Martian Gardens for December 15-16, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 15, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date:December 15, 2013
Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Laurie Spiegel: Drums
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
(for computer) realized at Bell Labs, March 1975; time: 7:07

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Cruising Speed (from Travel Diary) (P. Lansky)
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
composer: Paul Lansky; percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010; composition year: 2007; time: 4:15

SET TWO
John Luther Adams: Triadic Iteration Lattices
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
(for 4 air-raid sirens) Percussion Group Cincinnati;  recorded at the Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, November 1998; composition year: 1997; time: 7:42

John Luther Adams: Inuksuit 4
Inuksuit
Cantaloupe Records/2013
(for percussion, air-raid sirens, and environmental sounds) percussion group led by Douglas Perkins; recorded in the woods at Guilford, Vermont; composition year: 2009; time: 9:33

Edgard Varèse: Ionisation 
The Varèse Album
Wounded Bird/2007 (orig. LP Sony/1972)
(for 13 percussionists, with high and low pitched sirens, and lion's roar) The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Robert Craft; composition years: 1929-1931; time: 4:13

SET THREE
Jorge Antunes: Canção da paz
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for baritone voice, piano, and tape) voice: Leonardo Neiva; piano: Deyvison Miranda; recorded at the National Theater of Brasilia, Brazil, March 20, 2010; composition year: 1965; time: 6:29

Arie Shapira: Gideon Kleins Marterstraße
Different Compositions 1967-20003
Arie Shapira/2003
voice: Arie Shapira; piano: Uriel Tzachor; violin: Carmela Leiman; clarinet: Ilan Schul; composition year: 1977; time: 3:24

Gideon Klein: Polovina Života (The Middle of Life) 
[from Tri Pisne -- Three Songs]
Spiritual Resistance -- Music from Theresienstadt [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009
baritone: Wolfgang Holzmair; piano: Russell Ryan; text: Friedrich Hölderlin; recorded at the Music Room, Caramoor Arts Center, Katonah, New York, March 30-31, 2008; composition year: 1940; time: 2:54

Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
soprano: Susan Botti; piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 4, 1997; composition year: 1990; time: 4:45

Bruno Maderna: Serenata per un satellite 
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
flutes: Louisella Batteon, Roberto Fabbriciani; arr. Fabbriciani; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1969; time: 5:17

SET FOUR
Barry Truax: The Shaman Ascending
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe) [various artists]
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
(electroacoustic music) realized at the composer's studio and the Sonic Research Studio, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2004-2005; time: 15:45

Trevor Wishart: Red Bird (A political prisoner's dream) [excerpt]
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
(for voices, environmental sounds, and processing) recorded at York University Electronic Music Studio, 1973-1977; excerpt time: 6:00

SET FIVE
Liam O'Gallagher: Border Dissolve in Audiospace
10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces
Other Minds/2003 (orig. LP 1975)
voice, telephony: Liam O'Gallagher; composition year: 1970; time: 12:43

Timothy Leary: What do you turn on when you turn on?
You Can be Anyone This Time Around
Rykodisc/1992 (orig. LP Douglas Records/1970)
" rap" monologue: Dr. Timothy Leary;  music uncredited; time: 6:36

Lydia Kavina: Free Music #1 (P. Grainger)
Music from the Ether -- Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/1999
(composer: Percy Grainger; for four Theremins); Theremins: Lydia Kavina: recorded at Baby Monster Studios, New York City, May 31, 1997; composition year: 1936; time: 1:22

SET SIX
Matthew Burtner: Snowprints
NOISE Plays Burtner
Innova Recordings/2013
saxophone: Matthew Burtner; computer: Nathan Brock; NOISE (flute: Lisa Cella; cello: Franklin Cox; piano: Christopher Adler); recorded at the University of California San Diego, Studio A; composition year: 2001; time: 15:36

Ellen Band: Swinging Sings
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2001
violin: Ellen Band; RAAD electric violin: Adele Armin; composition year: 1992; time: 12:02

