WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for May 16, 2010
(Extended edition)
Selections 1-4 in celebration of Milton Babbitt's 94th birthday (b. May 10, 1916)
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer
New Leaders of the Avant-Garde
Columbia/1967
recorded in 1964 on the RCA Mark II Synthesizer, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, Columbia University
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995 (orig. Acoustic Research/1971)
recorded in 1964 on the RCA Mark II Synthesizer, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, Columbia University; soprano: Bethany Beardsley; text: Ovid; libretto: John Hollander
SET ONE
Milton Babbitt: Swan Song No. 1
The Music of Milton Babbitt
Bridge Records/2003
Cygnus Ensemble -- flute: Tara Helen O'Connor; oboe: Robert Ingliss; mandolin: William Anderson; guitar: Oren Fader; violin: Calvin Wiersma; cello: Susannah Chapman; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky; recorded at Eonta Sound, Bronxville, NY, 2003
Milton Babbitt: Composition for Guitar
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2003
guitar: William Anderson; recorded at New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
SET TWO
David Congo: Prelude (Winter '95)
a. Introduction
b. Electronic Transformation
c. Dirge
d. Homage to Varèse
e. Coda
Voyage
Capstone Records/2006
recorded in West Springfield, Mass.
David Congo: Prelude (Spring '96)
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2010
Recorded in West Springfield, Mass.
Joel Chadabe: Spring
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundations/2002
percussion: Jan Williams
SET THREE
Ezra Sims: If I Told Him
a. Quick -- Fleet and flexible as speech
b. Slow, flexible, introspective
c. Calmly brisk
Musing and Reminiscence
New World Records/2010
alto: Christina Ascher; cello: Christoph von Erffa; text: Gertrude Stein, "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso"; recorded in Darmstadt, June, 2003
Pauline Oliveros: Poem of Change
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
voice, accordion, text: P. Oliveros; recorded at Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR), Akustich Kunst studio, 1990, WWII sounds from the WDR library; sample -- Nat King Cole: These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (Maschwitz/Strachey)
SET FOUR
Christian Wolff: Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses -- Piano Works 1976-1983
Mode Records/1995
variations on "Bread and Roses" (C. Kohlsaat, c. 1912); piano: Sally Pinkas; recorded at the Performing Arts Concert Hall, UC Santa Cruz, December, 1993
Christian Wolff: (track one)
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, text: Chris Mann; guitars: Larry Polansky; piano, bass, percussion, melodica: C. Wolff; computer, electronics: Douglas Repetto; processing, editing: Tom Erbe; recorded by Repetto and Erbe, Hanover, NH, 1998
SET FIVE
Iannis Xenakis: À la mémoire de Witold Lutoslawski
Ensemble Music 2
Mode Records/1996
members of ST-X Ensemble Xenakis USA; recorded at St. Peter's Church, NYC, 1996
John Cage: Five-4
The Works for Saxophone Vol. I (A Cage of Saxophones)
Mode Records/1996
soprano sax: Ulrich Krieger; alto sax: Reimar Volker; percussion: Friedemann Werzlau, Raymond Kaczynski, Andreas Peters; recorded at the SBF studios, Berlin, 1999
Dean Rosenthal: Underpinnings
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
CalArts Millennium Chamber Players, recorded 1998, Valencia, California (available on
Trace label release "Post-Minimalism")
SET SIX
Barnz: Age of Jubilation
Lost in the Garden of Delay
David Barnes/2008
feedback: George Locke; drum machines, percussion instruments, SEPTA turnstile, Rhodes piano, sampled cowbells, electric guitar: Barnz
Mario Verandi: Heartbreaker
orillas distantes/distant shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
produced at the Electroacoustic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 1996
SET SEVEN
Margaret Schedel: The Beautiful Don't Lack the Wound
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 #
Bridge Records/2010
táragató, interactive electronics: Esther Lamneck; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, May, 2008
Esther Lamneck: Crack Hammer (Z. Browning)
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2007
clarinet: E. Lamneck, with tape
SINGLE PLAY
Bodil Rørbech: RH* (S. Link)
Violin Vision
Albany Records/2005
*ref. Roman Haubenstock-Ramati; recorded at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Park City, Utah; January, 2002
SET EIGHT
Dmitry Mazurov: Mask for Delicate Aesthetes
Creature on a Lavatory Pan
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded at Electroshock Records studio, December, 2009
Yney: Closed Lection
Micro Macro
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded at Electroshock Records studio, December, 2009
Coil:
a. Disco Hospital
b. Teenage Lightning
Love's Secret Domain
Threshhold House/1991
SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Here and There
