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 May 22, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
NOW Ensemble: Awake (P. Burke)
Awake
New Amsterdam Records/2011
recorded at the Church of the Immaculate Conception; Montclair, NJ, August 2010
SET ONE
Okkyung Lee: Danji
Noisy Love Songs
Tzadik/2011
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; trumpet: Peter Evans; piano: Craig Taborn; percussion, electronics: Satoshi Takeishi; bass: Christopher Tordini; cello: O. Lee; recorded at Eastside Sound, NYC
Jenny Q Chai: from New York Love Songs (V. Jordanova)
a. Prayer
b. Bite
New York Love Songs
ArpaViva Foundation, Inc./2010
piano, amplified piano,jingle bells, vocals: J. Q. Chai; lyrics: Victoria Jordanova
Meredith Monk:
a. Shift
b. Fathom
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
(a) Todd Reynolds Quartet, bass clarinet: Bohdan Hilash, percussion: John Hollenbeck; (b) voice, shruti box: M. Monk; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009
SET TWO
Noah Creshevsky: Drummer
The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971-1992
EM Records/2004
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 2, "March No. I" (for Percussion Quintet)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Robert J Werner Concert Hall, Cincinnati; 11/06/07
Lou Harrison: Simfony #13
Drums Along the Pacific -- Music by Lou Harrison
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group; recorded at Fantasy Records, Berkeley, August 2002
SET THREE
George Cacioppo: Dream Concert for Organ and Small Percussion Orchestra
Perspectives of New Music/Open Space (François/Cacioppo)
The Open Space/2009
organ: William Albright; percussion: unknown; recorded at "Final Concert" of the International Symposium of Contemporary Organ Music, South Church, New Britain, CT, 6/15/76
George Cacioppo: Bestiary I: Eingang
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
soprano: Janet Pape; Atelier de Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles, conductor: Lionel Arnaud; recorded 3/26/04
SET FOUR
Mike Vernusky: Dallas
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011
Cody Kirk as Clint Hill, Michael Kranes as Arlen Specter, narrator: T. Lynn Mikeska; playwright: Greg Romero
Mike Vernusky: Under (3)
Music for Film and Electro-Theatre
Quiet Design/2009
Vertical Squirrels: Nomads, Sparrows, & Machines
Hold True (Accroche-toi)
Actuellcd.com/2010
SET FIVE
Yves Daoust: About Time
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011
Yves Daoust: Ouverture
Bruits
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
voices: Philippe Lavelette as Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Simon Finn as Lord Durham, Pierre Mollet as Mgr. Joseph-Octave Plessis, Louis Verdy as Robert Nelson, interviewer: Catherine Perrin; realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 1989
SET SIX
Quartet for the End of Space: Snow Drifts (J. Braasch)
Quartet for the End of Space
Pogus Productions/2011
recorded at the Arts Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., Kingston, NY, 2010
Mary Lee Roberts: Winter Cranes
6 Compositions
The Open Space/1997
Gordon Mumma: Mesa
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
bandoneón: David Tudor; live-electronic cybersonic processing: G. Mumma; recorded in Paris, 11/09/1966
--FIN--
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Martian Gardens for 05/15/2011
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 May 15, 2011
SET ONE
Build: Behavior Patterns
Place
New Amsterdam Records/2011
recorded at Peter Karl Studios, Brooklyn, July 2010
Joseph Bertelozzi: The Homecoming
The Bronze Collection
Blue Wings Press/2003
recorded at Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY, 5/07/03
Henry Cowell: Return
Restless, Endless, Tactless --
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo and the Baylor Percussion Group recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2/10/2010
Okkyung Lee: One Hundred Years Old Rain (The Same River Twice)
Noisy Love Songs
Tzadik/2011
