Martian Gardens for March 23 & 26, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 23, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: March 26, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

In fond memory of Robert Ashley (March 28, 1930 -- March 3, 2014)
Martian Gardens will feature works by the late Robert Ashley on the current and next program.

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: The Supermarket (Famous People)
Perfect Lives -- An Opera for Television
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991 (orig. VHS/1983)
electronics, sound design, narrator: Robert Ashley "R," piano: "Blue Gene Tyranny, "Buddy, the World's Greatest Piano Player; voice: Jill Kroesen, "Isolde," voice: David Van Tieghem, "D," The Captain of the Football Team; performed at the Kitchen, New York City; commissioned for television by The Kitchen (Channel Four Television, London)

SET ONE
Philip Glass: Prematurely Air-Conditioned Supermarket
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch/1993 (1992 productions)
The Philip Glass Ensemble and Chorus, conductor: Michael Riesman; spoken voice: Lucinda Childs; Sheryl Sutton; texts: L. Childs; Christopher Knowles; composition years: 1975-1976; time: 12:17

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere in Arizona
The Somewhere Songs; The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
voice: Thomas Buckner; saxophone: Peter Gordon; electronic and environmental sounds: BGT; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, composition year: 1987; time: 10:00

hour two 

SINGLE PLAY
Joseph Kubera: The Drifter (BGT)
Book of Horizons
New World Records/2014
composer: "Blue" Gene Tyranny; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 2-3, 2013; time: 13:34

SET TWO
Vijay Iyer: 
a. Vuln, Part 2 (4:34)
b. Mutations I: Air (4:13)
Mutations
ECM/2014
piano, electronics: Vijay Iyer; violins: Miranda Cuckson, Michi Wiancko; viola: Kyle Armbrust; cello: Kivie Cahn-Lipman; recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, September 2013; total time: 8:47

Glenn Kotche: (from Anomaly Movements 1-7)
a. Anomaly Mvt. 1 (2:34)
b. Anomaly Mvt. 2 (2:32)
c. Anomaly Mvt. 3 (4:34)
Adventureland
Cantaloupe Music/2014
drum kit, acoustic and electronic percussion: Glenn Kotche; Kronos Quartet (violin, percussion: David Harrington, violin, percussion: John Sherba, viola, percussion: Hank Dutt; cello, percussion: Jeffrey Zeigler); recorded at the Loft, Chicago; composition year: 2007; total excerpts time: 9:40

SINGLE PLAY
Helmut Lachenmann: Reigen seliger Geister (Dance of the Blessed Spirits)
Complete String Quartets
Mode Records/2014
the JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); recorded at Beethoven Haus, Bonn, German, January 21-22, 2011; composition year: 1989; time: 26:38

hour three
TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only

SET THREE
Dieter Kaufmann: Berceuse pour Piccoletto 
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005
(for acousmatic radio play); electroacoustic music: Dieter Kauffmann; cello: Adam Misiak; soprano: Elisabeth Sykora; recitation: Gunda Koenig; texts: Josef Winkler ("Natura morta"), Giuseppe Ungaretti ("Giorno per giorno); musical quotations -- Brahms: Lullaby, Requiem; Mozart: Requiem Introitus; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France and ELAK, Vienna, Austria; 2005; time: 14:25

Lejaren Hiller: from Computer Cantata 
a. Prolog to Strophe II; Strophe II (2:07)
b. Prolog to Strophe III; Strophe III; Epilog to Strophe III (5:42)
A Total Matrix of Possibilities 
New World Records/2008
(for computer, soprano, and ensemble); soprano: Helen Hamm; University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players; conductor: Jack McKenzie; computer music realized at the Experimental Music Studios of the University of Illinois, 1963; performed at the University of Illinois, 1963; total excerpt time: 7:49

SET FOUR
Meredith Monk: Memory Song
Do You Be
ECM/1987
voices: Andrea Goodman, Naaz Hosseini, Meredith Monk; keyboards: Wayne Hankin, Nurit Tilles; violin: Naaz Hosseini; recorded in New York City, 1987; time: 6:40

Il Pergolese: 
a. Chi disse ca la femmena (4:42)
b. Tre giorni son che Nina (8:43)
Il Pergolese
ECM/2013
composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736); arrangements: Il Pergolese; voice: Maria Pia De Vito; piano: François Couturier; cello: Anja Lechner; percussion, electronics: Michele Rabbia; recorded at the Swiss Radio-Television Auditorium, Lugano, Switzerland, December 2012; total excerpts time: 12:25

Bernadette Speach:  Angels in the Snow
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
piano: Bernadette Speach; recorded at LRP Studios, New York City, 2000-2001; composition year: 1993; time: 5:57


-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for March 16 & 19, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 16, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: March 19, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

In fond memory of Robert Ashley (March 28, 1930 -- March 3, 2014)
Martian Gardens will feature works by the late Robert Ashley on the current and next two programs.

