Martian Gardens for March 17-18, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 10, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
March 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
 John Cage: Roaratorio -- An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
a. Part Two (16:14)
b. Part Four (3:13)
Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier; voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; texts: James Joyce; premiered at West German Radio, Cologne, October 22, 1979; composition year: 1979

SET ONE 
Tim Brady: Roche noire (Chronique Irlandaise) [R. Lussier)
Imaginary Guitars
Justin Time/1995
composer: René Lussier  electric guitar: Tim Brady; electric bass, tapes: René Lussier; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; tapes, soundscapes: Claude Beaugrand; commentary: Grace Adaline Bamford-Brady, Frank Patrick Brady; "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" sung by the Right Honorable Brian Mulroney; recorded at Studio 270, Outremont, Quebec, 1992; composition years: 1991-1992; time: 10:34

Arturo Parra: L'envers du temps [R. Normandeau]
Parr(A)cousmatique 
Empreintes Digitales/2003
composer: Robert Normandeau; guitar: Arturo Parra; acousmatic music: Robert Normandeau; premiered at Victoriaville, Quebec, May 15, 1998; time: 10:18

SET TWO
Tim Brady: selections from Atacama -- Symphonie No. 3
a. Movement 3: Funeral Descalzo (4:35)
b. Movement 4: Telegrama (5:24)
Atacama -- Symphonie No. 3
Atmaclassique/2012
electric guitar: Tim Brady; performed by Bradyworks with Vivavoce, conductor: Peter Schubert; texts: Elías Letelier-Ruz; recorded at the Concert Hall of the Conservatory of Music of Montreal, June 2012

Sonic Youth + I.C.P. + The Ex: VI
In The Fishtank -- 9
Konkurrent/2002
electric guitars: Lee Ranaldo, Terrie Ex, Thurston Moore; bass guitar: Luc Ex; percussion: William Winant; drums: Han Bennink, Steve Shelley; reeds: Ab Baars; trombone: Wolter Wierbos; recorded at E-Sound Studio in Weesp, Holland, June 2001; time: 3:02

David Starobin: Berceuse bas de gamme (Cheap Lullaby)
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
the $100 guitar: David Starobin; time: 3:15

Leo Ciesa: Beyond the Red
Coat of Arms
Soundyard/2013
solo drum kit: Leo Ciesa; time: 3:01

SET THREE
Christian Wolff: Rosas
a. No. 1 (1:31)
b. No. 2 (3:17)
c. No. 3 (1:22)
d. No. 4 (1:36)
e. No. 5 (3:25)
8 Duos
New World Records/2013
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; piano: Frederic Rzewski; recorded at Robyn Schulkowsky's studio, Berlin, 2011-2012; composition year: 1990

Alarm Will Sound: selections from Canzonas Americanas (D. Bermel)
a. I. El Dude (5:44)
b. III. Montuno Blue (5:11)
Canzonas Americanas
Cantaloupe Music/2012
composer: Derek Bermel; Alarm Will Sound, conductor: Alan Pierson; composition year: 2010    

SET FOUR
Joane Hétu: 
a. Fragment Territoire (1:19)
b. Enthousiasme (4:31)
La Femme Territoire ou 21 Fragments d'Humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
voice, objects, melodica, conductor: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; accordion, voice: Alice Tougas-St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussion, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; text: Constantin Cavafy; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2011

John Schneider: Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (H. Partch)
a. Study on Olympos' Pentatonic (1:14)
b. Study on Archytas' Enharmonie (2:28)
Just West Coast
Bridge Records/1993
composer: Harry Partch: Just Strings -- guitar: John Schneider; harp: Amy Shulman; recorded at Studio A, KPFK FM, Los Angeles, winter 1993; composition years: 1946-1950

PARTCH: Castor [excerpt] (H. Partch)
CD-R 2008
ensemble PARTCH, director: John Schneider; recorded live at Mills College, Oakland; composition year: 1952; excerpt time: 1:56

Lou Harrison: Gending Ptolemy (from Scenes from Cavafy)
Scenes from Cavafy
New World Records/2010
Gamelan Pacifica, director: Jarrad Powell voice: John Duykers; text: Constantin Cavafy; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010; composition years: 1979-1980; time: 6:14

