Martian Gardens for October 7, 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 October 7, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Maya Beiser & Michael Harrison: Time Loops
Time Loops -- Music in Pure Intonation
Cantaloupe Music/2012
cello: Maya Beiser; piano: Michael Harrison; recorded at Dimenna Center, Cary Hall, New York City; composition year: 2012; time: 2:40

SET ONE
Morton Feldman: Intersection 
First Recordings -- 1950s
Mode Records/1999
magnetic tape: Morton Feldman; composition year: 1953; time: 3:26

James Tenney: Instrumental Responses (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
The Barton Workshop; computer program: James Tenney; recorded in Amsterdam, February 2007; composition year: 1964; time: 8:48

Kristin Norderval: Circadian Singing
Aural Histories (Post-ambient arias for voice and electronics)
Deep Listening Institute/2012 
voice, electronics: Kristin Norderval; composition year: 2011; time: 7:50

SINGLE PLAY
Mathew Rosenblum: Circadian Rhythms
a. Circadian Rhythms
b. Stargazing
c. Monuments
d. Circadian Rhythms (Part 2)
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
Deoro group (cello: David Eggar; percussion: Chuck Palmer; keyboards: Rob Frankenberry); recorded at Carriage House Studios, Stamford, Connecticut, February 21, 2011; composition year: 1989; time: 20:00

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965 (Echoes I)
Eco 1. Fantastico
Eco 2. Languidamente, quasi lontano ("Hauntingly")
Eco 3. Prestissimo 
Eco 4. Con bravura 
Eco 5. Dark, intense
Eco 6. Dark, intense
Eco 7. Dark, intense
Eco 8. Feroce, violento
Eco 9. Serenamente, quasi lontano ("Hauntingly")
Eco 10. Senza misura ("gently undulating")
Eco 11. Adagio; ("like a prayer")
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) (violin: David Bowlin; alto flute: Claire Chase; clarinet: Joshua Rubin; piano: Jacob Greenberg); recorded at the Performing Arts Center, Theater C, SUNY Purchase, September 6, 2006; composition year: 1966; time: 17:50

SET TWO
Lisa Moore: 
Machine-like, but with some groove (Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers, Part 3)
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
composer: Annie Gosfield; piano and sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, Connecticut; May-June 2010; composition year: 2008; time: 8:30

Annie Gosfield: Phantom Shakedown
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
piano, electronics: Annie Gosfield; recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, New York; composition year: 2010; time: 8:13

James Mobberley: CAUTION TO THE WINDS
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 2 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
piano: Richard Cass; fixed Media: James Mobberley; recorded at the University of Missouri Kansas City; composition year: 1987; time: 5:31

SET THREE
Benjamin Broening: Trembling Air
Trembling Air
Bridge Records/2012
Eighth Blackbird ensemble; recorded at Camp Concert Hall, University of Richmond; October 11-12, 2008; composition year: 2009; time: 12:47

Dorothy Stone: None But The Lonely Flute
None But The Lonely Flute
New World Records/1994
composer: Milton Babbitt; flute: Dorothy Stone; composition year: 1991; time: 8:58

SET FOUR
Arthur Jarvinen: The Vulture's Garden
a. The Vulture's Garden
b. The War of the Time
c. The Last Dim Weird Battle of the West
d. Not with a Bang but a Whimper 
Edible Black Ink
O.O. Discs/1996
The California Ear Unit; recorded at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, June 1996; composition year: 1990; time: 16:00

Stephen Lucky Mosko: Native Songs and Dances (from Indigenous Music II)
Indigenous Music
O.O. Discs/1998
The California Ear Unit, conductor: Stephen Mosko; recorded at Mad Hatter Studios and the California Institute of the Arts; Autumn 1997; composition year: 1984; time: 7:16

SINGLE PLAY
R. Weis: Requiem for a Paperweight
Requiem for a Paperweight
R. Weis/1998
samples, sampler: R. Weis;  sound score for installation of photographs by Arthur Tress; premier: University Art Musuem, CSU, Long Beach, California, 1994; composition year: 1994; time: 18:50

SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformations
Empreintes Digitales/1996
environmental sounds recorded and processed by Hildegard Westerkamp in the desert of Northern Mexico, 1987; premiered at the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, British Columbia, June 1987; composition year: 1987: time: 10:55


