Martian Gardens for 03/07/2010

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
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Program for March 7, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Arnold Schoenberg: Herzgewächse
Pierrot Lunaire/Herzgewächse
Bridge Records/1992
soprano: Lucy Shelton; Da Capo Chamber Players; text: Maurice Maeterlinck; recorded at Olin Auditorium, Bard College, December, 1990

SET ONE
Chinary Ung: ...still life after death
Luminous Spirals
Bridge Records/2010
soprano: Lucy Shelton; Da Capo Chamber Players; text: Ung, Pāli Canon; recorded 5/28/07, SUNY, Purchase

Judith Shatin: Akhmatova Songs
a. The Muse
b. All is Plundered
c. The Souls of All My Dear Ones
Dreamtigers
Innova Recordings/2004
soprano: Lucy Shelton; bass chanting: David Bowling; Da Capo Chamber Players; texts: Anna Akhmatova; recorded 1/16/02, SUNY, Purchase

SET TWO
Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: Dylan Thomas; RCA Mark II Synthesizer recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1961

Oleg Buloshkin: Sacrament
Electroacoustic Music Volume IV -- Synthesizer ANS 1964-1971 #
Electroshock Records/1999
ANS Synthesizer recorded Moscow, 1964

Jônatas Manzolli: Acqua Viva
Música Eletroacústica Brasileira Volume II #
Sociedade Brasileira de Musica Eletroacustica/1999
recorded at Interdisciplinary Team of Sound Communications of the State University of Campinas, São Paulo, 1997-1998

SINGLE PLAY
Monique Buzzarte: On the outside looking in...
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

SET THREE
César Bolaños: Divertmento III
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music 1964-1970
Pogus Productions/2009
for clarinet, flute, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion; premiered at the IV Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella Buenos Aires, 11/24/67

John Eaton: Songs for R.P.B.
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; pianos: Richard Trythall, J. Eaton; Syn-Ket: J. Eaton; texts: Hart Crane, "Repose of Rivers," "The Return," R.P. Blackmur, "Mirage,"; recorded at the American Academy in Rome, 1965

SET FOUR
Morton Feldman: Marginal Intersection
Composing by Numbers -- The Graphic Scores 1950-1967
Mode Records/2005
The Barton Workshop; conductor: Jos Zwaanenburg; recorded in the Netherlands

Frank Denyer: Tentative Thoughts, Silenced Voices
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted violin, voice: Marieke Keser; muted viola, voice: Elisabeth Smalt; Indan santur: Jose Garcia Rodrigues; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit, Juan Martinez Cortés; voice with whistling tube: Christopher Best; voice with six reeds: Trevor Wiggins; voice with eunuch flute: Patrick Ozzard-Low; off-stage trumpet: Gertjan Loot; recorded at Persingen, the Netherlands 3/02/06 and Darlington College of Arts 07/04/06

SINGLE PLAY
Joelle Khoury: The Oriental Singer
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Three Minute Waltzes
i. try
ii. piranha
iii. y tu mamá también
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010

John Cage/Robert Conant/Joel Chadabe: HPSCHD (excerpt one)
HPSCHD
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
harpsichords recorded by Bob Dodge and William Blakeny at the Foundation for Baroque Music, Greenfield Center, New York, mixed by B. Dodge at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario.
Originally realized in 1969 by J. Cage and Lajaren Hiller.

Lejaren Hiller: from Computer Cantata (1964)
a. Prolog to Strophe III; Strophe III; Epilog to Strophe III
b. Strophe IV; Epilog to Strophe IV
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
soprano: Helen Hamm; University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players; conductor: Jack McKenzie

SINGLE PLAY
Jane Wang: Numero Uno
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

SET SIX
David Congo: Fusions IV -- Abstract Movement
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2009
recorded June, 2009, West Springfield, Mass.

