Saturday, August 7, 2010

Martian Gardens for 08/08/2010

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 August 08, 2010
(extended edition)

SET ONE
Margaret Leng Tan: Put My Little Shoes Away (G. Crumb)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
voice, toy piano, toy percussion quartet, arrangement: M.L. Tan; text: traditional; recorded Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, January, 2010

George Crumb: The Sleeper
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
piano: Jacob Greenberg; mezzo-soprano: Jamie Van Eyck; text: Edgar Allen Poe; recorded at the Performing Arts Center, Theater C, SUNY Purchase, 04/04/07

Olivier Messiaen: from Petites Esquisses D'Oiseaux -- Le Rouge-gorge (Robin)
Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1 -- Birdsong
Centaur Records/2001
piano: Paul S. Kim; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, NYC, January, 2001

Olivier Messiaen: Amen des anges, des saints, du chant des oiseaux
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, May, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Eonta
Works With Piano
Mode Records/2010
piano: Aki Takahashi; Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, June, 2009

SET TWO
Beta-Collide: Mysteries of the Macabre (G. Ligeti)
Psst! Psst!
Innova Recordings/2010
arrangement: Beta-Collide

György Ligeti: Nouvelles Adventures
a. Sostenuto
b. Agitato molto
Adventures
Deutsche Grammophon-Universal Music International/1989
soprano: Jane Manning, mezzo-soprano: Mary Thomas, bass: William Pearson; Ensemble Intercontemporain, conductor: Pierre Boulez; recorded at IRCAM, Paris, 1981-1982

SET THREE
Steve Reich: Clapping Music
Early Works
Elektra-Nonesuch/1987
hand claps: Russ Hartenberger, S. Reich; recorded at RCA Studio A, NYC, May, 1987

Lukas Foss: Music for Six
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
University of Buffalo Percussion Ensemble -- vibraphones: Jan Williams, Edward Foldger, marimbas: Bruce Penner, Rick Kazmierczak, electric piano: Kathryn Kayne; synthesizer: James Calabrese; recorded in New York City

SET FOUR
Robert Sheff*: Ballad
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966
New World Records/2003
flute: Philip Krumm; violin: Karin Fierce; piano: Larry Leitch; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, 12/16/62, *aka. "Blue" Gene Tyranny

Noah Creshevsky: Brother Tom
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
vocal Samples: Thomas Buckner

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere in Arizona
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone voice: Thomas Buckner; piano, environmental sounds: BGT; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn

SET FIVE
Laurie Anderson: Another Day in America
Homeland
Nonesuch-Elektra/2010
drums, percussion: Ben Witman, bass guitar: Skuli Sverrisson, viola: Eyvind Kang, background vocals: Antony Hegarty; vocals, percussion, violin: L. Anderson; recorded in New York City

Tracie Morris: Africa(n)
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2008

Eric Lyon: Sacred Amnesia
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004

SET SIX
Stan Link: Returning
In Amber Shadows
Albany Records/2006
realized at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, 1994, and La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 1998

Yney: Assymetry
Micro Macro
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded in Moscow, 2010

SET SEVEN
Marco Oppedisano: Solitary Pathways
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars, electronics: M. Oppedisano; voice samples: Kimberly Fiedelman

Gen Ken Montgomery: Subliminal Clutter, Part 2
Birds + Machines 1980-1989
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded in New York City, 1987

SET EIGHT
David Monacchi: Echoes of a Sonic Habitat
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation -- Earth Ear/2008
source sounds recorded in Montefeltro, Italy, 2003

Ned Bouhalassa: Move I (Drone Mix)
Swarm of Drones #
Asphodel-Sombient/1995

Ned Bouhalassa: The Lighthouse
Gratte-cité DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
realized in 2005 at Bouhalassa's studio, Montreal

SINGLE PLAY
The Seattle Phonographers Union: Sonarchy -- March 17, 2007
The Seattle Phonographers Union
Mimeomeme/2010
recorded live in Seattle by Doug Haire for Sonarchy Radio; SPU participants: Steve Barsotti, Pete Comley, Christopher DeLaurenti, Mark Griswold, Katie Gately, Dale Lloyd, Rob Millis, Toby Paddock, Jonathan Way

--FIN--

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Martian Gardens for 08/01/2010

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 August 1, 2010

SET ONE
Margaret Leng Tan: Dream (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January, 2010

David Mahler: Deep Water
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; voice: D. Mahler; recorded at the Academy of Arts And Letters; November, 2009

Olivier Messiaen: Amen du Jugement
Visions de l'Amen
Bridge Records/2010
pianos: Marilyn Nonken, Sarah Rothenberg; recorded at Stude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, May, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Symphony [Myths]
a. Futami ga ura
b. Intermezzo
c. Symplegades ("The Clashing of Rocks")

Whispers Out orf Time [Works for Orchestra]
Mode Records/2010
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Kotaro Sato; recorded Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 10/25/90

SINGLE PLAY
KIVA: Two Poems of the Absurd & Two Poems on the Absurd (excerpt)
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
DX7, voice, electronics: Keith Humble; percussion, voice, electronics: Jean-Charles François; trombone, violin, voice, electronics: John Silber; violin: Mary Oliver; computer vocoder: Eric Lyon

SET TWO
Volti: O the Flesh Is Hot But the Heart Is Cold (E. Moe)
Turn the Page
Innova Recordings/2010
Volti, director: Robert Geary; text: Matthea Harvey, "Baked Alaska, A Theory of"

Charles Wuorinen: Sanctus (from Mass -- for the restoration of St. Luke in the Fields)
Genesis
Albany Records/2004
The New York Virtuoso Singers; violin: Curtis Macomber; trombones: James E. Pugh, Joseph Alessi; bass trombone: David Taylor; organ: Harold Chaney; conductor: C. Wuorinen; recorded at St. George's Episcopal Church, NYC, April, 1995

Mary Jane Leach: O Magna Vasti Creta
Ariadne's Lament
New World Records/1998
New York Treble Singers; conductor: Virginia Davidson; Cassatt String Quartet; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC

SET THREE
Peter Gach: Northern Flight (M. Byrne)
Fresh Piano
Innova Recordings/2010

Madelyn Byrne: Winter
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
electronic samples -- crotales: Lisa Frisari, voice: Malin Serner; realized at Columbia University's Computer Music Studio, 1997

SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown & Pauline Oliveros: Noctilucent Clouds (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

SET FOUR
Bill Alves: The Question Mark's Black Ink
The Terrain of Possibilities -- Computer Music by Bill Alves
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
piano: Vicki Ray; percussion: Mark Nicolay; electronic tape: B. Alves

Arthur Jarvinen: Edible Black Ink
Edible Black Ink & The California Ear Unit
O.O. Discs/1996
electric guitar: Peter Zaferes; recorded at TRAX, Hollywood, May, 1991

J.K. Randall: through Lapland
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces #
Bridge Records/2009
recorded at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, summer 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: III. Postlude (with Jim Randall in mind)
String Quartet
Open Space/2008
The DAFO Quartet; recorded at the studios of the Polish National Radio and Television, Warsaw, September, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Jacques Tremblay: La Petite Camille (from Empathies entropiques)
Chroniques d'une séduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
realized at J. Tremblay's studio, Montreal, 1998-2001

--FIN--

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Martian Gardens for 07/25/2010

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 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--

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--

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--

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Martian Gardens for 07/04/2010

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 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

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