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Martian Gardens for September 30, 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 September 30, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
R. Weis: Narinya (Bamana Dream)
Web of Illusion
R. Weis/1998
samples, sampler: R. Weis; composition year: 1998; time: 3:04

Paul Lansky: On F
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007
computer music: Paul Lansky; composition year: 2006: time: 5:49

SET ONE
Arthur Jarvinen: Out of the Blue
Erase the Fake
O.O. Discs/1998
tuned bell plates: Arthur Jarvinen; recorded at Private Island Trax, Hollywood, California, 1998; composition year: 1998; 4:21

Mathew Rosenblum: Two Harmonies
a. Gymnopédie for Art Jarvinen
b. Fantasy for Roberta Liss
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
viola: Wendy Richman; Percussion: Timothy Feeney; piano: Shirley Yoo; recorded at SUNY Fredonia, New York, February 5, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 6:52

Mathew Rosenblum: selections from Nü kuan tzu
a. Le Départ (Movement I)
b. Automne Malade (Movement II)
Ancient Eyes
CRI/1999
Prism Players; soprano: Kristin Norderval; mezzo soprano: Mary Nessinger; texts: Guillaume Apollinaure; recorded at Master Sound, Astoria, New York, November 1996; composition year: 1996; time: 6:20

Kristin Norderval: 13 Inspirations
Aural Histories (Post-ambient arias for voice and electronics) 
Deep Listening Institute/2012
vocals, electronics: Kristin Norderval; composition year: 2006 and 2012, time: 5:37

SINGLE PLAY
Annie Gosfield: Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
Flux Quartet (violins: Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris; viola: Max Mandel; cello: Felix Fan); contrabass: Tony Falanga; piano: Blair McMillen; drums, percussion: David Cossin; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, New York; composition year: 2007; time: 24:05

SET THREE 
Sō Percussion: Moat
Where (we) Live
Cantaloupe Music/2012
percussion: Sō Percussion; electric guitar, voice, lyrics: Grey McMurray; recorded at Guilford Studios, Guilford, Vermont, and Good Child Studios, New York City; composition year: 2011; time: 6:17

Lisa Moore: Stainless Staining
Stainless Staining
Cantaloupe Music/2012
composer: Donnacha Dennehy; piano: Lisa Moore; sample soundtrack: Donnacha Dennehy; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven; time: 14:51

SINGLE PLAY
Gabriel Valverde: Espacios Inasibles 
a. Fragmentaciones
b. Luminar
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
Malmö Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Arvo Volmer; recorded at Stockholm Concert House, October 2, 1994; composition year: 1991 and 1992; time: 16:06

Haydée Schvartz: Two selections by Luciano Berio
a. Brin
b. Leaf
New Piano Works From Europe and the Americas
Mode Records/1993
piano: Haydée Schvartz; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, January 1992; composition year: 1990; time: 3:46

SET FOUR
Jonty Harrison: Internal Combustion (from ReCycle)
Environs
Empreintes Digitales/2007 
8-track tape: Jonty Harrison; recorded at the composer's studio, Birmingham, and the Elektronisches Studio of the Musik-Akademie in Basel, Switzerland, premiered at the Tinguely Museum, Basel, November 17, 2006; composition year: 2006; time: 11:43

James Mobberley: Spontaneous Combustion
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 1 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1993
saxophone: Timothy Timmons; computer music, processing: James Mobberley; recorded at the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri, Kansas City; composition year: 1991; time: 9:03

SET FIVE
Diane Thome: Masks of Eternity I-IV
Palaces of Memory
Centaur Records/1995
electroacoustic music: Diane Thome; recorded at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest Park, Washington; composition year: 1994; time: 15:02

James Correa: When I drift into my thoughts
Plural (Correa/Miranda)
Fumproarte/2002
electronics: James Correa; recorded in Rochester, New York, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 5:00

SINGLE PLAY
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Goma Arábica
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
electroacoustic music: E. Reck Miranda; recorded at the University of Edinburgh Electroacoustic Music Studios; orchestra: The Contemporary Music Group, conductor: Steve Davismoon

