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Program for December 18, 2011
SET ONE
Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music [Randall/Vercoe/Dodge]
Nonesuch/1974
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Barry Vercoe: Synapse for Viola and Computer
Computer Works [Winham/Vercoe/Hoffman/Gressel]
CRI/1978
viola: Marcus Thompson; realized at the M.I.T. Experimental Electronic Music Studio
Frances White: A veil barely seen
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen; electroacoustics: F. White
SET TWO
Charles Dodge: Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
New Albion Records/1992
tenor: Enrico Caruso (sourced from Ruggerio Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci," aria: "Vesti la Giuba"); piano: Alan Feinberg
ZNR: Seynette
Barricade 3
ReR Megacorp/1994 (orig. 1977)
synthesizer, voice: Hector Zazou; piano: Joseph Racaille; violin: Gilly Bell; bass clarinet: Patrick Portella; flute: David Rueff; tenor saxophone: Andre Jaume; recorded at Gilly Bell's studio, Ventabren (Bouches-du-Rhône), France, January 1976
Hervé Zénouda: Reflets Fauves
Demain, dès l'aube...
Trace Label/2002
electric guitar: Thomas Petit; piano, percussion, electronics: H. Zénouda; recorded at Sudio de la Rotonde, Châtenay-Malabry, France
Arie Shapira: Ex Machina
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004
guitar: Ruben Serussi; electronic tape: Arie Shapira; recorded in Israel
SET THREE
Elainie Lillios: Listening Beyond...
Entre espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studio of the Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, 2007; premiered at the High Voltage concert in the Recital Hall at Louisiana State University, 12/03/07
Sarah Peebles: Nocturnal Premonitions
Music from Nature [various artists]
Terra Nova/1997
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme,
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recored at the Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music Studio, France, 2001
SET FOUR
James Corrêa: O jardim dos caminhos que se bifurcam
Plural [Corrêa & Miranda]
Fumproarte/2002
classical guitar, electronics: J. Corrêa; recorded at the Dreher Studio, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002
Adolfo Núñez: Jurel
Electroacoustic Music CD-R
Adolfo Núñez/2004
musique concrete sourced from flamenco performances; recorded at the studio of Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges, France, 1993
Alfredo Lagos/Giovanni Venosta/Massimo Mariani: Estudio sobre el ritmo
Metamorphoses
ReR Megacorp/1999
Spanish guitar: A. Lagos; treatments, engineering: G. Venosta, M. Mariani; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, July 1997
SET FIVE
Marco Capelli and Sintax Error: Selections from
In the Shadow of No Towers
a. The Flag
b. Maus 1
c. Maus 2
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narrator: John Turturro; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; recorded at Musicisti Associati, Naples, 2008 and Harvestworks, New York City, 2011
Heiner Goebbels: Selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 2: Gertrude Stein texts
a. Just Like That
b. On the Road
c. And We Said Goodbye
d. On the Radio
e. Different Nations
f. Out Where the West Begins*/Train Travelling
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten [Landscape with Distant Relatives]
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; SWR Baden-Baden
*music and lyrics: Arthur Chapman (1917)
Little Bang Theory: Dmitri Rides Again
Toy Suites and Themes
Transmogrification/2011
toys, whistling: F. Pahl; toys, voice: Terri Sarris; toys, drums: Dough Shimmin
Tom Waits: Russian Dance
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
Emax strings: Tom Waits; cello: Matt Brubeck; viola: Linda Deluca; bass: Bill Douglas; boots: Kathleen Brennan, Clive Butters, Tom Waits, Francis Thumm, Joe Marquez; recorded at Prairie Sun Recording Studios, Cotati, California
Tom Waits: Poor Little Lamb
Orphans -- Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Anti-/2006
performed by Tom Waits (voice, accordion); originally appearing in the 1987 motion picture "Ironweed"
Frank Pahl: The Mid-Century Modern Waltz
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
upright Vose piano, various noise-making objects: F. Pahl
SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: Return -- A Triumph of Reason, part I
a. Beginning of the Universe
b. Earth, the beginning of our solar system
c. Descending Dance
d. Chord dance: Dance of Destruction
e. 12 b.c.
