Martian Gardens for May 4 & 7, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
(Live version returns to three hours, May 4, 2014)
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 4, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: May 7, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Sun and Shadow
(Spanish Songbook II)
A cycle of five songs on the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca
I. Lazy River (Corriente Lenta) [3:53}
II. The Fly (Mosca) [2:29}
III. The Interrupted Concert (El Concertieto Interrumpido) [2:33]
IV. Dance of the Moon in Santiago (Danza da Lua en Santiago) [2:33]
V. Farewell (Despedida] [3:15} 
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 16
Bridge Records/2014
soprano: Ann Crumb; amplified piano: Marcantonio Barone; texts: Garcia Lorca; recorded at Swarthmore College, July 2013; composition year: 2009; total time: 15:24

SINGLE PLAY
Arthur Levering: Drinking Songs
a. A Drinking Song [1:59]
b. Potatores exquisiti [3:57]
c. Le Vin Perdu [2:47]
d. Dronken [3:18]
Parallel Universe
New World Records/2014
mezzo-soprano: Krista River; harps: Franziska Huhn, Amanda Romano; pianos: Donald Berman, John McDonald; conductor: Scott Wheeler; texts: a. W.B. Yeats, b. Anon.(13th c. Bavaria), c. Paul Valéry, d. Anon. (14th c. England); recorded at Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University, May 29, 2009; composition year: 2005; time: 12:13

SET ONE
Ben Johnston: I Concentrate on You (C. Porter)
from Revised Standards 
Ruminations
MicroFest Records/2014
composer: Cole Porter, 1940, arr. Ben Johnston, 1987; Eclipse String Quartet; time: 2:28

Elizabeth Brown: Three Arias from "A Bookmobile for Dreamers"
a. Bookmusic
b. Swamp Aria
c. Lullaby 
Mirage
New World Records/2013
theremin, tapes: Elizabeth Brown; recorded at the Liguria Study Center, Bogliasco, Italy, March 2012; composition year: 2011 (music to accompany animation by Lothar Osterburg); time: 6:55

Anne LeBaron: Concerto for Active Frogs
Rana, Ritual & Revelations
Mode Records/1992
(for frog sounds, male soloist, chorus, and ensemble) The New Music Consort, conductor: Anne Lebaron; tenor sax, animal calls: George Cartwright; trombone: Jim Stanley; percussion, tape: William Trigg; baritone voice: David Shea; chorus: Rodney Thomaston, Susan Botti, Adam Weisman, Julie Marti, Christina Wheeler, David Anthony, Debra Degenhardt, Michael Rosensky; originally recorded in 1975; composition year: 1975; time: 10:44

hour two

SET TWO 
Eve Beglarian: Testy Pony
Songs from the River Project II
EVBVD Music/2012
voice: Eve Beglarian, text: Zachary Schomberg; violin: Ron Blessinger; cello: Hamilton Chaifetz; composition year: 2011; time: 3:53

Twisted Tutu: Touchtone Tony
Play Nice
O.O. Discs/1999
telephony, processing: Eve Beglarian, Ben Rubin; phone message: Touchtone Tony, the Hotline Homeboy; composition year: 1994; time: 1:43

David Hahn: Apocalypse Cow
Apocalypse Cow/Chernobyl
Fin Records/2011
sampling (Bush, Rumsfeld, aircraft, bombs, cows, pornografische Klänge): David Hahn; composition year: 2010; time: 1:39

Phillip Kent Bimstein: A Little Bit About My Cows
Garland Hirschi's Cows
Starkland/1996
sampler: PKB, sampled voice: Garland Hirschi; sampled lowing: Garland Hirschi's cows, Springdale, Utah; composition year: 1990; time: 2:47

Polly Moller: Cold Blood
60 x 60: 2004/2005 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2007
electronics, flute, voice, text: Polly Moller; time: 1:00

Annie Gosfield: Daughters of the Industrial Revolution (excerpt)
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; cello: Felix Fan; drums, percussion: Ches Smith; percussion: Alex Lipowski; recorded at the Kitchen, New York City; composition year: 2011; time: 5:35

Secluded Bronte: Pistacchio (sic.)
Secluded in Jersey City
Pogus Productions/2013
found sounds, microphones, laptop: Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman, Richard Thomas; recorded at WFMU, New Jersey, November 7, 2002; time: 4:31

