Saturday, April 2, 2011

Martian Gardens for 04/03/2011

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 3, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Luciano Berio: O King
The Great Works for Voice
Mode Records/1995
soprano: Christine Schadeberg; flute: Katherine Flanders Mukherji; clarinet: Sheldon Berkowitz; violin: Marshall Coid; cello: Ted Mook; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; conductor: Hayes Biggs; recorded 4/03/95, Sheppard Hall, CCNY

In commemoration of the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee

SET ONE
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring ("Side One")
Volume 2 -- Electronic Works
Mode Records/2004
electronics: M. Subotnick (orig. 1975); digital remastering: Steve Puntilillo, Sonicraft, NJ

Joel Chadabe: Spring
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
electronics: J. Chadabe; percussion: Jan Williams

SET TWO
Michael Thompson: Derailed
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
electronics M. Thompson; recorded at MACCM, 2002

Natasha Barrett: Mobilis in Mobili (from Tradewinds)
Bouteilles de Klein DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
field recordings from oceans, harbors, and the 100-year-old ship The Anne Christina realized at the composer's studio, Oslo, 2006, samples: Storm Weather Shanty Choir; narration: Capt. Jon Varhus of the Anne Christina; title Mobilis in Mobili inspired by Jule's Verne's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

Djalma Farias: Telas Sonoras No. 3
Música Eletroacústica Brasileira, Vol. III #
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/2004
realized at the composer's studio, Brasilia, cello: Ocello Mendonça

SET THREE
Robert Morris: Rapport -- December 16, 1975, 8 pm (excerpt)
Rapport
The Open Space/2010
synthesizer: R. Morris; tape delay system: David Mott; recorded at Yale Electronic Studio, New Haven, 12/16/75

Jerry Hunt: Transform (Stream): Monopole
Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams
O.O. Discs/1992
voice, device arrays: J. Hunt

SET FOUR
Judy Dunaway: Etude No. 1 for Balloon and Violin
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006
balloon: J. Dunaway; violin: Tom Chiu; recorded at Harsh House, Jersey City, NJ

Aaron Drake: Number 4 from 10 Etudes for Balloon
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

John Cage/David Tudor: Story No. 76 (Henry Cowell's Oriental Music Class)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
voice, text, music: J. Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; recorded at Columbia Teachers College, 1959, by Mel Kaiser

Monks of the Drukpa Order: Nyule Drelwa
Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan, Volume 3
Temple Rituals & Public Ceremonies
Lyrichord/1994 (orig. 1971)
recorded by John Levy at the Nyingmapa Monastery, Kyichu Lhakhang, Paro Valley, Bhutan, 1971

SET FIVE
Laurie Anderson:
a. Cunningham Stories (At the age of twelve...)
b. Cunningham Stories (Every Morning...)
c. Cunningham Stories (The Cunningham Company...)

A Chance Operation -- The John Cage Tribute #
Koch International Classics/1993
music: L. Anderson; texts: J. Cage

John King: longtermparking
Music for Merce boxed set #
New World Records/2010
laptop: J. King; recorded in London, 9/10/02, for the dance "Fluid Canvas" (2002), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SINGLE PLAY
Annie Gosfield: Lightheaded and Heavyhearted
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Tzadik/2004
Flux Quartet; recorded at Avatar Studios, 6/07/04

SINGLE PLAY
Ellen Band/David Lee Myers: Ualen Lagoon (1-3)
Two Ships
Pogus Productions/2005

--FIN--

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Martian Gardens for 03/27/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 27, 2011

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros: Bye Bye Butterfly
Women In Electronic Music 1977 #
New World Records/2006
electronics, tape recorders, turntable: P. Oliveros; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1965

Kraftwerk:
a. Geiger Counter
b. Radio-Activity

Radioactivity
Capitol/1975

Douglas Geers: Atomic Tango
Sonic Circuits IX #
Innova Recordings/2002
recorded at NoTAM, Oslo, April, 2001

SET TWO
George Crumb: Somebody Got Lost In a Storm* (trad.)
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
baritone: Patrick Mason; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swathmore College, October, 2008
*from Voices from a Forgotten World: A Cycle of American Songs from North and South, East and West (American Songbook V)


Tod Machover:
a. Loneliness and Transition
b. Dr. Stone's Scene

VALIS
Bridge Records/1988
baritone: Patrick Mason (Horselover Fat); bass: Terry Edwards (Dr. Stone); percussion: Daniel Ciampolini; piano, keyboards: Emma Stephenson; electronics, conductor: T. Machover; text: Phillip K. Dick; libretto: T. Machover; recorded at the Experimental Media Facility, M.I.T., February, 1988

