Martian Gardens for February 2 & 5, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 2, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 5, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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


HOUR ONE

SET ONE
Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
electronic installation: Robert Carl; source material recorded throughout Japan, 2007; composition years: 2008-2009; excerpt time: 8:00

David Berezan: Nijō
Allusions Sonores
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
sounds from nightingale floors recorded at temples and palaces throughout Japan, 2007; 8-track tape realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios at the University of Manchester, UK, 2009; premiered at the MANTIS Festival, Rodewald Concert Hall, Manchester, October 30, 2009; time: 12:57 

SINGLE PLAY
John Luther Adams: Inuksuit 5
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:18:34

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: 
a. Jubilate (6:23)
b. Born Again (5:10)
Hyperrealism -- Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Mutable Music/2003
a. vocal samples: Thomas Buckner; composition years: a. 2001, b. 2003

HOUR TWO

SET TWO
Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 (various artists)
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim; composition year: 2006; time: 0:45

Eleanor Hovda: Jo Ha Kyu
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
oboe: Libby Van Cleve; composition year: 1990; time: 3:45

Danielle Palardy Roger: Le Caillou #13
Le Caillou 1998-2013
Ambiances Magnétiques/2013
Ensemble SuperMusique (piano: Charity Chan; contrabass: Nicolas Caloia; percussion: Isaiah Ceccarelli; flutes, saxophones, objects: Jean Derome; electric guitar: Bernard Falaise; cello: Emilie Garard-Charest; alto saxophone, voice: Joan Hétu; clarinet: Lori Freedman; sampler, piano: Diane Labrosse; violin: Pierre-Yves Martel; violin: Clemens Merkel; viola: Jean René); recorded in Montreal, 2013; time: 4:40

Iannis Xenakis: Zythos
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
(for trombone and 6 marimbas); trombone: Benny Sluchin; marimbas: red fish blue fish; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, January 2010; composition year: 1997; time: 7:44

John Oliver: Marimba Dismembered
Time is Dust (DVD)
Earsay Productions/2012
(electroacoustic music) composition year: 1999; time: 3:00

SET THREE
Paul Lansky: Line and Shadow
Notes to Self
Bridge Records/2013
Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Justin Brown; recorded at the Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark, June 2009; composition year: 2008; time: 7:22

Daniel Goode: Ländler Land
Annbling
New World Records/2014
cellos: Michael Finckel, Pitnarry Shin, Alexandra MacKenzie; pianos: Joseph Kubera, Sarah Cahill; recorded at René Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School, New York City, November 10, 2000; composition years: 1999-2000; time: 7:19

Cindy McTee: Circuits
Symphony No. 1: Ballet for Orchestra and other works
Naxos Records/2013
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin; recorded at the Fisher Music Center Concert Hall, February 2012; composition year: 1990; time: 5:24

SINGLE PLAY
Cindy McTee: selections from Metal Music
a. Bins and Bells (2:59)
b. Kettles and Cans (1:24)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 9 (various artists)
...musics, metaphors, machines...
CEMI: Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
University of North Texas, Denton
Centaur Records/1991
computer music: Cindy McTee; recorded 1990, composition year: 1989; total excerpts time: 4:23

HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only

SET FOUR
Xenia Pestova: Fuga Interna (begin) (K. Norman)
Shadow Piano -- Music for Piano/Toy Piano & Electronics
Innova Recordings/2013
(for piano, voice, and digital media) composer, text: Katharine Norman; piano, voice: Xenia Pestova; recorded at Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham, UK; composition year: 2012; time: 10:20

Katharine Norman: Losing It (excerpt)
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
(for voice and environmental sounds) field recordings, voice, text: Katharine Norman; composition year: 2003; excerpt time: 4:15

Ruth Anderson: SUM (State of the Union Message)
Lesbian American Composers (various artists)
CRI/1998
(for sound collage) composition year: 1973, revised 1997; time: 7:37

SET FIVE
Hans Fjellestad: Free Throw Prophet
Red Sauce Baby
Accretions/2001

woodwinds: Jason Robinson, Ellen Weller; church organ: H. Fjellestad; percussion: Marcos Fernandes, Kristen Cheadle; bagpipes ("Scotland the Brave," 1844): "The Wizard";basketball game recorded at the Zion Building, San Diego, 1999; time: 10:16

Charles Amirkhanian: Gold and Spirit
Walking Tune
Starkland/1997

sports noises, electronics, chants, voices: C. Amirkhaninan, written for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics; time: 10:15

SINGLE PLAY

Tim Hodgkinson: Aici Schiteaza pe Acum

Sketch of Now

Mode Records/2006

(for ensemble and tape) Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Tim Hodgkinson, with: flute: Lisa Cella; tenor saxophone: Robert Reigle; percussion: Morris Palter; recorded at the Acousmania Festival, Mihail Jora Concert Hall, Bucharest, Romania, May 2004; composition year: 2004; time: 8:58

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Martian Gardens for January 26 and 29, 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 26, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: January 29, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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


PLAYLIST HOUR ONE

SET ONE
Elaine Barkin: Xtet -- Last Dance for Milton
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
(for MIDI pianos, celesta, harpsichord, organ, drum set) MIDI operations: Elaine Barkin;  composition year: 2011; time: 6:08

Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
(for soprano and Mark II RCA synthesizer; originally for soprano and piano) soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: Dylan Thomas (1945);  recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1961; composition year: 1954, revised 1961; time: 14:31

In memory of Milton Babbitt (May 10, 1916 -- January 29, 2011)

SET TWO
Cindy McTee: Einstein's Dream
a. Warps and Curves in the Fabric of Space and Time
b. Music of all the Spheres
c. Chasing After Quanta
d. Pondering the Behavior of Light
e. The Frantic Dance of Subatomic Particles
f. Celestial Bells
g. Wondering at all Secretes
Symphony No. 1: Ballet for Orchestra (and other works)
Naxos Records/2013
(for string orchestra, percussion, and computer) The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Leonard Slatkin; recorded at the Fisher Center Orchestra Hall, Detroit, June 2010; composition year: 2004; time: 14:18

Jon Christopher Nelson: Waves of Refraction
Electroacoustic Works
CD-R/2005
(for guitar and tape) guitar: William Buonocore; electroacoustic music: Jon Christopher Nelson; recorded at the Florida International University Electronic Music Studio; composition year: 1992; time: 7:56

SINGLE THREE
Daniel Goode: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano I
Annbling
New World Records/2014
clarinet: Daniel Goode; piano: Douglas Martin; recorded in New York City, 2012; composition years: 1959-1960, time: 2:39

Gordon Mumma: à Diane Carlson*
from Eleven Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia 
Music for Solo Piano (1960-2001)
New World Records/2008
piano: Daan Vandewalle; recorded at German Radio, Frankfurt, May 2007; composition year: 1978; time: 0:30
*TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only  

PLAYLIST HOUR TWO

SET FOUR
Daniel Goode: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano II & III
Annbling
New World Records/2014
clarinet: Daniel Goode; piano: Douglas Martin; recorded in New York City, 2012; composition years: 1959-1960, time: 7:42

Daniel Goode:
a. Six New Fractal Fingers (4:55)*
b. Six Fractal Fingers (3:16)
Clarinet Songs
XI Records/1993
clarinet: Daniel Goode; total time:  8:11
*WMUA live version only

SINGLE PLAY
Keeril Makin: Afterglow
Afterglow
Mode Records/2013
piano: Cory Smythe (ICE); recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, May 2011; composition year: 2007; time: 13:43

SET FIVE
Bruno Maderna:  Serenata für Claudia
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
(for violin and harpsichord; arr. for flute and piano by Roberto Fabbriciani); flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; piano: Massimillano Damerini; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1968; time: 1:10

Chris Campbell: Things You Already Know
Things You Already Know
Innova Recordings/2014
keyboards: Chris Campbell; recorded in Minneapolis; time: 2:05

Paul Lansky: Things She Remembered
Things She Carried
Bridge Records/1997
computer music: Paul Lansky; reader: Hannah McKay; text: Paul Lansky, Hannah McKay; recorded at Princeton, 1995-1996; time: 8:15

Viv Corringham: Broken Land
Walking
Innova Recordings/2013
(for field recordings, interviews, vocals) vocals: Viv Corringham; field recordings: Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn; composed as part of the Shadow-walks project, 2003-2013; time: 4:46

Yusef Lateef: Blues in the Adaji
In Nigeria
Yal Records/1995
tenor saxophone, flutes: Yusef Lateef; West AFrican drumming: musician unspecified; recorded at EMI Studios, Lagos, Nigeria, July 19, 1983, additional recording and mix at Regent Sound Studios, New York City; final mastering: Lateef's studio, Shutesbury, Massachusetts, June 19, 1995; time: 5:45

SET SIX
David Lang: Death Speaks 1 -- You Will Return
Death Speaks
Cantaloupe Music/2013
voice, bass drum: Shara Worden; guitar: Bryce Dessner; piano: Nico Muhly; vocals, violin: Owen Pallett; composition year: 2012; time: 4:30

Gordon Mumma: à Durand Begault*
from Eleven Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia 
Music for Solo Piano (1960-2001)
New World Records/2008
piano: Daan Vandewalle; recorded at German Radio, Frankfurt, May 2007; composition year: 1978; time: 0:17
*TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only


PLAYLIST HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation version only

SET SEVEN
Malcolm Goldstein: Winter (excerpt)
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;  excerpt time: 12:00

Derome/Goldstein/Wiens: L'idée de Nature
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 13, 2013; time: 7:54

SET EIGHT
Andrew Lewis: Cân (Song)
Au-delà  
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic music) realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of Bangor University, Wales, 1997; premiered at the Sonic Arts Network Conference, Birmingham, UK, January 9, 1998; time: 11:51

Mary Lee Roberts: Winter Cranes
6 Compositions
Open Space/1997
(computer music) composition year: 1997; time: 7:51

SINGLE PLAY
Artemiy Artemiev: Waiting for the Winter
Cold
Electroshock Records/1995
synthesizers, electronics: Artemiy Artemiev; recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, Russia, 1994-1995; time: 13:20

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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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