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: Sky with Four Suns
Cold Blue Two (various artists)
Cold Blue Music/2012
ETHEL (violins: Cornelius Dufallo, Jennifer Choi; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson); recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, New Jersey, July 2011; composition year: 2010; time: 4:25

James Tenney: Mallets in the Air
Cold Blue Two (various artists)
Cold Blue Music/2012
Partch diamond marimba (in just intonation): Erin Barnes; Formalist Quartet (violins: Andrew McIntosh, Andrew Tholl; viola: Mark Menzies; cello: Ashley Walters); recorded at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, 2010; composition year: 2002; time: 4:40

SET FOUR
James Tenney: Percussion Response (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy 
Mode Records/2007
(for computer music and percussion); percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in the Netherlands, 2007; composition year: 1964; time: 8:42

Peter Batchelor: Nebula (from Kaleidoscope: Cycle)
Kaleidoscope
Pogus Productions/2013
(electroacoustic music); realized at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, composition year: 2012; time: 13:17

hour three

SET FIVE
Maggi Payne: Electric Ice
Experimental Music Studios 1958 -- 2008 [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of
the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios [boxed set]
U. of Ill. EMS/2008
electronics, synthesizers: Maggi Payne; recorded at the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios, Urbana-Champaign, 2008; time: 6:31

Barbara Golden & Melody Sumner Carnahan:  
At the Corner of Alive & Jesus (2nd 1/2)
At the Corner of Alive & Jesus
Burning Books/2001
music, narration: Barbara Golden; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan; vocals: Barbara Golden, Sheila Davies, Barney Jones; keyboards: Barbara Golden; percussion: William Winant; guitar: Larry Polansky;  flute: Maggi Payne; viola, violin: Mary Oliver; saxophone: George Brooks; additional voice: K. Atchley; additional narration: Robert Ashley, David Cremin; remasterering: Maggi Payne, ABC, Sydney, Australia; premiered at The Lab, San Francisco, 1988; excerpt time: 18:00

SET SIX
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
computer music composed and recorded at the Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music Studios, France; composition year: 2001; time: 111:50

Xenia Pestova: On the Impossibility of Reflection (S. Wilson)*
Shadow Piano
Innova Recordings/2013
(for piano and electronics, composer: Scott Wilson); piano: Xenia Pestova; recorded at Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham, UK; composition year: 2011; time: 12:40

Ikue Mori: Kaleidoscope*
Labyrinth
Tzadik/2001
computer, drum machine: Ikue Mori; recorded in Brooklyn, December 2000; time: 3:10

*TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only

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Martian Gardens for April 27 & 30, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 27, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 30, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Litany of the Galactic Bells (Leo R.V.)
Makrokosmos Volume II, Part Three, Fantasy Three
Makrokosmos I & II
Mode Records/2004
amplified piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July 2003; composition years: 1972-1973; time: 233

SET ONE
Rand Steiger: Awhirl
A Menacing Plume
New World Records/2014
piano: Steven Beck; digital audio signal processing: Rand Steiger; recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, January 2013; composition year: 2008; time: 7:57

Joseph Kubera: Piano 2, Movement I (J. Eastman)
Book of Horizons
New World Records/2014
composer: Julius Eastman; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 2013; composition year: 1986; time: 6:46

Ursula Mamlok: Zwei Klavierstücke
I. Inward Journey (3:21)
II. In High Spirits (1:48)
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 4
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Holger Groschopp; recorded at Gartenstraße, Berlin, September 2012; composition years: I. 1989, II. 2004; total time: 5:09

Mary Kathleen Ernst: selections from Chai Variations (J. Shatin)
a. Flowing (0:39)
b. Sly (0:47)
c. Whimsical (0:53)
d. Dark (0:52)
Keeping Time
Innova Recordings/2014
composer: Judith Shatin; piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst; recorded at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts; composition year: 1995; total excerpts time: 3:00

SET TWO
Peter Batchelor: Fissure
Kaleidoscope -- Cycle, part 1
Kaleidoscope
Pogus Productions/2013
(electroacoustic music); realized at the composer's studio and the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester UK, composition year: 2006; time: 9:47

Jonty Harrison: Pair/Impair
Articles indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
(electroacoustic music); realized at the Recording and Electronic Music Studio of the University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, composition year: 1978; time: 11:48

hour two

SET THREE
Carey Nutman: Trisolde
The Sea and the Snake
MPS Music and Video/2013
(electronic music); time: 7:38