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: Sonata
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 [various artists]
New World Records/2003
piano: Robert Ashley; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 25, 1961; composition years: 1959-1960; time: 7:44

SET ONE
Jacqueline Humbert: Empty Words (R. Ashley)
Chanteuse
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
composer: Robert Ashley; voice: Jacqueline Humbert; electronics, processing, edition: David Rosenboom, Sam Ashley;  recorded at the Dizzy Gillespie Recording Studio, CalArts, Los Angeles and David Rosenboom's studio, CalArts; composition year: 1962; time: 3:08

Robert Ashley and Paul De Marinis: 
In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt)
In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004 (orig. Cramps Records LP/1974)
poem: John Barton Wolgamot (1944); recitation: Robert Ashley; Moog synthesizer: Paul De Marinis; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1973; composition year: 1972; excerpt time: 5:30

Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing (excerpt)
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
synthesizer, electronics: Robert Ashley; voices: Robert Ashley, Mimi Johnson; composition years: 1974-1979; excerpt time: 5:00

Robert Ashley: O Mesopotamia 
Concrete -- An Opera
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
orchestra samples design, live mixing, processing: Robert Ashley, Tom Hamilton; voices: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara; composition year: 2006; time: 4:15

SET TWO
Tim Hodgkinson: Ulaaraar
Onsets
Mode Records/2014
(for bass clarinet and strings); violas: Ioan-Marius Lacraru, Cornelia Petroiu; cellos: Theodor Iancu, Andrei Klvu; basses: Ion and Ciprian Ghita; small gong: anonymous; bass clarinet, conducting: Tim Hodgkinson: recorded at the Music Nova Festival, Sinaia, Romania; October 9, 2005; composition year: 2005; time: 9:33

Ben Johnston: The Long String (from Parable)
Ruminations - Music in Just Intonation 
MicroFest Records/2014
voice: Karen Clark; clarinet: Jim Sullivan; violin: Sarah Thornblade; text: Rumi; composition year: 2000; time: 11:31

hour two 

SET THREE
Taylor Ho Bynum 7-Tette: Zade-Wuk
Navigation (Possibility Abstracts XII & XIII)
Firehouse 12/2013
cornet: Taylor Ho Bynum; alto saxophone: Jim Hobbs; bass trombone, tuba: Bill Lowe; electric guitar: Mary Halvorson; acoustic bass: Ken Filiano; drums, vibraphone: Thomas Fumiwara; drums, vibraphone: Chad Taylor; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, Connecticut; 2013; time: 14:08

Alexander Berne & The Abandoned Orchestra: Amphibiana 
Self Referentials 1 & 2
Innova Recordings/2012
all instruments: Alexander Berne; recorded at Mirabella Studios, Florida; time: 5:55

SINGLE PLAY
For St. Patrick's Day

John Cage: Roaratorio Part Two
From Roaratorio -- An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002 (orig. 1992)
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier; voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; texts: James Joyce; premiered at West German Radio, Cologne, October 22, 1979; composition year: 1979; time: 16:14

SET FOUR
Joseph Kubera: Fences, In Three Tragedies (S.S. Smith)
I. Personal Tragedy (2:48)
II. Community Tragedy (1:53)
III. Country Tragedy (2:52)
Book of Horizons 
New World Records/2014
(for piano) composer: Stuart Saunders Smith; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 2-3, 2013; composition year: 1998; total time: 7:30

Drew Krause: Airline
Powder
Innova Recordings/2007
(for computer and alto sax); alto saxophone: Taimur Sullivan; recorded at Abeshouse Studios, Pelham, New York, February 2005, composition year: 1995; time: 6:32

hour three
TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only

James Mobberley: Study for Vox Inhumana 
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 11 (various artists)
SEAMUS/202
(for electroacoustic music); composition year: 2000; time: 4:16

Eric Moe: Teeth of the Sea
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
(for two conga drums); percussion: Michael Lipsey; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, April 22, 2007; composition year: 2003; time: 3:35

SET FIVE
Francis Dhomont: Scherzo (giocoso)
Frankenstein Symphony
Asphodel/1997
(for tape collage and electroacoustic music); premiered in Berlin, Germany, June 13, 1997; composition year: 1997; time: 14:30 

Andrew Lewis: Scherzo
Au-delà
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(for electroacoustic music); realized in 1992 and revised in 1993 at the Electroacoustic Music Studio of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Concert Room, School of Music, University of East Anglia, Norwich, June 29, 1992; time: 8:18

SET SIX
Paul Lansky: Partita
I. Preamblum (3:47)
II. Allemande (4:52)
III. Pavane (4:39)
IV. Gigue (4:55)
Notes to Self
Bridge Records/2013
guitar: David Starobin; percussion: Mari Yoshinaga; recorded at Gould Rehearsal Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, July 2012; time: 18:23

David Starobin: Sufi Dance (J. Harvey)
Newdance 
Bridge Records/1998
composer: Jonathan Harvey; guitar: David Starobin; recorded at Master Sound, Astoria, New York, 1997-1998; composition year: 1997; time: 1:50

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for March 9 & 12, 2014

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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: March 12, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

In fond memory of Robert Ashley (March 28, 1930 -- March 3, 2014)
Martian Gardens will feature works by the late Robert Ashley on the current and next three programs.

