Martian Gardens for January 27-28, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 27, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
January 28, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
 
PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Guy Klucevsek: The Imperial Buzzard
Polka from the Fringe
Starkland/2012 (orig. 1992)
composer: Tom Cora; Guy Klucevsek and the Ain't Nothin' But A Polka Band recorded at Baby Monster Studios, 1991; time: 2:25

SET ONE
Joane Hétu: 
a. Rafales 1 (Wind Gusts 1)
b. Rafeles 3 (Wind Gusts 3)
Récits de neige (Tales of Snow)
actuellecd.com/2007
narration: Jean Derome, "La naissance de Raphaelle," narration: Scott Thomson, "The Beautiful Flakes," performers: Jean Derome, Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, Alexandre St-Onge, Pierre Tanguay, Scott Thomson; recorded live at the Theatre La Chapelle, Montreal, Winter 2008; composition year: 2007; excerpt time: 7:15

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: Duke of Prunes
Absolutely Free
Rykodisk/1994 (orig. LP Verve/1967)
recorded at TTG Studios, November, 1966; time: 2:13

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Rip, Rig and Panic
Rip, Rig and Panic/Now Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith
EmArcy Records-Polygram/1990 (orig. RRP LP Limelight/1965)
wind instruments, siren, castanets: Roland Kirk; piano: Jaki B\yard; bass: Richard Davis; drums: Elvin Jones; recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio; Englewood Cliffs, California, January 13, 1965; time: 6:55

Richard Maxfield: Bachhanale
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999 (orig. Electronic Music LP 1969/Advance Records)
narration, poetry: Edward Fields (recorded at the Five Spot Café); violin: Fahrad Muchkat; prepared violin: Robert Block; saxophone: Terry Jennings; underwater clarinet: Nicholas Roussakis; electric organ, tapes: Richard Maxfield; additional folk recordings supplied by Henry Cowell; composition year: 1963; time: 8:14

SET TWO
Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage: Sound??
Sound?? -- A Film by Dick Fontaine (audio portion)/1967
commentary and music: Roland Kirk, John Cage; time: 25:00

John Cage and David Tudor: 
a. Indeterminacy # 39 (concerning Indian spice boxes)
b. Indeterminacy # 40 (concerning the Liberal Catholic Church)
c. Indeterminacy # 41 (concerning Morton Feldman, freedom and birds)
Indeterminacy 
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. Folkways LP set 1959)
stories, readings: John Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; excerpt time: 3:00

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: Structures
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at the Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, January 2009; composition years: 1960-1962; time: 7:30

Alain Bancquart: Epilogue (abridged)
Le Livre du Labyrinthe
Mode Records/2003
clarinet: Jérôme Voisin; cello: Pierre Morlet; text, voice: Marie-Claire Bancquart (based on the myth of the Cretan Labyrinth); sound projection: Gerard Pape; recorded at the Salle Olivier Messiaen, Paris, May 27, 2000; abridged time: 7:00

Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: In the Land of Perfect Days
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
bass flute in F: Robert Dick; voice, vocalizations: Thomas Buckner; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, June 18, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Brief an den Vater (Letter to his Father)
Études pour Kafka
Empreintes Digitales/2009
narration: Martin Engler; text: Franz Kafka; electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Avignon, France, 2005; premiered at the trans_canada festival in the ZKM_Kubus of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, February 12, 2005; time: 17:02

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: Milton Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: John Hollander (based on Ovid's "Philomela"), created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964: time: 18:47

IN MEMORY OF MILTON BABBITT (MAY 10, 1916 -- JANUARY 29, 2011)

SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: Arctic Winds
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
dry ice, ball bearings, drum heads, sound processing: Maggi Payne; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College; composition year: 2007; time: 9:51

Pauline Oliveros: Cyber Talk
Quartet for the End of Space
Pogus Productions/2011
Expanded Instrument System; digital loopers, virtual microphone control system, sound geometries processing: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the Deep Listening Institute, Troy, New York, 2010; time: 8:05

SET FIVE
Lisa Walker: Transients*
Electroacoustic Music Volume VIII [various artists]
Electroshock Records/2002
whale recordings, violin: Lisa Walker; composition year: 2001; time: 8:38

Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Cuban Lawyer, Juan Blanco
Electroacoustic Music Volume IX [various artists]
Electroshock Records/2004
narration: Juan Blanco; electroacoustic music: Vivian Adelberg Rudow; composition year: 2000; time: 5:27

Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Racing Inside the Milkyway
Electroacoustic Music Volume VIII [various artists]
Electroshock Records/2002
electroacoustic music: Vivian Adelberg Rudow; composition year: 1994; time: 3:00

Nicole Lizée: This Will Not Be Televised (excerpt)*
MusicWorks 105 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2009
performed by members of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; turntables: DJP-Love, percussion: Ben Reimer, Fred Liessens; violin: Karl Stobbe, Darryl Strain: viola: Daniel Scholz; cello: Yuri Hooker; double bass: Meredith Johnson; conductor: Rei Hotoda; composition years: 2005-2007; time: 2:00

* TAINT RADIO version only
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Martian Gardens for January 20-21, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 29, 2013

TAINTRADIO.COM
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
January 21, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
 
PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Negativland: Sycamore
Escape from Noise
SST/1987

SET ONE
Luciano Berio: O King
The Great Works for Voice
Mode Records/1995
Musicians' Accord, soprano: Christine Schadeberg; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, New York City, April 3, 1995; composition year: 1968; time: 5:13

David Baker: Through This Vale of Tears
I. Thou Dost Lay Me in the Dust of Death
II. If There Be Sorrow
III. My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
IV. Parades to Hell
V. Deliver My Soul
VI. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
VII. Now That He is Safely Dead
VIDEMUS 
(Works by T.J. Anderson, David Baker, Donal Fox, Olly Wilson)
New World Records/1992
tenor: Willie Brown; violins: Lynn Chang, Marylou Speaker Churchill; cello: Mark Churchill; piano: Vivian Taylor; texts: I. Psalm 22, II. Marie Evans, III. Psalm 22, IV. Solomon Edwards, V. Psalm 22, VI. traditional, VII. Carl Hines; recorded at the African American Meeting House, Boston, November 1991; composition year: 1986; time: 16:00

FOR MILK DAY

SET TWO
Donal Fox: The Old People Speak of Death
Gone City (Presented by Videmus)
New World Records/1997
text/speaker: Quincy Troupe; piano: Donal Fox (Fox/Troupe Duo); recorded in concert at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for WGBH Radio, November 5, 1993; composition year; 1993; time: 5:11

Tania León: Arenas d'un Tiempo
Singin' Sepia
Bridge Records/2008
Speculum Musicae -- clarinet: Allen Blaustine, cello: Eric Bartlett; piano: Aleck Karis; recorded at KAS Music and Sound, Astoria, New York, March 13, 2004; composition year: 1992; time12:21

SINGLE PLAY*
John Cage: 
a. A Flower [3:31
b. A Room [2:11]
As It Is
ECM New Series/2012
a. piano lid: Alexei Lubimov; voice: Natalia Pschenitschnikova; b. prepared piano: Alexei Lubimov; recorded at DRS Studio, Zurich, December 2011; composition years: a. 1950; b. 1943
*TAINT RADIO version only
    
SET THREE
Noah Creshevsky: Psalmus XXIII
To Know and Not to Know
Tzadik/2007
vocal samples: Beth Griffith; baritone: Zach Kurth-Nelson; electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky;  composition years 2003, 2004; time: 7: 29

J.K. Randall: Shouldn't We Talk? (SWT I)
Open Space 19 (Randall/Boretz)
Open Space/2004
saxophone, percussion: Jim Randall, 2003; composition year: 2003; time: 9:20

Laurie Spiegel: Dirge Part II
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
synthesizer: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, October 1974; composition year: 1974; time: 2:29

SET FOUR
Milton Babbitt: Occasional Variations
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2003
RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer: Milton Babbitt; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968-1971; composition years: 1968-1971; time: 9:54

Mel Powell: Events for Tape Recorder
Music for Electronic and Older Instruments 
[Luening-Ussachevsky/Ussachevsky/Powell)
CRI/1968
magnetic tape: Mel Powell; voices: Mildred Dumnock, Lee Bowman, Martha Scott; recorded at Yale electronic music studios, 1963; composition date: 1963; time: 6:56

