Martian Gardens for 02/07/2010

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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for February 7, 2010

SET ONE
Laurie Spiegel: Strand of Life (Viroid)
Unseen Worlds
Scarlet Records/1991

Maggi Payne: :60 Fizz
60 x 60 2004-2005 -- A Circle of Sound
Vox Novus/2007

Jason Bolte: Descent
ibid.

David Mooney: Exotic Fruits
ibid.

Dean Rosenthal: Kansas Has This About It
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/cd-r compiled 2009
cello, voice: Frances-Marie Uitti; sampled noises made by John Cage

David Gunn: West of Topeka
60 x 60 2004-2005 -- A Circle of Sound
Vox Novus/2007

Greg Bartholomew: No! George! No!
ibid.

Ivan Elozovic: Green
ibid.

Alice Shields: Vegetable Karma (excerpt)
Shenandoah -- Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004

SET TWO
David Rosenboom: Section II (symmetrical harmonies in chaotic orbits)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims
New World Records/2009
computer: D. Rosenboom; excerpts of historical recordings 1969 (Electric Circus, NYC), 1970 (George Washington University), and 1973 (Maple, Ontario); master studio recording: 1/10/09, California Institute of the Arts

Zack Browning: Pure Sweat
Funktasia--Music by Zack Browning and Sever Tipei
Centaur Records/2006
bass clarinet: Eric Mandat; GACSS software; recorded at the University of Illinois

SET THREE
Arie Shapira: The Sacrifice of Isaac
Akeda
Arie Shapira/cd-r 2009
choir soloists -- soprano: Tehila Nini-Goldstein; mezzo-soprano: Ayelet Amotz; Orchestra -- Ensemble Meitar, conductor: Karin Ben-Yossef; text: Genesis 22:1-19

Noah Creshevsky: Omaggio
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Tetras
Complete String Quartets
Mode Records/2009
The JACK Quartet; recorded at WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Köln, Germany, November, 2008

SET FOUR

In memoriam Eleanor Hovda, born Duluth, Minnesota, March 29, 1940, died November 12, 2009, Springdale, Arkansas.

Eleanor Hovda: Onyx
Ariadne Music
O.O. Discs/1998
Prism Players; conductor: Jeannine Wagar; recorded at University of Minnesota-Duluth, 1997

The Relâche Ensemble: Borealis Music (E. Hovda)
Outcome Inevitable
O.O. Discs/1995
recorded at Acoustical Concepts, Inc., Eddystone, PA, 1994

SET FIVE
J.B. Floyd: from In Crossing the Busy Street
a. The Mountain Had Never Before Experienced Such Elation
b. He's Round Faced Like the Moon
c. There Are So Many Places We've Been That We'd Like to Revisit
d. He's the Echo Inside The Echo
e. He Stepped Off The Curb And Stepped Back Onto It Again
In Crossing The Busy Street
Mutable Music/2009
piano: J.B. Floyd; baritone: Tom Buckner; text: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore; recorded at Clarke Recital Hall, University of Miami

Roger Reynolds: from Last Things, I Think, To Think About
a. Text 1
b. I Had Thought
c. Text 2
d. The Painter
Last Things, I Think, To Think About
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
piano: Aleck Karis; baritone: Philip Larson; text: John Ashbery; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego

SET SIX
Eve Beglarian: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Tell The Birds
New World Records/2006
voice: Lisa Bielwa, MATA Ensemble, text: William Blake; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, September, 2001

Bernadette Speach: Moto
Without Borders
Mode Records/1988
The Bowery Ensemble; premiered by the Bowery Ensemble, April, 1983

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 01/31/2010

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 31, 2010

SET ONE
James Tenney: Spectrum 4
Spectrum Pieces
New World Records/2009
The Barton Workshop; directors: James Fulkerson, Frank Denyer; recorded 2008-2009, Het Bethianklooster, the Netherlands

James Tenney: Ergodos II (1964)
Melody, Ergodicity, and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007

SET TWO
César Bolaños: Intensidad y Altura
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
premiered in the hall of the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 11/21/64; text: César Vallejo

Jorge Antunes: Canto do Pedeiro (Mason's Song)
Savage Songs -- Early Brazilian Electronic Music (1961-1970)
Pogus Productions/2003
Chromo-Musical Research Studio in the Villa-Lobos Institute, Rio de Janeiro, 1968

Stanislav Kreitchi: Ellipsiada Part 2
Ansiana
Electroshock Records/2000
ANS synthesizer: S. Kreitchi; ovaloid: Viatcheslav Kolleychouk; recorded at the Electronic Music Studio, Moscow, 1960s.