Laurie Spiegel: Riding the Storm
Unseen Worlds
Scarlet Records/1991
Music Mouse, electronics: L. Spiegel

Terumi Narushima: He Resonates Five Toes
Why Record? Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
koto: T. Narushima; recorded by Warren Burt

Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A Political Prisoner's Dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
composed at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May, 1973-May, 1977

Daniel Eichenbaum: Car Accident
60 x 60 2003 #
Capstone Records/2003

George Crumb: Black Angels -- Departure
I. Threnody I: Night of the Electric Insects (Tutti)
II. Sounds of Bones and Flutes (Trio)
III. Lost Bells (Duo)
IV. Devil-music (Solo: Cadenza accompagnata)
V. Danse Macabre (Duo)

Complete Crumb Edition, Vol 7
Bridge Records/2003
The Miró Quartet; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October, 2002

SET TWO
Shar: Chopped Meat
Pop Music
Outerrealm Records/2002
balloons, vibrator: Judy Dunaway; drums, percussion: Trixa Arnold; Ilja Komarov; bass, Egyptian fiddle; recorded at Studio LH, Luzern, Switzerland

Einstürzende Neubauten: Krieg In Den Städten (War in the Cities)
Strategies Against Architecture 1980-1983
Mute Records/1988 (orig. 1983)

Luigi Russolo: Risveglio di una città (Awakening of a City) (orig. 1913)
Futurism & Dada Reviewed #
Sub Rosa/1988
performed 1977 on a reproduced Intonarumori by Mario Abate and Pietro Verardo at the Historical Contemporary Art Archive of the Venice Biennale

Harold Davidson: Auto Accident
Restless, Endless, Tactless: Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo & The Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 12/14/09

John Cage: [First] Construction in Metal
The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
Wergo/1994
Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, director: Paul Price; piano: David Tudor, assisted by Merce Cunningham; recorded at Town Hall, 5/15/58

SET THREE
Elainie Lillios: Au deuxième étage
Miniatures Concrètes #
empreintes DIGITALES/1999

Elainie Lillios: Veiled Resonance
I. The Beauty of Inflections
II. The Blackbird Whistling (...or just after)
III. The Beauty of Innuendos

CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music

Centaur Records/2010
soprano saxophone: Steve Duke; interactive electronics E. Lillios

SET FOUR
Aldo Clementi: Serenata
Works with Guitar
Mode Records/2007
guitar: Geoffrey Morris; ELISION Ensemble, conductor: Carl Rosman;
recorded at Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne, Australia


Aldo Clementi: Passacaglia
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; tape realized at Centro Tempo Reale, Florence; recorded at Laboratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica -- Fondazione Scula di San Giorgio, Venice, April, 2005

In memoriam Aldo Clementi May 25, 1925 -- March 3, 2011

SET FIVE
Jon Gibson: Equal Distribution
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
flute, live electronics: J. Gibson; recorded in New York City, 10/08/78 for the dance "Fractions I," The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Jon Gibson: Song 1
Two Solo Pieces, plus Melody IV Part I, Melody II, Song 1
Felmay/Newtone Records
violin: Barbara Benary; cello Arthur Russell; cello: Martha Siegel; soprano saxophone: J. Gibson; recorded at Washington Square Church, NYC, 3/03/74

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Bregquelle to Immendingen (excerpt)
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd/2008
field recordings from Öhrlein Farm, near Furtwangen, Germany, 4/30/02

--FIN--

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Martian Gardens for 03/20/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 20, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: Rafales
a. Rafales 2
b. Rafales 1
3. Rafales 3

Récits de Neige
Actullecd/2010
Ensemble SuperMusique; texts: Pierre Tanguay ("Our Shack"), Jean Derome ("The Birth of Raphaëlle"), Scott Thomson ("Beautiful Flakes"); recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, winter, 2008

SET ONE
Marilyn Shrude: Trope
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music

Centaur Records/2010
acoustic and prerecorded alto saxophones: James Fusik, Jeffrey Heisler, John Sampen; recorded at MACCM, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Marilyn Shrude: A Window Always Open on the Sea
I. In the name of a name lost
II. Harsh is the voice that summons
III. Down sunglazed bluffs
IV. Mother-of-pearl glow
V. The tide spreads, enters coppery inlets
VI. As the sun drowns
VII. Hermit of the heart...Nothing is changed for a name

The Core Ensemble--Bending the Light
New World Records/1999
cello: Andrew Mark, piano: Hugh Hinton, percussion: Michael Parola; movement titles: Michael Mott ("Autumn Odysseus");recorded at Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College, 1996-1997

