Martian Gardens for August 25-26, 2013

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Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 25, 2013

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webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
August 26, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
 
SINGLE PLAY
Shih-Hui Chen: Fantasia on the Theme of Plum Blossom
I. Fantasia (6:54)
II. Ten Thousand Blooms (4:25)
III. Plum Blossoms (4:39)
Returning Souls
New World Records/2013
Formosa Quartet (violins: Jasmine Lin, Wayne Lee; viola: Che-Yen Chen; cello: Ru-Pei Yeh); recorded at Stude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, January 2013; composition year: 2007; total time: 16:00

SET ONE
George Cacioppo: Two Worlds
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
soprano: Sevan Manoukian; Ensemble 2e2m (flute: Pierre Roullier; oboe: Jean-Marc Liet; piano: Jacqueline Méfano; percussion: Alain Hauteau; violin: Sona Khochafian; viola: Claire Merlet; cello: David Simpson; contrabass: Tanguy Menez), conductor: Paul Méfano; recorded at the Atrium Theater, Chaville, France, 2004; composition year: 1962; time: 8:00

Iannis Xenakis: Morsima-Amorsima
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
Callithumpian Consort (violin: Gabriela Diaz; cello: Benjamin Schwartz; double bass: Akiko Kikuchi; piano: Stephen Drury), conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, June 11, 2008, composition year: 1962; time: 10:55

SET TWO 
Noah Creshevsky: Spring
The Four Seasons
Tzadik Records/2013
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; ingredients may include -- clarinets: Sherman Friedland, Al Margolis; clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontoravich; tenor and alto saxes: Audrey Betsy Welber; tenor sax: Tedross Avery; trumpet: Ben Holmes; trumpet voice: Susan Watts; trombone: Monique Buzzarte; drums: Ray Marchica, Gregg Mervine; voice: Tomomi Adachi, Jeremiah Crawly, Amy Denio, Beth Griffith, Kathy Hanson, Chris Mann, Maria Mannisto; guitars, voice: Gary Heidt; guitars, Rodney Jones, Marco Oppedisano; banjo: Rich Gross; violins: Maria Kimura, Amy Zakar; basses: Orin Buck, Lonnie Plaxico, Heather Chriscaden Versace; composition years: 1992--2013; master composition year: 2013; total excerpts time: 9:56

Barry Lewis:*
a. Vortex Stretching (2:18)
b. Blazing Sky Effect (2:24)
Curves and Jars
MPS Music & Video/1994
Voss dice algorithm: Barry Lewis; recorded at Projects UK, Newcastle; total excerpts time: 4:42
*TAINT Radio version only

Hubert Howe: Emergence
Electronic Masters Vol. 2 [various artists]
Ablaze Records/2013
electronics: Hubert Howe; recorded at the composer's studio, New York City; time: 9:46

SET THREE
Lou Cohen: Symphony 3
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
computer music: Lou Cohen; time: 12:50

In memory of Lou Cohen 1937-2013

Robert Scott Thompson: Product of Both Hemispheres
Play is the Supreme Bricoleur of Frail Transient Constructions
Aucourant Records/2012
electroacoustic music: RST; time: 8:34

SET FOUR
Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
voice, digital processing: Gary Lee Nelson; text: Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky; composition year: 2006; time: 6:29

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
computer music, voice synthesis, processing: Eduardo Reck Miranda; recorded at Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music, Bourges, France, premiered with the Gmebaphone sound diffusion system at the Synthèse Festival, 2002; composition year: 2001; time: 11:50

J.C. Combs:
a. Rikke's Harbor (1:45)
b. Cross Station (1:42)
c. Dispatch (2:37)
Safe Passage -- ImprovFriday Event Sessions
Electroshock Records/2010
electroacoustic music and samples: J.C. Combs; total excerpts time: 6:10

SET FIVE
Alvin Curran: Z train
Electric Rags II
New Albion Records/1990
electronics: Alvin Curran; Rova Saxophone Quartet (baritone, alto: Jon Riskin; tenor, sopronino: Larry Ochs; soprano, alto: Steve Adams; soprano: Bruce Ackley), recorded in Italy, 1990; time: 2:58

Alvin Curran: Shofar Der Zeit
Shofar Rags
Tzadik/2013
shofar, electronics: Alvin Curran; recorded at Studio Luca Spagnoletti, Rome, Italy; July 2012; time: 4:03

Philip Corner: Big Trombone
Extreme Positions
New World Records/2007
(for trombone and tape); solo trombone improvising over murky rock 'n roll tapes: James Fulkerson; recorded at Het Bethanienklooster, Amsterdam, Spring 2006; composition year: 1963; time: 9:23

Clock DVA: 4 Hours
Thirst
Cargo Records/1992 (orig. Fetish Records LP/1981)
voice, clarinet, tapes: Adi Newton; saxophone: Charlie Collins; bass: Judd Turner; guitar: Paul Widger; drums: Roger Quail; recorded at Jakobs Studio, Surrey, UK, 1981; time: 4:00

SET SIX
Joane Hétu: Tisser Pour Toi 2 + Ouateux (from Trame, Act II)*
Filature
actuellecd.com/2012
L'Ensemble Supermusique; direction, voice: Joane Hétu; recorded in concert at Usine C, Montreal, 2006; time: 3:08 
*Weave for you, part 2 + cottony (from The Weft, Act II)

Manuella Blackburn: Spectral Spaces
Formes Audibles
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music: Manuella Blackburn; realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Manchester, UK, 2008; premiered at the MANTIS Festival, Manchester, February 21, 2010; commissioned by Denis Smalley, Mike Vernusky, and Damian O’Riain (Spectral Spaces includes additional materials from Denis Smalley's piece "Wind Chimes" [1987]); composition year: 2008; time: 10:35

Benjamin Boretz: UN (-)
Open Space 13 (Boretz/Randall)
Open Space/2001
(composed for chamber orchestra, realized on MIDI) MIDI keyboard: Benjamin Boretz; composition year: 1999; time: 9:55

SINGLE PLAY*
Carey Nutman:  Land Below The Wind, part 8
Land Below the Wind
MPS Music & Video/2011
electroacoustic music: Carey Nutman; time: 9:53
*WMUA version only

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Martian Gardens for August 18-19, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 18, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
August 19, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
(final update: 23:53 - 8/18/13)

