Martian Gardens for September 15-16, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 15, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
September 16, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
(Final update: 23:46 on 9/15/13)

SINGLE PLAY
Christian Wolff: Tilbury 3
Tilbury (complete)/Snowdrop
Mode Records/1999
viola: Dimitrios Polisoidis; piano: Hildegard Kleeb; recorded at Sender Freies Berlin, May 1996; composition year: 1969; time: 5:33

SET ONE
Stephen Whittington: Music for Airport Furniture (1st 1/2)
Music for Airport Furniture
Cold Blue Music/2013
Zephyr Quartet (violins: Belinda Gehlert, Emily Tulloch; viola: Jason Thomas; cello: Hilary Kleinig); recorded at Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide, Australia, winter 2013; composition year: 2011; excerpt time: 11:00

Morton Feldman: On Time and the Instrumental Factor
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, January 2009; composition year: 1969; time: 8:23

SET TWO
J.C. Combs: Apparition 
Gazing
Spectropol/2013
piano, processing: J.C. Combs; recorded at the composer's studio, Seattle, 2013; time: 5:36

Arvo Pärt: Beatus Petronius
Adam's Lament
ECM Records/2012
(for two choirs, eight woodwinds, tubular bells, and string orchestra); Latvian Radio Choir and Sinfonietta Riga, conductor: Tõnu Kaljuste; recorded at Niguliste Church, Tallinn, Estonia, November 2011; composition year: 1990/2011; time: 5:16

Leo Kupper: Paroles sur Langue
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
bass baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; electronics, processing: Leo Kupper; recorded at Studio de Recherches, Brussels, 2011; composition year: 2006; time: 8:06

Mary Simoni: Doxology
Alternating Currents [various artists]
Electronic Music from the University of Michigan 
Centaur Records/2000
electronic music, processing: Mary Simoni; recorded at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998; time: 4:17

SET THREE
David First: Thought You Said Sherbet
The Alternative Schubertiade [various artists]
Homages, Deconstructions, and Reinventions in 
celebration of the 200th birthday of Franz Schubert, 1997
CRI/1999
sampler, Csound, software synthesizer, electric guitar, computer: David First; recorded in New York City; composition year: 1997; time: 9:02

Robert Normandeau: Figures de rhétorique
Figures
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
piano: Jacques Drouin; electroacoustic music: Robert Normandeau; tape sounds recorded at GRM, Paris and Queen's University, Belfast, and at the composer's studio, Montreal, 1997; commissioned by Jacques Drouin; premiered at Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montreal, May 23, 1998; composition years: 1994/1997; time: 13:37

SET FOUR
Andrew Young: inside/pinkone/outside/pinktwo
Inkplaces
Spectropol/2013
electronic music, MAX/msp: Andrew Young; recorded at the composer's studio, Kingstown, Rhode Island, February 2013

Robert Scott Thompson: Elegies and Epiphanies
Visitation (Out of the Vivid Air)
Aucourant Records/2012
electroacoustic music: RST; recorded at the composer's studio in Roswell, Georgia, composition year: 2012; time: 12:10

Stanislav Kreitchi: Confession
Ansiana
Electroshock Records/2000
ANS synthesizer: Stanislave Kreitchi; recorded in Moscow; time: 6:42

SET FIVE
Alvin Curran: Shin Far Shofar 2
Shofar Rags
Tzadik Records/2013
shofar, sampler, electronics: Alvin Curran; recorded in Rome, Italy, 2008 for the Alef Bet Sound Project (Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco); time: 10:18

Anne LeBaron: Reconstruction (from Transfiguration)
Pope Joan/Transfiguration
New World Records/2007
soprano: Lucy Shelton; flute: Camilla Hoitenga; harp: June Han; percussion: William Trigg; text: Djuna Barnes; conductor: Rand Steiger; recorded at the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center, SUNY, Purchase, May 13, 2006; composition year: 2003; time: 11:53

SET SIX
Dorothy Hindman: Fin de Cycle
Tapping the Furnace
Innova Recordings/2013
(for piano and digital media); piano: Laura Gordy; composition year: 1997; time: 8:18

Charles Norman Mason: Amalgam I
Music from SEAMUS volume 2 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
(for oboe and computer-generated tape); oboe: David Weber; composition year: 1988; time: 8:39

SINGLE PLAY
George Perle: String Quartet No. 5
I. (half note = 92.96) 6:39
II. (quarter note = 132) 2:08
III. (quarter note = 80) 5:37*
String Quartets 2, 5 & 8, Molto Adagio
Bridge Records/2013
Daedalus Quartet (violins: Min-Young Kim, Matilda Kaul; viola: Jessica Thompson; cello: Thomas Kraines); recorded at the DiMenna Center, New York City, September 2012; composition year: 1960; total time: 14:24
 *TAINT Radio version only


