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 October 17, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Johnson:
a. The 78 two-note chords
b. The 266 three-note chords
c. The 715 four-note chords
The Chord Catalogue -- all the 8178 chords possible in one octave
XI Records/1999
piano: T. Johnson; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Paris, March, 1998
SET ONE
Arthur Jarvinen: The Vulture's Garden
a. The Vulture's Garden
b. The War of Time
c. The Last Dim Weird Battle of the West
d. Not with a Bang but a Whimper
Edible Black Ink
O.O. Discs/1996
California Ear Unit -- featuring Dorothy Stone, flutes; recorded at Mad Hatter, Los Angeles, June, 1996
Dorothy Stone: Indigenous Music II -- Flute (S. L. Mosko)
None But The Lonely Flute
New World Records/1994
In memory of three composers/performers, and affiliates of The California Institute of the Arts and The California Ear Unit --
Stephen Lucky Mosko: 1947 - 2005
Dorothy Stone (wife of Mosko): 1958 - 2008
Arthur Jarvinen: 1956 - 2010
SET TWO
Kitty Brazelton: Motet
Ecclesiastes: A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band -- conductor, laptop soundtrack: K. Brazelton; text: Book of Ecclesiastes; recorded at 2nd Story Sound, NYC
Jan Garbarek: Ov zarmanali -- Hymn of the baptism of Christ (Komitas)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
Arvo Pärt: Ode VII
Kanon Pakajanen
ECM New Series/1998
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor: Teije van Geest; text from "Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ" by St. Andrew of Crete, recorded at Niguliste Church, Tallinn, June, 1997
SET THREE
Anatoly Pereslegin: Isiah No. 2
Download the God
Electroshock Records/2000
performed and recorded by A. Pereslegin, Jerusalem, 1994-1995; final mix by A. Pereslegin, Moscow, 1999-2000
Cesare Rosa Calamaro: Ludus
Electroacoustic Music from Sicily #
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
SET FOUR
Barton McLean: Magic at Xanadu (MAX)
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
B. McLean: keyboards in Composer's Playpen (in MAX computer language)
Mike Swinchoski: Alternative Song
60 x 60 -- 2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2006
André Cormier: 380
ibid.
Jonty Harrison: Unsound Objects
Articles indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
composed at Harrison's studio at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK
SET FIVE
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2009
Nicola Cisternino: Xöömij
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum #
Mode Records/2001
bass: Nicholas Isherwood; realized at the Ateliers UPIC (CCMIX), Paris, April, 1997
SET SIX
Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe:
a. Opening Slide Lecture
b. Where is that Boy
The Carbon Copy Building -- A comic-strip opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
performed by Bang On A Can All-Stars -- singers: Theo Bleckmann, Tony Boutté, Katie Geissinger, Toby Twining; musicians: electric guitar: John Benthal, percussion: David Cossin; keyboards: Martin Goldray; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; text, illustrations: Ben Katchor; recorded at Avatar Studios, NYC, August, 2000
Joëlle Léandre and Quentin Sirjacq: Moon Journey
Out of Nowhere
Actuelle/2008
contrabass: J. Léandre; piano: Q. Sirjacq; recorded at Studio Lu Hullette, Paris, 1/13/08
Fred Frith: Trocosi
Prints
ReR Megacorp/2003
acoustic bass: Sebastian Grimms; other instruments and voice: F. Frith; text: International Herald Tribune edition 1/28/97, "Enslavement of Women in Ghana"; sample: Kahil El'Zabar, "Where Do You Want to Go"
SINGLE PLAY
Olly Wilson: Piano Piece
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 #
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
piano: Thomas Fosnocht
--FIN--
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Martian Gardens for 10/10/2010
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 October 10, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith: Glass c/w Steel
Guitar Solos
RēR Megacorp/2003 (orig. Caroline/1974)
SET ONE
Evan Ziporyn: The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
soprano: Anne Harley; Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Wind Ensemble, conductor: Gil Rose; texts: Li Shangyin ("The Ornate Zither"), W.S. Merwin ("The Nomad Flute"); recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 11/05/05
Benjamin Chadabe: Hell and Humdrums
The Metaphysician's Hammer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
percussion: B. Chadabe; text, recitation: Benjamin Hartlage; recorded at Murmur Studio, NYC, and Bennington College 1998-2000
SET TWO
Jin Hi Kim and Gerry Hemingway: Windtails
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: JHK; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, MA,8/18/09
Lou Harrison: Untitled (from Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Recordes/2010
piano: Adrienne Verner; Gamelan Pacifica, conductor: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010
SINGLE PLAY
Lois V. Vierk/Anita Feldman: Hexa
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music
Innova Recordings/2010
three tap dancers on Tap Dance Instrument: David Parker, Rhonda Price, A. Feldman; percussion: Gary Schall; live electronics, Lexicon PCM 42: L. Vierk; recorded at Pyramid Studios, NYC, 1989-1990
SET THREE
Luciano Berio: Gesti
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
recorder: Lucia Mense; recorded at Sandessal, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 7/11/95
Margaret Lancaster: Io (L. Vierk)
Io
New World Records/2009
electric guitar: Larry Polansky; marimba: Matthew Gold; flute: M. Lancaster; recorded at 2nd Story Sound, NYC, 2/06/09
Aldo Clementi: luCiAno BErio
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
recorded at Laboratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica-Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, April, 2005
SET FOUR
Margaret Leng Tan: from Old MacDonald's Yellow Submarine (E. Griswold)
a. On that Farm
b. e-i-e-i-o
c. Pink Memories
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, prepared piano, music box: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, January, 2010
Mendi + Keith Obadike: The Pink of Stealth
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2009
vocals: M. Obadike; K. Obadike: guitar, bass, drums, ubo aka, synthesizers, treatments
Edward Artemiev:
a. Fox Hunting
b. Dialog with a Computer
Mood-Pictures
Electroshock Records/2010
a. performed by E. Artemiev, from the motion picture "Fox Hunting"; b. performed by E. Artemiev, from the motion picture "By the Eyes of the Wolf"
Bruce Haack: Program Me
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
electric voice: Farad vocoder & Ed Harvey (orig. 1981)
SET FIVE
Kitty Brazelton:
a. Time to go, Time to remain
