Sunday, June 17, 2012

Martian Gardens for June 17, 2012

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 June 17, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--01:00 June 17-18, 2012 

SINGLE PLAY
Arie Shapira: Off Piano
Recital of 8 Piano Compostions
Arie Shapira/2012
piano and voice: Jelena Dimovska; recorded at BKA Berlin, September 6, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Brief and Den Vater (Letter to His Father)
Etudes pour Kafka
empreintes DIGTALes/2009
text: Franz Kafka ("Letter to His Father," written in November 1919); narration: Martin Engler; processed voice: Hans Tutschku; realized at the composer's studio, Avignon, France, and premiered on February 12, 2005, at the trans_canada festival in the ZKM_Kubus of the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM) 

SET ONE
Frances White: The Book of Roses and Memory
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
viola: Luh-Wen Ting; narrator: Thomas Buckner; text: James Pritchett

Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe: Opening Slide Lecture
The Carbon Copy Building -- A comic-strip opera
Cantaloupe Muisc/2006
text and drawings: Ben Katchor; performed by Bang On A Can, music director: Martin Goldray; recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, August 2000

SET TWO
Jack Body: Intimate History No. 1 -- Yono
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005
sounds recorded in South Sumatra (1977-1978) and Jakarta (1994); narration and intonation: Yono of South Sumatra

Indonesian drummers: Matam (Doleful Procession)
Music of Islam Volume 15 [various artists]
Muslim Music of Indonesia Aceh and West Sumatra
Celestial Harmonies/1997
Matam (Ali Mahatam) rhythm played by tasa and dol drummers marching in a Tabuik ceremony; recorded in Pariaman, Kabupaten Padang-Pariaman, West Sumatra, 1982

R. Weis: Lullaby
Excitable Audible
R.Weis/2012
samplers, sampling: Robert Weis

SET THREE
Alvin Curran/John Cage:
a. Introduction
b. Ice, Dew, Food, Crew, Ape
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
voice, words: John Cage mixed with the diaphone horn of the Nantucket II Lightship and the interior of the broken horn of the Edgartown Lighthouse, Martha's Vineyard

John Cage: from 19 Questions
a. 23 Seconds on John Cage
b. 9 Seconds on Indeterminacy
c. 11 Seconds on Einstein
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
voice, stopwatch: John Cage; director: Frank Scheffer

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 5 (1952)
The Works for Percussion 1
Mode Records/2011
for 42 recordings and magnetic tape (First Version: using period jazz records); realized by Michael Barnhart

John Cage/David Tudor: from Indeterminacy
a. Indeterminacy 39 (concerning Indian spice boxes)
b. Indeterminacy 65 (concerning fresh fruit)
c. Indeterminacy 45 (concerning Schoenberg's piano student)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
stories and reader: John Cage; music: David Tudor

John Cage: Trio
a. Allegro
b. March
c. Waltz
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, June 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Thirst
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
narrator: Simone Fattal; soprano: Kristin Nordeval; 4-channel tape: Anea Lockwood (sources: rush hour at Grand Central Station, medieval manuscript leaves at Pierpont Morgan Library; gongs, piano resonances,  Baschet sound sculptures at Yale, Balkan love song "Jutros m je ruza procvetala," performed by Gypsy singing trio in Hungary, Lebanese sculptor Simone Fattal, recorded at her family home in Damascus)

SET FOUR
Herbert Brün: Sentences Now Open Wide (SNOW)
Wayfaring Sounds
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
The Performers' Workshop Ensemble; voices: Pamela Richman, Susan Parenti, David Friedman; text: Herbert Brün; tape: HB; recorded in 1984 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

David Jaggard: Mary and Ann
Sonic Circuits VIII [various artists]
Innova Recordings/2000
musique concrete, narration: David Jaggard; text: Samuel Beckett, "Watt"; recorded at the Sonology Institute, Ultrecht, Netherlands

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Jeu de langues
Palimpsestes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
realized at the composer's studio, premiered at the Musica Viva 2009 festival of the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal; September 19, 2009