SET SEVEN
Bilting/Karkowski: Als der Himmel Brannte (As the Sky Burned)
Phauss-Karkowski-Bilting
Silent Records/1992
(computer music) realized by Zbigniew Karkowski  and Ulf Bilting at the Computer Music Studio at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1990; time: 7:22 

In memory of Zbigniew Karkowski (March 14, 1958 – December 12, 2013)

Alexei Borisov: 
a. Dense Drift (5:39)
b. Blue Vinyl (2:29)
Polished Surface of a Table
Electroshock Records/2004
electronic music: Alexei Borisov; mastered by Edward Antonenko at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, November 2003; total time: 7:07

SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird (A political prisoner's dream) [excerpt]
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
(for voices, environmental sounds, and processing) recorded at York University Electronic Music Studio, 1973-1977; excerpt time: 2:00


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Martian Gardens for December 8-9, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 8 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date:December 9, 2013
Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update: December 8, 2013 @ 23:40)

SET ONE
Fishers O'Wufmen: Okami Yasha
Fishers O'Wufmen
Frank Pahl/2013
keyboards, harp, melodica, clarinet, voice: Frank Pahl; synthesizers, bird calls: Dennis Palmer; drums, horn: Bob Stagner; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan, April 2012; time: 5:24

Elaine Barkin: Poem
Open Space 16 [various artists]
Open Space/2004
UCLA Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conductor: Thomas Lee; composition year: 1999; time: 4:53

Yvar Mikhashoff: Quest (J. Cage)
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: John Cage) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1935; time: 1:10

Noah Creshevsky: Canto di Malavita (excerpt 2)
Hyperrealism in Music
Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky 1992-2005
Noah Creshevsky/2005
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 2002; time: 1:00 

Yvar Mikhashoff: Souvenir -- Portrait of Paul Bowles (V. Thomson)
Panorama of American Piano Music [various artists]
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Virgil Thomson) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1935; time:0:58

DJ Spooky: Being Black
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk
Bridge Records/2009
electronics: Paul Miller; voice, text: Ursula Rucker; time: 1:13

Yvar Mikhashoff:  Tora! Tora! Tora! 
(Makrokosmos Vol. 2 - VIII) (G. Crumb)
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: George Crumb) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1973; time: 2:28

ETHEL String Quartet: Movement 3 (D. Byron)
(from String Quartet No. 2: Four Thoughts on Marvin Gaye) 
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
(composer: Don Byron) ETHEL (violins: Cornelius Dufallo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson); recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, New Jersey; June 2010; composition year: 2006); time: 2:06

Yvar Mikhashoff: Dance (S. Paulus) 
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Stephen Paulus) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1987; time: 2:03

SET TWO
Frank Zappa: 
a. Food Gathering in Post-Industrial America, 1992 (2:52)
b. Welcome to the United States (6:19)
The Yellow Shark
Barking Pumpkin/1993
Ensemble Modern, conductor: Frank Zappa; recorded at Alte Opera, Frankfurt, September 1992; composition year: 1992; total time: 8:11

In fond memory of Frank Zappa 
(December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993)

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

In celebration of Alvin Curran's 75th birthday
(b. December 13, 1938)

SET THREE
Richard Teitelbaum: In the Accumulate Mode
Piano Plus -- Piano Music 1963 -- 1998
New World Records/2013
Digital Piano System (three computer-assisted pianos): Richard Teitelbaum; recorded at the San Francisco Exploratorium, 1982; composition year: 1982; time: 14:13

Xenia Pestova: An Wem -- Notes from Underground (D. Hurst)
Shadow Piano
Innova Recordings/2013
(composer: Derek Hurst, for toy piano and electronics) toy piano: Xenia Pestova; recorded at Streetlight Sound, Somerville, Massachusetts; composition year: 2007; time: 5:48