...Et Autres Utopies
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
recorded at Francis Dhomont's studio, Montreal, 2003
--FIN--
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Martian Gardens for 05/09/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for May 09, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love (in memory of Myrtle Hollins Adelberg)
cello: Paula S.V. Childress; tape: V.A. Rudow
SINGLE PLAY
Jill Summers: Apricot Wensleydale
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
SET ONE
Beth Anderson: Torero Piece
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voices: Beth and Marjorie Anderson
Meredith Monk: Walking Song
Volcano SongsECM Records/1997
voices: Katie Geissinger, M. Monk; recorded at Clinton Studios, NYC, July, 1995
Joan La Barbara: Circular Song
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
Recorded in concert at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, 2/26/76
SET TWO
Michael Snow: Blues with Beer, Magazines, Table and Chair
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music #
Leonard Music Journal Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Recorded June, 1998, at the composer's home
François Bayle: Jeîta-Retour
a. Oracle Des Eaux 1
b. Oracle Des Eaux 2
Jeîta/L'infini Du Bruit
Magison/1999
recorded at the Olivier Messiaen auditorium, Maison de Radio France, Paris, 1985
Anne LeBaron: Concerto for Active Frogs
Rana, Ritual & Revelations
Mode Records/1992
The New Music Consort, conductor: Anne Lebaron; tenor sax,
animal calls: George Cartwright; trombone: Jim Stanley
percussion, tape: William Trigg; baritone voice: David Shea;
chorus: Rodney Thomaston, Susan Botti, Adam Weisman, Julie Marti,
Christina Wheeler, David Anthony, Debra Degenhardt, Michael Rosensky;
originally recorded in 1975
SET THREE
Barnz: Hammer Dulcimer Octet
Lost in the Garden of Delay
David Barnes/2009
8 hammer dulcimers: Barnz; recorded at Barnzstuff Studio, 2008
Nasser Rastegar-Nejad: Chaharmezrab (in Homayun mode) (trad.)
The Persian Santur -- Music of Iran
Nonesuch Records/1970
santur: N. Rastegar-Nejad; violin: Fariba; goblet drum: Ali-Asghar Mirzadeh; recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders, NYC
Ivan Tcherepnin: from Santur Live! (scenes from Santur Opera)
a. Dream Filterings I
b. Dream Filterings II
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995
a. recorded at 10 Langton Street, San Francisco, 1980; b. recorded at New Music Circle, St. Louis, 1994
Leo Kupper: Electro-Acoustic Santur, part 3
Electro-Acoustic
Pogus Productions/1996
Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
60 x 60 2003 #
Capstone Records/2004
SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
Christian Banasik: I See a Voice
Music of Christian Banasik
Christian Banasik/CD-R compiled 2010
SET FIVE
Simon Wickham-Smith: Három Denevér
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Rita Várhegyi
Carey Nutman: No Place for Theory
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music & Video/2009
SET SIX
Urban Electronic Music: Fermat's Last Theorem
Science Can't Explain It
Urban Electronic Music/2010
David Mooney: Facts About Air, Part 2
Facts About Air
David Mooney/2009
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for May 09, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love (in memory of Myrtle Hollins Adelberg)
cello: Paula S.V. Childress; tape: V.A. Rudow
SINGLE PLAY
Jill Summers: Apricot Wensleydale
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
SET ONE
Beth Anderson: Torero Piece
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voices: Beth and Marjorie Anderson
Meredith Monk: Walking Song
Volcano SongsECM Records/1997
voices: Katie Geissinger, M. Monk; recorded at Clinton Studios, NYC, July, 1995
Joan La Barbara: Circular Song
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
Recorded in concert at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, 2/26/76
SET TWO
Michael Snow: Blues with Beer, Magazines, Table and Chair
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music #
Leonard Music Journal Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Recorded June, 1998, at the composer's home
François Bayle: Jeîta-Retour
a. Oracle Des Eaux 1
b. Oracle Des Eaux 2
Jeîta/L'infini Du Bruit
Magison/1999
recorded at the Olivier Messiaen auditorium, Maison de Radio France, Paris, 1985
Anne LeBaron: Concerto for Active Frogs
Rana, Ritual & Revelations
Mode Records/1992
The New Music Consort, conductor: Anne Lebaron; tenor sax,
animal calls: George Cartwright; trombone: Jim Stanley
percussion, tape: William Trigg; baritone voice: David Shea;
chorus: Rodney Thomaston, Susan Botti, Adam Weisman, Julie Marti,
Christina Wheeler, David Anthony, Debra Degenhardt, Michael Rosensky;
originally recorded in 1975
SET THREE
Barnz: Hammer Dulcimer Octet
Lost in the Garden of Delay
David Barnes/2009
8 hammer dulcimers: Barnz; recorded at Barnzstuff Studio, 2008
Nasser Rastegar-Nejad: Chaharmezrab (in Homayun mode) (trad.)