b. Bells
Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band, conductor: K. Brazelton; laptop drones, electronics: K. Brazelton; text: Book of Ecclesiastes; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, NY
Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice Is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
premiered at the American Center for Students and Artists, Paris, October, 1980
SET SIX
David First: A Bet on Transcendence Favors the House
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
ebow guitar: D. First
Marco Oppedisano: Nocturne
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars: M. Oppedisano; voice samples: Kimberly Fiedelman
SINGLE PLAY
Jonty Harrison: Splintering (excerpt)
Evidence Matérielle
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
composed at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, 1999
--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 October 10, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith: Glass c/w Steel
Guitar Solos
RēR Megacorp/2003 (orig. Caroline/1974)
SET ONE
Evan Ziporyn: The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
soprano: Anne Harley; Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Wind Ensemble, conductor: Gil Rose; texts: Li Shangyin ("The Ornate Zither"), W.S. Merwin ("The Nomad Flute"); recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 11/05/05
Benjamin Chadabe: Hell and Humdrums
The Metaphysician's Hammer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
percussion: B. Chadabe; text, recitation: Benjamin Hartlage; recorded at Murmur Studio, NYC, and Bennington College 1998-2000
SET TWO
Jin Hi Kim and Gerry Hemingway: Windtails
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: JHK; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, MA,8/18/09
Lou Harrison: Untitled (from Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Recordes/2010
piano: Adrienne Verner; Gamelan Pacifica, conductor: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010
SINGLE PLAY
Lois V. Vierk/Anita Feldman: Hexa
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music
Innova Recordings/2010
three tap dancers on Tap Dance Instrument: David Parker, Rhonda Price, A. Feldman; percussion: Gary Schall; live electronics, Lexicon PCM 42: L. Vierk; recorded at Pyramid Studios, NYC, 1989-1990
SET THREE
Luciano Berio: Gesti
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
recorder: Lucia Mense; recorded at Sandessal, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 7/11/95
Margaret Lancaster: Io (L. Vierk)
Io
New World Records/2009
electric guitar: Larry Polansky; marimba: Matthew Gold; flute: M. Lancaster; recorded at 2nd Story Sound, NYC, 2/06/09
Aldo Clementi: luCiAno BErio
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
recorded at Laboratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica-Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, April, 2005
SET FOUR
Margaret Leng Tan: from Old MacDonald's Yellow Submarine (E. Griswold)
a. On that Farm
b. e-i-e-i-o
c. Pink Memories
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, prepared piano, music box: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, January, 2010
Mendi + Keith Obadike: The Pink of Stealth
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2009
vocals: M. Obadike; K. Obadike: guitar, bass, drums, ubo aka, synthesizers, treatments
Edward Artemiev:
a. Fox Hunting
b. Dialog with a Computer
Mood-Pictures
Electroshock Records/2010
a. performed by E. Artemiev, from the motion picture "Fox Hunting"; b. performed by E. Artemiev, from the motion picture "By the Eyes of the Wolf"
Bruce Haack: Program Me
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
electric voice: Farad vocoder & Ed Harvey (orig. 1981)
SET FIVE
Kitty Brazelton:
a. Time to go, Time to remain
b. Bells
Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band, conductor: K. Brazelton; laptop drones, electronics: K. Brazelton; text: Book of Ecclesiastes; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, NY
Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice Is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
premiered at the American Center for Students and Artists, Paris, October, 1980
SET SIX
David First: A Bet on Transcendence Favors the House
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
ebow guitar: D. First
Marco Oppedisano: Nocturne
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars: M. Oppedisano; voice samples: Kimberly Fiedelman
SINGLE PLAY
Jonty Harrison: Splintering (excerpt)
Evidence Matérielle
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
composed at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, 1999
--FIN--
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Martian Gardens for 10/03/2010
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 October 3, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Florent Ghys: Coma Carus
Baroque Tardif--Soli
Cantaloupe Music/2009
pianino: F. Ghys
SET ONE
Robert Dick: Eyewitness
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
Flute Force; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 1998-2000
Frances White: Centre Bridge
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown
Elizabeth Brown: Loons (from Isle Royale Shakuhachi Duets)
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded by E. Brown, Brooklyn, 7/09/05
SET TWO
Patti Monson: High Art (M. Bresnick)
High Art
Albany Records/2003
piccolo: P. Monson; toy piano: Martin Bresnick
Martin Bresnick: The Bucket Rider
The Essential Martin Bresnick
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Bang On A Can; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 11/08/05
SET THREE
John Cage: Party Pieces (1-20) (J. Cage, H. Cowell, L. Harrison, V. Thomson)
The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at RBB/SFB, Berlin, 5/23/03
Lou Harrison: Isna's Song (from A Soedjiatmoko Set)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
Gamelan Pacifica, director: Jarrad Powell; Gamelan Pacifica Chorus, director: Jessika Kenney; text: The Rāmāyana, book VII, adapted by L. Harrison; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010
SET FOUR
Bob Gluck: Doina
Electric Songs--Live Performances 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
saz (bağlama), electronics: B. Gluck
Anne LeBaron: Submerged Cavern
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
shakuhachi: Kiku Day; koto: Konoko Nishi; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Mills College, Oakland, 2005
Ellen Fullman: Nocnoca Progression
Change of Direction
New Albion Records/1998
Elise Gould, Nigel Jacobs, E. Fullman: Long String Instrument
Fred Frith: Hit and Run
Accidental
RēR Megacorp/2001
recorded at Studio Jankowski, Stuttgart, 1995-1996
Roberto Musci/Chris Cutler/Jon Rose/Claudio Gabbiano: track 3