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot!
XI Records/2011
ambient arctic sounds: Charlie Morrow; composition year: 1997; time: 3:28

David Barnes: Nocturne
Axiom
DavidBarnesMusic/2013
sampler (kalimbas, temple bells), violas, piano, tubulon, synthesizer; flutes: Matt Somolis; time: 5:51

Howard Skempton:
a. Starlight (1:22)
b. Music, when soft voices die (1:20)
Bolt from the Blue
Mode Records/2010
a. piano: Daniel Becker; b. EXAUDI choir, director: James Weeks; text: Percy Bysshe Shelley; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, September 26, 2007; composition years: a. 1996, b. 1992

SINGLE PLAY
Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Confetti Variations (T. Lopez)
Here (and there)
Innova Recordings/2013
piano: Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi; fixed media: Tom Lopez, realized at TIMARA Studios, Oberlin, Ohio, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 18:09

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Lopez: Hollow Ground II (excerpt)
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 7 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1998
soprano: Larisa Montanaro; fixed media: Tom Lopez; realized at Studio III at the University of Texas, Austin, 1996; composition year: 1996; excerpt time: 3:45

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Martian Gardens for March 10-11, 2012

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 10, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
March 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Helmut Lachenmann: Die Jagd (The Hunt)
Das Mädchen Mit Den Schwefelhölzern, Tokyo-Fassung 2000
ECM/2005
SWR Sinfoniorchester, conductor: Sylvain Camberling; recorded at Konzerthaus Freiburg, July 2002; electronics realized at Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des WDR; time: 3:56

SINGLE PLAY
Helmut Lachenmann: „…Zwei Gefühle – Musik mit Leonardo …“
 „…Zwei Gefühle …“ and Solo Works
Mode Records/2012
Ensemble Signal, conductor: Brad Lubman; speaker: Helmut Lachenmann;  text: Leonardo Da Vinci (Codex Arundel); recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, March 2010; composition years: 1991-1992; time: 21:38

SET ONE
Phil Burk: Snow Falls on the Rising Tide
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
The $100 guitar, stomp box: Phil Burk; time: 2:42

Brian Chase: Drone State of Mind, v. 1
Drums & Drones
Pogus Productions/2013
drum, feedback: Brian Chase; recorded in Brooklyn; time: 7:24

Joseph Byrd: Water Music
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
electronic tape and percussion; percussion: Alan Zimmerman; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, October 16, 2010; composition year: 1963; time: 12:46

SET TWO
Douglas Geers: Turnstile
Music from SEAMUS Volume 10 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2001
computer generated sounds and violin; violin: Maja Cerar; composition year: 1999; time: 5:20

Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60 2006-2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim; composition year: 2005; time: 0:45

Judith Shatin: Penelope's Song
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electronics and violin; violin: Hasse Borup; composition year: 2003; time: 9:07

Mary Ellen Childs: The Gathering
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2012
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin: Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney; Jacqueline Ultan; percussion: Peter O'Gorman; written for Carl Flink's Black Label Movement dance company, Minneapolis; recorded at Wild Sound Studio, Minneapolis, 2011; time: 4:16

SET THREE
Steven Ricks: Wrecked Angles (Waves/Particles II)
CD-R Winter 2013
Canyonlands New Music Ensemble; composition year: 2008; time: 7:28

Ensemble SuperMusique: Poème à faible résistance
Bruit court-circuit
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
Ensemble SuperMusique: alto saxophone, voice, objects, composition: Joane Hétu; percussion, microphones: Michel F Côté; violin: Guido Del Fabbro; cello: Émilie Girard-Charest;  tenor saxophone, flute, objects: Jean Derome; percussion: Danielle Palardy Roger; synthesizers: Vergil Sharkya; electric bass, electronics: Alexandre St. Onge; turntables: Martin Tétreault; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012, time: 12:45