Françoise Doherty: Windowsill
Deep Wireless 5 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Stan Link: [-(snow)]
In Amber
Albany Records/2006

Steve Fisk: Lying in Texas
Over and Thru the Night
K Records/1993

Mort Garson and The Blobs: Son of Blob
Electronic Toys 2 [various artists]
Normal Records/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: Help,  I'm a Rock (Suite in Three Movements)
a. Okay to Tap Dance
b. In Memoriam Edgar Varese 
c. It Can't Happen Here
Freak Out!
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1965)

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: Return of the Son of Monster Magnet
(Unfinished Ballet in two Tableaux)
a. Ritual Dance of the Child-Killer
b. Nullis Pretii (No Commercial Potential)
Freak Out!
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1965)


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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Martian Gardens for June 10, 2012

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 June 10, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--01:00 June 10-11, 2012


SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: Music for Remy
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
flute: Leta Miller; percussion: William Winant; recorded at the recital hall of the University of California Santa Cruz, 2001

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros & Fanni Green: Time Piece
Tellus 27 -- Mini-Mall
Tellus/Harvestworks/1995
music: Pauline Oliveros; voice, text: Fanni Green

Scott A. Wyatt: A Time of Being
Music from SEAMUS Volume 6 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1997
University of Illinois Concert Choir, conductor: James Alwes; percussion: Elaine Gary; processed voices: Wendy McClure Knight, Cynthia Barrett, Richard Burrows; text: S. Wyatt

SET TWO
John Cage: First Construction [in Metal]
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion with Gregory Beyer and Ross Karre; recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, June 2011

Johanna Beyer: Percussion, Opus 14
Restless, Endless, Tactless --
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo and the Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, December 15, 2009

Johanna Beyer: The Federal Music Project 
Sticky Melodies 
New World Records/2008
The Astra Choir, conductor: John McCaughey; text: J. Beyer; recorded in Melbourne, Australia, November, 2007

SET THREE
Johanna Beyer: Movements VI, VII, and VIII from Dissonant Counterpoint
9 Preludes (Crawford/Beyer)
New Albion Records/2001
piano: Sarah Cahill; recorded at The Studio, Roslindale, Massachusetts, July 1999

Ursula Mamlok: Wild Flowers
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
violin: David Bowlin; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 2007

Elliott Carter: Tre Duetti
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
violin: Rolf Schulte; cello: Joel Krosnick; recorded at Paul Hall, Julliard, February 11, 2010

SET FOUR
Ethel: Swing Circle I (Keiji Bunch)
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
recorded at BiCoastal Music, Ossing, New York, February 2011

Ethel: Arrival (Marcelo Zarvos)
Light
Cantaloupe Music/2006
recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, New Jersey, March 2006

Steven Mackey: from Micro-Concerto
a. Chords and Fangled Drumset
b. Interlude #1, Vibes Solo
c. Clik, Clak, Clank
Heavy Light
New World Records/2004
MOSAIC, percussion soloist: Daniel Druckman; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, December 2003

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Anadliad 
Palimpsestes 
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music: R. Normandeau; processed wind instruments: cornemuse, pibgorn; realized at the composer's studio and premiered at Prowis Hall, Bangor University, Wales, November 4, 2010

Yves Daoust: from Chorals ornés
a. In dir ist Freude
b. Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein
c. Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund
Voix
empreintes DIGITALes/2011 
Chorals ornés -- a rereading of the 14 choral preludes from J.S. Bach's Orgelbüchlein (BWV 599-644) electroacoustic music, live mixing: Yves Daoust; organ: Régis Rousseau; texts: Anouk Bereau, Jacinthe Dompierre, Matthieu Simark, Gaston Miron; readers: Julie Daoust, Anouk Bereau, Philippe Martin, Vincent Graton, Linda Sorgini, Gaston Miron; realized at the composer's studio in Monteal; premiered at Remix de Classiques! at Église Saint-Nom-de-Jésus, Montreal, October 2, 2008; commissioned by Orgue et couleurs