SINGLE PLAY*
Robert Ashley: Friends
Dust -- An Opera
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
voice, text: Robert Ashley; electronics, orchestration: Tom Hamilton, "Blue" Gene Tyranny; composition year: 1998; time: 15:00
*TAINT Radio version only

SINGLE PLAY*
Robert Ashley: A Day on the Planet Gilbert
Concrete -- An Opera
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
voice, text, orchestration samplers, live mixing: Robert Ashley; voices: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humebert, Joan La Barbara; composition year: 2006; time: 16:46
*WMUA versions only

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: In memoriam...Crazy Horse (symphony)
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961--1966 [various artists] (boxed set)
New World Records/2003
ONCE Festival Orchestra, conductor: Donald Scarvada; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 25, 1964; composition year: 1963; time: 15:12

SINGLE PLAY
Helmut Lachenmann: Gran Torso
Complete String Quartets
Mode Records/2014
the JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); recorded at the Funkhaus, Saal 2, Köln, November 7, 2008; composition year: 1972; time: 24:00

hour two
Updated March 9, 2014 at 11:30 p.m.

SET ONE
Eleni Karaindrou: from Medea
a. An Unbearable Song (1:21)
b. All Hope is Lost (3:24)
c. On the Way to Exile (4:51)
Medea
ECM/2014
Constantinople lute, lyra: Sokratis Sinopoulos; ney: Harris Lambrakis; clarinets: Nikos Guinos, Marie-Cécile Boulard, Alexandros Arkadopoulos; cello: Yiorgos Kaloudis; santouri: Andreas Katsigiannis; bendir: Andreas Papas; voice: Elani Kariandrou, with female chorus, chorus director: Antonis Kontogeorgiou; recorded at Studio Sierra, Athens, June 2011; composition year: 2011 for the Athens and Epidaurus Festival; modern Greek adaptation of Euripides' Medea by Giorgos Cheimonas; total excerpts time: 9:30

Jim Fox: Colorless Sky Became Fog
Cold Blue Night at REDCAT [various artists]
Cold Blue Music (unreleased)/2006
hammered dulcimer: Theresa Diamond; piano: Bryan Pezzone; violin: Robin Lorentz; cellos: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Jessica Catron; double bass: Barry Newton; recorded live at REDCAT, Disney Hall, CalArts, Los Angeles, February 18, 2006; time: 2:53

Michael Byron: As She Sleeps
Awakening at the Inn of the Birds
Cold Blue Music/2003
piano: Sarah Cahill; synthesizer: Kathleen Supové; FLUX Quartet (violins: Tom Chiu, Jesse Mills; viola: Max Mandel; cello: Darrett Adkins; contrabass: Gregg August); recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, California, December 2002; composition year: 2000; time: 3:18

J.C. Combs: Apparition
Gazing
Spectropol/2013
piano, processing: J.C. Combs; recorded in Seattle, 2013; composition year: 2013; time: 5:36

SET TWO
Zoviet France: Marrch Dynamic
Shouting at the Ground
Red Rhino Records/1988
noises, electronics: Robin Storey, Ben Ponton; recorded in UK, 1987; time: 2:47

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Line of Apogee, part 7
Film Music
New World Records/1990
tape and computer music: Vladimir Ussachevsky; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968; excerpt time: 4:33

Wendy Carlos: Heartbeats and Worry (from "The Shining")
Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume One
East Side Digital/2005
synthesizers, processing: Wendy Carlos, Rachel Elkind;  composition years: 1979-1980; time: 2:10

Robert Scott Thompson: Origin
Blue Day
Aucourant Records/2007 (org. 2000)
synthesizers, electronics: RST; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; 1999; time: 2:20

Artemiy Artemiev: Tibet
The Warning
Electroshock Records/1993
synthesizers, percussion, bass, programming: Artemiy Artemiev; recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, 1983; time: 4:29

Clan of Xymox: Theme I
Medusa
4AD/1986
synthesizers, processing: Clan of Xymox, John Fryer; recorded in London, 1986; time: 2:55

SET THREE
Charles Dodge: The Story of Our Lives VI & VII
a. The day goes on (1:06)
b. The book will not survive (2:26)
Synthesized Voices
CRI -- New World Records/2011 (org. CRI LP 1976)
computer speech synthesis: Charles Dodge; recorded at the Columbia University Center for Computing Activities and Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University; composition years: 1973-1974; total excerpts time: 3:32

hour three
TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only
Updated March 11, 2014

Eldad Tsabary: Julia
Demo
Eldad Tsabary (unreleased)/2006
(computer music, inspired by the melodic lines of John Lennon's "Julia"); realized at the computer music studios of Concordia University, Montreal, 2005; time: 5:54

Alvin Lucier: Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever) [Lennon/McCartney]
Ghosts and Monsters [various artists]
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
(composer: John Lennon; arr. Alvin Lucier) pianos: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Radio Bremen, February 1998; composition year: 1967, Lucier arrangement: 1990; time: 9:15

