Martian Gardens for June 16-17, 2013

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Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
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June 16, 2013

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webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
June 17, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
(updated June 17, 00:03)

SINGLE PLAY
Nadia Sirota: From the Invisible to the Visible (S. Worden)
Baroque
New Amsterdam Records/2013
composer: Shara Worden; viola, keyboards: Nadia Sirota; organ, keyboards: James McVinnie; synthesizers, programming: Valgeir Sigurdsson; percussion: Frank Aarink; keyboards, synthesizers, percussion: Daniel Bjarneson; recorded at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 4:01

SINGLE PLAY
Eclipse Quartet with William Winant: s:c:a:t:t:e:r:i:n:g (Z. Parkins)
Zeena Parkins-Frederic Rzewski-James Tenney
New World Records/2013
composer: Zeena Parkins; Eclipse Quartet (violins: Sarah Parkins, Sarah Thornblade; viola: Alma Lisa Fernandez; cello: Maggie Parkins); marimba, tom toms, snare, Lou Harrison bell instrument, chimes, various metal percussion, spinning samples: William Winant; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 25:22

SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Allegro
Rhymes with Silver
New Albion Records/2000
piano: Julie Steinberg; percussion: William Winant; recorded at Fantasy Records, Berkeley, June 2000; time: 4:57

NewBand: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994
composer: Harry Partch; NewBand -- Partch Instruments (boo, spoils of war, kithara II, pre-recorded boo: Dominic Donato; harmonic canons, kithara II, spoils of war, pre-recorded kithara: Dean Drummond; kithara II, harmonic canon, surrogate kithara: Nina Kellman; cloud-chamber bowls; Michael Lipsey; cello gourd tree, cone gongs: Ted Mook; diamond marimba, pre-recorded diamond marimba: James Pugliese; chromelodeon, harmonic canon: Elizabeth Rodgers; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, Queens, 1991-1993; composition year: 1958, revised 1967; time: 18:24

SET TWO
Maddalena Fagandini: Ideal Home Exhibition
BBC Radiophonic Workshop [A Retrospective] (various artists)
BBC Music/2000
electronic music: Maddalena Fagandini; recorded at the BBC Radiophonic Workship, London, for the "People Make Programmes" exhibit at the BBC stand of the Ideal Homes Exhibition, 1962; time: 1:02

R. Weis: Narinya (Bomana Dream)
Web of Illusion
R.Weis/1998
samples, electronics: R. Weis; recorded in New York City, 1998; time: 3:04

Wendy Carlos: Yusae-Aisae
Beauty in the Beast
East Side Digital/2000 (orig. Audion LP 1986)
digital synthesizers: Wendy Carlos; composition year: 1986; time: 3:12

Tracie Morris: Africa(n)
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009
electronic music, text: Tracie Morris; recorded in New York City, 2007; time: 3:28

Kristoff K. Roll: Récit de rêve (Le concept d’arrosage)
À L'Ombre Des Ondes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music: Carole Rieussec, J-Kristoff Camps; dream narrative: Francis Vadillo; realized at at the studio Les ombres d’ondes (L₂O) in Frontigna, France, 2011

SET THREE
Jorge Antunes: Toccata Irisée
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for percussion and electronic sounds) marimba, cuica: Thierry Miroglio;recorded at Salle Olivier Messiaen, Radio France, Paris, April 24, 2004; composition year: 2003; time: 16:12

Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 4 (Monk)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
composer: S.S. Smith with quotes from Thelonious Monk; vibraphone: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studio A, University of California San Diego, August 2008; composition year: 1982; time: 8:07

SET FOUR
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary
Mode Records/2011 
percussion: red fish blue fish, directed by Steven Schick; recorded at the National Art Gallery, Washington D.C., with live electronics, recorded in 2007, additional processing at the University of California San Diego, 2008-2009; excerpt time: 13:35

Annea Lockwood: selections from The Glass World 
a.Water Jars (1:32)
b. Rod Roll (1:03)
c. Micro Glass on Goblet (1:05) 
The Glass World

¿What Next? Recordings/1997 (original Tangent LP 1970)

glass objects played by Annea Lockwood from The Glass World concert series 1966-1973

SET FIVE

Martin Bédard: Métal fatigue 

Topographies

empreintes DIGITALes/2012

electroacoustic music realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, and during trips to Havre-Aubert, Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, and Saint-Eugène, L’Islet, Québec; composition year: 2012; time: 12:43

