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 April 11, 2010
SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Tower of the Eight Winds
I. Taku
II. Barber
III. Caver
IV. Williwaw
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
performed by the Borup-Ernst Duo
Johanna Beyer: Suite for Violin and Piano I,II,III
Works for Violin
New World Records/2006
violin: Miwako Abe; piano: Michael Kieran Harvey; recorded August, 2005, Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre, Southbank, Melbourne
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: On Conversing with Paradise
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
(16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
baritone: Leigh Melrose; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conductor: Oliver Knussen; text: Ezra Pound, Pisan Canto LXXXI and fragment Canto CXX, recorded at BBC 3 Studios, 6/20/09
SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Trio (disc 1,tracks 1-4)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat; cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin
KIVA: 11 April 1991, part 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
SET THREE
Lukas Foss: The Fragments of Archilochos
Echoi--The Fragments of Archilochos--Non-Improvisations
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Crane Collegiate Singers, State University College at Potsdam, director: Brock McElheran; tenor: Robert Betts; speakers: Miriam Abramowitsch, Melvin Strauss; mandolin: Oswald Rantucci; guitar: Jonathan Marcus; percussion: Jan Williams, Edward Burnham, Lynn Harbod; recorded at Potsdam, Spring, 1968; texts: Archilochos
Harry Partch: Revelation in the Courthouse Park, Chorus One
Enclosure 5--Harry Partch
Innova Recordings/1998
performed by the Gate 5 Ensemble, conductor: John Garvey, for the Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois,Champaign-Urbana, 4/11/61; text: H. Partch after Euripides' "Bacchae"
SET FOUR
Lou Harrison: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
HMC American Gamelan, director Bill Alves; National Steel guitar: John Schneider; recorded Pomona College 05/06/07
Bill Alves: Elegy for Lou Harrison
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2008
HMC American Gamelan, director Bill Alves; cello: Roger Lebow
Bill Alves: Time Auscultations
The Terrain of Possibilities
Electronic Music Foundation/1988
SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Bonjour Pythagoras
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music and Video/2009
Erik Santos: ...In the Belly of Nowhere
KUU--Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007
SET SIX
César Bolaños: I-10-AIFG/Rbt-1
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
performers: Antonio Tauriello, Roberto Vilanuela, Francisco Cortese, Ethel Gandini, Oscar Bazan; instrumentation/devices: horn, trombone, electric guitar, percussion, light projection, slide projectors, automatic system to punched tape; recorded at the VII Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 10/26/68
Dean Rosenthal: Sinfonieren
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: Future Remembrance
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
Noah Creshevsky: Free Speech
ibid.
voice samples: Chris Mann
Noah Creshevsky: Happy Ending
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
samples courtesy of Ray Marchica and Sons of Silence--
drums: Ray Marchica; tenor sax: Teodross Avery; guitar: Rodney Jones; bass: Lonnie Plaxico
SINGLE PLAY
Artemiy Artemiev: Time
Time, Desert, and a Sound
Electroshock Records/2004
--FIN--
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Martian Gardens for 04/04/2010
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 April 4, 2010
(extended edition)
SET ONE
George Crumb: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? (trad.)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Ten
The River of Life & Unto The Hills
Bridge Records/2007
soprano: Ann Crumb; Orchestra 2001; conductor: James Freeman; recorded November, 2005, Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College
George Crumb: Easter Dawning
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Five
Bridge Records/2007
carillon: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University, September, 2001
SINGLE PLAY
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Missa Brevis
I. Kyrie
II. Sanctus
III. Benedictus
IV. Agnus Dei
Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-1972 (orig. CRI/1973)
New World Records/2007
soprano: Jo Ann Ottley; Chorus of the University of Utah with brass from the Utah Symphony; conductor: Newell Weight
SINGLE PLAY
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
In memoriam Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, assassinated April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tenn.
SET TWO
Charles Ives: from April 24, 1943
a. Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., "Emerson" (partial)
b. Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., "The Alcotts"
Ives plays Ives -- The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano (1933-1943)
New World Records/2006
recorded at Mary Howard Studio, New York City, 4/24/43
Charles Ives: The Alcotts
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 7
Innova Recordings/2007
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; conductor: Dennis Russell Davies; recorded at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 9/15/00; Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2, transcribed and orchestrated by H. Brant
SET THREE
Henry Cowell: Suite for Small Orchestra
a. Largo
b. Chorale (lento cantabile)
c. Vivo
Dancing with Henry -- New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell
Mode Records/2001
The California Parallèle Ensemble; conductor: Nicole Paiement; recorded at the recital hall of UC Santa Cruz, January 2000
Stefan Wolpe: Hexachord Suite (1936)
a. Sostenuto
b. Pastorale, molto lento
c. Fuge, allegro moderato
d. Adagio
Wolpe in Jerusalem
Mode Records/2006
oboe: Jaime González; clarinet: Shizuyo Oka (Ensemble Recherche)
SWR-Studio Karlsruhe, recorded October, 2003
SET FOUR
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere Inside the Red Circle
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner; environmental/electronic sounds recorded by BGT; text: BGT; mixed at Systems II, Brooklyn
Viv Corringham: Improvisation (with San Francisco sounds)
Meridian Music -- Earth Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
voice, electronics, field recordings: V. Corringham; improvised at the Meridian Gallery, 11/09/05
Lisa Walker: Transients
Electroacoustic Music Volume VIII #
Electroshock Records/2002
violin: L. Walker; humpback whale sounds recorded in southeast Alaska
SET FIVE
Mara Helmuth: No. 7