SINGLE PLAY
Steven Naylor: Irrashaimase (Welcome)
Lieux Imaginaires
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, and the composer's studio, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2000; source materials recorded in Japan, 1990-2002; premiered at the Aural Kinetics concert, produced by BEAST at the Midlands Arts Center, Birmingham, February 6, 2000; time: 8:15 

SET ONE
The Heavenly Music Corporation: Ambient to be here
In a Garden of Eden
Silent Records/1993
electronic music: Kim Cascone; recorded at Silent Studios, San Francisco, April 1993; time: 8:04

Paul Lansky: ABC
The Alphabet Book
Bridge Records/2002
computer music: Paul Lansky; voice: Hannah McKay; time: 7:35

Laurie Anderson: Transitory Life
Homeland
Nonesuch Records/2010
keyboards, vocals: Laurie Anderson; viola: Eyvind Kang; keyboards: Peter Scherer; Tuvan igils: Igor Koshkendey, Mongoun-ool Ondar; vocals: Aidysmaa Koshkendey; recorded in New York City, 2010; time: 6:52

SET TWO
Robert Scott Thompson: Visitation (Out of the Vivid Air)
Visitation (Out of the Vivid Air)
Aucourant Records/2012
electroacoustics: RST; percussion: Stuart Gerber; composition year: 2012; time: 13:08

Polly Moller: Three Visions (Fever-Sugar Skulls-East Cliff Drive)
Diogenes
Silver Wheel Music/2002
flute, vocals, percussion, words, programming: Polly Moller; recorded at Lucky Dog Studios, Eugene, Oregon; time: 8:53

Polly Moller: Cold Blood
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 [various artists]
voxnovus/2007
flute, vocals, words: Polly Moller; electronic processing: Will Grant; recorded November 2004; time: 1:00

SET THREE
Mathew Rosenblum: Yanah's Dream
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
Newband, conductor: Dean Drummond (flute: Stefani Starin, surrogate kithara: Thomas DiGiovanni, crychord: Nina Kellman, diamond marimba: Jeffrey Irving, bass marimba: Jared Soldiviero; bamboo marimba, bass drums: Joe Fee, spoils of war: Joe Bergen), recorded at the New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2011; composition year: 2008; time: 8:44

Mei-Fang Lin: Flux
Electronic Masters Vol. 2 [various artists]
Ablaze Records/2013
marimba, electronics: Mei-Fang Lin; recorded at Arizona State University, Phoenix; composition year: 2011; time: 7:24

Newband: Freeze (J. Pugliese)
Newband Play Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994
composer: James Pugliese; alto flute: Stefani Starin: zoomoozophones: Dean Drummond, Dominic Donato; Yamaha DX7II synthesizer: James Pugliese; recorded at Baby Monster studios, May 29, 1992; composition years: 1988, revised 1990; time: 6:22

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: 
v. Winter (11:25)
vi. Interlude 3 (0:38)
The Four Seasons
Tzadik/2013
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; ingredients may include -- clarinets: Sherman Friedland, Al Margolis; clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontoravich; tenor and alto saxes: Audrey Betsy Welber; tenor sax: Tedross Avery; trumpet: Ben Holmes; trumpet voice: Susan Watts; trombone: Monique Buzzarte; drums: Ray Marchica, Gregg Mervine; voice: Tomomi Adachi, Jeremiah Crawly, Amy Denio, Beth Griffith, Kathy Hanson, Chris Mann, Maria Mannisto; guitars, voice: Gary Heidt; guitars, Rodney Jones, Marco Oppedisano; banjo: Rich Gross; violins: Maria Kimura, Amy Zakar; basses: Orin Buck, Lonnie Plaxico, Heather Chriscaden Versace; composition years: 1992--2013; master composition year: 2013; total excerpts time: 12:03

Jackson Mac Low: Thanks
Open Secrets
XI Records/1993
(indeterminate vocal work, three superimposed performances, six voices); voices: Jackson Mac Low (Forties), Anne Tardos; texts: Mac Low, Anne Tardos, Tibor Tardos (Girl Over the Eiffel Tower); Simone Signoret (Nostalgia Ain't What it Used to Be); WordPerfect magazine (March, 1993 issue); composition year: 1960; time: 9:54

SET FIVE
Jerry Hunt: Chimanzzi - Drape -Link
Haramand Plane -- Three Translation Links
Pogus Productions/2013 (orig. What Next? CD/1995)
(electronic process music) electronics: Jerry Hunt; composition year: 1993; full title -- Chimanzzi: Drape Link [Derivative Extraction: Birome: Zone]: Plane: [(Fixture)]; time: 15:20

Jerry Hunt: Song Drape 6 (Strip Club)
Song Drapes
Tzadik/1999
electronic music: Jerry Hunt; voice and text: Shelley Hirsch; composition year: 1992; time: 5:45

SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Pepsibird
The Art of David Tudor 1963-1992
New World Records/2013
live electronics: David Tudor; recorded at the Pepsi Pavilion; Expo '70; Osaka, Japan; 1970; time: 18:25

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
a. Sonata V (2:34)*
b. Sonata VI (3:29)*
c. Sonata VII (2:15)*
d. Second Interlude (4:30)**
e. Third Interlude (2:37)**
The Piano Works 2
Mode Records/1996
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, Studio I, Frankfurt; December 1994; composition years: 1946-1948; *TAINT Radio version only/**WMUA version only; *total selections time: 8:18/**7:06


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Martian Gardens for August 4-5, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 28, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
July 29, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
(final update: 00:18, 8/05/13)

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Journey to the End of Night 
1. 2:11
2. 1:12
3. 1:00
4. 2:37
Voices & Instruments
Mode Records/2002
The Barton Workshop (soprano: Claron McFadden, flute: Jos Zwaanenburg, clarinet: Harmen de Boer, bass clarinet: John Anderson, bassoon: Krijn van Arnhem); text: Louis-Ferdinand Céline, "Journey to the End of Night," recorded in the Netherlands circa 1999; composition year: 1949; total time: 7:00

SET ONE
Orkest De Volharding: Workers Union (L. Andriessen)
The Minimalists [various artists]
Mode Records/2009
composer: Louis Andriessen; recorded at MCO Studios, Hilversum, The Netherlands, April 2009; composition year: 1975; time: 17:15

