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 November 20, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely
SET ONE
Haydée Schvartz: An Tasten (A Piano Study)[M. Kagel]
New Piano Music from Europe and The Americas
Mode Records/1993
piano: H. Schvartz; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, January 1992
David Lang: Cello (in memory of Anna Cholakian)
This Was Written by Hand
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: D. Lang; recorded at the Royal College of Music, London, January 2011
Anna Thorvoldsdottir: Hidden -- Rain
Rhízōma
Innova Recordings/2011
percussionist on grand piano: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Music Studios, San Diego
Lisa Moore: Languid and Layered [A. Gosfield]
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 2
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Steven Sehlman; recorded at Studio 508, University of Baltimore County, May 2008
SET TWO
Daria Semegen: Vignette
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 [various artists]
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Cathy Callis; recorded at Springer Hall, CUNY Staten Island, July 1999
Daria Semegen: Spectra (Electronic Composition No. 2)
Satan's Sermon and Other Electronic Fantasies [various artists]
New World Records - CRI/1980
realized at the Electronic Music Studio, SUNY Stony Brook
Ursula Mamlok: Kontraste
a. Humoresque
b. Largo e mesto
Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; harp: Ursula Holliger; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Köln Kammermusikaal
SET THREE
Meredith Monk: Autumn Variation
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
Todd Reynolds String Quartet; alto saxophone: Bohdan Hilash; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009
Meredith Monk: Do You Be
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, organ: M. Monk; recorded at Schaubuhne am Hallesches Ufer, Berlin, July 1980
Meredith Monk: Mapping
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: M. Monk, Ching Gonzalez; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
voice, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusik Festival, Berlin, 10/22/78
SET FOUR
Elainie Lillios: Threads
Entre Espaces [Between Spaces]
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the 19th EuCuE concert series at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University in Montréal, 11/13/98
Roxanne Turcotte: Moteur, on tourne![from Musée sonore]
Désordres DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," presented at Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005
Alvin Lucier: Sferics
Sferics and Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
radio signals for composition recorded at Church Park, Colorado, 8/27/81
David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees [excerpt]
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
sound frequencies for composition recorded inside pinyon pine trees, New Mexico, 2005
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Cartridge Music/11 Instruments
a CAGE of saxophones -- The Works For Saxophone Volumes 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
intersax -- soprano saxophone, artistic director: Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone: Martin Losert, tenor saxophone: Tobias Rüger, baritone saxophone: Reimar Volker; guests -- violin: Burkhard Schlothauer; viola: Johannes Platz; cello: Ulrich Maiß; contrabass: Alexander Frangenheim; piano: Michael Iber; accordion: Gerhard Scherer; percussion: Andreas Peters; recorded at several locations, mastered at the π-Farm, 2004
SET FIVE
François Bayle: Staccato (from Sept Preludes)
Camera Obscura and Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000
recorded at Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris, 1976, revised 2000
Mel Powell: Events for Tape Recorder
Music for Electronic & Older Instruments [Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell]
New World Records - CRI/1968
actors: Mildred Dunnock, Lee Bowman, Martha Scott; text: Hart Crane, "Legend" recorded 1963
Mel Powell: Immobiles (for chamber ensemble with tape)
Settings
New World Records/2003
California EAR Unit -- cello: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, violin: Robin Lorentz, flute: Dorothy Stone, piano: Vicki Ray, clarinet: Marty Walker, percussion: Amy Knoles; recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios, Burbank, California, December 2001
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Fatehpur (excerpt)
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
--FIN--
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Martian Gardens for 11/13/2011
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 November 13, 2011
SET ONE
David Lang: Cage (In Memory of John Cage) [from Memory Pieces]
This Was Written by Hand
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Andrew Zolinsky; recorded at the Royal College of Music, London, January 2011
Alexander Berne & The Abandoned Orchestra: Flicker IV
Flickers of Mime -- The Death of Memes
Innova Recordings/2011
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Hrím
Rhízōma
Innova Recordings/2011
The CAPUT Ensemble, conductor: Snorri Sigfús Birgisson; recorded at Guðriðarkirkja, Reykjavik
SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Intersection I [1951]
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchrestra, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, November 2010
Colin McPhee: Nocturne [1958]
Riegger/Luening/Mcphee
New World Records - CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor
SET THREE
Pierre Alexandere Tremblay: Ces énigmes lumineuses
Quelques reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the studio of Miso Music Portugal, Lisbon; premiered at the Musica Viva Festival, Instituto Franco-Português, Lisbon, 9/23/10
Davíð Brynjar Franzson: The Principals of Order
A Guide for the Dead through the Underworld
Carrier Records - Deutschlandradio Kultur /2011
performed by Ensemble Adaptor
SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: The Story of Our Lives [1973-1974]
I. We are reading the story of our lives (a)
II. We are reading the story of our lives (b)
III. This morning I woke and believed
IV. Before you woke
V. If only there were a perfect moment in the book
VI. The day goes on
VII. The book will not survive
Synthesized Voices
New World Records - CRI/1976
voice synthesis and text: C. Dodge; realized at the Columbia University Center for Computing Activities and Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University
SET FOUR
Marco Capelli & Sintax Error: from In the Shadow of No Towers
a. TV News
b. Burning Tower I
c. Burning Tower II
d. Burning Tower III
e. Burning Tower IV
f. Finale
