Martian Gardens for October 20-21, 2013

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October 20, 2013

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webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
October 21, 2013 Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY 
J.D. Parran & Spirit Stage: Wabashi/Dreameaters
J.D. Parran & Spirit Stage
Y'all of New York/2005
voice, poetry: Shirley LeFlore; reeds, rainsticks, double bamboo flute: J.D. Parran; cornet, trumpet: Stephen Haynes; vibraharp: Bill Ware; contrabass: Brad Jones; drums, percussion: Warren Smith; guitar: Kelvyn Bell; recorded at Sorcerer Sound, New York City, June 1995; time: 5:36

J.D. Parran to perform at Solos & Duos concert
Thursday, October 24, 2013, 8:00 PM
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
UMass Amherst Campus

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Slices (1st 1/2)
Orchestra Works
New World Records/2013
cello solo: Charles Curtis; flute: Demare McGill; oboe: Andrea Overturi; clarinet: Anthony Burr; bassoon: Valentin Martchev; horn: Benjamin Jaber; trumpet: John Wilds; trombone: Kyle Covington; tuba: Jonathan Piper; violin: Jeff Thayer, Jisun Yang; viola: Che-Yen Chen; cello: Yao Zhao; bass: Jeremy Kurtz; recorded at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, U.C. San Diego, May 2011; composition year; 2007; excerpt time: 14:00

SET ONE
Bang On a Can All-Stars: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (J. Wolfe)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2012
composer: Julia Wolfe; Bang On a Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate; bass: Robert Black; piano: Vicky Chow; drums, percussion: David Cossin; guitar: Mark Stewart; clarinet, saxophone, gongs: Evan Ziporyn); recorded at the Dolan Music Studio, New York University, 2010; composition year: 2002; time: 9:00

George Crumb: selections from Eleven Echoes for Autumn, 1965 (Echoes I)
a. Eco.1. Fantastico (1:17)
b. Eco.2. Languidamente, quasi lontano ("hauntingly") (1:27)
c. Eco. 3. Prestissimo (1:23) 
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) (violin: David Bowlin; alto flute: Claire Chase; clarinet: Joshua Rubin; piano: Jacob Greenberg); composition year: 1966; total excerpts time: 4:07

Noah Creshevsky: Autumn
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

SET TWO
Claire Chase: Piece in the Shape of a Square (P. Glass)
Density
Claire Chase/2013
(composer: Philip Glass; for two flutes) flutes: Claire Chase; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers; composition year: 1967; time: 12:46

Benjamin Broening: Trembling Air
Trembling Air
Bridge Records/2012
flute: Tim Munro (Eighth Blackbird); recorded at Camp Concert Hall, University of Richmond, October 2008; composition year: 2009; time: 12:47

SET THREE
John Cage: selections from Sixteen Dances
I. Solo (fast) [anger] (1:49)
II. Trio/3 Girls [adagio) (3:58)
III. Solo "The Mad Dog" [humorous] (2:23)
IV. "Delicate Leaves" (2:25)
V. "Monk's Sarabande" [sorrow] (2:15)
The Works for Piano 9
Mode Records/2013
piano: Jovita Zähl; recorded at Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismark-Saal; Köln, December, 2012 - April, 2013; composition years: 1950-1951; total excerpts time: 10:53

Earle Brown: Folio
a. October 1952 (1:10)*
b. November 1952 (1:16)
c. December 1952 (0:48)
d. MM - 87 (0:51)*
e. MM - 135 (0:29)*
f. Music for Trio for Five Dancers, June 1953 (1:47)*
g. 1953 (1:01)*
Music for Piano (s) 1951-1995
New Albion Records/1996
piano: David Arden; recorded at Knuth Hall, San Francisco State University; December 19, 1994 and August 21, 1995; composition years: 1952-1953; total time: 7:45
*TAINT Radio version only

SET FOUR
Herbert Brün: on stilts among ducks
Wayfaring Sounds
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
(for viola and tape) viola: Eckart Schloifer;  composition year: 1997; time: 17:53

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Two Sketches for a Computer Piece
I. Sketch 1 (0:57)
II. Sketch 2 (2:11)
Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-1972
New World Records/2007 (org CRI LP/1978)
electronic tape realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City; composition year: 1971; total time: 3:08

SET FIVE
Malcolm Goldstein: Autumn
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: 12:09