SINGLE PLAY
Stefan Wolpe: Passacaglia (from Four Studies on Basic Rows)
Music of Stefan Wolpe Volume Six
Bridge Records/2011
piano: David Holzman; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, 2008-2010

SINGLE PLAY
Stefan Wolpe: Passacaglia (op. 23)
Wolpe in Jerusalem (1934-1938)
Mode Records/2006
WDR Sinfonieorchestger Köln; conductor: Jannes Kalitzke; recorded at Philharmonie Köln, Novemeber, 2002

SET TWO
Arie Shapira: Second Opinion
Different Compositions 1967-2003/2004
Israel Contemporary Players, conductor: Zsolt Nagy; recorded in Dreseden, May, 2002

Mathew Rosenblum: Ancient Eyes
Ancient Eyes
CRI/1999
Prism Players, conductor: Bradley Lubman; recorded at Master Sound, Astoria, NY, November, 1996

SET THREE
Matthew Burtner: A'aa
MICE World Tour -- Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble
EcoSono/2009
lava flows recorded at the Pacaya volcano, Gutemala

Barton McLean: Ice Canyons
Sound Worlds
Innova Recordings/2010
B. Mclean: Composer's Playpen software, MIDI keyboard, recorded at McLean Mix, Petersburg, NY

Audrey Churgin: Arctic Sun Arctic Wind
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
drum dance and song performed by Rosalie Pissuk and son, Rankin Inlet, Nunavut; other sounds and narration: A. Churgin

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Jitterbug
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
electric guitar, viola, live electronics: John King; laptop, zither: David Behrman; live electronics: Stephen Moore; recorded 1/26/08, Stanford, California, for the dance "eyeSpace" (2007), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET FOUR
John Cage/David Tudor/Takehisa Kosugi: Five Stone Wind (Excerpt)
Five Stone Wind/Cartridge Music
Mode Records/1991
amplified violin, live electronics, bamboo flute: T. Kosugi; clay pots, tapes: Michael Pugliese; live electronics: D. Tudor; recorded in Paris, September, 1988, for the dance "Five Stone Wind," The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

--FIN--

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Martian Gardens for 03/13/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 13, 2011

SET ONE
Doris Humphrey: Dance Rhythms
Restless, Endless, Tactless: Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo & The Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2/10/10

Ursula Mamlok: Sculpture I
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Garrick Ohlsson; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October, 2007

SET TWO
Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Creshevsky/Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2008
violin samples: M. Kimura

Mari Kimura: Vitessimo for Augmented Violin
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
IRCAM Augmented Violin: M. Kimura; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, engineer: Tom Hamilton

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Roaratorio -- An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
a. Part Three (to Line 594)
b. Part Four (To End)

Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002 (orig. 1992)
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier; voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; text: James Joyce; premiered 10/22/79, West German Radio, Cologne


SINGLE PLAY
Yasunao Tone: Geography and Music
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
voice: John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi; piano: David Tudor; qin (guqin): Martin Kalve; Chinese text reader: Yoshiharu Suenobu; texts extracted from geography sections ancient Chinese encyclopedias; recorded in Lueven, Belgium, 10/20/83 for the dance "Roadrunners" (1979), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET THREE
Larry Austin: Tárogató!
Octo Mixes -- Octophonic Computer Music: 1996-2001
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
soprano saxophone: Stephen Duke: recorded/processed tárogató: Esther Lamneck; computer music composed at gaLarry, Denton, Texas, 1998; tárogató recorded at NYU, 4/29/97; saxophone recorded at DRM, Dallas, 9/07/01

Esther Lamneck/Roberto Fabbriciani: Winds of the Heart, parts 8-11
Winds of the Heart
Innova Recordings/2010
tárogató: E. Lamneck; HyperBass flute: R. Fabbriciani; recorded at Studio Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy, 2008

SET FOUR
David Rosenboom: Prologue
Systems of Judgment--CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 4
CCM: Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, Oakland
Centaur Records/1989
recorded at CCM, 1987-1988

David Rosenboom: Music from--On Being Invisible II
(Hypatia Speaks to Jefferson in a Dream)
a. In the Beginning...Reasoned Mind
b. Evolution with Singular Events
c. Political Assertions
d. The Mathematics of Miscegenation
e. Logan's Speech
f. Philosophical Musings with a Sense of Reminiscing

CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30
Music from the Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology,
California Institute of the Arts

Centaur Records/2000
narrator: Sam Ashley; dream voices of Hypatia and TJ: Teri DeSario and Roxanne Merryfield; brainwaves and computer performance: D. Rosenboom; texts: Thomas Jefferson, Cherokee Chief Logan, D. Rosenboom, and material attributed to contemporaries of Hypatia of Alexandria; recorded at CEAIT, October, 1999