The Persian Santur -- Music of Iran
Nonesuch Records/1970
santur: N. Rastegar-Nejad; violin: Fariba; goblet drum: Ali-Asghar Mirzadeh; recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders, NYC
Ivan Tcherepnin: from Santur Live! (scenes from Santur Opera)
a. Dream Filterings I
b. Dream Filterings II
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995
a. recorded at 10 Langton Street, San Francisco, 1980; b. recorded at New Music Circle, St. Louis, 1994
Leo Kupper: Electro-Acoustic Santur, part 3
Electro-Acoustic
Pogus Productions/1996
Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
60 x 60 2003 #
Capstone Records/2004
SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
Christian Banasik: I See a Voice
Music of Christian Banasik
Christian Banasik/CD-R compiled 2010
SET FIVE
Simon Wickham-Smith: Három Denevér
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Rita Várhegyi
Carey Nutman: No Place for Theory
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music & Video/2009
SET SIX
Urban Electronic Music: Fermat's Last Theorem
Science Can't Explain It
Urban Electronic Music/2010
David Mooney: Facts About Air, Part 2
Facts About Air
David Mooney/2009
--FIN--
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Martian Gardens for 05/02/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for May 02, 2010
(extended edition 19:30 -- 00:15)
SINGLE PLAY
Peter Garland: Another Sunrise
a. Madrid (NM)Mambo -- Dos Muertas!
b. The Things I Wish I'd Said (Ballad)
c. On Entre O.K. -- On Sort K.O.(Rumba -- Elegy)
d. Voy a Hablar de Esperanza (Bolero)
e. Chupando la Rosa
f. Another Sunrise (Gospel Medley)
Another Sunrise
Mode Records/2002
Essential Music -- pianos: Aki Takahashi and Judith Gordon; percussion: Maya Gunji, John Kennedy, Mark Suter, Charles Wood; recorded December, 1995, SUNY Purchase
SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Icarus
I. Majestic
II. Delirious
III. Soaring
IV. Wild
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
Borup-Ernst Duo -- violin: Hasse Borup; piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst
SET ONE
Chinary Ung: Child Song
Luminous Spirals -- Chamber Music of Chinary Ung
Bridge Records/2010
Da Capo Chamber Players; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 5/28/07
Guillermo Gregorio: Coplanar 3
Coplanar
New World Records/2005
piano: Steffan Schleiermacher; MADI Ensemble; recorded at Airwave Recording Studios, Chicago, 10/20/01
SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown and Pauline Oliveros: Noctilucent Clouds
Music in the Air
Deep Listening Institute/2010
piano, SuperCollider: C. Brown; accordion, conch, percussion, expanded instrument system: P. Oliveros; recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08
SINGLE PLAY
Lukas Foss: String Quartet No. 3
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
Columbia String Quartet; recorded c. 1980 in New York City
SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Trio (CD 2, track 1)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
piano: Aki Takahashi; cello: Rohan de Saram; violin: Marc Sabat; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin
Bill Alves: Angel's Crest
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2010
The HMC American Gamelan; recorded at Harvey Mudd College
Gamelan Son of Lion: Gamelan Around (D. Maroney)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Hungry Hollow Studio, Georgetown, Ontario
SET THREE
Christian Banasik: ...letzte Gebärde offener Münde
Music of Christian Banasik
Christian Banasik/CD-R compiled 2010
Diane Labrosse: Electric Percolators
Music for Objections on the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd/2007
SET FOUR
Gary DiBenedetto: A Question of Principle
a. 1st Movement
b. 2nd Movement
c. 3rd Movement
Twin Towers
Electroshock Records/2010
mastered at Electroshock Records Studio, Moscow, December, 2009
Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
J.C. Combs: Abysmal
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
mastered at Electroshock Records Studios, Moscow, December, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Imago
ETC. -- J. Harrison/H. Vaggione/T. Wishart
Electronic Music Foundation/2004
SINGLE PLAY
Anatoly Pereslegin: Kiss White Dwarf
Xenophobia
Electroshock Records/2010
mastered at Electroshock Records Studios, Moscow, December, 2009
SET FIVE
Marcelle Deschênes: Big Bang II
Petits Big Bangs -- Mixed, Multimedia, & Acousmatic Music 1976-2002 Retrospective
Empreintes Digitales/2007
Alexander Abramovitch Krejn: Memorial Ode on the Death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music #
Leonard Music Journal Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Christian von Borries (1925)
Henning Christiansen: Reality is a Ghost in my Mind (Cruelty & Terror) op. 174
ibid.