SET FOUR
Joane Hétu: selections from La Femme Territoire...
a. Opinion (3:51)
b. Fragment Territoire 2 (1:04)
c. L’amoureuse (4:29)
d. Fragment Amour (1:03)
La Femme territoire ou 21 fragments d'humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
voice, objects, melodica, direction: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; voice, accordion, glockenspiel: Alice Tougas St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, clarinet, objects: Jean Derome; percussion, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; texts: Constantin Cavafy (a); Joane Hétu (c); recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2011

Kenneth Gaburo: Fat Millie's Lament
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
sound collage: Kenneth Gaburo; composition year: 1965; time: 4:54

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention:
a. The Voice of Cheese (0:27)
b. Nine Types of Industrial Pollution (aka. 400 Days of the Year) (5:56)
c. Zolar Czakl  (0:57)
Uncle Meat
Rykodisk/1987 (orig. Bizarre Records LP 1969)
voice of Suzy Creamcheese: Pamela Zarubica; The Mothers on Uncle Meat: Jimmy Carl Black, Roy Estrada, Ray Collins, Ian Underwood, Artie Tripp, Euclid James Sherwood, Ruth Komanoff, Nelcy Walker, Bunk Gardner, Billy Mundi, Don Preston, Frank Zappa; recorded at Apostolic Studios, New York City and Sunset Studios, Los Angeles, 1968-1969

SET FIVE
David Barnes: Danz Kompaktor
Axiom
DavidBarnesMusic/2013
violas, djembes, electric guitars, sampler (steel cello, steel drums), synthesizer, sampled viola, hammer dulcimer, percussion: David Barnes; electric guitars: James Brooks; Buchla analog synthesizers: Charles Cohen; recorded in Somerville, Massachusetts; time: 6:45

Steve MacLean: M-Theory
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
The $100 guitar and $100 guitar-modified instruments: Steve MacLean; time: 2:02

Steve MacLean: Piano 2
Flies in the Face of Logic
Didkovsky/MacLean/Vrtacek
Pogus Productions/1994
upright piano, upright piano innards, objects, microphones: Steve MacLean; time: 4:43

David Mooney: A Little Noise Goes a Long Way
Facts About Air
Heavy Mental Music by David R. Mooney
David Mooney/2009
noises: David Mooney; time: 5:48

Gen Ken Montgomery: Storage Devices
Pondfloorsample
XI Records/2002
tapes, computers: Ken Montgomery; recorded at Spritzenhaus, Hamburg, 1999; time: 3:11

SINGLE PLAY
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme (abridged)*
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
electronics, speech synthesis: Eduardo Miranda; recorded at Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music; composition year: 2001; abridged time: 10:00

SINGLE PLAY
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Maelstrom (from Grain Streams)**
Plural (Miranda/Correa)
James Correa/2002
electronics: James Correa; piano: Catarina Domenici; time: 4:42

* TAINT RADIO version only
** WMUA version only

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Martian Gardens for March 3-4, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 3, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
March 4, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Helmut Lachenmann: Weigenmusik
 „ … Zwei Gefühle …“ and Solo Works
Mode Records/2012
piano: Helmut Lachenmann; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, March 2010; composition year: 1963; time: 3:25

Joseph Byrd: Three Aphorisms
a. Movement 1 (1:11)
b. Movement 2 (0:33)
c. Movement 3 (1:33)
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
prepared piano: Timothy Andres; recorded at Mission Sound, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 2010; composition year: 1960

Richard Teitelbaum: TBCi/bRT
Solo Live
Mutable Music/2012
piano, bells, slide whistle, Crackle Box, distant sirens: Richard Teitelbaum; recorded for the "Creative Differences" series at An Die Musik, Baltimore, April 11, 2009; time: 14:28

SET TWO
John Cage: some of Some of "The Harmony of Maine" (S. Belcher)
a. Alpha C.M. (1:35)
b. Majesty C.M. (3:29)
c. Harmony C.M. (3:30)
d. Creation L.M. (1:50)
e. Hallowell S.M. (3:50)
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
original hymns: Supply Belcher; arr. John Cage; pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at Nederluleå Church, Gammelstads kyrkstad, Luleå, Sweden, November 8, 2008; composition year: 1976