Annea Lockwood: Fridingen to Ulm
A Sound Map of The Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
field recordings: Annea Lockwood (Fridingen, sheep shearing, May 1, 2002; Beuron, May 2, 2002; Ulm, Blau tributary, May 4, 2002; Münster bells, May 5, 2002); time: 7:20

SET SIX
Robert Scott Thompson: Night Singers in Distant Array
Visitation (out of the vivid air)
Aucourant Records/2012
electronic music: RST; composition year: 2009; time: 5:01

Keeril Makan: Mercury Songbirds
Afterglow
Mode Records/2013
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) (alto flute: Clair Chase; clarinet: Joshua Rubin; violin: Erik Carlson; cello: Kivie Cohn-Lipman; piano: Cary Smythe; percussion: Nathan Davis); recorded at Oktaven Studio, Yonkers; May 2011; composition year: 2008; time: 12:00

-- FIN --  

Martian Gardens for October 13-14, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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October 13, 2013

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webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
October 14, 2013 Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
(final update: 23:46, 10/13/13)

SINGLE PLAY
Bang On A Can: Seik Ky Ahla (2) (K. Naing)
Bang On A Can Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing
Cantaloupe Music/2004
 performed by Bang On A Can and K. Naing (drums, gongs, Burmese percussion); recorded at Sorcerer Sound Studios, NYC, November 3-4, 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 3:06

SET ONE
Laurie Spiegel: Clockworks
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
recorded on the GROOVE system, Bell Labs, March 1975; time: 5:20

Juan Blanco: Música para Danza
Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings/2013
sine-wave generator, tape dubbing: Juan Blanco; composition year: 1961; time: 5:28

David Monacchi: Fragments of Extinction
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
electronics, field recordings: David Monacchi; 8-channel sound installation recorded on the Jauperi River, Brazil, 2002; extract time: 10:06

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Diamonds for 1, 2, or 3 Orchestras
Orchestra Works
New World Records/2013
performed by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra; conductors: Petr Kotik, Christian Armstrong, Zsolt Nagy; recorded at the House of Culture, Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 27, 2001; composition year: 1999; time: 23:31

SINGLE PLAY*
Andrew Young: through/spectrum1
Inkplaces
Spectropol/2013
electronics: Andrew Young; recorded at the composer's studio, North Kingstown, Rhode Island; time: 3:00
*TAINT Radio version only

SET TWO
Bruno Maderna: Concerto per Flauto e Orchestra
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; Orchestra Filharmonica "G. Monaco," conductor: Marcello Panni; recorded live in Florence, Italy, 1982; composition year: 1954; time: 8:25

Claire Chase: Luciform (M.D. de Leon)
Density
Claire Chase/2013
(for flute and electronics); composer: Mario Diaz de León; flute: Claire Chase; recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, New York, composition year: 2013; time: 13:29

SET THREE
John Cage: Haiku
I. for my dear friend, Who (0:42)
II. What stillness! (0:32)
III. The Green Frog's Voice (0:52)
IV. The River Plurabelle (0:33)
V. (0:45)
VI. (not numbered) (0:39) 
I. second version (rejected?) (0:40)
The Works for Piano 9
Mode Records/2013
piano: Jovita Zähl; recorded at Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismark-Saal, Köln, December 2012-April 2013; composition years: 1950-1951; time: 4:43

Robert Morris: selections from Nine Piano Pieces
a. Between (2:50)
b. Kids (2:12)
c. To Wit (3:05)
Open Space 14
Open Space/2001
piano: Margaret Kampmeier; composition year: 1999; total excerpts time: 8:07

James Correa: Danças & Intermezzi
a. Meta-Funk (3:09)
b. Mirror of Sand (1:27)
c. Winter Dance (3:07)
d. Mirror of Granite (01:27)
e. Circle of Fire (4:07)
Plural (Correa/Miranda)
Fumproarte/2002
piano: Catarina Damenici; electronics: James Correa; recorded at PUC Auditorium, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 12:10

SET FOUR*
Rune Lindblad: Hälften Av Någonting (Half of Nothing)
Objekt 2
Pogus Productions/1998
electronic music: Rune Lindblad; composition year: 1970; time: 6:39

Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials 
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
voices, tapes: Joan La Barbara; premiered at The American Center for Students and Artists, Paris, France, October 1980; time: 14:16
*SET FIVE on WMUA version

SET FIVE*
Mari Kimura: Subharmonic Partita 
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
violin: Mari Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks and Systems II, composition year: 2005; time: 2:45 