SET FIVE
Amy Horvey: Apparatus Inconcinnus (R. Purchase)
Interview
Actullecd.com/2010
trumpet, voice: A. Horvey; text based on an anecdote by Daniil Kharms; recorded at St. Philip's Church and Studio 270, Montreal

Mark Applebaum:
a. Entre Funérailles I
b. Theme in Search of Variations III

Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
a. trumpet: Brian McWhorter; recorded at PINK, 2/22/08; b. performed by Beta Collide; recorded at PINK, 3/02/08

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Akea
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
piano: Aki Takahashi; The Jack Quartet; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 6/23/08

--FIN--

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Martian Gardens for 03/06/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 6, 2011

SET ONE
Barry Truax: The Shaman Ascending
Tranx_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
vocal samples: Derrick Christian, bass; realized at the composer's studio, mixed at the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 2004-2005

Jorge Reyes: Arbol Sagrado
The Flayed God
Staalplaat/1994
composed and performed by J. Reyes; recorded at El Cuarto de Maquinas, Mexico City, 1990

SINGLE PLAY
Johanna Beyer: Three Movements for Percussion
a. Restless
b. Endless
c. Tactless

Restless, Endless, Tactless: Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo & The Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 12/15/09

SET TWO
Luc Ferrari: Madame de Shanghai
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Scottish Flute Trio; samples: Asians on Avenue d'Ivry, Li Ping Ting: Madame de Shanghai; Orson Welles from "The Lady from Shangahi" (1947); Scottish Flute Trio recorded at The Tolbooth Arts Centre, Stirling, Scotland, August, 2006; tape realized at Ateliers UPIC/CCMIX, Paris; musical assistant: Brigitte Robindoré

The Hub: The Minister of Pitch (T. Perkis)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
computers, electronics: John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster; recorded at Mills College, 5/13/88

SET THREE
Alwin Nikolais: Revels--Dance 3 (1986)
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993
electronics: A. Nikolais

Merce Cunningham Event group: September 14, 1996, Annemasse, France
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
laptop, percussion: David Behrman; electric violin, live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; steel pan, objects: Fast Forward

David Behrman: Interspecies Smalltalk, Scene 1
Leapday Night
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
violin: Takehisa Kosugi; computers, electronics: D. Behrman; commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the dance "Pictures" (1984)

SET FOUR
John Luther Adams: Roar
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska, 2002-2003

John Luther Adams: Solitary and Time-Breaking Waves (for 4 tam-tams)
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati, November, 1998

SET FIVE
Alvin Lucier: Twonings (1st 1/2)
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2011
cello: Charles Curtis; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn; engineer: Tom Hamilton

Alvin Lucier: Fan
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
kotos: Miki Maruta, Ryuko Mizutani, Kayoko Nakagawa, Yoko Nishi; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 2/08/05, engineer: Tom Hamilton

SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Faith
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
piano: Bob Gluck; laptop: N. Rolnick; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

--FIN--

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Martian Gardens for 02/27/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for February 27, 2011

SET ONE
Liana Alexandra: Hora
60 x 60 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004

Liana Alexandra: Barcarolla
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

In memoriam Liana Alexandra May 27, 1947 -- January 10, 2011

SET TWO
George Crumb: Bringing in the Sheaves* (Shaw/Minor)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
mezzo-soprano: Jamie Van Eyck; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swathmore College, October, 2008
*from Voices from a Forgotten World: A Cycle of American Songs from North and South, East and West (American Songbook V)


Roland Auzet: Themen (C.R. Alsina)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Musique Aujord'hui; conductor: Jean-Marie Adrien; percussion: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville

SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
The Composer in the Computer Age: Mara Helmuth Sound Collaboration
Centaur Records/2007
created and recorded at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati

Phillip Bimstein: Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa
Larkin Gifford's Harmonica
Starkland/2006
oboe: Stephen Caplan; sounds recorded at Zion National Park, Utah

SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp: Beneath the Forest Floor
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
sounds recorded in British Columbia by Norbert Ruebsaat and H. Westerkamp,1991, produced at CBC's Advanced Audio Production Facility, Toronto

SET FOUR
Michael Pugliese: Peace Talks (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
sitar, percussion: Takehisa Kosugi; percussion: Michael Pugliese; recorded 11/13/90, Bangalore, India, for the dance "August Pace," (1989), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Fritz Hauser: Deep Time (version 2) (excerpt)
Deep Time
Deep Listening Institute/2005
percussion, tape: F. Hauser; accordion, Expanded Instrument System: Pauline Oliveros; EIS, electronics, small instruments: David Gamper; soprano and tenor saxophones: Urs Leimgruber; improvised 10/26/94

