Martian Gardens for January 19 and 22, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 19, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: January 22, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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


FYI: The WMUA version of Martian Gardens for the UMass Spring 2014 semester (Sunday, January 26 -- Sunday, May 11) will be shortened to two hours and run 10:00 to Midnight.  This is the unfortunate result of an unusually tight programming schedule at WMUA.  I regret the abridgement and hope to have the three hour program restored for the summer session and thereafter.


Thanks to Bob Rogers of TAINT Radio for accommodating my request for an evening slot for Martian Gardens.  Starting this week, MG will move from Monday mornings 9:00 -- Noon to Wednesday evenings 6:00 -- 9:00 on taintradio.org.


Finally, we are prepared to podcast Martian Gardens programs on the WMUA website (wmua.org) so listeners can hear MG at their convenience.  The WMUA technical director and I will be ready to debut the podcasts, I hope, by the end of January, 2014.  I will let you know what I know when I know it.  Stay tuned!

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Goode: Annbling
Annbling
New  World Records/2014
The Flexible Orchestra, Tara Simoncic, conductor; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, May 22, 2013; composition years: 2006, revised 2007; time: 22:53

SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Suite No. 1
a. Avalokiteshvara (2:20)
b. Music for Bill & Me (3:48)
c. Sonata in Am (3:07)
d. Tandy's Tango (3:19)
e. Sonata in Ishartum (1:31)
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
guitars, National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; percussion: J.T. Troy, Gene Sterling (Just Strings group); recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California, July 5, 2004; composition years: 1972, 1992;  total time: 13:05

Lou Harrison: Song of Quetzalcoatl
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group (5 glasses, 5 woodblocks, 5 dragon's mouths, sistrums: William Winant; 5 cowbells, 5 suspended and muted brake drums, wooden rattle: Todd Manley; snare drum, guiro, windglass, triangle, gong, tam-tam: David Rosenthal; 5 tom-toms, contrabass drum: Daniel Kennedy); recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, California, August 1993; composition year: 1941; time: 6:32

SET TWO
Harry Partch: Ring Around the Moon -- A Dance for Here and Now
a. Phase One: Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!) (2:48)
b. Phase Two: One, two, three, four -- X,Y, Zee (2:12)
c. Phase Three: Shake hands now, boys, 
and at the sound of the bell come out fighting! (2:55)
d. Phase Four: Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoit toity...(Look out! He's Got a gun!) (1:26)
[Movement II from Plectra and Percussion Dances -- 
Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater]
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 1
New World Records/2004 (orig. CRI/1997)
Gate Five Ensemble (Sausalito), conductor: Horace Schwartz; recorded in Sausalito, California, 1953 (Instrumentation for Ring Around the Moon: Intoned speaking voice, Adapted Guitar II, Kithara, Harmonic Canon, Chromelodeon I, Chromelodeon Sub-bass, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Marimba Eroica, Diamond Marimba, Bass Marimba), composition year: 1952; time: 9:21

Harry Partch: June 15 -- Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
narration: John Schneider; recorded at Second Story Studios, Venice, California, summer 2010; Bitter Music, Harry Partch's hobo diary, written in 1935; excerpt time: 9:46

SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Palimpsest
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
(for piano & ensemble) International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), conductor: Steven Schick; piano: Cory Smythe (ICE); recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, January 2010;  composition year: 1979; time: 12:11

Yvar Mikhashoff: Suicide in an Airplane (L. Ornstein)
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
composer: Leo Ornstein; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff;  recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, 1991-1992; composition year: 1916; time: 4:42

Mary Ellen Childs: from Wreck
a. First Wave (part 1) (2:04)
b. First Wave (part 2) (3:26)
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2013
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin: Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ultan; percussion: Peter O'Gorman; recorded at Wild Sound Studio, Minneapolis, 2011; composition year: 2011; total time: 5:30

SET FOUR
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Le tombeau des fondeurs
La marée
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(for piano Baschet-Malbos, processing, interactive system, and tape) piano Baschet-Malbos: Sarah Nicholls, electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio and the studios of the University of Huddersfield, UK, 2008; piano Beschet-Malbos recorded at Studio 4'33", Paris, November 24 and 25, 2012; time: 17:02

Dead Voices On Air: Castered Carts
Piss Frond
Invisible Records/1999
electronic music: Mark Spybey, Darryl Neduorf; vocals: Tracy "Sugarpill" Pillsworth; recorded at Miller Block studio, Vancouver, BC, 1998; time: 3:53