recorded 5/07/98
SINGLE PLAY
Piccola Accademia degli Specchi: Facades (P. Glass)
Minimamachta
Centaur Records/2009
Recorded 2004 at Urban Recording Studio, CasaDellaMusica, Trieste, Italy
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for May 02, 2010
(extended edition 19:30 -- 00:15)
SINGLE PLAY
Peter Garland: Another Sunrise
a. Madrid (NM)Mambo -- Dos Muertas!
b. The Things I Wish I'd Said (Ballad)
c. On Entre O.K. -- On Sort K.O.(Rumba -- Elegy)
d. Voy a Hablar de Esperanza (Bolero)
e. Chupando la Rosa
f. Another Sunrise (Gospel Medley)
Another Sunrise
Mode Records/2002
Essential Music -- pianos: Aki Takahashi and Judith Gordon; percussion: Maya Gunji, John Kennedy, Mark Suter, Charles Wood; recorded December, 1995, SUNY Purchase
SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Icarus
I. Majestic
II. Delirious
III. Soaring
IV. Wild
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
Borup-Ernst Duo -- violin: Hasse Borup; piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst
SET ONE
Chinary Ung: Child Song
Luminous Spirals -- Chamber Music of Chinary Ung
Bridge Records/2010
Da Capo Chamber Players; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 5/28/07
Guillermo Gregorio: Coplanar 3
Coplanar
New World Records/2005
piano: Steffan Schleiermacher; MADI Ensemble; recorded at Airwave Recording Studios, Chicago, 10/20/01
SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown and Pauline Oliveros: Noctilucent Clouds
Music in the Air
Deep Listening Institute/2010
piano, SuperCollider: C. Brown; accordion, conch, percussion, expanded instrument system: P. Oliveros; recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08
SINGLE PLAY
Lukas Foss: String Quartet No. 3
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
Columbia String Quartet; recorded c. 1980 in New York City
SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Trio (CD 2, track 1)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
piano: Aki Takahashi; cello: Rohan de Saram; violin: Marc Sabat; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin
Bill Alves: Angel's Crest
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2010
The HMC American Gamelan; recorded at Harvey Mudd College
Gamelan Son of Lion: Gamelan Around (D. Maroney)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Hungry Hollow Studio, Georgetown, Ontario
SET THREE
Christian Banasik: ...letzte Gebärde offener Münde
Music of Christian Banasik
Christian Banasik/CD-R compiled 2010
Diane Labrosse: Electric Percolators
Music for Objections on the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd/2007
SET FOUR
Gary DiBenedetto: A Question of Principle
a. 1st Movement
b. 2nd Movement
c. 3rd Movement
Twin Towers
Electroshock Records/2010
mastered at Electroshock Records Studio, Moscow, December, 2009
Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
J.C. Combs: Abysmal
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
mastered at Electroshock Records Studios, Moscow, December, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Imago
ETC. -- J. Harrison/H. Vaggione/T. Wishart
Electronic Music Foundation/2004
SINGLE PLAY
Anatoly Pereslegin: Kiss White Dwarf
Xenophobia
Electroshock Records/2010
mastered at Electroshock Records Studios, Moscow, December, 2009
SET FIVE
Marcelle Deschênes: Big Bang II
Petits Big Bangs -- Mixed, Multimedia, & Acousmatic Music 1976-2002 Retrospective
Empreintes Digitales/2007
Alexander Abramovitch Krejn: Memorial Ode on the Death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music #
Leonard Music Journal Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Christian von Borries (1925)
Henning Christiansen: Reality is a Ghost in my Mind (Cruelty & Terror) op. 174
ibid.