Fortner Anderson and Ned Bouhalassa: 3 Out of Every 10

Annunciations 

electrocd.com/2013

voice, text: Fortner Anderson; recorded at Pines Studio, Montreal; electroacoustic music recorded at Ned Bouhalassa's studio, Montreal, composition year: 2012; time: 7:22

SET SIX
Shelley Hirsch: 
a. Burst (0:48)
b. War of Dreams (8:07)
States
Tellus-Harvestworks/1997
a. multitracked vocals: Shelley Hirsch; recorded at Crosstown Studios; composition year: 1981; b. vocals, live electronics: Shelley Hirsch; text: Angela Carter, arr. Shelley Hirsch; sampling keyboards: David Weinstein; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, 1991

Dorota Czerner: 2 Poems
a. St. Andrew's Night (6:13)*
b. Fireflies (4:43)
Open Space 29 (Barkin, Czerner, Boretz)
Open Space/2012
voice, texts: Dorota Czerner; sound: Benjamin Boretz 
*WMUA version only

Jon Rose: hopeless @ hardsell.con
shopping live @ victo
ReR Megacorp/1999
violin, store guide: Jon Rose; contrabass, voice: Joell Leandre; sampler, guitar: Otomo Yoshihide; noises, drums: Chris Cutler; recorded at the 11th Festival International De Musique Actuel de Victoriaville, Canada, May 22, 1994

Musci/Cutler/Rose/Gabbiano: Part One*
Steel-Water-Light
ReR Megacorp/2002
music for the silent films of Joris Ivens; sampler: Roberto Musci; electrified percussion, sampler: Chris Cutler; tenor violin, processing: Jon Rose; acoustic and electric guitars: Claudio Gabbiani; recorded at the SenzaParole Festival, Milan, December 10, 1999 
*WMUA version only

SINGLE PLAY

Dorothy Hindman: Drift*

Tapping the Furnace

Innova Recordings/2013

Atlas Saxophone Quartet (Corey Polacek, Susan Cook, Shawn Tracy, Bryan Polacek); composition year: 2002; time: 5:13
*WMUA version only

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Martian Gardens for June 9-10, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 9, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
June 10, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison:  Short Set from "Lazarus Laughed"
a. Caligula's Dream (1:34)
b. Miriam (1:36)
c. Round Dance (2:02)
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
flute, alto flute: Leta Miller; cello: Karen Andrie; celesta: Michael McGushin; recorded at the recital hall at the University of Santa Cruz, 2001; composition year: 1999; total time: 5:12

SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Voyage
Music of Elliott Carter 9
Bridge Records/2013
soprano: Tony Arnold; text: Hart Crane; Colorado College Festival Orchestra, conductor: Scott Yoo; recorded at Packard Hall, Colorado Springs, June 2007; composition year: 1943; time: 5:12

Burr Van Nostrand: Whisper exquisitely, Cadenza (Movement I)
Voyage in a White Building I
New World Records/2013
vocalizations: Lautaro Mantilla; text (in movements II and III): Hart Crane; New England Conservatory Ensemble, conductor: Anthony Coleman; recorded October 8, 2012; composition year: 1969; time: 7:07

SET TWO
Dorothy Hindman: Tapping the Furnace
Tapping the Furnace
Innova Recordings/2013
unpitched percussion, voice: Stuart Gerber; text: retired blast furnace worker Clarence Dean; recorded at the Center for Audio Recording Arts, Georgia State University School of Music; composition year: 2006; time: 14:57

Leo Ciesa: Burnt Solids
Coat of Arms
Soundyard/2013
solo drumset: Leo Ciesa; recorded at Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey, September 11, 2009; time: 3:22

Hamid Drake: Born Upon a Lotus
Bindu
Rogueart/2006
frame drums, voice: Hamid Drake; recorded at Soma Electronic Music Studios, Chicago; March 2005; time: 3:04

SET THREE
Manuella Blackburn: Karita oto
Forrmes audibles
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
Japanese instrument sounds collected in Tokyo by Manuella Blackburn, 2008, electroacoustic music realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Manchester, UK, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 14:42

SlowPitch: Anterior Second Movement
MusicWorks #116 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2013
turntables, electronics: Sheldon Paterson; time: 3:09

SET FOUR
R. Weis: East Village Suite
tapes, turntables, TV sets: R. Weis; composed in the early 1980s, time: 12:30

Pierre Schaeffer: Impromptu (from Le Trièdre fertile)
L'Œuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998*
electronic music: Pierre Schaeffer; recorded at Salle de L'Ancien Conservatoire; premiered December 17, 1976; time: 3:28
*reissued by INA-GRM, 2010