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Martian Gardens for September 23, 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 September 23, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Three Minute Waltzes
I. Try
II. Piranha
III. Y Tu Mamá También 
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: (I) 2003, (II) 2007, (III) 2009; time: 2:58

SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Bowl Bells (from Varied Trio)
La Koro Sutro
New Albion Records/1988
violin: David Abel; piano: Julie Steinberg; percussion: William Winant; recorded at Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkley, November, 1987; composition year: 1986; time: 3:07

Susie Ibarra: Drum Sketch 1
Drum Sketches
Innova Recordings/2011
percussion: Susie Ibarra; field recordings from the Philippines: Roberto Rodriguez; recorded in Kerhonkson, New York, 2007; time: 2:58

Adam Rudolph and Ralph Jones: Forest Geometry
Yeyi
Meta Records/2009
percussion, wind instruments, idiophones, vocals: Rudolph, Jones; recorded at Delta College Theater, Bay City, Michigan, September 16, 2007; time: 3:05

Adam Rudolph and Ralph M. Jones: Spirit Voices
Merely a Traveler on the Cosmic Path
Meta Records/2012
percussion, wind instruments, idiophones, vocals; Rudolph, Jones; recorded at Oberlin, Ohio, time: 1:35

Sō Percussion and Grey McMurray: Five Rooms Down
Where (We) Live
Cantaloupe Music/2012
percussion: Sō Percussion; vocals and guitar: Grey McMurray; lyrics by Grey McMurray; recorded at Guilford Sound, Guilford, Vermont, time: 5:08

John Cage: Four Rooms, Scene VII
The Works for Piano 5 (Haydée Schvartz, piano)
Mode Records/2003
vocals: Jack Bruce; lyrics: Merce Cunningham; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, October, 1995, composition year: 1944; time: 3:01

John Cage: Five
The Number Pieces 6
Mode Records/2012
blown bottles: Essential Music; recorded SUNY Purchase, 1993-94; composition year: 1988; time: 5:00

SET TWO
Luc Ferrari: Visage 2
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
brass and percussion: Musique Nouvelles; conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at l'Auditorium Abel Dubois a Mons, Belgium; April 21, 2006; composition year: 1955-56; time: 10:02

Larry Nelson: The Starry Messenger 
The Starry Messenger: Chamber Music of Larry Nelson
Albany Records/2002
flute: Christina Jennings; piano: Marcantonio Barone; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; September 18, 2004; composition year: 1996; time: 10:06

SET THREE
Malcolm Goldstein: Autumn 
The Seasons -- Vermont
XI Records/1998
double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Woods; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; saxophones, vibraphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; vocalizing, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, February 26, 1983; composition year: 1980-1982; selection time: 12:09

Robert Normandeau: Automne (terre et bois) (Tangram part 4)
Tangram
Empreintes Digitales/1994
electroacoustic music: Robert Normandeau; recorded at 350e - Réseaux, Planétarium de Montréal; May 19, 1992; composition year: 1992; time: 5:15

Antoine Berthiaume/Quentin SirJacq/Norman Teale: Leaves and Snows
Leaves and Snows
Actuelle CD/2005 
guitar, percussion: Antoine Berthiaume; piano, percussion: Quintin SirJacq; electronics, mixing: Norman Teale; recorded at CCM Recording Studio and Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland; Autumn, 2004; time: 4:12

SINGLE PLAY
Mathew Rosenblum: The Big Rip (A Science Fiction Cantata)
a. Kam
b. The Runaway Universe
c. Caitlin Looked Up at the Sky
d. Interlude
e. Market Fundamentalists
f. Lift Up Your Eyes to the Heavens
g. Last Contact
h. The Big Rip (instrumental)
i. The Big Rip (continued)
j. Kam
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
Calmus Ensemble of Leipzig and the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet with drum machine and numerous samples; (texts: a,j. Paul Celan: "Engführung"; b. Donald Goldsmith: "The Runaway Universe"; c,g, i. Stephen Baxter: "Last Contact"; e. Internet chat; f. Book of Isiah); recorded at SWR Studios, Freiberg, Germany, July 3, 2010; composition year: 2009; time: 19:08