Steel Water Light
RēR Megacorp/2001
sampler: R. Musci; electrified percussion, processing: C. Cutler; tenor violin, processing: J. Rose; guitars: C. Gabbiani
Christopher Campbell: Sunface Streams Moonface
Sound the All-Clear
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Fur Seal Studio, Minneapolis
SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
premiered at Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, BC, 10/09/03
Stéphane Roy: Ruptures (from Trois petites histoires concrètes)
Migrations
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
realized at Roy's studio, St. Louis, Missouri, 1998
Douglas Geers: Verbosity Ore
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
David First: Tell Tale 2.1
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
transistor radios: D. First
Simon Wickham-Smith: from Justkidding
d. The Machine Says It
b. Unsafeday
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Helen Kidd
David First: Happy Beatday
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
slide whistle: D. First
SET SIX
Holger Czukay: Boat-Woman Song (excerpt)
OHM--The Early Gurus of Electronic Music--1948-1980 #
Ellipsis Arts/2000
samples from Adam de la Halle; Vietnamese women singing folk song
Kraig Grady: Eve Without Apples
The Lab -- 20th Anniversary CD #
The Lab/2004
pump organ, prepared dulcimer: K. Grady, performed at The Lab, San Francisco, 1987
Eve Beglarian: Preciosilla
Overstepping
OODiscs/1998
flute: Margaret Lancaster; voice: E. Beglarian; text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at Noise Production, NYC
SET SEVEN
Robert Ashley: She Was A Visitor
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, conductor: Alvin Lucier; written in 1967 as part the electronic opera "That Morning Thing"
Alvin Lucier: Chambers
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
Chambers (1968) recorded at The Coffeehouse, Middletown, Connecticut, 2002
--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 October 3, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Florent Ghys: Coma Carus
Baroque Tardif--Soli
Cantaloupe Music/2009
pianino: F. Ghys
SET ONE
Robert Dick: Eyewitness
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
Flute Force; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 1998-2000
Frances White: Centre Bridge
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown
Elizabeth Brown: Loons (from Isle Royale Shakuhachi Duets)
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded by E. Brown, Brooklyn, 7/09/05
SET TWO
Patti Monson: High Art (M. Bresnick)
High Art
Albany Records/2003
piccolo: P. Monson; toy piano: Martin Bresnick
Martin Bresnick: The Bucket Rider
The Essential Martin Bresnick
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Bang On A Can; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 11/08/05
SET THREE
John Cage: Party Pieces (1-20) (J. Cage, H. Cowell, L. Harrison, V. Thomson)
The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at RBB/SFB, Berlin, 5/23/03
Lou Harrison: Isna's Song (from A Soedjiatmoko Set)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
Gamelan Pacifica, director: Jarrad Powell; Gamelan Pacifica Chorus, director: Jessika Kenney; text: The Rāmāyana, book VII, adapted by L. Harrison; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010
SET FOUR
Bob Gluck: Doina
Electric Songs--Live Performances 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
saz (bağlama), electronics: B. Gluck
Anne LeBaron: Submerged Cavern
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
shakuhachi: Kiku Day; koto: Konoko Nishi; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Mills College, Oakland, 2005
Ellen Fullman: Nocnoca Progression
Change of Direction
New Albion Records/1998
Elise Gould, Nigel Jacobs, E. Fullman: Long String Instrument
Fred Frith: Hit and Run
Accidental
RēR Megacorp/2001
recorded at Studio Jankowski, Stuttgart, 1995-1996
Roberto Musci/Chris Cutler/Jon Rose/Claudio Gabbiano: track 3
Steel Water Light
RēR Megacorp/2001
sampler: R. Musci; electrified percussion, processing: C. Cutler; tenor violin, processing: J. Rose; guitars: C. Gabbiani
Christopher Campbell: Sunface Streams Moonface
Sound the All-Clear
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Fur Seal Studio, Minneapolis
SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
premiered at Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, BC, 10/09/03
Stéphane Roy: Ruptures (from Trois petites histoires concrètes)
Migrations
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
realized at Roy's studio, St. Louis, Missouri, 1998
Douglas Geers: Verbosity Ore
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
David First: Tell Tale 2.1
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
transistor radios: D. First
Simon Wickham-Smith: from Justkidding
d. The Machine Says It
b. Unsafeday
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Helen Kidd
David First: Happy Beatday
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
slide whistle: D. First
SET SIX
Holger Czukay: Boat-Woman Song (excerpt)
OHM--The Early Gurus of Electronic Music--1948-1980 #
Ellipsis Arts/2000
samples from Adam de la Halle; Vietnamese women singing folk song
Kraig Grady: Eve Without Apples
The Lab -- 20th Anniversary CD #
The Lab/2004
pump organ, prepared dulcimer: K. Grady, performed at The Lab, San Francisco, 1987
Eve Beglarian: Preciosilla
Overstepping
OODiscs/1998
flute: Margaret Lancaster; voice: E. Beglarian; text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at Noise Production, NYC
SET SEVEN
Robert Ashley: She Was A Visitor
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, conductor: Alvin Lucier; written in 1967 as part the electronic opera "That Morning Thing"
Alvin Lucier: Chambers
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
Chambers (1968) recorded at The Coffeehouse, Middletown, Connecticut, 2002
--FIN--
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Martian Gardens for 09/26/2010
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 September 26, 2010
SET ONE
Robert Ashley: Empire (excerpt)
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert, R.Ashley; electronic orchestra: Tom Hamilton, R. Ashley; recorded in Rome, 1985
Debashis Sinha: Kailash
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010
Elsa Justel: Bastet
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at GRM, Paris, 1999
SET TWO
Alexander Tcherepnin: Shadow Play (from Five Concert Etudes, Op. 52)
Piano Works
CRI/2002 (orig. Sony/1991)
piano: Martha Braden; recorded at BMG Studios, NYC, 1999
Ivan Tcherepnin: The Army and the Chase (from Santur Live!)
Flores Musicales--Five Songs--Santur Live!
CRI/1995
Serge* modular electronics, santur: I. Tcherepnin
*Serge synthesizer named after its developer, Serge Tcherepnin, brother of Ivan.