Dominique Ferraton: White Noise*
Deep Wireless 5 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008
electronic music, processing: Dominique Ferraton; time: 3:52
* WMUA version only

Wendy Atkinson: Summer BBQ*
Deep Wireless 5 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008
voice, text: Wendy Atkinson; time: 1:19
*TAINT radio version only

SET FIVE
Peter Eötvös: Electrochronicle Session June 9, 1974
Electrochronicle
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
for stereo tape, recorded at WDR, Köln, 1974; time: 4:13

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Spiral II
Spiral - Pole - Wach - Zyklus (and other works)
EMI/2009
zither, bamboo flute, reed pipe, synthesizer, short wave radio: Peter Eötvös; recorded at Abbey Road, London, July 1971; composition year: 1968; time: 16:08

SET SIX
John Cage: Cartridge Music (excerpt)
Music for Merce Cunningham
Mode Records/1991
phonograph cartridges, small amplified objects: Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese, David Tudor; recorded in Paris, 1988; composition year: 1960; adapted by The Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the dance "Changing Steps" (Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1973); excerpt time: 7:11

David Tudor: Phonemes (excerpt)
The Art of David Tudor 1963-1992
New World Records/2013
live electronics: David Tudor; recorded in Tel Aviv, November 29, 1992; composition year: 1981; commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the dance "Channels/Inserts" (New York City, 1981); excerpt time: 9:00

SET SEVEN
Elizabeth Hoffman: Water Spirits
Intérieurs harmoniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
algorithmic processing of water sounds: Elizabeth Hoffman; realized at the composer's studio in New York City, 2007-2011; premiered at the SEAMUS 2006 National Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, time: 10:41

Annea Lockwood: Esztergom to Keselyus
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
environmental recordings: Annea Lockwood; recorded on the Danube in Hungary, 10/24/02, 9/14/03, 9/17/03, 9/18/03; time: 10:00

SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok:
a. Three Part Fugue in A Minor*
b. Three Bagatelles
I. Grazioso (0:38)
II. Very Calm (1:08)
III. Playful (1:08)
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 4
Bridge Records/2012
a. piano: Holger Groschopp; recorded at Gärtnerstraße, Berlin, September 2012; composition year: 1987; total time: 2:56; 
*b. piano: Holger Groschopp; recorded at Gärtnerstraße, Berlin, September 2012, composition year, 1944; time: 1:57
WMUA version only

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Martian Gardens for June 2-3, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 2, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
June 3, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
Final update: 00:37, June 3, 2013

SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Warble for Lilac Time
Music of Elliott Carter Volume 9
Bridge Records/2013
soprano: Tony Arnold; text: Walt Whitman; Colorado College Festival Orchestra, conductor: Scott Yoo; recorded at Packard Hall, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 2007; composition year: 1943; time: 6:49

Ursula Mamlok: Four German Songs
a. Über die Felder (1:20)
b. September (2:52)
c. Schmetterling (0:28)
d. Nachtgefühl (1:31)
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 4
Bridge Records/2013
baritone: Jesse Blumberg; piano: Stephen Gosling; texts: Hermann Hesse; recorded at New Rochelle Studios, New Rochelle, New York, February 2012; composition year: 1958; total time: 6:14

SET TWO
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Dawn's Journey
Sound Portraits
MSR Classics/2013
pianos: Eric Conway, Jeffrey Chappell; electroacoustic music: Vivian Adelberg Rudow (English Country Dance Music by Bare Necessities courtesy of Rounder Records); answering machine message: Dawn Culbertson

Jean Eichelberger Ivey: Terminus
Music by Jean E. Ivey for Voices, Instruments and Tape
Folkways/1973
mezzo-soprano: Elaine Bonazzi; text: Ralph Waldo Emerson; electronic music on tape: Jean E. Ivey; realized at the Peabody Conservatory of Music; composition year: 1970; time 9:48 

SET THREE
Luc Ferrari: Danses Organique, Cinema Pour L'oreille, Part 1
L'Œuvre Électronique (boxed-set)
INA-GRM/2009
 electronic music, tapes: Luc Ferrari; recorded at Luc Ferrari's studios, France, 1971-1973; time: 6:07

Cort Lippe: Duo for Cajon and Computer
MusicWorks #116 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2013
cajon drum: Patti Cuddi; Max/MSP processing: Corte Lippe; realized at the Hiller Computer Music Studios of the University of Buffalo, New York,  2011; time: 9:26

Brian Chase: Drum Roll Drone
Drums & Drums
Pogus Productions/2013
percussion: Brian Chase; recorded in Brooklyn, New York, time: 4:04