Normal Love: Electrolytes in the Brine 
Survival Tricks
ugEXPLODE/2012
violin: Jessica Pavone; bass: Evan Lipson; drums: Eli Litwin; electric guitar: Amnon Freidlin; vocals, keyboards: Merissa Martigoni; recorded in Brooklyn, 2011; time: 4:49

SET TWO
Anne LeBaron: Funeral Bells for Harry Partch
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
shakuhachi: Kiku Day; harp: Anne LeBaron; koto: Kanoko Nishi; recorded at Mills College, Oakland, 2005; time: 9:00

Elizabeth Brown: Seahorse
Mirage
New World Records/2013
(for theremin and Partch Instruments); theremin: Elizabeth Brown; Newband (guitar 1: Dean Drummond, harmonic canon 1: Jared Soldiviero; chromeolodeon: Dave Broom, diamond marimba: Bill Ruyle; bass marimba: Joe Bergen; zoomoozophone, juststrokerods: Joe Free);  recorded at Leshowitz Recital Hall, Montclair State University, New Jersey, January 10, 2013; composition year: 2008; time: 9:09

SET THREE
Newband: Dark Brother (H. Partch)
Harry Parch/Dean Drummond
Innova Recordings/2001
(for bass baritone and Partch Instruments); composer: Harry Partch; Newband (bass baritone: Robert Osborne; tenor violin: Gregory Hesselink, chromeolodeon: Nelson Padgett, bass marimba: Dominic Donato, kithara I: Dean Drummond) text: Thomas Wolfe, "God's Lonely Man"; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2000, composition years: 1942-1943; time: 9:32

Harry Partch: Windsong
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
New World Records/2005 (orig. 1997)
Partch Instruments performed by Harry Partch (harmonic canon II, adapted viola, surrogate, kithara, chromelodeon, boo, diamond marimba, cloud-chamber bowls, spoils of war, bass marimba); recorded in Chicago, 1958; composition year: 1958 (originally released on Gate Five Records, 1962); time: 11:36

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: 
iii. Autumn (8:52)
iv. Interlude 2 (3:00)
The Four Seasons
Tzadik/2013
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; ingredients may include -- clarinets: Sherman Friedland, Al Margolis; clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontoravich; tenor and alto saxes: Audrey Betsy Welber; tenor sax: Tedross Avery; trumpet: Ben Holmes; trumpet voice: Susan Watts; trombone: Monique Buzzarte; drums: Ray Marchica, Gregg Mervine; voice: Tomomi Adachi, Jeremiah Crawly, Amy Denio, Beth Griffith, Kathy Hanson, Chris Mann, Maria Mannisto; guitars, voice: Gary Heidt; guitars, Rodney Jones, Marco Oppedisano; banjo: Rich Gross; violins: Maria Kimura, Amy Zakar; basses: Orin Buck, Lonnie Plaxico, Heather Chriscaden Versace; composition years: 1992--2013; master composition year: 2013; total excerpts time: 11:52

Alvin Curran: Alef Bet Gimel Shofar
Shofar Rags
Tzadik/2013
shofars, sampler, samples: Alvin Curran; recorded at Studio Luca Spagnoletti, Rome, Italy, June 2012, composition year: 2012; time: 4:40

Alvin Curran: 
a. Mango Tango (3:36)
b. Sotto Voce (2:01)
Toto Angelica
ReR Megacorp/2005
keyboard, sampler: Alvin Curran; live processing: Domenico Sciajno; recorded at the composer's studio: Poggidero-Velletri, Italy, January 2002, remixed 2002-2005; total excerpts time: 5:37

SET FIVE
William Price: WOOSH
Electronic Masters Vol. 2 [various artists]
Ablaze Records/2013
computer music: William Price; recorded at the composer's studio, Birmingham, Alabama; premiered at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, April 6, 2013; time: 3:24

Robert Scott Thompson: You Can Hear a Pin Drop
Play is the Supreme Bricoleur of Frail Transient Constructions
Aucourant Records/2012
electroacoustic music: RST; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; time: 12:34

Jorge Antunes: Rituel Violet
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for tenor saxophone and magnetic tape); tenor saxophone: Daniel Kientzy; realized at LIEM (Informática y Electrónica Musical) CDMC (Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Music), Madrid, Spain, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 5:47

SINGLE PLAY
Martin Bédard: Push & Pull
Topographies
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, 2010; premiered at the festival Akousma (7), Studio Hydro-Québec of the Monument-National, Montreal, October 28, 2010; composition year: 2010; time: 16:00

SINGLE PLAY
Luigi Nono: Epitaffio No. 3 -- Memento
Romance de la Guardia Civil española
Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz / Epitaffio 1 & 3 
Berlin Classics/1994 (orig. Eterna LP/1977)
soprano and speaker: Roswitha Trexler; Rundfunkchor & Rundfunk-Sinfonie Orchester Leipzig, director: Horst Neumann; text: Federico Garcia Lorca; recorded at Paul-Garhardt-Kirche, Leipzeig, July 1976; composition years: 1952-1953; time: 16:46

SINGLE PLAY*
George Crumb: The Ghosts of Alhambra (Spanish Songbook I)
I. Alba (Dawn) (2:59)
II. Las Seis Cuerdas (The Six Strings) (3:58)
III. Danza (Dance) 1:25
IV. Paisaje (Landscape) 3:02)
V. Ay! (1:59)
VI. Malagueña (2:45)
VII. Memento (2:24)
The Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
baritone: Patrick Mason; guitar: David Starobin; percussion: Daniel Druckman; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 2010; composition year: 2009; total time: 18:57
*WMUA version only 

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Martian Gardens for July 28-29, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 28, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
July 29, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
(updated 7/28/13 at 22:32 ET)

SINGLE PLAY
Meredith Monk: Northern Lights 1 & 2
Facing North
ECM /1992
pitch pipes: Meredith Monk, Robert Een; recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, April 1992; composition year: 1992; time: 4:47

SET ONE
Elizabeth Brown: Arcana
Mirage
New World Records/2013
(for flute and prerecorded sound) flute: Elizabeth Brown; recorded at the composer's studio, Brooklyn, December 2004; composition year: 2004; time: 9:32