Eric Moe: Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds
I. Energetic
II. Raucous, obsessive
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
members of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet -- alto saxophone: Elliot Riley, tenor saxophone: Bruce Weinberger; baritone saxophone: Kenneth Coon; recorded 9/18/05 at the Theodor Egel Saal, Freiburg-Ebnet, Germany; title text: from Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

SINGLE PLAY
Jeremy Haladyna: Only Armadillos They Danced
Selections from the Mayan Cycle
Innova Recordings/2009
UCSB Young Artists String Quartet; scratch turntable: J. Haladyna; recorded at UCSB Sound Recording, Kerr Hall

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 02/28/2010

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Program for February 28, 2010

SET ONE
PARTCH:
a. Castor (excerpt)
b. Pollux (excerpt)
c. Allegro Paranoia (Live at Mills College)
John Schneider/cd-r 2008

Harry Partch: Ulysses Departs from the Edge of the World*
Enclosure 5 -- Harry Partch
Innova Recordings/1998 (*orig. Orion Records/1972)
trumpet: Jack Logan; diamond marimba: Danlee Mitchell; bamboo marimba, cloud chamber bowls: John Grimes; bass marimba, cloud chamber bowls: Linda Schell Pluth; baritone saxophone, narrator: Larry Livingston; text: H. Partch; recorded at Custom Fidelity Company, Pasadena, 1971

Kenneth Gaburo: Mouth-Piece -- Sextet for Solo Trumpet
Five Works for Voices, Instruments, and Electronics
New World Records/2002
trumpet, vocalizations: Jack Logan; recorded at SoundByte Recordings, NYC

SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: The Fragility Cycles ("Gambuh")
September Canons
New World Records/2009
gambuh (Balinese flute), Serge synthesizer, live electronics: I. Marshall

Gamelan Son of Lion: Traffic (L. Liben)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2008
recorded at Rockland Recording, Orangeburg, NY

SET THREE
Evan Ziporyn & Gamelan Galak Tika: Ngaben (for Sari Club)
Typical Music
New Albion Records/2005
recorded with the New England Conservatory Philharmonia, conducted: Dante Anzolini; Jordan Hall, Boston, 3/12/03

Ziporyn and Gamelan Galak Tika to perform at UMass, Friday, March 5, 2009

Evan Ziporyn with I Wayan Wija: Tabuh Gari
ShadowBang
Cantaloupe Music/2003
recorded with the Bang On A Can All-Stars at Kresge Little Theater, MIT, Cambridge, 10/14/01

SET FOUR
Pete Stollery: Peel
Un Son Peut en Cacher un Autre
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
recorded in Birmingham and Aberdeen, UK, 1997

Pete Stollery: Squirt
Florida Electronic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
alto saxophone: Griffin Campbell

SET FIVE
John Eaton: Blind Man's Cry
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; Moog synthesizer: Jaye Williams; tapes, mixing: Wilson Allen; Syn-Ket: J. Eaton; text: Tristan Corbiere; recorded 1968, American Academy in Rome

Michael Matthews: In Emptiness, Over Emptiness
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 25 #
Centaur Records/1997
soprano: Therese Costes; recorded at St. John's College Chapel, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, January, 1997; texts: Tekkan Yosano, Ted Hughes

SET SIX
John Cage: from Freeman Etude, Book Four
a. Etude 25
b. Etude 26
Freeman Etudes, Books 3 & 4
Mode Records/1994
violin: Irvine Arditti; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, Stundio I, Frankfurt, September, 1993

John Cage: Thirty Pieces for String Quartet
The Complete String Quartets Vol. I
Mode Records/1988
The Arditti Quartet; recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2/27/88

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Primitive
The Works for Piano 8 -- Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded c. 2002, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 02/21/2010

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
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Program for February 21, 2010
Extended editions 19:30--24:00