Stefan Tcherepnin: Ouvretorture
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizer: Stefan Tcherepnin, recorded in NYC, 2004
Matmos: Les Folies Françoises (F. Couperin)
Supreme Balloon
Matador Records/2008
So Percussion and Matmos: Needles
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010
recorded at Snowghost, Whitefish, Montana, and The David Smith Room, Studio C, Clinton Recording Studio, NYC
SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: Scenes from Cavafy
a. Gending Cavafy
b. Gending Bill/Lancaran Jody
c. Gending Ptolemy
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
voice: John Duykers; texts: Constantine P. Cavafy; Gamelan Pacifica Chorus and Orchestra, director: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010
SET THREE
Jody Diamond: In That Bright World
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta; voice: J. Diamond; text: "The Wayfaring Stranger" (trad.); recorded in Central Java, July, 2001
Miguel del Aguila: Tango to Dream (Salon Buenos Aires, movement II)
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio; recorded at the First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas, 2008
SET FOUR
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2001; tape revised by S. Scodanibbio, 2001-2009
Stefano Scodanibbio: Humboldt
Six Duos
New Albion Records/2001
viola: Dov Scheindlin; contrabass: S. Scondanibbio; recorded at Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken, June, 2000
SET FIVE
Chaya Czernowin: The Memory of Water
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
saxophone, tubax: Rico Gubler; piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn: Peter Veale; live-electronics: EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR; recorded live at the Konzerthaus Berlin, 3/17/07, MaerzMusik Festival of Contemporary Music by Berliner Festspiele
Iannis Xenakis: Dämmerschein
Xenakis & Varèse
Mode Records/1997
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded in Pittsburgh, April, 1996
SINGLE PLAY
Zack Browning: Thunder Roll
a. Night Attack
b. Day Attack
Venus Notorious
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Jee-Ean Kim; percussion: Mark Eichenberger; percussion: James Press; timpani: Samuel Carroll; conductor: Mei-Fang Lin; recorded at the University of Illinois
SINGLE PLAY
Michael Gordon/Alarm Will Sound: Arles
Van Gogh
Cantaloupe Music/2007
Alarm Will Sound, conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded in New York City, 2006-2007
--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 September 26, 2010
SET ONE
Robert Ashley: Empire (excerpt)
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert, R.Ashley; electronic orchestra: Tom Hamilton, R. Ashley; recorded in Rome, 1985
Debashis Sinha: Kailash
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010
Elsa Justel: Bastet
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at GRM, Paris, 1999
SET TWO
Alexander Tcherepnin: Shadow Play (from Five Concert Etudes, Op. 52)
Piano Works
CRI/2002 (orig. Sony/1991)
piano: Martha Braden; recorded at BMG Studios, NYC, 1999
Ivan Tcherepnin: The Army and the Chase (from Santur Live!)
Flores Musicales--Five Songs--Santur Live!
CRI/1995
Serge* modular electronics, santur: I. Tcherepnin
*Serge synthesizer named after its developer, Serge Tcherepnin, brother of Ivan.
Stefan Tcherepnin: Ouvretorture
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizer: Stefan Tcherepnin, recorded in NYC, 2004
Matmos: Les Folies Françoises (F. Couperin)
Supreme Balloon
Matador Records/2008
So Percussion and Matmos: Needles
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010
recorded at Snowghost, Whitefish, Montana, and The David Smith Room, Studio C, Clinton Recording Studio, NYC
SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: Scenes from Cavafy
a. Gending Cavafy
b. Gending Bill/Lancaran Jody
c. Gending Ptolemy
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
voice: John Duykers; texts: Constantine P. Cavafy; Gamelan Pacifica Chorus and Orchestra, director: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010
SET THREE
Jody Diamond: In That Bright World
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta; voice: J. Diamond; text: "The Wayfaring Stranger" (trad.); recorded in Central Java, July, 2001
Miguel del Aguila: Tango to Dream (Salon Buenos Aires, movement II)
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio; recorded at the First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas, 2008
SET FOUR
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2001; tape revised by S. Scodanibbio, 2001-2009
Stefano Scodanibbio: Humboldt
Six Duos
New Albion Records/2001
viola: Dov Scheindlin; contrabass: S. Scondanibbio; recorded at Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken, June, 2000
SET FIVE
Chaya Czernowin: The Memory of Water
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
saxophone, tubax: Rico Gubler; piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn: Peter Veale; live-electronics: EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR; recorded live at the Konzerthaus Berlin, 3/17/07, MaerzMusik Festival of Contemporary Music by Berliner Festspiele
Iannis Xenakis: Dämmerschein
Xenakis & Varèse
Mode Records/1997
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded in Pittsburgh, April, 1996
SINGLE PLAY
Zack Browning: Thunder Roll
a. Night Attack
b. Day Attack
Venus Notorious
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Jee-Ean Kim; percussion: Mark Eichenberger; percussion: James Press; timpani: Samuel Carroll; conductor: Mei-Fang Lin; recorded at the University of Illinois
SINGLE PLAY
Michael Gordon/Alarm Will Sound: Arles
Van Gogh
Cantaloupe Music/2007
Alarm Will Sound, conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded in New York City, 2006-2007
--FIN--
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Martian Gardens for 09/19/2010
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 September 19, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Saunders Smith: Polka in Treblinka
At Sixty -- Selections
11 West Records/2008
Xylophone: Dale Speicher; snare drum and hi-hat: Chris Leonard; bass drum: Bill Sallak; recorded at Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron, March, 2008
SET ONE
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 142
Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988
Les Disques VICTO/1992
saxophones: A. Braxton; tenor saxophone: Evan Parker; vibraphone: Bobby Naughton; contrabass: Joëlle Léandre; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; trumpet: Paul Smoker; trombone: George Lewis; recorded live at the Sixth International Festival of Contemporary Music at Victoriaville, Québec, October 8, 1988
Anthony Braxton and Gerry Hemingway: Invention 8107PM (excerpt)
Old Dogs (2007)
Mode Records/Avant series/2010
saxophones: A. Braxton; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded at Wesleyan University, Daltry Room, 8/01/07
Stephen Haynes and Taylor Ho Bynum: Miscellaneous
The Double Trio -- Live at the Festival of New Trumpet Music
Engine Studios/2009
cornet: Taylor Ho Bynum; trumpet, cornet: Stephen Haynes; electric guitar: Alan Jaffe; electric guitar: Mayr Halvorson; drums: Warren Smith; drums: Tomas Fujiwara; recorded live at The Jazz Standard, NYC, 9/20/06
Anthony Braxton and Taylor Ho Bynum to perform at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, Bezanson Recital Hall, Tuesday, September 22, 8:00 p.m., as part of the season's Magic Triangle Jazz Series.