Salvatore Martirano: Electronic Dance No. 1
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22 -- A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective
Centaur Records/1995
recorded at the Taylor Street San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1962

Iannis Xenakis: Analogique A+B (1959)
Music for Strings
Mode Records/2005
Ensemble Resonanz, conductor: Joannes Kalitzke; with tape, recorded at Hamburg Musikhall, Frankfurt Feste Burg Kirche, Köln, WDR Saal 2

SINGLE PLAY
Luigi Nono: Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (for voices and tape, 1968)
I. The Pleasant Modern Crime -- Malcolm
II. Masquerade of the Little Old Men -- Interlude of the Breath-Sellers
III. The Scatterbrains sing a madrigal
IV. Uncle Sam tells a story
Como Una Ola de Fuerza y Luz
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
soprano: Liliana Poli; Coro de camera della RAI, director: Nino Antonellini; texts: I. Sonia Sanchez, II./III. Nanni Balestrini, IV. pamphlet by the Harlem Progressive Labor Club, 1968

SET THREE
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
samples courtesy of The Klez Dispensers

Emanuele Casale: Studio no. 1
Electroacoustic Music from Cicily #
Electronic Music Foundations/2003
horn: Angelo Pollino

Henry Brant: Meteor Farm, parts 1,2,5
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 4
Innova Recordings/2006
solo soprano: Phyllis Bruce; Wesleyan University Orchestra, conductor: Roger Solie; Wesleyan Singers: Neely Bruce; Wesleyan Gamelan, music directors: Sumarsam with Sukanto Sastrodarsono; principal conductor: H. Brant, guest conductors: N. Bruce, Richard Winslow; recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, 3/06/82

Ganesh Anandan / Hans Reichel: Bird Talk
Self Made
Actuellecd.com/2009
shruti stick, metallophone: G. Anandan; daxophone: H. Reichel; recorded March 2008, Montreal

SET FOUR
Ganesh Anandan / Hans Reichel: Drunkenness
Self Made
Actuellecd.com/2009
shruti stick, metallophone: G. Anandan; daxophone: H. Reichel; recorded March 2008, Montreal

Hans Reichel: Mr. and Mrs. Alcohol
Lower Lurum -- A Guitar and Daxophone Operetta
Rastascan Records/1995
recorded December 1993, Wuppertal, Germany

Jin Hi Kim: Dancing in the Deep Blue Sea
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
komungo: JHK; daxophone: Hans Reichel; accordion: Carl Rudiger; performed for Hans Reichel's Stadtsparkasse Award Ceremony in Wuppertal, Germany, March 1999

Pauline Oliveros:
a. In the Houses of my Families
b. Reverberations
Ghostdance
Deep Listening Institute/1998
accordion, Expanded Instrument System: P. Oliveros; djembe, EIS: David Gamper; voice, EIS: Julie Lyon Rose

SET FIVE
Steven Stucky: Dust Devil
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba #
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: William Moersch; recorded at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, July, 2009

Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 9 (Mosque)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Studio A, UCSD, February 2009

David Starobin: Crooked Courante (P. Lansky)
Newdance -- 18 Dances (1996-97)
Bridge Records/1998
guitar: D. Starobin; recorded at Master Sound, Astoria, 1997-1998

Miguel del Aguila: Presto II
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
performed by Camerata San Antonio; recorded June-August, 2008, First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas

SET SIX
Jonty Harrison: Résonance (parenthèse 4)(from...et ainsi de suite...)
Articles indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
Sound source: rough-textured wine glasses recorded/processed at GRM (Groupe de recharches musicales), Paris, "Birmingham Version" broadcast premiered 2/27/92 from Pebble Mill studios, Birmingham via BEAST (Bermingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre)for "Sounds Like Birmingham -- UK City of Music 1992 Festival."