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narration: John Turturro; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; concept: M. Capelli; Sintax Error -- guitars, music box, live electronics: M. Capelli; keyboards, live electronics: Daniele Ledda; drums, percussion: Roberto Pelligrini; recorded at Musicisi Associati, Naples (2008); Harvestworks, New York City (2011)
Eve Beglarian: Landscaping for Privacy
Tell the Birds
New World Records/2006
voice, electronics: Eve Beglarian
Paul Burnell: Orange Juice
Deep Wireless 4 - Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2007
Mendi + Keith Obadike: Rodeo Red
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009
SET FIVE
Charles Amhirkhanian: Hypothetical Moments
Mental Radio
New World Records - CRI/1985
voice, ocarina, bells: C. Amhirkhanian; harpsichord (samples): Dennis Russell-Davies; recorded at New Wilderness Foundation, NYC, October 1981
John Giorno: Give It to Me, Baby
10+12:12 American Text Sound Pieces [various artists]
Other Minds/2003 [orig. 1975]
voice: Victoria Smitters; recorded at Giorno's studio, NYC (1967), Moog synthesizer processing: Robert Moog, Trumansberg, NY (1967)
Erik Belgum: Dick Tracy All Over His Body
The Aerial #4 - A Journal in Sound [various artists]
Nonseqitur/1994
Beth Anderson:
a. Yes Sir Ree
b. I Can't Stand It
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voice, texts: B. Anderson; percussion (a): Michael Blair; percussion (b): Wharton Tiers
SET SIX
David Behrman: Statement Against the War
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
voice: Thomas Buckner; trumbone: Peter Zummo; keyboards, electronics:
D. Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton
David Felder: November Sky
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute: Rachel Rudich; computer sounds realized at SUNY Buffalo; recorded at UC San Diego
--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 November 13, 2011
SET ONE
David Lang: Cage (In Memory of John Cage) [from Memory Pieces]
This Was Written by Hand
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Andrew Zolinsky; recorded at the Royal College of Music, London, January 2011
Alexander Berne & The Abandoned Orchestra: Flicker IV
Flickers of Mime -- The Death of Memes
Innova Recordings/2011
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Hrím
Rhízōma
Innova Recordings/2011
The CAPUT Ensemble, conductor: Snorri Sigfús Birgisson; recorded at Guðriðarkirkja, Reykjavik
SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Intersection I [1951]
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchrestra, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, November 2010
Colin McPhee: Nocturne [1958]
Riegger/Luening/Mcphee
New World Records - CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor
SET THREE
Pierre Alexandere Tremblay: Ces énigmes lumineuses
Quelques reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the studio of Miso Music Portugal, Lisbon; premiered at the Musica Viva Festival, Instituto Franco-Português, Lisbon, 9/23/10
Davíð Brynjar Franzson: The Principals of Order
A Guide for the Dead through the Underworld
Carrier Records - Deutschlandradio Kultur /2011
performed by Ensemble Adaptor
SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: The Story of Our Lives [1973-1974]
I. We are reading the story of our lives (a)
II. We are reading the story of our lives (b)
III. This morning I woke and believed
IV. Before you woke
V. If only there were a perfect moment in the book
VI. The day goes on
VII. The book will not survive
Synthesized Voices
New World Records - CRI/1976
voice synthesis and text: C. Dodge; realized at the Columbia University Center for Computing Activities and Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University
SET FOUR
Marco Capelli & Sintax Error: from In the Shadow of No Towers
a. TV News
b. Burning Tower I
c. Burning Tower II
d. Burning Tower III
e. Burning Tower IV
f. Finale
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narration: John Turturro; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; concept: M. Capelli; Sintax Error -- guitars, music box, live electronics: M. Capelli; keyboards, live electronics: Daniele Ledda; drums, percussion: Roberto Pelligrini; recorded at Musicisi Associati, Naples (2008); Harvestworks, New York City (2011)
Eve Beglarian: Landscaping for Privacy
Tell the Birds
New World Records/2006
voice, electronics: Eve Beglarian
Paul Burnell: Orange Juice
Deep Wireless 4 - Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2007
Mendi + Keith Obadike: Rodeo Red
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009
SET FIVE
Charles Amhirkhanian: Hypothetical Moments
Mental Radio
New World Records - CRI/1985
voice, ocarina, bells: C. Amhirkhanian; harpsichord (samples): Dennis Russell-Davies; recorded at New Wilderness Foundation, NYC, October 1981
John Giorno: Give It to Me, Baby
10+12:12 American Text Sound Pieces [various artists]
Other Minds/2003 [orig. 1975]
voice: Victoria Smitters; recorded at Giorno's studio, NYC (1967), Moog synthesizer processing: Robert Moog, Trumansberg, NY (1967)
Erik Belgum: Dick Tracy All Over His Body
The Aerial #4 - A Journal in Sound [various artists]
Nonseqitur/1994
Beth Anderson:
a. Yes Sir Ree
b. I Can't Stand It
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voice, texts: B. Anderson; percussion (a): Michael Blair; percussion (b): Wharton Tiers
SET SIX
David Behrman: Statement Against the War
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
voice: Thomas Buckner; trumbone: Peter Zummo; keyboards, electronics:
D. Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton
David Felder: November Sky
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute: Rachel Rudich; computer sounds realized at SUNY Buffalo; recorded at UC San Diego
--FIN--
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Martian Gardens for 10/23/2011
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 October 23, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky:
a. Once
b. Jubilate
To Know and Not to Know
Tzadik/2007
a. soprano: Martha Cluver; b. soprano: Beth Griffith, vocal samples: Thomas Buckner
SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Voice and Instruments
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
soprano: Martha Cluver; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, November 2010
SET ONE
Craig Shepard: Crêt de la Neuve, le 20 juillet 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser/2011
melodica: Christian Wolff
Sarah Peebles: Blue Moon Spirit
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
shō: Kō Ishikawa; recorded at Studio 246, Tokyo, 4/04/95
Philip Mantione: Valuri
Compilation for Max
P.M./2006
computer music for the installation "Wet Sounds" by Joel Cahen
Charles Wuorinen: ♩=60 (mvt. I. Concerto for Amplified Violin and Orchestra)
The Golden Dance
Albany Records/2004
violin: Paul Zukofsky; Radio-Sinfonie-Orchestra Frankfurt, conductor: Eliahu Inbal; recorded for Hessischer Rundfunk, February 1975
SET TWO
Denis Smalley: Pentes