Cesar Bolaños: Intensidad y Altura
Tensions at the Vanguard --
New Music from Peru (1948-1979) [various artists]
Pogus Productions/2012
magnetic tape: Cesar Bolaños; recorded at the Electronic Music Laboratory (CLAEM) at the Institute for Higher Studies in Music of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1964; composition year: 1964; time: 5:02

SET FIVE
Daniel Leduc: selections from Die Winterreise (the Winter Journey)*
a. Gute Nacht (Good Night)
b. Gefrorne Tränen (Frozen Tears)
c. Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree)
d. Der Stürmische Morgen (The Stormy Morning)**
e. Täuschung (Delusion) **
f. Coda**
g. Auf dem Flusse (On the River)
h. Irrlicht (Will o' the Wisp)
i. Frühlingstraum (Spring Dream)
j. Die Post (The Post)
k. Die Krähe (The Crow)
l. Im Dorfe (In the Village)
Le voyage d'hiver
Empreintes Digitales/1999
electroacoustic music: Daniel Leduc; realized at the compser's studio and at the eletroacoustic music studio of the University of Montreal 1995-1997; text: Wilhelm Müller; excerpts time: 15:45/**18:45
* not to be confused with Schubert's song cycle (D. 911/Op. 89) using the same text
** TAINT RADIO version only

Joane Hétu: Regarder la neige tomber (Watch the snow fall) 
(selection from La Neige)
Récits De Neige (Tales of Snow)
Actuellecd.com/2010
narration: Miranda Nisensen; performers: Jean Derome, Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, Alexandre St-Onge, Pierre Tanguay, Scott Thomson; recorded live at the Theatre La Chapelle, Montreal, Winter 2008; composition year: 2007; time: 5:51

SET SIX
Particle Ensemble: Frond (excerpt)
Particle Ensemble
Mutable Music/2012
composer: Earl Howard; bass-baritone: Thomas Buckner; bass saxophone: J.D. Parran; violin: Mari Kimura; electronics: Earl Howard; composition year: 2010; excerpt time: 12:00

William Hooker: Morphology
Black Mask
Knitting Factory/2002
percussion: William Hooker; keyboards, accordion: Andrea Parkins; recorded at the Knitting Factory, New York City, April 2000; time: 4:45

John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi: Five Stone Wind (excerpt)
Music for Merce Cunningham
Mode Records/1991
amplified violin, live electronics, bamboo flute: Takehisa Kosugi; clay pots, tapes: Michael Pugliese; live electronics: David Tudor; recorded in Washington D.C., May 1989; composition year: 1988; excerpt time: 2:00

John Cage: Trio
a. Allegro [0:59]
b. March [1:51]
c. Waltz [1:40]
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, June 2011; composition year: 1936; time: 4:30

SET SEVEN
Stuart Saunders Smith: Family Portraits -- Cubba (Grandfather)
Breath -- The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2004
trumpet: Michael Cerri; percussion: Sylvia Smith; flute: David LaVorgna; recorded at Studio 508, University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 1996; time: 9:30

Sylvia Smith: from Poems I and III (from Poems I, II, III)*
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
composer: Stuart Saunders Smith; brake drums: Sylvia Smith; narrator: Stuart Saunders Smith; composition year: 1970; time: 1:40
*TAINT RADIO version only

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Martian Gardens for January 6, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 6, 2013

TAINTRADIO.COM
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
January 14, 2013 -- Rebroadcast of the program for January 7, 2013

Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
 
PLAYLIST for JANUARY 6, 2012, WMUA ONLY

Benjamin Boretz, Jill Borner, Charles Stein: 
An Experiment in Reading (Samuel Beckett's radio play Cascando)
Open Space 3 (Barkin/Boretz)
Open Space/1992
synthesizer: Benjamin Boretz; reading session October 10, 1981, at Ben Boretz's house, Red Hook, New York; time: 21:00

Charles Dodge: 
Cascando --A realization of Samuel Beckett's radio play
A Retrospective 1977--2009
New World Records/2010
Opener: John Nesci; Voice: computer synthesis based on a reading by Steven Gilborn; Music: computer synthesis based on the character Voice; composition year: 1977; time: 32:38