Mary Jane Leach: Trio for Duo
Celestial Fires
XI Records/1993
(for voice, alto flute and alto flute on tape) alto flute: Barbara Held, voice: MJL; composition year: 1993 time 10:10

SET TWO
Steven Naylor: I Wish
Lieux Imaginaires
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music realized at the Electroacoustic  Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, 2000, premiered at the Novars concert, Birmingham, November 21, 2001; composition year: 2000; time: 9:47

Robert Scott Thompson: Stochos II
Amorphia
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 1995)
computer music: RST; composition year: 1995; time: 10:42

SET THREE*
Robert Scott Thompson: Velivolant
Vivid Air
Aucourant Records/2010
percussion: Stuart Gerber; electronics: RST; composition year: 2010; time: 3:13

Robert Scott Thompson: Section A
Siren -- Ambient Version
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 1997)
electroacoustic music: RST; composition year: 1997; time: 1:20
*TAINT Radio version only 

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky:
i. Summer (12:05)
ii. Interlude I (1:18)
The Four Seasons
Tzadik/2013
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; ingredients may include -- clarinets: Sherman Friedland, Al Margolis; clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontoravich; tenor and alto saxes: Audrey Betsy Welber; tenor sax: Tedross Avery; trumpet: Ben Holmes; trumpet voice: Susan Watts; trombone: Monique Buzzarte; drums: Ray Marchica, Gregg Mervine; voice: Tomomi Adachi, Jeremiah Crawly, Amy Denio, Beth Griffith, Kathy Hanson, Chris Mann, Maria Mannisto; guitars, voice: Gary Heidt; guitars, Rodney Jones, Marco Oppedisano; banjo: Rich Gross; violins: Maria Kimura, Amy Zakar; basses: Orin Buck, Lonnie Plaxico, Heather Chriscaden Versace; composition years: 1992--2013; master composition year: 2013; total excerpts time: 13:23

Mary Ellen Childs: Welding 
Dream House
Innova Recordings/2007
ETHEL String Quartet (violins: Cornelius Dufallo, Mary Rowell, viola: Ralph Farris, cello: Dorothy Lawson); sound montage: Neverwas; recorded at the Clubhouse, Rhinebeck, New York, July 2006, composition year: 2007; time: 4:09

Madjid Tahriri: Tombak
Deep Wireless 7 [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2010
tombak drum, stereo tape: Madjid Tahriri; composition year: 2007; time: 4:51

SET FIVE
Alvin Curran: Shofar X 17
Shofar Rags
Tzadik/2013
shofars, samples, sampler: Alvin Curran; recorded at Studio Luca Spagnoletti, Rome, Italy, July 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 13:17

Annie Gosfield: Phantom Shakedown
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
piano, samples, electronics: Annie Gosfield, composition year: 2010; time: 8:13

SET SIX
George Todd: Satan's Sermon I
Satan's Sermon and Other Electronic Fantasies [various artists]
CRI/1980 
Synclavier: George Todd; realized at the Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College; composition year: 1980; time: 6:11

J.C. Combs: Trinity 666 -- The Last Train to Hell
Safe Passage -- ImprovFriday Event Sessions
Electroshock Records/2010
electronics, samples: J.C. Combs; composition year: 2009; time: 6:46

George Crumb: from Black Angels
a. Lost Bells (0:47)
b. Devil Music (1:41)
Black Angels; Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
Cuarteto Latinoamericano (violins: Saul Bitran, Aron Bitran, viola: Javier Montiel, cello: Alvaro Bitran) with members of the Carnegie Philharmonic, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music Alumni Concert Hall, winter 2003; composition year: 1970; selections total time: 2:08

Gwoup Premye Nimewo: Kongo-a Kraze Renn Nou, Kongo-a Kraze*
Angels in the Mirror -- Vodou Music of Haiti [various artists]
Ellipsis Arts/1997
(for tambourines, violins, fife, singers, and caller) lead tambourine: Amelite Clerje, lead violin: Ason Maître ; singers: Elvina Maître, Amelica "Soka" Clergé, caller: Nelio Thes; recorded in Port-au-Prince, circa 1996; time: 6:10
*Kongo is finished, our Queen! Kongo is finished!

Erik Santos: Himotoku Niwa (Garden of Turning Pages)
KUU -- Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007
electronic music: Erik Santos; composition year: 2003; time: 3:44

SET SEVEN
Anne LeBaron: Concerto for Active Frogs
Rana, Ritual & Revelations
Mode Records/1992
(for frog sounds, male soloist, chorus, and ensemble) The New Music Consort, conductor: Anne Lebaron; tenor sax, animal calls: George Cartwright; trombone: Jim Stanley; percussion, tape: William Trigg; baritone voice: David Shea; chorus: Rodney Thomaston, Susan Botti, Adam Weisman, Julie Marti, Christina Wheeler, David Anthony, Debra Degenhardt, Michael Rosensky; originally recorded in 1975; composition year: 1975; time: 10:44

Matthew Burtner: That which is bodiless is reflected in bodies
MICE World Tour
Econsono/2009
soprano saxophone: Matthew Burtner; drum kit: Brandon Van Loucks; MICE  (Mobile Interactive Computer Music Ensemble); recorded in Cape Town, South Africa, 2009; composition year: 2004; time: 10:52

SINGLE PLAY
Eclipse Quartet with William Winant: Cognate Canons (J. Tenney)
Parkins, Rzewski, Tenney
New World Records/2013
composer: James Tenney; Eclipse Quartet (violin: Sarah Parkins, Sarah Thornblade, viola: Alma Lisa Fernandez, cello: Maggie Parkins); percussion: William Winant; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 2012; composition year: 1993; time: 23:09/excerpt for TAINT Radio: 10:40

John Cage's Variations V postponed until next week...