James Correa: Vertiginous Rotation
Portfolio
James Correa/2012
guitar: Magnus Andersson; live electronics: James Correa; recorded in Brazil, 2008; composition year: 2008; time: 6:33

Noah Creshevsky: Spring
The Four Seasons
Tzadik/2013
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; ingredients may include -- clarinets: Sherman Friedland, Al Margolis; clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontoravich; tenor and alto saxes: Audrey Betsy Welber; tenor sax: Tedross Avery; trumpet: Ben Holmes; trumpet voice: Susan Watts; trombone: Monique Buzzarte; drums: Ray Marchica, Gregg Mervine; voice: Tomomi Adachi, Jeremiah Crawly, Amy Denio, Beth Griffith, Kathy Hanson, Chris Mann, Maria Mannisto; guitars, voice: Gary Heidt; guitars, Rodney Jones, Marco Oppedisano; banjo: Rich Gross; violins: Maria Kimura, Amy Zakar; basses: Orin Buck, Lonnie Plaxico, Heather Chriscaden Versace; composition years: 1992--2013; master composition year: 2013; time: 9:36

SET FOUR 
Tim Hodgkinson: Attaot 
Onsets
Mode Records/2014
(for ensemble & electronic sound); percussion: Gustavo Aguilar, Petru Teodorescu, Alexander Lipowski; Hyperion Ensemble with members of Talea, clarinet, conducting: Tim Hodgkinson; recorded at Spectrum XXI Festival, October 13, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 8:53

Field recordings:
a. Morning Twilight: Forest and Village Sounds (1:31)
b. Krua aben muru (7:38)
Ritual Music of the Kayapó-Xikrin, Brazil
Traditional music of the world 7
Smithsonian Folkways/1995
field recordings by Max Peter Baumann; State of Pará, Central Brazil; instruments: group singing (Kayapó language), rattles, gourds, sticks; recorded in 1988; total excerpts time: 9:09

Field recording: Arullo San Antonio  (St. Anthony's Lullaby)
Black Music in Praise of Oxalá and Other Gods
Nonesuch Records/2003 (orig. LP/1970)
recorded in Buenaventura, Colombia; date unspecified; instrumentation: singing group, percussion; time: 2:41

Brian Eno: Energy Fools the Magician*
Before and After Science
EG/1977
keyboards, vocals, vibes: Brian Eno; drums: Phil Collins; fretless bass: Percy Jones; modified guitar: Fred Frith; recorded at Basing Street Studios, London, and Conny Plank's Studio, Cologne, 1977; time: 2:03 
*WMUA Live version only

hour three
TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only
Updated April 29, 2014

Coil:
a. Babylero (0:58)
b. Interlude (Babylero-Ostia) (0:15)
Horse Rotorvator
Some Bizzare/1986
field recordings: child chanting, idiophone, tropical insects, dog barking; locations, times unspecified; total time: 1:13

Secluded Bronte: Endocarp
Secluded in Jersey City
Pogus Productions/2013
found objects, microphones, laptops: Jonathan Bohman, Adam Bohman, Richard Thomas; recorded live at WFMU, New Jersey, November 7, 20002; time: 1:32

SET FIVE
Barbara Golden & Melody Sumner Carnahan:  At the Corner of Alive & Jesus (1st 1/2)
At the Corner of Alive & Jesus
Burning Books/2001
music, narration: Barbara Golden; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan; vocals: Barbara Golden, Sheila Davies, Barney Jones; keyboards: Barbara Golden; percussion: William Winant; guitar: Larry Polansky;  flute: Maggi Payne; viola, violin: Mary Oliver; saxophone: George Brooks; additional voice: K. Atchley; additional narration: Robert Ashley, David Cremin; remasterering: Maggi Payne, ABC, Sydney, Australia; premiered at The Lab, San Francisco, 1988; excerpt time: 18:48

Larry Polansky: Four-Voice Canon #5
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
percussion: William Winant; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College; Oakland, 1983; composition year: 1983; time: 3:24

SET SIX
Elaine Barkin: On the way to becoming... (a soliloquy)
from Five Collages
Open Space 3 (Barkin/Boretz)
Open Space/1992
tape collage, text, voice: Elaine Barkin; recorded at UCLA, 1984; time: 10:50