SET FOUR
Enzo Minarelli: The Grandeur of Genghis Khan
Fame
Pogus Productions/2012
voice, vocalizations, text: Enzo Minarelli; time: 1:17

Herbert Brün: Dustiny
SAWDUST Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
SAWDUST program: Herbert Brün; composition year: 1978; time: 5:38

Tom Hamilton and Bruce Eisenbeil: Mars Fell on Alabama
Shadow Machine
Pogus Productions/2009
Nord modoular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; guitar: Bruce Eisenbeil; time: 4:09

David Rosenboom: 
Section II (Symmetrical Harmonies in Chaotic Orbits) 
How Much Better if Plymouth Rock had Landed on the Pilgrims
New World Records/2009
electronics, synthesizers, tapes, Vox organ, dumbek drum, computers: David Rosenboom; wah-wah piano: Thomas G. McFaul; electric bass: Lynn David Newton; ARP 2500 synthesizer: Gerald Shapiro; tambura: Michael Slevin; recorded in Washington D.C., Maple (Ontario), New York City, Hartford, and Los Angeles, 1969, 1970, 1973, and 2009; composition year: 1969-71; time: 13:03

SET FIVE
Kristin Norderval: Digital Surveillance 
Aural Histories
Deep Listening/2012
vocals, electronics: Kristin Norderval; composition year: 2006; time: 4:43

Elzbieta Sikora: Reflets irises
Compendium International 2005 Bourges (various artists)
Mnemosyne Musique Media/2005
piano: Wilhem Latchoumia; electroacoustic music: Elzbieta Sikora; composition year: 2006; time: 16:15

SINGLE PLAY
Volti: O the Flesh is Hot But the Heart is Cold
Turn the Page -- New Directions in American Choral Music
Innova Recordings/2010
composer: Eric Moe; text: Matthea Harvey, "Baked Alaska, A Theory of," composition year: 2005: time: 9:28

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Martian Gardens for September 16, 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 September 16, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Kleier: The Night Has Many Hours
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
electric guitar; electronics: Roger Kleier; recorded at Master Element Studio, New York City; time: 4:22

SET ONE
Annie Gosfield: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory
a. Part I
b. Part II
Burnt Ivory and Loose Wires
Tzadik/1998
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; percussion: Jim Pugliese and Christine Bard; recorded at Harvestworks/Studio PASS, New York City; composition date: 1996; time: 11:00

Dean Drummond: Different  Drums for Different Strokes
Newband Play Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994 
percussion, Korg Digital Drums, Yamaha DX7II: Dominic Donato; recorded at Cove City Sound Studio, Glen Cove, New York, January 26, 1991; composition year: 1988; time: 11:06

SET TWO
Mathew Rosenblum: Yanah's Dream
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
Newband featuring Harry Partch instruments, conducted by Dean Drummond; recoreded at the New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2011; compostion year: 2008; time: 8:44

Harry Partch: Ring Around the Moon -- A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now*
a. Phase One -- Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!)
b. Phase Two -- One, two, three, four -- X,Y, Zee
c. Phase Three -- Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the bell come out fighting!
d. Phase Four -- Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity...(Look out! He's got a gun!)
The Harry Partch Collection Volume I
New World Records/2004 (orig. 1997)
* Part II of Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater
 intoned voice: Harry Partch; Gate Five Ensemble (Sausalito) featuring Harry Partch intruments, conducted by Horace Schwarz; recorded in Sausalito, California, 1953; composition date: 1952; time: 9:21

SET THREE
Meredith Monk: 
a. Mapping
b. Mapping continued
Songs of Ascension
ECM New Series/2011
a. voices: Meredith Monk, Ching Gonzalez; percussion: John Hollenbeck; b. voices: Meredith Monk, Ching Gonzalez, Bruce Rameker, Allison Sniffin; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009; time: 3:39

Kristin Norderval: A Flat Ground
Aural Histories (post-ambient arias for voice and electronics)
Deep Listening/2012
voice, electronics: Kristin Norderval; composition year: 2001; time: 6:00

New Circle Five: 
a. If it's on...
b. Never Deceived?
Dreaming Wide Awake
Deep Listening/2003
a. percussion: Susie Ibarra; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; soprano: Kristin Norderval; b. violin, voice: Rosi Hertlein; soprano: Kristin Norderval; time: 7:39