Keeril Makan: Mu
Afterglow
Mode Records/2013
violin: Erik Carlson; recorded at Oktaven Studio, Yonkers, New York; May 2011; composition year: 2007; time: 3:10

Andrea Borghi: Laminare
Musica per Nastra (Tape Music)
Spectropol/2012
tape collage: Andrea Borghi; composition year: 2010; time: 3:40

Frank Pahl: Hammers & Dampers
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
prepared piano: Frank Pahl; daxophone: Eleanor Schmitt; composition year: 2006; time: 2:23

Matthew Burtner: Slow 2:3 (In Noise) (from Polyrhythmicana)
NOISE Plays Burtner
Innova Recordings/2013
saxophone: Matthew Burtner; computer: Nathan Brock; ensemble NOISE (flute: Lisa Cella, cello: Franklin Cox, guitar: Colin McAllister, piano: Christopher Adler, percussion: Morris Palter); recorded at UCSD Studio A; composition year: 2002; time: 4:00

Harry Partch: The Letter
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 2
New World Records/2004 (orig. CRI/1997)
 intoning voice, text, Omicron Belly Drum: Harry Partch; New Kithara I, Surrogate Kithara: David Dunn; Harmonic Canon II: Dennis Dunn; Omnicron Belly Drum: Dennis Dunn; dubbed-in interludes from 1950 recording: Harry Partch, Ben Johnston, Betty Johnston, Donald Pippin; composition years: 1943, 1972; time: 2:48

Mari Kimura: Caprice 6 (from Six Caprices for Subharmonics)
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
violin: Mari Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks and Systems II, composition year: 1997; time: 2:43 
*SET FOUR on WMUA version

SINGLE PLAY*
Bang On A Can: Cheating, Lying, Stealing (D. Lang)
Classics
Cantaloupe Music/2002
composer: David Lang; The Bang On a Can All-Stars (cello: Maya Beiser; double bass: Robert Black; piano, keyboards: Lisa Moore; percussion: Steven Schick; electric guitar: Mark Stewart; clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone: Evan Ziporyn); recorded at the Hit Factory, New York City, October 1995; composition year: 1993; time: 10:30 
*TAINT Radio version only

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for October 6-7, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
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21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 6, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
October 7, 2013 Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Charles Ives: Two Little Flowers
The Light That is Felt -- Songs of Charles Ives
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman; text: Harmony Twichell Ives;  recorded at the Recital Hall, SUNY, Purchase, March 2008; composition year: 1921; time: 1:21

John Luther Adams: The Light That Fills the World
The Light That Fills the World
Cold Blue Music/2002
bass clarinet: Marty Walker; vibraphone, marimba: Amy Knoles; piano: Bryan Pezzone; violin: Robin Lorentz; double bass: Barry Newton; electric keyboard, sound design: Nathaniel Reichman; recorded at Architecture studios, Los Angeles, August 2002; composition years: 1998-2001; time: 12:58

SET TWO
Iannis Xenakis: Mists
Works for Piano
Mode Records/1999
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at Digital Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon Institute, March 1998; composition year: 1980; time: 12:51

Xenakis dedicated to Gretchen P.

Matthew Burtner: Mists
Portals of Distortion
Innova Recordings/1999
for computer noise controller and stone trio; composition year: 1995; time: 4:26

Matthew Burtner: from Polyrhythmicana 
a. Metal XY (1:30)
b. Split/Joined Diamonds (in Wood) (1:41)
c. C Acceleration Phase (2:24)
NOISE Plays Burtner
Innova Recordings/2013
saxophone: Matthew Burtner; computer: Nathan Brock; NOISE (flute: Lisa Cella; violin: Mark Menzies; cello: Franklin Cox; guitar: Colin McAllister; piano: Christopher Adler; percussion: Morris Palter); recorded at UCSD Studio A, San Diego; composition year: 2002; total excerpts time: 5:30

SET THREE
Aldo Clementi: Passacaglia 
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; recorded at the Sound and Architecture Laboratory, Foundation School of San Giorgio, Venice; tape realized at the Real Time Center, Florence; composition year: 1988; time: 11:50