SET SIX
Elainie Lillios: Dreams in the Desert
Entre espaces
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Bowling Green State University Electroacoustic Studios and the composer's home studio; premiered at
the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia, University, Montreal, November 8, 2001

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le jardin de Jérôme
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
electroacoustic music: E. Reck Miranda; recorded at the Bourge Institute of Electronic Music, 2001

 SET SEVEN
Anatoly Kisselev: The World Against the Gregorian Chorale
Compendium Internatioanl 2002 Bourges [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2002
electroacoustic music: A. Kisselev; Thereminvox: Olesya Rostovskaya; recorded at the Moscow Autumn International Festival for Contemporary Music, November 25, 2003 

Alfred Schnittke: Steam
Electroacoustic Music Volume IV [various artists]
Archive tapes from the Synthesizer ANS 1964-1961
Electroshock Records/1999

Alexander Nemtin: Tears
Electroacoustic Music Volume IV [various artists] 
Archive tapes from the Synthesizer ANS 1964-1961  
Electroshock Records/1999

SET EIGHT 
Maggi Payne: Flaptics
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
 flute: M. Payne; interactive electronics: Mark Trayle; realized at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College

Aldo Clementi: Passacaglia 
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; realized at Centro Tempo Reale, Florence

SINGLE PLAY
Icebreaker:
a. Stars
b. Drift
Apollo
Composed by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
Icebreaker group, director: James Poke; recorded live at Brighton International Festival, Brighton Dome, May 2010

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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Martian Gardens for 06/03/2012

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 June 3, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--00:30 June 3-4, 2012

DEDICATED TO PAULINE OLIVEROS 
IN OBSERVANCE OF HER 80th BIRTHDAY, PART II
(b. May 30, 1932) --
Featuring Dean Rosenthal for additional conversation and commentary.

SELECTIONS PROGRAMMED:
Pauline Oliveros: Greetings/Saludos
Ghostdance
Deep Listening/1998
accordion and Expanded Instrument System: P. Oliveros/djembe and EIS: David Gamper; voice and EIS: Julie Lyon Rose

Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster: Ione
Deep Listening
New Albion Records/1989
accordion: P. Oliveros; trombone, dijeridu: S. Dempster; recorded using Deep Listening method in the Fort Worden Cistern, Port Townsend, Washington, 1988

Pauline Oliveros: Beautiful Soop
Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop
Pogus Productions/1997
recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, Mills College, 1966, using the Buchla Box 100 synthesizer and tape delay system

Paul Dresher: In the Nameless
a. Without Attack
b. Quad 9/4
c. Rods Resonance
d. Tragic Rhapsody
e. Longitude 
f. Delta Clave 
Cage Machine
New Albion Records/2004
instrumentation: Quadrachord long string instrument; Marimba Lumina MIDI percussion controller (designed by Don Buchla); performers: Joel Davel, Paul Dresher, Yuri Merzhevsky; recorded at Dresher Ensemble Studios, Berkeley, 2004

Robert Erickson: Pacific Sirens
Pacific Sirens
New World Records/2003
Cleveland Chamber Symphony, conductor: Edwin London, recorded at Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland, April 8, 2001 (electronically treated tape recorded at Pescadero Beach, California, 1969)

Roger Reynolds: from Whispers Out of Time
a. Like a Wave Breaking on a Rock
b. The Surprise, the Tension Are in the Concept
c. A Chill, a Blight Moving Outward
Whispers Out of Time
New World Records/1990
violin: Négyesy János; viola: Yun-Jie Liu; cello: Peter Farrell; contrabass: Bertram Turetzky; The San Diego Symphony Ensemble, conductor: Harvey Sollberger: recorded at the University of San Diego, February 1989

Pauline Oliveros: music from Lunar Opera
excerpts from incidental music provided by Dean Rosenthal; electroacoustic music composed by Andrew Deutsch; performed at Damrosch Park Bandshel, Lincoln Center, August 2000 