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Omega (3:52)*
b. Thalleïn (18:33)
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), conductor: Steven Schick; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California, San Diego, January 2010; composition year: 1984; time: 18:31
*WMUA version only

SET FOUR
Mel Powell: Events for Tape Recorder
Music for Electronic and Older Instruments
(Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell)
CRI/1968 (CD transfer via New World Records/2011)
(for magnetic tape and voices) voices: Mildred Dummock, Lee Bowman, Martha Scott; composition year: 1963; time: 6:56

Mary Lee Roberts: White Writing
I. Bird (1:51)
II. Night Foxes (3:59)
6 Compositions/Open Space 9
Open Space/1997
(for computer) mastered at NYU Sonic Solutions, New York University, 1997; total time: 5:50

Neil B. Rolnick: Macedonian AirDrumming
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
(for MIDI performance system and AirDrums) performer: Neil Rolnick; recorded in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1990; composition year: 1990; time: 8:10

SET FIVE
Marco Oppedisano: Mechanical Uprising
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
electric guitars, electric bass, processing, samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 8:11

Philip Mantione: Deadman Overlook
Salvatore
Petroglyph Music/2013
electronic sounds realized on car stereos, Mullholland  Drive, California; composition year: 2012; time: 9:56

SET SIX
Alvin Lucier: Carbon Copies
Still and Moving Lines
Pogus Productions/2013
(for saxophone, flute, piano, and playback) performed by DECIBEL (flute: Cat Hope, saxophone: Lindsay Vickery, piano: Stuart James, electronic playback: Malcolm Riddoch); recorded at the Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth; composition year: 1989; time: 18:29

Matthew Burtner: (dis) Sensus (excerpts)
a. Dissensus (0:31)
b. Sxape (3:57)
c. Modification 1 (0:24)
d. Modification 2 (0:37)
e. Sensus (1:35)
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; percussion: Morris Palter); recorded at the University of San Diego, Studio A; composition year: 2008; total excerpts time: 7:14

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Martian Gardens for December 1 & 23, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 1, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date: December 23, 2013
Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
 
SET ONE
Iannis Xenakis: O-Mega
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
(for percussion & ensemble) percussion: Steven Schick; International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, January 2010; composition year: 1997; time: 3:52

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Percussion, Opus 14 (J. Beyer)
Restless, Endless, Tactless 
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
(composer: Johanna Beyer) percussion: Todd Meehan, Doug Perkins; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Glennis McRary Music Building, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, December 15, 2009; composition year: 1939; time: 3:17

SET TWO
Yvar Mikhashoff: Little House I Used to Live In (Introduction)  
Panorama of American Piano Music (boxed set)
From Antheil to Zappa 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Frank Zappa) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1970; time: 3:15

Fishers O'Wufmen: Loup Garou
Fishers O'Wufman
Frank Pahl/2013
keyboards, piano, siren, harp, melodica, ukulele, voice: Frank Pahl; synthesizers, bird calls: Dennis Palmer; drums, horn, ukulele; Bob Stagner; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan, April 2012; time: 5:07

Pahl-Mer: Player Piano Flu
Pahl-Mer
Frank Pahl/2013
ruined player piano with hi-speed motors and microcontroller sequencer on strings, piano overdub: Frank Pahl; synthesizers, samples: Dennis Palmer

Ross Bolleter: Unfinished Business
Crow Country
Pogus Productions/2000
ruined bar piano exposed to the elements: Ross Bolleter; recorded at Nallan Sheep Station, Western Australia, July 1987; mastered at Goodshit Studios, Perth, Australia, September 1987; time: 11:15

SET THREE
Richard Teitelbaum: Intersections
Piano Plus -- Piano Music 1963-1998
New World Records/2013
piano: Frederic Rzewski; recorded at CBC, Toronto, 1965; composition year: 1963; time: 5:53