f. Comet
g. Giotto
h. 1862--Halley
i. CODA--return
j. D Major
The Key to Songs
New Albion Records/1986
Yamaha Computer Assisted Music Systems: M. Subotnick; recorded at the Enterprise, Burbank, California
SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Anticredos (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
performed by Songcircle, director: Gregory Rose; recorded in the Music Center, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March/April, 1982
--FIN--
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Martian Gardens for 12/11/2011
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for December 11, 2011
HAPPY 103rd BIRTHDAY, ELLIOTT CARTER! DECEMBER 11, 1908
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 2/12/09
SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Sound Fields
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Oliver Knussen; recorded at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh, England, 6/20/09
Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano and Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
The Arditti Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY Purchase, 12/07/98
SET TWO
John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion Records/1994
prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 1993
Ingram Marshall: Introduction
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1991
piano, synthesizer: I. Marshall
Philip Glass: Metamorphosis Two
Solo Piano
CBS/1989
piano: P. Glass
SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro
a. Kunsonoro kaj Gloro
b. Strofo 1
c. Strofo 2
d. Strofo 3
e. Strofo 4
f. Strofo 5
g. Strofo 6
h. Strofo 7
i. Mantro kaj Konsonoro
New Albion Records/1988
The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of the University of California at Berkeley, director: Philip Brett; text: the Heart Sūtra; harp: Karen Gottlieb; organ: Agnes Sauerbeck; American Gamelan -- Don R. Baker, Scott Evans, Gino Robari Forlin, Todd Manley, Peter Thielen; director: William Winant; gamelan builder: William Colvig; technician: Ron Engel; recorded at Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, November 7-8, 1987
SET THREE
Heiner Goebbels: selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 1: Gertrude Stein texts
a. The Sirens
b. In the 19th Century
c. Well Anyway
d. Did It Really Happen?
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; tonmeister: Max Federhofer, SWR Baden-Baden
John Young: selections from Ricordiamo Forlì
a. In Piazza Saffi
b. Interlude I
c. Bitter Storm
d. Ancient Tear
Lieu-temps
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
narrator: Franco Bianchini; text (Ancient Tear): Giosuè Carducci, "Pianto Antico." "Ricordiamo Forlì" was realized in 2005 in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and premiered on Radio New Zealand’s ConcertFM program, 7/25/06.
SET FOUR
Charles Amirkhanian: Church Car, Version 2
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voices: C. Amirkhanian, Anthony J. Gnazzo; recorded at California State University, Hayward, 1980
Pamela Z: 50 (for Charles Amirkhanian)
A Delay is Better
Starkland Records/2004
voice: Pamela Z
Daniel Lentz: You Can't See the Forest...Music
Cold Blue [various artists]
Cold Blue Music/2002 (orig. 1984)
for three speaker-drinkers, three malleted wine glasses, and red wine, cascading echo system; performers: D. Lentz, Garry Eister, Stan Carey
Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (Matthews/Ping/Klucevsek)
Play Nice
O.O. Dics/1999
voice: Jon Smith; gopichan: Eve Beglarian; text: adapted from a Chinese tea package: arr. Eve Beglarian recorded at Baby Monster, New York City
Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 1
b. Northern Lights 2
Facing North
ECM Records/1992
voice, piano, organ, pitch pipe: M. Monk; voice, pitch pipe: Robert Een; recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, April 1992
SET FIVE
James Tenney: Beast
Modern American Bass [various artists]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts; August 2006
James Tenney: Percussion Response (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Inderterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, February 2007
SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Postal Pieces
New World Records/2004
percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in the Netherlands, 2003
--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 December 11, 2011
HAPPY 103rd BIRTHDAY, ELLIOTT CARTER! DECEMBER 11, 1908
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 2/12/09
SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Sound Fields
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Oliver Knussen; recorded at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh, England, 6/20/09
Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano and Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
The Arditti Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY Purchase, 12/07/98
SET TWO
John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion Records/1994
prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 1993
Ingram Marshall: Introduction
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1991
piano, synthesizer: I. Marshall
Philip Glass: Metamorphosis Two
Solo Piano
CBS/1989
piano: P. Glass
SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro
a. Kunsonoro kaj Gloro
b. Strofo 1
c. Strofo 2
d. Strofo 3
e. Strofo 4
f. Strofo 5
g. Strofo 6
h. Strofo 7
i. Mantro kaj Konsonoro
New Albion Records/1988
The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of the University of California at Berkeley, director: Philip Brett; text: the Heart Sūtra; harp: Karen Gottlieb; organ: Agnes Sauerbeck; American Gamelan -- Don R. Baker, Scott Evans, Gino Robari Forlin, Todd Manley, Peter Thielen; director: William Winant; gamelan builder: William Colvig; technician: Ron Engel; recorded at Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, November 7-8, 1987
SET THREE
Heiner Goebbels: selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 1: Gertrude Stein texts
a. The Sirens
b. In the 19th Century
c. Well Anyway
d. Did It Really Happen?