Andrew Deutsch: Trans-Parent Directory
Bode Sound Project [various artists]
Institute for Electronic Arts/2006
Bode Vocoder designed by Harald Bode; music composed and performed by Andrew Deutsch

Alvin Lucier: Piper
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
bagpipe: Matthew Welch; recorded at Crowell Hall, Wesleyan University, November 22, 2000

Morton Subotnick: Gestures -- It Begins with Colors
The Electronic Works I
Mode Records/2001
electronic music: M. Subotnick; voices: Joan La Barbara, Thomas Buckner; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan; cello: Lisa McCormick; recorded at the University of California San Diego, 1999-2001

Pauline Oliveros: Poem of Change
Lesbian American Composers [various artists]
CRI/1998
accordion, voice, text: P. Oliveros; World War II sounds provided by the library of the WDR; recorded at Studio Akustische Kunst, Westdeutsche Rundfunk by Klaus Schoening, 1992

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Monday, May 21, 2012

Martian Gardens for 05/20/2012

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

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

Program for May 27, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--02:10 May 27-28, 2012

SET ONE
Paul Lansky: from Shapeshifters
a. At Any Moment
b. Florid Counterpoint
Imaginary Islands
Bridge Records/2012
piano duo: Quattro Mani (Susan Grace & Alice Rybak); Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Justin Brown; recorded at Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center, Birmingham, Alabama, February 2011

George Crumb:
a. Day of the Comet (from Zeitgeist)
b. The Advent (from Music for a Summer Evening -- Makrokosmos III)
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Four
Bridge Records/2001
a. piano duo: Quattro Mani; b. piano duo: Quattro Mani; percussion: John Kinzie, David Colson; recorded at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, August, 2000

SINGLE PLAY
John Melby: Concerto for Computer and Orchestra
Concerti
Albany Records/2009
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Joel Eric Suben; recorded at Gregorz Fitelberg Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Quartet
a. Moderate
b. Very Slow
c. Slow -- Axial Symmetry
d. Fast
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, June 2011

SET TWO
Jon Christopher Nelson: They Wash Their Ambassadors in Citrus and Fennel
Music from Seamus Volume 7 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1998
electroacoustic music: J. C. Nelson; mezzo soprano: Heidi Dietrich Klein; text: Robert Gregory

Francisco Kröpfl: Lento como l'alghe
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005
electroacoustic Music: Francisco Kröpfl; voice: Lucia Maranca; text: Aldo Maranca

SET THREE
John Bischoff: Local Color
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
electronic music: John Bischoff; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 2010-2011

Nicolas Bernier: Les chambres de l'atelier (The Workshop)
Travaux Mécaniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio and the University of Montreal, realized at the Pulsar *3 concert at the Planétarium de Montréal, April 14, 2008

DEDICATED TO PAULINE OLIVEROS 
IN OBSERVANCE OF HER 80th BIRTHDAY, PART I
(b. May 30, 1932) --

SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: Bye Bye Butterfly
Women in Electronic Music 1977 [various artists]
New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media
New World Records/2006 (orig. 1977)
synthesizer, tapes, phonograph: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1965

Timeless Pulse: Healing Piece
Quintet
Mutable Music/2007
accordion: Pauline Oliveros; percussion: George Marsh; live electronics: David Wessel; percussion: Jennifer Wilsey; voice: Thomas Buckner

SET FIVE
Pauline Oliveros: Something Else
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
tone generators, tape delay: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at Classical Electronic Music Studio, University of Toronto, 1966

Deep Listening Band: Cave Water (track 7)
Troglodyte's Delight
Nonsequitur/1990
DLB: Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaioitis; recorded in Tarpaper Cave, Rosendale, New York, 1989

SET SIX
Pauline Oliveros: Lion's Tale (in Gamelan fashion)
Lion's Eye and Lion's Tale
Deep Listening/2006
sampler programmed and performed by Carter Scholz

Pauline Oliveros and Miya Masaoka: Afternoon
Accordion Koto
Deep Listening/2008
accordion: Pauline Oliveros, koto: Miya Masaoka; recorded at the Bard College Recording Studio, 2004