SINGLE PLAY
John Schneider: Barstow -- 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions (H. Partch)
a. Today I am a Man
b. Gentlemen
c. Considered Pretty
d. A Very Good Idea
e. Possible Rides
f. Jesus was God in the Flesh
g. You Lucky Women
h. Why in Hell Did You Come?
Just West Coast -- Microtonal Music for Guitar and Harp
Bridge Records/1993
baritone, adapted guitar: J. Schneider; recorded in January/February, 1993, KPFK-FM, Los Angeles

SINGLE PLAY
Tania León: Arenas d'un Tiempo
Singin' Sepia
Bridge Records/2008
clarinet: Allen Blustine; cello: Eric Bartlett; piano: Aleck Karis; recorded 3/13/04, KAS Music & Sound, Astoria, NY

SINGLE PLAY
Denman Maroney: A Thought Revolved
a. The Mechanical Optimist
b. Mystic Garden & Middling Beast
c. Romanesque Affabulation
d. The Leader
Music for Words, Perhaps
Innova Recordings/2010
Iota Jot Yod -- voice: Shelley Hirsch, Sheila Schonbrun; trumpet, cornet: Herb Robertson; hyperpiano: D. Maroney; bass: Arthur Kell; percussion: David Simons; text: Wallace Stevens

SET ONE
Jin Hi Kim: Dragon Bond Rite
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
Korean janggo: Choi Jong-Sil; Japanese otsuzumi: Shonosuke Okura; Indonesian kendang: I Gede Winartha Puto, Indian: mizhavu: Unikrishna Numbiar; commissioned by the Japan Society (New York City), 1997

César Bolaños: Canción sin Palabras
Peruvian Electroacoustic Music and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
pianos: Edgar Valcárcel, C. Bolaños; ESEPCO II computer system, premiered at the VII Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella, Buenas Aires, 12/20/70

SINGLE PLAY
Randall Smith: Convergence
Sondes -- Multiple Soundings
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
concert accordion: Joseph Petric; samples -- clarinet, bass clarinet: Peter Stoll; guitar, mandolin, banjo: Kevin Breit; realized March, 1999, in Toronto

SET TWO
Heather O'Donnell: music of Charles Ives --
a. Largo (from Four Transcriptions from "Emerson")
b. Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionists Riots in the 1830s and 1840s
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusikaal, Köln, April, 2007

Erik Satie: En Habit de Cheval
I. Choral
II. Fugue litanique
III. Autre chose
IV. Fuge de papier
Popular Piano Works
EMI/1997
piano: Aldo Ciccolini

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds "b" and "a"
Ensemble Music 1
Mode Records/1996
percussion: Robert McEwan; recorded at The Thread Waxing Space, NYC, 6/21/95

SET THREE
Evan Ziporyn & Gamelan Galak Tika: Amok! (part 1)
Amok!/Tire Fire
New World Records/2000
recorded at the Endicott World Music Room MIT, May 1999, double bass: Robert Black; Gamelan Galak Tika to perform at UMass, Bowker Auditorium, Friday, March 5, 2010

Jeremy Haladyna: Luubchords from DEMON ZERO
Selections from the Mayan Cycle
Innova Recordings/2009
live scratch turntable tracks and 2-channel CD-R: J. Haladyna; recorded UCSB Sound Recording, Kerr Hall

Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (G. Klucevsek)
Play Nice
O.O. Discs/1999
voice, gopichan: Eve Beglarian; text: "Instructions for Making Tea," recorded at Baby Monster, NYC

Stan Link: Endless Song
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008

Stan Link: Cavatina
In Amber Shadows
Albany Records/2006

SET FOUR
David Congo: Fusions I -- The Art of Movement
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2009
recorded in June, 2009, West Springfield, Mass.

Sever Tipei: Daria
Funktasia (Browning/Tipei)
Centaur Records/2006

SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Brother Tom
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
vocal samples: Thomas Buckner

Olly Wilson: Sometimes
Videmus -- Works by T.J. Anderson, David Baker, Donal Fox, Olly Wilson
New World Records/1992
tenor: William Brown; tape realized at the UC Berkeley Electronic Music Studio, 1976; text: "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" (trad.)