SET FIVE
Åke Parmerud: Substring Bridge
Cultures électroniques 18 -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnemosyne Musique Media/2005
(for interactive guitar and computer) guitar: Mats Bergström; realized at the Swedish Institute for National Concerts (IRK), Stockholm, 2002; time: 8:53

Juan Blanco: Espacios V
Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings/2013
electronic music: Juan Blanco; saxophones: Neil Leonard; recorded at the Laboratorio Nacional de Música Electroacústica, Havana, 1993; composition year: 1993; time: 11:41

SINGLE PLAY
Ken Thomson: Perpetual
a. Underlying (6:21)
b. Bad Idea (4:18)*
c. Don Pullen says it's OK (4:42)*
Thaw
Cantaloupe Music/2013
The JACK Quartet; bass clarinet: Ken Thomson; recorded at Flux Studios, New York City, August 2012; composition year: 2010; time: 6:21
* TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for January 12-13, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 12, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date: January 13, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Anton Webern: Variations, op. 27
a. Sehr mäßig (1:54)
b. Sehr schnell (0:42)
c. Ruhig fliessend (3:23)
Webern, Wolpe & Feldman
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Aleck Karis; recorded at Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, March 2013; composition year: 1936; time: 6:00

Stefan Wolpe: Form IV -- Broken Sequences
Webern, Wolpe & Feldman
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Aleck Karis; recorded at Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, March 2013; composition year: 1969; time:4:53

Stefan Wolpe: Passacaglia, op. 23
Wolpe in Jerusalem (1934-1938)
Mode Records/2006
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; recorded at the Philharmonie, Köln, November 2002; composition years: 1936-1937; time: 12:12

SET TWO
Georg Katzer: Aide Memoire (7 Nightmares from the 1000 Year Night)
CMCD (various artists)
Six Classic Concrete, Electroacoustic, and Electronic Works 1970-1990
ReR Megacorp/1991
electroacoustic music sourced from sound documents of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, tapes supplied by the DDR Rundfunks, recorded and mixed at the DDR Rundfunks,  East Berlin, December, 1982; time: 14:00

Shelley Hirsch: I AM A JEW
States
Tellus-Harvestworks/1997
vocal, clapping, text: Shelley Hirsch; recorded at New York University; composition year: 1980; time: 1:04

Christian Calon: from Le projet Ulysse
a. Le parking (3:16)
b. Les retrouvailles (1:53)
Le projet Ulysse (The Ulysses Project)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
vocals: Shelley Hirsch; guitar: René Lussier; electroacoustic music: Christian Calon; recorded in Berlin and Montreal; composition years 1996-2001; total excerpts time: 4:10

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Curran: Crystal Psalms, Part 1
Crystal Psalms
New Albion Records/1994
(for large ensembles, choirs, and pre-recorded sounds) an homage to Kristallnacht, a concert performed by 7 European radio stations, October 20, 1988; remixed by Alvin Curran, 1991; time: 24:00

SINGLE PLAY
Luigi Nono: Canti di vita e d'amore (Sul Ponte di Hiroshima)
Omaggio a Vedova
Wergo/1993
(for soprano, solo tenor, and orchestra); soprano: Slavka Taskova; tenor: Loren Driscoll; Sinfonieorchester des Saarländischen Rundfunks, conductor: Michael Gielen, texts: Gunther Anders, "Hiroshima ist berall," Jess Lopez Pacheco, "Djamila Boupach: Esta Noche," Cesare Pavese, "Tu,"; recorded at Saarländischen Rundfunks; Saarbrücken, Germany; composition year: 1962; time: 17:22

SET THREE
Annea Lockwood: In Our Name
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
baritone: Thomas Buckner; prerecorded voices: Bill Hart and Bruce Odland; cello: Theodore Mook; tape: Annea Lockwood; poems of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay:  "Death Poem," Jumah Al-Dossari (Bahrain), "The Truth," Emad Abdullah Hassan (Yemen), "Is it true," "Osama Abu Kabir (Jordan); didjeridu sample: Stuart Dempster, Didjerilayover; composition year: 2010; time: 11:48

Muslimgauze: Palestine is Our Izlamic Land Parts 1 & 2
Arab Quarter
Staalplaat/1996
percussion, samples, electronics: Bryn Jones (Muslimgauze); recorded at the Abraham Mosque studio, Manchester, UK, 1995-1996; time: 11:30

In commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the untimely death of Bryn Jones (June 7, 1961 -- January 14, 1999)

