; recorded summer, 2004, at Urban Recording Studio, CaswaDelleaMusica, Trieste, Italy
Miguel Del Aguila: from Clocks
a. Midnight Strikes
b. The Old Clock's Story
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio; recorded summer, 2008, First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas
Miguel Del Aguila: Cantando, semplice (from Pacific Serenade)
eXchange--Latin America #
CRI/2000
Pacific Serenade Ensemble; recorded live at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, 3/15/99
SET FOUR
Heather O'Donnell: The Missing Nail at the River (W. Zimmermann)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, April, 2007
Walter Zimmermann: Ursache und Vorwitz (Cause and Pertness)
Schatten der Ideen (Shadow of Ideas)
Mode Records/2003
Ensemble Recherche (with tape), recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, May, 1998
SINGLE PLAY
David Felder: November Sky*
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute: Rachel Rudich; computer sounds realized at SUNY, Buffalo, at the Banff Centre, Alberta; recorded at UC, San Diego
SINGLE PLAY
Eric Moe: Dead Elf Tugboat*
Kicking and Screaming
Albany Records/2003
flute: Rachel Rudich; keyboard sampler: E. Moe; recorded 11/09/98, American Academy of Arts and Letters
SET FIVE
Joan La Barbara:
a. Cathing (excerpt, first 68 seconds)
b. Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation (brief excerpt)
c. Autumn Signal (entire)
d. Hear What I Feel (brief except)
Voice Is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
a. voice: Cathy Berberian from radio interview, 6/19/77; b. voice: J. La Barbara; c. voice, Buchla synthesizer: JLB; text: JLB, inspired by Emmett Williams, "Sweethearts"; premiered 10/22/78, Metamusik Festival, Berlin; d. voice: JLB
Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 #
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
voice: G.L. Nelson; text: Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky"
SET SIX
Paul De Marinis: The Lecture of Comrade Stalin*
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music,
Leonardo Music Journal, CD Series Volume 8 #
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
voice, text: General Secretary Josef Stalin; musique concrete: P. De Marinis
Marcelo Radulovich: The Evil Ones
The Evil Ones
Marcelo Radulovich/2005
voice, text: President George W. Bush; musique concrete: M. Radulovich
A link regarding a special benefit for Mode Records at Abron's Art Center, 466 Grand Street, NYC, next Saturday, November 21st, featuring music by John Cage, John Zorn, and Philip Glass.
*Dr. Moe's "Dead Elf Tugboat" and Dr. Felder's "November Sky" got orphaned from their original sets. I had prepared for five hours rather than the normal three as I was slated to cover "A Thousand Plateaus," but since Mr. Berry returned from Maryland early on Sunday afternoon, he decided he'd like to do his program just the same. Oh well. I had a fantastic five hours lined up. I will broadcast most of what I cut from the original 11/15/09 program on the 11/22/09 program. I will post that playlist in a few days. I kept Moe's and Felder's works on this program because they both feature flutist Rachel Rudich, and I want to make sure I get "November Sky" programmed during November. I have two more programs in November, but I just arbitrarily prefer the middle of the month rather than late in the month. Anyway...
**full title: The Lecture of Comrade Stalin at the Extraordinary 8th Plenary Congress about the Draft Concept of the Constitution of the Soviet Union on November 25, 1936
--fin--
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