SET FOUR
Yvar Mikhashoff: Song Without Words (O. Luening)
Panorama of American Piano Music [various artists]
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013 
(composer: Otto Luening) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1987; time: 2:58

Halim El-Dabh: Electronic Fanfare (with Otto Luening)
Crossing Into the Electric Magnetic
Without Fear Records/2001
electronics: Halim El-Dabh, Otto Luening; recorded at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1959; time: 7:07;
in observance of Halim El-Dabh's 93rd birthday, March 4, 2014

Ingrid Drese: Papillon, abîme, nuit
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
(electroacoustic music); realized at the composer's studio, Brussels,Belgium; premiered at the 6th international acousmatic festival L’Espace du son, at XL Théâtre du Grand Midi, Brussels; September 17, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 12:07

SINGLE PLAY
Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 10
Flashbacks
Bridge Records/2000
(for guitar and electronic sounds); guitar: David Starobin; electronic music realized at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1992; composition year: 1992; time: 9:25; in observance of Mari Davidovsky's 80th birthday, March 4, 2014

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for March 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
March 2, 2014

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

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

HOUR ONE
(updated March 2, 2014 @ 10:15 p.m.)

SINGLE PLAY
Heiner Goebbels: In the Country of Last Things
Surrogate Cities
ECM Records/2000
(for vocals and orchestra) vocals: Jocelyn B. Smith ; narrator: David Moss; text: Paul Auster (Le Voyage D'Anna Blume); Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, conductor: Peter Rundel; recorded at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, 1996; composition year: 1994; time: 5:14

SET ONE
Meehan/Perkins Duo & The Baylor Percussion Group: Auto Accident
Restless, Endless, Tactless
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
composer: Harold Davidson; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, December 14, 2009; composition year: 1935; time: 3:14

Amy Knoles: Bird Scream
2x10x10x10+1
Echograph/2001
sampler, guitar, voice, bird recordings: Amy Knoles; text: Michael Tobias; recorded at Echograph and World Tree Studios, Los Angeles; time: 1:39

Amy Denio: Lunar Nerve
Prodigal Light
Spoot Music/2013
clarinet, flute, piano, voice, story-telling: Amy Denio; flute, voice, story-telling: Scott Adams; recorded in Seattle, 2013; time: 5:12

Jean Derome/Malcolm Goldstein/Rainer Wiens: Bamboche
6 Improvisations
Ambiances Magnétiques/2013
alto saxophone, objects, flute: Jean Derome; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; prepared electric guitar, kalimba: Rianer Wiens; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, April 12, 2013; time: 12:14

SINGLE PLAY
Tim Hodgkinson: Ici-bas
Onsets
Mode Records/2014
(for ensemble and electronic sound) Hyperion Ensemble with members of Talea and the Bergersen Quartet, conductor: Tim Hodgkinson; recorded at the SPECTRUM XXI Festival, The Warehouse, London, October 15, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 18:06

HOUR TWO

SET TWO
Chaya Czernowin: Afatsim
Afatsim
Mode Records/1999
(for nonet) SONOR ensemble (bass flute: John Fonville; oboe: Susan Barrett; clarinet: Robert Zelickman; piano: Ivan Raykoff; percussion: Steven Schick; violin: Négyesy János; viola: Päivikki Nykter; cello: Hugh Livingston; double bass: Bert Turetzky; conductor: Harvey Sollberger); recorded at the University of California San Diego; composition year: 1996; time: 9:36

George Crumb: Mundus Canis (A Dog's World)
Five Humoresques for Guitar and Percussion
a. Tammy: Elegantly, somewhat freely (2:45)
b. Fritzi: Furioso (1:13)
c. Heidel: Languido, un poco misterioso (2:37)
d. Emma-Jean: Coquettish, poco animato, grazioso (1:31)
e. Yoda:  Prestissimo possible (1:32)
70th Birthday Album
Bridge Records/1999
guitar: David Starobin; percussion: George Crumb; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 1998; composition year: 1998; total time: 9:41

SET THREE
Arthur Levering: Il Mare Dentro
Parallel Universe
New World Records/2014
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, September 22, 2008; composition year: 2008; time: 9:15

Evan Ziporyn: Frog's Eye
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, May 24, 2004; composition year: 2002; time: 12:47

SET FOUR
Concert Imaginaire: World Circus News
Fortune's Wheel
Fin Records/2014
electric guitar: David Hahn; electric bass, upright bass: Nick David; violin, electric violin: Ruthie Dornfeld; drums, percussion: Becca Baggenstoss, keyboards, tambura, percussion; recorded at Jupiter Studios, Seattle, March 2012; time: 4:28

Depeche Mode: Pipeline
Construction Time Again
Mute Records/1983
lead vocal: Martin Gore; Andrew Fletcher, David Gahan, Alan Wilder, Martin Gore: electronics, vocals; lyrics: Martin Gore; recorded at the Garden, London, and Hansa Mischraum, Berlin; time: 6:00


HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only
Updated March 3, 2014

David Berezan: Galungan
Allusions sonores
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
electroacoustic music realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of the University of Manchester, UK, premiered at the festival Ai-maako at the Teatro Municipal Lord Cochrane in Valdivia, Chile, October 8, 2010; time: 10:24

SET FIVE
Robert Morris/David Mott: Rapport (excerpt disc 1, section 1)
Rapport
Open Space/2011
synthesizer: Robert Morris; tape delay system; David Mott; recorded at the Yale Electronic Music Studios, November 18, 1973; excerpt time: 11:45

Chris Campbell: Torso of a Bodhisattva
Things You Already Know
Innova Recordings/2014
(for strings and percussion, musicians unspecified) recorded in Minneapolis, 2013; time: 8:53

SET SIX
Sarah Peebles: White Powder/The Spiders
Insect Groove
Cycling '74/2002
spoken word, story: David Toop; computer music: Sarah Peebles; time: 6:15

Laurie Anderson: Another Day in America
Homeland
Nonesuch/2010
vocals, percussion, violin, keyboards, essay: Laurie Anderson; viola: Eyvind Kang; percussion, drums: Ben Wittman; bass: Skúli Sverrisson; background vocals: Antony; recorded in New York City, 2010; time: 11:24

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Incandescent Clouds
The Moment's Energy 
ECM/2009
(large ensemble and live electronics) soprano saxophone: Evan Parker; trumpet, piccolo trumpet: Peter Ivans; Ko Ishikawa: shō; clarinets, shakuhachi: Ned Rothenberg; violin, live electronics: Philipp Wachsmann; piano, prepared piano: Agustí Fernández; double bass: Barry Guy; percussion, live electronics: Paul Lytton; signal processing instrument; Lawrence Casserly; sample, signal processing: Joel Ryan; computer processing: Walter Prati; live electronics: Richard Barrett, Paul Obermayer; sound projection: Marco Vecchi; recorded at Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, UK, November 2009; time: 5:05

Ramin Amir Arjomand: Untitled
Go. Go. Go (various artists)
Music from the Computer Music Center, Columbia University 
Columbia University/2000
computer music: Ramin Amir Arjomand; time: 2:10

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for February 23 & 26, 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 23, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 26, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

HOUR ONE
(updated February 23, 2014 @ 10:56 p.m.)

SINGLE PLAY
Yvar Mikhashoff: A Boat Slowly Sailing (E. Krenek)
Panorama of American Piano Music [various artists]
from Antheil to Zappa 1911-1991 
Mode Records/2013
composer: Ernst Krenek (from Twelve Short Piano Pieces, Op. 83); piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1938; time:2:43

SET ONE
Xenia Pestova: X (J. Young)
Shadow Piano -- Music for Piano/Toy Piano & Electronics
Innova Recordings/2013
(for piano and electroacoustic sounds) composer: John Young; piano: Xenia Pestova; recorded at Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham, UK, composition year: 2010; time: 12:21

John Young: Interlude I
Arrivederci/Ricordiamo Forli
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
(electroacoustic music from Recordiamo Forli); realized at Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; premiered on Radio New Zealand’s ConcertFM program, July 25, 2006; time: 1:52

Benjamin Boretz and Mary Lee Roberts: I Say (piano tape from Dialogue)*
Open Space 6 (Boretz/Roberts/Hopkins/Bard Composers' Ensemble)
Open Space/1994
(from The Purposes and Politics of  Engaging Strangers); recorded at Willamette University, December 6, 1991; time: 4:30

Benjamin Boretz: Inhabit (excerpt)*
Open Space 6 (Boretz/Roberts/Hopkins/Bard Composers Ensemble)
Open Space/1994
(from Three for composers' ensemble) The Bard Composers' Ensemble (Tildy Bayar, Benjamin Boretz, Sebastian Collett, John Hopkins, Mary Lee Roberts, Catherine Schieve, Chuck Stein, Paul Winkler) composition year: 1992; recorded April 27, 1992; excerpt time: 3:25
*Reverse order on WMUA live version

SET TWO
Concert Imaginaire:
a. IntroOverture (1:20)
b. The Massacre of Suns (2:22)
Fortune's Wheel
Fin Records/2014
electric guitar: David Hahn; electric bass, upright bass: Nick David; violin, electric violin: Ruthie Dornfeld; drums, percussion: Becca Baggenstoss, keyboards, tambura, percussion; speaking voices (on a.): Juliette and Alain; voice (on b.): Maria Mannisto; text (b.): Emily Dickinson; recorded at Jupiter Studios, Seattle, March 2012; total time: 3:42

Charlie Morrow: Marilyn Monroe Collage
Toot!
XI Records/2011
sound collage: Charlie Morrow, composed for the Homage to Marilyn Monroe exhibit, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, December 1967; time: 17:35

HOUR TWO

SET THREE
Henry Gwiazda: thefLuteintheworLdthefLuteistheworLd
noTnoTesnoTrhyThms
Innova Recordings/1996
electronic flute: Anne La Berge; sound effects: Henry Gwiazda; composition year: 1995; time: 4:22