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Martian Gardens for September 8-9, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 8, 2013

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

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Elizabeth Brown: Shinshōfūkei, or An Imagined Landscape
a. Stroll Garden (3:54)
b. Aged, Mossy Rock (2:43)
c. Praised Poetry -- Landscape Haiku (4:41)
d. Departure (3:04)
Mirage
New World Records/2013
(for Japanese traditional instrument orchestra); ProMusica Nipponia, conductor: Yasushi Inada; recorded at Kioi Hall, Tokyo, January 29, 2011; composition year: 2010; total time: 14:37

Shih-Hi Chen: selections from Sweet Rice Pie (based on Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes)
a. Sweet Rice Pie I (1:07)
b. Firefly (3:08)
c. Sweet Rice Pie II (1:34)
Returning Souls
New World Records/2013
baritone: Timothy Jones; flute Leone Buyse; clarinet: Michael Webster; harp: Nuiko Wadden; percussion: Matthew McClung; violin: Timothy Peters; cello: Norman Fischer; conductor: Kevin Noe; recorded at Stude Concert Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, April 2013; composition year: 2005; total excerpts time: 5:49

SET TWO
John Cage: 
a. John Cage speaks about 101 (1:00)
b. 101 (for large orchestra) (12:13)
Orchestral Works I
Mode Records/1994
New England Conservatory Philharmonia; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, March 1991; composition year: 1989

On the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the birth of John Cage, September 8, 1912

Elaine Barkin: At the Piano
ee (2): A sound album by Elaine Barkin
Open Space/2000
piano: Dan Poynton; composition year: 1982; time: 11:33

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: Mourning Dove
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Calithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, October 3, 2006; composition years: 1974-1979, 2006; time: 5:50

J.C. Combs: Recycled Piano
Gazing
Spectropol Records/2013
piano, processing: J.C. Combs; recorded at the composer's studio, Seattle, composition year: 2013; time: 2:07

Brian Eno: Events in Dense Fog
Music for Films
Editions E.G./1989 (orig. LP 1978)
piano, synthesizer: Brian Eno; time: 3:42

Jim Fox: Black Water (2nd 1/2)
Black Water
Cold Blue Music/2013
(for three pianos); piano: Bryan Pezzone; recorded at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, July 2006; composition year: 1984; excerpt time: 9:04

SET FOUR
Henry Brant: September 8, 1900. Galveston Bay
Autumn Hurricanes -- Henry Brant Collection, Volume 5
Innova Recordings/2006
(Autumn Hurricanes: A spatial cantata for widely separated vocal and instrumental groups) September 8: soloists -- soprano: Janice Jenkins; baritone: Craig Maddox; flute: Nancy Maloney; piano, orchestra -- musicians of Stetson University; chief conductor: Henry Brant; recorded at Elizabeth Hall Auditorium, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, April 26, 1986; composition year: 1986; September 8 time: 12:22

Beth Anderson: Tower of Power
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
organ, electronics: Linda Collins; recorded at Mills College Chapel, Oakland, 1973; composition year: 1973; time: 10:06

SET FIVE
Scott Smallwood: Rusted Womb of Bomber
Desert Winds -- Six Windblown Sound Pieces and Other Works
Deep Listening/2002
sounds recorded at the Enola Gay Hangar, Wendover Airport, Utah; produced at iEAR Studios, Troy, New York; time: 6:58

Nicolas Dion: Transparent
Deep Wireless 4 -- Radio Art Compilation [variation artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2007
glass bowl, glass marble, processing: Nicolas Dion; time: 1:02

Andrea Borghi: Calibrated notify
Musica Per Nastro (Tape Music)
Spectropol Records/2012
sound collage, electronics: Andrea Borghi; time: 4:19

Natasha Barrett: Gentle Sediment (Barely: Part 3)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
recorded at the composer's studio, Oslo, Norway, premiered at the 38th Festival Synthèse, Bourges, France, June 4, 2008; Barely Project composition years: 2006-2008; excerpt time: 9:35

SET SIX
Darren Copeland: They're Trying to Save Themselves
Perdu et Retrouve [Lost and Found]
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio and premiered on CBC Radio One, September 11, 2002 for the commemorative program "Loss and Legacy"; composition year: 2002; time: 3:53

Philippe Auclair: Le Creux de l'Enfer
Compendium International -- Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
electroacoustic music realized IMEB Bourges by Philippe Auclair for his oratorio Légende de Saint Genes (“The Legend of Saint Genesius”); composition year: 2006; time: 10:03

Nicola Monopoli: The Rite of Judgment 
Electronic Masters Vol. 2 [various artists]
Ablaze Records/2013
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio in Barletta, Italy; composition year: 2011; time: 4:33