Rajmil Fischman: Suite a 'et ainsi de suite' v2
...a 'wonderful' world
Electronic Music Foundations/2007
sourced from J. Harrison

Mark Applebaum: Narcissus ReMix
The Janus ReMixes -- Exercises in auto-plundering
Innova Recordings/1999
sourced from Narcissus: Strata/Panacea for solo marimba

Daniel Koppelman: On the Nature of the Modern Age (M. Applebaum)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2009
piano, live electronics: duo runedako

SINGLE PLAY
Selections from 60 x 60 2007:
1. Dennis Báthory-Kitsz: Future Remembrance
2. Henri Algadafe and Philippe Vernier: La vie aménagée-le quart d'heure
3. Andrew Eckel: 1.9
4. Thomas Bailey: Separation Anxiety
5. Gintas Kraptavicius: Godot in hurry
6. Mike McFerron: Dinadanvlti
7. Sophie Lacaze: Fenouillet I
8. David McIntire: Was Er Sagte, Was Er Bedeutete
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 01/24/2010

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

Program for January 24, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: Mass to St. Anthony (restored 1939 version)
a. Kyrie
b. Gloria
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
percussion: William Winant and the USC percussive ensemble; piccolo: Leta Miller; chorus: UCSC Chamber Singers; conductor: Nicole Paiement; recorded at the University of California Santa Cruz, 2001

SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Twilight of the Gods --Hyperrealistic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Tzadik/2010
voice samples: Ellen Band

Jody Diamond: Gending Chelsea (J. Diamond/V. Thomson)
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
Musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Surakarta; voice: J. Diamond, Matt Peterson, Director: Sukamso; recorded at Studio 19 IIA, Surakarta, Indonesia, July, 2001; texts: J. Diamond, Virgil Thomson

SET TWO
Arie Shapira: The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael (Akeda, part I)
Akeda
Arie Shapira/2009 CD-R
choir soloists -- soprano: Tehila Nini-Goldstein; mezzo-soprano: Ayelet Amotz; Orchestra -- Ensemble Meitar, conductor: Karin Ben-Yossef; text: Genesis 21:3-20

Stefan Wolpe: Passacaglia
Stefan Wolpe in Jerusalem 1934-1938
Mode Records/2006
recorded at Philharmonie Köln, November, 2002; WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

SINGLE PLAY
J.K. Randall: through Lapland
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba #
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: Jean Geoffroy; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, July, 2009

SET THREE
Edgard Varèse: Poème électronique (1956-1958)
OHM--The Early Gurus of Electronic Music #
Ellipsis Arts/2000

Iannis Xenakis: Concrete P.H. (1958)
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
On 1/15/10 at Judson Church, EMF in collaboration with The Drawing Center presented a virtual reality reproduction of the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, including Varèse's "Poème électronique," and Xenakis' "Concrete P.H." "Iannis Xenakis, Composer, Architect, Visionary" is an ongoing series presented by The Drawing Center through March, 2010.

Luc Ferrari: Visages V (1959)
a. Part 1
b. Part 2
c. Part 3
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
recorded 1959 at INA-GRM (Institut National Audiovisuel, Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris)

SET FOUR
Jonty Harrison: from...Et Ainsi de Suite... ("French Suite")
a. a propos
b. (parenthèse 1)
c. commentaire 1
d. (Parenthèse 2
e. réflexion
f. commentaire 2
Articles Indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
Sound source: rough-textured wine glasses recorded/processed at GRM (Groupe de recharches musicales), Paris, "Birmingham Version" broadcast premiered 2/27/92 from Pebble Mill studios, Birmingham via BEAST (Bermingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre)for "Sounds Like Birmingham -- UK City of Music 1992 Festival."