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Martian Gardens for July 21-22, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
July 22, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST  

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Carl: Clouds are Scattering
from Piano Sonata No. 2 (The Big Room)
Shake the Tree
Innova Recordings/2013
piano: Erberk Eryilmaz; recorded at Riverview Studios, Gill, Massachusetts, 2011; composition years: 1992-1993; time: 6:16

SET ONE
Benjamin Boretz: ("What I could hear...") (A Passage for Roger Sessions)
Piano Music 1976 -- 2000
Open Space/2004
piano: Michael Fowler; recorded at Princeton University, 2002-2003; composition year: 1979; time: 9:48

Ursula Mamlok: Rotations
a. Andante con Moto (3:16)
b. as from afar (2:14)
c. Sehr ruhig (5:04)
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 4
Bridge Records/2013
cello: Jakob Spahn; piano: Holger Groschopp; recorded at Berlin, Gärtnerstraße, September 2012; composition year: 2011; total time: 10:34

SET TWO
Elizabeth Brown: Three Arias from "A Bookmobile for Dreamers"
a. Bookmusic
b. Swamp Aria
c. Lullabye
Mirage
New World Records/2013
Theremin: Elizabeth Brown; prerecorded piano, field recordings, visual media: Lothar Osterburg; recorded at the Liguria Study Center, Bogliasco, Italy, March 2012; time: 6:55

Frances White: Three Small Piecess for flute duet and electronic sound
a. The sound of the bell as it leaves the bell (4:31)
b. Interlude (2:31)
c. Rose Pagonia (4:31)
Music by Frances White
CD-R/2004
flute: Elizabeth Brown; electronic sounds: Frances White; recorded in Princeton, New Jersey, composition year: 2002; total time: 11:34

Robert Black: Two in the Hand (R. Zvonar)
State of the Bass
O.O. Discs/1994
composer: Richard Zvonar; sampler, digital delays, computer, double bass: Robert Black; composition year: 1993; time: 7:32

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

Sarah Peebles: Summer
from Tomoe (Revolving life) (version 4)
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
shō, mouth organ: Hiromi Yoshida; perucussion, Midi Katcontroller, noise-makers: Ikuo Kakehashi; MIDI keyboard, sampled sound, electronics, shō, noise-makers: Sarah Peebles; recorded at Shukoji, Kawasaki , Main Hall, September 25, 1993; time: 5:00

SET FOUR
Lydia Kavina:
a. Free Music No. 1 (for four theremins) (P. Grainger) 1:33
b. Exercise 28 (for theremin and ensemble) (C. Wolff) 7:45
c. Free Music No. 2 (for six theremin) (P. Grainger) 1:19
Spellbound! Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
composers: Percy Grainger, Christian Wolff; theremins: Lydia Kavina; a., c. recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, July 10, 2000; b. Ensemble Sospeso; recorded at Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, July 2000;  composition years: a. 1936, b. 2000, c. 1937; total time: 10:37

Jorge Antunes: Mixolydia
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for theremin and electronic tape) theremin: Lydia Kavina; tape realized at GRM, Paris, and GMEB, Bourges, spring 1995; composition year: 1995; time: 11:20

SET FIVE
Larry Polansky: B'rey'sheet 
(In the beginning...) (Cantillation Study #1)
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
voice: Jody Diamond; live computers, HMSL programming: Larry Polansky, Phil Burk; engineer: Tom Erbe; recorded at Mill College, Oakland, 1990; composition years: 1985, 1987, 1989; time: 13:16

Lou Cohen: Symphony No. 7
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
CSound, MIDI Keyboard: Lou Cohen

SET SIX
Amy Knoles: Rabelais' Angels
Men in the Cities
Echograph/1999
voice: Richard Hines; electronic music: Amy Knoles; recorded in Los Angeles, 1999; time: 10:55

Leo Kupper: Arbre-jeux de Rabelais
Le Sixte Livre Dit Électroacoustique De François Rabelais (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
reciter: René Zosso; voice: Anne Osnowiycz; electroacoustic music: Leo Kupper; recorded at IMEB, Bourges, France; 1994; time: 08:45

SET SEVEN
Elizabeth Hoffman: Allamuchy
Intérieurs harmoniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music: Elizabeth Hoffman; realized at the composer's studio in New York City, 2001-2002; premiered at Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, University of Richmond, November 1, 2003;  Intérieurs harmoniques version revised 2011; time: 9:37

Morton Subotnick: from 4 Butterflies
a. Interlude 1 (1:24)
b. Butterflies No. 2 (9:32)
Electronic Works Vol. 3
Mode Records/2011
for 4-channel tape; original recording: 1973; new stereo mix: 2011; total time: 9:56

-- FIN --
 

Martian Gardens for July 14-15, 2013

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21:00--24:00 EDT
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July 14, 2013

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July 15, 2013 Host: Max Shea
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PLAYLIST  

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Estancia
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
composition year: 1999; time: 6:49

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Erickson: Summer Music
Orchestral, Chamber & Vocal Music
Naxos/2007 (orig. 1990)
(for violin and tape) violin: Mia Wu; recorded at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, June 1988, tape sound source: the brooks of Sequoia National Park, Sierra Nevada, California; composition year: 1974; time: 15:41

SET ONE
Henry Brant: Meteor Farm, parts 1-4
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 4
Innova Recordings/2006
(spatial music for numerous simultaneous groups) principal conductor: Henry Brant; guest conductor: Neely Bruce and Richard Winslow; Wesleyan University Orchestra, conductor: Roger Sollie; Wesleyan Singers, director: Neely Bruce; Wesleyan Gamelan, directors: Sumarsam with Sukanto Sastrodarsono; South Indian Trio (voice: S.A.K. Durga; mrdangam: David Nelson; tambura: David Claman); West African Drumming Ensemble, master drummer: Abraham Adzenyah; Wesleyan Big Band, director: Bill Barron; saxophones (altos: Susan Kidwell, Daniel Kolbert, tenor: Larry DeGarris); soprano soloists: Phyllis Bruce, Laura Cook; organ: Amy Snyder;  composition year: 1982; recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, March 6, 1982; parts 1-4 total time: 12:00

John Cage: Credo in US
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
(for percussion quartet and radio or phonograph) Percussion Group Cincinnati recorded at Werner Concert Hall, College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, May 26, 2006; Credo in US first version with LP: Dmitri Shostakovitch, Symphony No. 5, New York Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Leonard Bernstein; Columbia Records; composition year: 1942; time: 12:58

SET TWO
David Bithell: Hithering
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 trumpet and interactive computer environment); trumpet: David Bithell; composition year: 2009; time: 7:11

John Luther Adams: In the Rain
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
found sound tapes recorded in the 1970s by JLA; processing, mixing: JLA, Fairbanks, Alaska; time: 8:53