John Cage:  selections from 44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776
a. Hymn XXVI (Judea) [1:14]
b. Hymn XXVII (Reflection) [1:15]
c. Hymn XXVIII (Greenwich) [5:39]
The Works for Violin 6--The String Quartets 4
Mode Records/2005
original hymns: a. William Billings, b. Supply Belcher, c. Andrew Law; arr. John Cage, Irivine Arditti; The Arditti String Quartet; recorded at Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks, Frankfurt; July 2000; composition year: 1976

SINGLE PLAY
Joëlle Léandre: No Comment 6
No Comment
Red Toucan/2001
upright bass, voice: Joëlle Léandre; recorded at the Vancouver Jazz Festival, June 1995 and at the Ibleo Jazz Festival, Ragusa, Italy, October 1994 (notes do not specify the which track was where); time: 4:53

SET THREE
Monique Jean: Low Memory #2
L' Adieu au S.O.S.
Empreintes Digitales/2003
flute, piccolo: Claire Marchand; 4-channel tape; tape realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 2001; premiered by Clair Marchand at Studio 12, Maison de Radio-Canada, Montreal, April 8, 2001; stereo version realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 2002; time: 10:25

Elsa Justel: Gwerz
Mâts
Empreintes Digitales/2007
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio in Paris; premiered at the Festival Synthèse, Bourges, June 3, 2002; time: 11:40

SET FOUR
Marco Oppedisano: Red Cent
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
electroacoustic music produced from the $100 guitar; composition year: 2012; time: 2:08

Marco Oppedisano: Three Short Electronic Pieces
a. What's that noise? (1:06)
b. Did you hear that? (1:08)
c. The end is near (1:06)
Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar
OKS Recordings of North America/2007
guitars, electronics: Marco Oppedisano; composition year: 2003

Herbert Brün: More Dust (with percussion)
SAWDUST Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
SAWDUST music synthesis computer program: Herbert Brün; Percussion Group Cincinnati members: Allen Otte, James Culley, William Youhass; composition year: 1977; time: 13:16

Luc Ferrari: Etudes
a. aux accidents (2:19)
b. aux sons tendus (2:56)
c. Visages V, Part 1 (2:15)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
musique concrète: Luc Ferrari, realized at GRM, Paris,1958, 1959

SET FIVE
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno: Wind on Water
The Essential Fripp and Eno
Virgin-EG/1994
guitar: Robert Fripp; tape loops, synthesizers: Brian Eno; recorded in Paris and London, 1975; time: 5:30

James Moore: Birds
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
The $100 guitar: James Moore; time: 1:53

Pink Floyd/Roger Waters: Grantchester Meadows
Ummagumma
EMI/1994 (orig. LP Harvest/1969)
acoustic guitar, vocals, lyrics, tape effects (birds, insects, field sounds): Roger Waters; recorded in June 1969; time: 7:48

Alan Licht: Muhammed Ali & the Crickets
A New York Minute
XI Records/2003
field recordings: Alan Licht; edited at Quakebasket, New York City, by Tim Barnes and Alan Licht, 2001; time: 6:41

SET SIX
Alvin Lucier: Broken Line
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2011
flute: Robert Dick; vibraphone: Danny Tunick; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Studio P4, Nalepastrasse, Berlin, 2007; composition year: 2006; time: 12:21

Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (G. Klucevsek)
Play Nice
O.O. Discs/2000
composer: Guy Klucevsek; arrangement, vocals, one-stringed gopichand (aka. ektara) Eve Beglarian; composition year: 1995; time: 4:29

Meredith Monk:
a. Panda Chant I (1:56)
b. Panda Chant II (1:35)
Do You Be?
ECM Records/1987
voices: Robert Een, Andrea Goodman, Wayne Hanklin, Naaz Hosseini, Nurit Tilles, Ching Gonzalez, Meredith Monk; recorded in New York City, 1986-1987

SINGLE PLAY
Ronu Majumdar: 
Madhya Bandish in Ektal (from Raga Miyan Ki Malhar)
Bansuri
India Archive Music/2002
Bansuri flute: Ronu Majumdar; tabla: Abhijit Banerjee; recorded at Master Sound Astoria, New York City, September 28, 1997; time: 6:16