SINGLE PLAY
Deep Listening Band: Non-Stop Flight
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
DLB -- just-tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, trombones, didjeridu, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; organ overtone flutes, electronics: David Gamper; additional performers on Non-Stop Flight -- voices: Julie Lyon Balliet; bass-clarinet, pocket trumpet: Joe McPhee; just-tuned accordion, voice: Margarit Shenker; Brazilian percussion: Nego Gato, Carol Chappell; Brazilian percussion, found percussion: Jason Finkleman; Women Who Drum (djembe: Leaf Miller; conga, shekere, bells: Judith Muldoon); recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, New York, January 1994

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Martian Gardens for 05/20/2012

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

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

Program for May 20, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--02:10 May 20-21, 2012

SET ONE
John Cage: Third Construction
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion (Owen Clayton Condon, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore); recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, DeKalb, Illinois, June 2011

John Cage: Williams Mix
The 25th-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
Recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958
Wergo/1994
for magnetic tape and loudspeakers; realized by Earle Brown, John Cage, and David Tudor

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 of Arts and Letters; New York City, 1993

SET TWO
Eric Chasalow: from The Furies
a. The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos
b. The Fury of Cooks
Over the Edge
New World Records/1993
soprano: Christine Schadeberg; electronic music: Eric Chasalow; texts: Anne Sexton; realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1984

Arie Shapira: Antigona
Spring 2012 CD-R
Arie Shapira/2012
mezzo-soprano: Bracha Kol; Meitar Ensemble and electronics; text: Sophocles; recorded in Israel, 2010

Noah Creshevsky: Talea
Man & Superman
Centaur Records/1992
electronic music: Noah Creshevksy; recorded 1991

Hugh Le Caine: Nocturne
Compositions and Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999
Conductive Keyboard with tape delay: Hugh Le Caine; recorded at the University of Toronto electronic music studios, 1962

SET THREE
Adrian Moore: Rococo Variations
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music recorded at the composer's studio and premiered at the Soundings Festival, Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, February 3, 2006

Scott A. Wyatt: Private Play
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 8 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1999
electroacoustic music:  Scott A. Wyatt; recorded at the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios, 1997

SET FOUR
Elizabeth Hoffman: Red is the Rows
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space Magazine/2012
violins: Conrad Harris, Paula Kim Harris

Ethel: No Nickel Blues (John King)
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
Ethel string quartet recorded at Area 52 studio, Saugerties, New York, March 17, 2011

SET FIVE
Phil Kline:  from John the Revelator
a. Northport
b. The Unnamable 
c. Wondrous Love
John The Revelator
A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
Lionheart vocal group; Ethel string quartet; recorded at the Church of St. Luke's in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August 2007; a. "Jesus, My All, to Heav’n has Gone (North Port)," words: John Cennick, tune: R.R. Osborne; b. text: Samuel Beckett, music: Phil Kline; c. music: William Walker; arr. William J. Reynolds 

Ethel: Requiem (Lennie Tristano) 
Light
Cantaloupe Music/2010
Ethel string quartet; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ, March 2006

Scanner:  Insulation Mix
Messiah Remix [various artists]
Cantaloupe Music/2004
 electronic music: Robin Rimbaud; loosely based on G.F. Handel

Joane Hétu: from Chaîne
a. Tisser pour toi la 1a
b. Chacun son fil
c. Lin + Tisser pour toi 1b
Filature
Ambiances Magnetiques/2011
L'ensemble Supermusique;  recoded in concert at Usine C, Montreal, March 2006

SET SIX
Francois Rabelais: Inscription mise sur la porte de Thélème
Le sixte livre dit électroacoustique de Francois Rabelais
[various artists]
Chrysopée électronique -Bourge
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
recitation: René Zosso; text: Francois Rebelais; recorded at the Institut International de Musque Electroacoustique de Bourges, 1994

Sten Hanson: Le Torche Cul
ibid. 
electroacoustic music: Sten Hanson; recitation: René Zosso; text: Francois Rabelais; recorded at IMEB, 1994