Yvar Mikhashoff: Four Piano Pieces No. 4 (F. Rzewski)
Panorama of American Piano Music (boxed set)
From Antheil to Zappa 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Frederic Rzewski) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1977; time: 3:15

Ursula Mamlok: Love Song of Two Pigeons
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Garrick Ohlson; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 27, 2007; composition years: 1991, 1993; time: 0:56

Ursula Mamlok: Three Bagatelles
I. Grazioso (0:38)
II. Very calm (1:08)
III. Playful (1:08)
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 4
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Holger Groschopp; recorded at Berlin Gärtnerstraße, September 2012; composition year: 1987; total time: 2:56

SET FOUR
Steven Ricks: Boundless Light
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
(for solo flute and electronics) flute: Carlton Vickers; premiered at Brigham Young University, October 9, 2004; composition year: 2003; time: 8:07

Bang On A Can All-Stars: from Four Player Piano Studies  
a. Study 3C (3:24)
b. Study 11 (3:29)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2012
(composer: Conclon Nancarow; arranger: Evan Ziporyn) Bang On A Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate, bass: Robert Black, piano: Vicky Chow, percussion: David Cossin, guitar: Mark Stewart, reeds, gongs: Evan Ziporyn) recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010; composition years: 1948-1960; Ziporyn arrangement: 2010; total excerpt time: 6:53

Bang On A Can All-Stars: from Life  
(with film by Marijke van Warmerdam) 
a. Part III: In the distance (1:30)
b. Part IV: Light (2:15)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2012
(composer: Louis Andriessen) Bang On A Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate, bass: Robert Black, piano: Vicky Chow, percussion: David Cossin, guitar: Mark Stewart, reeds, gongs: Evan Ziporyn) recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010; composition year: 2009; total excerpt time:3:45

SET FIVE
Viv Corringham: Town with Sea
Walking
Innova Recordings/2013
vocals, interviews, field recordings; Viv Corringham; recorded in Porto, Portugal; composition years: 2009-203; time: 9:35

Steven Naylor: Bitter Orchids
Lieux Imaginaires 
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music, field recordings) source materials recorded in Chiang Mai marketplace, Thailand, 1990; realized at the University of Birmingham Electroacoustic Music Studios, UK, 2000; premiered at the MET Concert Series, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, December 9, 2000; composition year: 2000; time: 11:17

SET SIX
Morton Feldman: from Three Voices
a. a non accented legato (1:15)
b. snow falls (2:24)
c. legato (3:30)
Three Voices for Joan La Barbara
New Albion Records/1989
voices: Joan La Barbara; text: Frank O'Hara ("Wind"), recorded in Los Angeles; composition year: 1982; total excerpts time: 6:09

Mary Lee Roberts: Eusebio Consumed
I. Eusebio reconciled with his passions (5:26)
II. Dialoguing with the Ventana sea nymphs (4:34)
III. Re-birthing, back to the womb (4:02)
6 Compositions/Open Space 9 (Roberts)
Open Space/1997
(computer music) mastered on Sonic Solutions at New York University by Mary Lee Roberts, 1997; total time: 14:02

SET SEVEN
Philip Mantione: Earthquake V1
Salvatore
Philip Mantione/2013
electronic composition based on seismic data gathered from Southern California Earthquake Data Center at CalTech, 3/23/13; time: 10:20

David R. Mooney: Elevation
Interior Landscape
David R. Mooney/2013
field recordings from Pittsburgh: David Mooney; time: 14:06

SINGLE PLAY
Natasha Barrett: Under the Sea Floor (Coring and Strata)
(from the Sub Terra Cycle)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
marine and geological recordings: Natasha Barrett; recorded in a fjord and on a drilling ship at Oslo, Norway;  realized for 10-track tape at the composer's studio, Oslo, 2007-2008; time: 6:30


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Martian Gardens for November 24-25, 2013

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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
November 25, 2013 Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update: 21:21, November 24, 2013)

