Martian Gardens for November 3-4, 2013

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November 3, 2013

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November 4, 2013 Host: Max Shea

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PLAYLIST

FUND DRIVE WEEK, NO REGULAR SET LIST

SELECTIONS PLAYED

Neil Rolnick: Gardening at Gropius House
Gardening at Gropius House
Innova Recordings/2013
violin solo: Todd Reynolds; Alarm Will Sound orchestra, conductor: Alan Pierson; laptop: Neil Rolnick; recorded at the Recital Hall of the National Opera Center, New York City, June 13-14, 2013; composition year: 2012; time: 30:02

Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room (excerpts)
I Am Sitting in a Room
Lovely Music, Ltd./1990 (orig. LP 1970)
voice and tape: Alvin Lucier; recorded at the Electronic Music Studio of Brandeis University, 1969; total excerpts time: 9:45

Alvin Lucier: Exploration of the House
Orchestra Works
New World Records/2013
(for orchestra and playback); quotations from Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124, Beethoven, composition year: 1822; The Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Peter Kotik; recorded in the House of Culture, Ostrava, Czech Republic; August 23, 2005; composition year: 2005; time: 24:21

John Cage: The Ten Thousand Things
The Ten Thousand Things
Microfest Records/2013
narrator: John Cage; prepared piano: Vicki Ray; prepared piano: Aron Kallay; double bass: Tom Peters; percussion: William Winant; Cage's narration recorded at UCLA, 1962; other instruments for The Ten Thousand Things recorded at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles, Mills College in Oakland, Second Story Studios in Venice, CA, and Private Island Trax, Hollywood, CA; engineer: John Schneider (except Matt Snyder at Private Island Trax); recorded 2008-2012; composition years: 1954, 1955, 1956; time: 45:00
 

George Crumb: Black Angels -- Thirteen Images from the Dark Land
a. Night of the Electric Insects (1:29)
b. Sounds of Bones and Flutes (0:39)
c. Lost Bells (0:47)
d. Devil Music (1:21)
e. Danse Macabre (1:01)
f. Pavana Lachrymae (Der Tod und das Mädchen) (0:53)
g. Black Angels (2:23)
h. Sarabanda de la Muerte Oscura (0:52)
i. Lost Bells (Echo) 1:52
j. God-Music (2:36)
k. Ancient Voices (0:36)
l. Ancient Voices (Echo) (0:43)
m. Night of the Electric Insects (3:03)
Black Angels; Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
Cuarteto Latinoamericano with members of the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; Carnegie Mellon School of Music Alumni Concert Hall and Recording Studio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February-April, 2003; composition year: 1970; time: 17:57

Steven Mackey: A Matter of Life and Death
Open Space 4 (Mackey/Randall)
Open Space/1993
piano, amplified piano: Elizabeth DiFelice; composition year: 1987; time: 9:55

Steven Mackey: A Matter of Life and Death (parts III & IV)
Open Space 4 (Mackey/Randall)
Open Space/1993
amplified piano: Steven Mackey; recorded at Princeton University, May 1987; composition year: 1987; time: 3:40

Amy Horvey: Sfumato (from Música invisible, part IV) (C. Arditto)
Interview
actuellecd.com/2009
composer: Cecilia Arditto;  trumpet, flugelhorn, vocalizations: Amy Horvey; recorded in Montreal, August 2009, composition year: 2005 (commissioned by Amy Horvey); excerpt time: 4:11


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Martian Gardens for October 26-27, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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October 27, 2013

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webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
October 28, 2013 Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
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PLAYLIST
(Last update: 22:37 EDT, Oct. 27, 2013)

SINGLE PLAY 
Zwerm: tween (k-tood #2) (L. Polansky)
Underwater Princess Waltz -- A Collection of One-Page Pieces
New World Records/2013
composer: Larry Polansky; guitars: Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Toone Callier; recorded in Antwerp, April 2013; composition year: 2002; time: 6:21

SET ONE
Bill Alves: Concerto for Violin and Gamelan, part 2
Mystic Canyon  
Microfest Records/2013
violin: Susan Jensen; The HMC American Gamelan; composition year: 2008; excerpt time: 9:21