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; tonmeister: Max Federhofer, SWR Baden-Baden
John Young: selections from Ricordiamo Forlì
a. In Piazza Saffi
b. Interlude I
c. Bitter Storm
d. Ancient Tear
Lieu-temps
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
narrator: Franco Bianchini; text (Ancient Tear): Giosuè Carducci, "Pianto Antico." "Ricordiamo Forlì" was realized in 2005 in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and premiered on Radio New Zealand’s ConcertFM program, 7/25/06.
SET FOUR
Charles Amirkhanian: Church Car, Version 2
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voices: C. Amirkhanian, Anthony J. Gnazzo; recorded at California State University, Hayward, 1980
Pamela Z: 50 (for Charles Amirkhanian)
A Delay is Better
Starkland Records/2004
voice: Pamela Z
Daniel Lentz: You Can't See the Forest...Music
Cold Blue [various artists]
Cold Blue Music/2002 (orig. 1984)
for three speaker-drinkers, three malleted wine glasses, and red wine, cascading echo system; performers: D. Lentz, Garry Eister, Stan Carey
Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (Matthews/Ping/Klucevsek)
Play Nice
O.O. Dics/1999
voice: Jon Smith; gopichan: Eve Beglarian; text: adapted from a Chinese tea package: arr. Eve Beglarian recorded at Baby Monster, New York City
Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 1
b. Northern Lights 2
Facing North
ECM Records/1992
voice, piano, organ, pitch pipe: M. Monk; voice, pitch pipe: Robert Een; recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, April 1992
SET FIVE
James Tenney: Beast
Modern American Bass [various artists]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts; August 2006
James Tenney: Percussion Response (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Inderterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, February 2007
SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Postal Pieces
New World Records/2004
percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in the Netherlands, 2003
--FIN--
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Martian Gardens for 12/04/2011
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for December 4, 2011
SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Look She Said (I-V)
Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass)
Mode Records/2002
bass, voice: Robert Black; recorded at Millard Auditorium, Hartt School, University of Hartford; 1/04/00
Joseph Iadone: Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
a. Con moto
b. Adagio
c. Scherzo
Modern American Bass [various composers]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; piano: John McDonald; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, August, 2006
SET TWO
Arthur Kreiger: Dance for Sarah
Electronic Works [Kreiger/Matthews/Tanenbaum]
New World Records - CRI/1982
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1976
Arthur Kreiger: Voyage
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
Buchla Synthesizers, electronics; premiered at the WBAI Free Music Store, NYC, 10/10/76
Péter Eötvös: Electrochronicle (Session: June 8, 1974)
Electrochronicle
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
stereo tape, live session recorded by WDR in 1974; electronics, electric organ: Péter Eötvös; electric organ: Mesias Maiguashca
Roxanne Turcotte: from Musée sonore (Sound Museum)
a. Est-ce que je rêve? (Am I Dreaming?)