recorded 5/07/98
SINGLE PLAY
Piccola Accademia degli Specchi: Facades (P. Glass)
Minimamachta
Centaur Records/2009
Recorded 2004 at Urban Recording Studio, CasaDellaMusica, Trieste, Italy
--fin--
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Martian Gardens for 04/25/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for April 25, 2010
(extended edition)
SINGLE PLAY
Frances White: The Seasons and the Constellations
Music by Frances White
Rose White Music/CD-R compiled 2004
The Dale Warland Singers; conductor: Dale Warland; title: T.S. Eliot
SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: It is the Night and Dawn of Constellations Irradiated
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records
piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, November, 2007
SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Trio (CD 1, tracks 10, 11, 12)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat, cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin
SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Poems of Louis Zukofsky
I. Tall and Singularly Dark
II. Alba
III. Finally a Valentine
IV. O Sleep
V. The Rains
VI. Rune
VII. Strange
VIII. Daisy
XI. You Were Made for this Music
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
16 Compositions -- 2002-2009
Bridge Records/2010
soprano: Lucy Shelton; clarinet: Charles Neidich; texts: Louis Zukofsky; recorded October, 2009, Lefrak Concert Hall, Queens College, New York City
Russell Pinkston: Gerrymander
Third Practice -- Commissions and Premieres #
New Music from the Third Practice Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music at the University of Richmond
Centaur Records/2004
Bb clarinet: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at the Fine Arts Recording Studio, University of Texas, Austin, 1/09/03
SET TWO
Carrie Rose: Gesto (H. Brun)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
piano: Thomas Moore; piccolo: C. Rose
Lukas Foss: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
mezzo-soprano: RoseMarie Freni; flute: Robert Dick; percussion: Jan Williams; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; text: Wallace Stevens; recorded in New York City, April, 1980
SET THREE
Antanas Jasenka: Output 1 (from In/Out)
Point/Circle
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded at Lithuanian Composer Sound Studio, Vilnius; electric piano, computer: A. Jasenka
Zack Browning: Coming Up Sevens
Funktasia -- Music by Zack Browning and Sever Tipei
Centaur Records/2006
xylophone: Jeff Matter; marimba: Andrew Buchanan; vibraphone: Sean Darby; piano: Soohyun Yun; electric guitar: Cyrus Pireh; conductor: Z. Browning; recorded at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne
Mark Applebaum: 16 Things
Mousetrap Music
Innova Recordings/1996
electro-acoustic sound-sculpture, electronics: M. Applebaum; recorded at Salmagundi Recording Studio, Northfield, MN, 2/18/93
Mark Applebaum: Theme in Search of Variations I
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
percussion: Florian Conzetti, Christopher Froh, Terry Longshore; recorded at the Braun Music Center, Stanford University, 11/22/07
Zae Munn: Interface
The Aerial No. 3 #
Nonsequitur/1991
viola: Guillermo Perich; marimba: David Bessinger; recorded recorded at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne, 1983
James Rolfe: Sticky
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Beverly Johnson; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, WI, summer 2009
SET FOUR
Gary DiBenedetto: Toy Store
Twin Towers
Electroshock Records/2010
Tom Hamilton: Modhera
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
Tom Hamilton: Queens Plaza
Off-Hour Wait State -- Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo; electronic environment recorded at The Pickle Factory, New York City, 1996
SET FIVE
Luigi Nono: from Como una de fuerza y luz
a. Beginning
b. Interno Dolce
Como Una de Fuerza y Luz
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
soprano: Slavka Taskova; piano: Maurizio Pollini; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Claudio Abbado; text: Julio Huasi; recorded at Herkules-Saal, München, October, 1973
Milica Paranosic:
a. Lulla
b. Duet
Give to Grow
Electroshock Records/2010
"'Give to Grow' is Milica Paranosic's multicultural music exchange between the composer and school age children stuyding music in Kopeyia, Ghana."