Amy Horvey: Overture to the Queen of the Music Boxes
Interview
actuellecd/2009
trumpet: Amy Horvey; music boxes, toy instruments, electronics: Jeff Morton; recorded at St. Philip's Church and Studio 270, Montreal, August, 2009; time: 8:19

David Lee Myers & Marco Oppedisano: 
a. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (2:59)
b. The Restless Pulse of Care (4:09)
Tesla at Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008
electric and acoustic guitars, samples: Marco Oppedisano; feedback, noises, voice: David Lee Myers;  time: 7:08

Concert Imaginaire: There's Only One Thing Left To Do
Fortune's Wheel
Fin Records/2014
narrator: Sean Nelson; drums, percussion: Becca Baggenstoss; basses: Nick Davis; violins: Ruthie Dornfield; electric guitar: David Hahn; keyboards, percussion: Jay Kenney; recorded at Jupiter Studios, Seattle, March 2012; time: 7:41


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Martian Gardens for April 20 & 23, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 20, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 23, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
Phil Kline: Northport
John the Revelator -- A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
(Northport 324: Tune: Dr. R. R. Olson,1850, Lyrics: John Cennick, 1743; arr. Phil Kline); Lionheart choir, recorded at the Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August 2007; composition year: 2007; time: 2:36

SET ONE
Yvar Mikhashoff: Souvenir (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, 1991-1992; composition year: 1983; time: 7:03

George Crumb: Easter Dawning
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
carillon bells: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, September 2001; composition year: 1992; time: 4:06

George Crumb: Pastoral Drone
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Six
Bridge Records/2003
organ: Gregory D'Agostino; recorded at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City; December 11, 2001; composition year: 1982; time: 6:55

John Cage: Souvenir
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at the Nederluleå Church, Gammelstad, Luleå, Sweden, 2007; composition year: 1983; time: 6:50

SET TWO 
Robert Voisey: Constellations (seven 1-minute pieces)
a. Orion
b. Chameleon
c. Eridanus
d. Sagittarius 
e. Gemini
f. Vela
g. Aries
Electronic Music Midwest [various artists]
Irritable Hedgehog Music/2014
voice, electronics: Robert Voisey; total time: 7:07

Jim Cole and Spectral Voices: From the Birds
Sky
Spectral Spiral Music/2000
voices recorded in a 120-foot water tower in Connecticut, July 5, 1994; time: 6:06

Deep Listening Band: Phantom
The Ready Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1991
voice, trombone: Stuart Dempster; voice, accordion: Pauline Oliveros; voices: Thomas Eckert, Panaiotis; recorded at the Cistern Chapel (subterranean cistern), Fort Worden, Washington, 1988; time: 8:49

hour two
Updated April 22, 2014

SET THREE
Rand Steiger: A Menacing Plume
A Menacing Plume
New World Records/2014
(for ensemble and electronics); Talea Ensemble (flutes: Tara Helen O'Connor; oboes: Arthur Sato; clarinets: Rane Moore; piano: Steven Beck, percussion: Matthew Gold, Alex Lipowski: percussion: violin: Yuki Numata Besnick; viola: Elizabeth Weisser; cello: Chris Gross; conductor: James Baker; digital audio signal processing: Miller Puckette, Rand Steiger; recorded at Oktaven Studio, Yonkers, January 2013; composition year: 2011; time: 16:32

Glenn Kotche: Triple Fantasy
Adventureland
Cantaloupe Music/2014
performed by Eighth Blackbird and Kronos Quartet; recorded at Electrical Audio, Chicago; composition year: 2008; time: 5:42

SET FOUR
Sumner Carnahan & Out of Context:
a. Stripped (6:32)
b. Again (5:42)
One Inch Equals 25 Miles
Burning Books/2005
words: Melody Sumner Carnahan; music: J.A. Deane; Out of Context (cornet: Jon Baldwin; sampler, live sampling: C.K. Barlow; oud, electronics: Stefan Dill; voice, acting: John Flax; cello: Katie Harlow; bassoon: Sam Rhodes; vocalist: Molly Sturges; viola: Alcia Ultan; drums, percussion: Jefferson Voorhees; sampler, uniflute, conductor: J.A. Deane); recorded at Outpost Recording Space, Albuquerque, December 10, 2004; time: 12:14