SET ONE
John Tavener: Threnos
Out of the Night (Pärt/Tavener)
Sony/1999
solo cello: Moray Welsh; recorded at St. George's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge, England, February 1999; composition year: 1990; time: 6:20

In memory of Sir John Tavener (January 28, 1944 - November 12, 2013)

Kitty Brazelton: Motet
Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio 
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band (countertenor, mandolin, y bell: David Bryan; tenor, x bell: John Brauer;  baritone, z bell: Keith Borden; bass, c bell: Mark Lin; cello de bell, conducting: Matte Goeke; extended drum kit, concert bass drum, hammered dulcimer, e bells, small bells: Alex Vittum) laptop, drones, soundtracks, voice, conductor: Kitty Brazelton; Motet text: Eccles. 3:1-8, 15; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, New York; composition year: 2009; time: 7:05

Controlled Bleeding: Awakened Beneath the Ground
Penetration
Third Mind/1992
guitars, keyboards, drums, electronics, vocals: Paul Lemos; keyboards, drums, electronics, percussion, vocals: Chris Moriarty; percussion, tapes, vocals: Joe Papa; recorded in New York City 1990-1992; time: 6:43

SET TWO
Dorota Czerner: Dunes
Open Space 24 (Czerner/Barkin)
Open Space/2009
recitation, text: Dorota Czerner; electronic sound: Benjamin Boretz; recorded in 2009; time: 6:03

Laetitia Sonami: Perfume (M.S. Carnahan)
The Time is Now -- Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan (various artists)
Frog Peak Music/1996
(for voice and electronics); recitation: Laetitia Sonami; recorded at Studio PASS, New York City; time: 4:47

Bill Alves: Mystic Canyon for Violin and Gamelan
Mystic Canyon
Microfest Records/2013
violin: Susan Jensen; The HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; composition year: 2008; time: 5:22

Jody Diamond: Bubaran Bill (for William Colvig)
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
Musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta, Central Java; recorded at Studio 19, the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Indonesia, July 24-25, 2001; composition year: 1984; time: 4:49

SET THREE
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
voice, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusic Festival, Berlin, October 22, 1978; time: 13:18

David Tudor: Neural Networks Plus (excerpt)
The Art of David Tudor 1963-1992
New World Records/2013
live electronics; David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi; recorded in Lisbon, Portugal, June 5, 1994; composition year: 1992; excerpt time 6:42

SET FOUR
John Cage: 
a. A Room (2:48)
b.Totem Ancestor (2:02)
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk (Sendesaal), Frankfurt, Germany; 2001-2002; composition years: a. 1943; b. 1942; total time: 4:50

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 5
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
(for any 42 recordings on magnetic tape, first version, using period jazz records); realization: Michael Barnhart of the Percussion Group Cincinnati; composition year: 1952; time: 3:09

John Cage: Williams Mix
The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage (1958)
Wergo/1994
(magnetic tape collage playback on eight loudspeakers) realization: Earle Brown, John Cage, and David Tudor; recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958; composition year: 1952; time: 4:15 (applause omitted)

Earle Brown: Octet I, for Eight Loudspeakers 
Selected Works 1952-1965
New World Records/2006
(magnetic tape and sound projection) realized as part of  the project Music for Magnetic Tape with John Cage; composition year: 1953; time: 3:22

Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Creshevsky/If, Bwana)
Pogus Productions/2008
(electroacoustic music for violin samples) violin: Mari Kimura; composition year: 2007; time: 5:46

John Cage: Etude 18
Freeman Etudes, Books Three and Four
The Complete Music for Violin, Disc 2
Mode Records/1994
violin: Irvine Arditti; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, Studio I, Frankfurt, Germany, September 13-14, 1993; composition year: 1980; time: 3:06

SET FIVE
Adrian Moore: Fields of Darkness and Light
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music, violin) violin: Darragh Morgan; realized at the composer's studio, 2009-2010, Sheffield, UK; premiered at Clothworkers Centenary Hall, Leeds, UK, April 28, 2010; composition years: 2009, 2010; time: 10:23

