WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for July 25, 2010
(extended edition)
SET ONE
New Millennium Ensemble: Percussion Duo (C. Wuorinen)
H.C.E. (Here Comes Everybody)
CRI/1998
piano: Margaret Kampmeier; percussion: John Ferrari; recorded at Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY Stony Brook
Ursula Mamlok: Designs
a. Lento
b. Capriccioso
Music of Ursula Mamlok Vol. 1
Bridge Records/2009
violin: David Bowlin; piano: Jacob Greenberg; recorded at the Performing Arts Center, Theater C, SUNY Purchase, 10/13/07
SET TWO
Margaret Leng Tan: She Herself Alone (L. Liben)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, toy psaltery: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, January, 2010
Gamelan Son of Lion: Traffic (L. Liben)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2008
Gamelan Son of Lion; recorded at Hungry Hollow Studio
Lou Harrison: from Ditone Set
a. Usul
b. Plaint
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California, 7/05/04
SET THREE
Larry Polansky: for jim, ben, and lou
a. Preamble (for Jim Tenney)
b. Rue Plats (Resting Place) (for Ben Johnston)
c. The World's Longest Melody ("The Ever-Widening Halfstep") (for Lou Harrison)
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
guitar: Toon Callier; harp: Jutta Troch; live guitar tuning, percussion: Jeroen Stevens; voice: W. Victor (b.), lyrics, melody: Morris Rosenfeld (b.); recorded at Bjilokestudio, Ghent Conservatory, February, 2009
Lou Harrison: Short set from "Lazarus Laughed"
a. Caligula's Dance
b. Miriam
c. Round Dance
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
flutes: Leta Miller; cello: Karen Andrie; celesta: Michael McGushin; recorded at the recital hall of UC Santa Cruz, 2001
SET FOUR
Hyo-Shin Na: All the Noises in the World
All The Noises
New World Records/2008
JeongGaAkHoe ensemble -- komungo: Jae-hyun Chun, piri: Hyang-Hee Lee, taegeum: Hong Yoo; Seung-hee Lee, haegeum: Yoo-jin Sung, kayageum: Yoo-jin Sung, changgu: Jae-choon Yang; recorded at Old First Concerts, San Francisco, 5/19/06
Jin Hi Kim: No World Improvisations
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
komungo: J.H. Kim; Senegalese djambe: Mor Thiam; didgeridoo: Adam Pack; double reed, mukha veena: Joseph Celli; performed at American Music Week, Bonn, Germany
SET FIVE
Alexander Volidin: Silver Thread
Unfinished Journey
Electroshock Records/2010
prepared electric guitar: Alexander Sveridoff; violin: Albina Batirshina; voice: Serge Kardinoff; recorded at Electroshock Records Studio, Moscow
Alvin Lucier: Nothing is Real (Lennon/McCartney, "Strawberry Fields Forever")
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music #
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
piano, teapot: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Radio Bremen, February, 1998
SET SIX
Orlando Jacinto García: Music for Berlin
Celestial Voices
O.O. Discs/1998
flutes: Robert Dick; piano: Anthony de Mare; recorded at the studios of the University of Maryland Baltimore County
Robert Dick and Steve Gorn: Light
Steel and Bamboo
O.O. Discs/1993
flute: R. Dick; bass bansuri: S. Gorn
Dmitry Mazurov: Abyss
Creature on a Lavatory Pan
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded at Electroshock Records Studio, Moscow
SET SEVEN
Darren Copeland: On Schedule
Perdu et Retrouve DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
recorded at D. Copeland's studio, Toronto, 2003
Gen Ken Montgomery: Birds & Machines (Machine Suite)
Birds + Machines 1980-1989
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded in New York City, 1989
SINGLE PLAY
François Bayle: Le Sommeil D'Euclide I
Son Vitesse-Lumière
Magison/1997
SINGLE PLAY
Alexander Berne: Chronicles2 (sic.)
The Saduk ("Composed and Performed by Alexander Berne" boxed set)
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Mirabella Studios, Florida
SINGLE PLAY
Sō Percussion: Drumming, Part One (S. Reich)
Drumming
Cantaloupe Music/2005
Recorded at the Hit Factory and Sony Music Studios, NYC, November, 2004
SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass: Contrary Motion
Two Pages/Contrary Motion/Music in Fifths/Music in Similar Motion
Elektra-Nonesuch/1994
electric organ: P. Glass; recorded at Basement Recording Studio, NYC, March, 1975
--FIN--
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Martian Gardens for 07/18/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for July 18, 2010
(extended edition)
SET ONE
Dean Rosenthal: Buddhist Spouting Sound Vessel
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
sampled voice: Thomas Buckner
Daniel Goode: V-I
60 x 60 -- 2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2007
Allen Strange: Shadow Boxer
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004
Brian Belet: Difference (Kyma)
Electroacoustic Music
Brian Belet/CD-R compiled 2006
Gen Ken Montgomery: Friedhof
Birds + Machines -- 1980-1989
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at Conrad Schnitzler's Studio, Berlin, 1986
Pax Alpha: Clouds on the Horizon: Echoes on a Landscape
Echoes on a Landscape
MPS Music & Video/2010
SET TWO
Alexander Berne: Clepsydra
Alexander Berne boxed set -- The Saduk
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Mirabella Studios, Florida
Maggi Payne: RL (D. Behrman)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
interactive electronics: David Behrman; extended flute: M. Payne
Alexander Berne: Hyacinth
Alexander Byrne boxed set -- The Soprano Saxophone Choir
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Mirabella Studios, Florida
SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV)
I. Alpha Centuri
II. Beta Cygni
III. Gamma Draconis
IV. Delta Orionis
New Music for 1,2, & 3 Pianos (Crumb/Brown)
Mode Records/1991
pianos: Peter Degenhardt, Fuat Kent; assistant-player (III/IV): Jovita Zähl; recorded at Crowell Hall, Wesleyan University, March, 1989
SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Night of the Four Moons
I. La luna está muerta, muerta...
II. Cuando sale la luna
III. Otro Adán oscuro está sonando...
IV. ¡Huye luna, luna, luna!
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 11
Bridge Records/2008
The Aeolian Chamber Players -- alto flute/piccolo: Erich Graf; banjo: Lewis Kaplan; cello: Paul Tobias; percussion: Raymond DesRoches; mezzo soprano: Jan DeGaetani; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca; recorded 1974
International George Crumb Day at Mass MoCA, Saturday, July 24
SET THREE
Margaret Leng Tan: Hymn to Ruin (R. Bolleter)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
ruined toy piano and ruined piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, January, 2010
Ross Bolleter: Piano Dreaming
Crow Country
Pogus Productions/2000
degrading Pianola: R. Bolleter; tape work: Rob Muir; recorded at Nallan Sheep Station, Australia, July, 1987
SET FOUR
J.C. Combs: The Giant Eye of the 5th Dimension
Safe Passage -- ImprovFriday Event Sessions
Electroshock Records/2010
Gary DiBenedetto: Self Portrait
Twin Towers
Electroshock Records/2010
Alex Cannon: Natural Opera
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2010
SET FIVE
Drew Krause: First of July
Ding
Capstone Records/2007
McCormick Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Robert McCormick; recorded at Springs Theatre, Tampa, April, 1997
Larry Polansky: Ensembles of Note
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
ZWERM -- electric guitars: Toon Callier, Matthias Koole, Johannes Westendorp; Kobe Van Cauwenberghe; [sic] -- soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone: Eva Vermeiren, baritone saxophone: Thomas Van Gelder; alto saxophone: Maarten Jan Huysmans, drums: Mattijs Vanderleen; recorded at Studio Champ D'Action, Antwerp, December, 2008
Tim Brady: SCAT (Because we all have voices and stories to tell) (parts 1, 2, & 3)
SCAT (Because we all have voices and stories to tell)
actuellecd.com/2007
Topology ensemble; recorded at Queensland Orchestra Studio, Brisbane, January, 2006
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley:
Act I. Change
Act II. The Miracle of Cars
Now Eleanor's Idea
Lovely Music, Ltd./2007
Act I -- Narrator: R. Ashley; Now Eleanor: Joan La Barbara ensemble voices: R. Ashley, Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert; electronic orchestra: Tom Hamilton
Act II -- Now Eleanor: ibid., Now Eleanor's Lowrider Double: Amy X Neuberg; Now Eleanor's Guardian Angel: Marghreta Cordero; lowrider description: Arthur "LowLow" Medina and Joan Medina; ensemble voices and electronic orchestra: ibid.
SINGLE PLAY
Frank Zappa:
a. Lumpy Gravy I
b. Lumpy Gravy II
We're Only in it for the Money/Lumpy Gravy
Rykodisk/1994 (Lumpy Gravy LP orig. 1968/Verve-Bizarre)
recorded/mixed Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, and Apostolic Studios, New York City; Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus; conductors: F. Zappa, Sid Sharp; tapes: F. Zappa, recorded February - October, 1967
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for July 18, 2010
(extended edition)
SET ONE
Dean Rosenthal: Buddhist Spouting Sound Vessel
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
sampled voice: Thomas Buckner
Daniel Goode: V-I
60 x 60 -- 2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2007
Allen Strange: Shadow Boxer
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004
Brian Belet: Difference (Kyma)
Electroacoustic Music
Brian Belet/CD-R compiled 2006
Gen Ken Montgomery: Friedhof
Birds + Machines -- 1980-1989
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at Conrad Schnitzler's Studio, Berlin, 1986
Pax Alpha: Clouds on the Horizon: Echoes on a Landscape
Echoes on a Landscape
MPS Music & Video/2010
SET TWO
Alexander Berne: Clepsydra
Alexander Berne boxed set -- The Saduk
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Mirabella Studios, Florida
Maggi Payne: RL (D. Behrman)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
interactive electronics: David Behrman; extended flute: M. Payne
Alexander Berne: Hyacinth
Alexander Byrne boxed set -- The Soprano Saxophone Choir
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Mirabella Studios, Florida
SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV)
I. Alpha Centuri
II. Beta Cygni
III. Gamma Draconis
IV. Delta Orionis
New Music for 1,2, & 3 Pianos (Crumb/Brown)
Mode Records/1991
pianos: Peter Degenhardt, Fuat Kent; assistant-player (III/IV): Jovita Zähl; recorded at Crowell Hall, Wesleyan University, March, 1989
SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Night of the Four Moons
I. La luna está muerta, muerta...
II. Cuando sale la luna
III. Otro Adán oscuro está sonando...
IV. ¡Huye luna, luna, luna!
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 11
Bridge Records/2008
The Aeolian Chamber Players -- alto flute/piccolo: Erich Graf; banjo: Lewis Kaplan; cello: Paul Tobias; percussion: Raymond DesRoches; mezzo soprano: Jan DeGaetani; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca; recorded 1974
International George Crumb Day at Mass MoCA, Saturday, July 24
SET THREE
Margaret Leng Tan: Hymn to Ruin (R. Bolleter)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
ruined toy piano and ruined piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, January, 2010
Ross Bolleter: Piano Dreaming
Crow Country
Pogus Productions/2000
degrading Pianola: R. Bolleter; tape work: Rob Muir; recorded at Nallan Sheep Station, Australia, July, 1987
SET FOUR
J.C. Combs: The Giant Eye of the 5th Dimension
Safe Passage -- ImprovFriday Event Sessions
Electroshock Records/2010
Gary DiBenedetto: Self Portrait
Twin Towers
Electroshock Records/2010
Alex Cannon: Natural Opera
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2010
SET FIVE
Drew Krause: First of July
Ding
Capstone Records/2007
McCormick Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Robert McCormick; recorded at Springs Theatre, Tampa, April, 1997
Larry Polansky: Ensembles of Note
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
ZWERM -- electric guitars: Toon Callier, Matthias Koole, Johannes Westendorp; Kobe Van Cauwenberghe; [sic] -- soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone: Eva Vermeiren, baritone saxophone: Thomas Van Gelder; alto saxophone: Maarten Jan Huysmans, drums: Mattijs Vanderleen; recorded at Studio Champ D'Action, Antwerp, December, 2008
Tim Brady: SCAT (Because we all have voices and stories to tell) (parts 1, 2, & 3)
SCAT (Because we all have voices and stories to tell)
actuellecd.com/2007
Topology ensemble; recorded at Queensland Orchestra Studio, Brisbane, January, 2006
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley:
Act I. Change
Act II. The Miracle of Cars
Now Eleanor's Idea
Lovely Music, Ltd./2007
Act I -- Narrator: R. Ashley; Now Eleanor: Joan La Barbara ensemble voices: R. Ashley, Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert; electronic orchestra: Tom Hamilton
Act II -- Now Eleanor: ibid., Now Eleanor's Lowrider Double: Amy X Neuberg; Now Eleanor's Guardian Angel: Marghreta Cordero; lowrider description: Arthur "LowLow" Medina and Joan Medina; ensemble voices and electronic orchestra: ibid.
SINGLE PLAY
Frank Zappa:
a. Lumpy Gravy I
b. Lumpy Gravy II
We're Only in it for the Money/Lumpy Gravy
Rykodisk/1994 (Lumpy Gravy LP orig. 1968/Verve-Bizarre)
recorded/mixed Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, and Apostolic Studios, New York City; Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus; conductors: F. Zappa, Sid Sharp; tapes: F. Zappa, recorded February - October, 1967
--FIN--
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Martian Gardens for 07/11/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
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 July 11, 2010
(extended edition)
SINGLE PLAY
PowerBooks_unPlugged: globophagia no. 1
Why Record? -- Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Curated by Click Nilson
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
recorded at Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest, September, 2007
SET ONE
Pax Alpha: Dark Waters, Part 1
Echoes on a Landscape
MPS Music and Video/2010
electronics: Geoff Nossiter
Chris Brown & Pauline Oliveros: Troposphere (excerpt)
Music In the Air
Deep Listening/2010
piano, live computer signal processing (SuperCollider): C. Brown; accordion, conch, percussion, EIS (Expanded Instrument System); recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08
SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Three Summers Heat--
a. Just Now the Sea-Green Banners Fly
b. Just Now the Early Peach is Red
c. It's Midsummer and Too Hot to Walk
d. Summer Earth is Windless. Heat Still Presses
e. Light Clothes! Few Clothes!
f. I Remember Desire like White Light
g. I Raise my Head to Look at T'ung Trees
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29#
Music from VCCM: Virginia Center for Computer Music--
University of Virginia
Centaur Records/1999
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Tzu Yeh; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, August, 1998
SET TWO
Larry Polansky: Psaltery (for Lou Harrison)
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
recorded at Experimental Music Studios, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1978
Darsha Hewitt: Experiment (Excerpt)
MusicWorks 107 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2010
SET THREE
Elliott Carter: Sound Fields
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8 (16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Oliver Knussen
Charles Dodge: Violin Variations (I-IV)
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
violin: Baird Dodge; recorded at WFMT, Chicago, 6/14/09
John Allemeier: Surge
60 x 60 -- 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
HyeKyung Lee: Crawl
ibid.