Sources/scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustics; Northumbrian pipes: uncredited; realized at Ina-GRM, Paris, 1974; premiered at Auditorium 104 — Maison de Radio France, 3/20/75
Roxanne Turcotte:
a. Bourdons enjoués [Cheerful drones]
b. Delirium
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
a. electroacoustics; bagpipes, Breton bombard: Michael Dubeau; realized at the composer's studio; premiered at Festival Synthèse, Bourges, Cher, France, June 2004; b. electroacoustics, realized at the composer's studio; Électro-chocs 4: Travaux électroniques féminins, Salle multimédia — Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, 3/20/11
SET THREE
Ursula Mamlok: Five Capriccios
I. ♪=100
II. ♪=112
III. ♪=92
IV. ♩=104
V. ♪=54
Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; piano: Anton Kernjak; recorded at Radiostudio, Zurich, Switzerland, 2/12/11
Lydia Kavina:
a. Free Music No. 1 (P. Grainger, for four theremins, 1936)
b. Free Music No. 2 (P. Grainger, for six theremins, 1937)
c. Beatless Music (P. Grainger, for six theremins, 1937
Spellbound! Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
theremins: L. Kavina; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, 7/10/00
Otto Luening: Fantasy in Space
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
created at the home of Henry Cowell, Woodstock, NY, 1952
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Track 2 (Suite from "No Exit")
Film Music
New World Records/1990
musique concrète from the film of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit," directed by Orson Welles, 1962; produced by the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Ernö Király: The Sky (Nebo)
Phoenix -- The Music of Ernö Király (Király Ernö)
ReR Megacorp/1995
voice: uncredited; tape: K. Ernö; text: Stevan Raickovic; recorded in Hungary, 1961
Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: Wilma Smith; psaltery, organ, electronics: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard Electronic Music Studio, fall 1981
SET FOUR
J. C. Combs: Trinity 666 - The Last Train to Hell
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
created by J.C. Combs for ImprovFriday
White Noise: The Black Mass -- An Electric Storm in Hell
An Electric Storm
Island Records/1968
electronics: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson, David Vorhaus; percussion: Paul Lytton; vocals: John Whitman, Annie Bird, Val Shaw; recorded at Kaleidophon Studio, Camden Town, 1968
Barton McLean: Demons of the Night
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizers, computers: B. McLean; saxophone "horror licks": Albert Regini
SET FIVE
Ingram Marshall: Holy Ghosts
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2002
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve; live digital delay processing: I. Marshall
Eleanor Hovda: Glacier Track
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve; electric bass: Jack Vees; designed for performance in St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, NYC, acoustics replicated using the Soundfield SPS 422 Studio Microphone System and Lexicon Nuverb Processor, engineer: Arthur Bloom
SINGLE PLAY
Bun Ching-Lam: Lü (Journey)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkundemuseum, Heidelberg, Germany
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for October 23, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky:
a. Once
b. Jubilate
To Know and Not to Know
Tzadik/2007
a. soprano: Martha Cluver; b. soprano: Beth Griffith, vocal samples: Thomas Buckner
SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Voice and Instruments
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
soprano: Martha Cluver; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, November 2010
SET ONE
Craig Shepard: Crêt de la Neuve, le 20 juillet 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser/2011
melodica: Christian Wolff
Sarah Peebles: Blue Moon Spirit
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
shō: Kō Ishikawa; recorded at Studio 246, Tokyo, 4/04/95
Philip Mantione: Valuri
Compilation for Max
P.M./2006
computer music for the installation "Wet Sounds" by Joel Cahen
Charles Wuorinen: ♩=60 (mvt. I. Concerto for Amplified Violin and Orchestra)
The Golden Dance
Albany Records/2004
violin: Paul Zukofsky; Radio-Sinfonie-Orchestra Frankfurt, conductor: Eliahu Inbal; recorded for Hessischer Rundfunk, February 1975
SET TWO
Denis Smalley: Pentes
Sources/scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustics; Northumbrian pipes: uncredited; realized at Ina-GRM, Paris, 1974; premiered at Auditorium 104 — Maison de Radio France, 3/20/75
Roxanne Turcotte:
a. Bourdons enjoués [Cheerful drones]
b. Delirium
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
a. electroacoustics; bagpipes, Breton bombard: Michael Dubeau; realized at the composer's studio; premiered at Festival Synthèse, Bourges, Cher, France, June 2004; b. electroacoustics, realized at the composer's studio; Électro-chocs 4: Travaux électroniques féminins, Salle multimédia — Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, 3/20/11
SET THREE
Ursula Mamlok: Five Capriccios
I. ♪=100
II. ♪=112
III. ♪=92
IV. ♩=104
V. ♪=54
Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; piano: Anton Kernjak; recorded at Radiostudio, Zurich, Switzerland, 2/12/11
Lydia Kavina:
a. Free Music No. 1 (P. Grainger, for four theremins, 1936)
b. Free Music No. 2 (P. Grainger, for six theremins, 1937)
c. Beatless Music (P. Grainger, for six theremins, 1937
Spellbound! Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
theremins: L. Kavina; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, 7/10/00
Otto Luening: Fantasy in Space
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
created at the home of Henry Cowell, Woodstock, NY, 1952
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Track 2 (Suite from "No Exit")
Film Music
New World Records/1990
musique concrète from the film of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit," directed by Orson Welles, 1962; produced by the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Ernö Király: The Sky (Nebo)
Phoenix -- The Music of Ernö Király (Király Ernö)
ReR Megacorp/1995
voice: uncredited; tape: K. Ernö; text: Stevan Raickovic; recorded in Hungary, 1961
Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: Wilma Smith; psaltery, organ, electronics: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard Electronic Music Studio, fall 1981
SET FOUR
J. C. Combs: Trinity 666 - The Last Train to Hell
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
created by J.C. Combs for ImprovFriday
White Noise: The Black Mass -- An Electric Storm in Hell
An Electric Storm
Island Records/1968
electronics: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson, David Vorhaus; percussion: Paul Lytton; vocals: John Whitman, Annie Bird, Val Shaw; recorded at Kaleidophon Studio, Camden Town, 1968