Gerard Pape: Monologue 
Electroacoustic Chamber Works
Mode Records/1998
bass-baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; Gerard Pape: tape, sound projection; text: Samuel Beckett, "A Piece of Monologue," live recording at Theatre Dunois, Paris, France, 1995; composition years: 1990, 1995; time: 32:16

David Jaggard: Mary & Ann
Sonic Circuits VIII [various artists]
Innova Recordings/2000
electronics, tapes, guitar, toys, sound effects, voice: David Jaggard; text: Samuel Beckett, "Watt," recorded at the Sonology Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands; time: 14:30

Negativland: Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Potatoes -- A Collection of Folk Songs from Ralph Records 
[various artists]
Ralph Records/1987
narration: Graham Kerr; drums, fiddle, stirring bowl: Chris Grigg; acoustic guitar, frying pan: Mark Hosler; tape, voice manipulations: Don Joyce; keyboard, hazelnuts: David Wills; whining butter: Peter Montgomery; time: 2:45
 
Daniel Tosi: Otto ti Bou
Le Sixte Livre Dit Électroacoustique de François Rabelais
[various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Média/1995
narrator: René Zosso; text: François Rabelais; tape mix for hurdy-gurdy and voices realized at CNR Studio, Perpignon, France; time: 23:05
 
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 

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Martian Gardens for January 13-14, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 13, 2013

TAINTRADIO.COM
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
January 14, 2013

Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
 
PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Christian Wolff: 
a. Bread and Roses 0:50
b. Bread and Roses 8:50
Bread and Roses -- Works for Piano 1976-1983
Mode Records/1995
a. original tune (Caroline Kohlsaat, 1912); b. variations (Christian Wolff); piano: Sally Pinkas; recorded at the Performing Arts Concert Hall, University of California Santa Cruz; December 1993; composition year: 1976

Commemorating the 101st anniversary of the Bread and Roses Strike beginning January, 1912, Lawrence, Massachusetts 

Frederic Rzewski: 
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (First Cycle/Cadenza)
a. Theme and Variations 1
b. Variation 2
c. Variation 3
d. Variation 4
e. Variation 5
f. Variation 6
g. Cadenza
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Bridge Records/2012
piano: Ole Killerich; variations on the song "¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!" (Sergio Ortega); recorded at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, Odense, Denmark, May 2002; composition year: 1975; excerpts time: 12:00

SET TWO

Richard Teitelbaum: Threshold Symphonies (excerpt)

Solo Live

Mutable Music/2012

Kurzweil 2000 Sampler Keyboard, piano, bells, slide whistle, Crackle Box, laptop: Richard Teitelbaum; composition year: 1973; excerpt time: 10:00

Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde, Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971 [various artists]
Pogus Productions/2009
vocalizations and electronics recorded at Tangent Studio, London, and The Electronic Music Studio, Goldsmith College, 1970; composition year: 1970; time: 10:26

Annea Lockwood: Popina to Rasova (excerpt)
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
field recordings: Annea Lockwood; composition years: 2001-2005; excerpt time: 2:30

SET THREE
Ned Bouhalassa: Las Vegas (from Urban Cuts)
Gratte-cite (Cityscraper)
Empreintes Digitales/2008
electroacoustic music: Ned Bouhalassa; cello: Delphine Measroch; drums: Christian Olsen; narrator, text: Fortner Anderson; realized at the composer's studio, Montreal; premiered at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, November 19, 2005; composition year: 2005; time: 9:33

Katharine Norman: Hard Cash (and small dreams of change)
Sonic Circuits V [various artists]
Innova Recordings/1997
electroacoustic music, London street interviews: Katharine Norman; composition year: 1997; time: 10:40

SET FOUR
Steve Reich: Come Out
Early Works
Nonesuch/1987
tape phasing: Steve Reich; voice: Daniel Hamm of the Harlem Six, recorded 1964; composition year: 1966; time: 12:54

David First: Key Lights in a Palace Balloon
Resolover
O.O. Discs/1991
piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Centerfield Studio, New York City, April 1991; time: 9:35