b. Télé réalité (Reality TV)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at Productions RTM, 2003-2004, for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005
SET THREE
Mark Applebaum: Scipio Wakes Up (and Smells the Coffee)
Intellectual Property
Innova Recordings/2006
for 6 electroacoustic sound-sculptures (the Micro Mice), with electronic drumset, electronic marimba, violin, and bassoon; performance: The Paul Dresher Ensemble; electronic keyboards and sound sculptures: Phil Aaberg, Paul Dresher; violin and sound sculptures: Craig Fry; bassoon and sound sculptures: Paul Hanson; electronic marimba and sound sculptures: Amy Knoles; electronic drumset and sound sculptures: Gene Reffkin; recorded live at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, 4/20/96 and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 5/31/96
Mark Applebaum: Scipio ReMix
The Janus ReMixes -- Excercises in Auto-Plundering
Innova Recordings/1999
computer processing: Mark Applebaum
Herbert Brün: Wayfaring Sounds
Wayfaring Sounds -- Compositions for Instruments with Tape
Electrnic Music Foundation/1998
recorded at the Siemens Studio for electronic music, Munich, 1962
SET FOUR
Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta: Rozart
Digital Music
Mode Records/1990
electronics: E. Pimenta; sourced voice: Enrico Caruso; realized during E. Pimenta's participation on the Loop Committee for a performance of John Cage's Rozart Mix in New York City, 1989
Jorge Antunes: Hombres Tristes...*
Música Electroacústica Brasileira Vol. II [various artists]
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/1999
computers, synthesizer: J. Antunes; recorded at the Laboratorio de informática y electrónica Musical, CDMC, Madrid, summer 1998
*full title: Hombres Tristes Y Sin Titulo Rodeados De Pajaros En Noche Amarilla, Violeta Y Naranja [inspired by Joan Miró]
SET FIVE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba I
Southern Cones -- Music Out of Africa and South America
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
realized in at the University of York, 1990
Drew Krause: Lounge Hell
Powder
Innova Recordings/2007
realized in 2001, mastered at Legacy Sound, New Rochelle, September 2005
Barbara Held: The Well
Power and Responsibility: Converted to Streaming Between Machines
Leonardo Music Journal Volume 9 [various artists]
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Blends
Blends
New Albion Records/2002
shakuhachi: Katsuya Yokoyama; Micromoog and Polymoog synthesizers: R. Teitelbaum; tabla and percussion: Trilok Gurtu; recorded at A&R Studios, New York City, 1983
SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Golem I
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 2 [various artists]
iEAR Studios at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1988
computer music performance system: R. Teitelbaum; realized 1987
--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 December 4, 2011
SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Look She Said (I-V)
Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass)
Mode Records/2002
bass, voice: Robert Black; recorded at Millard Auditorium, Hartt School, University of Hartford; 1/04/00
Joseph Iadone: Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
a. Con moto
b. Adagio
c. Scherzo
Modern American Bass [various composers]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; piano: John McDonald; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, August, 2006
SET TWO
Arthur Kreiger: Dance for Sarah
Electronic Works [Kreiger/Matthews/Tanenbaum]
New World Records - CRI/1982
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1976
Arthur Kreiger: Voyage
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
Buchla Synthesizers, electronics; premiered at the WBAI Free Music Store, NYC, 10/10/76
Péter Eötvös: Electrochronicle (Session: June 8, 1974)
Electrochronicle
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
stereo tape, live session recorded by WDR in 1974; electronics, electric organ: Péter Eötvös; electric organ: Mesias Maiguashca
Roxanne Turcotte: from Musée sonore (Sound Museum)
a. Est-ce que je rêve? (Am I Dreaming?)
b. Télé réalité (Reality TV)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at Productions RTM, 2003-2004, for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005
SET THREE
Mark Applebaum: Scipio Wakes Up (and Smells the Coffee)
Intellectual Property
Innova Recordings/2006
for 6 electroacoustic sound-sculptures (the Micro Mice), with electronic drumset, electronic marimba, violin, and bassoon; performance: The Paul Dresher Ensemble; electronic keyboards and sound sculptures: Phil Aaberg, Paul Dresher; violin and sound sculptures: Craig Fry; bassoon and sound sculptures: Paul Hanson; electronic marimba and sound sculptures: Amy Knoles; electronic drumset and sound sculptures: Gene Reffkin; recorded live at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, 4/20/96 and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 5/31/96
Mark Applebaum: Scipio ReMix
The Janus ReMixes -- Excercises in Auto-Plundering
Innova Recordings/1999
computer processing: Mark Applebaum
Herbert Brün: Wayfaring Sounds
Wayfaring Sounds -- Compositions for Instruments with Tape
Electrnic Music Foundation/1998
recorded at the Siemens Studio for electronic music, Munich, 1962
SET FOUR
Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta: Rozart
Digital Music
Mode Records/1990
electronics: E. Pimenta; sourced voice: Enrico Caruso; realized during E. Pimenta's participation on the Loop Committee for a performance of John Cage's Rozart Mix in New York City, 1989