Paul Steenhuisen: Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit
Miniatures Concrétes [various artists]
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
electroacoustic music: Paul Steenhuisen 

Paul Steenhuisen: Poland is Not Yet Lost
60 x 60 2004/2005 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2007

SET SEVEN
John Eaton: Blind Man's Cry
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; text: Tristan Corbiere; Syn-Ket: John Eaton; Moog synthesizer: Jaye Williams; tapes and mixing: Wilson Allen; recorded in Rome, 1965

Judy Klein: The Wolves of Bays Mountain (excerpts)
The Wolves of Bays Mountain
Open Space Magazine/2004 
field recordings made at Bays Mountain Park, Tennessee; computer processing: Judy Klein

Coil: Tenderness of Wolves
Scatology
Force & Form/1984
computer, electronics: John Balance, Peter Christopherson; lyrics, voice: Gavin Friday, acoustic guitar: Alex Ferguson

SET EIGHT
Judy Klein: Railcar
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 20 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2011
electroacoustic music: Judy Klein; premiered at Festival Synthése, IMEB, Bourges, 2008

Philippe Auclair: Railways soundwalk enigma
Compendium International 2002 Bourges -- IMEB [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2002
electroacoustic music: Philippe Auclair

SET NINE
Anne LeBaron: Lagniappe -- Hourglass of Stars
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
amplified harp with live electronics: Anne LeBaron; amplified violin: Leroy Jenkins; electronics: Earl Howard; recorded at Joe's Pub, New York City, 2004

Earl Howard: Strasser 60 (excerpt)
Granular Modality
New World Records/2012
synthesizers: Earl Howard; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, November 12, 2009

Scott Smallwood: Sunkcraft
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
antique electrotherapy devices: Scott Smallwood

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Pianos and Voices
Only --Works for Voices and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
5 pianos, 1 celeste: Ralph Grierson; 5 voices: Joan La Barbara; recorded in Los Angeles, 1995

SINGLE PLAY
Barbara Monk Feldman: The Northern Shore
The Northern Shore
Mode Records/2012
violin: Marc Sabat; piano: Stephen Clarke; percussion: Dirk Rothbrust; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, August 26, 2003

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Martian Gardens for 5/13/2012

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

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

Program for May 13, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--02:10 May 13-14, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Ethel: Early That Summer (J. Wolfe)
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
Ethel String Quartet -- violin: Cornelius Dufalo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ, February 2011

SET ONE
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love
Vivian Adelberg Rudow/2004
cello cases (prepared tape), electronics, samples: V.A. Rudow; cello: Paula Skolnick-Virizlay

Roxanne Turcotte: Méres et Monde (Mothers of the World)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2003 at the composer’s studio (Productions RTM), and premiered on June 10, 2003 during Synthèse, the 33rd Bourges International Electronic Music and Creation Festival (France)

SET TWO
Beth Anderson: Torero Piece
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voices: Beth and Marjorie Anderson

Laurie Anderson: O Superman (for Massenet)
Big Science
Warner Bros/1982
voice, Vocoder, electronics: Laurie Anderson; Farfisa organ, Casio: Roma Baran; flute, saxophone: Perry Hoberman

Charles Dodge: We Are Reading the Story of Our Lives
Synthesized Voices
CRI/1976
from "The Story of Our Lives" (1973-74) realized at Columbia University Center for Computing Activities and Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, 1974

SET THREE
Jill Summers: Apricot Wensleydale
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
voice, text, music: Jill Summers

Susan Stone: Ruby's Story
The Time is Now (Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan)
[various artists]
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, music: Susan Stone; text: M.S. Carnahan (Burning Books publishing)

Robert Ashley: Ingrid
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
from "Au Pair," voices, text: Jacqueline Humbert, Robert Ashley; electronic music: Robert Ashley, Tom Hamilton

SET FOUR
John Rahn: The New Mother (excerpts)
a. Overture
b. Not Bad Enough
JKR Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his friends
[various artists]
Open Space Magazine/2007
electronic music:  John Rahn