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: On F

Music Box

Bridge Records/2007

computer music: Paul Lansky; time: 5:49

Paul Lansky: Chords (excerpt)*
Conversation Pieces
Bridge Records/1998
computer music: Paul Lansky: excerpt time: 1:45
*TAINT RADIO version only

SET FIVE
Ingram Marshall: The Emperor's Birthday
Ikon and Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
tape phasing: Ingram Marshall; voices: American ethnographer, Ethiopian man, BBC presenters; recorded in Ethiopia during a celebration for Emperor Haile Selassie; composition years 1974-1975, time: 13:36

Paul Burnell: Orange Juice
Deep Wireless 4 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2007
voice, sampling: Paul Burnell; time: 1:00

Emmanuel Madan: Freedom Highway
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
sampling: Emmanuel Madan; time: 6:46

SET SIX
Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II [various artists]
Capstone Records/2001
two-channel analogue tape; readers: Susan McCully, Phil Maki; text: Gertrude Stein from "The Making of Americans"; recorded at WINC Studios, West Newton, Massachusetts, composition year: 2000;  time: 12:29

Amy Denio:
a. Hey Hey II
b. Hey Hey I
c. Hey Hey III
Dice 2 [She Says] [various artists]
Ishtar Records/1996
voice: Amy Denio; recorded at Spacious Spoot Studios, Seattle, Spring 1996; composition year: 1996; time: 4:00

Eve Beglarian: Making Hey
JKR Pass 3 [Music for Jim Randall's 75th birthday] [various artists]
Open Space/2007
voice and keyboard: Eve Beglarian; bass: Matt Fieldes; percussion: Damien Bassman; text: anonymous; composition years: 1980 and 2007; time: 7:30

SINGLE PLAY
J.K. Randall: Intimacy (A Polemic)
a. [part 2]
b. [part 4]
c. [part 5]
Open Space 10 [Randall/Boretz]
Open Space/1992
voice: Jim Randall; recorded in New York City for a meeting of the Society for Music Theory; time: 4:45

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Martian Gardens for December 30-31, 2012

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 30, 2012

TAINTRADIO.COM
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
December 31, 2012 

Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
 
PLAYLIST

SET ONE

Annette Vande Gorne: Crise

Exils

Empreintes Digitales/2008

electronic music realized at the Métamorphoses d'Orphée studio of M&R, premiered at Stalker, Brussels, Belgium, January 13, 1984 for the Phillippe Marannes play "Sulphur Sun"; composition year: 1984; time: 5:27

Pete Stollery: Serendipities and Synchronicities 

Scènes

Empreintes Digitales/2012

electroacoustic music realized in 2004 and premiered on October 7, 2004 as part of the theatrical production "Standing Wave" at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, composition year: 2004; time: 5:48

SET TWO

Richard Teitelbaum: Threshold Symphonies (excerpt)

Solo Live

Mutable Music/2012

Kurzweil 2000 Sampler Keyboard, piano, bells, slide whistle, Crackle Box, laptop: Richard Teitelbaum; excerpt time: 10:00

Annea Lockwood: In Our Name
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
baritone: Thomas Buckner; prerecorded voices: Bill Hart and Bruce Odland; cello: Theodore Mook; tape: Annea Lockwood; poems of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay:  "Death Poem," Jumah Al-Dossari (Bahrain), "The Truth," Emad Abdullah Hassan (Yemen), "Is it true," "Osama Abu Kabir (Jordan); didjeridu sample: Stuart Dempster, Didjerilayover; composition year: 2010; time: 11:48

SINGLE PLAY

Particle Ensemble: Pundititus

Particle Ensemble

Mutable Music/2012

composer: J.D. Parran; alto flutes, bamboo flutes, mbira: J.D. Parran; saxello, electronics: Earl Howard; voice: Thomas Buckner; composition year: 2010; time: 22:10

SINGLE PLAY

David Rosenboom: In the Beginning III (Quintet)

In the Beginning

New World Records/2012

performed by Midnight Winds (flute: Amy Tatum, oboe: Jennifer Johnson, clarinet: Andrew Leonard, bassoon: Maciej Fils; horn: Allen Fogle); recorded at Dizzy Gillespie Studio, California Institute of the Arts, January 10-11, 2010; composition year: 1979; time: 18:47