Jorge Antunes: Hombres Tristes...*
Música Electroacústica Brasileira Vol. II [various artists]
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/1999
computers, synthesizer: J. Antunes; recorded at the Laboratorio de informática y electrónica Musical, CDMC, Madrid, summer 1998
*full title: Hombres Tristes Y Sin Titulo Rodeados De Pajaros En Noche Amarilla, Violeta Y Naranja [inspired by Joan Miró]
SET FIVE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba I
Southern Cones -- Music Out of Africa and South America
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
realized in at the University of York, 1990
Drew Krause: Lounge Hell
Powder
Innova Recordings/2007
realized in 2001, mastered at Legacy Sound, New Rochelle, September 2005
Barbara Held: The Well
Power and Responsibility: Converted to Streaming Between Machines
Leonardo Music Journal Volume 9 [various artists]
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Blends
Blends
New Albion Records/2002
shakuhachi: Katsuya Yokoyama; Micromoog and Polymoog synthesizers: R. Teitelbaum; tabla and percussion: Trilok Gurtu; recorded at A&R Studios, New York City, 1983
SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Golem I
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 2 [various artists]
iEAR Studios at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1988
computer music performance system: R. Teitelbaum; realized 1987
--FIN-
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Martian Gardens for 11/27/2011
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 27, 2011
SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Palace Music (from Suite for National Steel Guitar)
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California 7/15/04
John Schneider/Just Strings: Three Intrusions [H. Partch]
I. The Rose
II. The Crane
III. The Waterfall
Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003
Adapted Guitar, voice: John Schneider; Diamond Marimba: Gene Sterling; texts: Ella Young (I, III), Tsurayuki (II)
Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Timbres Artificiales
Fragments of the Past
New Albion Records/2004
guitar: Jaime Marquez; recorded at Mahler Sound, Miami, Florida, April 2003
SET TWO
Dan Joseph: Wind Patterns
Tonalization (for the Afterlife)
Mutable Music/2011
hammer dulcimer: Dan Joseph; flute: Leah Paul; recorded at Spin Studios, Long Island City; July 2010
Martin Bresnick:
a. Farandula de Politicos -- Contra el Bien General
b. Farandula de Populacho
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, New Haven, 4/02/09
Larry Polansky: Rue Plats (Resting Place) (for Ben Johnston)
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
guitars: Toon Callier; harp: Jutta Troch; live guitar tuning, percussion: Jeroen Stevens; voice: W. Victor; text, melody: Morris Rosenfeld
Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
text: Federico Garcia Lorca, "Bodas de Sangre" (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 1995
SET THREE
Peter Zummo: Fresh Batteries
Experimenting with Household Chemicals
XI Records/1995
trombone, voice: Peter Zummo; amplified cello, keyboard bass, voice: Arthur Russell; marimba, voice: Bill Ruyle; recorded at various locations 1987-1991
Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
Piero Milesi: Avanti La Tre
Within Himself
Cuneiform Records/2000
programming, keyboards: P. Milesi; sound effects, video: Luca Scarzella; recorded at Deffenu Recording Studio, Milan, 1991
SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
vocals, trumpet: Susan Watts, clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontorovich; violin, vocals: Amy Zakar; bass, vocals: Heather Chriscaden Versace; tenor sax, alto sax: Audrey Betsy Welber; trumpet: Ben Holmes; piano: Adrian Banner; drums: Gregg Mervine; samples: The Klez Dispensers
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba X
Desde El Otro Lado -- Electroacoustic from Latin America (various artists)
O.O. Discs/1998
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008
premiered in 1970 at the Osaka World's Fair for the Federation of Iron and Steel Companies' pavilion
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Les trois petits c… (A Woman in Berlin)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2010 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio in Ohain (Belgium) and at the composer’s studio and premiered on May 25, 2011; premiered at Trois visages des musiques électroacoustiques: musique électroacoustique et videomusique, Espace Senghor, Brussels
SET FIVE
Ragnar Grippe: Musique Douze
International Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records - CRI/1976
realized at Electronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm, 1975
Lisa Moore: Machine-like, but with some groove (A. Gosfield)
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010
SET SIX
Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms -- The Nerve Events Project (various artists)
Cuneiform Records/1993
Ingram Marshall: Gradual Requiem, Part 3
Fog Tropes
New Albion Records/1988 (orig. 1984)
mandolin: Foster Reed; voice, piano, Serge Modular synthesizer: I. Marshall; recorded at Möbius Studio, San Francisco
Otto Luening: Synthesis for Orchestra and Electronic Sound
Music of Riegger, McPhee & Luening
New World Records - CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor; electronics realized on the RCA synthesizer, synchronized at the Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center (1960)