Radio Morocco: Radio Tangier Internationale
Radio Morocco
Sublime Frequencies/2004
radio transmissions recorded, edited, and assembled by Allen Bishop in 1983; time: 3:43

Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
electronics, sampling: Sarah Boothroyd; composition year: 2008; time: 2:34

Elainie Lillios: Toronto Island Contrasts
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
electronics, sampling: Elainie Lillios; compositon year: 2008; time: 1:00

Anne La Berge: 800 Speakers
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, flute, electronics: Anne La Berge; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, summer 2009, composition years: 2001-2009; time: 3:51

hour three
Updated April 22, 2014
TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only

SET FIVE
Benjamin Boretz: The Memory of  All That
(A Holy Sonnet of John Donne for Milton Babbitt)
Open Space 31 
Open Space/2014
mezzo soprano: Megan Berti; piano: Zuzanna Szewcyk Kwon; recorded at the Eastman School of Music, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 12:38

Milton Babbitt: Occasional Variations
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2004
RCA Mark II synthesizer: Milton Babbitt; recorded at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center; composition years: 1968-1971; time: 9:54

SET SIX
Beth Anderson: Shakuhachi Run
The Praying Mantis and the Bluebird
MSR Classics/2013
shakuhachi: Andrew Bolotowsky; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, New York City, August 2012; composition year: 1981; time: 4:41

Frances White: Choshi (trad.)
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; time: 4:56

Judith Shatin: Grito del Corazón
Time to Burn
Innova Recordings/2014
(for clarinets and electronics) clarinets: F. Gerard Errante, D. Gause; composition year: 2001; time: 5:18

SET SEVEN
Carey Nutman: Amphibia
The Sea and the Snake
MPS Music & Video/2013
electronic music: Carey Nutman; composition year: 2013;  time: 12:28

Rudiger Gleisberg: African Moods
Electroacoustic Music Volume 3 [various artists]
Electroshock Records/1999
electronic music: Rudiger Gleisberg; composition year: 1998; time: 7:32

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Martian Gardens for April 13 & 16, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 13, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 16, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
Mary Kathleen Ernst: Mosquito (Jing Jing Luo)
Keeping Time
Innova Recordings/2014
composer: Jing Jing Luo; piano: MKE; composition year: 1991; time: 5:26

SET ONE
Tim Hodgkinson: Jo-Ha-Kyu
Onsets
Mode Records/2014
(for string quartet, harp, trombone, synthesizer, and glass); Ne(x)tworks, conductor: Tim Hodgkinson; recorded at the Issue Project Room, New York City, April 18, 2010; composition years: 2000-2010; time: 15:56 

Catherine Jauniaux & Tim Hodgkinson: 
a. Infant Sorrow (2:47)
b. The dancers under the hill (3:07)
Fluvial
Ad Hoc/2005 (orig. WOOF LP/1983)
a. vocals: Catherine Jauniaux; bassoon, sopranino sax: Lindsay Cooper; percussion, vibraphone, xylophone: Dominic Weeks; percussion, clarinet, piano: Tim Hodgkinson; text: William Blake; b. vocals: Catherine Jauniaux; organ, viola: Tim Hodgkinson; recorded at Cold Storage Studio, London, summer 1983; total excerpts time: 5:56

SET TWO
Melody Sumner Carnahan: Try Being Alive in THIS World
Try Being Alive in THIS World (e.p)
Burning Books/2011
words: MSC; voice: Elizabeth Wiseman; sound design: Dino J.A. Deane; voice recorded at Mayhem Studios, October 12, 2006; sound recorded at MOV-IN Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 11, 2006; realized for CD, February 27, 2007; time: 10:05

Fortner Anderson & Ned Bouhalassa: 3 Out of Every 10
Annunciations
Les Blocs errants/2012
words, voice: Fortner Anderson; electroacoustic music: Ned Bouhalassa; recorded in Montreal, 2012; time: 7:22

Glenn Kotche: The Haunted, Movement 4: Hive
Adventureland
Cantaloupe Music/2014
percussion: Matthew Duvall, Doug Perkins, Glenn Kotche; recorded at Ganz Hall, Institute of Chicago, 2011; time: 3:32

hour two

SET THREE
Judith Shatin: Time to Burn
Time to Burn
Innova Recordings/2014
oboe: Aaron Hill; percussion: Mike Schutz, I-Jen Fang; composition year: 2006; time: 10:25