Anne La Berge: ur_DU
Speak
New World Records/2011
flute, voice, electronics: Anne La Berge; vocals: Stephie Büttrich; text: Marie Curie (letter) recorded at Studio VOLSAP and Studio 150, Amsterdam, summer 2009; time: 14:15

SET FOUR
Joseph Klein: Prime Set
Improbable Encounters
Innova Recordings/2014
percussion: Bruce Hamilton; recorded in Bloomington, Indiana, November 1989; composition year: 1985; time: 3:36

Michael Lipsey: King of Denmark (M. Feldman)
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2008
composer: Morton Feldman; percussion: Michael Lipsey; recorded at David Cossin's apartment, New York City; composition year: 1964; time: 6:55

John Cage: The Ten Thousand Things (excerpt)
The Ten Thousand Things
Microfest Records/2013
narrator: John Cage; prepared piano: Vicki Ray; prepared piano: Aron Kallay; double bass: Tom Peters; percussion: William Winant; Cage's narration recorded at UCLA, 1962; other instruments for The Ten Thousand Things recorded at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles, Mills College in Oakland, Second Story Studios in Venice, CA, and Private Island Trax, Hollywood, CA; engineer: John Schneider (except Matt Snyder at Private Island Trax); recorded 2008-2012; composition years: 1954, 1955, 1956; excerpt time: 10:20

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Axioms (from Fads and Fancies at the Academy)*
a. The pupil is eager to learn (3:11)
b. The pupil is constitutionally lazy (2:21)
c. We deal with the total child (2:46)
The Lost Works
Mode Records/1997
Essential Music (piano, handclaps: Judith Gordon; snare drum, handclaps, whistling: John Kennedy;  tom toms, washtub, string piano, handclaps, whistling, voice: Charles Wood; recorded at SUNY Purchase, January 1994; composition year: 1940; time: 8:10
*WMUA Live version only


HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only
(Updated February 25, 2014)

SET FIVE
Mary Jane Leach: Ariadne's Lament
Ariadne's Lament
New World Records/1998
New York Treble Singers, conductor: Virginia Davidson; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, composition year: 1993; time: 8:12

Arvo Pärt: Beatus Patronius
Adam's Lament
ECM/2012
(for two choirs, eight woodwinds, tubular bells, and string orchestra) Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga, conductor: Tõnu Kaljuste; recorded at Niguliste Church, Tallinn, Estonia, November 2011; composition years: 1990, 2011; time: 5:16

SET SIX
Giacinto Scelsi: selections from Uaxuctum --
The Legend of the Mayan City which they themselves
destroyed for religious reasons --
a. 1st Movement (6:13)
b. 2nd Movement (3:59)
The Orchestral Works 2 
Mode Records/2007
(for ondes Martenot, seven percussionists, timpanist, chorus, and 23 musicians) Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Peter Rundel; recorded at the Festival Wien Modern, Konzerthaus Vienna, November 4, 2005; composition year: 1966; total excerpt time: 12:12

Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes-Gradual Requiem-Gambuh I
New Albion Records/1988 (orig. 1984)
(for brass sextet, fog horns, and ambient sounds) trumpets: Jim Miller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kenelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty; conductor: John Adams; recorded in and around San Francisco; composition years: 1979-1982; time: 9:50

SET SEVEN
Meredith Monk: Passage
Impermanence
ECM Records/2008
The Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble (Silvie Jensen, Allison Sniffin, Katie Geissinger, Ellen Fisher, Ching Gonzalez, The Bleckmann, Sasha Bogdanowitsch); recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, January 2007; time: 1:51

David Lang: Depart
Death Speaks
Cantaloupe Music/2013
vocals: Elizabeth Farnum, Katie Geissinger, Alexandra Montano, Alex Sweeton; cellos: Maya Beiser; composition year: 2002; time: 18:13

SINGLE PLAY
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: selections from La rupture inéluctable 
a. Memento mori (3:15)
b. Timor mortis conturbat me (2:00)
La marée
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(for bass clarinet, processing, interactive system, and multitrack tape) bass clarinet: Heather Roche; realized at the composer's studio and the University of Huddersfield, UK, 2010-2011; premiered at McGill University, Montreal, November 3, 2011; total excerpts time: 5:15

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Martian Gardens for February 16 & 19, 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 16, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 19, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

HOUR ONE

SINGLE PLAY
Yvar Mikhashoff: Opening (P. Glass)
Panorama of American Piano Music [various artists]
from Antheil to Zappa 1911-1991 
Mode Records/2013
composer: Philip Glass; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1981; time: 5:21

SET ONE
Joseph Klein: from Nine Character Studies after Elias Canetti
a. Der Ohrenzeuge (The Earwitness) (4:53)
b. Die Sternklare (The Starry Woman) (5:50)
Improbable Encounters -- Works by Joseph Klein
Innova Recordings/2014
a. bass flute: Helen Bledsoe; composition year: 2001; recorded at the University of North Texas Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, Denton, March 28, 2001; b. percussion: Christopher Deane; composition year: 2006; recorded at UNT CEMI, Denton, August 4, 2010; total excerpts time: 10:43