Barton McLean: Demons of the Night
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizers, computers: B. McLean; saxophone "horror licks": Albert Regini
SET FIVE
Ingram Marshall: Holy Ghosts
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2002
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve; live digital delay processing: I. Marshall
Eleanor Hovda: Glacier Track
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve; electric bass: Jack Vees; designed for performance in St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, NYC, acoustics replicated using the Soundfield SPS 422 Studio Microphone System and Lexicon Nuverb Processor, engineer: Arthur Bloom
SINGLE PLAY
Bun Ching-Lam: Lü (Journey)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkundemuseum, Heidelberg, Germany
--FIN--
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Martian Gardens for 10/16/2011
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 October 16, 2011
SET ONE
Syntax Error:
a. Nadja's Story 1
b. Nadja's Story 2
c. Nadja's Story 3
d. In the Shadow of No Towers
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narrator: John Turturro; composer (a-d): Daniele Ledda; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; concept: Marco Capelli; recorded at Musicisti, Naples, 2008; Harvestworks, NYC, 2011
Itsnotyouitsme:
It might be a good time to leave this place and go mingle with our heroes
Everybody's Pain is Magnificent
New Amsterdam Records/2011
electric violin, casio sk-1, resonator guitar, effects, voice: Caleb Burhans; electric guitar, acoustic guitar, oud, fender rhodes, effects, voice: Grey McMurray; recorded at Glowing Ocean Studios, Clinton Studios, NYC
SET TWO
Lou Harrison: Serenade for Guitar
a. Round
b. Air
c. Infinite Canon
d. Usul -- Little Homage to Sinan
e. Sonata
Serenado
New Albion Records/2003
guitar: David Tanenbaum; percussion: William Winant (d. Gong, e. finger cymbals, medium drums, e. medium drums)
Lou Harrison: Suite No. 2
a. Jahla in the form of Ductia
b. Adagio, arioso
c. Sonata in Cm
d. A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen
e. Beverly's Troubadour Piece
f. Interview with Harrison and Schneider on Guitar (1981)
Por Gitaro -- Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
guitars, National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; a.-e. recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California, 7/05/04
SET THREE
Lou Harrison: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel
Por Gitaro -- Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harvey Mudd College, Pomona, California, 5/06/07
Bill Alves: Elegy for Lou Harrison
Imbal-Imbalan -- New Music for Gamelan
Spectral Harmonies/2010
HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; cello: Roger Lebow; recorded at Harvey Mudd College
SET FOUR
In memoriam David Gamper 1945 -- 2011
Deep Listening Band: Processional
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
organ, overtone, flutes, electronics: David Gamper; just tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; trombones, didjeridu, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; voice: Julie Lyon Balliet; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, NY, June 1993
Deep Listening Band: Oliveros Gamper Duet
Tosca Salad
Deep Listening/1995
recorded at Trinity Methodist flute, trombone, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper; Church, Kingston, NY, 10/27/94
Zanana: Ghost Dog
Holding Patterns
Deep Listening/2005
trombone, didjeridu, conch, processing: Monique Buzzarté; voice, laptop: Kristin Nordeval; Expanded Instrument System: David Gamper; recorded at Harvestworks Digital Media, NYC
SET FIVE
Deep Listening Band: Metalorgy
The Ready-Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1992
small pipes, metal pieces: Stuart Dempster; voice, long tones: Thomas Eckert; small pipes, metal pieces: Pauline Oliveros; large pipes, metal pieces, voice accents: Panaiotis; recorded at the Cistern Chapel, Ft. Worden Cistern, Olympic Peninsula, WA, February 1990
Chris Brown: Iceberg (for William Winant)
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
crotales, glockenspiel, hi-hat: William Winant; computer-controlled analog electronics, digital delay: Chris Brown; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1989
SET SIX
Philip Mantione: ImXCocteau
Compilation for Max
P.M.
saxophone (source recording): Eric Roberts; desert field recordings; written for the soundtrack of ImXCocteau by Alysse Stepanian
James Tenney: Dialogue
Selected Recordings 1961-1969
New World Records/2003 (orig. Frog Peak Music, 1992)
SET SEVEN
Roxanne Turcotte: Attractions
a. Aurore boréale [Aurora Borealis]
b. Perséides [Perseids]
c. Crépitements et tourments [Crackling and Torment]
d. Profondeurs [Depths]
e. Souffles et alizés [Puffs and Trade Winds]
f. Tour de terre [Earth Trip]
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
installation video: François Doyon; presented at the Café du Monoument-National, Montreal, January, 2005
Natasha Barrett: Water Fall (Microclimate V)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/201
Microclimates sound intstallation premiered in Sleppet, Bergen, Norway, 9/01/07
SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Night Traffic
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992
electronically filtered traffic sounds, recorded 1990
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Program for October 16, 2011
SET ONE
Syntax Error:
a. Nadja's Story 1
b. Nadja's Story 2
c. Nadja's Story 3
d. In the Shadow of No Towers
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narrator: John Turturro; composer (a-d): Daniele Ledda; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; concept: Marco Capelli; recorded at Musicisti, Naples, 2008; Harvestworks, NYC, 2011
Itsnotyouitsme:
It might be a good time to leave this place and go mingle with our heroes
Everybody's Pain is Magnificent
New Amsterdam Records/2011
electric violin, casio sk-1, resonator guitar, effects, voice: Caleb Burhans; electric guitar, acoustic guitar, oud, fender rhodes, effects, voice: Grey McMurray; recorded at Glowing Ocean Studios, Clinton Studios, NYC
SET TWO
Lou Harrison: Serenade for Guitar
a. Round
b. Air
c. Infinite Canon
d. Usul -- Little Homage to Sinan
e. Sonata
Serenado
New Albion Records/2003
guitar: David Tanenbaum; percussion: William Winant (d. Gong, e. finger cymbals, medium drums, e. medium drums)
Lou Harrison: Suite No. 2
a. Jahla in the form of Ductia
b. Adagio, arioso
c. Sonata in Cm
d. A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen
e. Beverly's Troubadour Piece
f. Interview with Harrison and Schneider on Guitar (1981)
Por Gitaro -- Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
guitars, National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; a.-e. recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California, 7/05/04