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; trumpet: Peter Evans; piano: Craig Taborn; percussion, electronics: Satoshi Takeishi; bass: Christopher Tordini; cello: O. Lee; recorded at Eastside Sound, NYC
SET TWO
Meredith Monk: Ascent
Songs of Ascension
ECM New Series/2011
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble; Todd Reynolds Quartet; The M6 vocal sextet; Montclair State University Singers, conductor: Heather J. Buchanan; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009
Muhal Richard Abrams: SoundDance, Part 1
SoundDance
Pi Recordings/2011
piano: M.R. Abrams; laptop, trombone: George Lewis; recorded at AACM Concerts, NYC, 9/24/2010
SET THREE
Victoria Jordanova: Secret Life of Bees
a. Swarm
b. Beehive
c. Go to Work
In a Landscape
ArpaViva Foundation, Inc./2007
electric harp: V. Jordanova
The Gregg Smith Singers: From Shook Foil (C.N. Mason)
Like Shining
Living Artist Recordings/2005
soloist: Eileen Clark; tape: Charles Norman Mason; text: Gerard Manley Hopikins, "God's Grandeur"
SET FOUR
Larry Austin: Max Mathews Episode
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 15
The Virtuoso in the Computer Age V --
Music for the Mathews/Boie Radio Drum and Radio Baton
Centaur Records/1994
from Transmission Two: The Great Excursion; conversation: L. Austin, M. Mathews; University of California Chamber Chorus, conductor: Philip Brett; keyboards: Chris Brown; celletto: Chris Chafe; percussion and Radio Drum: William Winant; computer systems: L. Austin; Jay Kadis, Randall Packer, Todd Winkler; featuring the voice of Max Mathews; "Daisy Bell," written by Harry Dacre (1892); live recording at Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley and live broadcast on KPFA, 2/26/1990
In Memoriam Max V. Mathews 11/13/26 -- 4/21/11
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 4, "March No. 2" for 12 radios (First Version)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
CCM Percussion Ensemble, conductor: James Culley; recorded at Robert J. Werner Concert Hall, University of Cincinnati, 5/25/06
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 1
ibid
for 2 variable-speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano and cymbal; performer: Joey Van Hassel; recorded at Robert J. Werner Concert Hall, University of Cincinnati, 6/12/08
SINGLE PLAY
Ostravská Banda: Concert for Piano and Orchestra (J. Cage)
On Tour
Mutable Music/2011
piano: Joseph Kubera; Ostravská Banda, conductor: Petr Kotík; recorded at the Prague Contemporary Music Festival, 11/05/10
SET FIVE
Judith Exley: The Cave of Tidal Sounds
Open Space 16 #
The Open Space/2004
created at the Electronic Music Studio of the Victoria University School of Music, Wellington, New Zealand; sounds sourced from Makara Beach, Wellington, 1993
Denis Smalley: Tides -- Sea Flight
Sources/Scenes
empreintes DIGITALes/2000
created at the University of Toronto Computer Systems Research Group, the Experimental Studio of Finnish Radio, and the Ina-GRM, Paris; completed at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1984
SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: UN(-)1 (MIDI realization)
Open Space 13
The Open Space/1992
mastered 2001 by Mary Lee Roberts
--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 May 15, 2011
SET ONE
Build: Behavior Patterns
Place
New Amsterdam Records/2011
recorded at Peter Karl Studios, Brooklyn, July 2010
Joseph Bertelozzi: The Homecoming
The Bronze Collection
Blue Wings Press/2003
recorded at Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY, 5/07/03
Henry Cowell: Return
Restless, Endless, Tactless --
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo and the Baylor Percussion Group recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2/10/2010
Okkyung Lee: One Hundred Years Old Rain (The Same River Twice)
Noisy Love Songs
Tzadik/2011
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; trumpet: Peter Evans; piano: Craig Taborn; percussion, electronics: Satoshi Takeishi; bass: Christopher Tordini; cello: O. Lee; recorded at Eastside Sound, NYC
SET TWO
Meredith Monk: Ascent
Songs of Ascension
ECM New Series/2011