Rodrigo Sigal: Tolerance
Electroacoustic Music Vol. VII [various artists]
Electroshock Records/2002
(electroacoustic music, cello) composition year: 2001; time: 11:24

SET SIX
David R. Mooney: Can't get there from here
Interior Landscape
David R. Mooney/2013
field recordings from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; processing: David Mooney; time: 10:10

Robert Scott Thompson: Engraved in Freehand
Play is the Supreme Bricoleur of Frail Transient Constructions 
Aucourant Records/2012
electroacoustic music: RST; time: 7:55

Andrea Borghi: Emissions
Musica Per Nastro (Tape Music)
Spectropol/2012
musique concrete: Andrea Borghi; time: 4:37

SINGLE PLAY
Viv Corringham: Maresia
Walking
Innova Recordings/2013
vocals, field recordings, interviews: Viv Corringham; recorded in Porto, Portugal; time: 8:57

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Martian Gardens for November 17-18, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 10, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
November 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update: 22:50; November 17, 2013)

SET ONE
Brian Eno and David Byrne: Mea Culpa
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Nonesuch Records/2006 (orig. Sire LP/1981)
voices, synthesizers, samples, found objects: Brian Eno, David Byrne; bodhran: Dennis Keeley; recorded in New York City and San Francisco, 1979-1980; time: 4:57 

Polly Moller: Pelen Tan 
Summerland
Silver Wheel Music/1999
voice, flutes, drum programming: Polly Moller; bass: Jordan Avon ; time: 3:30

SET TWO
Guy Klucevsek: 
a. Fez Up (3:59)
b. Reprieve (4:07)
Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse
XI Records/1991
a. accordion: Guy Klucevsek; soprano saxophone: Steve Elson; clarinet: Douglas Wieselman; electric guitar: Douglas Seidel; drums: Bobby Previte; b. accordion Guy Klucevsek; violins: Laura Seaton, Mia Wu; cello: Erik Friedlander; recorded in New York City; total excerpts time: 8:06

Todd Reynolds: 
a. TaskForce -- Farmlab (6:29)
b. Centrifuge (3:03)
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
a. violin, vocals: Todd Reynolds; b. performed by the GuitarBot of the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR), director: Eric Singer; total excerpts time: 9:33

SINGLE PLAY
Bruno Maderna: Honeyrêves
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; piano: Massimilliano Damerini; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1961; time: 4:35

SINGLE PLAY
Pierre Boulez: Rituel in Memoriam Maderna 
Notations
Montaigne/2003
Orchestra National de Lyon, conductor: David Robertson; recorded in the Auditorium Lyon, France,  September 2002; composition years: 1974-1975; time: 26:12

SET THREE
John Cage: Music of Changes III
The Piano Works 6 
Mode Records/2005
piano: Martine Joste; recorded in France 2003-2004; composition year: 1951; time: 10:02

John Cage: selections from Sixteen Dances
VI. Fleeting Images (3:05)
VII. Hero's Dance [heroic] (3:15)
VIII. Jig for John (3:55)
The Works for Piano 9
Mode Records/2013
piano: Jovita Zähl; recorded at Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismark-Saal, Köln, 2012-2013; composition years: 1950-1951; total excerpts time: 10:15

SET FOUR
Richard Teitelbaum: Interlude in Pelog  
Piano Plus
New World Records/2013
Digital Piano System (three computer-assisted pianos); Richard Teitelbaum; recorded at San Francisco Exploratorium, 1982; composition year: 1982; time: 6:08

Xenia Pestova: Being and Becoming (L. Bunk)
Shadow Piano -- Music for Piano/Toy Piano & Electronics 
Innova Recordings/2013
(composer: Lou Bunk; for toy piano and electronics); toy piano: Xenia Pestova; recorded at Streetlight Sound, Somerville, Massachusetts; composition year: 2010; time: 13:47