Tilmann Dehnhard: Rohrschach (sic.)
ibid.
Alphonse Izzo: Ground
ibid.
Melissa Grey: Aspect
ibid.
Marcel Gherman: Obsidian
ibid.
Leslie de Melcher: Salvation
ibid.
SET FOUR
Christian McLeer: Black Lung
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008
J.C. Combs: Trinity 666 - The Last Train to Hell
Safe Passage -- ImprovFriday Event Sessions
Electroshock Records/2010
Tod Machover: Famine
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
four amplified voices: Electric Phoenix vocal ensemble -- soprano: Judith Rees, mezzo-soprano: Mary King, tenor: Daryl Runswick, bass: Terry Edwards; computer-generated tape: T. Machover; text: Rose Moss; recorded at October Sound, London, January, 1987
SET FIVE
Gerard Pape: Weaveworld Prologue
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
Atelier de Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles; bass: Nicholas Isherwood; text G. Pape, inspired by Clive Barker; conductor: Lionel Arnaud
Tim Hodgkinson: Vers Kongsu II
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
bass clarinet: Vinny Golia; percussion: Gustavo Aguilar; clarinet solo: T. Hodgkinson; Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Iancu Dumitrescu; recorded in Ploieşti, Romania, October, 2003
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: Empire
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Robert Ashley, Jacqueline Humbert; text: R. Ashley; electronic orchestra: R. Ashley, Tom Hamilton; recorded in Rome, 1985
SINGLE PLAY
Denis Smalley: Tides
a. Pools and Currents
b. Sea Flight
Sources/Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2000
sound materials sources from studios at the University of Toronto Computer Systems Research Group, Experimental Studio of Finnish Radio, Helsinki, and the Ina-GRM, Paris; mixed at the University of East Anglia, Norowich, completed in 1984
SINGLE PLAY
Laurie Spiegel: Drums
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
recorded using the GROOVE Hybrid Systm, Bell Labs, 1975
--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 July 11, 2010
(extended edition)
SINGLE PLAY
PowerBooks_unPlugged: globophagia no. 1
Why Record? -- Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Curated by Click Nilson
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
recorded at Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest, September, 2007
SET ONE
Pax Alpha: Dark Waters, Part 1
Echoes on a Landscape
MPS Music and Video/2010
electronics: Geoff Nossiter
Chris Brown & Pauline Oliveros: Troposphere (excerpt)
Music In the Air
Deep Listening/2010
piano, live computer signal processing (SuperCollider): C. Brown; accordion, conch, percussion, EIS (Expanded Instrument System); recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08
SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Three Summers Heat--
a. Just Now the Sea-Green Banners Fly
b. Just Now the Early Peach is Red
c. It's Midsummer and Too Hot to Walk
d. Summer Earth is Windless. Heat Still Presses
e. Light Clothes! Few Clothes!
f. I Remember Desire like White Light
g. I Raise my Head to Look at T'ung Trees
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29#
Music from VCCM: Virginia Center for Computer Music--
University of Virginia
Centaur Records/1999
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Tzu Yeh; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, August, 1998
SET TWO
Larry Polansky: Psaltery (for Lou Harrison)
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
recorded at Experimental Music Studios, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1978
Darsha Hewitt: Experiment (Excerpt)
MusicWorks 107 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2010
SET THREE
Elliott Carter: Sound Fields
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8 (16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Oliver Knussen
Charles Dodge: Violin Variations (I-IV)
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
violin: Baird Dodge; recorded at WFMT, Chicago, 6/14/09
John Allemeier: Surge
60 x 60 -- 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
HyeKyung Lee: Crawl
ibid.
Tilmann Dehnhard: Rohrschach (sic.)
ibid.
Alphonse Izzo: Ground
ibid.
Melissa Grey: Aspect
ibid.
Marcel Gherman: Obsidian
ibid.
Leslie de Melcher: Salvation
ibid.
SET FOUR
Christian McLeer: Black Lung
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008
J.C. Combs: Trinity 666 - The Last Train to Hell
Safe Passage -- ImprovFriday Event Sessions
Electroshock Records/2010
Tod Machover: Famine
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
four amplified voices: Electric Phoenix vocal ensemble -- soprano: Judith Rees, mezzo-soprano: Mary King, tenor: Daryl Runswick, bass: Terry Edwards; computer-generated tape: T. Machover; text: Rose Moss; recorded at October Sound, London, January, 1987
SET FIVE
Gerard Pape: Weaveworld Prologue
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
Atelier de Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles; bass: Nicholas Isherwood; text G. Pape, inspired by Clive Barker; conductor: Lionel Arnaud
Tim Hodgkinson: Vers Kongsu II
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
bass clarinet: Vinny Golia; percussion: Gustavo Aguilar; clarinet solo: T. Hodgkinson; Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Iancu Dumitrescu; recorded in Ploieşti, Romania, October, 2003
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: Empire
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Robert Ashley, Jacqueline Humbert; text: R. Ashley; electronic orchestra: R. Ashley, Tom Hamilton; recorded in Rome, 1985
SINGLE PLAY
Denis Smalley: Tides
a. Pools and Currents
b. Sea Flight
Sources/Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2000
sound materials sources from studios at the University of Toronto Computer Systems Research Group, Experimental Studio of Finnish Radio, Helsinki, and the Ina-GRM, Paris; mixed at the University of East Anglia, Norowich, completed in 1984
SINGLE PLAY
Laurie Spiegel: Drums
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
recorded using the GROOVE Hybrid Systm, Bell Labs, 1975
--FIN--
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Martian Gardens for 07/04/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
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 July 04, 2010
Happy Independence Day, U.S.A.