SET FIVE
Luc Ferrari: Visage 2
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Musique Nouvelle, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at l'Auditorium Abel Dubois, Mons, Belgium, 4/21/06

Lukas Foss: Echoi IV
Echoi/The Fragments of Archilochos/Non-Improvisation
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
piano: L. Foss; percussion: Jan Williams; cello: Douglas Davis; clarinet: Edward Yadzinski; recorded at the Buffalo and Erie County Library, 11/20/68

SET SIX
Nicole Grutter: What If? (from the collection Out of House and Home)
Deep Wireless 7 Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010

Fereshteh Toosi: If it Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Deep Wireless 6 Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009

Danielle Palardy Roger: Quien sabe (La Niña)
a. Prologue
b. Todos los bienes del mundo
c. El mar es bello
d. Pero agitato
e. ¡Coraje!
f. Los recites
g. El paso
h. Hacia l'America

Pinata, Niña, and Maria
Actuellecd.com/2008
Ensemble SuperMusique, director: Jean René; (b.)text: Juan del Encina c. 1490; recorded for Une Constellation de Mutants concert, Montreal, 4/02/08

SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith/Bob Ostertag: Voice of America, Part 1
Voice of America (Frith/Ostertag/Minton)
Rift Records/1982
guitar, tape, electronics, radio: F. Frith; synthesizers, electronics, radio: B. Ostertag; recorded at P.A.S.S., New York City, January, 1981

John Cage: Bird Cage, Part 6 (excerpt)
Bird Cage
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
realized by William Blakeney at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario, December, 1998; original source material recorded at SUNY Albany, 9/09/73

--FIN--

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Martian Gardens for 02/20/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for February 20, 2011

SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Sintra
I. With Intensity
II. Very Fast
III. Calmly

Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2011
alto flute: Claire Chase; cello: David Eggar; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October, 2007

Elliott Carter: Enchanted Preludes
Eight Compositions (1948-1993)
Bridge Records/1994
flute: Harvey Sollberger; cello: Fred Sherry; recorded at Astoria Sound, NYC, 5/20/93

Carrie Rose: Legacy Variations #99 (S. S. Smith)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
flutes: Lisa Cella, Carrie Rose, Kathie Trahan

SINGLE PLAY
Bunita Marcus: Adam & Eve
Bang On A Can Vol. 3 -- "Live"
CRI/1994
Bang On A Can--flute: Susan Stenger, violin: Marilyn Gibson, cello: Joshua Gordon, percussion: Yiu Kwong Chung and Tom Goldstein, piano: Sheri Bauer; conductor: Bunita Marcus

SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry (Region 3)
Crippled Symmetry
Bridge Records/1999
The California EAR Unit--flute and bass flute: Dorothy Stone, vibraphone and glockenspiel: Arthur Jarvinen; piano and celeste: Vicki Ray

Alvin Lucier: Broken Line
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2010
flute: Robert Dick; vibraphone: Danny Tunick; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn

SET THREE
Newspeak: Brennschluß (P. Muchmore)
Sweet Light Crude
New Amsterdam Records/2010
lyrics: Brian Phillips; recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, NYC

Zeitgeist:
a. Mutagenesis (D. Wolff)
b. Stück (P. Blackburn)

Here and Now -- Celebrating Thirty Years of Zeitgeist
Innova Recordings/2011

Alvin Curran: Romulus and Remus Make a Ruckus
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
for sound installation and projection by Kristin Jones; sound by Domenico Sciajno, University of Rome, June, 2003

SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: Après presque rien
a. Le lever du jour au bord de la mer
b. Le désir de vivre
c. Ainsi continue la nuit dans ma tête multiple
d. Avec filles
e. Le remontée du village
f. Presque rien (aka. Exploitation des Concepts no. 5)

Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
ensembles -- Art Zoyd and Musique Nouvelles, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at Auditorium Abel Dubois, Mons, Belgium, 4/21/06; electronics -- recorded at CCMIX, Paris, directed by Gérard Pape, assistant: Patricia Dallio; samplers, keyboards: Nathalie Négro, P. Dallio

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Joane Hétu: Jamais Froid
a. Neige
b. Flakes
c. Jamais Froid
d. Paysages

Récits de Neige
Actuellecd.com/2010
Ensemble SuperMusique; text: Gilles Derome; recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, winter, 2008

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David Tudor: Neural Network Plus (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi; recorded in Lisbon, 6/05/94, for the dance "Enter" (1992), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

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