Susie Ibarra: Umaga (from Lakbay)
Folklorica
Tzadik/2004
Susie Ibarra Trio (violin: Jennifer Choi; piano: Craig Taborn; drums, percussion: Susie Ibarra); 4:29

Meredith Monk: Chinook Winds
Facing North
ECM New Series/1992
voice: Meredith Monk; recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, 1992;  time: 0:32

SET FOUR
Walter Zimmermann: Keuper
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012
Sonar Quartett; recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin Lankwitz; July 2010; composition year: 1980; time: 6:51

Tom Hamilton and Bruce Eisenbeil: Dryer Mouth
Shadow Machine
Pogus Productions/2009
Nord modular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; guitar: Bruce Eisenbeil; recorded at the Pickle Factory, New York City, 2008; time: 8:32

Normal Love: Breathe Through Your Skin
Survival Tricks
ugExplode/2012
vocals and keyboard: vocals and keyboards: Merissa Marligoni; amplified violin and vocals: Jessica Pavone; electric bass: Evan Lipson; electric guitar and electronics: Annon Freidlin; drums: Eli Litwin

SET FIVE
Annette Vande Gorne: Figures d’espace
a. Vide et Plein
b. Texture 
c. Ritournelle 1 
d.Waves
e. Ritournelle 2 
Exils
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
electroacoustic music: Annette Vande Gorne; recorded at the Metamorphoses d'Orphee studio, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at the Rainy Day festival at Villa Louvigny, Luxemburg; composition year: 2004; time: 13:49

Elainie Lillios: Shoe Factory (from Backroads)
Entre espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio, Bowling Green, Ohio; premiered at Rien à voir (12) concert series presented by Réseaux at Espace GO, Montreal, September 13, 2002; composition date: 2002; time: 3:51

Elainie Lillios: Pool (from Earth Ascending)
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 11 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2002
voice: Deborah Norin-Kuehn; electroacoustic music: Elainie Lillios; text: Cynthia Fuller; recorded at the University of North Texas, Denton, and the Center for Teaching and Learning, Bowling Green, Ohio; composition year: 2000; time: 4:22

SET SIX
Steven Ricks: CommunalLoopsImprov
Available Resonances
Comprovise Recordings/2012
found sounds, computers: Steven Ricks; time: 3:39

R. Weis: Kirby's Ball
Excitable Audible
R.Weis/2012
sampling, computers: R. Weis; time: 4:41

Enzo Minarelli: 
I don't like poets who add dead complexities to living ones
Fame
Pogus Productions/2012
vocals, words, sounds, vocalizations: Enzo Minarelli; time: 2:56

Frank Pahl: The House on Tulip Mountain
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
music by Frank Pahl; time: 2:11

Carlo Serafini: Bicycles and Bowls
Possible Worlds [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2012
music by Carlo Serafini; time: 4:24

David Mooney: Lift Temporarily Suspended
Rhythmiconic Sections
Arizona University Recordings/2004
computer music: David Mooney; time: 1:10

Frank Pahl: The Romantic Side of Schizophrenia
The Romantic Side of Schizophrenia
FOT/1994
mandolins, accordions, baritones, clarinets: Frank Pahl; octavin, saxophones: Marko Novachoff; flutes, saxophones: Tim Holmes; time: 3:29

Edward Ka Spel: The Char Char
Down in the City of Heartbreak and Needles
Soleilmoon Records/1995
voice; keyboards: Edward Ka Spel; time 3:30

Steve Beresford: Toy Piano
Not Necessarily "English" Music [various artists]
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
toy piano, sound effects: Steve Beresford; recorded at Charing Cross Station, London, January 18, 1975

Enzo Minarelli: Seeking the Sound of Pharmacopoeia
Fame
Pogus Productions/2012
vocals, words sounds, vocalizations: Enzo Minarelli; time:3:40

SINGLE PLAY
Bob Gluck: Electric Songs 1-3
Electric Songs
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
shofar: Bob Gluck and electronics; voice: Zoe Zak

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Martian Gardens for September 9, 2012

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 9, 2012

SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Song of Quetzalcoatl 
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group (William Winant, Todd Manley, David Rosenthal, Daniel Kennedy); recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, August 1993; composition year: 1941; time: 06:32

