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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for April 17, 2011
SET ONE
Benjamin Boretz: Violin Concerto, Movement I
Violin Concerto
The Open Space/2010
violin: Charles Castleman; The Eastman Composers' Orchestra; conductor: Geoffrey Pope; recorded March, 2010
Roger Sessions: Two Tableux and Malinche's aria from Montezuma
Americans in Rome -- Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Fred Sherry; flute: Helen O'Connor; clarinet: Charles Neidich; percussion: Daniel Druckman, James Baker; piano: Donald Berman; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 12/04/04
SET TWO
James Newton: from Mass
a. Kyrie
b. Gloria
Sacred Works
New World Records/2011
soprano: Elissa Johnston; mezzo soprano: Tracy Van Fleet; tenor: Daniel Chaney; bass baritone: Abdiel Gonazelez; flute: Gary Woodward; clarinet: Gary Bovyer; violin: Ralph Morrison; viola: Kazi Pitelka; cello: Cecilia Tsan; bass: David Young; piano: Vicki Ray; percussion: Lynn Vartan; conductor: Grant Gershorn; recored at Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Music, August, 2009
Kitty Brazelton: Motet
Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band; laptop, soundtracks, conductor: K. Brazelton; text: Eccles. 3:1-8, 15; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, NY
SET THREE
Giacinto Scelsi: Okanagon
The Works for Double Bass
Mode Records/2007
double bass: Robert Black; harp: June Han; tam-tam: Tom Kolor; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC, 10/10/04
John Cage: Four6
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
laptops: Paul DeMarinis, Jim O'Rourke; percussion, contact mic, tape, live electronics, voice: Takehisa Kosugi; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded 4/04/98, Berkeley, California, for the dance "Rondo" (1996), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
SET FOUR
Gregory Cornelius: Earth and Green*
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
for pitched and non-pitched electroacoustic sounds, recorded at MACCM
*after Mark Rothko's painting
Elainie Lillios: Toronto Island Contrasts
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009
aircraft, voices, and environmental sounds recorded in the Toronto Islands, Lake Ontario
John Oswald: Midday
Timefields & Maritides
MusicWorks Magazine/2006
sound collage featuring Albert Mayr and sounds from his "Horos Harmonica," (realized at Ontario College of Art, 11/15/84) and "Rhythme Trouvé—Onde Marine 2"; recordings by Tina Pearson and Gordon Monahan, Robert Stevenson
David Monacchi: Echoes of a Sonic Habitat
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electroic Music Foundation/Ear To The Earth/2008
original sounds recorded in Montefeltro, Italy, echoic effects and further sounds recorded at the Großer Wasserspeicher cisterns, Berlin
SINGLE PLAY
Wendy Carlos: Spring
Sonic Seasonings and Land of the Midnight Sun
East Side Digital/1998
electronics: W. Carlos (orig. 1972)
SET FIVE
Roland Auzet: Mecano 1 et 2 (P. Jodlowski)
a. Mecano 1 -- Percussion - Machine (toms)
b. Mecano 2 -- Percussion - Machine (Metal)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
percussion: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, Paris
Joseph Bertolozzi: Meltdown
Bridge Music
Delos Music/2009
percussed surfaces of the Mid-Hudson Bridge: J. Bertolozzi
Fetisch Park: Reiz
Alluvial
Extreme Records/1997
SINGLE PLAY
Jonty Harrison: Undertow
Environs DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
created at Harrison's studio, Birmingham, UK, 2007
--FIN--
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Martian Gardens for 04/10/2011
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 April 10, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
James Newton: Sanctus (from Mass)
Sacred Works
New World Records/2011
soprano: Elissa Johnston; mezzo soprano: Tracy Van Fleet; tenor: Daniel Chaney; bass baritone: Abdiel Gonazelez; flute: Gary Woodward; clarinet: Gary Bovyer; violin: Ralph Morrison; viola: Kazi Pitelka; cello: Cecilia Tsan; bass: David Young; piano: Vicki Ray; percussion: Lynn Vartan; conductor: Grant Gershorn; recored at Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Music, August, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Sanctus
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
computers, samplers: N. Rolnick; realized at Wittenberg Studio, Bearsville, NY; iEAR Studios, Renseselaer Polytechnic Institute; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, recorded at iEAR, 10/13/90
SET ONE
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Rebonds B
b. Rebonds A
Mode Records/2006
Percussion Works
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego
Johanna Beyer:
a. IV
b. Percussion, Opus 14
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 Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; a. recorded 12/15/09; b. recorded 02/09/10
Lou Harrison: Music for Remy
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
flute: Leta Miller; percussion: William Winant; recorded at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001
SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: In Bingham
At Sixty -- Selections
11 West Records/2008
voice: S.S. Smith; recorded at Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron, March, 2008
Stuart Saunders Smith: By Language Embellished: I
a. Prologue
b. Scene I
c. Scene II
d. Scene III
e. Scene IV
f. Epilogue
Music/Theater -- New Dimensions (DeLio/Smith)
Centaur Records/2003
voice, percussion: Kristen Loree; producing director: John Bartlit; texts: S.S. Smith
SET THREE
John Cage/David Tudor: Story No. 50
(concerning smuggling cigarettes with Merce Cunningham)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