SET TWO
Bang On A Can and Don Byron: Basquiat
A Ballad for the Many
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Bang On A Can All-Stars -- bass: Robert Black, percussion: David Cossin, piano: Lisa Moore, electric guitars: Mark Stewart, cello: Wendy Sutter, clarinet/bass clarinet: Evan Ziporyn; clarinet, composition: Don Byron; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 2004-2006
Evan Ziporyn: Frog's Eye
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 5/24/04
SET THREE
Priscilla McLean: Night Images
The McLean Mix & The Golden Age of Electronic Music
CRI/1997
synthesizers, electronics: P. McLean; recorded at the McLean's home studio, 1973
Barton McLean: Demons of the Night
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizers, electronics: B. McLean; saxophone samples: Albert Regni; recorded at the Electronic Music Center, UT, Austin
Robert Scott Thompson: The Widening Gyre
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
electronics: R. S. Thompson; clarinet samples: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at the Resonance Observatory, Atlanta
SET FOUR
Aldo Clementi: Passacaglia
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; realized at Centro Tempo Reale, Florence, recorded at Labratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica -- Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, April 2005
Sorrel Hays: On the Wind
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
flutes: Andrew Bolowsky; recorded at Nola Studios, NYC, 2002
Sorrel Hays: Song for the Dying
Dreaming the World
New World Records/1996
baritone: Thomas Buckner; piano: Joseph Kubera; percussion: John Kennedy, Charles Wood, Maya Gunji, Eric Kivnick; text: Brian Swann's translation of Seminole song; recoded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
SET FIVE
Annie Gosfield: Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds Back
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
sampler, electronics: A. Gosfield; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, 1998
Annie Gosfield: The Harmony of the Body-Machine
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Tzadik/2004
cello: Joan Jeanrenaud; recorded at Different Fur Recording, San Francisco, December, 2003
SET SIX
Cathy Berberian: A Flower (J. Cage)
magnifiCathy
Wergo/1988 (orig. 1971)
voice: C. Berberian; percussion: Bruno Canino
Sylvia Smith: Forever and Sunsmell (J. Cage)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christie Finn; Chinese tom-toms: Sylvia Smith; Chinese cymbal: Ayano Kataoka; text. e.e. cummings
John Cage and Joan La Barbara: Music for Two (by One)
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; recorded at Skywalker Music, Lucas Valley, California, July, 1990
Margaret Leng Tan: Suite for Toy Piano (I-V) (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano
Mode Records/2010
toy piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Marc Tremblay: ...Ceci est un Message Enregistré...
Bruit-Graffiti
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
composed/recorded at Yves Daoust's studio, Montreal, 1994
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Program for September 19, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Saunders Smith: Polka in Treblinka
At Sixty -- Selections
11 West Records/2008
Xylophone: Dale Speicher; snare drum and hi-hat: Chris Leonard; bass drum: Bill Sallak; recorded at Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron, March, 2008
SET ONE
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 142
Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988
Les Disques VICTO/1992
saxophones: A. Braxton; tenor saxophone: Evan Parker; vibraphone: Bobby Naughton; contrabass: Joëlle Léandre; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; trumpet: Paul Smoker; trombone: George Lewis; recorded live at the Sixth International Festival of Contemporary Music at Victoriaville, Québec, October 8, 1988
Anthony Braxton and Gerry Hemingway: Invention 8107PM (excerpt)
Old Dogs (2007)
Mode Records/Avant series/2010
saxophones: A. Braxton; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded at Wesleyan University, Daltry Room, 8/01/07
Stephen Haynes and Taylor Ho Bynum: Miscellaneous
The Double Trio -- Live at the Festival of New Trumpet Music
Engine Studios/2009
cornet: Taylor Ho Bynum; trumpet, cornet: Stephen Haynes; electric guitar: Alan Jaffe; electric guitar: Mayr Halvorson; drums: Warren Smith; drums: Tomas Fujiwara; recorded live at The Jazz Standard, NYC, 9/20/06
Anthony Braxton and Taylor Ho Bynum to perform at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, Bezanson Recital Hall, Tuesday, September 22, 8:00 p.m., as part of the season's Magic Triangle Jazz Series.