Horacio Vaggione: Harrison Variations
ETC. (works of Harrison, Vaggione, Wishart)
Electronic Music Foundation/2004
sourced from Jonty Harrison's "...Et Ainsi de Suite..." and dedicated to Harrison for his 50th birthday, 4/27/02

SET FIVE
Jin Hi Kim: Unknot
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
excerpt from "Sanjo Ecstasy," electric komungo: JHK; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; premiered at the Sanjo Festival, Jeonju, South Korea, 2003

Brew: Keffi's Journey
Heat
Gerry Hemingway/2001 (CD-R)
koto, electronics: Miya Masaoka; bass: Reggie Workman; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; recorded at Tedesco Studio, Paramus, NJ, 1998

Reggie Workman: Eastern Persuasion
Cerebral Caverns
Postcards, inc./1995
bass: Reggie Workman; harp: Elizabeth Panzer; drums: Gerry Hemingway; recorded at Sound on Sound, NYC, April, 1995

Elizabeth Panzer: Dancing in Place (E. Hovda)
Dancing In Place
O.O. Discs/1999

SET SIX
Eric Moe: down the stream, merrily
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
DoublePlay Percussion Duo (Dominic Donato, Stephen Paysen): Marimbas; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 4/22/07

Fred Hersch: Chorinho Picante
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba #
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: Jean Geoffroy; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, July, 2009

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 01/17/2010

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Program for January 17, 2010
(extended edition 21:00--02:00. This program was slated for 1/10/10, but I was preempted by UMass hockey. A sports preemption this late on a Sunday is extremely rare. The last time it happened to Martian Gardens was about ten years ago. There are no further preemptions scheduled for Martian Gardens through the end of the spring semester. I have postponed the date-sensitive material from Varese and Xenakis (with the accompanying musique concrete piece by Ferrari) which I programmed anticipating the Poème électronique event at Judson Church, January 15, in favor of the Berio and Baker pieces (set two) in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the federal MLK Day observed 1/18/10. EMF will be collaborating with The Drawing Center through March, 2010, thus I will broadcast Varèse, Xenakis, and related materials in the coming weeks. -- Max)

SINGLE PLAY
Drew Krause: Lounge Hell
Powder
Innova Recordings/2007
computer music realized 2003

SINGLE PLAY
Dean Rosenthal: Ear Training
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
recorded Fall, 1995, McGill University, Montreal

SINGLE PLAY
John Oswald: Track Two - K7 24, Side A
Timefields & Maritides
Musicworks Magazine/2006
recorded 1979-1983, at various locations in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick

SET ONE
Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies I-VI
Rational Melodies
New World Records/2010
Dedalus ensemble, director: Didier Aschour; recorded at Muse en Circuit studio, Paris, 10/06/08

Daniel Kientzy: Infinite Melodies No. III (T. Johnson)
Kientzy Plays Johnson
Pogus Productions/2004
saxophones: D. Kientzy; recorded at Nova Musica, Paris, January, 2004

SET TWO
Luciano Berio O King
The Great Works for Voice
Mode Records/1995
soprano: Christine Schadeberg; flute: Katherine Flanders Mukherji; clarinet: Sheldon Berkowitz; violin: Marshall Coid; cello: Ted Mook; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; conductor: Hayes Biggs; recorded 4/03/95, Sheppard Hall, CCNY

David Baker: Through This Vale of Tears
I. Thou Dost Lay Me in the Dust of Death
II. If There Be Sorrow
III. My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
IV. Parades to Hell
V. Deliver My Soul
VI. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
VII. Now That He Is Safely Dead
VIDEMUS
New World Records/1992
tenor: William Brown; violins: Lynn Chang, Marylou Speaker Churchill, viola: Marcus Thompson; cello: Mark Churchill; piano, artist director: Vivian Taylor; recorded at The African American Meeting House, Boston, 1991; texts: I., III., V. Psalm 22; II. Mari Evans; IV. Solomon Edwards; VI. traditional; VII. Carl Hines

SET THREE
César Bolaños: Interpolaciones
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
electric guitar: Julio Martin Viera; premiered at V Contemporary Music Festival at the Institute Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 9/16/66

Tim Brady: Impossible Pizzicato Machine
My 20th Century
Actuellecd/2009
recorded May, 2008, at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, as part of the multimedia presentation "Double Quartet (Homage to Dmitri Shostakovich); music performers--electric guitar: T. Brady with Bradyworks ensemble, Quatuor Molinari

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: To Know and Not to Know
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik/2007
originally produced in 2005 for the World Music Institute,New York City