SET THREE

Arditti Quartet: Uno

Mexico -- New Music for Strings

Mode Records/2006

composer: Iván Naranjo; Arditti Quartet (violins, Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings; viola: Dov Scheindlin; cello: Rohan de Saram); recorded in Mexico City, April, 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 13:40

José Malsio: Danza

Tensions at the Vanguard
New Music from Peru (1948-1979) [various artists]

Pogus Productions/2012

National Symphony Orchestra, conductor: José Malsio; composition years: 1948-1950; time: 7:48

SINGLE PLAY*
Alexander Berne and the Abandoned Orchestra:
a. Four Instantiations 
b. Amphibiana
c. An Unnamed Diary of Places I Went Alone II
Self Referentials Volume 1 & 2
Innova Recordings/2012
recorded at Mirabela Studios, Florida; time: 9:00
 *TAINT RADIO version only

SET FOUR

Peter Zummo: Rocket Scientist

Experimenting with Household Chemicals

XI Records/1995

trombone, voice: Peter Zummo; amplified cello, voice, keyboard, bass: Arthur Russel; marimba, voice: Bill Ruyle; quartet: Mustafa Ahmed Percussion; saxophones, flute: Jon Gibson; edited from seven performances around New York City, 1989-1991; composition year: 1987; time: 9:41

Iannis Xenakis: Akanthos

Ensemble Music 1

Mode Records/1996

ST-X Ensemble, conductor: Charles Zachary Bornstein; soprano: Susan May; recorded live at the Waxing Space, New York City, June 21, 1995; composition year:1977; time: 10:15

SET FIVE

Amy Horvey: Cranberry Flats Mobile (radio edit)*

Catchment

Paved Arts/2010

for trumpet and interactive environmental sounds; trumpet: Amy Horvey; recorded at Cranberry Flats Conservation Area, South Saskatchewan River, August 2010;  composition year: 2010; edit time: 11:00
*TAINT RADIO version only

Amy Horvey: This one and that one side by side**
Catchement
Paved Arts/2010
composer: Cassandra Miller; trumpet and trumpet harmonics: Amy Horvey; recorded at Paved Arts, Saskatoon; composition year: 2010; time: 11:12
* *WMUA version only

David Dunn: Entraintments I
Music, Language, and Environment
Innova Recordings/1996
square-wave oscillators and processed environmental sounds: David Dunn; electronically altered voice: Lizbeth Rymland; recorded at Azalea Glen, Cayamaca State Park, California,  May-September, 1984; time: 8:14

SET SIX
Laurie Spiegel: A Folk Study
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012 (orig. LP Philo/1980)
synthesizer: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, February 1975; time: 2:03

Diane LaBrosse: Rotary Dial Phones
Music for Objects on the Edge of Extinction*
actuellecd/2007
violin: Marie-Soleil Belanger; trumpets: Jean Derome; guitars: Bernard Falaise; clarinets: Lori Freedman; accordion: Diane Labrosse; viola: Jean Rene; percussion: Pierre Tanguay, and rotary telephones; recorded at Studio 270 and Studio 2e, Montreal; circa 2005--2007; time: 421
  

*This title was issued on the original MG mailing as "Music for Objections on the Edge of Distinction.  MG regrets the error.  

Cluster and Brian Eno: Für Luise
Cluster & Eno
Caroline Records/1996 (orig LP Sky Records/1977)
synthesizers: Roedelius, Moebius, and Eno; recorded at Conny's Studio, Cologne, Germany, June 1977; time: 5:04

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Martian Gardens for December 23-24, 2012

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 23, 2012

TAINTRADIO.COM
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
December 24, 2012 

Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
 
PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Respect Sextet: Boppin' Around the Christmas Tree
Respect in Yule
Mode Records/2012

SINGLE PLAY
Tchaikovsky/Edward Artemiev: 
selections from The Nutcracker/The Rat King
a. The History Begins (Waltz of Flowers - The Vocalize)
b. March of Firefighters
c. It's All Relative (Song of Uncle Albert and the Children)
d. Mary Falls Asleep
e. Traveling on a Christmas Tree
f. My Secret World (Mary's Song)
g. Life is Bright Once More (Finale)*
The Nutcracker & The Rat King
Electroshock Records/2012
The Moscow Studio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Murad Annamamedov
*TAINT RADIO version only