Pauline Oliveros: Big Mother is Watching (excerpt)
Electronic Works 1965-66
Paradigm Discs/1997
electronic music: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1966

Diane Labrosse: Unisson Duet
Musicworks 100 [various artists]
Musicworks Magazine/2008
sampling: Diane Labrosse, treatments: Michel F. Côté

SET FIVE
Arie Shapira: Euridice's Travels
Spring 2012 CD-R
Arie Shapira/2012
Ensemble Meitar with processed tenor and female voices; text: Bat-Sheva Shapira

Noah Creshevsky: Lisa Barnard Redux
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
voice: Lisa Barnard-Kelly; electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky

Meredith Monk:
a. Cry #1
b. Cry #2
Volcano Songs
ECM Records/1997
a. from "Volcano Songs: Duets" (1993), voices: Meredith Monk, Katie Gessinger; b. from "Volcano Songs: Solos" (1994), voice: Meredith Monk; recorded at Clinton Studios, New York City, July 1995

SET SIX
Ralf Nuhn: Staccato Death/Life
Cultures électroniques -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2005
electroacoustic music: Ralf Nuhn

Scott A. Wyatt: Night Visitors
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2003 
electroacoustic music: Scott Wyatt 

Priscilla McLean: Night Images
The McLean Mix & The Golden Age of Electronic Music
[Barton McLean/Priscilla McLean]
CRI/1997
synthesizers: Priscilla McLean

Herbert Brün: U-TURN-TO
SAWDUST Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
computer music: Herbert Brün 

SET SEVEN
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 1
Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
music for two variable speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano and cymbal; performed by Joey Van Hassel

Iannis Xenakis: Morsima-Amorsima
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
Callithumpian Consort; conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, June 11, 2008

John Luther Adams: Notquitespringdawn
Songbird Songs
Mode Records/2012
Callithumpian Consort; conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, October 3, 2006

SET EIGHT
Pierre Schaeffer: L'oiseau RAI
L'oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
performed on the antenna of Radio Paris IV, May 6, 1951

Pete Stollery: Scénes, rendez-vous
Scénes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
sounds recorded along the Parisian racecourse of Claude Lelouch's C’était un rendez-vous (1976), realized in June, 2006, premiered at Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, October 28, 2006

SET NINE 
Gerald Bennett: Im Eismeer
Gerald Bennett
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2008
electroacoustic music: Gerald Bennet

Ivan Elezovic: Do You Remember?
Wavefields [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios University of Illinois/2005
electroacoustic music: Ivan Elezovic 

Meredith Monk: Memory Song
Do You Be
ECM New Series/1987
voices: Meredith Monk, Andrea Goodman, Naaz Hosseini; keyboards: Nurit Tilles, Wayne Hankin; violin: Naaz Hosseini

SET TEN 
Alvin Curran:
a. Z Train
b. Little Him -- Lo Main
c. For Giacinto
Electric Rags II
New Albion Records/1990
electronics: Alvin Curran; synthesizer: Scot Gresham-Lancaster; Rova Saxophone Quartet (baritone and alto: John Rashkin; tenor and sopranino: Larry Ochs; alto and soprano: Steve Adams; soprano: Bruce Ackley); recorded live at Life on the Water, San Francisco, 1989

Kyle Bruchmann: On Procedural Grounds
On Procedural Grounds
New World Records/2012
Wrack ensemble (oboe: Kyle Bruchmann; viola: Jen Clare Paulson; bass clarinet: Jason Stein; contrabass: Anton Hatwich; percussion: Timothy Daisy), Rova Saxophone Quartet; live electronics: Gino Robair, Tim Perkis; recorded at Guerrilla Audio, Oakland, October 3, 2010

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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Martian Gardens for 05/06/2012

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

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

Program for May 06, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Ethel: Sphere ('s) [J. Halle]
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
Ethel String Quartet -- violin: Cornelius Dufalo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson; recorded at BiCoastal Recordings, Ossing, New York, February 2011