Jon Rose: Odd People
The People's Music
ReR Megacorp/2001
performers: "The People's String Orchestra" (members of the West Australian Youth Orchestra and the University of Western Australia String orchestra), conductor: Lindsay Vickery; "Industrial Percussion Ensemble": Hannah Clemen, Rachael Dease, Chris Cobilis; recorded at The Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia, Perth, 4/07/01 and The Hospital Studios, Amsterdam, September, 2001

Annie Gosfield: Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery (excerpt)
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
Flux Quartet; Talujon Percussion Quartet; recorded at Avatar, NYC, 1/27/01

SET FIVE
Paul Lansky: Things She Noticed
Things She Carried
Bridge Records/1997
music: P. Lansky; voice: Hannah MacKay; text: P. Lansky, H. McKay; recorded 1995-1996, Princeton

So Percussion: White
Amid the Noise
Cantaloupe Music/2006
recorded at Good Child Studios, Brooklyn, 2002-2006

Mendi + Keith Obadike:
a. Blue Jasper
b. Trouble (A Yellow Marble)
The Sour Thunder -- An Internet Opera
Bridge Records/2004
composed and performed by Mendi + Keith Obadike at Yale University, 1997-2002

Mendi + Keith Obadike: The Pink of Stealth
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2008
vocals: M. Obadike; guitar, bass, drums, ubo-aka, electronics: K. Obadike; created 2003

SET SIX
Phillip Bimstein:Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa
Larkin Gifford's Harmonica
Starkland/2006
oboe: Stephen Caplan; environmental sounds recorded by P. Bimstein at Zion National Park, Utah

George Cacioppo: Two Worlds
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
soprano: Sevan Manoukian; Ensemble 2e2m, conductor: Paul Méfano; recorded at the Atrium Theater, Chaville, France, edited by Gerard Pape at CCMIX, Paris

Joan Tower: Petroushskates
The Composer-Performer--Forty Years of Discovery (1954-1994) #
CRI/1994
Da Capo Chamber Players; the title is a portmanteau of Petroushka, in homage to Stravinsky's ballet, and skates, in reference to the composer's interest in figure skating; premiered by Da Capo 1980 at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

SET SEVEN
Lori Freedman: Itou (P. Dusapin)
Bridge
Actuellecd/2009
bass clarinet: L. Freedman; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, June, 2009

Katherine Kemler: Janus (P. Hayden)
a. Janua Coeli
b. Janua Inferni
Lipstick
Centaur Records/2008
flute: K. Kemler; alto saxophone: Griffin Campbell; recorded at the LSU Recital Hall, Baton Rouge, June, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Projections
a. for cello solo
b. for flute, trumpet, violin, & piano
c. for 2 pianos
d. for violin & piano
e. for 3 flutes, 3 cellos, trumpet & 2 pianos
Indeterminate Music -- Feldman Edition 4
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble, directors: Philipp Vandré, Thaddeus Watson; recorded at HR-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, November, 1996, and June, 1997

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Instruments II
Music of David Felder and Morton Feldman
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra, conductor: Jan Williams; recorded June, 2000, at Slee Hall, Amherst, NY

SINGLE PLAY
Christopher Roberts: Last Cicada Singing
Last Cicada Singing
Cold Blue Music/2009
qin: C. Roberts; Recorded at Jack Straw, Seattle, 2008-2009

--fin--

Videos of Jin Hi Kim and Jocy De Oliveira

The electroacoustic komungo stylings of Jin Hi Kim:



Brazilian composer Jocy De Oliveira discusses her opera Illud Tempus:

Martian Gardens for 01/03/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
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Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for January 3, 2010
(extended edition 21:00 -- 01:45)

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Amorphia
Amorphia
Aucourant Records/2007

SET ONE
Christopher De Laurenti: Let Me Tell You About Tiger
Electroacoustic Music Vol. 5 #
Electroshock Records/2000

Diane Thome: Unseen Buds
Bright Air/Brilliant Fire
Centaur Records/2001
recorded c. 1998 at the University of Washington School of Music; University Chorale, conductor: Geoffrey Boers; electronics created at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest Park, Washington; text: Walt Whitman

SET TWO
Larry Polansky: Choir/Empi's Solo
Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
voice/co-composer: Marie Pauline-Esguerra; computer processing: L. Polansky; realized at the Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College