SET THREE
Lou Harrison: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel
Por Gitaro -- Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harvey Mudd College, Pomona, California, 5/06/07
Bill Alves: Elegy for Lou Harrison
Imbal-Imbalan -- New Music for Gamelan
Spectral Harmonies/2010
HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; cello: Roger Lebow; recorded at Harvey Mudd College
SET FOUR
In memoriam David Gamper 1945 -- 2011
Deep Listening Band: Processional
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
organ, overtone, flutes, electronics: David Gamper; just tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; trombones, didjeridu, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; voice: Julie Lyon Balliet; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, NY, June 1993
Deep Listening Band: Oliveros Gamper Duet
Tosca Salad
Deep Listening/1995
recorded at Trinity Methodist flute, trombone, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper; Church, Kingston, NY, 10/27/94
Zanana: Ghost Dog
Holding Patterns
Deep Listening/2005
trombone, didjeridu, conch, processing: Monique Buzzarté; voice, laptop: Kristin Nordeval; Expanded Instrument System: David Gamper; recorded at Harvestworks Digital Media, NYC
SET FIVE
Deep Listening Band: Metalorgy
The Ready-Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1992
small pipes, metal pieces: Stuart Dempster; voice, long tones: Thomas Eckert; small pipes, metal pieces: Pauline Oliveros; large pipes, metal pieces, voice accents: Panaiotis; recorded at the Cistern Chapel, Ft. Worden Cistern, Olympic Peninsula, WA, February 1990
Chris Brown: Iceberg (for William Winant)
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
crotales, glockenspiel, hi-hat: William Winant; computer-controlled analog electronics, digital delay: Chris Brown; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1989
SET SIX
Philip Mantione: ImXCocteau
Compilation for Max
P.M.
saxophone (source recording): Eric Roberts; desert field recordings; written for the soundtrack of ImXCocteau by Alysse Stepanian
James Tenney: Dialogue
Selected Recordings 1961-1969
New World Records/2003 (orig. Frog Peak Music, 1992)
SET SEVEN
Roxanne Turcotte: Attractions
a. Aurore boréale [Aurora Borealis]
b. Perséides [Perseids]
c. Crépitements et tourments [Crackling and Torment]
d. Profondeurs [Depths]
e. Souffles et alizés [Puffs and Trade Winds]
f. Tour de terre [Earth Trip]
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
installation video: François Doyon; presented at the Café du Monoument-National, Montreal, January, 2005
Natasha Barrett: Water Fall (Microclimate V)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/201
Microclimates sound intstallation premiered in Sleppet, Bergen, Norway, 9/01/07
SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Night Traffic
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992
electronically filtered traffic sounds, recorded 1990
--FIN--
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Martian Gardens for 10/09/2011
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 October 9, 2011
SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Panta Rhei (Time in Flux)
I. Agitato
II. Vivace Misterioso
III. Molto Tranquillo
IV. Allegro Energio
V. Distant
Volume 3
Brdige Records/2011
violin: Susanne Zapf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt; piano: Heather O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, Germany, 11/26/10
Heather O'Donnell: The Missing Nail at the River (W. Zimmermann)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany, April 2007
Margaret Leng Tan: Put My Little Shoes Away (trad; G. Crumb)
She Herself Alone--The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
voice, toy piano, toy percussion (quartet): M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, January 2010
George Crumb: Ghost-Nocturne -- for the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II)
Makrokosmos I & II
Mode Records/2004
amplified piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July 2003
George Crumb: Threnody I -- Night of the Electric Insects (Virgo)[Tutti]
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Seven
Unto the Hills/Black Angels
Brdige Records/2003
The Miró Quartet; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October 2002
SET TWO
Chris Brown: Stupa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
vibraphone: William Winant; piano, computer: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July 2011
Larry Polansky: Canon #1
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
marimba: William Winant; recorded and processed at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, 1983/89
SET THREE
Larry Polansky: Canon #18 -- Trio Canon for Christian Wolff
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
fretless electric guitar: L. Polansky; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; percussion: Nathan Davis; recorded and processed at Brittrax, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and Los Angeles, summer 2002
Christian Wolff: Exercise 18
10 Exercises
New World Records/2006
electric guitar, percussion: Larry Polansky; piano, percussion: Frederic Rzewski; percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; soprano saxophone, percussion: Chiyoko Szlavnics; recorded at the Poggiolo Farm, Pozzuolo, Umbria, Italy, September 2005
Trios, featuring Christian Wolff: Track Two
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, texts: Chris Mann; electric guitars: Larry Polansky; computer, electronics, recording: Douglas Repetto; recording, processing: Tom Erbe; piano, bass, percussion, melodica: C. Wolff; recorded in Hanover, NH, January and April 1998
Chris Brown: Talking Drum (track 13)
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005
percussion: William Winant, Donald Robinson; bass: Lisle Ellis; keyboards, synthesizers: C. Brown; Robert Kauker, synthesizers: Nick Peck, Scot Graham-Lancaster; recorded at Beanbender's, Berkeley, 3/20/96
Lou Harrison: Fugue
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group -- flexatone, claves, maracas: W. Winant; metallophone, box, cowebells: Daniel Kennedy; meditation bells, brake drums, washtub: avid Rosenthal; bell-coils, bass drum, gongs, suspended Turkish cymbal, triangles: Todd Manley; recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, August 1993
SET FOUR
Laurie Spiegel: Crying Tone
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
Electrocomp 200 modular analog synthesizer: L. Spiegel
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Weeping Rocker
I Didn't Want to Say Goodbye
V.A.R./2004
electronics: V.A.R
Elizabeth McNutt: Twittering Machine (A. May)
Pipe Wrench--Flute + Computer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: E. McNutt; computer program: Andrew May; recorded at SUNY Buffalo
Lawrence Moss: Flutepaths
New Paths