SET FOUR
Giascinto Scelsi: L'Âme ailée - L'Âme ouverte
a. L'Âme ailée (4:21)
b. L'Âme ouverte (3:13)
The Violin Works -- Scelsi Volume 10
Mode Records/2013
violin: Weiping Lin; recorded at 4Tune Studio, Vienna, Austria, November 2008; composition year: 1973; total time: 7:34

Emma Carlé: Go Go Gadget Arms
Open Space 16 [various artists]
Open Space/2004
violins: Chris Van der Zee, Anna Broadbent, Eleanor Ryan; bonang barung Javanese gongs: Jo Hilder; composition year: 1999; time: 4:40

SET FIVE
Henri Pousseur: At Moonlight, Downland's Shadow Passes Along Ginkaku-JI
Electronic, Experimental and Microtonal, 1953-1999
Sub Rosa/2008
koto: Mikoto Jakahata; shamisen: Sumila Goto; shakuhachi: Shuzan Morita; composition year: 1989; time: 12:38

Frances White: Centre Bridge
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
shakuhachi duo: Elizabeth Brown; electronic sound: Frances White; composition year: 1999; time: 12:02

SINGLE PLAY
Joseph Klein: Zwei Parabein Nach Franz Kafka
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 39 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
Centaur Records/2012
for computer, narrator, and mixed choir; narrator: Jeffrey Snider; soloists: Heidi Dietrich Klein, Patrick Gnage, Jonathan Greer, conductor: Henry Gibbons; texts: Franz Kafka, "The Bridge," "The Vulture"; composition year: 2006; time: 13:17

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: À propos de K
Études pour Kafka
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio in Avignon, France; premiered at Salle Olivier Messiaen — Maison de Radio in celebration of Dhomont's 80th birthday (November 2), November 11, 2006; composition year 2006; time: 21:37

SET SIX
Terry Riley: Bird of Paradise (excerpt)*
Music for the Gift
Organ of Corti/1998
tape assemblage: Terry Riley; recorded at the composer's home, San Francisco, 1965; excerpt time: 10:00
*WMUA version only

David Tudor: Neural Network Plus (excerpt)
The Art of David Tudor 1963-1992 (boxed-set)
New World Records/2013
live electronics: David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi; recorded in Lisbon, Portugal, June 5, 1994; composition year: 1992; excerpt time: 10:00

SET SEVEN
Hans Otte: Minimum-Maximum (excerpts)
Orient-Occident/Minimum-Maximum
Pogus Productions/2005
an electronic environment (simultaneous concert in Stockholm and Bremen) for two organists, directed by Hans Otte; keyboards: Gerd Zacher, Karl-Erik Welin;  recorded on October 27, 1973; composition year: 1973; excerpt time: 11:00

Pauline Oliveros: In Memoriam: Nikola Tesla, Cosmic Engineer (excerpt)
Music for Merce 1952-2009 (boxed-set) [various artists]
New World Records/2010
live electronics, voices, acoustical-space-sound activators: John Cage, Gordon Mumma, Jean Rigg, David Tudor; recorded on tour 1972 for the dance "Canfield" (1969), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company; composition year: 1969; excerpt time: 9:44

SINGLE PLAY
Chris Watson: Mozambique Nightjar (Zimbabwe)*
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch Records/1998
recorded on the Zambezi River, Zimbabwe, October 1996; time: 2:57
*WMUA version only

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Martian Gardens for May 26-27, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 26, 2013

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

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage/David Tudor: Indeterminacy # 76
(concerning Henry Cowell's Oriental music class)
Smithsonian Folkways/1992
reader, text: John Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor

SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Grasshoppers
I. Sunday Walk (0:33)
II. Night Serenade (1:24)
III. In the Rain (0:30)
IV. Minuet (0:50)
V. In the Army (0:45)
VI: Hurry Home (0:37)
The Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 4
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Holger Groschopp; recorded in Berlin, Gartenstraße, September 2012; composition year: 1956

Benjamin Boretz: Red Hook (Language, as a music IV)
Open Space 10 (Randall/Boretz)
Open Space/1999
monologue, concerning Irving Berlin: Benjamin Boretz; "Remember," Irving Berlin, performance uncredited; composition year 1978; time: 9:00

SET TWO
Noah Creshevsky: Highway
The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky
EM Records/2004
electronic music on tape: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 1979; time: 8:53

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 4. "March No. 2" (First Version)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
music for 12 radios and ensemble; College-Conservatory of Music Percussion Ensemble, conductor: James Culley; recorded at Werner Concert Hall, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, May 25, 2006; composition year: 1942; time: 4:26