SET ONE
Mary Ellen Childs: Welding
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
Ethel String Quartet; Sound Montage by Neverwas

R. Weis: Quantum Hayride
Mystery of the Egg
R. Weis/2012
sampler and sampling: R. Weis

Jon Hassell:
a. Chor Moiré
b. Courage
Dream Theory in Malaya
EG Records/1981
electronically filtered trumpet: Jon Hassell; drums: Brian Eno; bass: Michael Brook; recorded at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario

Alva Noto: Xerrox Soma
Xerrox Vol. 2
Raster-Norton/2009
electronic music: Alva Noto

SET TWO
Eric Moe: On the Tip of My Tongue
I. Two Part Contraption
II. Tim's Tune
III. Double Take
IV. What the Drums Say
IV. I. What the Drums Say (alternate take)
On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996
synthesizer: Eric Moe; clarinet: Tim Smith; recorded at Baby Monster Studios, October 1994

Krzysztof Wolek: Mobile Variations
Cultures électroniques 20 [various artists]
Prix Trivium et Magisterum 2007 -- IMEB series
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2007
electroacoustic music: Krzysztof Wolek; realized at the University of Chicago

SET THREE
Tom Lopez: Curvatures
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2003
Zeta String Quartet (2002 -- violins: Gillian Rivers and Amie Weiss, viola: Amy Cimini, cello: Sarah Biber), and electronics, recorded at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music

Zack Browning: Breakpoint Screamer
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
trumpets: Michael Ewald, Salvatore Percoco, Charles Saenz, James Zingara, Kevin Vos; computer processing: Zack Browning; commissioned for performance at the International Trumpet Guild 1994 Conference

Salvatore Martirano: SATBehind Demo
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22
The Composer in the Computer Age -- V
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective 1962-92
Centaur Records/1995
computers, digital keyboard: Salvatore Martirano

SET FOUR
Paul Koonce: Whitewash
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
electroacoustic music: Paul Koonce

Paul Koonce: The Flywheel Dream
Walkabout and Back
Mode Records/2000
electroacoustic music: Paul Koonce

SET FIVE
Adrian Moore: 3Pieces -- Piano
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio and premiered at Firth Hall, Sheffield, March 20, 2007

Mecha Fixes Clocks: Curvature dφ/ds of Takahashi’s Curves
Teoria dell’elasticità di Girolamo Papariello
Ambiances Magnetiques/2012 

Andrew Byrne: from Fata Morgana -- Mirages on the Horizon
a. Third Mirage
b. Fourth Mirage
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
prepared piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, 2006


SET SIX
Harry Partch: I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds...
Enclosures 2 -- Historic Speech-Music Recordings
Innova Recordings/1995
voice: Harry Partch; recorded in Gualala, California, 1950, for introduction of the 78 rpm recording of  "Intrusions"

Harry Partch: Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegans Wake
a. Isobel
b. Annah the Allmaziful
Enclosures 2 -- Historic Speech-Music Recordings
Innova Recordings/1995
soprano: Lola Harding; flutes: Dorothy Holden, Hilmar Luckhardt; Kithara: Harry Partch; recorded in New York City, 1945


Harry Partch: August 11 -- SERA Camp, Ingot
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
voice: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto


Beth Anderson: Yes Sir Ree
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voice: Beth Anderson; percussion: Michael Blair


Meredith Monk: Candy Bullets and Moon
Beginnings 
Tzadik/2009
voice, bass guitar: Meredith Monk; drums, organ: Don Preston; recorded at Garrick's Theatre, New York City, July 1967

SET SEVEN
If, Bwana/Trio Scordatura: The Tempest, Fuggit
E (and sometimes why)
Pogus Productions/2012 
speaker: Michael Peters; voice: Lisa Barnard Kelly; text: Shakespeare, The Tempest, act I, scene II;  recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, June 2010;


Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing (excerpt)
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
synthesizer, electronics: Robert Ashley; voices: Mimi Johnson, Robert Ashley, completed 1979


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