Professional Uhuru: Mensu Koraa
Tempos-Ramblers-Uhuro -- Giants of Ghanaian Danceband Highlife 1950s-1970s
Afrodisia Records--Original Music/1990
Meredith Monk: Candy Bullets and Moon
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
drums, organ: Don Preston; voice, bass: M. Monk; recorded at Garrick's Theater, New York City, July, 1967
Ganesh Anandan & Hans Reichel: Amphibian
Self Made
Actuellecd/2009
shuti stick, metallophone: G. Anandan; daxophone: H. Reichel; recorded in Montreal, 2008
Bob Gluck: Interlude
Electric Songs -- Live performances: 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
saz, electronics: B. Gluck
Nous Perçons Les Oreilles: (track 10)
Shaman
Actuellecd/2009
SINGLE PLAY
François Bayle: Labyrinthe I, II, III
Camera Obscura - Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000
SET SIX
John Cage: Paying Attention
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
soundtrack from a film by Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver, based on an Interview with J. Cage, Rotterdam, 1982
Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing (excerpt)
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
synthesizer, electronics, voice: R. Ashley; voice: Mimi Johnson (1979)
SET SEVEN
Simon Wickham-Smith: Songs and Dreams the Whalers Weave
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice, text: Keith Jebb; electronics: S. Wickham-Smith
David Monacchi: Fading Away Whales
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/Earth Ear/2008
archive whale recordings: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; composition: D. Monacchi
SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Buckner: Luminescence (parts 1,2,3) (A. Lockwood)
New Music for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble
Mutable Music/2007
spoken word: Tania León; baritone: T. Buckner; S.E.M. Ensemble, conductor: Petr Kotik; text: Etnel Adnan, "Sea"
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for April 25, 2010
(extended edition)
SINGLE PLAY
Frances White: The Seasons and the Constellations
Music by Frances White
Rose White Music/CD-R compiled 2004
The Dale Warland Singers; conductor: Dale Warland; title: T.S. Eliot
SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: It is the Night and Dawn of Constellations Irradiated
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records
piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, November, 2007
SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Trio (CD 1, tracks 10, 11, 12)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat, cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin
SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Poems of Louis Zukofsky
I. Tall and Singularly Dark
II. Alba
III. Finally a Valentine
IV. O Sleep
V. The Rains
VI. Rune
VII. Strange
VIII. Daisy
XI. You Were Made for this Music
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
16 Compositions -- 2002-2009
Bridge Records/2010
soprano: Lucy Shelton; clarinet: Charles Neidich; texts: Louis Zukofsky; recorded October, 2009, Lefrak Concert Hall, Queens College, New York City
Russell Pinkston: Gerrymander
Third Practice -- Commissions and Premieres #
New Music from the Third Practice Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music at the University of Richmond
Centaur Records/2004
Bb clarinet: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at the Fine Arts Recording Studio, University of Texas, Austin, 1/09/03
SET TWO
Carrie Rose: Gesto (H. Brun)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
piano: Thomas Moore; piccolo: C. Rose
Lukas Foss: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
mezzo-soprano: RoseMarie Freni; flute: Robert Dick; percussion: Jan Williams; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; text: Wallace Stevens; recorded in New York City, April, 1980
SET THREE
Antanas Jasenka: Output 1 (from In/Out)
Point/Circle
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded at Lithuanian Composer Sound Studio, Vilnius; electric piano, computer: A. Jasenka
Zack Browning: Coming Up Sevens
Funktasia -- Music by Zack Browning and Sever Tipei
Centaur Records/2006
xylophone: Jeff Matter; marimba: Andrew Buchanan; vibraphone: Sean Darby; piano: Soohyun Yun; electric guitar: Cyrus Pireh; conductor: Z. Browning; recorded at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne
Mark Applebaum: 16 Things
Mousetrap Music
Innova Recordings/1996
electro-acoustic sound-sculpture, electronics: M. Applebaum; recorded at Salmagundi Recording Studio, Northfield, MN, 2/18/93
Mark Applebaum: Theme in Search of Variations I
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
percussion: Florian Conzetti, Christopher Froh, Terry Longshore; recorded at the Braun Music Center, Stanford University, 11/22/07
Zae Munn: Interface
The Aerial No. 3 #
Nonsequitur/1991
viola: Guillermo Perich; marimba: David Bessinger; recorded recorded at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne, 1983
James Rolfe: Sticky
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Beverly Johnson; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, WI, summer 2009
SET FOUR
Gary DiBenedetto: Toy Store
Twin Towers
Electroshock Records/2010
Tom Hamilton: Modhera
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
Tom Hamilton: Queens Plaza
Off-Hour Wait State -- Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo; electronic environment recorded at The Pickle Factory, New York City, 1996
SET FIVE
Luigi Nono: from Como una de fuerza y luz
a. Beginning
b. Interno Dolce
Como Una de Fuerza y Luz
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
soprano: Slavka Taskova; piano: Maurizio Pollini; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Claudio Abbado; text: Julio Huasi; recorded at Herkules-Saal, München, October, 1973
Milica Paranosic:
a. Lulla
b. Duet
Give to Grow
Electroshock Records/2010
"'Give to Grow' is Milica Paranosic's multicultural music exchange between the composer and school age children stuyding music in Kopeyia, Ghana."