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble; Todd Reynolds Quartet; The M6 vocal sextet; Montclair State University Singers, conductor: Heather J. Buchanan; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009
Muhal Richard Abrams: SoundDance, Part 1
SoundDance
Pi Recordings/2011
piano: M.R. Abrams; laptop, trombone: George Lewis; recorded at AACM Concerts, NYC, 9/24/2010
SET THREE
Victoria Jordanova: Secret Life of Bees
a. Swarm
b. Beehive
c. Go to Work
In a Landscape
ArpaViva Foundation, Inc./2007
electric harp: V. Jordanova
The Gregg Smith Singers: From Shook Foil (C.N. Mason)
Like Shining
Living Artist Recordings/2005
soloist: Eileen Clark; tape: Charles Norman Mason; text: Gerard Manley Hopikins, "God's Grandeur"
SET FOUR
Larry Austin: Max Mathews Episode
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 15
The Virtuoso in the Computer Age V --
Music for the Mathews/Boie Radio Drum and Radio Baton
Centaur Records/1994
from Transmission Two: The Great Excursion; conversation: L. Austin, M. Mathews; University of California Chamber Chorus, conductor: Philip Brett; keyboards: Chris Brown; celletto: Chris Chafe; percussion and Radio Drum: William Winant; computer systems: L. Austin; Jay Kadis, Randall Packer, Todd Winkler; featuring the voice of Max Mathews; "Daisy Bell," written by Harry Dacre (1892); live recording at Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley and live broadcast on KPFA, 2/26/1990
In Memoriam Max V. Mathews 11/13/26 -- 4/21/11
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 4, "March No. 2" for 12 radios (First Version)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
CCM Percussion Ensemble, conductor: James Culley; recorded at Robert J. Werner Concert Hall, University of Cincinnati, 5/25/06
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 1
ibid
for 2 variable-speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano and cymbal; performer: Joey Van Hassel; recorded at Robert J. Werner Concert Hall, University of Cincinnati, 6/12/08
SINGLE PLAY
Ostravská Banda: Concert for Piano and Orchestra (J. Cage)
On Tour
Mutable Music/2011
piano: Joseph Kubera; Ostravská Banda, conductor: Petr Kotík; recorded at the Prague Contemporary Music Festival, 11/05/10
SET FIVE
Judith Exley: The Cave of Tidal Sounds
Open Space 16 #
The Open Space/2004
created at the Electronic Music Studio of the Victoria University School of Music, Wellington, New Zealand; sounds sourced from Makara Beach, Wellington, 1993
Denis Smalley: Tides -- Sea Flight
Sources/Scenes
empreintes DIGITALes/2000
created at the University of Toronto Computer Systems Research Group, the Experimental Studio of Finnish Radio, and the Ina-GRM, Paris; completed at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1984
SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: UN(-)1 (MIDI realization)
Open Space 13
The Open Space/1992
mastered 2001 by Mary Lee Roberts
--FIN--
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Martian Gardens for 05/08/2011
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 May 08, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love
Vivian Adelberg Rudow/2004
cello cases (prepared tape): V.A. Rudow; cello: Paula Skolnick-Virizlay
SET ONE
NOW Ensemble: Velvet Hammer (S. Friar)
Awake
New Amsterdam Records/2011
recorded at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Montclair, NJ, August 2010
Ostravská Banda: Riti Neurali (L. Francesconi)
On Tour
Mutable Music/2011
violin: Hana Kotková; recorded at St. Wenceslas Church, Ostrava, live for Czech Radio, 10/25/2010
SET TWO
Okkyung Lee: Upon a Fallen Tree
Noisy Love Songs
Tzadik/2011
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; trumpet: Peter Evans; piano: Craig Taborn; percussion, electronics: Satoshi Takeishi; bass: Christopher Tordini; cello: O. Lee; recorded at Eastside Sound, NYC
Lei Liang: Winged Creatures -- A Cadenza for Harpsichord
Milou
New World Records/2011
harpsichord: Takae Ohnishi; violin: Kate Hatmaker, Jeff Zehngut; cello: Chia-Ling Chien; recorded at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, 9/15/10
John Luther Adams: ...and bells remembered...