SET ONE
George Crumb: A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979
a. The Visitation
b. Berceuse for the Infant Jesu
c. The Shephard's Noel
d. Adoration of the Magi
e. Nativity Dance
f. Canticle of the Holy Night
g. Carol of the Bells
Songs and Refrains of Death/Apparition/Suite for Christmas
Bridge Records/1991
piano:  Lambert Orkis

Respect Sextet: Sevivon/I Have a Little Dreidel
Respect in Yule
Mode Records/2012

SET TWO
Frank Zappa: Uncle Bernie's Farm
Absolutely Free
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. LP 1967)

Shelley Hirsch/Jon Rose/Chris Cutler: After Hours/The Colour of BLOOD
The ReR Quarterly Vol. 4/No. 2
ReR Megacorp/1997

William S. Burroughs: The Junky's Christmas
Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales
Island Records/1993
music, sampling: The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

SINGLE PLAY
The Trummerflora Collective: Frosty the Snowman/Silent Night
No Stars Please
Accretions Records/2001

SINGLE PLAY
Earl Howard: Bird 3
Granular Modality
New World Records/2012

SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Blends
Blends
New Albion Records/2002

SET THREE
If, Bwana: Cicada #1 -- EHG Version
Assemble. Age!
Mutable Music/2010

Joane Hétu: 
A. Joyeux Temps, part 1
b. La Marmotte, part 1*
Nouvelle Musique d'Hiver
actuellecd/2007

*TAINT RADIO version only

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Martian Gardens for December 16-17, 2012

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 16, 2012

TAINTRADIO.COM
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
December 17, 2012 

Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
 
PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY

Laurie Anderson: Sharkey's Night

Mister Heartbreak

Warner Bros./1984

voice: William S. Burroughs; composition year: 1983; time: 2:29

SET ONE

Elliott Carter: Two Diversions/Retrouvailles

a. Diversion I  (4:40)

b. Diversion II (3:40)

c. Retrovailles (1:57)

The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Five

Nine Compositions (1994-2002)

Bridge Records/2003

piano: Charles Rosen; composition years: a/b. 1999/c. 2000

In memory of Charles Rosen (May 5, 1927 -- December 9, 2012)

John Cage:

a. Prelude for Meditation (1:25)

b. She is Asleep (7:49)

As It Is

ECM Records/2012

prepared piano: Alexei Lubimov; voice: Natalia Pschenitschnikova; recorded at DRS Radio Studio, Zurich, December 2011; composition years: a. 1948/b. 1943 

SET TWO

Harry Partch: Harrington Ranch, June 24, 1935

Bitter Music

Bridge Records/2011

narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto; recorded at Second at Second Story Studio, Venice, California; time: 13:38

Bitter Music is up for a Grammy!  
The first complete recording of Harry Partch's "Hobo Diaries" from the 1930s,  known as "Bitter Music," has been nominated for Best Classical Comendium in the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.  Congratulations to John Schneider and PARTCH.

Harry Partch: Exordium -- The Beginning of a Web

Delusion of the Fury -- A Ritual of Dream and Delusion

Innova Recordings/1999 (orig. LP 1971/Columbia Masterworks)

performed by a large ensemble of players and actors, conducted by Danlee Mitchell, supervised by Harry Partch; recorded at UCLA Playhouse, January 1969; composition year: 1968; text: Harry Partch, based on Japanese Noh theater and West African folklore; selection time: 10:45

SINGLE PLAY*

Harry Partch: The Letter

The Harry Partch Collection Volume 2

New World Records/2004 (orig. 1997)

intoning voice: Harry Partch; omicron belly drum: David Dunn; new kithara I, surrogate kithara; Dennis Dunn; harmonic canon III: Randy Hoffman; recorded in 1972 with dubbed in portions from 1950; text, "Letter from Hobo Pablo" from "Bitter Music"; composition year: 1943, 1950, 1972; time: 2:48

* TAINT RADIO version only

SINGLE PLAY*

Noah Creshevsky: Try  

60 x 60 -- 2003 [various artists]