Bill Alves: The Terrain of Possibilities
The Terrain of Possibilities
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
(computer music by Bill Alves); sound sources in just intonation: Indonesian metal instruments, Korean bronze chimes, tam-tam, Western percussion instruments, piano, and voice; composition year: 1987; time: 6:57

SET THREE
Jorge Antunes:

Martian Gardens for July 14-15, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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21:00--24:00 EDT
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July 14, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
July 15, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST  

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Estancia
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
composition year: 1999; time: 6:49

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Erickson: Summer Music
Orchestral, Chamber & Vocal Music
Naxos/2007 (orig. 1990)
(for violin and tape) violin: Mia Wu; recorded at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, June 1988, tape sound source: the brooks of Sequoia National Park, Sierra Nevada, California; composition year: 1974; time: 15:41

SET ONE
Henry Brant: Meteor Farm, parts 1-4
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 4
Innova Recordings/2006
(spatial music for numerous simultaneous groups) principal conductor: Henry Brant; guest conductor: Neely Bruce and Richard Winslow; Wesleyan University Orchestra, conductor: Roger Sollie; Wesleyan Singers, director: Neely Bruce; Wesleyan Gamelan, directors: Sumarsam with Sukanto Sastrodarsono; South Indian Trio (voice: S.A.K. Durga; mrdangam: David Nelson; tambura: David Claman); West African Drumming Ensemble, master drummer: Abraham Adzenyah; Wesleyan Big Band, director: Bill Barron; saxophones (altos: Susan Kidwell, Daniel Kolbert, tenor: Larry DeGarris); soprano soloists: Phyllis Bruce, Laura Cook; organ: Amy Snyder;  composition year: 1982; recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, March 6, 1982; parts 1-4 total time: 12:00

John Cage: Credo in US
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
(for percussion quartet and radio or phonograph) Percussion Group Cincinnati recorded at Werner Concert Hall, College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, May 26, 2006; Credo in US first version with LP: Dmitri Shostakovitch, Symphony No. 5, New York Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Leonard Bernstein; Columbia Records; composition year: 1942; time: 12:58

SET TWO
David Bithell: Hithering
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 trumpet and interactive computer environment); trumpet: David Blithell; composition year: 2009; time: 7:11

John Luther Adams: In the Rain
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
found sound tapes recorded in the 1970s by JLA; processing, mixing: JLA, Fairbanks, Alaska; time: 8:53

Bill Alves: The Terrain of Possibilities
The Terrain of Possibilities
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
(computer music by Bill Alves); sound sources in just intonation: Indonesian metal instruments, Korean bronze chimes, tam-tam, Western percussion instruments, piano, and voice; composition year: 1987; time: 6:57

SET THREE
Jorge Antunes: Invocação em defesa da máquina
I. A máquina não desumanziza a música (2:35)
II. Reflexão (1:03)
III. A música humaniza a máquina (5:13)
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for 4 percussionists, 4 metronomes, and electronic sounds); percussion: Adriano Letzel, Arturo Uribe, Bruno Cabrera, Catarina Percinio, Clenio Henrique, Rosângela Rhafaelle, Rubens Lopes, Sérgio Coutinho; recorded at Teatro Maria de Lourdes Sekeff, the Art Institute of UNESP, São Paulo, March 27, 2010; composition year: 1968; total time: 8:51

Bülent Arel: Mimia II - Frieze
Music for Computers, Electronic Sounds, and Players [various artists]
CRI/1973 (CD-R transfer/2009)
computer music realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1969; time: 13:10

SET FOUR
Steven Naylor: Bitter Orchids
Lieux imaginaires
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music); sounds recorded at the marketplace in Chiang Mai, Thailand, realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, 2000, time: 11:17

Patrick Lenfant: Khem
Compendium International 2006 Bourges [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
(computer music); realized at Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), France, 2006; time: 12:20

SET FIVE
Chaya Czernowin: Ina
Afatism -- Chamber Music
Mode Records/1999
(for live and prerecorded flutes); live solo bass flute, six flutes on tape: John Fonville; recorded at the University of Calfornia San Diego; composition year: 1988; time: 11:13

Burr Van Nostrand: Hälfte des Lebens*
a. Stanza 1
c. Interlude: Schwangesang # 2
d. Stanza 2
Voyage in a White Building I
New World Records/2013
(*Movement 4 from Fantasy Manual for Urban Survival); flute: Robert Stallman; cello: Jay Humeston; prepared piano: Haerman Weiss; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, October 17, 1972; composition year: 1972; time: 12:21

SET SIX
Chris Cochrane: Santiago Penando Estas (V. Parra)
The Aerial # 2 [various artists]
Nonsequitur/1990
composer: Violeta Parra; voice, percussion: Chris Cochrane; composition year: 1963, arranged by C. Cochrane, 1989; time: 3:30

Leo Ciesa:
a. Them Figurative Bagatelles (2:22)
b. Three Abrasive Croissants (0:40)
Coat of Arms -- Music for Solo Drumset
Soundyard/2012
drumset: Leo Ciesa; recorded at Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey, October 11, 2009; total time: 2:42

No Safety: Heavenly Pass
Live at the Knitting Factory Works
Knitting Factory Works/1993
(composer: Zeena Parkins); bass, vocals: Ann Rupel; guitar, tape, vocals: Chris Cochrane, harp, sampler, eggs, vocals: Zeena Parkins; guitar: Doug Seidel; trap drums: Tim Spelios; recorded at the Knitting Factory, Tribeca, July 1993; time: 2:21

R. Weis: This is Trash
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
samples (wad of painter's tape hitting aluminum trash can; improvised 5 tone vocal phrase I); sampler: R. Weis; recorded at R. Weis' studio, Pittsburgh; time: 4:39

Yello:
Assistant's Cry (1:49)
Bostich (2:11)
Solid Pleasure
Ralph Records/1980
vocals: Dieter Meier; tapes, sound effects: Carlos Peron; guitar: Chico Hablas; drums: Felix Haug; recorded in Zurich, 1979-1989; total time: 4:00

Colin  Stetson: High Above a Grey Green Sea
Musicworks #116 [various artists]
Musicworks Magazine/2013
bass saxophone, vocals: Colin Stetson; recorded in Montreal, 2012; time: 4:25