SET FOUR
David Berezan: Badlands
Allusions Sonores
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic music) sound sources gathered on the prairies of Alberta, Canada; realized at the IMEB studios, Bourges, France, 2008; premiered at the IMEB Synthese Festival, May 30, 2008; time:  10:35

Frances White: Walk through "Resonant Landscape" No. 2
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
(electronic soundscape) sounds recorded in the woods and marshes around Princeton, New Jersey, 1990; sound treatments: Frances White, 1992; time: 9:55

SET FIVE
Amy Denio: La Fa La
Prodigal Light
Spoot Music/2013
voices, percussion: Scott Adams, Amy Denio; recorded for the Immersion Composition Society (ICS), Seattle, April 1, 20102; time: 3:29

Meredith Monk:
a. Click Song #1 (1:58)
b. Click Song #2 (3:44)
Volcano Songs
ECM Records/1997
voice, vocalizations: Meredith Monk; recorded at Clinton Studios, New York City, July 1995; composition year: 1988; time: 5:42

Derome/Goldstein/Wiens: Saturnien
6 Improvisations
Ambiances Magnétiques/2013
alto saxophone, objects, flute: Jean Derome; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; electric guitar, kalimba: Rainer Wiens; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, April 12, 2013; time: 10:15 (WMUA)/excerpt: 2:00 (TAINT Radio)

SINGLE PLAY
Ken Thomson: from Thaw*
a. Hole (5:20)
b. Thaw (10:55)
Thaw
Cantaloupe Music/2013
(for string quartet) The JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); recorded at Flux Studios, New York City, August 2012; composition year: 2011; total excerpts time:16:15
*TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for January 5-6, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 5, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date: January 6, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Wordless
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007
computer music: Paul Lansky; composition year: 2006; time: 2:55

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Horizons
I. Up Close (5:07)
II. Rough Edged (4:43)
III. Vanishing (5:52)
Notes to Self
Bridge Records/2013
(for piano, cello, percussion) Real Quiet (piano: Andrew Russo; cello: Felix Fan; percussion: David Cossin); recorded at the Performing Arts Center, SUNY, Purchase, October 2012; composition year: 2010; total time: 15:55

SET ONE
Annie Gosfield: Wild Pitch
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
(for piano, cello, percussion) Real Quiet (piano: Andrew Russo; cello: Felix Fan; percussion: David Cossin); recorded at Spin Studios, New York City; composition year: 2004; time: 12:42

Ken Thomson: from Thaw
a. Concrete (6:58)
b. Dig (6:44)
Thaw
Cantaloupe Music/2013
The JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); recorded at Flux Studios, New York City, August 2012; composition year: 2011; excerpts time: 13:42

SET TWO
Andrew Lewis: Lexicon
Au-delà
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic music) realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Bangor, Wales, and at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras, Morelia, Mexico, 2012; poem recited by Tom (a 12 year old boy with dyslexia); premiered at MANTIS Fall 2012: Concert 3, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester, UK, October 28, 2012; time: 16:35

Paul Oehlers: Phreximus
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University of Illinois
Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
(electroacoustic music) composition year: 2008; time: 4:05 

SET THREE
Richard Teitelbaum: ...dal niente... (excerpt)
Piano Plus -- Piano Music 1963-1998
New World Records/2013
piano: Aki Takahashi; computer: Richard Teitelbaum; recorded at Kunitachi College of Music Recording Studio, Tokyo, 2001; composition year: 1997; excerpt time: 8:16

Peter Garland: from I have had to learn the simplest things/last
a. I have had to learn the simplest things/last (2:21)
b. I found them like seashells on the beach  (5:53)
Another Sunrise
Mode Records/2003
piano: Aki Takahashi; members of Essential Music (percussion: Maya Gunji, John Kennedy, Charles Wood); recorded at SUNY Purchase, December 1995; composition year: 1993; excerpt time: 7:13

Yvar Mikhashoff: Vertical Thoughts 4 (M. Feldman)
Panorama of American Piano Music (various artists)
from Antheil to Zappa 1911-1991
Mode Records/2013
composer: Morton Feldman; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo; 1991-1992; composition year: 1963; time: 3:36

SET FOUR
Yvar Mikhashoff: Solo (L. Foss)
Panorama of American Piano Music (various artists)
from Antheil to Zappa 1911-1991
Mode Records/2013
composer: Lukas Foss; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo; 1991-1992; composition year: 1981; time: 13:04