Mary Jane Leach: Green Mountain Madrigal
Celestial Fires
XI Records/1993
The New York Treble Singers

SET THREE
Arie Shapira: Todesfuge
Arie Shapira2009
Ensemble Meitar; performed in Wannsee 1/20/09; text: Paul Celan

Jocy De Oliveira: Women Dreams
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000
soprano: Gabriela Di Geanx, actress: Marilena Bibas; clarinet: Paulo Passos; percussion: Paraguassu Abrahão; J. De Oliveira: synthesizers, electronics; recorded at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt," Berlin, March 1995

Meredith Monk: Quarry Weave
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voices: Andrea Goodman, Susan Kampe, Monica Solem, M. Monk; recorded at the WBAI Free Music Store, NYC, 5/10/1976

Johanna Beyer: The Main Deep (from "Three Pieces for Choir," 1937)
Sticky Melodies
New World Records/2008
The Astra Choir; conductor: John McCaughey; recorded in Melbourne, Australia, November, 2007

John Cage: ear for EAR (Antiphonies)
The Choral Works I
Mode Records/1998
Ars Nova, director: Tamas Veto; recorded at Vestkirken, Copenhagen, March 1997

SET FOUR
Jin Hi Kim: Saturn's Moons
Komungo
O.O. Discs
electric komungo: JHK; recorded at The Kitchen, NYC, 2000, for the Dong Dong Touching the Moon multi-media series

Jin Hi Kim: Garden of Venus
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
Chinese pipa: Min Xiao-Fen; Japanese yokubue: Michiko Akao; Indonesian gender, sling, voice: I Ketut Suryatini; JHK: Korean komungo, janggo; performed at the Asia Society, NYC, for Asian Women in Music Today

SET FIVE
Joel Chadabe: Many Times Benjamin
Many Times...
Electronic Music Foundation/2004
bowed cymbals, gongs: Benjamin Chadabe; recorded at Cotton Hill Studios, Albany, April 2002

Benjamin Chadabe:
a. Solo 4
b. Exodus of the Sun
The Metaphysician's Hammer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
drums, percussion: B. Chadabe; text, voice: Benjamin Hartlage; recorded at Murmur Music, NYC, October, 1998 and Bennington College, January 1999

Eric Moe: The Teeth of the Sea
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
percussion: Michael Lipsey; recorded 4/22/07 at The Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC

Anthony De Mare:
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
b. Nowth Upon Nacht (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (works of Meredith Monk and John Cage)
Koch Classics/1992
closed piano, voice: A. De Mare; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"

Sylvia Smith:
a. Nowth Upon Nacht (J. Cage)
b. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe (J. Cage)
11 West Records/2008
closed piano, voice: S. Smith; voice: Christie Finn; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"

SET SIX
Harry Partch: Prologue -- The Lost Musicians Mix Magic
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 4 -- The Bewitched: A Dance Satire
New World Records/2005 (orig. CRI/1997)
The University of Illinois Musical Ensemble, conductor: John Garvey; recorded at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, 1957

Frank Garvey and DeusMachina: More-a-the-Same
House of the Deafman
Innova Recordings/2000
Music from the OmniCircus

SINGLE PLAY
César Bolaños: Nacahuasu
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
Radio Bremen Orchestra, director: Klaus Bembacher; premiered 5/27/70 for the Festival Pro Musica Nova; text: excerpts from Che Guevera's diary of the guerrilla campaign in Bolivia

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008
premiered in 1970 at the Osaka World's Fair for the Federation of Iron and Steel Companies' pavilion

SET SEVEN
Erik Santos: Shinjuku Moon
KUU--Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007

Steven Ricks: Haiku
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
Tibetan prayer bowls, tam tams: Dominic Donato; electronics: S. Ricks; premiered at SUNY Purchase, September 2006

SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Woodstone
September Canons
New World Records/2009
The Berkeley Gamelan, director: Daniel Schmidt; recorded in Berkeley, 1981

SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Gradual Siciliano (for Gus)
Cold Blue #
Cold Blue Music/2002 (orig. 1984)
mandolin: Fausto; piano, electronics: I. Marshall; recorded at New Albion Studios, San Francisco, 1983

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Martian Gardens for 12/20/2009

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

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