SET SEVEN
Steven Ricks:
Irritating One Way or Another (That is to Say Keeping Us from Ossifying)
(electroacoustic music); realized by Steven Ricks, 2012; time: 3:04

Amy Knoles: Phone Call
Men in the Cities
Echograph/1999
percussion, electronics: Amy Knoles; voice: Richard Hines; text: David Maciver, "Danish Bits," recorded in Los Angeles, 1999; time: 10:32

From Touch.Sampler 2:
a. Air Traffic Control (0:37)
b. The Hafler Trio: Replacement (1:27)
c. Runaway Train (3:39)
Touch.Sampler 2 [various artists]
Touch Records/1997
a. recorded over Siberia on ANA flight 201 from Tokyo, 1990; recorded on answering machines between Amsterdam and London, January 1988, c. Alfie, railroad controller, and Weslie, train engineer, recorded March 9, 1948, New Brunswick, Canada; total selection time: 5:44

Liam O'Gallagher: Border Dissolve in Audiospace
10+12:12 -- American Text Sound Pieces [various artists]
Other Minds/2003 (orig. 1750 Arch LP/1975)
(for voice, telephony, and unsuspecting telephone operators); telephone caller: Liam O'Gallagher; recorded in San Francisco, 1970; time: 12:42

--FIN--

I. A máquina não desumanziza a música (2:35)
II. Reflexão (1:03)
III. A música humaniza a máquina (5:13)
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for 4 percussionists, 4 metronomes, and electronic sounds); percussion: Adriano Letzel, Arturo Uribe, Bruno Cabrera, Catarina Percinio, Clenio Henrique, Rosângela Rhafaelle, Rubens Lopes, Sérgio Coutinho; recorded at Teatro Maria de Lourdes Sekeff, the Art Institute of UNESP, São Paulo, March 27, 2010; composition year: 1968; total time: 8:51

Bülent Arel: Mimia II - Frieze
Music for Computers, Electronic Sounds, and Players [various artists]
CRI/1973 (CD-R transfer/2009)
computer music realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1969; time: 13:10

SET FOUR
Steven Naylor: Bitter Orchids
Lieux imaginaires
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music); sounds recorded at the marketplace in Chiang Mai, Thailand, realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, 2000, time: 11:17

Patrick Lenfant: Khem
Compendium International 2006 Bourges [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
(computer music); realized at Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), France, 2006; time: 12:20

SET FIVE
Chaya Czernowin: Ina
Afatism -- Chamber Music
Mode Records/1999
(for live and prerecorded flutes); live solo bass flute, six flutes on tape: John Fonville; recorded at the University of Calfornia San Diego; composition year: 1988; time: 11:13

Burr Van Nostrand: Hälfte des Lebens*
a. Stanza 1
c. Interlude: Schwangesang # 2
d. Stanza 2
Voyage in a White Building I
New World Records/2013
(*Movement 4 from Fantasy Manual for Urban Survival); flute: Robert Stallman; cello: Jay Humeston; prepared piano: Haerman Weiss; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, October 17, 1972; composition year: 1972; time: 12:21

SET SIX
Chris Cochrane: Santiago Penando Estas (V. Parra)
The Aerial # 2 [various artists]
Nonsequitur/1990
composer: Violeta Parra; voice, percussion: Chris Cochrane; composition year: 1963, arranged by C. Cochrane, 1989; time: 3:30

Leo Ciesa:
a. Them Figurative Bagatelles (2:22)
b. Three Abrasive Croissants (0:40)
Coat of Arms -- Music for Solo Drumset
Soundyard/2012
drumset: Leo Ciesa; recorded at Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey, October 11, 2009; total time: 2:42

No Safety: Heavenly Pass
Live at the Knitting Factory Works
Knitting Factory Works/1993
(composer: Zeena Parkins); bass, vocals: Ann Rupel; guitar, tape, vocals: Chris Cochrane, harp, sampler, eggs, vocals: Zeena Parkins; guitar: Doug Seidel; trap drums: Tim Spelios; recorded at the Knitting Factory, Tribeca, July 1993; time: 2:21

R. Weis: This is Trash
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
samples (wad of painter's tape hitting aluminum trash can; improvised 5 tone vocal phrase I); sampler: R. Weis; recorded at R. Weis' studio, Pittsburgh; time: 4:39

Yello:
Assistant's Cry (1:49)
Bostich (2:11)
Solid Pleasure
Ralph Records/1980
vocals: Dieter Meier; tapes, sound effects: Carlos Peron; guitar: Chico Hablas; drums: Felix Haug; recorded in Zurich, 1979-1989; total time: 4:00

Colin  Stetson: High Above a Grey Green Sea
Musicworks #116 [various artists]
Musicworks Magazine/2013
bass saxophone, vocals: Colin Stetson; recorded in Montreal, 2012; time: 4:25

SET SEVEN
Steven Ricks:
Irritating One Way or Another (That is to Say Keeping Us from Ossifying)
(electroacoustic music); realized by Steven Ricks, 2012; time: 3:04

Amy Knoles: Phone Call
Men in the Cities
Echograph/1999
percussion, electronics: Amy Knoles; voice: Richard Hines; text: David Maciver, "Danish Bits," recorded in Los Angeles, 1999; time: 10:32

From Touch.Sampler 2:
a. Air Traffic Control (0:37)
b. The Hafler Trio: Replacement (1:27)
c. Runaway Train (3:39)
Touch.Sampler 2 [various artists]
Touch Records/1997
a. recorded over Siberia on ANA flight 201 from Tokyo, 1990; recorded on answering machines between Amsterdam and London, January 1988, c. Alfie, railroad controller, and Weslie, train engineer, recorded March 9, 1948, New Brunswick, Canada; total selection time: 5:44

Liam O'Gallagher: Border Dissolve in Audiospace
10+12:12 -- American Text Sound Pieces [various artists]
Other Minds/2003 (orig. 1750 Arch LP/1975)
(for voice, telephony, and unsuspecting telephone operators); telephone caller: Liam O'Gallagher; recorded in San Francisco, 1970; time: 12:42

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for July 7-8, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 7, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
July 8, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST  
(WMUA extended edition 21:00--01:15)

SET ONE
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: The Spirit of America
Sound Portraits
MSR Classics/2013
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Jeffrey Silberschlag; recorded in at Green Room Productions at St. Luke's Recording Studio, London, 2005; composition years: 1999/2006; time: 10:54