SET SIX
Trevor Wishart: Anticredos
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundations/2000
performed by Songcircle, director: Gregory Rose; recorded March/April, 1982, at the Music Center, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Meredith Monk: Do You Be?
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
recorded at Schaubuhne am Hallesches Ufer, Berlin, July, 1980

SINGLE PLAY
Darren Jones: Two Little Movements
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba #
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Jack Van Geem; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, June/July, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Rajmil Fischman: And I Think to Myself
...a 'wonderful' world
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
sampled voices: George W. Bush, Anthony Blair, Yasser Arafat, Ariel Sharon

SINGLE PLAY
Patti Monson: Nervosa (S. Burke)
High Art -- Chamber Music for Solo Flute
Albany Records/2003
recorded at Joseph Patrych Studios, NYC

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 02/14/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
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Program for February 14, 2010
(Extended edition 20:30 -- 24:00)

SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: from Chansons pour le corps
a. Chanson I "Les Yeux"
b. Chanson III "Les Seins"
c. Chanson IV "Le Sexe"
Chansons Pour Le Corps
Mode Records/1999
Nouvelle Orchestre Philharmonique, conductor: Yves Prin; voice: Elise Caron; texts: Collette Fellous; recorded in concert at the GRM, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France, Paris, 3/18/95

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass: from Knee Play Five
Philip Glass Introduced by Philip Glass--promotional CD
Nonesuch/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; women's chorus; narrator: Jasper McGruder; text: Samuel M. Johnson, "Two Lovers"

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

Steve Reich: Heavy Smoke (from City Life)
The Minimalists #
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; sampler: Anthony Fiumara; recorded at MCO Studios, Hilversum, The Netherlands, April, 2009

Philip Glass/Allen Ginsberg: from Iron Horse
Hydrogen Jukebox
Elektra Nonesuch/1993
keyboards, conductor: Martin Goldray; flute: Carol Wincenc, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet: Andrew Sterman; percussion: Frank Cassara, Jim Pugliese; Vocal Ensemble; piano: P. Glass, baritone: Gregory Purnhagen, text, narration: A. Ginsberg

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Paccione:
a. A Page for Will
b. "Postlude," from Planxty Cage
Our Beauties Are Not Ours
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; recorded 8/03/09 at Patrych Studios, The Bronx

SINGLE PLAY
Steve Reich: Piano Phase
Early Works
Elektra Nonesuch/1987
Double Edge -- pianos: Nurit Tilles and Edmund Niemann; recorded at RCA Studio A, NYC, May 1986

SET TWO
Jorge Liderman: Refrains
Barcelonazo
Bridge Records/2008
Camerata De Las Americas; conductor: Jose Luis Castillo; recorded 2002, Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music, José Luis Castillo

George Perle: from Sinfonietta II
a. Movement I -- Scherzo I
b. Movement III -- Scherzo II
Orchestral Works
Albany Records/1999
Seattle Symphony; conductor: Gerard Schwarz

SINGLE PLAY
Zeitgeist: If Tigers Were Clouds...Then Reverberating, They Would Create All Songs (E.Hovda)
If Tigers Were Clouds #
Innova Recordings/2003
Zeitgeist Ensemble; recorded at Sundin Hall, Hamline University, St. Paul, 1/08/03
In fond memory of Eleanor Hovda 1940-2009

SET THREE
David Congo: Fusions II -- Variations in Time and Space
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2009
recorded June, 2009, West Springfield, Mass.

Mario Verandi: Plastic Water
orillas distantes/distant shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
produced at the Electroacoustic Music Studios, Berlin Technical University, 2000

David Mooney: Pivot Seal and Gasket
Facts About Air
Opaque Melodies/2009

SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: Subterranean Network
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991

Carter Scholz: Hamilton Circuit
8 Pieces
Frog Peak/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Elsa Justel: Mâts
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2004

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 02/07/2010

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
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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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

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Martian Gardens for 01/24/2010

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 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

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