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Apartment House 1776
Orchestral Works I
Mode Records/1994
New England Conservatory Philharmonia
Voices--
Protestant: Walter Buckingham
Native American: Darrell Dunn
African American: Semenya McCord
Sephardi: Chiam Parchi
recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, March, 1991
SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: U.S. Highball -- A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 2
New World Records/2004
Gate 5 Ensemble; Thomas Coleman as "Mac"; Dick Borden, Melvin Britton, Michael Colgrass, Elizabeth Gentry, Danlee Mitchell, H. Partch, David Reid, Melvin Wildberger, conductor: Jack McKenzie; recorded in Evanston, Illinois, 1958
SET ONE
Anne LeBaron: I Am An American...My Government Will Reward You
The Musical Railsm of Anne LeBaron
Mode Records/1995
electric harp, electronics, tape: A. LeBaron, recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, 1994
The League of Automatic Music Composers: Blind Lemon
1978-1983
New World Records/2007
electronics: David Behrman, Rich Gold, John Bischoff, Jim Horton; recorded at Blind Lemon, Berkeley, 11/26/78
SET TWO
William Price: Let Freedom Ring
Electroacoustic Music
William Price/CD-R compiled 2004
Trevor Wishart: American Triptych
Voice Prints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
commissioned for GRM; premiered at Salle Olivier Messiaen, Radio France, Paris, 1/08/00
SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Table's Clear
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992
kitchen perucssion, voices: Jonah and Caleb Lansky, source recordings from 1990
SET THREE
Edward Artemiev: Summer
Invitation to Reminiscences
Electroshock Records/2010
electronic orchestra arranged by E. Artemiev; vocals Gintare Yautakayte; text: Sigitius Geda
Dmitry Mazurov: Reminiscences
Creature on a Lavatory Pan
Electroshock Records/2010
SET FOUR
Ann Millikan: Ballad Nocturne
Ballad Nocturne
Innova Recordings/2010
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Grigor Palikarov; piano: Emanuele Arciuli; recorded at Studio 1 of the Bulgarian National Radio, June/July, 2009
Zeitgeist: Polarity (K. Jackanich)
In Bone-Colored Light
Innova Recordings/2010
percussion: Heather Barringer, Patti Cudd; woodwinds: Pat O'Keefe, piano: Shannon Wettstein; recorded at Wild Sound Recording Studio, Minneapolis
SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont:
a. Les Moirures du Temps
b. Studio De Nuit
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
--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 July 04, 2010
Happy Independence Day, U.S.A.
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Apartment House 1776
Orchestral Works I
Mode Records/1994
New England Conservatory Philharmonia
Voices--
Protestant: Walter Buckingham
Native American: Darrell Dunn
African American: Semenya McCord
Sephardi: Chiam Parchi
recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, March, 1991
SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: U.S. Highball -- A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 2
New World Records/2004
Gate 5 Ensemble; Thomas Coleman as "Mac"; Dick Borden, Melvin Britton, Michael Colgrass, Elizabeth Gentry, Danlee Mitchell, H. Partch, David Reid, Melvin Wildberger, conductor: Jack McKenzie; recorded in Evanston, Illinois, 1958
SET ONE
Anne LeBaron: I Am An American...My Government Will Reward You
The Musical Railsm of Anne LeBaron
Mode Records/1995
electric harp, electronics, tape: A. LeBaron, recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, 1994
The League of Automatic Music Composers: Blind Lemon
1978-1983
New World Records/2007
electronics: David Behrman, Rich Gold, John Bischoff, Jim Horton; recorded at Blind Lemon, Berkeley, 11/26/78
SET TWO
William Price: Let Freedom Ring
Electroacoustic Music
William Price/CD-R compiled 2004
Trevor Wishart: American Triptych
Voice Prints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
commissioned for GRM; premiered at Salle Olivier Messiaen, Radio France, Paris, 1/08/00
SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Table's Clear
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992
kitchen perucssion, voices: Jonah and Caleb Lansky, source recordings from 1990
SET THREE
Edward Artemiev: Summer
Invitation to Reminiscences
Electroshock Records/2010
electronic orchestra arranged by E. Artemiev; vocals Gintare Yautakayte; text: Sigitius Geda
Dmitry Mazurov: Reminiscences
Creature on a Lavatory Pan
Electroshock Records/2010
SET FOUR
Ann Millikan: Ballad Nocturne
Ballad Nocturne
Innova Recordings/2010
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Grigor Palikarov; piano: Emanuele Arciuli; recorded at Studio 1 of the Bulgarian National Radio, June/July, 2009
Zeitgeist: Polarity (K. Jackanich)
In Bone-Colored Light
Innova Recordings/2010
percussion: Heather Barringer, Patti Cudd; woodwinds: Pat O'Keefe, piano: Shannon Wettstein; recorded at Wild Sound Recording Studio, Minneapolis
SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont:
a. Les Moirures du Temps
b. Studio De Nuit
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
--FIN--
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Martian Gardens for 06/27/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
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 June 27, 2010
SET ONE
Gamelan Son of Lion: Descarga Elizabeth (D. Demnitz)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Hungry Hollow Studio, Georgetown, Ontario
Charles Dodge: Fades, Dissolves, Fizzles
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
SET TWO
Pauline Oliveros: Lion's Tale
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 7 #
iEAR Studios at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1990
digital sampler: Carter Scholz
Bill Alves: Angel's Crest
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2010
The HMC American Gamelan; recorded at Harvey Mudd College
SET THREE
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII #
Neuma Records/2006
Maggi Payne: 60 Spin
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004
Maggi Payne: 60 Fizz
60 x 60 -- 2004 - 2005 #
Vox Novus/2006
Eve Beglarian: My Heart is Trembling
ibid.
Cheryl Leonard: Ashi
60 x 60 -- 2006 - 2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
SINGLE PLAY
Jin Hi Kim: Garden of Venus
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
Chinese pipa: Min Xiao-Fen; Japanese yokubue: Michiko Akao; Indonesian gender, sling, voice: I Ketut Suryatini; JHK: Korean komungo, janggo; performed at the Asia Society, NYC, for Asian Women in Music Today
SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus (Oedipus in June concluded)
a. Fourth Chorus
b. Herdsman Scene
c. Fifth Chorus
d. Instrumental Commentary
e. Antiphony
f. Exit Oedipus -- Pantomime
g. Final Chorus and Coda
Enclosure Five--Harry Partch...on an ancient Greek theme
Innova Recordings/1998
recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Cast: Oedipus, King of Thebes: Allan Louw; Priest: Ian Zellick; Chorus Spokesman: William Derrell Bond; Creon, Brother-in-law of Oedipus: Robert Hood; Tiresias, A Seer: Bruce Cook; Jocasta, Wife of Oedipus: Rudolphine Radil; Messenger: Gregory Millar; Herdsman: Bruce Cook; Second Messenger: Ian Zellick; Antigone: Elvena Green; Ismene: Margaret Calhoun; Attendants: Ian Zellick, Allison Berry, James Allen Leland, Flora Lynn Kirschner; Singing Chorus: Ann Arness, Gina Brown, Gertrude Feather, Peggy Parlour, B.J. Ross, Jean Sundstrom, Berniece Fredrickson; Dance Chorus: Joan Dubrow, Judith Hodge, Patricia Cooper, Emily Platt, Patricia Hagglund; Suppliants: Jeanne White, Pat Christopher, Natalie Samper. -- Instruments: Marimba Eroica: Jane Van Rysselberghe; Bass Marimba: Darlene Mahnke; Kithara: Barbara Browning; Harmonic Canon: Ute Miessner; Chromelodeon Sub-bass: Patricia Carey; Chromelodeon: Angela Thorpe, Nancy Wiebenson; Diamond Marimba: Sheila Bates; Cloud-Chamber Bowls: Elizabeth Brunswick, Jackie Fox; Microtonal String Bass: Dante Zaro; Microtonal Cello: Ellen Ohdner; Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone: George Probert; Adapted Guitars: Marjorie Sweazey, H. Partch.
SET FOUR
Alvin Lucier: Music for Solo Performer (excerpt)
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
alpha waves transmission: A. Lucier; production supervised by Ron Kuivila with the assistance of graduate students Ivan Naranjo, Phillip Schulze, and Forrest Leslie at the Wesleyan University Experimental Music Studio, December, 2007.