Phil Kline: Three Rumsfeld Songs
a. As We Know
b. That Many Vases
c. Near-Perfect Clarity
Zippo Songs
Cantaloupe Music/2004
The Zippo Band (vocals: Theo Bleckmann; violin: Todd Reynolds; guitars: Phil Kline; percussion: David Cossin); recorded at Ft/lb Studio, Brooklyn, August-September 2003; composition year: 2003; time: 5:35

SET TWO
Darren Copeland: They're Trying to Save Themselves
Lost and Found
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
electroacoustic music: Darren Copeland; premiered on Loss and Legacy, Radio One (CBC), September 11, 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 3:53

Eric Lyon: Liberation #1
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004
computer music: Eric Lyon; composition year: 2003; time: 9:11

Scott A. Wyatt: In the Arms of Peril
Music from SEAMUS volume 11 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2002
electroacoustic music: Scott Wyatt; recorded at the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studio; composition year: 2001; time: 10:00

SET THREE
Walter Zimmermann: 10 Fränkische Tänze
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012
string quartet/drone quartet: Sonar Quartett (violins: Suanne Zapf, Kirsten Harms; viola: Nikolaus Schlierf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt); recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin-Lankowitz, Germany, February 2011; composition year: 1977; time: 12:56

Miguel Del Aguila: Pacific Serenade 
I. Cantando, semplice
II. Recitando, molto rubato
Exchange -- Latin America [various artists]
CRI/2000
Pacific Serenade Ensemble (clarinet: Gary Gray; violins: Miwako Watanabe, Connie Kupta; viola: Simon Oswell; viola: David Speltz); recorded at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angales, March 15, 1999; composition year: 1998; time: 7:15

SET FOUR
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 1
The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
Wergo/1994
instruments: constant and variable frequency records, cymbal, and piano; performers: John Cage, Doris Dennison, Xenia Cage, Margaret Jansen); recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958; composition year: 1939; time: 8:30

David Tudor and John Cage: Rainforest II/Mureau (excerpt)
Rainforest/Mureau
New World Records/2000
live electronics: David Tudor; voice, pre-recorded tape: John Cage; text: Henry David Thoreau; recorded at Radio Bremen, May 5, 1972; composition year: 1972/1970; excerpt time: 11:30

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Art and Overpopulation & Royanji
From Zero
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
Art and Overpopulation lecture delivered at Stanford University, January 1992; Royanji (soprano: Isabelle Ganz, percussion: Michael Pugliese); composition years: 1992/1983-1985; time: 26:00

SET FIVE
If, Bwana: Walking der Dog
I, Angelica
Pogus Productions/2002
tapes, synthesizers, computer, and other instruments: Al Margolis; walking dog: Ted the Dog; time: 12:06

Tom Hamilton: What Fell Through
Local Customs
Mutable Music/2009
flute: Jacqueline Martelle; clarinets: Richard Cohen; trombone: James Martin; contrabass: Terry Kippenburger; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; electronic harmony generator: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri; composition year: 2005; time: 8:11 

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: 40 Rooms
Wind Shdadows 
New World Records/2005 
for quintet and digital reverberation system; The Barton Workshop (clarinet: John Anderson; violin: Marieke Keser; cello: Judith Van Swaay; double bass: Jos Tieman; trombone: James Fulkerson; directors: James Fulkerson, Frank Denyer);recorded in the Maria Minor Kerk; Ultrecht, The Netherlands; May 12, 2003; composition year: 1996; time: 15:12 

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Martian Gardens for September 2, 2012

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 September 2, 2012

SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: September Canons
September Canons
New World Records/2009
violin with electronic processing: Todd Reynolds; composition year: 2002; selection time: 13:13

Ursula Mamlok: Five Capriccios I-V
Ursula Mamlok Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; piano: Anton Kernjak; recorded at Radiostudio, Zürich, Switzerland, February 12, 2011; composition year: 1968; selection time: 7:10