Pauline Oliveros: Bye Bye Butterfly
Women in Electronic Music 1977 [various artists]
New World Records/2006 [orig. 1977]
electronic music on tape: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1965; composition year: 1965; time: 8:00

SET THREE
Val Stephen:
a. Fireworks (2:00)
b. The Orgasmic Opus (0:45)
Electronic Music [various artists]
Folkways/1967
recorded in Melbourne, Australia, 1963; composition year: 1963

The Human League: The Circus of Death
Reproduction
Virgin Records/1979
voice, lyrics: Philip Oakey; synthesizers, electronics: Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh; recorded at Workshop Studios, Sheffield, 1979; time: 4:00

Desmond Briscoe: Phra the Phoenician*
BBC Radiophonic Workshop (A Retrospective) [various artists]
BBC Music/The Grey Area of Mute/2000
electronics: Desmond Briscoe; recorded at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, London, 1960; composition year: 1960; time: 0:49
*TAINT Radio version only 

Delia Derbyshire: Doctor Who (R. Grainer)
BBC Radiophonic Workshop (A Retrospective) [various artists]
BBC Music/The Grey Area of Mute/2000
composer: Ron Grainer; realization, synthesizers: Delia Derbyshire; recorded at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, London, 1963; composition year: 1963; time: 2:19

Brian Hodgson: TARDIS
BBC Radiophonic Workshop (A Retrospective) [various artists]
BBC Music/The Grey Area of Mute/2000
electronics: Brian Hodgson; recorded at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, London, 1963; composition year: 1963; time: 1:25

John Eaton: Thoughts on Rilke
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; Syn-Kets: John Eaton, Jane Schoonover Smith; vibration plate, sound mixing: Paolo Ketoff; text: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnets to Orpheus, Part II, Sonnet 10," composition year: 1966; time: 10:57

SET FOUR
Andrew May: Still Angry
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 39 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
Centaur Records/2012
music for flute, clarinet, and computer; flute: Elizabeth McNutt; clarinet: Esther Lamneck; software: Andrew May; quotations from songs by Joy Division, Magazine, and the Buzzcocks performed by Andrew May; premiered in Manchester, England, at the Tornado Project; composition year: 2007; time: 8:51

Biota: Watch and Watch
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
the $100 guitar: Tom Katsimpalis, Mark Piersel, and Charles O'Meara; time: 1:58

Alvin Curran: Light Flowers Dark Flowers (excerpt)
Solo Works -- The '70s
New World Records/2010
piano, toy piano, Serge modular synthesizer, tapes, electronics: Alvin Curran; recorded in Rome, 1974; composition year: 1974; excerpt time: 10:00

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage/David Tudor:
Mesostics re Merce Cunningham/Untitled [excerpt]
The Art of David Tudor boxed-set
New World Records/2013
voice: John Cage; live electronics: David Tudor; recorded at the Pro Musica Nova Festival, Radio Bremen, May 8, 1972; composition year: 1972; excerpt time: 22:00

SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Rainforest, Version I -- Music for Dance
Rainforest
Mode Records/1998
live electronics: David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, recorded in New Delhi, India, 1990; composition year: 1968; time: 21:35

SINGLE PLAY
Pauline Oliveros: Bog Road (excerpt)*
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
Buchla Series 100 Box: Pauline Oliveros;  recorded at the Mills Tape Music Center, Oakland, Summer of 1967; composition year: 1967; excerpt time: 16:00/complete time: 33:11
* excerpt on TAINT Radio version/complete on WMUA Version

WMUA Version continued until 00:25 ET

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Martian Gardens for May 19-20, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 19, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
May 20, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Sonar Trajectory
Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
electronic music on magnetic tape: Ursula Mamlok; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966; composition year: 1966; time: 4:07

SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Anima Pepsi
The Art of David Tudor 1963-1992 boxed-set
New World Records/2013
live electronics: David Tudor; recorded in the Pepsi Pavilion, Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, 1970; time: 23:37

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2009
electronic music on 8-channel tape: Iannis Xenakis; presented at the Federation of Iron and Steel Companies' Pavilion, Osaka World's Fair, 1970; sound sources: UPIC, orchestra, biwa (Japanese lute), snare drum; composition years: 1969-1970; time: 17:45