Hugh Le Caine:
a. Dripsody Demonstration
b. Dripsody: An Étude for Variable Speed Recorder (Stereo Version)
Compositions & Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundations/1999
SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
samples: The Klez Dispensers
Eric Chasalow: In A Manner of Speaking
Left to His Own Devices
New World Records/2003
bass clarinet: Guido Arbonelli; tape: E. Chasalow; recorded in Rome, Italy, February, 2001
Esther Lamneck: Event Horizon III
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2009
clarinet: Orlando Legname; tape: E. Lamneck recorded in Balbano-Lucca, Italy
Frank London: Laundry Dance -- Agitato
The Debt
Tzadik/2000
from the Ivye Project --
violin: Mark Feldman; clarinet: David Krakauer; trumpet: F. London; cello: Boris Rayskin; director: Tamar Rogoff (1994)
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Variations III
Variations I-III
Mode Records/2003
The Motion Ensemble; recorded at Memorial Hall, Fredrickton, New Brunswick, 6/19/01; electronics: John D.S. Adams, D'Arcy Philip Gray, Andrew R. Miller
--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 June 27, 2010
SET ONE
Gamelan Son of Lion: Descarga Elizabeth (D. Demnitz)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Hungry Hollow Studio, Georgetown, Ontario
Charles Dodge: Fades, Dissolves, Fizzles
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
SET TWO
Pauline Oliveros: Lion's Tale
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 7 #
iEAR Studios at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1990
digital sampler: Carter Scholz
Bill Alves: Angel's Crest
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2010
The HMC American Gamelan; recorded at Harvey Mudd College
SET THREE
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII #
Neuma Records/2006
Maggi Payne: 60 Spin
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004
Maggi Payne: 60 Fizz
60 x 60 -- 2004 - 2005 #
Vox Novus/2006
Eve Beglarian: My Heart is Trembling
ibid.
Cheryl Leonard: Ashi
60 x 60 -- 2006 - 2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
SINGLE PLAY
Jin Hi Kim: Garden of Venus
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
Chinese pipa: Min Xiao-Fen; Japanese yokubue: Michiko Akao; Indonesian gender, sling, voice: I Ketut Suryatini; JHK: Korean komungo, janggo; performed at the Asia Society, NYC, for Asian Women in Music Today
SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus (Oedipus in June concluded)
a. Fourth Chorus
b. Herdsman Scene
c. Fifth Chorus
d. Instrumental Commentary
e. Antiphony
f. Exit Oedipus -- Pantomime
g. Final Chorus and Coda
Enclosure Five--Harry Partch...on an ancient Greek theme
Innova Recordings/1998
recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Cast: Oedipus, King of Thebes: Allan Louw; Priest: Ian Zellick; Chorus Spokesman: William Derrell Bond; Creon, Brother-in-law of Oedipus: Robert Hood; Tiresias, A Seer: Bruce Cook; Jocasta, Wife of Oedipus: Rudolphine Radil; Messenger: Gregory Millar; Herdsman: Bruce Cook; Second Messenger: Ian Zellick; Antigone: Elvena Green; Ismene: Margaret Calhoun; Attendants: Ian Zellick, Allison Berry, James Allen Leland, Flora Lynn Kirschner; Singing Chorus: Ann Arness, Gina Brown, Gertrude Feather, Peggy Parlour, B.J. Ross, Jean Sundstrom, Berniece Fredrickson; Dance Chorus: Joan Dubrow, Judith Hodge, Patricia Cooper, Emily Platt, Patricia Hagglund; Suppliants: Jeanne White, Pat Christopher, Natalie Samper. -- Instruments: Marimba Eroica: Jane Van Rysselberghe; Bass Marimba: Darlene Mahnke; Kithara: Barbara Browning; Harmonic Canon: Ute Miessner; Chromelodeon Sub-bass: Patricia Carey; Chromelodeon: Angela Thorpe, Nancy Wiebenson; Diamond Marimba: Sheila Bates; Cloud-Chamber Bowls: Elizabeth Brunswick, Jackie Fox; Microtonal String Bass: Dante Zaro; Microtonal Cello: Ellen Ohdner; Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone: George Probert; Adapted Guitars: Marjorie Sweazey, H. Partch.
SET FOUR
Alvin Lucier: Music for Solo Performer (excerpt)
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
alpha waves transmission: A. Lucier; production supervised by Ron Kuivila with the assistance of graduate students Ivan Naranjo, Phillip Schulze, and Forrest Leslie at the Wesleyan University Experimental Music Studio, December, 2007.
Hugh Le Caine:
a. Dripsody Demonstration
b. Dripsody: An Étude for Variable Speed Recorder (Stereo Version)
Compositions & Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundations/1999
SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
samples: The Klez Dispensers
Eric Chasalow: In A Manner of Speaking
Left to His Own Devices
New World Records/2003
bass clarinet: Guido Arbonelli; tape: E. Chasalow; recorded in Rome, Italy, February, 2001
Esther Lamneck: Event Horizon III
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2009
clarinet: Orlando Legname; tape: E. Lamneck recorded in Balbano-Lucca, Italy
Frank London: Laundry Dance -- Agitato
The Debt
Tzadik/2000
from the Ivye Project --
violin: Mark Feldman; clarinet: David Krakauer; trumpet: F. London; cello: Boris Rayskin; director: Tamar Rogoff (1994)
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Variations III
Variations I-III
Mode Records/2003
The Motion Ensemble; recorded at Memorial Hall, Fredrickton, New Brunswick, 6/19/01; electronics: John D.S. Adams, D'Arcy Philip Gray, Andrew R. Miller
--FIN--
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Martian Gardens for 06/20/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
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 June 20, 2010
Extended edition
SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening
a. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
b. Wanderer-Fantasy
c. The Advent
d. Myth
e. Music of the Starry Night
Black Angels; Music for a Summer Evening
Mode Records/2006
pianos: Luz Manriquez, Walter Morales; percussion: Nena Lorenz,
Brian Spurgeon, Michel Passaris, Mark Shope; voice, whistles:
Andres Cladera, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded at
Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Fall 2002
SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Penelope's Song
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
violin: Hasse Borup; tape: J. Shatin
Chinary Ung: Luminous Spirals
Luminous Spirals -- Chamber Music of Chinary Ung
Bridge Records/2010
Da Capo Chamber Players; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 5/28/07
SET TWO
David Mahler: La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles
COLD BLUE Night @ REDCAT
Cold Blue Music/2006 (CD-R)
piano: Sarah Cahill; recorded at REDCAT, Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, 2/18/06
David Mahler: selections from Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field (for Steve Mitchell)--
a. Chorale (track 6)
b. Chorale (track 9)
c. Cascades
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; voices: Julie Hanify, D. Mahler, N. Tilles; a. and b: melody: "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" (trad.), lyrics: J.M. Neale; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November, 2009
SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Mélanges (from Pléïdes)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
red fish blue fish; recorded at Warren Studios, UC San Diego
Alvin Lucier: Music for Solo Performer (excerpt)
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
alpha waves transmission: A. Lucier; production supervised by Ron Kuivila with the assistance of graduate students Ivan Naranjo, Phillip Schulze, and Forrest Leslie at the Wesleyan University Experimental Music Studio, December, 2007.
SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus (continued from MG 6/13/10)
a. Second Chorus
b. Creon Scene
c. Jocasta Scene
d. Incidental Music
e. Third Chorus
f. Messenger Scene
Enclosure Five--Harry Partch...on an ancient Greek theme
Innova Recordings/1998
recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Cast: Oedipus, King of Thebes: Allan Louw; Priest: Ian Zellick; Chorus Spokesman: William Derrell Bond; Creon, Brother-in-law of Oedipus: Robert Hood; Tiresias, A Seer: Bruce Cook; Jocasta, Wife of Oedipus: Rudolphine Radil; Messenger: Gregory Millar; Herdsman: Bruce Cook; Second Messenger: Ian Zellick; Antigone: Elvena Green; Ismene: Margaret Calhoun; Attendants: Ian Zellick, Allison Berry, James Allen Leland, Flora Lynn Kirschner; Singing Chorus: Ann Arness, Gina Brown, Gertrude Feather, Peggy Parlour, B.J. Ross, Jean Sundstrom, Berniece Fredrickson; Dance Chorus: Joan Dubrow, Judith Hodge, Patricia Cooper, Emily Platt, Patricia Hagglund; Suppliants: Jeanne White, Pat Christopher, Natalie Samper. -- Instruments: Marimba Eroica: Jane Van Rysselberghe; Bass Marimba: Darlene Mahnke; Kithara: Barbara Browning; Harmonic Canon: Ute Miessner; Chromelodeon Sub-bass: Patricia Carey; Chromelodeon: Angela Thorpe, Nancy Wiebenson; Diamond Marimba: Sheila Bates; Cloud-Chamber Bowls: Elizabeth Brunswick, Jackie Fox; Microtonal String Bass: Dante Zaro; Microtonal Cello: Ellen Ohdner; Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone: George Probert; Adapted Guitars: Marjorie Sweazey, H. Partch.
(Oedipus in June to be concluded 6/27/10)
SET FOUR
Dmitry Mazurov: Sisters of Gloom
Creature on a Lavatory Pan
Electroshock Records/2010
violin: Oleg Huhua; electric guitar: Jury Starosotnikov; recorded at Electroshock Records studio, 2009
David Jaggard: Mary & Ann
Sonic Circuits VIII #
Innova Recordings/2000
voice, sounds: D. Jaggard; text: Samuel Beckett, "Watt"
SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: Cascando -- Realization of Samuel Beckett's Radio Play
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
Opener: John Nesci; Voice: computer synthesis based on a reading by Steven Gilborn; Music: computer synthesis based on Voice; all text by S. Beckett; realized at Columbia University and CUNY computer music centers, and the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College
SET FIVE
Minus: 91
103
Barnzstuff/2009
reyong: Steve Coxe; cowbells: David Barnes; recorded at Barnzstuff Studio
Gen Ken Montgomery: Nylon Glasses 3am
Birds + Machines 1980-1989
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at Nylon Vinyl's studio, Berlin, 1986
David Campbell: The Sputnik Diary
60 x 60 2003 #
Capstone Records/2004
Eldad Tsabary: Decay Date 14 April, 1966
60 x 60 2004 - 2005 #
Vox Novus/2006
Lynn Job: Lily
ibid.
Ivan Zavada: Neutron
60 x 60 2006 - 2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
Stephen B. Rothman: Follow the Triangle
ibid.
Jane Wang: Numero Uno
ibid.
Viv Corringham: Where is Home?
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2010
Martin Williams: No Place Like Home
ibid.
Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
Negativland: Sycamore
Escape From Noise
SST/1987
David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees (excerpt)
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
SET SIX
Anatoly Pereslegin: Heteroemergency (excerpt)
Xenophobia
Electroshock Records/2010
Stanley Lunetta: moosack machine
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde, Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971 #
Pogus Productions/2009
original issue: July, 1970
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: The Etchings (from "Max")
Atalanta (Acts of God) Vol. II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert; R. Ashley; electronics: Tom Hamilton; text: R. Ashley, after Max Ernst's graphic novel "Une semaine de bonté"
---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 June 20, 2010
Extended edition
SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening
a. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
b. Wanderer-Fantasy
c. The Advent
d. Myth
e. Music of the Starry Night
Black Angels; Music for a Summer Evening
Mode Records/2006
pianos: Luz Manriquez, Walter Morales; percussion: Nena Lorenz,
Brian Spurgeon, Michel Passaris, Mark Shope; voice, whistles:
Andres Cladera, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded at
Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Fall 2002
SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Penelope's Song
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
violin: Hasse Borup; tape: J. Shatin
Chinary Ung: Luminous Spirals
Luminous Spirals -- Chamber Music of Chinary Ung
Bridge Records/2010
Da Capo Chamber Players; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 5/28/07
SET TWO
David Mahler: La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles
COLD BLUE Night @ REDCAT
Cold Blue Music/2006 (CD-R)
piano: Sarah Cahill; recorded at REDCAT, Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, 2/18/06
David Mahler: selections from Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field (for Steve Mitchell)--
a. Chorale (track 6)
b. Chorale (track 9)
c. Cascades
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; voices: Julie Hanify, D. Mahler, N. Tilles; a. and b: melody: "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" (trad.), lyrics: J.M. Neale; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November, 2009
SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Mélanges (from Pléïdes)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
red fish blue fish; recorded at Warren Studios, UC San Diego
Alvin Lucier: Music for Solo Performer (excerpt)
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
alpha waves transmission: A. Lucier; production supervised by Ron Kuivila with the assistance of graduate students Ivan Naranjo, Phillip Schulze, and Forrest Leslie at the Wesleyan University Experimental Music Studio, December, 2007.
SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus (continued from MG 6/13/10)
a. Second Chorus
b. Creon Scene
c. Jocasta Scene
d. Incidental Music
e. Third Chorus
f. Messenger Scene
Enclosure Five--Harry Partch...on an ancient Greek theme
Innova Recordings/1998
recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Cast: Oedipus, King of Thebes: Allan Louw; Priest: Ian Zellick; Chorus Spokesman: William Derrell Bond; Creon, Brother-in-law of Oedipus: Robert Hood; Tiresias, A Seer: Bruce Cook; Jocasta, Wife of Oedipus: Rudolphine Radil; Messenger: Gregory Millar; Herdsman: Bruce Cook; Second Messenger: Ian Zellick; Antigone: Elvena Green; Ismene: Margaret Calhoun; Attendants: Ian Zellick, Allison Berry, James Allen Leland, Flora Lynn Kirschner; Singing Chorus: Ann Arness, Gina Brown, Gertrude Feather, Peggy Parlour, B.J. Ross, Jean Sundstrom, Berniece Fredrickson; Dance Chorus: Joan Dubrow, Judith Hodge, Patricia Cooper, Emily Platt, Patricia Hagglund; Suppliants: Jeanne White, Pat Christopher, Natalie Samper. -- Instruments: Marimba Eroica: Jane Van Rysselberghe; Bass Marimba: Darlene Mahnke; Kithara: Barbara Browning; Harmonic Canon: Ute Miessner; Chromelodeon Sub-bass: Patricia Carey; Chromelodeon: Angela Thorpe, Nancy Wiebenson; Diamond Marimba: Sheila Bates; Cloud-Chamber Bowls: Elizabeth Brunswick, Jackie Fox; Microtonal String Bass: Dante Zaro; Microtonal Cello: Ellen Ohdner; Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone: George Probert; Adapted Guitars: Marjorie Sweazey, H. Partch.
