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 March 28, 2010
SET ONE
Chinary Ung: Oracle
Luminous Spirals
Bridge Records/2010
Da Capo Chamber Players; recorded 11/17/08, UC San Diego
Chinary Ung: Cinnabar Heart
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2010
marimba, voice: Beverly Johnson; Pali text: C. Ung; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, summer 2009
Elliott Carter: Figment V
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
(16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Simon Boyar; recorded 9/22/09, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
SET TWO
Elliott Carter: Fragment II
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
Arditti Quartet; recorded 2/20/00, St. Peter's Church, NYC
Roger Reynolds: Whispers Out of Time, movement IV --
The Surprise, The Tension are in the Concept
Whispers Out of Time/Transfigured Wind II
New World Records/1991
SONOR solists -- violin: János Négyesy; viola: Yun-Jie Liu; cello: Peter Farrell; contrabass: Bertram Turetzky; The San Diego Symphony Ensemble, conductor: Harvey Sollberger
Elliott Carter: Retrouvailles
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 12/20/00
Roger Reynolds: Epigram and Evolution
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 #
New World Records/2002
piano: Robert Ashley; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, 3/04/61
SET THREE
KIVA: 11 April 1991 (track one) (excerpt)
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
piano: Keith Humble; percussion: Jean-Charles François; trombone, violin: John Silber; violin, viola: Mary Oliver; recorded at the Center for Music Experiment, UC San Diego, 4/11/91
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (CD 2, track two) (excerpt)
Treatise
Mode Records/2009
The QUaX Ensemble, director: Petr Kotik; recorded in Prague, 1967
SET FOUR
David Congo: Invention 1:16
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2009
recorded June 2009, West Springfield, Mass.
David Congo: Chronos II
Society of Composers, Inc. "Soundscapes" #
Capstone Records/2004
John Bischoff: Quarter Turn
Meridian Music -- Earth Music #
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, 2/05/99
The Hub: The Glass Hand (J. Bischoff)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
recorded for "Mob Ecstasy," KPFA-FM, Berkeley, 3/07/94
SET FIVE
Bill Alves: Redundant I
The Terrain of Possibilities
Electronic Music Foundation/1988
processed soprano: Eva Vazzana; text: Mark R. Harborth; Harvey Mudd College, 1985
ZNR: Seynète
Barricade 3
ReR Megacorp/1993
vocal, VC3, director: Hector Zazou; piano: Joseph Racaille; violins: Gilly Bell; bass clarinet: Patrick Portella; flute: David Rueff; tenor saxophone: Andre Jaume; recorded January, 1976, Gilly Bell studio, Ventabren, Bouches-du-Rhône
Erik Santos: Yuutsu Tatsumaki (Romance by the Sea)
KUU -- Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007
sample source: Suyuan sa Dagat by Rosendo Ejercito Santos, Jr.
SET SIX
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
female voice source material: Poppy Holden, Pippa Pierce; male voice source material: T. Wishart, Hugh Bernays; interrogator's voice source material: Graham Treacher; organic and mechanical sounds: T. Wishart; recorded at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May 1973 -- May 1977
Lab Report: Shoot and/or Defenestrate
Excision
Invisible Records/1997
Christian Banasik: Glass Cutter
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007
Mark Snyder: Alluvium
Messy
Mark Snyder/2009
recorded at Cleveland, Miss.
William Price: 2 Days in the Tank
Electoacoustic Works
William Price/cd-r compiled 2004
realized at Louisian State University, Birmingham; voice: W. Price; text: Charles Bukowski, "The Drunk Tank Judge"
SINGLE PLAY
John Young: Arriverderci
Lieu-temps (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
Stroma ensemble, conductor: Hamis McKeich; recorded at Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, NZ, 7/20/06
--FIN--
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Martian Gardens for 03/21/2010
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 March 21, 2010
SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Estancia
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
Marco Cappelli: Amygdala (E. Sharp)
EGP -- Extreme Guitar Project
Mode Records/2006
SET TWO
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
16 Compositions, 2002-2009
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded 2/12/09, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
Stuart Saunders Smith: ...And Points North...