SET ONE
Denis Smalley:  selections from Tides
a. Pools and Currents (excerpt) [3:00]*
b. Sea Flight (12:47)
Sources/Scenes
empreintes DIGITALes/2000
electroacoustic music: Denis Smalley; created at the University of Toronto Computer Systems Research Group, the Experimental Studio of Finnish Radio at Helsinki, and the Ina-GRM, Paris; final mix at completed at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1984; composition year: 1984; time: 12:47
*TAINT Radio version only

Trevor Wishart: selections from Two Women*
a. Sirens (Margaret Thatcher quoting St. Francis of Assisi) (3:26)
b. Stentor (Ian Paisley talking about Margaret Thatcher) (2:27)
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
voice processing, sounds: Trevor Wishart; premiered at the Parachialkirke, Berlin, in a concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of Musique Concrete, September 1998; composition year: 1998
*refers to the subjects Margaret Thatcher and Lady Diana

Trevor Wishart: selections from the VOX Cycle
a. Vox 2 (2:13)
b. Vox 3 [Hocket] (0:47)
MusicWorks 98 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
voice processing: Trevor Wishart; vocal group: The Electric Phoenix; composition years: 1980-1988

SET TWO
Neely Bruce: Eight Ghosts
a. 49 (3:38)
b. 38 (2:05)
c. 25 (3:35)
d. 58 (1:18)
e. 39 [Marilyn Monroe] (5:26)
f. 21 (2:21)
g. 28 (2:49)
h. 28 (1:52)
The Electric Phoenix Sing Neely Bruce
The Plague & Other Vocal Works
Mode Records/1991
vocal group: The Electric Phoenix; text: Michael McClure, "Ghost Tantras" (1964), recorded at October Sound, London, July 1989; composition year:1989; total time: 19:39

Blue Gene Tyranny: Decertified Highway of Dreams II
Go, Blue
O.O. Discs/2000
Digital Music Ensemble of the University of Michigan; (soloists -- electric bassoon: Steve Newton, electric flute: Jessica Johnson), conductor: Stephen Rush; recorded at Ann Arbor, 2000; composition year: 2000; time: 3:43

SET THREE
Larry Austin: Redux
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 39 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas 
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI)
Centaur Records/2012
for violin and computer; computer music: Larry Austin; violin: Patricia Strange; composition year: 2007; time: 7:28

Allen Strange: Shaman, Sisters of Dreamtime
a. Evocation (1:37)
b. Crystal Woman (2:44)
c. Serpent Woman [Cihuocoatl) (3:09)
d. Sun Woman [Sutalidihi] (3:10)
e. Sky Woman [Selu] (1:54)
f. Jaguar Woman (1:47)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 26 [various artists]
Music from the Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music (CREAM)
San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Centaur Records/1998
electronic music: Allen Strange; amplified violin: Patricia Strange; recorded at the Aurora Studios, Modesto, California, November, 1997; composition year: 1994; total time: 14:21

SET FOUR
Jace Clayton: selections from Evil Nigger
a. Evil Nigger Part I (J.Eastman) [6:00]*
b. Evil Nigger Part IV (J. Eastman) [10:0]**
The Julius Eastman Memory Depot
New Amsterdam Records/2013
composer: Julius Eastman; arrangements, processed piano: Jace Clayton; pianos: David Friend, Emily Manzo; recorded at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, 2013; composition year: 1979; time: 10:02
*WMUA Version only
**TAINT Radio version only

Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg: Jahweh and Allah Battle
Hydrogen Jukebox
Nonesuch Records/1993
narrator, text: Allen Ginsberg; piano: Philip Glass; vocal ensemble with flute: Carol Wincenc, reeds: Andrew Sterman; percussion: Frank Cassara, James Pugliese; keyboards, conductor: Martin Goldray; recorded at The Looking Glass Studios, New York City, 1992-1993; time: 3:40

Anthony De Mare: Nowth Upon Nacht (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (Music of John Cage and Meredith Monk)
Koch/1992
composer: John Cage; piano, voice: Anthony De Mare; text: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake," recorded at Master Sound Astoria, Astoria, New York, 1991; composition year: 1984; time: 0:49

Diamanda Galás: Let My People Go
The Singer
Mute Records/1992
voice, piano, lyrics: Diamanda Galás; music: traditional; recorded at Sorcerer Sound, New York City; time: 4:57

SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: 
a. Fragment Territoire (1:04)
b. Ô madame la mort (4:06)*
La Femme Territoire ou 21 Fragments D'Humus
actuellecd.com/2012
conductor, voice, objects, melodica: Joane Hétu ; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; accordion, voice: Alice Tougas St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussions, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2011 
*WMUA version only