Four Thousand Holes
Cold Blue Music/2011
The Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury; chimes: Jeffrey Means; vibraphone: Joseph Becker; orchestra bells: John Andress; bowed vibraphone: Joseph LaPalomento; bowed crotales: Bill Holden; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston
SET THREE
John Cage: Credo in Us (First Version)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Robert J. Werner Concert Hall, College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 5/26/06; phonograph record used in performance: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, New York Philharmonic/Leonard Berstein
Herbert Brün: Infraudibles with percussion
Wayfaring Sounds
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Percussion Group Cincinnati; computer music via tape: H. Brün
SET FOUR
J.K. Randall: Cleophila
Cleophila-The Fish-Svejk-Some Old Troubadour Songs
The Open Space/1999
voice: Martha Elliott; text: Sir Philip Sydney (The Old Arcadia)
J.K. Randall: Ars Antiqua w/ banjo
Ars Antiqua/A Garland of MIDI
The Open Space/2008
Eve Beglarian: Making Hey
JKR Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his Friends
The Open Space/2007
voice, keyboard: E. Beglarian; bass: Matt Fieldes; percussion: Damian Bassman
Tildy Bayar: One Past of "Past is Part of..."
(from "Three Readings," E. Barkin, 1988)
ee2 -- A Sound Album by Elaine Barkin
The Open Space/2000
Elaine Barkin: Exploring the Rigors of in Between (August 1991)
ibid.
flute: Alice MacGonigal; French horn: Louise MacGillivray; violin: Marcy Dicterow-Vaj; viola: Lynn Lusher Grants; cello: Erika Duke Kirkpatrick, conductor: Daniel Kessner
Judith Shatin: Homemade Music
JKR Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his Friends
The Open Space/2007
SET FIVE
Quartet for the End of Space: Untitled #270 (F. López)
Quartet for the End of Space
Pogus Productions/2011
source material from Quartet improvisations at the RPI Arts Department, Troy, NY, 2010, and the Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, NY, 2010
Maggi Payne: Solar Wind
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
flute, synthesizers, electronics: M. Payne
SINGLE PLAY
Annette Vande Gorn: from Vox Alia
a. Giocoso
b. Amoroso
c. Innocentemente
Exils (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
realized from 1992-2000 at the Metamorphoses d'Orphee studo, Ohain, Belgium with sound material obtained from the SYTER and MARS systems of the INA-GRM studios, Paris
--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 May 08, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love
Vivian Adelberg Rudow/2004
cello cases (prepared tape): V.A. Rudow; cello: Paula Skolnick-Virizlay
SET ONE
NOW Ensemble: Velvet Hammer (S. Friar)
Awake
New Amsterdam Records/2011
recorded at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Montclair, NJ, August 2010
Ostravská Banda: Riti Neurali (L. Francesconi)
On Tour
Mutable Music/2011
violin: Hana Kotková; recorded at St. Wenceslas Church, Ostrava, live for Czech Radio, 10/25/2010
SET TWO
Okkyung Lee: Upon a Fallen Tree
Noisy Love Songs
Tzadik/2011
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; trumpet: Peter Evans; piano: Craig Taborn; percussion, electronics: Satoshi Takeishi; bass: Christopher Tordini; cello: O. Lee; recorded at Eastside Sound, NYC
Lei Liang: Winged Creatures -- A Cadenza for Harpsichord
Milou
New World Records/2011
harpsichord: Takae Ohnishi; violin: Kate Hatmaker, Jeff Zehngut; cello: Chia-Ling Chien; recorded at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, 9/15/10
John Luther Adams: ...and bells remembered...
Four Thousand Holes
Cold Blue Music/2011
The Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury; chimes: Jeffrey Means; vibraphone: Joseph Becker; orchestra bells: John Andress; bowed vibraphone: Joseph LaPalomento; bowed crotales: Bill Holden; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston
SET THREE
John Cage: Credo in Us (First Version)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Robert J. Werner Concert Hall, College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 5/26/06; phonograph record used in performance: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, New York Philharmonic/Leonard Berstein
Herbert Brün: Infraudibles with percussion
Wayfaring Sounds
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Percussion Group Cincinnati; computer music via tape: H. Brün
SET FOUR
J.K. Randall: Cleophila
Cleophila-The Fish-Svejk-Some Old Troubadour Songs
The Open Space/1999
voice: Martha Elliott; text: Sir Philip Sydney (The Old Arcadia)
J.K. Randall: Ars Antiqua w/ banjo
Ars Antiqua/A Garland of MIDI
The Open Space/2008
Eve Beglarian: Making Hey
JKR Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his Friends
The Open Space/2007
voice, keyboard: E. Beglarian; bass: Matt Fieldes; percussion: Damian Bassman
Tildy Bayar: One Past of "Past is Part of..."