a. Scene I
b. Scene II
c. Scene III
Breath: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2008
percussion: Steven Schick, voice, objects; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC
SINGLE PLAY
Glenn Gould: The Idea of North (excerpt)
The Solitude Trilogy (1967-1977)
CBC/1992
for five speaking voices
SET THREE
Larry Austin: Canadian Coastlines -- Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 19 -- The Composer in the Computer Age IV
A Larry Austin Retrospective 1967-1994
Centaur Records/1994
CBC Radio Ensemble, recorded live for "Two New Hours," 5/01/81, CBC Radio
Lawrence Moss: Into the Woods
Unseen Leaves -- Music for Electronics and Instruments
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: William Montgomery; recorded at Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, 2000
SET FOUR
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
female voice source material: Poppy Holden, Pippa Pierce; male voice source material: T. Wishart, Hugh Bernays; interrogator's voice source material: Graham Treacher; organic and mechanical sounds: T. Wishart; recorded at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May 1973 -- May 1977
KIVA: Two Poems of the Absurd & Two Poems on the Absurd
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
Tape collage by John Silber of KIVA performances -- DX7 synthesizer, voice, electronics: Keith Humble; percussion, voice, electronics: Jean-Charles François; violin: Mary Oliver; trombone, violin: John Silber; sampled voice: Antonin Artraud ("To Have Done With the Judgment of God," 1947); computer vocoder manipulation of J. Silber's sounds: Eric Lyon; original recordings 1987-1990, UC San Diego
SET FIVE
Felix Werder: Banker (2nd 1/2)
The Tempest
Pogus Productions/2007
synthesizers: F. Werder, Keith Humble; percussion: John Seale; guitar: Jochen Schubert; piano: Dennis Henning; realized by Peter Mumme (orig. release 1973)
Robert Ashley and Paul De Marinis: In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt)
In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women
Lovely Music, Ltd./2002
text: John Barton Wolgamot; voice: R. Ashley, electronics: P. De Marinis; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1973
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies XI-XIV
Rational Melodies
New World Records/2009
Dedalus ensemble; director: Didier Aschour; recorded at the Muse en Circuit studio,
Paris, 10/06/08
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Program for March 21, 2010
SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Estancia
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
Marco Cappelli: Amygdala (E. Sharp)
EGP -- Extreme Guitar Project
Mode Records/2006
SET TWO
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
16 Compositions, 2002-2009
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded 2/12/09, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
Stuart Saunders Smith: ...And Points North...
a. Scene I
b. Scene II
c. Scene III
Breath: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2008
percussion: Steven Schick, voice, objects; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC
SINGLE PLAY
Glenn Gould: The Idea of North (excerpt)
The Solitude Trilogy (1967-1977)
CBC/1992
for five speaking voices
SET THREE
Larry Austin: Canadian Coastlines -- Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 19 -- The Composer in the Computer Age IV
A Larry Austin Retrospective 1967-1994
Centaur Records/1994
CBC Radio Ensemble, recorded live for "Two New Hours," 5/01/81, CBC Radio
Lawrence Moss: Into the Woods
Unseen Leaves -- Music for Electronics and Instruments
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: William Montgomery; recorded at Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, 2000
SET FOUR
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
female voice source material: Poppy Holden, Pippa Pierce; male voice source material: T. Wishart, Hugh Bernays; interrogator's voice source material: Graham Treacher; organic and mechanical sounds: T. Wishart; recorded at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May 1973 -- May 1977
KIVA: Two Poems of the Absurd & Two Poems on the Absurd
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
Tape collage by John Silber of KIVA performances -- DX7 synthesizer, voice, electronics: Keith Humble; percussion, voice, electronics: Jean-Charles François; violin: Mary Oliver; trombone, violin: John Silber; sampled voice: Antonin Artraud ("To Have Done With the Judgment of God," 1947); computer vocoder manipulation of J. Silber's sounds: Eric Lyon; original recordings 1987-1990, UC San Diego