voice, text, music: J. Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; recorded at Columbia Teachers College, 1959, by Mel Kaiser
John Cage: Voiceless Essay
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
recorded 3/17/88 in New York City for the dance "Points in Space" (1986) The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Renée T. Coulombe: 12th Consciousness
Sounding Out! DVD
Everglade Records/2010
SET FOUR
Robert Morris: Rapport -- November 23, 1975 (excerpt)
Rapport
The Open Space/2011
synthesizer: R. Morris; tape delay system: David Mott; recorded at Yale Electronic Studio, New Haven, 11/23/75
Darren Copeland: Let Me Out (excerpt)
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized at the compoer's studio, Tornonto, 2006
SET FIVE
Mikel Kuehn: Chiaroscuro
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
recorded at MACCM; interactive electronics: M. Kuehn; cello: Craig Hultgren
Craig Hultgren: The Artist and His Model (C.N. Mason)
Music of the NEXT Moment
Innova Recordings/1995
electronic tape: Charles Norman Mason; cello: C. Hultgren
SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Sonata I (R. Ashley)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
grand piano: BGT; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1978
--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 April 10, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
James Newton: Sanctus (from Mass)
Sacred Works
New World Records/2011
soprano: Elissa Johnston; mezzo soprano: Tracy Van Fleet; tenor: Daniel Chaney; bass baritone: Abdiel Gonazelez; flute: Gary Woodward; clarinet: Gary Bovyer; violin: Ralph Morrison; viola: Kazi Pitelka; cello: Cecilia Tsan; bass: David Young; piano: Vicki Ray; percussion: Lynn Vartan; conductor: Grant Gershorn; recored at Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Music, August, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Sanctus
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
computers, samplers: N. Rolnick; realized at Wittenberg Studio, Bearsville, NY; iEAR Studios, Renseselaer Polytechnic Institute; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, recorded at iEAR, 10/13/90
SET ONE
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Rebonds B
b. Rebonds A
Mode Records/2006
Percussion Works
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego
Johanna Beyer:
a. IV
b. Percussion, Opus 14
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 Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; a. recorded 12/15/09; b. recorded 02/09/10
Lou Harrison: Music for Remy
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
flute: Leta Miller; percussion: William Winant; recorded at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001
SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: In Bingham
At Sixty -- Selections
11 West Records/2008
voice: S.S. Smith; recorded at Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron, March, 2008
Stuart Saunders Smith: By Language Embellished: I
a. Prologue
b. Scene I
c. Scene II
d. Scene III
e. Scene IV
f. Epilogue
Music/Theater -- New Dimensions (DeLio/Smith)
Centaur Records/2003
voice, percussion: Kristen Loree; producing director: John Bartlit; texts: S.S. Smith
SET THREE
John Cage/David Tudor: Story No. 50
(concerning smuggling cigarettes with Merce Cunningham)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
voice, text, music: J. Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; recorded at Columbia Teachers College, 1959, by Mel Kaiser
John Cage: Voiceless Essay
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
recorded 3/17/88 in New York City for the dance "Points in Space" (1986) The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Renée T. Coulombe: 12th Consciousness
Sounding Out! DVD
Everglade Records/2010
SET FOUR
Robert Morris: Rapport -- November 23, 1975 (excerpt)
Rapport
The Open Space/2011
synthesizer: R. Morris; tape delay system: David Mott; recorded at Yale Electronic Studio, New Haven, 11/23/75
Darren Copeland: Let Me Out (excerpt)
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized at the compoer's studio, Tornonto, 2006
SET FIVE
Mikel Kuehn: Chiaroscuro
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
recorded at MACCM; interactive electronics: M. Kuehn; cello: Craig Hultgren
Craig Hultgren: The Artist and His Model (C.N. Mason)
Music of the NEXT Moment
Innova Recordings/1995
electronic tape: Charles Norman Mason; cello: C. Hultgren
SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Sonata I (R. Ashley)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
grand piano: BGT; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1978
--FIN--
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Martian Gardens for 04/03/2011
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 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--
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 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
live webcast
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--
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 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
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 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--
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 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
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 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--
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 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
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 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--
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 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--
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