Innova Recordings/2011
flute: Sarah Eckman McIver; electronics: L. Moss; recorded at Dekelboum Concert Hall, College Park, MD
SET FIVE
David Mooney: Olbum's Furniture
Facts About Air
D.M./2009
Philip Mantione: Fabrics
Compilation for Max
P.M./2011
PGR: 13
A Hole of Unknown Depth
Silent Records/1995
SET SIX
Elainie Lillios: Stumbling Dance
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Finalist Concert of the III Concurso International de Música Electroacustica de São Paulo at Teatro Laura Abrahão, Brazil, 10/29/99
Jonty Harrison: Free Fall (from ReCycle)
Environs
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at the composer's studio, Birmingham, UK; Elektronisches Studio of the Musik-Akademie, Basel, Switzerland; processed at Studio Métamorphoses d’Orphée of Musiques & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at L’Espace du son — M&R, Théâtre Marni, Brussels, Belgium, 10/20/06
SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Buckner and Tom Hamilton: Segment C
Jump the Circle, Jump the Line
Mutable Music/2001
voice: T. Buckner; improvised electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded live for EMF at Engine 27, NYC, 12/01/00
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for October 9, 2011
SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Panta Rhei (Time in Flux)
I. Agitato
II. Vivace Misterioso
III. Molto Tranquillo
IV. Allegro Energio
V. Distant
Volume 3
Brdige Records/2011
violin: Susanne Zapf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt; piano: Heather O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, Germany, 11/26/10
Heather O'Donnell: The Missing Nail at the River (W. Zimmermann)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany, April 2007
Margaret Leng Tan: Put My Little Shoes Away (trad; G. Crumb)
She Herself Alone--The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
voice, toy piano, toy percussion (quartet): M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, January 2010
George Crumb: Ghost-Nocturne -- for the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II)
Makrokosmos I & II
Mode Records/2004
amplified piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July 2003
George Crumb: Threnody I -- Night of the Electric Insects (Virgo)[Tutti]
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Seven
Unto the Hills/Black Angels
Brdige Records/2003
The Miró Quartet; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October 2002
SET TWO
Chris Brown: Stupa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
vibraphone: William Winant; piano, computer: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July 2011
Larry Polansky: Canon #1
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
marimba: William Winant; recorded and processed at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, 1983/89
SET THREE
Larry Polansky: Canon #18 -- Trio Canon for Christian Wolff
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
fretless electric guitar: L. Polansky; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; percussion: Nathan Davis; recorded and processed at Brittrax, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and Los Angeles, summer 2002
Christian Wolff: Exercise 18
10 Exercises
New World Records/2006
electric guitar, percussion: Larry Polansky; piano, percussion: Frederic Rzewski; percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; soprano saxophone, percussion: Chiyoko Szlavnics; recorded at the Poggiolo Farm, Pozzuolo, Umbria, Italy, September 2005
Trios, featuring Christian Wolff: Track Two
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, texts: Chris Mann; electric guitars: Larry Polansky; computer, electronics, recording: Douglas Repetto; recording, processing: Tom Erbe; piano, bass, percussion, melodica: C. Wolff; recorded in Hanover, NH, January and April 1998
Chris Brown: Talking Drum (track 13)
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005
percussion: William Winant, Donald Robinson; bass: Lisle Ellis; keyboards, synthesizers: C. Brown; Robert Kauker, synthesizers: Nick Peck, Scot Graham-Lancaster; recorded at Beanbender's, Berkeley, 3/20/96
Lou Harrison: Fugue
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group -- flexatone, claves, maracas: W. Winant; metallophone, box, cowebells: Daniel Kennedy; meditation bells, brake drums, washtub: avid Rosenthal; bell-coils, bass drum, gongs, suspended Turkish cymbal, triangles: Todd Manley; recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, August 1993
SET FOUR
Laurie Spiegel: Crying Tone
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
Electrocomp 200 modular analog synthesizer: L. Spiegel
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Weeping Rocker
I Didn't Want to Say Goodbye
V.A.R./2004
electronics: V.A.R
Elizabeth McNutt: Twittering Machine (A. May)
Pipe Wrench--Flute + Computer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: E. McNutt; computer program: Andrew May; recorded at SUNY Buffalo
Lawrence Moss: Flutepaths
New Paths
Innova Recordings/2011
flute: Sarah Eckman McIver; electronics: L. Moss; recorded at Dekelboum Concert Hall, College Park, MD
SET FIVE
David Mooney: Olbum's Furniture
Facts About Air
D.M./2009
Philip Mantione: Fabrics
Compilation for Max
P.M./2011
PGR: 13
A Hole of Unknown Depth
Silent Records/1995
SET SIX
Elainie Lillios: Stumbling Dance
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Finalist Concert of the III Concurso International de Música Electroacustica de São Paulo at Teatro Laura Abrahão, Brazil, 10/29/99
Jonty Harrison: Free Fall (from ReCycle)
Environs
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at the composer's studio, Birmingham, UK; Elektronisches Studio of the Musik-Akademie, Basel, Switzerland; processed at Studio Métamorphoses d’Orphée of Musiques & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at L’Espace du son — M&R, Théâtre Marni, Brussels, Belgium, 10/20/06
SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Buckner and Tom Hamilton: Segment C
Jump the Circle, Jump the Line
Mutable Music/2001
voice: T. Buckner; improvised electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded live for EMF at Engine 27, NYC, 12/01/00
--FIN--
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Martian Gardens for 10/02/2011
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 October 2, 2011
SET ONE
Sō Percussion: Marimba (S. Mackey)
It Is Time
Cantaloupe Music/2011
Martin Bresnick:
a. Farándula simple
b. Farándula de charlatanes -- No saben el camino
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University School of Music, New Haven, CT, 4/02/09
Roger Reynolds: imAge/piano
Epigram and Evolution -- The Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Yuji Takahashi
SINGLE PLAY
Chou Wen-Chung: Twilight Colors
I. A Thread of Light (Contrapunctus Variabilis V)
II. Colors of Dawn (C.V. VI)
III. In the Mist (C.V. VII)