Wendy Mae Chambers: Mamman Brigitte 
12²
New World Records/1998
percussion: Michael Pugliese, Randy Crafton, Jason Cirker, Charles Kiger, Andy Bowman, Kory Grossman, Mark Belair, Dan McMillan, Frank Cassara, David Cossin, Jimmy Musto, Dominic Donato, conductor: Howard Van Hyning; recorded at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, July 21, 1994; time: 4:42

Gloria Coates: Aria: "Junge Witwe" (from The Force for Peace in War)
Inidan Sounds
New World Records/2002
soprano: Sigune von Osten; Musica-viva ensemble Dresden, conductor: Jürgen Wirmann; text: Charlotte Hagedorn (Berlin, 1941); recorded at Munich Philharmonic Chamber Hall, Gasteig cultural center, February 27, 1992; composition year: 1973; time: 5:00

SET FOUR
Paul Rudy: Sun's Soliloquy
Electronic Music Midwest (various artists)
Irritable Hedgehog Music/2014
(electroacoustic music); composition year 2012; time: 7:02

Mara Helmuth: The Edge of Noise
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36 [various artists]
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Mara Helmuth: Sound Collaborations
Centaur Records/2007
(for ensemble and computer music); performed by the NeXT Ens, conductor: Mara Helmuth; recorded at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati; composition year: 2004; time: 7:45

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 4, "March No. 2"
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
(for 12 radios, first version); CCM Percussion Ensemble, conductor: James Culley; recorded at Werner Concert Hall, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati; May 25, 2006; composition year: 1942; time: 4:26

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: Downtime
Open Space 31 (Postlude/Downtime/The Memory of All That)
Open Space/2014
(for piano and electronic percussion); piano: Ian Pace; recorded in London, 2012; composition year: 2005; time: 19:53 (WMUA live 10:00)

hour three
TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only

Boretz, Continued

SET FIVE
Cindy McTee: Introduction: On with The Dance
(Symphony No. 1: Ballet for Orchestra, Mvt. I)
Symphony No. 1: Ballet for Orchestra, and other works
Naxos Records/2013
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Leonard Slatkin; recorded at the Fisher Music Center, Detroit, May 2012; composition year: 2002; time: 8:20 

Felix Mendelssohn: "Ruy Blas" Concert Overture, op. 95
Lento-Allegro molto
Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies - 7 Overtures (boxed set)
Deutsche Grammophon/2002
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Claudio Abbado; recorded at All Saints Church, Tooting, London, November 1986; composition year: 1839; time: 8:39

In memory of Claudio Abbado (June 26, 1933 -- January 20, 2014)

SET SIX
Luigi Nono: Como una ola fuerza y luz (abridged)
(Like a wave of strength and light)
a. Beginning (2:33)
b. Interno dolce (1:47)
c. Duro deciso (2:14)
d. Piano Entry (6:55)
e. Dolcissimo sereno (2:11)
f. Orchestra Entry (10:02)
g. Orchestra and Piano Entry (4:20)
Como una olo fuerza y luz, etc.
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
(for soprano, piano, orchestra, and tape; text: Julio Huasi, paen to Luciano Cruz); soprano: Slavka Taskova; piano: Maurizio Pollini; Symphony Orchestra of Bayerischen Radio, conductor: Claudio Abbado; composition years: 1971-1972; total abridged time: 25:38

Arnold Schoenberg: Peripetie: Sehr rasch 
(from Fünf Orchesterstücke op. 16)
Schönberg / Messiaen
CPO/2000
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Hans Zender, recorded at Frankfurt Singakademie; composition year: 1909; time: 2:29
  

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Martian Gardens for April 6 & 9, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 6, 2014

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

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: from Makrokosmos, Volume I, Part Three
a. The Abyss of Time (Virgo) (2:41)
b. Spring-Fire (Aries) (1:29)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 8
Bridge Records/2005
amplified piano: Robert Shannon; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2003; composition years: 1972-1973; total excerpts time: 4:10

SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Hoshech Al P'ney HaTehom 
(Darkness Upon the Face of Deep)
Time to Burn
Innova Recordings/2014
electronic music: Judith Shatin; composition year: 1990; time: 11:13