(Oedipus in June to be concluded 6/27/10)
SET FOUR
Dmitry Mazurov: Sisters of Gloom
Creature on a Lavatory Pan
Electroshock Records/2010
violin: Oleg Huhua; electric guitar: Jury Starosotnikov; recorded at Electroshock Records studio, 2009
David Jaggard: Mary & Ann
Sonic Circuits VIII #
Innova Recordings/2000
voice, sounds: D. Jaggard; text: Samuel Beckett, "Watt"
SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: Cascando -- Realization of Samuel Beckett's Radio Play
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
Opener: John Nesci; Voice: computer synthesis based on a reading by Steven Gilborn; Music: computer synthesis based on Voice; all text by S. Beckett; realized at Columbia University and CUNY computer music centers, and the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College
SET FIVE
Minus: 91
103
Barnzstuff/2009
reyong: Steve Coxe; cowbells: David Barnes; recorded at Barnzstuff Studio
Gen Ken Montgomery: Nylon Glasses 3am
Birds + Machines 1980-1989
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at Nylon Vinyl's studio, Berlin, 1986
David Campbell: The Sputnik Diary
60 x 60 2003 #
Capstone Records/2004
Eldad Tsabary: Decay Date 14 April, 1966
60 x 60 2004 - 2005 #
Vox Novus/2006
Lynn Job: Lily
ibid.
Ivan Zavada: Neutron
60 x 60 2006 - 2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
Stephen B. Rothman: Follow the Triangle
ibid.
Jane Wang: Numero Uno
ibid.
Viv Corringham: Where is Home?
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2010
Martin Williams: No Place Like Home
ibid.
Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
Negativland: Sycamore
Escape From Noise
SST/1987
David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees (excerpt)
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
SET SIX
Anatoly Pereslegin: Heteroemergency (excerpt)
Xenophobia
Electroshock Records/2010
Stanley Lunetta: moosack machine
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde, Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971 #
Pogus Productions/2009
original issue: July, 1970
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: The Etchings (from "Max")
Atalanta (Acts of God) Vol. II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert; R. Ashley; electronics: Tom Hamilton; text: R. Ashley, after Max Ernst's graphic novel "Une semaine de bonté"
---FIN---
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Martian Gardens for 06/13/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
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 June 13, 2010
Extended edition
SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Sibelius in His Radio Corner
IKON --And Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
SET ONE
Alvin Lucier: Sferics
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
recorded in Church Park, Colorado, 8/27/81
Chris Brown and Pauline Oliveros: Troposphere (excerpt)
Music in the Air
Deep Listening/2010
piano and live computer signal processing (SuperCollider): Chris Brown; accordion, conch, percussion, Expanded Instrument System: Pauline Oliveros; recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08
Charles Stankievech: Transmission
Music Works 106 -- Spring 2010 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2010
recorded from broadcast signals of the DEW project, Yukon, Canada
SET TWO
Dragan Todorović: In My Language I am Smart
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010
Ann Magnuson: Art Professor
Pretty Songs & Ugly Stories
Asphodel/2007
voice, text, piano (Chopin: Prelude in E-minor, Op. 28, no.4): A. Magnuson
Robert Ashley: Simone (from Au Pair)
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: R. Ashley; Jacqueline Humbert; text: J. Humbert; electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Teatro Olimpico in Rome, 1985
SET THREE
Tom Hamilton: Crimson Sterling Mvt. I
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
KVIST Records/2010
electronics: Tom Hamilton; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; woodwinds: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1973-1977
John Schappert: Phase Shift
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
Lou Harrison: The Only Jealousy of Emer
a. Music for the unfolding of the cloth
b. Eithne Inguba
c. Emer's Story
d. The Evil of Bricriu
e. Emer's Incantation
f. The Woman of the Sidhe
g. Music for the folding of the cloth
Works 1939 -- 2000
Mode Records/2003
California Parallèle Ensemble members -- flutes: Leta Miller; cello: Karen Andrie; bass: Stan Poplin; tack-piano: Jodi Gandolfi; celesta: Michael McGushin; conductor: Nicole Paiement; storyline: W.B. Yeats' play from the Celtic legend of Éimhear
SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus
a. Introduction to King Oedipus by H. Partch
b. Introduction
c. Opening Scene
d. First Chorus
e. Tiresias Scene (Beginning)
f. Tiresias Scene (Continued)
Enclosure Five--Harry Partch...on an ancient Greek theme
Innova Recordings/1998
a. recorded with H. Partch on KPFA FM, Berkeley, 7/16/54; b-f. recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Cast: Oedipus, King of Thebes: Allan Louw; Priest: Ian Zellick; Chorus Spokesman: William Derrell Bond; Creon, Brother-in-law of Oedipus: Robert Hood; Tiresias, A Seer: Bruce Cook; Jocasta, Wife of Oedipus: Rudolphine Radil; Messenger: Gregory Millar; Herdsman: Bruce Cook; Second Messenger: Ian Zellick; Antigone: Elvena Green; Ismene: Margaret Calhoun; Attendants: Ian Zellick, Allison Berry, James Allen Leland, Flora Lynn Kirschner; Singing Chorus: Ann Arness, Gina Brown, Gertrude Feather, Peggy Parlour, B.J. Ross, Jean Sundstrom, Berniece Fredrickson; Dance Chorus: Joan Dubrow, Judith Hodge, Patricia Cooper, Emily Platt, Patricia Hagglund; Suppliants: Jeanne White, Pat Christopher, Natalie Samper. -- Instruments: Marimba Eroica: Jane Van Rysselberghe; Bass Marimba: Darlene Mahnke; Kithara: Barbara Browning; Harmonic Canon: Ute Miessner; Chromelodeon Sub-bass: Patricia Carey; Chromelodeon: Angela Thorpe, Nancy Wiebenson; Diamond Marimba: Sheila Bates; Cloud-Chamber Bowls: Elizabeth Brunswick, Jackie Fox; Microtonal String Bass: Dante Zaro; Microtonal Cello: Ellen Ohdner; Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone: George Probert; Adapted Guitars: Marjorie Sweazey, H. Partch.
(Oedipus in June to be continued 6/20/10)
SINGLE PLAY
Hilda Paredes: Cotidales
Listen How They Talk
Mode Records/2005
piano: Ian Pace; the Arditti Quartet; recorded at SudWestRundfunk, Germany, September, 2003
SET FOUR
Olivier Messiaen: Amen de la Création
Visions de l'Amen
Bridge Records/2010
piano I: Marilyn Nonken; piano II: Sarah Rothenberg; recorded at Stude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, May, 2009
Ezra Sims:
a. Briskly
b. Very slow
c. As fast as possible and strongly accented
Musing and Reminiscence
New World Records/2010
piano: Eric Moe; recorded in Pelham, NY, 6/05/09
Eric Moe: Time Will Tell
Up & At 'Em
Albany Records/2002
flute, piccolo: Jayn Rosenfeld; Jean Kopperud: clarinet, bass clarinet; violin: Rolf Schulte; viola: Lois Martin; piano: James Winn; conductor: William Purvis; recorded at Astoria Mastersound, Astoria, NY, 5/07/96
SET FIVE
Joel Chadabe: Many Times Jan
Many Times...