SET FIVE
Luigi Russolo: Risveglio di una città (Awakening of a City)
Futurism & Dada Reviewed [various artists]
Sub Rosa/1988
(for Intonarumori) reconstructed Intonarumori: Mario Abate and Pietro Verardo; recorded at the Historical Contemporary Art Archive of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1977; composition year: 1913; time: 3:45

David R. Mooney: Noise of the City
Interior Landscape
David Mooney/2013
(composition for field recordings) field recordings: David Mooney; recorded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; composition year: 2013; time: 7:45

R. Weis: East Village Suite (This is Bobby excerpt)
East Village Suite
R. Weis/2013
(composition for sound collage) sound collage: R. Weis; recorded in New York City, early 1980s; excerpt time: 1:00

R. Weis: Casserole Around
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
sampler and samples (glass casserole lid rocking on ceramic casserole; blowing over plastic bottle); recorded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; time: 3:39

Philip Mantione: Larghetto -- Excerpt 1
It's ALIVE!
Philip Mantione/2009
improvisation on hacked electronic devices, amplified metronome, and suspended cymbal: Philip Mantione, Martin Back; recorded at the Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 2008; time: 4:25

Steven Ricks: Irritating one way or another, that is to say keeping us from ossifying 
Steven Ricks CD-R
Steven Ricks/2012
electroacoustic music: Steven Ricks; composed for SEAMUS Electro-Acoustic Miniatures 2012: Re-Caged; time: 3:04

SET SIX
ZWERM guitar quartet: 
a. Mayhem (the hammer) (1:01)
b. Mayhem (the arrow) (1:01)
c. Mayhem (the blade) (1:06)
d. Burdocks, Part VII (7:02)
Underwater Princess Waltz -- A Collection of One-Page Pieces
New World Records/2013
(composers: a,b,c. Nick Didkovsky and Leo Didkovsky; d. Christian Wolff) a,b,c, d: guitars: Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelisson, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Toon Callier; saxophone: Bertel Schollaert, banjo: Toon Callier; drums: Eric Thielemans; recorded at Artcity, DeSingel, Antwerp, Belgium, April 2013: total time: 10:10

Tim Brady: 
a. Vampyr! (5:33)
b. As Softly Sounds (3:12)
GO (Guitar Obsession)
Actuellecd/2006
(composers: a. Tristan Murail; b. Tim Brady) electric guitars: Tim Brady; a. recorded live at Merkin Hall, New York City, October 2002; b. recorded at Studio Bradyworks, Montreal, July 8, 2006; composition years: a. 1986; b. 1984-2006; total time: 8:45

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Martian Gardens for November 10-11, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 10, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
November 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update #22:43, November 10, 2013)

SET ONE 
Anne LeBaron: Wake
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Georg Graewe; harp, percussion: Anne LeBaron; bass: John Lindberg; recorded at Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts; Valencia, California, 2008; time: 12:32

Mathew Rosenblum: Yanah's Dream
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
(for Partch instruments) Newband, conductor: Dean Drummond; recorded at the New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2011; composition year: 2008; time: 8:44

SET TWO
Lori Freedman and John Heward: Improvisation 3
On No On
Mode Records/2013
clarinets: Lori Freedman; drums, percussion: John Heward; recorded at The Pines, Montreal, September 20009; time: 6:26

Lori Freedman: Low Memory #3 (M. Jean)
Bridge
Actuellecd.com/2009
composer: Monique Jean; bass and B-flat clarinets: Lori Freedman; tape, processing: Monique Jean; realized in the composer's studio, Montreal; premiered at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montreal, April 19, 2005; time: 11:46

Alvin Curran: Shofar der Zeit
Shofar Rags
Tzadik/2013
shofar: Alvin Curran; accordion: Arnold Dreyblatt; soprano clarinet: Michael Riesser; recorded at the Studio Spagnoletti, Rome, Italy, 2012; composition years: 1990, 2012; time: 4:03