SET TWO
Bang On A Can and Don Byron: Basquiat
A Ballad for the Many
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Bang On A Can All-Stars -- bass: Robert Black, percussion: David Cossin, piano: Lisa Moore, electric guitars: Mark Stewart, cello: Wendy Sutter, clarinet/bass clarinet: Evan Ziporyn; clarinet, composition: Don Byron; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 2004-2006
Evan Ziporyn: Frog's Eye
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 5/24/04
SET THREE
Priscilla McLean: Night Images
The McLean Mix & The Golden Age of Electronic Music
CRI/1997
synthesizers, electronics: P. McLean; recorded at the McLean's home studio, 1973
Barton McLean: Demons of the Night
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizers, electronics: B. McLean; saxophone samples: Albert Regni; recorded at the Electronic Music Center, UT, Austin
Robert Scott Thompson: The Widening Gyre
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
electronics: R. S. Thompson; clarinet samples: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at the Resonance Observatory, Atlanta
SET FOUR
Aldo Clementi: Passacaglia
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; realized at Centro Tempo Reale, Florence, recorded at Labratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica -- Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, April 2005
Sorrel Hays: On the Wind
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
flutes: Andrew Bolowsky; recorded at Nola Studios, NYC, 2002
Sorrel Hays: Song for the Dying
Dreaming the World
New World Records/1996
baritone: Thomas Buckner; piano: Joseph Kubera; percussion: John Kennedy, Charles Wood, Maya Gunji, Eric Kivnick; text: Brian Swann's translation of Seminole song; recoded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
SET FIVE
Annie Gosfield: Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds Back
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
sampler, electronics: A. Gosfield; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, 1998
Annie Gosfield: The Harmony of the Body-Machine
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Tzadik/2004
cello: Joan Jeanrenaud; recorded at Different Fur Recording, San Francisco, December, 2003
SET SIX
Cathy Berberian: A Flower (J. Cage)
magnifiCathy
Wergo/1988 (orig. 1971)
voice: C. Berberian; percussion: Bruno Canino
Sylvia Smith: Forever and Sunsmell (J. Cage)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christie Finn; Chinese tom-toms: Sylvia Smith; Chinese cymbal: Ayano Kataoka; text. e.e. cummings
John Cage and Joan La Barbara: Music for Two (by One)
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; recorded at Skywalker Music, Lucas Valley, California, July, 1990
Margaret Leng Tan: Suite for Toy Piano (I-V) (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano
Mode Records/2010
toy piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Marc Tremblay: ...Ceci est un Message Enregistré...
Bruit-Graffiti
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
composed/recorded at Yves Daoust's studio, Montreal, 1994
--FIN--
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Martian Gardens for 09/12/2010
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 September 12, 2010
SET ONE
Meredith Monk: Urban March (Shadow)
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
piano, voice, arrangement: Anthony De Mare; recorded at Ralston Recital Hall, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 11/02/08
Anthony De Mare: Paris (M. Monk)
Pianos and Voices
Koch Classics/1992
Anne LeBaron: Intermezzo
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
bass clarinet: Wolfgang Fuchs; violin: Ronit Kirchman; bass: Torsten Müller; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Polestar New Music Festival, Seattle, 2004
Larry Polansky: tooaytood(s)
a. tooaytood 1: ≤too
b. tooaytood 2: ≤too<-
c. tooaytood 3:2
d. tooaytood 5: boo k (lullaby for anna)
e. tooaytood 6
f. tooaytood 7: iiviinii
g. tooaytood 9: loopitood
h. tooaytood 11: onceaii
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
ZWERM--electric guitar quartet: Toon Callier, Matthias Koole, Joannes Westendorp, Kobe Van Cauwenbergh; arr. T. Callier; recorded at Studio Champ d'Action, Antwerp, December, 2008
Thomas DeLio: as though
Thomas DeLio/James Dashow
Capstone Records/1997
percussion solo: Tom Goldstein; recorded at UMBC Studio, 1997
SET TWO
John Luther Adams: Triadic Iteration Lattices (for four air-raid sirens)
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati; November, 1998
John Luther Adams: Wail
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music
percussion (with air-raid siren): Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2002/2003)
J.C. Combs:
a. Cross Station
b. Dispatch
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
created for ImprovFriday
SET THREE
John Cage: Cartridge Music/11 Instruments
a CAGE of saxophones -- The Works For Saxophones Volumes 3&4
Mode Records/2010
intersax -- soprano saxophone, artistic director: Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone: Martin Losert, tenor saxophone: Tobias Rüger, baritone saxophone: Reimar Volker; guests -- violin: Burkhard Schlothauer; viola: Johannes Platz; cello: Ulrich Maiß; contrabass: Alexander Frangenheim; piano: Michael Iber; accordion: Gerhard Scherer; percussion: Andreas Peters; recorded at several locations, mastered at the π-Farm, 2004
Julia Wolfe: LAD, part 1 (for nine bagpipes)
Dark Full Ride -- Music in Multiples
Cantaloupe Music/2009
bagpipes: Matthew Welch; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC
SET FOUR
Javier Garavaglia: Arte Poética (I. Stanza)
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
text: Jorge Luis Borges; produced at ICEM, Folkwang Hochschule Essen
Gilles Gobeil: Le Miroir Triste
Trois Songes DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
realized at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, summer, 2007
SET FIVE
Milica Paranosic:
a. Venus Song
b. Bojano
Give To Grow
Electroshock Records/2010
text, voice (a): Roger Bonair-Agard
David Mahler: Only Music Can Save Me Now
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November, 2009
SET SIX
Iannis Xenakis: Paille in the Wind
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
piano: Aki Takahashi; cello: Rohan de Saram; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, 10/27/07
Daniel Goode: Tuba Thrush
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
The Flexible Orchestra, conductor: Tara Simoncic; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC, 10/16/09
SET SEVEN
Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
texts: Federico Garcia Lorca from "Bodas de Sangre" (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK
Jocy De Oliveira: Women Dreams
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000
soprano: Gabriela di Geanx; actress: Marilena Bibas; clarinet: Paulo Passos; percussion: Paraguassú Abrahão; synthesizers, electronics, libretto: J. De Oliveira; recorded live at the Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, March, 1995
--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 September 12, 2010
SET ONE
Meredith Monk: Urban March (Shadow)
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
piano, voice, arrangement: Anthony De Mare; recorded at Ralston Recital Hall, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 11/02/08
Anthony De Mare: Paris (M. Monk)
Pianos and Voices
Koch Classics/1992
Anne LeBaron: Intermezzo
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
bass clarinet: Wolfgang Fuchs; violin: Ronit Kirchman; bass: Torsten Müller; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Polestar New Music Festival, Seattle, 2004
Larry Polansky: tooaytood(s)
a. tooaytood 1: ≤too
b. tooaytood 2: ≤too<-
c. tooaytood 3:
d. tooaytood 5: boo k (lullaby for anna)
e. tooaytood 6
f. tooaytood 7: iiviinii
g. tooaytood 9: loopitood
h. tooaytood 11: onceaii