Lukas Foss: The Fragments of Archilochos
Echoi/The Fragments of Archilochos/Non-Improvisations
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
(for countertenor, female speaker, male speaker, mixed chorus in 4 groups, mixed chorus ad libitum, guitar, mandolin, 3 percussion) Crane Collegiate Singers; tenor: Robert Betts; speakers: Miriam Abramowitsch, Melvin Strauss; mandolin: Oswald Rantucci; guitar: Jonathan Marcus; percussion: Jan Williams, Edward Burnham, Lynn Harbold; recorded at SUNY Potsdam, 1968; composition year: 1965; time: 10:15

SET FIVE
Amy Denio: 
a. Exposure to the Infinite (1:29)
b. Pass Offer (3:00)
Prodigal Light
Spoot Music/2013
a. voices: Nancy Denio, Anne Denio-Wiley; Amy Denio; b. slit drum, frame drum, glass jar, voice: Amy Dneio; NW flutes: Paul 'Che oke ten' Wagner; glockenspiel: Jane Mabry; recorded in Seattle; total time: 4:29

Danielle Palardy Roger: The Stone
Le Caillou 1998-2013
Ambiances Magnétiques/2013
members of Ensemble SuperMusique (piano: Charity Chan; contrabass: Nicolas Caloia; percussion: Isaiah Ceccarelli; flute, percussion, objects: Jean Derome; alxo saxophone, voice: Joan Hétu; clarinets: Lori Freedman; percussion: Danielle Palardy Roger); recorded at The Stone, New York City; mixed at Studio 270, Montreal, June 2013; time: 8:57 

Fishers O'Wufmen:
a. Je' Rouges (0:48)
b. Hombre Lobo (1:37)
Fishers O'Wufmen
Frank Pahl/2013
synthesizers: Dennis Palmer; other instruments: Frank Pahl, Bob Stagner; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan; April 2012; total time: 2:25

David Taylor: Ode to Danny Kaye
State of the Union 2001 (various artists)
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
tapes: David Taylor; time: 0:59

Severed Heads: Alaskan Polar Bear Heater
Clifford Darling Please Don't Live in the Past
Sevcom/1998 (orig. LP Ink Records/1985)
tapes, electronics: Tom Ellard, Stephen Jones, Garry Bradbury, Richard Fielding; recorded at the Kilayoni Club, Melbourne, Australia, March 1982; time: 4:44

SET SIX
Kenneth Gaburo: Mouthpiece II
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
electronics, processing, monologue: Kenneth Gaburo; recorded at Lewis Studio, University of Iowa, Iowa City; composition year: 1992; time: 9:09

J.K. Randall: from Shouldn't we talk?
a. SWT II (4:31)
b. SWT IV (6:15)
Open Space 19 (Randall/Boretz)
Open Space/2004
saxophone, percussion: J.K. Randall; recorded in 2003; total excerpt time: 10:46

SINGLE PLAY
Pauline Oliveros: Applebox Double
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 [boxed set] (various artists)
New World Records/2003
live electronics: David Tudor, Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 12, 1965; time: 17:07

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Martian Gardens for December 29-30, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 29, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date: December 30, 2013
Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update: December 30, 2013 @ 00:26)

SINGLE PLAY
Denman Maroney: Fluxations Parts 1 & 6*
Fluxations
New World Records/2003
reeds: Ned Rothenberg; trumpet: Dave Ballou; hyperpiano: Denman Maroney; contrabass: Mark Dresser; drums, vibraphone: Kevin Norton; recorded at Tedesco Studios, Paramus, New Jersey; April 12, 2001; time: 3:25
*TAINT Radio version only

SINGLE PLAY 
Yusef Lateef: Mental Images*
Fantasia for Flute
YAL Records/1996
flutes: Yusef Lateef; percussion: Adam Rudolph; electronics: Greg Snedeker; trombone: Michael Dessen; recorded in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, December 1995; composition year: 1996; time: 3:40
*WMUA version only

SINGLE PLAY
Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph: First Movement (from Percussion Concerto)
Towards the Unknown
YAL Records - Meta Records/2010
winds: Yusef Lateef; percussion: Adam Rudolph; Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, conductor: Peter Kotik; recorded at Roulette Intermedium, New York City; September 17, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 19:49

In memory of Yusef Lateef (October 9, 1920 -- December 23, 2013)

SET ONE
John Luther Adams: Inuksuit 2
Inuksuit
Cantaloupe Music/2013
(for percussion and environmental sounds) percussion ensemble directed by Doug Perkins; recorded in the woods of Guilford, Vermont, 2012; composition year: 2009; time: 12:39

