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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Host: Max Shea
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Program for May 30, 2010
SET ONE
George Cacioppo: Pianopieces
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966
New World Records/2003
piano: Donald Bohlen; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, 2/16/1963
Morton Feldman: Trio (CD 2, tracks 9-11)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat; cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin
SET TWO
Elliott Carter: Wind Rose
Music of Elliott Carter Volume 8
(16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Oliver Knussen; recorded at BBC 3, 12/16/08
Steven Stucky: Threnos
Music for Wind Ensemble
Albany Records/1997
Baylor University Wind Ensemble, conductor: Michael Haithcock; recorded 9/24/96
Flute Force: Eyewitness, Movement 1 (R. Dick)
Eyewitness
Innova Recordings/2001
recorded at SUNY Purchase, c. 2000
SET THREE
Phillip Bimstein: The Bushy Wushy Rag
Larkin Gifford's Harmonica
Starkland/2006
The Equinox Chamber Players; tape portion recorded at Busch Stadium, St. Louis
Emmanuel Madan: FREEDOM HIGHWAY
Deep Wireless 2 #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
SINGLE PLAY
George Cacioppo: Holy Ghost Vacuum or America Faints
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
electric organ: G. Cacioppo; recorded in Ann Arbor, 1966
SET FOUR
Matthew Burtner: Prismic Generations
Signal Ruins (DVD)
EcoSono/2009
noise generators: W. Aniseh Khan-Burtner; noise generators, computer, percussion: M. Burtner; recorded at the University of Virginia
Lukas Foss: Non-Improvisation
Echoi
Electroninc Music Foundation/1998
piano, harpsichord: L. Foss; percussion, Hammond organ: Jan Williams; cello: Douglas Davis; clarinet: Edward Yadzinski; premiered on Danish Radio, Copenhagen, fall, 1967, original recordings mastered at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library 11/20/68
SINGLE PLAY
Jorge Antunes: Vivaldia MCMLXXV
Works by Jorge Antunes eo GeMUnB
UnB Discos/2002
GeMUnB (Group of Musical Experimentation of the University of Brasilia) -- voice: Laura Conde; flute: Geraldo Moreira; English horn/French horn: Raimundo Martins; viola: Fernando: Vasques; cello: Jorge Armando Nunes; piano: Mariuga Lisbôa Antunes; dancer: Maria Salma; magnetic tape, conductor: J. Antunes; recorded at University of Brasilia, 1975
SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Ergodos II (for John Cage)
Selected Works 1961-1969 -- Psychoacoustic/Electroacoustic
New World Records/2003
recorded at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, 1964
--FIN--
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Martian Gardens for 05/23/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Sundays 19:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for May 23, 2010
(Extended edition)
SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Fledermaus
I. Waltzing On the Edge
II. I'm No Maid
III. Czárdás
IV. Tick-Tock Around the Clock
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
The Borup-Ernst Duo -- piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst; violin: Hasse Borup
Mario Davidovsky: Duo Capriccioso
The Music of Mario Davidovsky Volume 3
Bridge Records/2005
violin: Curtis Macomber; piano: Aleck Karis; recorded at KAS Music Sound, Astoria
SET TWO
Mel Powell: Sextet--Second Movement
Settings
New World Records/2003
The California Ear Unit; conductor: Stephen L. Mosko; recorded December, 2001, O'Henry Sound Studios, Burbank
Ann Milikan: Landing Inside the Inside of an Animal
Ballad Nocturne
Innova Recordings/2010
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra; recorded at Studio 1 of the Bulgarian National Radio, Sofia, summer, 2009
SET THREE
Lauri des Marais: Philosphy of Perception
CD-R compiled 2010
piano: L. de Marais; voice samples: Alan Watts
Lauri des Marais:
a. Beetle Forest
b. Beetle Forest (reprise)
Stimuli -- Stories in Sound (des Marais/Lindgren)
SFZ Recordings/1999
sound design, synthesizer, voice: L. des Marais; guitar, voice: Susan DeLeo; recorded at Sounds Interesting, Middleborough, MA
David Tudor: Sliding Pitches in the Rainforest in the Field -- Rainforest IV (excerpt)
Rainforest
Mode Records/1998
originated 1973, Chocorua, NH; recordings provided by John Driscoll and ICA
Thor Magnússon and Rúnar Magnússon:
Giooia -- a variation of SameSameButDifferent v.02 -- Iceland
Why Record? -- Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 18
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
field recordings: Magnússon and Magnússon
Natasha Barrett:
a. Displaced:Replaced -- Fog, light wind
b. Displaced:Replaced -- Wet and gusty
c. Displaced:Replaced -- Gathering wind
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
realized at Ms. Barrett's studio and NoTAM, Oslo, 2001
SET FOUR
Milica Paranosic:
a. Lastavice/Departure
b. Kisa Pada
c. Venus Song
Give To Grow
Electroshock Records/2010
recitation,text (c.): Roger Bonair-Agard
Valery Siver and Kirill Trepakov:
a. Russian Troyka, Part 1 (on the motives of N. Gogol's poem "The Dead Souls")
b. Childhood in the USSR (on the motives of S. Mikhalkov)
Music from the Russian Pages
Electroshock Records/2010
François Bayle: Sequenza (from Seven Preludes)
Camera Obscura/Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000
recorded in 1976, revised 2000
SINGLE PLAY
Ronald Perera: Three Poems of Günter Grass
I. Gleisdreieck
II. Klappstühle (Folding Chairs)
III. Schlaflos (Sleepless)
Crossing the Meridian
CRI/1998
soprano: Elsa Charlston; Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; electronic tape recorded 1974 at Smith College Electronic Music Studio; texts: G. Grass
SET FIVE
Lukas Foss: Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
accordion: Guy Klucevsek
Guy Klucevsek: Loosening Up the Queen
Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse
XI Records/1991
accordion: G. Kucevsek; recorded at New Breed Studios, NYC
Pauline Oliveros: Reason in Madness Mixed
Crone Music
Lovely Music, Ltd./1990
accordion, processing: P. Oliveros; recorded at Studio PASS/Harvestworks, NYC
SET SIX
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring ("Side One")
Volume 2 -- Electronic Works: Sidewinder -- Until Spring
Mode Records/2004
Buchla Electronic Music Box: M. Subotnick; recorded 1975, Mills College
Mark Trayle: 27
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
laptop, electronics: M.Trayle
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Formal & Informal Music
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
E-mu microprocessor keyboard, Serge synthesizer, custom electronics: T. Hamilton; bass drums, bowed cow bells, tabla, gamelan gongs, talking drum, marimba bars, timpani, cymbals: Rich O'Donnell; flute, clarinet: JD Parran; recorded at Technisonic Studios, St. Louis, 1978-1980
--FIN--
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Program for May 23, 2010
(Extended edition)
SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Fledermaus
I. Waltzing On the Edge
II. I'm No Maid
III. Czárdás
IV. Tick-Tock Around the Clock
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
The Borup-Ernst Duo -- piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst; violin: Hasse Borup
Mario Davidovsky: Duo Capriccioso
The Music of Mario Davidovsky Volume 3
Bridge Records/2005
violin: Curtis Macomber; piano: Aleck Karis; recorded at KAS Music Sound, Astoria
SET TWO
Mel Powell: Sextet--Second Movement
Settings
New World Records/2003
The California Ear Unit; conductor: Stephen L. Mosko; recorded December, 2001, O'Henry Sound Studios, Burbank
Ann Milikan: Landing Inside the Inside of an Animal
Ballad Nocturne
Innova Recordings/2010
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra; recorded at Studio 1 of the Bulgarian National Radio, Sofia, summer, 2009
SET THREE
Lauri des Marais: Philosphy of Perception
CD-R compiled 2010
piano: L. de Marais; voice samples: Alan Watts
Lauri des Marais:
a. Beetle Forest
b. Beetle Forest (reprise)
Stimuli -- Stories in Sound (des Marais/Lindgren)
SFZ Recordings/1999
sound design, synthesizer, voice: L. des Marais; guitar, voice: Susan DeLeo; recorded at Sounds Interesting, Middleborough, MA
David Tudor: Sliding Pitches in the Rainforest in the Field -- Rainforest IV (excerpt)
Rainforest
Mode Records/1998
originated 1973, Chocorua, NH; recordings provided by John Driscoll and ICA
Thor Magnússon and Rúnar Magnússon:
Giooia -- a variation of SameSameButDifferent v.02 -- Iceland
Why Record? -- Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 18
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
field recordings: Magnússon and Magnússon
Natasha Barrett:
a. Displaced:Replaced -- Fog, light wind
b. Displaced:Replaced -- Wet and gusty
c. Displaced:Replaced -- Gathering wind
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
realized at Ms. Barrett's studio and NoTAM, Oslo, 2001
SET FOUR
Milica Paranosic:
a. Lastavice/Departure
b. Kisa Pada
c. Venus Song
Give To Grow
Electroshock Records/2010
recitation,text (c.): Roger Bonair-Agard
Valery Siver and Kirill Trepakov:
a. Russian Troyka, Part 1 (on the motives of N. Gogol's poem "The Dead Souls")
b. Childhood in the USSR (on the motives of S. Mikhalkov)
Music from the Russian Pages
Electroshock Records/2010
François Bayle: Sequenza (from Seven Preludes)
Camera Obscura/Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000
recorded in 1976, revised 2000
SINGLE PLAY
Ronald Perera: Three Poems of Günter Grass
I. Gleisdreieck
II. Klappstühle (Folding Chairs)
III. Schlaflos (Sleepless)
Crossing the Meridian
CRI/1998
soprano: Elsa Charlston; Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; electronic tape recorded 1974 at Smith College Electronic Music Studio; texts: G. Grass
SET FIVE
Lukas Foss: Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
accordion: Guy Klucevsek
Guy Klucevsek: Loosening Up the Queen
Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse
XI Records/1991
accordion: G. Kucevsek; recorded at New Breed Studios, NYC
Pauline Oliveros: Reason in Madness Mixed
Crone Music
Lovely Music, Ltd./1990
accordion, processing: P. Oliveros; recorded at Studio PASS/Harvestworks, NYC
SET SIX
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring ("Side One")
Volume 2 -- Electronic Works: Sidewinder -- Until Spring
Mode Records/2004
Buchla Electronic Music Box: M. Subotnick; recorded 1975, Mills College
Mark Trayle: 27
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
laptop, electronics: M.Trayle
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Formal & Informal Music
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
E-mu microprocessor keyboard, Serge synthesizer, custom electronics: T. Hamilton; bass drums, bowed cow bells, tabla, gamelan gongs, talking drum, marimba bars, timpani, cymbals: Rich O'Donnell; flute, clarinet: JD Parran; recorded at Technisonic Studios, St. Louis, 1978-1980
--FIN--
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Martian Gardens for 05/16/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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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--
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 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--
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Martian Gardens for 05/09/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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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--
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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
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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--
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