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
ZWERM--electric guitar quartet: Toon Callier, Matthias Koole, Joannes Westendorp, Kobe Van Cauwenbergh; arr. T. Callier; recorded at Studio Champ d'Action, Antwerp, December, 2008
Thomas DeLio: as though
Thomas DeLio/James Dashow
Capstone Records/1997
percussion solo: Tom Goldstein; recorded at UMBC Studio, 1997
SET TWO
John Luther Adams: Triadic Iteration Lattices (for four air-raid sirens)
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati; November, 1998
John Luther Adams: Wail
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music
percussion (with air-raid siren): Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2002/2003)
J.C. Combs:
a. Cross Station
b. Dispatch
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
created for ImprovFriday
SET THREE
John Cage: Cartridge Music/11 Instruments
a CAGE of saxophones -- The Works For Saxophones Volumes 3&4
Mode Records/2010
intersax -- soprano saxophone, artistic director: Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone: Martin Losert, tenor saxophone: Tobias Rüger, baritone saxophone: Reimar Volker; guests -- violin: Burkhard Schlothauer; viola: Johannes Platz; cello: Ulrich Maiß; contrabass: Alexander Frangenheim; piano: Michael Iber; accordion: Gerhard Scherer; percussion: Andreas Peters; recorded at several locations, mastered at the π-Farm, 2004
Julia Wolfe: LAD, part 1 (for nine bagpipes)
Dark Full Ride -- Music in Multiples
Cantaloupe Music/2009
bagpipes: Matthew Welch; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC
SET FOUR
Javier Garavaglia: Arte Poética (I. Stanza)
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
text: Jorge Luis Borges; produced at ICEM, Folkwang Hochschule Essen
Gilles Gobeil: Le Miroir Triste
Trois Songes DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
realized at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, summer, 2007
SET FIVE
Milica Paranosic:
a. Venus Song
b. Bojano
Give To Grow
Electroshock Records/2010
text, voice (a): Roger Bonair-Agard
David Mahler: Only Music Can Save Me Now
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November, 2009
SET SIX
Iannis Xenakis: Paille in the Wind
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
piano: Aki Takahashi; cello: Rohan de Saram; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, 10/27/07
Daniel Goode: Tuba Thrush
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
The Flexible Orchestra, conductor: Tara Simoncic; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC, 10/16/09
SET SEVEN
Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
texts: Federico Garcia Lorca from "Bodas de Sangre" (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK
Jocy De Oliveira: Women Dreams
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000
soprano: Gabriela di Geanx; actress: Marilena Bibas; clarinet: Paulo Passos; percussion: Paraguassú Abrahão; synthesizers, electronics, libretto: J. De Oliveira; recorded live at the Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, March, 1995
--FIN--
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Martian Gardens for 09/05/2010
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 September 05, 2010
(extended edition)
SET ONE
David Rosenboom: Section VII (impression)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims (1969-71)
New World Records/2009
piano in expended pelog tuning: David Rosenboom; pemade: I Nyoman Wenten; jegog, calung: William Winant; live performance CalArts 12/14/08
Christopher Campbell: Diamond Marimba
Sound the All-Clear
Innova Recordings/2010
Harry Partch: Ulysses at the Edge
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 1
New World Records/2004 (orig. CRI/1997)
Gate 5 Ensemble (Evanston, Illinois)-- voice, baritone saxophone: David Reid; alto saxophone: Dick Schleppe; bamboo marimba, cloud-chamber Bowls: Danlee Mitchell; diamond marimba, cloud-chamber bowls: H. Partch; recorded in Evanston, 1958
SET TWO
Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Pale Blue Dot
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: JHK; drums, percussion, voice: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, Mass., 8/18/09
Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Unknot
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
electric komungo: JHK; percussion: G. Hemingway; excerpt from Jin Hi Kim's Sanjo Ecstasy, premiered at the Sanjo Festival, Jeonju, South Korea
SET THREE
César Bolaños: Flexum
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at the VIII Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 9/23/69
Beta-Collide: Yello (S. Vitiello)
Psst! Psst!
Innova Recordings/2010
Stephen Vitiello:
a. po clicks (S. Vitiello/P. Oliveros)
b. po clicks (ibid.)
Bright and Dusty Things
New Albion Records/2002
accordion: Pauline Oliveros; guitar: David Tronzo; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC
SET FOUR
John Cage: Fontana Mix
Electronic Music -- Cage/Berio/Mimaroglu #
Turnabout/1965
original construction for magnetic tape, prepared at Studio di Fonoglia of Italian Radio, Milan, 1958
John Cage: Fontana Mix
A CAGE of Saxophones -- The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
version for saxophone pieces from Ulrich Krieger's A CAGE of Saxophones project; mixed July-October, 2004, at π-Farm
SET FIVE
Joel Chadabe: Follow Me Softly
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 24 #
The Composer in the Computer Age VII
Centaur Records/1997
Synclavier: J. Chadabe; percussion: Jan Williams; recorded at SUNY Buffalo, November, 1984
Madjid Tahriri: Tombak
Deep Wireless 7 - Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010
SINGLE PLAY
Barton McLean: Rainforest Images II
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
soprano recorder, clariflute, keyboards: B. McLean; voice, violin: Priscilla McLean; voice, audio processing with Expanded Instrument system: Panaiotis; sampled recordings of birds of the Peruvian Amazon and Australian rainforests
SET SIX
Aldo Clementi: Fantasia su roBErto FABbriCiAni
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; tape realized by Mauro Graziani at CSC dell'Università di Padova, Italy; recorded at Laboratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica -- Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venezia, Italy, April, 2005
Henry Brant: Ghosts and Gargoyles VI, VII, VIII, IX
Music for Massed Flutes
New World Records/2006
The New York Flute Club, soloist and conductor: Robert Aitken; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 4/06/05
SET SEVEN
Burkina Electric: Bana
Paspanga
Cantaloupe Music/2010
voice: Maï Lingani; guitar, background vocals: Wende K. Blass; electronics, drums: Lukas Ligeti; electronics: Pyrolator; dance, background vocals: Zoko Zoko, "Vicky" Idrissa Kafando; recorded at Atatak-Studio, Düsseldorf
Raoul Björkenheim/Lukas Ligeti: Ghostedwall
Shadowglow
TUM Records/2003
guitars: R. Björkenheim, percussion: L. Ligeti, recorded at Orange Music Sound Studios, West Orange, NJ, June, 2003
Santieri Selvaggi (ensemble): I Fought the Law (D. Lang)
AC/DC
Cantaloupe Music/2005
recorded at Mondial Sound, Milan, November, 1998
Marco Oppedisano: Kickstart
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars, electronics: M. Oppedisano; voice samples: Kimberly Fiedelman
SET EIGHT
Alvin Lucier/Nick Hennies:
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (Glockenspiel)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Quiet Design/2010
glockenspiel: N. Hennies, recorded at UT, Austin
Alvin Lucier:
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (Glockenspiel)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
glockenspiel: William Winant; recorded at Radio City Music Hall, 1983-1984
SINGLE PLAY
Arie Shapira: The Unnamable
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004
electroacoustics; voice: Eran Tzur; text: Samuel Beckett
SINGLE PLAY
Rajmil Fischman: Targilim Be'ivrit Shimushit (Drills in Practical Hebrew)
...a 'wonderful' world...