John Luther Adams: Crash
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks; 2002-2003; composition year: 2002; time: 7:41

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: ...And Points North 
a. Scene I (4:27)
b. Scene II (6:40)
c. Scene III (3:56)
Breath -- The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2004
(for percussion, narrator, rocks, leaves, and whistles) percussion, narrator, sounds: Steven Schick; text: Stuart Saunders Smith (based on Passamaquoddy legend); composition year: 1990;  time: 15:00

Quentin SirJacq/Antoine Berthiaume/Norman Teale: Leaves and Snows
Leaves and Snows
Actuellecd/2005
piano, percussion: Quentin SirJacq; guitar, percussion: Antoine Berthiaume; electronics: Norman Teale; recorded at CCM Recording Studio and Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, California, Autumn 2004; time: 4:12

SET THREE
John Cage: Sixteen Dances (alternative versions for piano & percussion)
a. XV. Duet [erotic] (4:25)
b. XVI. Quartet [tranquility] (5:48)
The Works for Piano 9 -- First Recordings
Mode Records/2013
piano: Jovita Zähl; percussion: Thomas Meixner; recorded at Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bsmark-Saal, Köln, 2012-2013; composition years: 1950-1951; total time: 10:13

Helmut Lachenmann: 
a. Wiegenmusic (3:25)
b. Guero (3:57)*
...Zwei Gefühle... & Solo Works
Mode Records/2012
a. piano: Helmut Lachenmann; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York; March 2010; b. cello: Lauren Radnovsky; recorded at Beethoven Haus, Bonn, Germany, January 22, 2011; composition years: a. 1963; b. 1970; total time: 7:22
*WMUA version only

New Circle Five: Fifty-four Years of Mirrors
Dreaming Wide Awake
Deep Listening/2003
conch: Monique Buzzarté; violin, voice: Rosi Hertlein; percussion: Susie Ibarra; soprano: Kristin Norderval; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; text: Flaubert (Madame Bovary); recorded in New York City,1999; time: 7:20

SET FOUR
Iannis Xenakis: Akanthos
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
soprano: Tony Arnold; International Contemporary Ensemble, conductor: Steven Schick; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of  California, San Diego, January 2010; composition year: 1977; time: 10:39

Milton Babbitt: Quatrains
Music of Milton Babbitt
Bridge Records/2003
soprano: Tony Arnold; clarinets: Charles Neidich, Ayoko Oshima; text: John Hollander (The Tesserae); recorded at KAS Studios, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2002; composition year: 1993; time: 5:09

György Kurtág: from Kafka Fragments
a. Scene at the Station (0:22)
b. Sunday, 19th July 1910 (Berceuse II) (1:25)
c. My Ear... (0:20)
d. Once I Broke My Leg...(Chassidic Dance) (0:38)
e. Enamoured (0:31)
f. Two Walking Sticks (Authentic Flagal) (1:15)
g. No Going Back (1:09)
Kafka Fragments
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Tony Arnold; violin: Movses Pogossian; conductor: György Kurtág; texts: Franz Kafka; recorded at Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall, SUNY, Buffalo, August 2004; composition year: 1987; total time: 5:30

SET FIVE
David Berezan: Buoy
Allusions Sonores
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic music) realized at Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC, Sweden) and EMS, Stockholm; premiered at the Akusmatisk Magi concert, Kulturkiosken of the Institutet för Digitala Konstarter (DKA), Gävle, Sweden; March 19, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 9:40

Maggi Payne: Fluid Dynamics
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
(electroacoustic music) realized at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, California; composition year: 2002; time: 11:48

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Ghost Words After Trees Fall
Ghost Words
Aucourant Records/2008
(electroacoustic music) realized at IMEB Bourges, France; composition year: 2007; time: 20:50

SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: Shamansong*
Movements/scenes:
a. Prologue through Entrance of the Woman
b. The Journey Continues
c. Music Box Waltz
d. Dreamscape
e. Fertility Rite
f. Ritual of Fire
g. Lullaby for Kyrie
Shamansong
New World Records/1998
voice, percussion, computer, electronic keyboard, synthesizer, engineering: Joan La Barbara; engineering: David Dunn; tar, dumbek: Polly Tapia Ferber; cello: Erika Duke Kirkpatrick; gender: Kristina Melcher; recorded at Diablo Canyon, New Mexico (field), Sante Fe, New Mexico (studio), July 1991, and Los Angeles (studio), spring 1998; additional recording at Metamusic Studios, Los Angeles, spring 1998; composition years: 1991, 1998; time: 25:24
*WMUA version only

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Martian Gardens for December 22, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 22, 2013

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

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update: December 23, 2013 @ 12:27 a.m.)