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Martian Gardens for February 24-25, 2013

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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
February 25, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Joseph Byrd: Animals
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
prepared piano: Timothy Andres; violin: Caleb Burhans; violin: Caroline Shaw; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: Clarice Jensen; marimba: Chihiro Shibayama; vibraphone: Chris Thompson; recorded at Mission Sound, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 2012; composition year: 1961; time: 10:00

Gamelan Son of Lion: She (really) Had To Go (J. Morton)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
composer, music boxes, Max/MSP program: John Morton; gamelan ensemble: Gamelan Son of Lion; composition year: 2006; time: 9:23

Nick Didkovsky: Son of Lion
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
the $100 guitar; Nick Didkovsky; time: 0:11

SET TWO
Justin DeHart: They Looked Like Strangers I & II (S.S. Smith)
Strange Paths
Innova Recordings/2013
composer: Stuart Saunders Smith; solo vibraphone: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Music Studio, La Jolla, California; composition year: 2009; selections time: 11:45

Stuart Saunders Smith: Each Moment An Ending
Breath -- The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2004
Percussive Rotterdam; recorded at Studio 508, University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 1993; time: 7:49

SET THREE
Robyn Schulkowsky: Armadillo Part IV
Armadillo
New World Records/2013
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; drums: Fredy Struder; drums: Joey Baron; recorded at Poggiolo and Zürich, 2006-2009; selection time: 5:12

Leo Ciesa: General Custard Pie
Coat of Arms
Soundyard/2012
solo drumset: Leo Ciesa; recorded at Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey, October 11, 2009; time: 2:36

Nick Didkovsky: Meteoric Ice Pie Menace
Ice Cream Time
New World Records/2007
electric guitar, laptop: Nick Didkovsky; sampling: Thomas Dimuzio; saxophones: ARTE Quartett; recorded at SRG (Swiss National Radio) Studio 2, Zürich, September 2006; composition year: 2003; selection time: 4:20

Thomas Dimuzio: Fog Rolls
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
the $100 guitar, EBow, sampling, processing: Thomas Dimuzio; recorded in San Francisco, time: 2:38

Steven Ricks: Floating, Just Above Tomorrow (Extended Play III)
Steven Ricks CD-R, Winter 2013
Flexible Music; composition year: 2007; selection time: 7:18

SET FOUR
John Cage: Souvenir
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at Nederluleå Church, Gammelstads kyrkstad, Luleå, Sweden, November 8, 2008; composition year: 1984; time: 6:50
Mode 253/54 CD/DVD release date February 26, 2013

:Zoviet*France:): Stocc Blawers
Shouting at the Ground
Red Rhino/1988
unspecified sounds: ZF, recorded in England, April 1987, time: 2:22

Brian Belet: An Abstract [Difference (Queues)]
Brian Belet CD-R, Winter 2006
Kyma programming: Brian Belet; composition year: 1996; time: 1:00

Rune Lindblad: Fragment Zero (Op.3)
The Death of the Moon
Pogus Productions/1997
electronic music on tape: Rune Lindblad; recorded in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1955; time: 9:10

SET FIVE
Helmut Lachenmann: Pression
„ … Zwei Gefühle …“ and Solo Works
Mode Records/2012
cello: Lauren Radnofsky; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, January 9, 2012; composition years: 1969-1970; time: 9:08

Ensemble SuperMusique: Une année dans la vie de...
Y’a du bruit dans ma cabane
Actuellecd.com/2008
Ensemble SuperMusique (alto saxophone, voice: Joane Hétu; soprano saxophone, objects, voice: Jean Derome; sampler: Diane Labrosse; percussion, voice: Danielle Palardy Roger; drums: Pierre Tanguay; turntables: Martin Tétreault) recorded live in Montreal; October 9, 2007

SET SIX
Anne LeBaron: Dog-gone Cat Act
The Musical Railism of Anne Lebaron
Mode Records--Tellus Audio/1995
prepared harp: Anne LeBaron; composition year: 1982; time: 4:55