(from "Three Readings," E. Barkin, 1988)
ee2 -- A Sound Album by Elaine Barkin
The Open Space/2000
Elaine Barkin: Exploring the Rigors of in Between (August 1991)
ibid.
flute: Alice MacGonigal; French horn: Louise MacGillivray; violin: Marcy Dicterow-Vaj; viola: Lynn Lusher Grants; cello: Erika Duke Kirkpatrick, conductor: Daniel Kessner
Judith Shatin: Homemade Music
JKR Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his Friends
The Open Space/2007
SET FIVE
Quartet for the End of Space: Untitled #270 (F. López)
Quartet for the End of Space
Pogus Productions/2011
source material from Quartet improvisations at the RPI Arts Department, Troy, NY, 2010, and the Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, NY, 2010
Maggi Payne: Solar Wind
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
flute, synthesizers, electronics: M. Payne
SINGLE PLAY
Annette Vande Gorn: from Vox Alia
a. Giocoso
b. Amoroso
c. Innocentemente
Exils (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
realized from 1992-2000 at the Metamorphoses d'Orphee studo, Ohain, Belgium with sound material obtained from the SYTER and MARS systems of the INA-GRM studios, Paris
--FIN--
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Martian Gardens for 04/24/2011
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 24, 2011
SET ONE
George Crumb: Easter Dawning
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
carillon: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, September, 2001
Lou Harrison: Easter Cantata
a. Sinfonia
b. Audabe
c. Mary's Song at the Tomb
d. Narrative
e. Alleluia
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
contralto: Michelle Rivard; tenor: Brian Staufenbiel; University of California, Santa Cruz, Chamber Singers; California Parallèle Ensemble and members of the UCSC orchestra; conductor: Nicole Paiement; recorded at the recital hall of the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001
SET TWO
Akemi Naito: from Voyage
a. Movement I
b. Movement II
Mindscape
Bridge Records/2006
flute: Tara Helen O'Connor; viola: Richard O'Neil; harp: June Han; recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, NY, 4/09/06
Ursula Mamlok: Der Andreasgarten
I. Dunkel...
II. Noch Schläft
III. Und Morgens...
IV. Kleiner Kolibri...
V. Libelle
VI. Rote Scheibe
VII. Taubenflug...
VIII. Andreasgarten...
IX. Der Mond...
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
mezzo-soprano: Rebecca Jo Loeb; flutes: Tara Helen O'Connor; harp: June Han; text: Dwight Mamlok; recorded Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, NY, 12/22/09
SET THREE
Lei Liang: Harp Concerto
Milou
New World Records/2011
harp: June Han; The Manhattan Sinfonietta; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky; recorded at Merkin Concert Hall, NYC, 2/18/09
Victoria Jordanova: Once Upon a Time
a. Ballade
b. Danse
Requiem for Bosnia
CRI/1994
harp: V. Jordanova
SET FOUR
Merce Cunningham event performance: September 12, 1998, Minneapolis
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; turntables: Christian Marclay
Malcolm Goldstein: Spring
The Seasons--Vermont
XI Records/1998
double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Brooks; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: M. Goldstein; saxophones, vaccuphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; voice, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, 2/26/83
Annea Lockwood: Floating World, Part 1
Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World
Pogus Productions/2007
environmental recordings from around the world
SET FIVE
Shane Hoose: Balance
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38
Music for Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
electronics: S. Hoose; percussion: Roger B. Schupp
Daniel Terrugi: Gestes de l'écrit
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
recorded by D. Terrugi at Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu (Centre d'Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales -- now CCMIX: Center for Computer Music Iannis Xenakis), 1994
SINGLE PLAY
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company: Easter
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. 1970-1973
Cuneiform Records/1999
recorded at the R.A. Moog Co., Trumansburg, NY, 1970
SET SIX
John Morton: Ta-wee
Solo Traveler--Music for Music Boxes
Innova Recordings/2007
music boxes, music box comb, sound processing: John Morton
Amy Horvey: Overture to the Queen of the Music Boxes (Horvey/Goldschneider)
Interview
Actuellecd/2009