Joseph Klein: Die Brücke  (The Bridge) (from Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 39 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas Center for 
Experimental Music and Intermedia
Centaur Records/2012
(for narrator, mixed choir, and computer music); narrator: Jeffrey Snider; text: Franz Kafka; soloists: Heidi Dietrich Klein, Patrick Grange, Jonathan Greer, Henry Gibbons, conductor: Joseph Klein; composition year: 2006; time: 5:26

Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records--Smith Publications/2008
(for solo flute) composer: Robert Erickson; flute: Carrie Rose; recorded at University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2008; composition year: 1969; time: 5:50

SET TWO
Herbert Brün: Futility 1964
Language, Message, Drummage
Composition for Tape and for Instruments
EMF -- Smith Publications/1998
(for tape and speaker); speaker: Marianne Brün; text: Herbert Brün; recorded at the University of Illinois Electronic Music Studios; composition year: 1964; time: 7:47

David Rosenboom: Section II (symmetrical harmonies in chaotic orbits)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims (1967-71)
New World Records/2009
electronics, computer: David Rosenboom; recorded at Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Studio, Disney Recital Hall Recording Studio, The Herb Alpert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, and the composer's studio, 2008-2009; time: 13:03

HOUR TWO

SET THREE
Arthur Levering: Furies
Parallel Universe 
New World Records/2014
(for 11 players); Sequitur (flute: Erin Lesser, oboe: Jacqueline LeClair, clarinet: Jo-Ann Sternberg, bass clarinet: Philip Everall, piano: Peggy Kampmeier, percussion: Matthew Gold, violins: Andrea Schulz, Miranda Cukson, viola: Daniel Panner, cello: Greg Hesselink, bass: Jeremy McCoy; conductor: Paul Hostetter); recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 6, 2009; composition year: 2006; time: 10:13

Eric Chasalow: The Furies
a. The Fury of Beautiful Bones (4:03)
b. The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos (3:31)
c. The Fury of Cooks (1:29)
d. The Fury of Hating Eyes (3:58)
Over the Edge
New World Records/1993
(for soprano and computer music); soprano: Christine Schadeberg; realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; texts: Anne Sexton; composition year: 1984; total time: 13:00

SET FOUR
Andrew Lewis: Time and Fire
Au-delà
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic music); realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the University of Birmingham (UK), 1987-1990; premiered at the International Computer Music Conference, Stevenson Hall of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, September 12, 1990; time: 13:45

Tim Hodgkinson: Fighting/Breathing
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
(for bass clarinet and percussion on tape); bass clarinet: Tim Hodgkinson; recorded in concert at Sala de Concerte a Filarmonicii Paul Constantinescu, Ploiești, Romania, October 2003; composition year: 2001; time: 7:40

SET FIVE
Marco Oppedisano: Monks in Dazzling Lead Cloaks
(from Scenes from Dante's Inferno)
Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar
OKS Recordings of North America/2007
electric guitar, treatments: Marco Oppedisano; composition year: 1999; total excerpts time: 1:40

Marco Oppedisano: Tainted Trees (R. Voisey)
Guitars in Brooklyn -- Live 5.21.03
Marco Oppedisano/2005
composer: Robert Voisey; electric guitar: Marco Oppedisano; tenor: Robert Voisey; recorded at A.R.T./South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, New York, May 21, 2003; composition year: 2003; time: 4:50

HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only
Updated February 17, 2014

Brian Eno: Little Fishes
Another Green World
E.G.-Jem/1987 (org. Island Records LP/1975)
prepared piano, Farfisa organ: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Studios, London, summer 1975; time: 1:30

Meredith Monk: Cow Song
Our Lady of Late
Wergo/1988
voice: Meredith Monk; glass: Collin Wolcott; recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York City, 1973; time: 2:17

Henry Cow: Groningen
Henry Cow Concerts
East Side Digital/1995
(composers: Tim Hodgkinson/Henry Cow); organ, clarinet, alto saxophone: Tim Hodgkinson; bassoon, flute, oboe: Lindsay Cooper; drums: Chris Cutler; voice: Dagmar Krause; guitar, piano: Fred Frith; bass, voice, celeste: John Greaves; recorded at the Vera Club, Groningen, The Netherlands, September 26, 1974; time: 8:49

SET SIX
Claire Chase: Almost New York (A. Lucier)
Density
Claire Chase/2013
(composer: Alvin Lucier, for 5 flutes -- piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute, contrabass, flute -- and pure wave oscillators); flutes: Claire Chase; recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, New York; composition year: 2002; time: 24:19

Alvin Lucier: 947
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
(for solo flute and playback) flute: Jacqueline Martelle; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, April 29, 2002, composition year: 2001; time: 16:36

Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music (Randall/Vercoe/Dodge)
Nonesuch/1974
computer music: Barry Vercoe; realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; composition year: 1969; time: 4:35

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for February 9 & 12, 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 9, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 12, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

HOUR ONE

SET ONE
John Cage: A Valentine Out of Season I-III
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 2001-2002; composition year: 1944; time: 3:47