Alvin Curran: 
a. Introduction to Maritime Rites concerts (Rattlesnake Mountain) (1:27)
b. Rattlesnake Mountain (Pauline Oliveros) (10:46) 
Maritme Rites
New World Records/2004
accordion: Pauline Oliveros; field recordings: whistle buoy (Robinson's Rock, Penobscot Bay, Maine), three-toned gong (Camden, Maine), foghorns (Rockland Harbor, Maine); voice: Karen McLean, Lighthouse Keeper, U.S. Coastguard (Doubling Point, Maine); accordion composition year (Rattlesnake Mountain: 1982); original production year (Maritime Rites concerts): 1985; time w/ intro: 11:14

SET FOUR
ZWERM electric guitar quartet: 
a. Underwater Princess Waltz (A. Curran) (1:29)
b. Her Waltzing with Her (A. Curran) (2:39)
Underwater Princess Waltz [various artists]
A Collection of One-Page Pieces
New World Records/2013
composer: Alvin Curran; guitars: Johannes Westendorp, Toon Callier; recorded at Artcity DeSingel, Antwerp, Belgium, April 2013; composition year: 1972; total excerpts time: 4:08

Warren Burt: from Poems of Rewi Alley
a. To Make a Machine (4:02)
b. Kashgar, 1957 (1:02)
c. Santai Morning (0:56)
d. A Communist Mother (0:52)
Poems of Rewi Alley
Sonic Gallery/2006
reader: John Britton; electronic musical setting: Warren Burt; texts: Rewi Alley; recorded at Move Records Studio, Melbourne Australia Asia Foundation, 2006; total excerpts time: 6:52

Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Cuban Lawyer, Juan Blanco
Electroacoustic Music IX [various artists]
Electroshock Records/2004
electroacoustic music: Vivian Adelberg Rudow; voice: Juan Blanco (from Portraits of Lawyers); composition year: 2000; time: 5:27

SET FIVE
Juan Blanco: Cirkus Toccato
Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings/2013
electroacoustic music: Juan Blanco; congas: Tata Güines; timbales: Guillermo Barreto; composition year: 1984; time: 12:47

Panóptica: Aguasnegras en Dub
Frontier Life (Banda Sonora) [various artists]
Accretions Records/2003
electronic music: Roberto Mendoza; time: 6:50

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba X
Desde El Otro Lado [various artists]
Electroacoustic Music from Latin America
O.O. Discs/1998
electroacoustic music: E. Reck Miranda; composition year: 1995; time: 2:40

SET SIX
Jin Hi Kim: Self Portrait
Komungo
O.O. Discs/2001
komungo: JHK; recorded at Western Front, Vancouver, BC, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 6:20

Jin Hi Kim & Gerry Hemingway: Double Portraits
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungo: JHK; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, August 18, 2009; time: 9:51

Jin Hi Kim to perform solo komungo at the Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 9, 2013.  Free Admission.

SET SEVEN
Benjamin Boretz: Group Variations II for Computer
Open Space 5 (Boretz/Randall)
Open Space/1993
computer music realized at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton University, 1967-1970; re-recorded by Paul Lansky, 1993; time: 12:00

In celebration of B. Boretz's 79th birthday, October 3, 2013

Paul Lansky: The Chatter of Pins
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007
computer music: Paul Lansky; voice: Hannah MacKay; text: A Paper of Pins (English Folksong); composition year: 2006; time: 11:18

Paul Lansky: Looking Back*
Ride
Bridge Records/2000
computer music: Paul Lansky; composition year: 1996; time: 3:33
*TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for September 22-23, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
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September 22, 2013

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September 23, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
(Final update: 23:37 -- 9/22/13)

SET ONE
George Crumb: The Phantom Gondolier
Makrokosmos I & II
Mode Records/2004
piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July 2003; composition years: 1972-1973; time: 2:49

John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion Records/1994
prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 1993; composition year: 1945; time: 8:51

Jin Hi Kim: Dancing in the Deep Blue Sea
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
komungo: Jin Hi Kim; daxophone: Hans Reichel; accordion: Rudiger Carl; performed for Hans Reichel's Stadtsparkasse Award Ceremony, Wuppertal, Germany; time: 9:45

SET TWO
Malcolm Goldstein: Soundings II
Live at Fire in the Valley
Eremite Records/1999
violin sounding, voice: Malcolm Goldstein; recorded at Fire in the Valley, Unitarian Meeting House, Amherst, Massachusetts; July 26, 1997; time: 2:44