Muslimgauze: Morphina Gobi 
Baghdad
Staalplaat/1998
percussion, tapes: Bryn Jones; recorded in Manchester, UK, 1998; time: 7:36

SINGLE PLAY
Elainie Lillios: Dreams in the Desert
Music from SEAMUS volume 13 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2004
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Bowling Green, Ohio; composition year: 2001; time: 10:50


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Martian Gardens for September 1-2, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 1, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
September 2, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Heiner Goebbels: Stein texts --
a. Different Nations (2:05)
b. On the Radio (1:54)
c. Just Like That (1:52)
d. In the 19th Century (2:50)
e. The Sirens (2:17)
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten*
ECM Records/2007
Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: Gertrude Stein, "Wars I Have Seen" (1945); recorded at  Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre, Paris, October 2004; composition year: 2002; total excerpts time: 11:00
*Landscape with Distant Relatives

John Cage: Living Room Music
a. To Begin (1:06)
b. Story (2:25)
c. Melody (3:10)
d. End (1:23)
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion (percussion, voices: Owen Clayton Condon, Robert Dilllon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore); text: Gertrude Stein, "The World is Round" (1939); recorded at the Ruth Ford House, Aurora, Illinois, June 29, 2011; composition year: 1940; total time: 8:04

SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: September Canons
September Canons
New World Records/2009
violin, electronic processing: Todd Reynolds; composition year: 2002; time: 13:19

Todd Reynolds: The End of an Orange (P. Matthusen)
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
composer: Paula Matthusen; violin, voice, live electronics: Todd Reynolds; text: Abi Basch; composition years: 2009-2010; time: 7:25

SET THREE
Jim Fox: Black Water (1st 1/2)
Black Water
Cold Blue Music/2013
(for three pianos) pianos: Bryan Pezzone; recorded at Architecture studios, Los Angeles, July 2006; composition year: 1984; excerpt time: 9:03

Phil Winsor: Il Passaggio Spaziale 
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 27 [various artists]
Music from CEMI: Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
University of North Texas, Denton
Centaur Records/1998
(for piano and tape); piano: Adam Wodnicki; recorded at the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater and CEMI, Denton, Texas, November 1997; composition year: 1991; time: 8:00

Barney Childs: Take 5
A Music; that it might be...
New World Records/2002
(for flute prerecorded clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon); woodwinds: Philip Rehfeldt; recorded at the University of Redlands, Redlands, California, 1999; composition year: 1962; time: 3:44

SET FOUR
William Price: Let Freedom Ring
Electroacoustic Works by William Price 
CD-R/2004
computer music created at the Electroacoustic Music Studios, Louisiana State University; time: 4:32

Trevor Wishart: American Tryptych
Voice Prints
EMF/2000
(samples include voices of Martin Luther King, Neil Armstrong, and Elvis Presley); realized at Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris; premiered on the GRM Cycles Acousmatique concert series, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Radio France, Paris, January 8, 2000; composition year: 1999; time: 15:11

SET FIVE
Marco Oppedisano: Karmicon
Karmicon
CD-R/2005
voice: Kimberly Fiedelman; electric guitar, processing: Marco Oppedisano; composition year: 2005; time: 9:22

Paul Burnell: Train of Thought
Cabbage Heads
IPBO/2013
glockenspiel, bells, synth piano and strings, voice, text: Paul Burnell; recorded in London, 2013; time: 6:32

Paul Burnell: Orange Juice
Deep Wireless 4 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures In Sound Art/2007
electronics, samples, voice; Paul Burnell; time: 1:02

Philip Schuessler: Peptide Hallucination
60 x 60 - 2003 (various artists)
Capstone Records/2004
electroacoustic music: Philip Schuessler; time: 1:00  

Dr. Ox: GFP-Fusion
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM, Oslo, December 2008; time: 5:15

SINGLE PLAY
Steven Naylor: The Thermal Properties of Concrete
Lieux Imaginaires
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music realized at the University of Birmingham Electroacoustic Music Studios, UK, and the composer's studio, Nova Scotia; premiered at the Invisible Art concert series produced by BEAST, CBSO Centre, Birmingham, UK, March 7, 2007; composition year: 2006; time: 27:03

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Variations II with Lecture on Nothing
Variations I-III; Lecture on Nothing
Mode Records/2003
Motion Ensemble (prepared and amplified violin: Nadia Francavilla; percussion: D'Arcy Philip Gray; prepared and amplified double bass: Andrew R. Miller; voice: Helen Pridmore) recorded at The Black Box Theatre, Saint Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, November 19, 2000; composition years: Variations II (1961), Lecture on Nothing (1959); time: 29:48

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Martian Gardens for August 25-26, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
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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