IV. Mountain Peaks Rising (C.V. VIII)
V. Coda: Their silhouettes neither parallel nor contrary (C.V. IX)
Clouds
Mode Records/2011
Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded at Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, 9/17/08
SINGLE PLAY
Bun-Ching Lam: Omi Hakkei
I. Night Rain at Karasaki
II. Awazu on a Fine Breezy Day
III. Wild Geese Descending in Katata
IV. Autumn Moon at Ishiyama
V. The Evening Glow of Seta Bridge
VI. Sails Returning to Yabase
VII. The First Snow of Mt. Hira
VIII. The Evening Bell of Mii Temple
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
flute: Angelika Bender; Dizi, xiao: Wolfgang Wendel; viola: Mariette Leners; erhu: Zhang Zhengfang; zheng: Xu Fengxia; harp: Isabelle Courret; conductor: BCL; recordded at the Portheim Palace of Heidelberg, German, 10/26/09
SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown: Gangsa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
The William Winant Percussion Group -- flat-gongs: Jordan Glenn, Krystof Golinski, Shayna Dunkelman, David Douglas; conductor: W. Winant; live computer processing: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July, 2010
SET TWO
The Hub: Falling Edge
Boundary Layer
Tzadik Records/2008
composers: Chris Brown, Mark Trayle; recorded live in concert at The Lab, San Francisco, 8/03/86
Mark Trayle: _28 (track 5)
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
laptop, electronics: M. Trayle
Bischoff/Brown/Erbe/Payne: CCM Flotsam #12-21
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artists)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
produced by the Staff of CCM, Mills College, Oakland, 1993
Maggi Payne: Flaptics (M. Trayle)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
SET THREE
Elaine Lillios: Backroads
a. Shoe Factory
b. Tree Tunnel
c. Elevator
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered at Espace GO, Montreal, 9/13/02
Herbert Brün: More Dust
SAWDUST -- Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
composed on SAWDUST computer program, 1977; pieces published by Smith Publications
SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument--Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
multiple voices on multi-track tape; visual Arts Fellowship commission premiere: October, 1980, at The American Center for Students and Artists, Paris
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: It's Easy (Joan La Barbara and Chorus)
Dust -- An Opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
electronic orchestration: Tom Hamilton, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, R. Ashley
SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: The Intermediary (excerpt)
The Intermediary
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1982)
piano, electronics: BGT; computer: Joel Ryan
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for October 2, 2011
SET ONE
Sō Percussion: Marimba (S. Mackey)
It Is Time
Cantaloupe Music/2011
Martin Bresnick:
a. Farándula simple
b. Farándula de charlatanes -- No saben el camino
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University School of Music, New Haven, CT, 4/02/09
Roger Reynolds: imAge/piano
Epigram and Evolution -- The Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Yuji Takahashi
SINGLE PLAY
Chou Wen-Chung: Twilight Colors
I. A Thread of Light (Contrapunctus Variabilis V)
II. Colors of Dawn (C.V. VI)
III. In the Mist (C.V. VII)
IV. Mountain Peaks Rising (C.V. VIII)
V. Coda: Their silhouettes neither parallel nor contrary (C.V. IX)
Clouds
Mode Records/2011
Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded at Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, 9/17/08
SINGLE PLAY
Bun-Ching Lam: Omi Hakkei
I. Night Rain at Karasaki
II. Awazu on a Fine Breezy Day
III. Wild Geese Descending in Katata
IV. Autumn Moon at Ishiyama
V. The Evening Glow of Seta Bridge
VI. Sails Returning to Yabase
VII. The First Snow of Mt. Hira
VIII. The Evening Bell of Mii Temple
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
flute: Angelika Bender; Dizi, xiao: Wolfgang Wendel; viola: Mariette Leners; erhu: Zhang Zhengfang; zheng: Xu Fengxia; harp: Isabelle Courret; conductor: BCL; recordded at the Portheim Palace of Heidelberg, German, 10/26/09
SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown: Gangsa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
The William Winant Percussion Group -- flat-gongs: Jordan Glenn, Krystof Golinski, Shayna Dunkelman, David Douglas; conductor: W. Winant; live computer processing: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July, 2010
SET TWO
The Hub: Falling Edge
Boundary Layer
Tzadik Records/2008
composers: Chris Brown, Mark Trayle; recorded live in concert at The Lab, San Francisco, 8/03/86
Mark Trayle: _28 (track 5)
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
laptop, electronics: M. Trayle
Bischoff/Brown/Erbe/Payne: CCM Flotsam #12-21
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artists)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
produced by the Staff of CCM, Mills College, Oakland, 1993
Maggi Payne: Flaptics (M. Trayle)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
SET THREE
Elaine Lillios: Backroads
a. Shoe Factory
b. Tree Tunnel
c. Elevator
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered at Espace GO, Montreal, 9/13/02
Herbert Brün: More Dust
SAWDUST -- Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
composed on SAWDUST computer program, 1977; pieces published by Smith Publications
SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument--Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
multiple voices on multi-track tape; visual Arts Fellowship commission premiere: October, 1980, at The American Center for Students and Artists, Paris
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: It's Easy (Joan La Barbara and Chorus)
Dust -- An Opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
electronic orchestration: Tom Hamilton, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, R. Ashley
SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: The Intermediary (excerpt)
The Intermediary
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1982)
piano, electronics: BGT; computer: Joel Ryan
--FIN--
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Nothing to Say and Saying it 09/27/2011
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
NOTHING TO SAY AND SAYING IT
Tuesdays 22:00--24:00 EDT
Guest Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for September 27, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Clock DVA: Man-Amplifiers
Man-Amplified
Contempo/1991
SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Strategic Defense Initiative
Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971-1992
EM Records/2004
Test Dept: New World Order
Legacy [1990-1993] The Singles Plus More
Cleopatra Records/1995
David Hahn: Are You Sleeping, Now?