Capstone Records/2004

electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; time: 1:00

* TAINT RADIO version only

SET THREE

Mark Applebaum: Garden of Memory

The Bible Without God

Innova Recordings/2005

Mouseketeer electroacoustic music sculptures: Mark Applebaum; recorded at the Chapel of Chimes, Oakland, California, June 21, 2004; composition year: 2004; time: 7:11

David Berezan: Cyclo

La face cachée

Empreintes Digitales/2008

electroacoustic bicycle sounds: David Berezan; realized in 2003 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (UK) and premiered on March 8, 2003 during the “20/20 Re:Vision” series of concerts celebrating the 20th anniversary of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre); time: 10:44

Elainie Lillios: Elevator (from Backroads) 

Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)

Empreintes Digitales/2011

electroacoustic music: Elainie Lillios; realized at the composer's studio, Bowling Green, Ohio; premiered September 13, 2002 during Rien à voir (12) concert series presented by Réseaux at Espace GO, Montreal; time: 3:31

SET FOUR
David Rosenboom: In the Beginning -- Etude I (Trombones)
In the Beginning (1978-1981)
New World Records/2012
eight trombones: Mike Svoboda; studio recording completed January 2009, Dizzy Gillespie Studios, California Institute of the Arts; composition year: 1979; time: 9:56

Eve Beglarian: Wonder Counselor
Tell the Birds
New World Records/2006
organ and tape: Eve Beglarian; composition year: 1996; time: 9:09

SET FIVE
Deep Listening Band: Hi Bali, Hi
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
trombones, didjeridu, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; just-tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; organ, overtone, flutes, electronics: David Gamper; Expanded Instrument System;  recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, New York, January 1994; composition year: 1994; time: 10:42

Dickie Landry: Alto Flute Quad Delay
Fifteen Saxophones
Unseen Worlds/2011
flute, tape delay: Richard Landry; engineer: Kurt Munkacsi; recorded in New York City, 1977; time: 9:49

SET SIX
Alvin Lucier: 947
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
for flute and interactive pure wave oscillator; flute: Jacqueline Martelle; engineer: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, April 29, 2002; composition year: 2000; time: 7:40

Al Margolis: , (apostrophe)
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
vocals: Lisa Barnard -Kelley; flutes: Jacqueline Martelle, Jane Rigler; electronics, processing: Al Margolis; recorded at WDR Koln, May 2006; time: 11:54

Jocy De Oliveira: Milk of Love
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000
spoken voice: Marilena Bibas; synthesizer, electronics: Jocy De Olivera; text: JDO; recorded in Berlin, March, 1995; composition year: 1994; time: 3:08 

SET SEVEN
James Tenney: Mallets in the Air
Cold Blue Two [various artists]
Cold Blue Music/2012
Partch diamond marimba (in just intonation): Erin Barnes; Formalist String Quartet (violins: Andrew McIntosh, Andrew Tholl; viola: Mark Menzies; cello: Ashley Waters); recorded at Architecture studio, Los Angeles, 2010; composition year: 2002; time: 4:40

Larry Polansky: Eskimo Lullaby
Cold Blue Two [various artists] 
Cold Blue Music/2012
voice and just-intonation National steel guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Architecture studio, Los Angeles, 2008; composition year: 2006; time: 4:00

Larry Polansky: Canon #14 -- Kid Canon
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
voices: Anna Diamond Polansky and friends; recorded at Brittrax, Dartmouth College and Los Angeles, 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 1:37

SET EIGHT*
J.D. Parran: Processional
Window Spirits
Mutable Music/2010
chimes, double wooden flutes: J.D. Parran; recorded at Balal Gallery, Kampo Cultural Center, New York City; March 27, 2009; time: 4:55

Robert Dick & Steve Gorn: Tongue and Groove
Steel and Bamboo
O.O. Discs/1993
A-flat wooden piccolo: Robert Dick; bansuri flute: Steve Gorn; time: 1:36

The Legendary Pink Dots: A Spanish Bridge
Prayer for Aradia
Terminal Kaleidoscope/1996 (orig. cassette/1985)
synthesizer, guitar: time: 1:30 
*TAINT RADIO version only

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