Zwerm electric guitar quartet: The Red and White Cows (D. Goode)
Underwater Princess Waltz -- A Collection of One-Page Pieces
New World Records/2013
composer: Daniel Goode; samples: Johannes Westendorp; steel strings; Bruno Nelisson; guitar: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe; voice-over: Thomas Moore; vocal: Toon Callier; text: Daniel Goode (after J.V. Pennington); recorded at Artcity deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium, April 2013; composition year: 1979; time: 6:41

Phillip Kent Bimstein: A Little Bit About My Cows
Garland Hirschi's Cows
Starkland Records/1996
sampled voice: Garland Hirschi; sampler: PKB; recorded at Kinesva Studios, Springdale, Utah, composition year: 1990; time: 2:46

Arie Shapira: Bandi Grosz (Scene 7)
The Kastner Trial
Arie Shapira/1994
[An electronic opera in thirteen scenes) electroacoustic music: Arie Shapira;  performers: Gil Alon, Idit Even-Danan, Na'ama Ganot, Zachi Har-Nevo, Arik Lavie, Karen Rosenbaum, Zohar Sheffi; text: transcripts from the Kastner trial; composition year: 1991-1994; scene time: 5:46

Peter Zummo and Tom Hamilton: Raging Ions
Slybersonic Tromosome
Penumbra Music/2000
synthesizer, electronics: Tom Hamilton; trombones, wind instruments: Peter Zummo; time: 6:47

SET THREE
David Behrman: Letter from Siegfried Sassoon, September 1, 1939
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
voices: Thomas Buckner, Eric Barsness, Maria Ludovichi; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuleson; trombone: Peter Zummo; keyboards, electronics: David Behrman; effects, engineering: Tom Hamilton; text: letter to Sam Behrman from Siegfried Sassoon; composition year: 2005; time: 11:48

John Young: selections from Ricordiamo Forli
a. Pippo (1:40)
b. A Little Italian Farm (3:00)
c. Interlude 2 -- Florence (1:48
d. Forli -- November 1944 (4:00)
Lieu-Temps
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
electroacoustic music: John Young; realized at the Music Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 2005; additional recordings from WWII war correspondents, BBC Archives, Radio New Zealand Archives; premiered on Radio New Zealand's ConcertFM program, July 25, 2006; total excerpts time: 11:00

SET FOUR
Robert Scott Thompson: Elemental Folklore
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
electroacoustic music: RST; composition year: 1996; time: 15:11

Yves Beaupré: Prélude démesuré (Disproportionate Prelude)*
Humeur de Facteur
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
electroacoustic music: Yves Beaupré; recorded at the composer's studio, Montreal, 1998-199; time: 3:16
*TAINT Radio version only

SET FIVE
Paul H. Muller: Safe Transit
Sunbreak
Ventura Contemporary Music/2013
electronic music: Paul H. Muller; time: 5:13

J.C. Combs: Earthlight
Gazing
Spectropol/2013
piano, processing: J.C. Combs; recorded at the composer's studio, Seattle, 2013; time: 1:51

Joel Taylor: Twilight's Shadow Play
Night Stories
Spectropol/2013
electronic music: Joel Taylor; time: 6:44

Elodie Lauten: Alien Heart
Piano Works
Unseen Worlds/2010
piano, sequencers, sound loops: Elodie Lautin; composition year: 1983; time: 6:34

SET SIX
John Cage: Souvenir
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at the Nederluleå Church, Gammelstad, Luleå, Sweden, 2007; composition year: 1984; time: 6:50

Henri Pousseur: Figures enlacées
Electronic, Experimental, and Microtonal Works 1953-1999
Sub Rosa/2008
manualiter organ: Henri Pousseur; composition year: 1999; time: 5:23

Jerry Hunt: Chimanzzi: Link [2] (excerpt)
Haramand Plane -- Three Translation Links
Pogus Productions/2013 (orig. What Next? CD/1995)
electronic process music: Jerry Hunt; recorded at the composer's studio, Waco, TX, 1993; composition year: 1993; excerpt time: 9:00

SET SEVEN
Barton McLean: Ice Canyons*
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
keyboards, computer, "Composer's Playpen" software: Barton McLean; recorded at the composer's studio, Petersburg, New York, composition year: 2010; time: 8:23
*Taint Radio version only

Maggi Payne: Crystal
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
flute, synthesizers, electronics: Maggi Payne; recorded at CCM, Mills College, Oakland, composition year: circa 1986; time: 9:58


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Martian Gardens for September 15-16, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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September 15, 2013

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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
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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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