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Martian Gardens for May 12-13, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 12, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
May 13, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
Final update @  23:59/5/12/13

SINGLE PLAY
Carey Nutman: Down Stairs Pad
Sang Et Lumière
MPS Music & Video/2010
electronics: Carey Nutman; time: 3:30

SET ONE
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Moo-Goo-Gipan Smash!
Sound Portraits
MSR Classics/2013
electronics: Vivian Adelberg Rudow; composition year: 2012; time: 1:33

Thomas Clark: The Fourth Angel
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 39 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
Centaur Records/2012
computer music: Thomas Clark; composition year: 2007; time: 10:53

Thomas Clark: LIGHTFORMS 2: Star Spectra
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 27 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
Centaur Records/1998
computer music: Thomas Clark; composition year: 1993; time: 7:22

Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Lavender
I Didn't Want to Say Goodbye
VAR/2004
electronics: Vivian Adelberg Rudow; composition year: 1993; time: 1:08

SINGLE PLAY
Barry Truax: The Shamen Ascending
Trans_Canada [various artists]
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
electroacoustic music: Barry Truax; realized at the composer’s studio and mixed in the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; premiered at trans_canada, ZKM_Medientheater; Karlsruhe, Germany, February 12, 2005; composition years: 2004-2005; time: 15:45

SET TWO
Lou Cohen: Shape03
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
computer music: Lou Cohen; time: 6:09

The Hub: Cut to Ribbons
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
composer: Chris Brown; performed by The Hub computer music network ensemble; recorded in Oakland, California, September, 2006; time: 10:22

The League of Automatic Music Composers: Oakland Three
The League of Automatic Music Composers 1978-1983
New World Records/2007
computer network: Tim Perkis, John Bischoff, Jim Horton; recorded in Oakland, California, May 25, 1981; time: 3:21

SET FOUR
David Tudor: Webwork
Music for Merce 1952-2009
New World Records/2010
live electronics: David Tudor; recorded in New York City for the dance Shards (The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, 1987); recorded in New York City, March 17, 1988; composition year: 1987; excerpt time: 10:46

Steven Ricks: Percept Can Improv
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
found sounds, microphones, computers: Steven Ricks; time: 4:04

R. Weis: Buzz Electrica
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
found sounds; sampler: R. Weis; time: 3:36

Anomonous: tracks 13, 14
Anomonous
Prom Night Records/2013
amplified contra-bass clarinet: Josh Sinton; hyper-piano: Denman Maroney; synthesizers, sampler: Ben Miller; recorded at Peter Karl Studio, Brooklyn, March 15, 2012; excerpt time: 3:33

Fortner Anderson: Talking T. Fortner
Annunciations
Electrocd/2013
voice, text ("Every Sunday"): Fortner Anderson; synthesized voice: Coleco Talking Teacher; deconstruction/composition: Martine Crispo; recorded in Montreal, 2012; time: 3:25

SET FIVE
James Tenney:
a. Percussion Response (with Ergodos I) (8:42)
b. Monody (3:09)
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
The Barton Workshop
Mode Records/2007
a. computer music with percussion: James Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, 2007; composition year: 1964; b. clarinet: John Anderson; recorded in Amsterdam, 2007; composition year: 1959; time: 3:09

Jerry Hunt: Chimanzzi (Olun)
Phalba
Tzadik/2004
performed by The Barton Workshop (clarinet: John Anderson, Violin: Marieke Kesser, flute: Jos Zwaanburg, cello: Judith Van Swaay, trombone: James Fulkerson); recorded in Amsterdam, 2000-2003, composition year: 1991; time: 11:08

SET SIX
Giacinto Scelsi: Divertimento No. 4
I. (3:49)
II. (3:28)
III. (3:20)
IV. (5:16)
The Violin Works
Scelsi Volume 10
Mode Records/2013
violin: Weiping Lin; recorded at 4Tune Studio, Vienna, November, 2008; composition year: 1955

Neil Rolnick: Fiddle Faddle
Shadow Quartet
Innova Recordings/2005
computer interactive violin: Todd Reynolds; recorded at Elff Productions, Brooklyn; composition year: 2003 time: 7:28

SINGLE PLAY
If, Bwana: Lisa Verabbit
Red One
Pogus Productions/2013
voice: Lisa B. Kelley; flute: Veronika Vitazkova; recorded in New York City; composition year: 2010; time: 6:32

Matmos: Teen Paranormal Romance
The Marriage of True Minds
Thrill Jockey/2013
sampling, electronics, triangle: Drew Daniel; tuning forks, percussion: M.C. Schmidt; modular synthesizer: Jay Lesser; tuning forks: Carl Ewing; noise: John Wiesel;  voice: Max "DogDick" Eisenberg; voice; Domonique Leone: voice; recorded in Baltimore, 2012