Larry Polansky: Duchess Bridge
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
the $100 guitar: Larry Polansky; composition years: 2010-2011; time: 2:42

The Legendary Pink Dots: Go Ask Alice
Asylum
Play It Again Sam/1985
electric guitar, synthesizer, voices, processing: LPD, Steven Stapleton; time: 3:25

Brian Belet: Name Droppings
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University of Illinois 
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
EMS--University of Illinois School of Music/2008
sound collage: Brian Belet; composition year: 2008; time: 5:08

Danielle Palardy Roger: La mort est là
Bruiducœur, prières des infidèles
Actuellecd.com/2005
amplified choir: VivaVoce; percussion: Patrick Graham, John Martin; narrator: Danielle Palardy Roger; recorded at Espace GO Montreal, June 3, 2004; time: 4:26 

Larry Polansky: #13 DIY Canon (Goode version)
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
narration, tape, Java 2 program: Daniel Goode; recorded in a Manhattan restaurant called Java and in Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2002, composition year: 2001; time: 3:15

SINGLE PLAY
Jeri Mae G. Astolfi: The Pleasure of Being Last (J. Fox)
Here (and there)
Innova Recordings/2013
composer/fixed media: Jim Fox; piano: Jeri Mae G. Astolfi; spoken voice: Janyce Collins; text: Joseph Dalton Hooker (Himalayan Journals); recorded at The Room, Venice, California, 2012, and Architecture, Los Angeles, 2011; composition years: 2011-2012; time: 13:20


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Martian Gardens for February 17-18, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 17, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
February 18, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Summer Phantoms -- Nocturne
Here (And There)
Innova Recordings/2013
composer/fixed media: Brian Belet; piano: Jeri-Mae Astolfi; recorded at Left Edge Studio, Campbell, California, summer 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 11:06

Kristi McGarity: So many days to be here
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2003
electroacoustic music: Kristi McGarity; composition year: 2002; time: 10:20

SET TWO
Frances White: The Ocean Inside
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
Eighth Blackbird (alto flute: Tim Munro; clarinet: Michael J. Maccaferri; violin: Matt Albert; cello: Nicholas Photinos; piano: Lisa Kaplan; percussion: Matthew Duvall), with electronics; composition year: 2007; time: 14:35

Heather O'Donnell: The missing nail at the river
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
composer: Walter Zimmermann; piano, toy piano: Heather O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, January 2008; composition year: 2006; time: 5:50

SET THREE
Leo Kupper: Paroles sur Langue*
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
bass-baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; electronic processing: Leo Kupper; recorded at Studio de Recherches, Brussels; composition year: 2006; time: 8:06
* intended for last week's program, but ran out of time

Morton Subotnick: Until Spring (Beginning) (Side One)
Electronic Works Volume. 2
Mode Records/2004
synthesizer, four-channel tape recorded in 1975; remastered by Morton Subotnick; time: 15:01

SET FOUR
Robyn Schulkowsky:
a. Armadillo Part II (5:05)
b. Armadillo Part III (5:29)
Armadillo
New World Records/2012
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; drums: Fredy Studer; drums: Joey Baron; recorded in Poggiolo, Italy, and Zürich, Switzerland, 2006-2009; composition years: 1990-2007

Joey Baron: Unleashing the Dobermans
Raised Pleasure Dot
New World Records/1994
drums: Joey Baron; tenor saxophone: Ellery Eskelin; trombone: Steve Swell; recorded at Sear Sound, New York City, February 1993; time: 2:14

Laurie Anderson:
a. Muddy River (3:02)
b. In Our Sleep (2:31)
Bright Red/Tight Rope
Warner Bros./1994
vocals, keyboards: Laurie Anderson, drums: Joey Baron; backing vocals: Phil Ballou (a); surdo bass drum, tambourine: Cyro Baptista (b.); keyboards, drum treatments: Brian Eno (b.), guitar: Gerry Leonard (b.), vocals, guitar: Lou Reed (b.); recorded at the Lobby, New York City