trumpet: A. Horvey; music boxes, toy instruments, tuning forks, digital electronics: Jeff Morton; recorded at St. Philip's Church and Studio 270, Montreal
SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Floating World, Part 2 (excerpt)
Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World
Pogus Productions/2007
environmental recordings from around the world
--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 24, 2011
SET ONE
George Crumb: Easter Dawning
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
carillon: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, September, 2001
Lou Harrison: Easter Cantata
a. Sinfonia
b. Audabe
c. Mary's Song at the Tomb
d. Narrative
e. Alleluia
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
contralto: Michelle Rivard; tenor: Brian Staufenbiel; University of California, Santa Cruz, Chamber Singers; California Parallèle Ensemble and members of the UCSC orchestra; conductor: Nicole Paiement; recorded at the recital hall of the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001
SET TWO
Akemi Naito: from Voyage
a. Movement I
b. Movement II
Mindscape
Bridge Records/2006
flute: Tara Helen O'Connor; viola: Richard O'Neil; harp: June Han; recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, NY, 4/09/06
Ursula Mamlok: Der Andreasgarten
I. Dunkel...
II. Noch Schläft
III. Und Morgens...
IV. Kleiner Kolibri...
V. Libelle
VI. Rote Scheibe
VII. Taubenflug...
VIII. Andreasgarten...
IX. Der Mond...
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
mezzo-soprano: Rebecca Jo Loeb; flutes: Tara Helen O'Connor; harp: June Han; text: Dwight Mamlok; recorded Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, NY, 12/22/09
SET THREE
Lei Liang: Harp Concerto
Milou
New World Records/2011
harp: June Han; The Manhattan Sinfonietta; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky; recorded at Merkin Concert Hall, NYC, 2/18/09
Victoria Jordanova: Once Upon a Time
a. Ballade
b. Danse
Requiem for Bosnia
CRI/1994
harp: V. Jordanova
SET FOUR
Merce Cunningham event performance: September 12, 1998, Minneapolis
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; turntables: Christian Marclay
Malcolm Goldstein: Spring
The Seasons--Vermont
XI Records/1998
double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Brooks; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: M. Goldstein; saxophones, vaccuphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; voice, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, 2/26/83
Annea Lockwood: Floating World, Part 1
Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World
Pogus Productions/2007
environmental recordings from around the world
SET FIVE
Shane Hoose: Balance
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38
Music for Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
electronics: S. Hoose; percussion: Roger B. Schupp
Daniel Terrugi: Gestes de l'écrit
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
recorded by D. Terrugi at Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu (Centre d'Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales -- now CCMIX: Center for Computer Music Iannis Xenakis), 1994
SINGLE PLAY
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company: Easter
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. 1970-1973
Cuneiform Records/1999
recorded at the R.A. Moog Co., Trumansburg, NY, 1970
SET SIX
John Morton: Ta-wee
Solo Traveler--Music for Music Boxes
Innova Recordings/2007
music boxes, music box comb, sound processing: John Morton
Amy Horvey: Overture to the Queen of the Music Boxes (Horvey/Goldschneider)
Interview
Actuellecd/2009
trumpet: A. Horvey; music boxes, toy instruments, tuning forks, digital electronics: Jeff Morton; recorded at St. Philip's Church and Studio 270, Montreal
SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Floating World, Part 2 (excerpt)
Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World
Pogus Productions/2007
environmental recordings from around the world
--FIN--
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Martian Gardens for 04/17/2011
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 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--
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 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 10, 2011
Martian Gardens for 04/10/2011
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 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--
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