SET THREE
Lydia Kakabadse: Arabian Rhapsody Suite
I. Marrakesh (3:11)
II. Reverie (4:17)
III. Sultan's Feast (2:20)
The Phantom Listeners
Naxos/2011
violin: Madeleine Easton; viola: Sarah-Jane Bradley; cello: Boizadar Vukotic; double bass: Ben Griffiths; recorded at St. Michael's Church, South Grove, Highgate, London, February 2010; composition years: 2007-2008; total time: 9:48

Elizabeth Brown: Three Arias from "A Bookmobile for Dreamers"
a. Bookmusic
b. Swamp Aria
c. Lullabye
Mirage
New World Records/2013
(for theremin and tape); theremin: Elizabeth Brown; recorded at the Liguria Study Center, Bogliasco, Italy, March 2012; composition year: 2011; time: 6:55

Matthew Burtner: ianopianop (from [dis] Semsus)
NOISE Plays Burtner
Innova Recordings/2013
saxophone: Matthew Burtner; computer: Nathan Brock; ensemble NOISE; recorded at Studio A, UC San Diego; composition year: 2007; time: 4:01

SET FOUR
Bruno Maderna: Cadenza da 'Demensioni III'
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
solo flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1963; time: 4:57

Claire Chase: Density 21.5 (E. Varèse)
Density
Claire Chase/2013
composer: Edgard Varèse) solo flute: Claire Chase; recorded at Oktaven Studio, Yonkers; composition year: 1936; time: 4:14

Edgard Varèse: Octandre
The Varèse Album
Wounded Bird Records/2007 (orig. Sony LP/1972)
(for seven winds and double-bass) The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Robert Craft; composition year: 1923; time: 6:47

Pierre Boulez: selections from Notations
a. Notations IV (1:54)
b. Notations VI (2:06)
Notations
Montaigne/2003
Orchestre National de Lyon; conductor: David Robertson; recorded at the Auditorium Lyon, France, September 2002; composition year: 1980; total excerpts time: 4:00

SET FIVE
Bill Alves: Concerto for Violin and Gamelan, part 4
Mystic Canyon
Microfest Records/2013
violin: Susan Jensen; The HMC American Gamelan, conductor: Bill Alves; composition year: 2008; time: 5:15

John Cage: selections from Sonatas & Interludes
a. Sonata IX (3:58)
b. Sonata X (3:29)
c. Sonata XI (4:11)
Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano
CRI/1995 (orig. Dial LP/1951)
prepared piano: Maro Ajemian; recorded at WOR Studios, New York City, 1950; composition years: 1946-1948; total excerpts time: 11:37

Charity Chan: Films of the Decamarone
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd.com/2009
extended piano, objects: Charity Chan; recorded in Guelph, Ontario, July 2008; composition year: 2008; time: 4:37

Henry Cowell: Antimony
New Music--Piano Compositions by Henry Cowell
New Albion Records/1997
piano: Chris Brown; recorded at Hertz Hall, Berkeley, February 1997; composition year: 1914; time: 3:49

SET SIX
Benjamin Boretz: Argument (from Language ,as a music)
Open Space 10 (Randall/Boretz)
Open Space/1999
piano: Benjamin Boretz; composition year: 1979; time: 6:47

Robert Morris: About the Same
Music of Robert Morris
Albany Records/2005
computer music: Robert Morris; composition year: 1999; time: 14:34

SET SEVEN
Juan Blanco: Loops
Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings/2013
computer music: Juan Blanco; composition year: 1991; time: 9:28

Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music (Randall/Vercoe/Dodge)
Nonesuch Records/1974
computer music: Barry Vercoe; composition year: 1970; time: 4:35

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Martian Gardens for November 3-4, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 3, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
November 4, 2013 Host: Max Shea

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

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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