Yvar Mikhashoff: Valse pour les petits lecteurs du Figaro (Stravinsky)
Panorama of American Piano Music (various artists)
from Antheil to Zappa 1911-1991
Mode Records/2013
composer: Igor Stravinsky; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, 1991-1992; composition year: 1917; time: 1:04

SINGLE PLAY
Quartetski: L'Adoration de la Terre (Stravinsky)
a. Introduction
b. Les augures printaniers: Danses des adolescentes
c. Jeu du rapt
d. Rondes printanieres
e. Jeux des cités rivales
f. Cortage du sage
g. Le sage
h. Danse de la terre
Quartetski does Stravinsky
Le Sacre du Printemps ballet
Ambiances Magnétiques/2013
percussion: Isiah Ceccarelli; electric guitar: Bernard Falaise; bass clarinet, soprano saxophone: Philippe Lauzier; viola da gamba, various objects: Pierre-Yves Martel; violin: Joshua Zubot; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, March 2013; composition years: 1911-1912; time: 23:00

SET TWO
Bernard Rands: Memo 5
Piano Music (1960-2010)
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 2013; composition year: 1975; time: 10:48

Chris Campbell: Water Mirror
Things You Already Know
Innova Recordings/2014
(for strings and percussion, musicians unspecified) recorded in Minneapolis, 2013; time: 4:43

SET THREE
David Felder: Rare Air -- Blews
Extreme Measures -- Music for Clarinet and Piano
Albany Records/2010
(for bass clarinet, vocalizations, and electronics) bass clarinet, bilabial fricative: Jean Kopperud; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, February, 2009; composition year: 2008-2009; time: 1:30

HOUR TWO

Heiner Goebbels: The Sirens
Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten
ECM/2007
Ensemble Modern with Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; text: Gertrude Stein (speaker unspecified); composition year: 2002; time: 2:17

Morris Palter: Broken Drum (M. Burtner)
Remedy -- Morris Palter, solo percussion
Centaur Records/2006
composer: Matthew Burtner; recorded at Warren Music Facility, University of California, San Diego, 2003-2004; composition year: 2003; time: 5:43

Fishers O'Wufmen: Spiritum Lupus
Fishers O'Wufmen
Frank Pahl/2013
instruments: Frank Pahl, Dennis Palmer; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan, April 2012; time: 2:47

Amy Denio: I'm Glad Today is Monday
Prodigal Light
Spoot Music/2013
sound mash-up by friends of Amy Denio (story, transcription, narration: David Greenberger; horn, guitar, kick drum, bamboo flute, whistling, door bell: Frank Pahl; telephone messages: Jim McAdams (2 moments in musical museum ), Eli McBett (~ gli Egiziani: Lasciatemi caricare!), Francisco Lopez (~ tomatoes in a tub ); dog bark: Mary Grace Lawrence the Dog; theremin, sound sculpture: Jim McAdams; science set: Nick Ripley; electronic cello: Derek Johnson; tape squish sounds, gajangle: Bob Phillips; mouth sounds: Detonator Beth Lawrence; unspecified: Don Campau, Robin O'Brien) composition and mix: Amy Denio; recorded at Spoot Studios and Soli Sound Studios, West Seattle; time: 2:44

Viv Corringham: Slack Tide
Walking
Innova Recordings/2013
vocals, interviews, and field recordings: Viv Corringham; recorded in Little Venice and East London by the Thames; time: 5:32

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Thirst
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
(for interview, soprano, sounds on tape) narrator: Simone Fattal; soprano: Kristin Norderval; bowed gong and piano resonances (on tape): Gustovao Aguilar, Joseph Kubera, and William Winant; other sounds in other places recorded by Annea Lockwood; composition year: 2008; time: 20:00

SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: Something Else*
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
electronic music (Layfette tone generators, noise source, tape delay): Pauline Oliveros; recorded at Electronic Music Studio of the University of Toronto, summer 1966; time: 13:51
*TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only

Maggi Payne: Solar Wind
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
flute, synthesizers, electronics: Maggi Payne; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland; time: 9:46

HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only
(updated February 10, 2014)

SINGLE PLAY
Amy Horvey: Cranberry Flats Mobile (radio edit)
Catchment
Paved Arts/2010
trumpet, field recordings: Amy Horvey; recorded at the Cranberry Flats Conservation Area, South Saskatchewan River, Saskatchewan; time 12:15

SET FIVE
Juan Blanco: Ella (Pastoral Erótica)
Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings/2013
electroacoustic music: Juan Blanco; recorded at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of Cuba, Havana, 1987; time: 15:40

Mari Kimura: Bucknerian for voice, violin and computer
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
voice samples: Thomas Buckner; violin, computer, processing: Mari Kimura; recorded in New York City; composition year: 2002; time: 8:52

SINGLE PLAY
J.K. Randall: Intimacy (a polemic) part 3
Open Space 10 (Randall/Boretz)
Open Space/1999
voice: Jim Randall; recorded in New York City for a meeting of the Society for Music Theory (dates unspecified); time: 4:05

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