Professional Uhuru: Mensu Koraa
Tempos-Ramblers-Uhuro -- Giants of Ghanaian Danceband Highlife 1950s-1970s
Afrodisia Records--Original Music/1990
Meredith Monk: Candy Bullets and Moon
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
drums, organ: Don Preston; voice, bass: M. Monk; recorded at Garrick's Theater, New York City, July, 1967
Ganesh Anandan & Hans Reichel: Amphibian
Self Made
Actuellecd/2009
shuti stick, metallophone: G. Anandan; daxophone: H. Reichel; recorded in Montreal, 2008
Bob Gluck: Interlude
Electric Songs -- Live performances: 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
saz, electronics: B. Gluck
Nous Perçons Les Oreilles: (track 10)
Shaman
Actuellecd/2009
SINGLE PLAY
François Bayle: Labyrinthe I, II, III
Camera Obscura - Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000
SET SIX
John Cage: Paying Attention
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
soundtrack from a film by Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver, based on an Interview with J. Cage, Rotterdam, 1982
Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing (excerpt)
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
synthesizer, electronics, voice: R. Ashley; voice: Mimi Johnson (1979)
SET SEVEN
Simon Wickham-Smith: Songs and Dreams the Whalers Weave
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice, text: Keith Jebb; electronics: S. Wickham-Smith
David Monacchi: Fading Away Whales
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/Earth Ear/2008
archive whale recordings: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; composition: D. Monacchi
SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Buckner: Luminescence (parts 1,2,3) (A. Lockwood)
New Music for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble
Mutable Music/2007
spoken word: Tania León; baritone: T. Buckner; S.E.M. Ensemble, conductor: Petr Kotik; text: Etnel Adnan, "Sea"
--FIN--
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Martian Gardens for 04/18/2010
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 18, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Widdershins
I. Energetic
II. Tranquil
III. Savage
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst
SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Sea of Reeds
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29 #
Music from the Virginia Center for Computer Music
Centaur Records/1999
clarinet: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, 10/98, post-production/engineering: J. Shatin, Chris Kress at PMD Recording, Charlottesville, VA
F. Gerard Errante: Canto (De Las Sombras) (R.S. Thompson)
Shadows of Ancient Dreams
Capstone Records/1997
recorded at Chandler Recital Hall, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 1996
SET TWO
Lukas Foss: Echoi II
Echoi--The Fragments of Archilochos--Non-improvisation
Electronic Music Foundations/1998
percussion: Jan Williams; cello: Douglas Davis; clarinet: Edward Yadzinski; piano: L. Foss; recorded in 1968, Buffalo, NY
Lukas Foss: Music for Six
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
University of Buffalo Percussion Ensemble -- vibraphones: Jan Williams, Edward Folger; marimbas: Bruce Penner, Rick Kazmierczak; electric piano, marimba: Kathryn Kayne; synthesizer: James Calabrese; recorded 1980, New York City
SET THREE
Morton Feldman: Trio (disk 1, tracks 5-8)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat, cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin
Christian Wolff: Pebbles (excerpt)
Complete Works for Violin & Piano
Mode Records/2003
violin: Marc Sabat, piano: Stephen Clarke;recorded at Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, 8/10/00
SET FOUR
Daria Semegen: Vignette
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 #
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Cathy Callis; recorded July, 1999, Spring Hall, CUNY-Staten Island
Daria Semegen: Electronic Composition No. 1
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
recorded at C-PEMC, summer 1971
John Eaton: Thoughts on Rilke
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; Syn-Kets: Jane Schoonover Smith, J. Eaton; vibration plate, sound mixing: Paolo Ketoff; text: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnet to Orpheus II," recorded 1966
SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Down Stairs Pad
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music and Video/2009
Tom Hamilton: Bonampak
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
Martin Alejandro Fumarola: Shaguir
Electroacoustic Music Volume 3 #
Electroshock Records/1999
SET SIX
Bill Alves: Tingklik Toccata
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral HarmoniesSpectral Harmonies/2008
electronics: B. Alves; Balinese tingklik: Linda Michelou; electronics and gong: Jean-Pierre Michelou; shakuhachi: Bill Shozan Schultz; recorded at Harvey Mudd College
Philip Gelb and Jie Ma: Comp. 40 N and Comp. 110 A (A. Braxton)
Meridian Music - Earth Music #
Innova Recordings/2009
shakuhachi: P. Gelb; pipa: J. Ma; recorded 3/12/08, Meridian Gallery, San Fancisco
Richard Teitelbaum: Kichiku's Dream (from Kyotaku Denshi)
Blends
New Albion Records/2002