Your Time is Up
davidhanonline/2007
IF, BWANA: Screwed It Up Again
Radio Slaves
Monochrome Vision/2007
SET TWO
Eric Lyon: Liberation #1
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004
Daniel Koppelman: Psychic Driving (excerpt -- Rev. Jim Jones/Zion chorus)(E. Lyon)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
Zoviet France: Ram (I was Jim Jones' attorney...)
Collusion
The Grey Area of Soleilmoon/1992
recorded September, 1984
Brian Eno: In Dark Trees
Another Green World
EG Records/1975
SET THREE
Bruce Haack: National Anthem to the Moon
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
additional vocals: Chris Kachulis; originally released on "The Electric Lucifer," 1970
The Moog Machine: Hey Jude (Lennon/McCartney)
Switche-On Rock
Columbia Records/1970
synthesizers, producer: Norman Dolph
White Noise: Here Come the Fleas (McDonald/Vorhaus)
An Electric Storm
Island Records/1968
vocals: Annie Bird, Val Shaw, John Whitman; electronics, EMS Synthi VC3: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson; percussion: Paul Lytton; production: David Vorhaus; recorded at Kalediophon Studio, Camden Town, UK
John Eaton: Blues Machine
First Performances -- The Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizers in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
Syn-Ket, rhythm section: J. Eaton
Frank Zappa: Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
We're Only In It for the Money/Lumpy Gravy
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. Verve/1968)
tape mixing: F. Zappa; sampled voice: Eric Clapton; recorded 1967
Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
tape mixing: K. Gaburo; recorded at the University of Illinois, 1970
Pierre Schaeffer: Étude aux sons animés
L'Oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
musique concrete: P. Schaeffer, Paris, 1958
Alice Shields: from Act Four
a. On the Dark Mountains
b. Dismemberment and Eating
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993
keyboards, synthesizers, Woman, Chorus: A. Shields; voice of Shiva: Michael Wilson; recorded at Quality Studios and the Columbia University Electronic Music Center, NYC
SET FOUR
Brigitte Robindoré: Comme Etrangers et Voyageurs sur la Terre
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Coninuum (various artists)
Mode Records/2001
CCMIX: B. Robindoré; percussion: Roland Auzet, Claire Talibart; Centre de Création Musicale Iannis, Alford, France
Philip Mantione: Dusk
Drainage Music
Scattered Music/2004
for installation "Music for Drainage" created by P. Mantione and Alysse Stepanian
SINGLE PLAY
Takehisa Kosugi: S.E Wave/E.W. Song
Music for Merce (various artists)
New World Records/2010
violin, voice, electronics: T. Kosugi; recorded for the dance "Squaregame," Tokyo, 12/15/76, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
--FIN--
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Program for September 27, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Clock DVA: Man-Amplifiers
Man-Amplified
Contempo/1991
SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Strategic Defense Initiative
Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971-1992
EM Records/2004
Test Dept: New World Order
Legacy [1990-1993] The Singles Plus More
Cleopatra Records/1995
David Hahn: Are You Sleeping, Now?
Your Time is Up
davidhanonline/2007
IF, BWANA: Screwed It Up Again
Radio Slaves
Monochrome Vision/2007
SET TWO
Eric Lyon: Liberation #1
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004
Daniel Koppelman: Psychic Driving (excerpt -- Rev. Jim Jones/Zion chorus)(E. Lyon)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
Zoviet France: Ram (I was Jim Jones' attorney...)
Collusion
The Grey Area of Soleilmoon/1992
recorded September, 1984
Brian Eno: In Dark Trees
Another Green World
EG Records/1975
SET THREE
Bruce Haack: National Anthem to the Moon
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
additional vocals: Chris Kachulis; originally released on "The Electric Lucifer," 1970
The Moog Machine: Hey Jude (Lennon/McCartney)
Switche-On Rock
Columbia Records/1970
synthesizers, producer: Norman Dolph
White Noise: Here Come the Fleas (McDonald/Vorhaus)
An Electric Storm
Island Records/1968
vocals: Annie Bird, Val Shaw, John Whitman; electronics, EMS Synthi VC3: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson; percussion: Paul Lytton; production: David Vorhaus; recorded at Kalediophon Studio, Camden Town, UK
John Eaton: Blues Machine
First Performances -- The Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizers in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
Syn-Ket, rhythm section: J. Eaton
Frank Zappa: Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
We're Only In It for the Money/Lumpy Gravy
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. Verve/1968)
tape mixing: F. Zappa; sampled voice: Eric Clapton; recorded 1967
Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
tape mixing: K. Gaburo; recorded at the University of Illinois, 1970
Pierre Schaeffer: Étude aux sons animés
L'Oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
musique concrete: P. Schaeffer, Paris, 1958
Alice Shields: from Act Four
a. On the Dark Mountains
b. Dismemberment and Eating
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993
keyboards, synthesizers, Woman, Chorus: A. Shields; voice of Shiva: Michael Wilson; recorded at Quality Studios and the Columbia University Electronic Music Center, NYC
SET FOUR
Brigitte Robindoré: Comme Etrangers et Voyageurs sur la Terre
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Coninuum (various artists)
Mode Records/2001
CCMIX: B. Robindoré; percussion: Roland Auzet, Claire Talibart; Centre de Création Musicale Iannis, Alford, France
Philip Mantione: Dusk
Drainage Music
Scattered Music/2004
for installation "Music for Drainage" created by P. Mantione and Alysse Stepanian
SINGLE PLAY
Takehisa Kosugi: S.E Wave/E.W. Song
Music for Merce (various artists)
New World Records/2010
violin, voice, electronics: T. Kosugi; recorded for the dance "Squaregame," Tokyo, 12/15/76, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
--FIN--
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