SET TWO
Annie Gosfield: EWA7, part 2
Pipes: Transmission of a Yellow Pipe, Mechanical Firing of a Yellow Pipe
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; electronics: Ikue Mori; drums, percussion: Jim Pugliese and Sim Cain; metal factory percussion: Hans-günter Brodmann and Matthias Rosenbauer; factory sounds sourced from the EWA 7 factory, Nuremburg, Germany; music recorded at Mission Sound, Brooklyn, January 2001; composition year: 1999; selection time: 11:06

Yvonne Troxler: from Shergotty
a. Shergotty I
b. Shergotty III
Brouhaha
Innova Recordings/2012
performed by the Glass Farm Ensemble; recorded at Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, July 2011; composition year: 2004/2011; selection time: 6:43

John Cage: from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
a. Sonata XI
b. Fourth Interlude
Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946-1948)
CRI/1995
prepared piano: Maro Ajemian; recorded at WOR Studios, New York City, 1950;  composition year: 1946-1948; selection time: 6:01

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Walter Zimmermann: Songs of Innocence & Experience 
23 ritornels for string quartet and tape
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012 
performed by the Sonar Quartett; children's voices recorded on the streets of Nuremburg; poem "The Tyger" from William Blake's "Songs of Experience" recited by Allen Ginsberg; recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, February 2010; composition year: 1996/2004; selection time: 22:10

SET THREE
Elaine Barkin: Anonymous was a Woman
Open Space 3 (Barkin, Boretz, et al.)
Open Space/1992
tape collage for for choreographer Annamaura Siverblatt; realized at UCLA, 1984; composition year: 1984; selection time: 10:45

George Todd: Wordscapes
a. Word
b. Water Asleep
c. Green Idea
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 2 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
Synclavier programming: George Todd, Middlebury College; composition year: 1991; selection time: 5:35

Barry Lewis: Hexa-Squigs
Curves and Jars
MPS Music & Video/1994
computer music: Barry Lewis; recorded at Projects UK, Newcastle; selection time: 2:15

Alwin Nikolais: Aviary -- Dance 3
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993
Synclavier programming: Alwin Nikolais; composition year: 1978; selection time: 2:51

SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: FIZZ
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
computer, electroacoustic music: Maggi Payne; realized at CCM, Mills College, Oakland; composition year: 2004; selection time: 10:18

Tom Erbe: After A Day
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 [various artists]
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
computer music: Tom Erbe; composition year: 1991; selection time: 4:32

Richard Maxfield: Pastoral Symphony
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
electronic music on tape: Richard Maxfield; composition year: 1960; selection time: 4:03

SET FIVE
Pete Stollery: Still Voices
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music: Pete Stollery; realized in 2005 and premiered on November 8, 2005 during the 34th concert of the Discoveries series; Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, Scotland; composition year: 2005; selection time: 6:22

John Cage: Living Room Music
a. To Begin
b. Story
c. Melody
d. End
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
percussion and voices: Third Coast Percussion; recorded at the Ruth Ford House, Aurora, Illinois, June 29, 2011; composition year: 1940; selection time: 8:04

Meredith Monk
a. Masks
b. Shaking
Mercy
ECM New Series/2002
a. voices: Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger; Ching Gonzalez; John Hollenbeck; Allison Sniffen, Meredith Monk; b. voices: Theo Bleckmenn, Katie Geissinger, Ching Gonzalez, Meredith Monk; piano: Allison Sniffen; percussion: John Hollenbeck; a/b recorded at Sorcerer Sound, New York City; composition year: 2001; selection time: 4:48

John Cage: Two Pieces for Piano
I. Slowly
II. Quite Fast
Early Piano Music
ECM New Series/2005
piano: Herbert Henck; recorded at Festebeurgkirche, Frankfurt am Main; December 2002; composition year: 1935; selection time: 3:40

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Malcolm Goldstein: Summer
The Seasons -- Vermont
XI Records/1998
double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Woods; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; saxophones, vibraphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; vocalizing, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, February 26, 1983; composition year: 1980-1982; selection time: 16:05

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Chris Brown:
a. Hawaii bird park, Hawaii
b. Frogs in irrigation canals, Champuan, Bali
Talking Drum
Binaural motion recordings as a dialogue of distances
Pogus Productions/2005
field recordings, instruments, processing: Chris Brown; composition year: 1990s; selection time: 4:50