Electronic Music Foundation/2004
conga, djembe, hand-held percussion, interactive electronics: Jan Williams; recorded at Cotton Hill Studios, Albany
Michael Lipsey: Mr. Trampoline Man (D. Rakowski, from "Snaggle")
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2008
talking drum, tabla: M. Lipsey
SINGLE PLAY
Elsa Justel:
a. Du Libe Tu?*
b. Au Loin...Bleu
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
*An anagram on Pierre Schaeffer's piece "Bidule en ut" (lit. "Thingy in C"), from which Justel derives sound samples; a. and b. realized at the composer's studio, Paris, 1996 and 1997
Horacio Vaggione: KITAB
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 21 #
The International Computer Music Association Commission Awards -- 1992-93
Centaur Records/1995
bass clarinet: Andy Connell; piano: Delores Duran; contrabass; Christy Crews; conductor: Pablo Furman; recorded at the Creative Percussion & Recerding Studio, San Jose, October, 1992; post production mixing: H. Vaggione, University of Paris-VIII Computer-aided Composition Studio
--FIN--
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Program for June 13, 2010
Extended edition
SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Sibelius in His Radio Corner
IKON --And Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
SET ONE
Alvin Lucier: Sferics
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
recorded in Church Park, Colorado, 8/27/81
Chris Brown and Pauline Oliveros: Troposphere (excerpt)
Music in the Air
Deep Listening/2010
piano and live computer signal processing (SuperCollider): Chris Brown; accordion, conch, percussion, Expanded Instrument System: Pauline Oliveros; recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08
Charles Stankievech: Transmission
Music Works 106 -- Spring 2010 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2010
recorded from broadcast signals of the DEW project, Yukon, Canada
SET TWO
Dragan Todorović: In My Language I am Smart
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010
Ann Magnuson: Art Professor
Pretty Songs & Ugly Stories
Asphodel/2007
voice, text, piano (Chopin: Prelude in E-minor, Op. 28, no.4): A. Magnuson
Robert Ashley: Simone (from Au Pair)
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: R. Ashley; Jacqueline Humbert; text: J. Humbert; electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Teatro Olimpico in Rome, 1985
SET THREE
Tom Hamilton: Crimson Sterling Mvt. I
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
KVIST Records/2010
electronics: Tom Hamilton; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; woodwinds: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1973-1977
John Schappert: Phase Shift
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
Lou Harrison: The Only Jealousy of Emer
a. Music for the unfolding of the cloth
b. Eithne Inguba
c. Emer's Story
d. The Evil of Bricriu
e. Emer's Incantation
f. The Woman of the Sidhe
g. Music for the folding of the cloth
Works 1939 -- 2000
Mode Records/2003
California Parallèle Ensemble members -- flutes: Leta Miller; cello: Karen Andrie; bass: Stan Poplin; tack-piano: Jodi Gandolfi; celesta: Michael McGushin; conductor: Nicole Paiement; storyline: W.B. Yeats' play from the Celtic legend of Éimhear
SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus
a. Introduction to King Oedipus by H. Partch
b. Introduction
c. Opening Scene
d. First Chorus
e. Tiresias Scene (Beginning)
f. Tiresias Scene (Continued)
Enclosure Five--Harry Partch...on an ancient Greek theme
Innova Recordings/1998
a. recorded with H. Partch on KPFA FM, Berkeley, 7/16/54; b-f. recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Cast: Oedipus, King of Thebes: Allan Louw; Priest: Ian Zellick; Chorus Spokesman: William Derrell Bond; Creon, Brother-in-law of Oedipus: Robert Hood; Tiresias, A Seer: Bruce Cook; Jocasta, Wife of Oedipus: Rudolphine Radil; Messenger: Gregory Millar; Herdsman: Bruce Cook; Second Messenger: Ian Zellick; Antigone: Elvena Green; Ismene: Margaret Calhoun; Attendants: Ian Zellick, Allison Berry, James Allen Leland, Flora Lynn Kirschner; Singing Chorus: Ann Arness, Gina Brown, Gertrude Feather, Peggy Parlour, B.J. Ross, Jean Sundstrom, Berniece Fredrickson; Dance Chorus: Joan Dubrow, Judith Hodge, Patricia Cooper, Emily Platt, Patricia Hagglund; Suppliants: Jeanne White, Pat Christopher, Natalie Samper. -- Instruments: Marimba Eroica: Jane Van Rysselberghe; Bass Marimba: Darlene Mahnke; Kithara: Barbara Browning; Harmonic Canon: Ute Miessner; Chromelodeon Sub-bass: Patricia Carey; Chromelodeon: Angela Thorpe, Nancy Wiebenson; Diamond Marimba: Sheila Bates; Cloud-Chamber Bowls: Elizabeth Brunswick, Jackie Fox; Microtonal String Bass: Dante Zaro; Microtonal Cello: Ellen Ohdner; Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone: George Probert; Adapted Guitars: Marjorie Sweazey, H. Partch.
(Oedipus in June to be continued 6/20/10)
SINGLE PLAY
Hilda Paredes: Cotidales
Listen How They Talk
Mode Records/2005
piano: Ian Pace; the Arditti Quartet; recorded at SudWestRundfunk, Germany, September, 2003
SET FOUR
Olivier Messiaen: Amen de la Création
Visions de l'Amen
Bridge Records/2010
piano I: Marilyn Nonken; piano II: Sarah Rothenberg; recorded at Stude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, May, 2009
Ezra Sims:
a. Briskly
b. Very slow
c. As fast as possible and strongly accented
Musing and Reminiscence
New World Records/2010
piano: Eric Moe; recorded in Pelham, NY, 6/05/09
Eric Moe: Time Will Tell
Up & At 'Em
Albany Records/2002
flute, piccolo: Jayn Rosenfeld; Jean Kopperud: clarinet, bass clarinet; violin: Rolf Schulte; viola: Lois Martin; piano: James Winn; conductor: William Purvis; recorded at Astoria Mastersound, Astoria, NY, 5/07/96
SET FIVE
Joel Chadabe: Many Times Jan
Many Times...
Electronic Music Foundation/2004
conga, djembe, hand-held percussion, interactive electronics: Jan Williams; recorded at Cotton Hill Studios, Albany
Michael Lipsey: Mr. Trampoline Man (D. Rakowski, from "Snaggle")
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2008
talking drum, tabla: M. Lipsey
SINGLE PLAY
Elsa Justel:
a. Du Libe Tu?*
b. Au Loin...Bleu
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
*An anagram on Pierre Schaeffer's piece "Bidule en ut" (lit. "Thingy in C"), from which Justel derives sound samples; a. and b. realized at the composer's studio, Paris, 1996 and 1997
Horacio Vaggione: KITAB
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 21 #
The International Computer Music Association Commission Awards -- 1992-93
Centaur Records/1995
bass clarinet: Andy Connell; piano: Delores Duran; contrabass; Christy Crews; conductor: Pablo Furman; recorded at the Creative Percussion & Recerding Studio, San Jose, October, 1992; post production mixing: H. Vaggione, University of Paris-VIII Computer-aided Composition Studio
--FIN--
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