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
electroacoustics; voice: Eti Ben-Zaken; text: Dan Pagis; performed at Haifa University, Metula Poetry Festival, 2003
--FIN--
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for September 05, 2010
(extended edition)
SET ONE
David Rosenboom: Section VII (impression)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims (1969-71)
New World Records/2009
piano in expended pelog tuning: David Rosenboom; pemade: I Nyoman Wenten; jegog, calung: William Winant; live performance CalArts 12/14/08
Christopher Campbell: Diamond Marimba
Sound the All-Clear
Innova Recordings/2010
Harry Partch: Ulysses at the Edge
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 1
New World Records/2004 (orig. CRI/1997)
Gate 5 Ensemble (Evanston, Illinois)-- voice, baritone saxophone: David Reid; alto saxophone: Dick Schleppe; bamboo marimba, cloud-chamber Bowls: Danlee Mitchell; diamond marimba, cloud-chamber bowls: H. Partch; recorded in Evanston, 1958
SET TWO
Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Pale Blue Dot
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: JHK; drums, percussion, voice: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, Mass., 8/18/09
Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Unknot
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
electric komungo: JHK; percussion: G. Hemingway; excerpt from Jin Hi Kim's Sanjo Ecstasy, premiered at the Sanjo Festival, Jeonju, South Korea
SET THREE
César Bolaños: Flexum
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at the VIII Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 9/23/69
Beta-Collide: Yello (S. Vitiello)
Psst! Psst!
Innova Recordings/2010
Stephen Vitiello:
a. po clicks (S. Vitiello/P. Oliveros)
b. po clicks (ibid.)
Bright and Dusty Things
New Albion Records/2002
accordion: Pauline Oliveros; guitar: David Tronzo; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC
SET FOUR
John Cage: Fontana Mix
Electronic Music -- Cage/Berio/Mimaroglu #
Turnabout/1965
original construction for magnetic tape, prepared at Studio di Fonoglia of Italian Radio, Milan, 1958
John Cage: Fontana Mix
A CAGE of Saxophones -- The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
version for saxophone pieces from Ulrich Krieger's A CAGE of Saxophones project; mixed July-October, 2004, at π-Farm
SET FIVE
Joel Chadabe: Follow Me Softly
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 24 #
The Composer in the Computer Age VII
Centaur Records/1997
Synclavier: J. Chadabe; percussion: Jan Williams; recorded at SUNY Buffalo, November, 1984
Madjid Tahriri: Tombak
Deep Wireless 7 - Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010
SINGLE PLAY
Barton McLean: Rainforest Images II
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
soprano recorder, clariflute, keyboards: B. McLean; voice, violin: Priscilla McLean; voice, audio processing with Expanded Instrument system: Panaiotis; sampled recordings of birds of the Peruvian Amazon and Australian rainforests
SET SIX
Aldo Clementi: Fantasia su roBErto FABbriCiAni
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; tape realized by Mauro Graziani at CSC dell'Università di Padova, Italy; recorded at Laboratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica -- Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venezia, Italy, April, 2005
Henry Brant: Ghosts and Gargoyles VI, VII, VIII, IX
Music for Massed Flutes
New World Records/2006
The New York Flute Club, soloist and conductor: Robert Aitken; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 4/06/05
SET SEVEN
Burkina Electric: Bana
Paspanga
Cantaloupe Music/2010
voice: Maï Lingani; guitar, background vocals: Wende K. Blass; electronics, drums: Lukas Ligeti; electronics: Pyrolator; dance, background vocals: Zoko Zoko, "Vicky" Idrissa Kafando; recorded at Atatak-Studio, Düsseldorf
Raoul Björkenheim/Lukas Ligeti: Ghostedwall
Shadowglow
TUM Records/2003
guitars: R. Björkenheim, percussion: L. Ligeti, recorded at Orange Music Sound Studios, West Orange, NJ, June, 2003
Santieri Selvaggi (ensemble): I Fought the Law (D. Lang)
AC/DC
Cantaloupe Music/2005
recorded at Mondial Sound, Milan, November, 1998
Marco Oppedisano: Kickstart
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars, electronics: M. Oppedisano; voice samples: Kimberly Fiedelman
SET EIGHT
Alvin Lucier/Nick Hennies:
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (Glockenspiel)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Quiet Design/2010
glockenspiel: N. Hennies, recorded at UT, Austin
Alvin Lucier:
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (Glockenspiel)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
glockenspiel: William Winant; recorded at Radio City Music Hall, 1983-1984
SINGLE PLAY
Arie Shapira: The Unnamable
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004
electroacoustics; voice: Eran Tzur; text: Samuel Beckett
SINGLE PLAY
Rajmil Fischman: Targilim Be'ivrit Shimushit (Drills in Practical Hebrew)
...a 'wonderful' world...
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
electroacoustics; voice: Eti Ben-Zaken; text: Dan Pagis; performed at Haifa University, Metula Poetry Festival, 2003
--FIN--
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