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Martian Gardens for August 26, 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 August 26, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Icebreaker: An Ending (Ascent) I
Apollo
Music composed by Brian Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
In memory of Neil Armstrong

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: In Memoriam
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky

SET ONE
Robert Carl: Warm Waxing Wail
Works for Piano
Centaur Records/1995
piano and voice: Anthony De Mare;  recorded at Millard Auditorium, The Hartt School, West Hartford, Connecticut; June 1994

David Mahler: Deep Water
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; voice, text: David Mahler; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009

Sylvia Smith: Two songs by John Cage --
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
b. Nowth Upon Nacht
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christine Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"

SET TWO
John Cage: 36 Mesostics re and not re Marcel Duchamp
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002
voice (with electronics): Paul Hillier

John Cage: from Series re Morris Graves
a. Page 11
b. Page 12
John Cage performs Cage -- The Text Pieces I: The Artistic Pieces
Mode Records/1999
recorded at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. for John Cage's watercolors exhibition, April 19, 1990

John Cage: Three, part F
The Number Pieces 4
Mode Records/2009
recorders: Trio Dolce; recorded at Maria Minor Church, Ultrecht, The Netherlands; February 1, 1998

SET THREE
John Cage: In the Name of the Holocaust*
The Works for Piano 8 -- Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at German radio, Frankfurt, 2002
* Title this 1942 composition is a pun on "In the name of the Holy Ghost" and taken from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939)

Victoria Jordanova: Sonatina No. 3
a. Dogged
b. Nagging
c. Vacilating
Cosmogony
Arpaviva/2012
amplified piano: Victoria Jordanova

Victoria Jordanova: Requiem
Requiem for Bosnia
CRI/1994
harp, broken piano: Victoria Jordanova

SET FOUR
Francis Dhomont: Lettre de Sarajevo
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music: Francis Dhomont;  realized in the Syter studio at Ina-GRM (Paris, France) and in the composer’s studio in 1995-96 and premiered on 22 February 1996 as part of the Festival Présences of Radio France in the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris, France)

Marcelle Deschênes:
selections from Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles (Naissance des roches molles)
[Moll, a Lilliputian opera for six soft pebbles (Birth of the Soft Rocks)]
a. Zig and Puce
b. Dry insects -- Yawning one's head off
c. Variable star
d. Bittuber insects: drinking the sea with a straw
petits Big Bangs
mixed media, multimedia, and acousmatic music 1976-2002 retrospective
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music: Marcelle Deschênes; clarinets: Pierre Langevin; trombones: Réjean Marois; percussion and toys: René Joly, Raynald Lévesque, Robert Pelletier, Robert Leroux, realized in 1976 in the studio of the Université Laval (Québec City) and premiered on March 18, 1976 at McGill University’s Pollack Hall in Montréal by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ)

SET FIVE
Walter Zimmermann: Ursache und Vorwitz
Schatten der Ideen
Mode Records/2003
performed by the Ensemble Recherche (with electronic tape); recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, May 1998

George Crumb: Palmpsest (from Other Worldly Resonances)
Complete Crumb Editions, Vol. 11
Bridge Records/2008
pianos: Susan Grace and Alison Rybak; recorded at Packard Recital Hall, Colorado Springs, March 17, 2006

SET SIX
David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees (excerpt)
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
interior recordings of bark beetles in Pinyon pine trees, New Mexico, David Dunn: bioacoustic recordings 

Tod Dockstader/David Lee Myers: Pterygota
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005
amphibian sound recordings and electronics: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers

Steven Ricks: Can Cup Pipe
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
found objects, microphone, computer: Steven Ricks

SET SEVEN
Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
recordings for electronic installation recorded throughout Japan, 2007

Tom Hamilton: Modhera
Pieces for Kohn/Formal and Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
keyboards, synthesizer, custom electronics: Tom Hamilton; drums, percussion, bells, cymbals: Rich O'Donnell; flute, clarinet: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1975

If, Bwana: Flute Thang
33Birdswent
Pogus Productions/1995
vocals: Ellen Christi; soprano sax: Brian Charles; sampled flute, electronics, tape: Al Margolis

SINGLE PLAY
Icebreaker: An Ending (Ascent) II
Apollo
Music composed by Brian Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
In memory of Neil Armstrong
 
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