shakuhachi: Katsuya Yokoyama; bass: Mark Dresser; drums: Gerry Hemingway; Kurzweil K2000 sampler keyboard, Macintosh Powerbook: R. Teitelbaum; recorded Olin Auditorium, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2/12/95
Hsiao-Lan Wang: A Gold Leaf Drifts Downstream
Electoacoustic Works
Hasio-Lan Wang/2005
tingkliks: H.Wang, Daniel Zajicek
SINGLE PLAY
Miguel Chuaqui: El Canto Repartido (The Shared Out Song)
a. (II) Que el amor nos defienda (May love defend us)
b. (III) Que suban los racimos (May the boughs rise)
Memoria -- Chamber and Electroacoustic Works
Centaur Records/2009
Canyonlands New Music Ensemble, conductor: Morris Rosenzweig; titles: Pablo Neruda; recorded at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall, Salt Lake City, spring 2006
--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 18, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Widdershins
I. Energetic
II. Tranquil
III. Savage
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst
SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Sea of Reeds
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29 #
Music from the Virginia Center for Computer Music
Centaur Records/1999
clarinet: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, 10/98, post-production/engineering: J. Shatin, Chris Kress at PMD Recording, Charlottesville, VA
F. Gerard Errante: Canto (De Las Sombras) (R.S. Thompson)
Shadows of Ancient Dreams
Capstone Records/1997
recorded at Chandler Recital Hall, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 1996
SET TWO
Lukas Foss: Echoi II
Echoi--The Fragments of Archilochos--Non-improvisation
Electronic Music Foundations/1998
percussion: Jan Williams; cello: Douglas Davis; clarinet: Edward Yadzinski; piano: L. Foss; recorded in 1968, Buffalo, NY
Lukas Foss: Music for Six
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
University of Buffalo Percussion Ensemble -- vibraphones: Jan Williams, Edward Folger; marimbas: Bruce Penner, Rick Kazmierczak; electric piano, marimba: Kathryn Kayne; synthesizer: James Calabrese; recorded 1980, New York City
SET THREE
Morton Feldman: Trio (disk 1, tracks 5-8)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat, cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin
Christian Wolff: Pebbles (excerpt)
Complete Works for Violin & Piano
Mode Records/2003
violin: Marc Sabat, piano: Stephen Clarke;recorded at Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, 8/10/00
SET FOUR
Daria Semegen: Vignette
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 #
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Cathy Callis; recorded July, 1999, Spring Hall, CUNY-Staten Island
Daria Semegen: Electronic Composition No. 1
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
recorded at C-PEMC, summer 1971
John Eaton: Thoughts on Rilke
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; Syn-Kets: Jane Schoonover Smith, J. Eaton; vibration plate, sound mixing: Paolo Ketoff; text: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnet to Orpheus II," recorded 1966
SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Down Stairs Pad
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music and Video/2009
Tom Hamilton: Bonampak
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
Martin Alejandro Fumarola: Shaguir
Electroacoustic Music Volume 3 #
Electroshock Records/1999
SET SIX
Bill Alves: Tingklik Toccata
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral HarmoniesSpectral Harmonies/2008
electronics: B. Alves; Balinese tingklik: Linda Michelou; electronics and gong: Jean-Pierre Michelou; shakuhachi: Bill Shozan Schultz; recorded at Harvey Mudd College
Philip Gelb and Jie Ma: Comp. 40 N and Comp. 110 A (A. Braxton)
Meridian Music - Earth Music #
Innova Recordings/2009
shakuhachi: P. Gelb; pipa: J. Ma; recorded 3/12/08, Meridian Gallery, San Fancisco
Richard Teitelbaum: Kichiku's Dream (from Kyotaku Denshi)
Blends
New Albion Records/2002
shakuhachi: Katsuya Yokoyama; bass: Mark Dresser; drums: Gerry Hemingway; Kurzweil K2000 sampler keyboard, Macintosh Powerbook: R. Teitelbaum; recorded Olin Auditorium, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2/12/95
Hsiao-Lan Wang: A Gold Leaf Drifts Downstream
Electoacoustic Works
Hasio-Lan Wang/2005
tingkliks: H.Wang, Daniel Zajicek
SINGLE PLAY
Miguel Chuaqui: El Canto Repartido (The Shared Out Song)
a. (II) Que el amor nos defienda (May love defend us)
b. (III) Que suban los racimos (May the boughs rise)
Memoria -- Chamber and Electroacoustic Works
Centaur Records/2009
Canyonlands New Music Ensemble, conductor: Morris Rosenzweig; titles: Pablo Neruda; recorded at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall, Salt Lake City, spring 2006
--FIN--
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Martian Gardens for 04/11/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for 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--
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--
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--
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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--
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