Dorothy Hindman: Magic City
Tapping the Furnace
Innova Recordings/2013
Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Robert Ian Winstin; recorded at Needlepoint Studios, Birmingham, Alabama, composition year: 1998; time: 10:18

SET TWO
Judith Shatin: Three Summers Heat--
a. Just Now the Sea-Green Banners Fly (2:09)
b. Just Now the Early Peach is Red (1:57)
c. It's Midsummer and Too Hot to Walk (3:29)
d. Summer Earth is Windless. Heat Still Presses (1:49)
e. Light Clothes! Few Clothes! (2:00)
f. I Remember Desire like White Light (3:20)
g. I Raise my Head to Look at T'ung Trees (2:20)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29 [various artists]
 Music from VCCM: Virginia Center for Computer Music University of Virginia
Centaur Records/1999
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Tzu Yeh (Chin Dynasty); recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, August, 1998; composition year: 1989; total time: 17:48

Charles Ives: The Housatonic at Stockbridge
The Light That is Felt -- Songs of Charles Ives
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Robert Underwood Johnson; piano: Donald Berman; recorded at the Recital Hall at the Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase, March 2008; composition year: 1921; time: 3:06

SET THREE
Eclipse Quartet with William Winant: Whimwhams (F. Rzewski)
Eclipse Quartet with William Winant
New World Records/2013
marimba: William Winant; Eclipse (violins: Sarah Parkins, Sarah Thornblade, viola: Alma Lisa Fernandez, cello: Maggie Parkins); recorded at the Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 2012; time: 13:57

J.D. Parran: 3 x Spearman (for O'Hara)
Window Spirits -- Solo
Mutable Music/2010
mbira, poetry, voice: J.D. Parran; time: 4:25

SET FOUR
Philip Krumm: Music for Clocks
Music from The ONCE Festival 1961-1966 [various artists]
New World Records/2003
flute: Anne Speer; snipes: Kenneth Snipes; oboe: John Morgan; clarinet: Richard Reynolds; French horns: Kay Maves; violin: Lana Lou Nail; violin: Michael von Biel; double bass: Bertram Turetzky; prepared piano: Philip Krumm; conductor: Donald Scavarda; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 17, 1963; composition year: 1962; time: 10:24

Walter Ruttmann: Weekend
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music [various artists]
first a-chronology 1921-2001 
Sub Rosa/2001
sound collage: Walter Ruttman; presented in Berlin, June 13, 1930; composition year: 1930; time: 11:10

SET FIVE
Iannis Xenakis: La Légende d'Eer (excerpt)
Electronic Works I -- La Légende d'Eer
Mode Records/2005
electroacoustic work for 7-channel tape, new stereo mix from the original master tape, remastered by Gerard Pape at GRM Paris, June 2004; composition years: 1977-1978; excerpt time: 5:41

John Cage: Variations V (excerpt)
Variations V (DVD)
Mode Records/2013
recorded in Paris, 1966; live electronics: John Cage, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; composition year: 1965; time: 5:41

John Cage: Overpopulation and Art & Royanji (excerpt)
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
lecture delivered by John Cage at Stanford University, 1992; concurrent with Royanji, soprano: Isabelle Ganz, percussion: Michael Pugliese; composition years: 1983-1985; excerpt time: 9:44

Iannis Xenakis: Concret PH
Electronic Music
EMF/1997
electroacoustic music (sound source: burning charcoal); created for the Philips Pavilion under the direction of Le Corbusier, Expo '58, Brussels, composition year: 1958; time: 2:42

SET SIX
Manuella Blackburn: Kitchen Alchemy
Formes Audibles
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music (sound sources: kitchen utensils and devices); realized at the electroacoustic music studios of the University of Manchester; premiered at the MANTIS South-North Festival, March 11, 2007; composition year: 2007; time: 11:31

Paul Lansky: Table's Clear (excerpt)
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992
kitchen percussion, voices: Jonah and Caleb Lansky; tape, processing: Paul Lansky; recorded at the Lansky home, Princeton, New Jersey, October 1990; excerpt time: 10:00

SET SEVEN*
John Melby: For Milton
Milton Babbitt -- A Composer's Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
soprano: Patricia Sonego; text: Percy Bysshe Shelley ("Adonis"); computer: John Melby; composition year: 2011; time: 6:28 

Paul Lansky: Table's Clear (further excerpt)
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992
kitchen percussion, voices: Jonah and Caleb Lansky; tape, processing: Paul Lansky; recorded at the Lansky home, Princeton, New Jersey, October 1990; excerpt time: 5:00

Warren Burt: The Shape of the Voice I: Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt -- A Composer's Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer: Warren Burt; composition year: 2011;  time: 6:05

Arie Shapira: And Time Touches Like Feather
Electronics Plus
Arie Shapira/2000
computer: Arie Shapira; processed voice: Orna Elsstein reading her poem "And Time Touches Like Feather"; composition year: 1989; time: 12:29
*WMUA version only

SINGLE PLAY*
Elizabeth Hoffman: Red is the Rows
Milton Babbitt -- A Composer's Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
violins: Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris; recorded at the new music community center Exapno, Brooklyn, October 23, 2011; time: 11:38 

SET EIGHT
Elizabeth Hoffman: d-ness*
Intérieurs harmoniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music (sound source: Red is the Rows); realized at Hoffman's studio in New York City, fall 2011; time: 10:17
*Hoffman's "Red is the Rows" and "d-ness" programmed contiguously on TAINT Radio version

Richard Karpen: Exchange*
Solo/Tutti
Centaur Records/2004
(for computer and flute) computers, programming: Richard Karpen, Center for Computer Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, 1987; flute: Jos Zwaanburg. recorded at the Royal College of Music, July 2003; composition year: 1987; time: 13:06
*WMUA version only

SINGLE PLAY*
Nadia Sirota:  Etude 3 (P. Corley)
Baroque
New Amsterdam Records/2013
composer: Paul Corley) viola, keyboards: Nadia Sirota; organ, keyboards: James McVinnie; synthesizers, programming: Valgeir Sigurdsson; percussion: Frank Aarnink; programming: Paul Corley; recorded at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2011
*WMUA version only

-- FIN --