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Martian Gardens for May 5-6, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 5, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
May 6, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
Final update 5/05/13 @ 23:30

SET ONE
Charles Dodge: Cascando (excerpt)
A Retrospective (1997-2009)
New World Records/2010
text: Samuel Beckett; Voice Opener: John Nesci; voice: Steven Gilborn, computer synthesis of voice: Charles Dodge; realized at the computer music studios of Columbia University, City University of New York, and Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music composition year: 1977; excerpt time: 8:00

Alvin Curran: Animal Behavior
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 [various artists]
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
computer music, sampler: Alvin Curran; realized at CCM, Mills College, Oakland, 1992; time: 13:00

SET TWO
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 years: i. 2003, ii. 2007, iii. 2006; time: 3:00

Johanna Beyer:
a. Bees (0:54)
b. The Federal Music Project (5:14)
Sticky Melodies
New World Records/2008
a. piano: Peter Dumsday; b. The Astra Choir, conductor: John McCaughey; recorded in Melbourne, Australia, 2007; composition years: a. unknown; b. 1936

Mary Ellen Childs:
a. Wreck Theme (4:30)
b. Mer-man (2:08)
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2013
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney,  Jacqueline Ultan; perucssion: Peter O'Gorman; recorded for Carl Flink's Black Label Movement dance company at Wild Sound Studio, Minneapolis, 2011; composition year: 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Michelle Kinney: I Don't Like Americans
Sonic Circuits X [various artists]
Innova Recordings/2003
vocals: Shi-Zheng Chen; cello, electroacoustic music: Michelle Kinney; recorded at Harvestworks/Studio PASS, New York City; time: 1:00

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: from Three Voices
a. Opening (2:25)
b. Legato (11:47)
c. Slow Waltz (5:08)*
d. Snow Falls (2:24)
Three Voices for Joan La Barbara
New Albion Records/1989
voice: Joan La Barbara;  d. text: Frank O'Hara, "Wind (to Morton Feldman),"; recorded in Los Angeles and Hollywood; composition year: 1982
*WMUA version only

Morton Feldman: The O'Hara Songs (in three parts)
Voices & Instruments
Mode Records/2002
The Barton Workshop; bass-baritone: Charles Van Tassel; text: Frank O'Hara, "Wind (to Morton Feldman)," recorded in the Netherlands, 1998-2000; composition year: 1962; time: 3:09, 2:32, 2:41

SET FOUR
Brian Chase: Cymbal Drone
Drums and Drones
Pogus Productions/2013
percussion: Brian Chase; recorded in Melbourne, Australia; time: 10:23

Al Margolis: Cicada #5 -- Version Bohman
Rex Xhu Ping (If, Bwana/Al Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2005
talking tapes: Adam Bohman; talking tapes performance: Dan Andreana, Detta Andreana, Al Margolis; time: 10:02

SET FIVE
Gonzalo Biffarella: La maquina de picar memoria
Compendium International -- Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
electroacoustic music: Gonzalo Biffarella; realized at IMEB (Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique), Bourges, France, 2006; time: 12:37

Howard Jonathan Fredrics: The Tragedy of Leaves
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 20 [various artists]
The University of Texas at Austin Electronic Music Studios
Centaur Records/1995
electroacoustic music: Howard Fredrics; text: Charles Bukowski; composition year: 1991; time: 11:00

SET SIX
Jon Christopher Nelson: objet sonore/objet cinétique
Music from SEAMUS Volume 19 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2010
electroacoustic music: JCN; realized at IMEB (Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique), Bourges, France, 2007; composition year: 2007; time: 11:30

Luc Ferrari: Visage 2
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Musiques Nouvelles, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at l'Auditorium Abel Dubois à Mons, Belgium, April 21, 2006; composition years: 1955-1956; time: 10:02

SET SEVEN
Paul Dolden: Twilight's Sleep (from Entropic Twilights)
Délires de plaisirs
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
electroacoustic music: Paul Dolden; realized at the composer's studio 1997-1998; premiered at the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art in Toronto, September 2, 2001; time: 8:11

Mari Kimura: ComeCryWithMe (M. Paranosic)*
Polytopia -- Music for Violin and Electronics
Bridge Records/2007
composer: Milica Paranosic; violin, electronics: Mari Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, Fall, 2004; composition year: 2005; time: 8:09
*TAINT RADIO version only


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