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: She Wore Red Shoes
Detours
Unseen Worlds/2012
piano, electronics: BGT; recorded at the Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, California, February 20, 2005; composition year: 2004; time: 11:27

SET TWO
Claire Chase: Vermont Counterpoint (S. Reich)
Density
Claire Chase/2013
(composer: Steve Reich, for 11 flutes); piccolos, flutes, alto flutes: Claire Chase; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers; composition year: 1982; time: 9:36

Bruno Maderna: Musica su due demensioni 
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
(for flute and tape); flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; sound direction: Alvise Vidolin; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1958; time: 11:18

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage/David Tudor: Indeterminacy #4*
(concerning Christian Wolff)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. Folkways LP/1959)
voice, text: John Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; composition year: 1958; time: 1:00
*TAINT Radio version only

SET THREE
Christian Wolff: Track Five
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, texts: Chris Mann; guitars: Larry Polansky; piano, bass, percussion, melodica: Christian Wolff; computer, electronics, recording: Douglas Repetto; recording, editing, processing: Tom Erbe; recorded in Hanover, New Hampshire, January and April, 1998; time: 4:27

John Cage: The Ten Thousand Things (1st 1/13)
The Ten Thousand Things
Microfest Records/2013
narrator: John Cage; prepared piano: Vicki Ray; prepared piano: Aron Kallay; double bass: Tom Peters; percussion: William Winant; Cage's narration recorded at UCLA, 1962; other instruments for The Ten Thousand Things recorded at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles, Mills College in Oakland, Second Story Studios in Venice, CA, and Private Island Trax, Hollywood, CA; engineer: John Schneider (except Matt Snyder at Private Island Trax); recorded 2008-2012; composition years: 1954, 1955, 1956; excerpt time: 15:00

SET FOUR
Jacques Tremblay: Espresso espressivo
Chroniques d'une séduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
(electroacoustic music); realized at the composer's studio in Montreal 2003-2004; premiered at Rien à voir (15) concert series presented by Réseaux, Espace GO, Montreal, February 11, 2004; time: 12:30

J.C. Combs: Unrelated
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
electroacoustic music created for Improv Friday, March 2009; time: 3:34

Sarah Boothroyd: Some Sort of Dark Force
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
voice, text, electronics: Sarah Boothroyd; composition year: 2006; time: 4:55

SET FIVE
Trio PAJ: Bandonéon Mix
Live at MC:2 Grenoble
Mode Records/2013
bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, bandoneon: Michel Portal; drums, marimba, percussion: Roland Auzet; live electronics, machines: Pierre Jodlowski; recorded at MC:2 Jazz Festival, Grenoble, France, April 3, 2010; time: 6:09

Roland Auzet: Mecano1 (P. Jodlowski)
Percussion (s)
Mode Records/2008
composer: Pierre Jodlowski; percussion, machines: Roland Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, Paris; composition year: 2004; time: 6:37

Shu Cheng Wu: Wondering Beyond
Measures of Change [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios (U. of Ill. Urbana Champaign)/2011
electroacoustic music: Shu Cheng Wu; composition year: 2011; time: 6:23

Matthew Burtner: Sxape (from [dis] Sensus)
NOISE Plays Burtner
Innova Recordings/2013
saxophone: Matthew Burtner; computer: Nathan Brock; ensemble NOISE; composition year: 2008; time: 3:57

SET SIX
Diane Labrosse: Printers
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd.com/2007
(for computer printers and ensemble); violin: Marie-Soleil Bélanger; flute, toy trumpet: Jean Dereome; electric guitar: Bernard Falaise; clarinet: Lori Freeman; accordion: Diane Labrosse; viola: Jean René; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; recorded in Montreal, 2007; time: 6:14

Alvin Lucier: Slices (2nd 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

SINGLE PLAY
Julia Wolfe: LAD, part 2
Dark Full Ride
Cantaloupe Music/2009
(for nine bagpipes); bagpipes: Matthew Welch; recorded at St. Peters Episcopal Church, New York City; composition year: 2007; time: 8:48

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for October 20-21, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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October 20, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
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

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Martian Gardens for October 13-14, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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WMUA 91.1 FM
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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

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Martian Gardens for October 6-7, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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21:00--24:00 EDT
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October 6, 2013

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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
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 22, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
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

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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