SET FIVE
Felix Werder: Banker (2nd 1/2)
The Tempest
Pogus Productions/2007
synthesizers: F. Werder, Keith Humble; percussion: John Seale; guitar: Jochen Schubert; piano: Dennis Henning; realized by Peter Mumme (orig. release 1973)
Robert Ashley and Paul De Marinis: In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt)
In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women
Lovely Music, Ltd./2002
text: John Barton Wolgamot; voice: R. Ashley, electronics: P. De Marinis; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1973
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies XI-XIV
Rational Melodies
New World Records/2009
Dedalus ensemble; director: Didier Aschour; recorded at the Muse en Circuit studio,
Paris, 10/06/08
--FIN--
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Martian Gardens for 03/14/2010
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 March 14, 2010
extended edition 21:00 -- 00:30
SINGLE PLAY
Peter Cusack and Nicolas Collins: A Host, Of Golden Daffodils (extract)
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8 #
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
guitar, bouzouki, electronics: P. Cusack; trombone-propelled electronics: N. Collins; recorded at Hamburger Bannhof Museum, Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin, and STEIM, Amsterdam, 1996
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Roaratorio -- An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
a. Part Two (to Line 406)
b. Part Four (To End)
Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002 (orig. 1992)
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier; voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; text: James Joyce; premiered 10/22/79, West German Radio, Cologne
SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Mad Regales
I. 8 Haiku
II. Meditations of a Parrot
III. At North Farm
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
(16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Singers -- soprano: Emma Tring; mezzo-soprano: Siân Menna; alto: Rebecca Lodge; tenor: Edward Goater; baritone: Edward Price; bass: Charles Gibbs; text: John Ashbery; recorded by BBC 3 on 12/16/08
Roger Reynolds:
a. Hotel Lautréamont I
b. Hotel Lautréamont II
c. Hotel Lautréamont III
d. Hotel Lautréamont IV
last things, I think, to think about
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
baritone: Philip Larson; pianist: Aleck Karis; electronic processing: R. Reynolds; text: John Ashbery; premiered at Kathryn Bache Miller Theater, Columbia University, 11/17/94
SINGLE PLAY
Barney Childs: Clay Music
The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue
Cold Blue Music/2003
instrumentation--Space whistles, transverse flute, tuba flutes, small necklace ocarinas, middle-sized ocarinas (tuned in E and C), bass ocarina, pipes, Aztec pipes, double pipe, triple pipes; performers: Susan Rawcliffe Lisette Rabinow, Georgia Lwan, Scott Wilkinson; recorded in Los Angeles 2/28/81
SET TWO
Jeremy Haladyna: GODPOTS (Ollas)
Selections from The Mayan Cycle
Innova Recordings/2009
flutes, ocarinas: Areon Flutes -- Kassey Le Bow, Amelia Vetarelli, Jill Heinke, Tamara Maddaford; recorded at the 2008 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, South Bend, Indiana
Jorge Reyes: El Vuelo de los Niños Pájaro
Niereka
Silent Records/1993
flutes, ocarinas, Mesoamerican instruments/objects: J. Reyes; recorded at Jovel Tonstudio, Münster, 1989
SINGLE PLAY
Joseph Celli: Andes (for 7 Peruvian Musicians and a Mountain of Televisions)
Video Ears Music Eyes
O.O. Discs/1995
cajón drum, quena flutes, zampoña flute, cajita drum, charango lute: Grupo de Musica Folklorica del Peru; recorded at Peruvian National Television, Lima, 1990
SET THREE
Ingram Marshall: Cortez
Ikon -- And Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
text, voice, processed voice: Snee McCaig, recorded 1970-1972
Gottfried Michael Koenig: Polychrome
Electroacoustic Music Volume IX #
Electroshock Records/2004
SET FOUR
Anna Friz: Respire (excerpt)
MusicWorks 106 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2010
Frank Zappa: The Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny
We're Only In It For the Money
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1967)
Edgard Varèse: Ionisation
Music of Edgar Varèse (sic.)