SINGLE PLAY
William S. Burroughs: The Junky's Christmas
Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales
Island Red Label/1993
voice, text: William S. Burroughs (from Interzone); music: The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy; voice recorded in Lawrence, Kansas; music recorded in San Francisco, California; time: 15:54
 
SET ONE
Frank Zappa and the Mothers: Uncle Bernie's Farm
Absolutely Free
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. Verve LP/1967)
recorded at Sunset-Highland Studios, Los Angeles, November 1966; time: 2:11

Pahl-Mer: 
a. The Unhappy Accident (1:44)
b. A Late Night Ride Interrupted (4:52)
Frank Pahl/2013
synthesizers, samplers: Dennis Palmer; other instruments: Frank Pahl; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan, 2012; total time: 6:36

Shelley Hirsch/Jon Rose/Chris Cutler: 
After Hours/The Colour of BLOOD
The ReR Quarterly Vol. 4 Number 2 [various artists]
ReR Megacorp/1997
voices: Shelley Hirsch, Jon Rose; violin, keyboard: Jon Rose; electronics, percussion: Chris Cutler; recorded at Radio Student, Ljublana, Slovenia, November 15, 1993; time: 5:00 

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979:
a. The Visitation (3:09)
b. Berceuse for the Infant Jesu (1:43)
c. The Shepherd's Noel (1:09)
d. Adoration of the Magi (3:00)
e. Nativity Dance (0:58)
f. Canticle of the Holy Night (3:03)
g. Canticle of the Bells (3:31)
Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, Apparition, Suite for Christmas
Bridge Records/1991
piano: Lambert Orkis; recorded at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, October 1982; composition year: 1979; total time: 15:00

SET TWO
Phil Kline: from Unsilent Night
a. The Crossing (2:57)
b. On the Waters of the Sun (5:35)
Unsilent Night
Cantaloupe Music/2002
street promenade of boomboxes: Phil Kline and company; composition: Phil Kline; total excerpt time: 8:33

John Bischoff: Sidewalk Chatter
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
crackle box, electronics, processing: John Bischoff; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, California; composition year: 2010; time: 12:32

SET THREE
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Rendezvous (J. Bischoff)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. LP/1979)
composer: John Bischoff; keyboards: BGT; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1978; time: 8:35

Andrew Lewis: Dark Glass
Au-delà
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
electroacoustic music: Andrew Lewis; realized at the University of Bangor Electronic Music Studios (Wales), 2009-2011, revised: 2013; premiered at the MANTIS Festival, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester, UK, October 28, 2011; time: 13:50

SINGLE PLAY
Xenia Pestova: Schattenklavier (A. Lewis)
Shadow Piano
Innova Recordings/2013
(for piano and computer) recorded at Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Bangor New Music Festival, 2009; composition years: 2009-2011; time: 15:36

SET FOUR
Walter Zimmermann: Schatten der Ideen
Schatten der Ideen
Mode Records/2003
(for piano quartet) Ensemble Recherche; recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, Germany, 1998-1999; composition year: 1993; time: 13:37

Miwako Abe: Maxfield's Reel (D. Mahler)
Works for Violin 
by Antheil, Beyer, Cowell, Dodge, Crawford, Mahler, Polansky, Wolpe
New World Records/2006
composer: David Mahler; violin: Miwako Abe; recorded at the Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia, August 2005; time: 8:06

SET FIVE
John Luther Adams: Inuksuit 1
Inuksuit
Cantaloupe Music/2013
(for percussion and environmental sounds) percussion director: Doug Perkins; recorded in the woods of Guilford, Vermont; composition year: 2013; time: 11:32

John Luther Adams: Apple Blossom Round
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, October 2006; time: 1:55

John Luther Adams: In the Rain
In the Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
tape music: JLA; mastered at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, 2009; tapes recorded: 1970s; time: 8:53

SET SIX
David Mahler: La Ciudad de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles
Cold Blue [various artists]
Cold Blue Music/2002
piano: Bryan Pezzone; recorded at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles; composition year: 1985; time: 5:51

Richard Maxfield: Night Music
New Sounds in Electronic Music [various artists]
Odyssey/ 1967
tape music: Richard Maxfield; composition year: 1960; time: 9:05

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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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