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Mara Helmuth: Sound Collaborations
Centaur Records/2007
gyil, logs: Allen Otte; computer: M. Helmuth; recorded at the Cohen Family Studio Theater College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 1/20/06
Andrián Pertout: Görüşmeler (conversations)
Society of Composers, Inc. "Soundscapes" #
Capstone Records/2004
amplified èrhú: Zheng Ho; cajón: Alex Pertout; bombo: Salvador Persico; sampled harmonium: Andrián Pertout; recorded at Andrián Pertout Studio, Melbourne
Jin Xiang: Sad Melody at Yanshi City
Exchange -- China #
CRI/1999
Chinese Instrument Orchestra, conductor: Jin Xiang
SET SIX
Roger Sessions: Five Pieces for Piano
a. Lento
b. Con Fuco
c. Andante, leggiero e grazioso
d. Molto agitato
e. Molto adagio
Complete Works for Solo Piano
Albany Records/2005
piano: Barry David Salwen
Gabriel Valverde: Resplandor de los Surem
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
piano: Haydée Schvartz; recorded at Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires; 11/24/98
SET SEVEN
Lois V. Vierk: Go Guitars
Simoom
XI Records/1990
guitars: David Seidel
Tim Brady: Yellow, Add Green
GO (Guitar Obsession)
Actuelle/2006
recorded at Bradyworks Studio, Montreal, 7/08/06
SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (tracks 2,3,4)
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
SINGLE PLAY
John Eaton: Blues Machine
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
Syn-Ket: J. Eaton, with rhythm section, recorded at Decca Studios, West Hampstead, 1968
--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 April 4, 2010
(extended edition)
SET ONE
George Crumb: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? (trad.)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Ten
The River of Life & Unto The Hills
Bridge Records/2007
soprano: Ann Crumb; Orchestra 2001; conductor: James Freeman; recorded November, 2005, Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College
George Crumb: Easter Dawning
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Five
Bridge Records/2007
carillon: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University, September, 2001
SINGLE PLAY
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Missa Brevis
I. Kyrie
II. Sanctus
III. Benedictus
IV. Agnus Dei
Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-1972 (orig. CRI/1973)
New World Records/2007
soprano: Jo Ann Ottley; Chorus of the University of Utah with brass from the Utah Symphony; conductor: Newell Weight
SINGLE PLAY
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
In memoriam Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, assassinated April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tenn.
SET TWO
Charles Ives: from April 24, 1943
a. Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., "Emerson" (partial)
b. Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., "The Alcotts"
Ives plays Ives -- The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano (1933-1943)
New World Records/2006
recorded at Mary Howard Studio, New York City, 4/24/43
Charles Ives: The Alcotts
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 7
Innova Recordings/2007
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; conductor: Dennis Russell Davies; recorded at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 9/15/00; Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2, transcribed and orchestrated by H. Brant
SET THREE
Henry Cowell: Suite for Small Orchestra
a. Largo
b. Chorale (lento cantabile)
c. Vivo
Dancing with Henry -- New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell
Mode Records/2001
The California Parallèle Ensemble; conductor: Nicole Paiement; recorded at the recital hall of UC Santa Cruz, January 2000
Stefan Wolpe: Hexachord Suite (1936)
a. Sostenuto
b. Pastorale, molto lento
c. Fuge, allegro moderato
d. Adagio
Wolpe in Jerusalem
Mode Records/2006
oboe: Jaime González; clarinet: Shizuyo Oka (Ensemble Recherche)
SWR-Studio Karlsruhe, recorded October, 2003
SET FOUR
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere Inside the Red Circle
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner; environmental/electronic sounds recorded by BGT; text: BGT; mixed at Systems II, Brooklyn
Viv Corringham: Improvisation (with San Francisco sounds)
Meridian Music -- Earth Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
voice, electronics, field recordings: V. Corringham; improvised at the Meridian Gallery, 11/09/05
Lisa Walker: Transients
Electroacoustic Music Volume VIII #
Electroshock Records/2002
violin: L. Walker; humpback whale sounds recorded in southeast Alaska
SET FIVE
Mara Helmuth: No. 7
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Mara Helmuth: Sound Collaborations
Centaur Records/2007
gyil, logs: Allen Otte; computer: M. Helmuth; recorded at the Cohen Family Studio Theater College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 1/20/06
Andrián Pertout: Görüşmeler (conversations)
Society of Composers, Inc. "Soundscapes" #
Capstone Records/2004
amplified èrhú: Zheng Ho; cajón: Alex Pertout; bombo: Salvador Persico; sampled harmonium: Andrián Pertout; recorded at Andrián Pertout Studio, Melbourne
Jin Xiang: Sad Melody at Yanshi City
Exchange -- China #
CRI/1999
Chinese Instrument Orchestra, conductor: Jin Xiang
SET SIX
Roger Sessions: Five Pieces for Piano
a. Lento
b. Con Fuco
c. Andante, leggiero e grazioso
d. Molto agitato
e. Molto adagio
Complete Works for Solo Piano
Albany Records/2005
piano: Barry David Salwen
Gabriel Valverde: Resplandor de los Surem
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
piano: Haydée Schvartz; recorded at Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires; 11/24/98
SET SEVEN
Lois V. Vierk: Go Guitars
Simoom
XI Records/1990
guitars: David Seidel
Tim Brady: Yellow, Add Green
GO (Guitar Obsession)
Actuelle/2006
recorded at Bradyworks Studio, Montreal, 7/08/06
SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (tracks 2,3,4)
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
SINGLE PLAY
John Eaton: Blues Machine
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
Syn-Ket: J. Eaton, with rhythm section, recorded at Decca Studios, West Hampstead, 1968
--FIN--
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Martian Gardens for 03/28/2010
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 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--
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 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--
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
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--
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
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--
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
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