SET FIVE
The $100 Guitar Project, selections:
a. Ken Field: Sonic Wrubble (1:51)
b. Nick Didkovsky: Feeble Little Weakling (0:18)
c. Mark Stewart: Hum! Scratch!! Rub!!! (2:56)
d. Taylor Levine: Fish Eye (2:15)
e. Nick Didkovsky: A Fire in God's Path (0:40)
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013

Joseph Byrd: Prelude to "The Mystery Cheese-Ball"
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
balloons: members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble; recorded at Mission Sound, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 2012; composition year: 1961; time: 3:41

Judy Dunaway: Champaign in Mexico City -- Fragment Set #1
Balloon Music
CRI/1998
balloons: Judy Dunaway; electronics: Dan Evans Farkas; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, composition year: 1997; time: 5:13

Steven Ricks: Ossifying (Keeping us from)
Ricksmusic CD-R (2013)
time: 3:15

Mary Ellen Childs: Dessication
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2013
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin: Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ultan; percussion: Peter O'Gorman; recorded at WildSound Studio, Minneapolis, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 1:48

SET SIX
NON/Boyd Rice: Seven Sermons to the Dead
Back to Mono
Mute Records/2012
music by NON; text: Carl Jung; recorded live in New York City, 2009; time: 3:25

Test Dept: More of Everything
Materia Prima
Invisible/2001
recorded live in Europe, 1986-1988, specifics unspecified; time: 6:57

Endless Pie: Galileo Uses Propaganda
Endless Pie
pfMENTUM/2012
trumpet, flugelhorn, voice, electronics: Jeff Kaiser; prepared piano: Phil Skaller; recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego, November 2010; time: 6:07

Damon Holzborn: If we're all going to get it
Trummerflora -- Rubble 1 (Trummerflora Collective)
Accretions/2004
sound collage: Damon Holzborn; time: 3:30

SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: The Waves
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
New Albion Records/1992
soprano: Joan La Barbara;  text: Virginia Woolf; computer synthesis: Charles Dodge, John Stautner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; composition year: ?; time: 12:42


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Martian Gardens for February 10-11, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 10, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
February 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
(Final update: February 10, 2012 at 23:37)

SET ONE
Coil: The Snow (Out in the Cold)
The Snow EP
Wax Trax!/1991
remixed by Peter Christopherson; recorded at Matrix Studios, London, 1991, time: 7:43

Jonas Braasch: Snow Drifts
Quartet for the End of Space
(Oliveros/Lopez/Van Nort/Braasch)
Pogus Productions/2011
recorded at RPI, Troy, New York, and the Deep Listening Foundation, Kingston, New York, 2010; time: 7:15

Coil: The Snow (Driftmix)
The Snow EP
Wax Trax!/1991
remixed by Peter Christopherson; recorded at Matrix Studios, London, 1991, time: 2:35

SET TWO
Butch Morris: The Bartok Comprovisation
Dust to Dust
New World Records/1991
drums: Andrew Cyrille; keyboards: Wayne Horvitz; vibraphone: Brian Carrott; clarinet: Marty Ehrlich; guitar: Jean-Paul Bourelly; harp: Zeena Parkins; oboe: John Purcell; piano: Myra Melford; trombone: J.A. Dean; violin: Jason Hwang; English horn: Vickey Bodner; recorded at Skyline Studios, New York City, November 1991

In memory of Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris (February 10, 1947 -- January 29, 2013)  

Noah Creshevsky: In Memoriam
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
cello: Juho Laitinen; electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 2008; time: 5:20

Phil Kline: Premonition
Glow in the Dark
CRI/1998
music for 25 tape players; composition year: 1997; time: 5:16

Roscoe Mitchell: Methane Snow
Solo (3)
Mutable Music/2004
alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; recorded Audio for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin, 2003; time: 2:01

SET THREE
Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
soprano: Susan Botti; piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings; composition year: 1990; time: 4:45

John Cage: Five Songs
a. little four paws
b. little Christmas tree
c. in Just-
d. hist whilst
e. Tumbling hair
As It Is
ECM/2012
piano: Alexei Lubimov; voice: Natalia Pshenichnikova; texts: e.e. cummings; recorded at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich; December 2011; time: 8:34

Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Swirling Sky
Here (And There)
Innova Recordings/2013
composer: Ed Martin; piano: Jeri Mae Astolfi, with electronic accompaniment; recorded at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 6:23

Charity Chan: Silent Sands
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd.com/2009
extended piano, objects: Charity Chan; regarded at Guelph, Ontario, July 2008; time: 3:17

SET FOUR
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow (Microclimate II)
Isotasie
Empreintes Digitales/2001
electroacoustic music: Natasha Barrett; realized at the Norwegian network for Technology, Acoustics and Music, Oslo, 1998; premiered the Music Factory Contemporary Music Festival, Bergen, May 26, 1999; time: 15:39

Madelyn Byrne: Winter
Lesbian American Composers [various artists]
CRI/1998
bowed crotales: Lisa Frisari; voice: Malin Serner; electronic processing: Madelyn Byrne; realized at Columbia University's Computer Music Center, 1997; composition year: 1997; time: 7:31

SINGLE PLAY
Mary Ellen Childs: selections from Wreck
a. First Wave (part 1)
b. First Wave (part 2)
c. Spirit Duet
d. Duet
e. Kalli
f. The Lake
g. Chant
h. Second Wave
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2013
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin: Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ultan; percussion: Peter O. Gorman; remixing on Spirit Duet: James Patrick; sound montage on Kalli: James Patrick and Chris Cunningham; recorded at WildSound Studio, Minneapolis; written for Black Label Movement dance company; composition year: 2011; selections time: 22:00

SET FIVE
Mary Ellen Childs: Four of One of Another
Kilter
XI Records/1996
accordion: Guy Klucevsek; Soho Quartet (violins: Mary Rowell, Mark Feldman; viola: Lois Martin; cello: Erik Friedlander); recorded at Baby Monster Studios, New York City; 1991, composition year: 1988; time: 11:27

Guy Klucevsek: Oa Poa Polka
Polka from the Fringe
Starkland Recordings/2012 (orig. 1992)
composer: Mary Ellen Childs; accordion: Guy Klucevsek; recorded at Baby Monster Studios, New York City, 1991, composition year: 1988, time: 3:59

SINGLE PLAY*
Mauricio Kagel: Phonophonie
Transicion II/Phonophonie
Mode Records/2003
bass voices (live/prerecorded): Nicholas Isherwood; tapes and sound direction: Stefano Bassanese; offstage voice: Time Greacen; sounds on tape -- percussion: Dimitri Fiorin voices: Piera Acone, Elena Barbalich, Daniele Del Giudice, Xavier Tavet; recorded in Venice and Paris, 1999-2001; composition years: 1963-1964); time: 22:54 (edited time: 16:50)
*TAINT RADIO version only

SET SIX*
George Cacioppo: Advance of the Fungi
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
bass voices: Nicholas Isherwood; Atelier du Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles (clarinets: Branko Pavloski, Simone Gauser, Erika Bliznik; trombones: Hiroyuki Morooka, Simon Maillard, Gabriel Leloup; norns: Isabelle Varrauz, Li-chi Yang; percussion: Bénédicte Albanhac), conductor:  Renaud François; record at Conservatoire National de Région de Versailles; composition year (1964); time: 13:57 (edited time 11:45 on TAINT RADIO version)

Gerard Pape: Weaveworld Prologue
Ascension to Purgatory 
Mode Records/2006
bass voice: Nicholas Isherwood; Atelier du Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles (flute: Miraka Nasu; oboe: Louis Hedde; clarinet: Krista Martynes; bassoon: Alexandre Ouzounoff; trumpet: François Pallies; horn: Isabelle Varrauz; trombone: Hiroyuki Morooka; violins; Takuro Ikewzawa, Violaine Reboul; viola Estelle Marsal; cello: Floaraine Vieux-Rochas; contrabass: Hui-yng Yang; percussion: Pierre Lacroix), conductor: Lionel Arnaud; record at Conservatoire National de Région de Versailles; composition year: 1998; time: 10:39


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