SINGLE PLAY
Salvatore Martirano: Sampler -- Everything Goes When the Whistle Blows
a. Goes
b. Bnkquan 3
c. Drm 18.3
d. Add 1
e. Whistle, Train, Harpbird
f. BS 2Bak
g. End 1 Go
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 3 [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios and Computer Music Project at
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Centaur Records/1989
yahaSALmaMAC MIDI orchestra: S. Martirano; Zeta violin: Dorothy Martirano; recorded at the University of Illinois School of Music, 1989
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for November 27, 2011
SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Palace Music (from Suite for National Steel Guitar)
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California 7/15/04
John Schneider/Just Strings: Three Intrusions [H. Partch]
I. The Rose
II. The Crane
III. The Waterfall
Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003
Adapted Guitar, voice: John Schneider; Diamond Marimba: Gene Sterling; texts: Ella Young (I, III), Tsurayuki (II)
Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Timbres Artificiales
Fragments of the Past
New Albion Records/2004
guitar: Jaime Marquez; recorded at Mahler Sound, Miami, Florida, April 2003
SET TWO
Dan Joseph: Wind Patterns
Tonalization (for the Afterlife)
Mutable Music/2011
hammer dulcimer: Dan Joseph; flute: Leah Paul; recorded at Spin Studios, Long Island City; July 2010
Martin Bresnick:
a. Farandula de Politicos -- Contra el Bien General
b. Farandula de Populacho
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, New Haven, 4/02/09
Larry Polansky: Rue Plats (Resting Place) (for Ben Johnston)
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
guitars: Toon Callier; harp: Jutta Troch; live guitar tuning, percussion: Jeroen Stevens; voice: W. Victor; text, melody: Morris Rosenfeld
Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
text: Federico Garcia Lorca, "Bodas de Sangre" (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 1995
SET THREE
Peter Zummo: Fresh Batteries
Experimenting with Household Chemicals
XI Records/1995
trombone, voice: Peter Zummo; amplified cello, keyboard bass, voice: Arthur Russell; marimba, voice: Bill Ruyle; recorded at various locations 1987-1991
Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
Piero Milesi: Avanti La Tre
Within Himself
Cuneiform Records/2000
programming, keyboards: P. Milesi; sound effects, video: Luca Scarzella; recorded at Deffenu Recording Studio, Milan, 1991
SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
vocals, trumpet: Susan Watts, clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontorovich; violin, vocals: Amy Zakar; bass, vocals: Heather Chriscaden Versace; tenor sax, alto sax: Audrey Betsy Welber; trumpet: Ben Holmes; piano: Adrian Banner; drums: Gregg Mervine; samples: The Klez Dispensers
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba X
Desde El Otro Lado -- Electroacoustic from Latin America (various artists)
O.O. Discs/1998
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008
premiered in 1970 at the Osaka World's Fair for the Federation of Iron and Steel Companies' pavilion
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Les trois petits c… (A Woman in Berlin)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2010 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio in Ohain (Belgium) and at the composer’s studio and premiered on May 25, 2011; premiered at Trois visages des musiques électroacoustiques: musique électroacoustique et videomusique, Espace Senghor, Brussels
SET FIVE
Ragnar Grippe: Musique Douze
International Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records - CRI/1976
realized at Electronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm, 1975
Lisa Moore: Machine-like, but with some groove (A. Gosfield)
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010
SET SIX
Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms -- The Nerve Events Project (various artists)
Cuneiform Records/1993
Ingram Marshall: Gradual Requiem, Part 3
Fog Tropes
New Albion Records/1988 (orig. 1984)
mandolin: Foster Reed; voice, piano, Serge Modular synthesizer: I. Marshall; recorded at Möbius Studio, San Francisco
Otto Luening: Synthesis for Orchestra and Electronic Sound
Music of Riegger, McPhee & Luening
New World Records - CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor; electronics realized on the RCA synthesizer, synchronized at the Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center (1960)
SINGLE PLAY
Salvatore Martirano: Sampler -- Everything Goes When the Whistle Blows
a. Goes
b. Bnkquan 3
c. Drm 18.3
d. Add 1
e. Whistle, Train, Harpbird
f. BS 2Bak
g. End 1 Go
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 3 [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios and Computer Music Project at
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Centaur Records/1989
yahaSALmaMAC MIDI orchestra: S. Martirano; Zeta violin: Dorothy Martirano; recorded at the University of Illinois School of Music, 1989
--FIN--
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Martian Gardens for 11/20/2011
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for 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--
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--
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--
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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--
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