Columbia/1960
wodwinds, brass, and percussion, conductor: Robert Craft
SET FIVE
Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
Russell Pinkston: Dervish Dance Suite
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 34
Russell Pinkson--Four Electroacoustic Dance Suites
Centaur Records/2005
SINGLE PLAY
Ianns Xenakis: La légende d'Eer (excerpt)
Electronic Works I -- La légende d'Eer
Mode Records/2005
original 1978 7-channel tape remastered June 2004 by Gerard Pape, GRM, Paris
--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 March 14, 2010
extended edition 21:00 -- 00:30
SINGLE PLAY
Peter Cusack and Nicolas Collins: A Host, Of Golden Daffodils (extract)
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8 #
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
guitar, bouzouki, electronics: P. Cusack; trombone-propelled electronics: N. Collins; recorded at Hamburger Bannhof Museum, Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin, and STEIM, Amsterdam, 1996
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Roaratorio -- An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
a. Part Two (to Line 406)
b. Part Four (To End)
Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002 (orig. 1992)
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier; voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; text: James Joyce; premiered 10/22/79, West German Radio, Cologne
SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Mad Regales
I. 8 Haiku
II. Meditations of a Parrot
III. At North Farm
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
(16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Singers -- soprano: Emma Tring; mezzo-soprano: Siân Menna; alto: Rebecca Lodge; tenor: Edward Goater; baritone: Edward Price; bass: Charles Gibbs; text: John Ashbery; recorded by BBC 3 on 12/16/08
Roger Reynolds:
a. Hotel Lautréamont I
b. Hotel Lautréamont II
c. Hotel Lautréamont III
d. Hotel Lautréamont IV
last things, I think, to think about
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
baritone: Philip Larson; pianist: Aleck Karis; electronic processing: R. Reynolds; text: John Ashbery; premiered at Kathryn Bache Miller Theater, Columbia University, 11/17/94
SINGLE PLAY
Barney Childs: Clay Music
The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue
Cold Blue Music/2003
instrumentation--Space whistles, transverse flute, tuba flutes, small necklace ocarinas, middle-sized ocarinas (tuned in E and C), bass ocarina, pipes, Aztec pipes, double pipe, triple pipes; performers: Susan Rawcliffe Lisette Rabinow, Georgia Lwan, Scott Wilkinson; recorded in Los Angeles 2/28/81
SET TWO
Jeremy Haladyna: GODPOTS (Ollas)
Selections from The Mayan Cycle
Innova Recordings/2009
flutes, ocarinas: Areon Flutes -- Kassey Le Bow, Amelia Vetarelli, Jill Heinke, Tamara Maddaford; recorded at the 2008 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, South Bend, Indiana
Jorge Reyes: El Vuelo de los Niños Pájaro
Niereka
Silent Records/1993
flutes, ocarinas, Mesoamerican instruments/objects: J. Reyes; recorded at Jovel Tonstudio, Münster, 1989
SINGLE PLAY
Joseph Celli: Andes (for 7 Peruvian Musicians and a Mountain of Televisions)
Video Ears Music Eyes
O.O. Discs/1995
cajón drum, quena flutes, zampoña flute, cajita drum, charango lute: Grupo de Musica Folklorica del Peru; recorded at Peruvian National Television, Lima, 1990
SET THREE
Ingram Marshall: Cortez
Ikon -- And Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
text, voice, processed voice: Snee McCaig, recorded 1970-1972
Gottfried Michael Koenig: Polychrome
Electroacoustic Music Volume IX #
Electroshock Records/2004
SET FOUR
Anna Friz: Respire (excerpt)
MusicWorks 106 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2010
Frank Zappa: The Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny
We're Only In It For the Money
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1967)
Edgard Varèse: Ionisation
Music of Edgar Varèse (sic.)
Columbia/1960
wodwinds, brass, and percussion, conductor: Robert Craft
SET FIVE
Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
Russell Pinkston: Dervish Dance Suite
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 34
Russell Pinkson--Four Electroacoustic Dance Suites
Centaur Records/2005
SINGLE PLAY
Ianns Xenakis: La légende d'Eer (excerpt)
Electronic Works I -- La légende d'Eer
Mode Records/2005
original 1978 7-channel tape remastered June 2004 by Gerard Pape, GRM, Paris
--FIN--
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Martian Gardens for 03/07/2010
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 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--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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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 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--
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Martian Gardens for 02/28/2010
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 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--
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 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--
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Martian Gardens for 02/21/2010
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 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--
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 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--
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Martian Gardens for 02/14/2010
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 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--
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 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--
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