Alice Shields: Sacrifice 
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993
voice, text, keyboards, synthesizers: Alice Shields; electric guitar: Jim Matus; recorded at Quality Studios and the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City; composition year: 1990; time: 9:58

SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: Cortez
Ikon and Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
tape music: Ingram Marshall; text, voice: Don McCaig; composition years: 1972-1973; time: 8:29

Jay Batzner: Near Burning
Electronic Music Midwest [various artists]
Irritable Hedgehog Music/2014
fixed media: Jay Batzner; composition year: 2005; time: 7:56

Jorge Reyes: Omeyocan, Lugar 2
El Costumbre
Extreme Records/1993
percussion, body percussion, spirit catcher, Aztec ocarina: Jorge Reyes; recorded at El Cuarto de Maquinas, Mexico City; composition year: 1992; time: 4:17

hour two
Updated April 6, 2014, 23:50

SET THREE
Somei Satoh: Burning Meditation
From the Depth of Silence
Mode Records/2004
baritone: Thomas Buckner; The Janáček Philharmonic, conductor: Petr Kotik; text: Kazuko Shiraishi;  recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic, May 7, 2003; text: Kazuko Shiraishi; composition year: 1993; time: 12:11

David Lang: from Death Speaks
a. Death Speaks 2: I Hear You (3:45)
b. Death Speaks 3: Mist is Rising (5:02)
Death Speaks
Cantaloupe Music/2013
bass drum, vocals: Shara Worden; guitar: Bryce Dessner; piano: Nico Muhly; violin, vocals: Owen Pallett; composition year: 2012; total excerpts time: 8:47

SET FOUR
Mary Kathleen Ernst: Keeping Time (V. Fung)
Keeping Time
Innova Recordings/2014
composer: Vivian Fung; piano: MKE; recorded at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts; composition year: 2011; time: 3:49

David Rosenboom: In the Beginning: Etude III (for keyboard & two oranges)
In The Beginning (1978-1981)
New World Records/2012
piano: David Rosenboom; recorded at the composer's studio, CalArts, June 18, 2012, composition year: 1980; time: 6:15

Vijay Iyer: 
a. Spellbound and Sacrosanct, Cowrie Shells and the Shimmering Sea (7:33)
b. When We're Gone (3:27)
Mutations
ECM Records/2014
piano, electronics: Vijay Iyer; recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, September 2013; total excerpts time: 11:00

SINGLE PLAY
Artemiy Artemiev & Christopher De Laurenti:*
a. A Glimpse (2:05)
b. Internal Static Bursts (3:38) 
57 Minutes to Silence
Electroshock Records/2002
synthesizers, electronics: Artemiy Artemiev, Christopher De Laurenti; total excerpts time: 5:43
*WMUA Live version only

SET FIVE
Philippe Auclair: Le Creux de L'Enfer
Compendium International -- Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
(electroacoustic music); composition year: 2006; time: 10:03

hour three 
TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only
Artemiy Artemiev & Phillip B. Klingler: Broken Sleep in the Fracture Zone
A Moment of Infinity
Electroshock Records/2002
synthesizers, Artemiy Artemiev, Phillip B. Klingler; composition year: 2001; time: 11:07

SINGLE PLAY
Helmut Lachenmann: Grido
Complete String Quartets
Mode Records/2014
The JACK Quartet; Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Köln, October 31, 2007; time: 25:24

SET SIX
Updated April 8, 2014
 
Iannis Xenakis: Anemoessa
50 Years of Holland Festival -- A Dutch Miracle (boxed set)
Globe/1997
(for mixed choir and orchestra); Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus of the Netherlands Radio, conductor: Richard Dufallo; recorded a Concertgebouw Amsterdam, June 16, 1979; composition year: 1979; time: 12:24 (sans applause)

Iannis Xenakis: Concret PH
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
electronic music composed at Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris, 1958; time: 2:42

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Martian Gardens for March 30 & April 2, 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 30, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 2, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
Elainie Lillios: La Fête de la huitièmme decennie
Electronic Music Midwest (various artists)
Irritable Hedgehog Music/2014
electroacoustic music: Elainie Lillios; composition year: 2012; time: 2:08

SET ONE
Glenn Kotche: selections from Anomaly, Movements 1-7
a. Anomaly Mvt. 4  (4:03)
b. Anomaly Mvt. 5 (1:57)
c. Anomaly Mvt. 6 (4:02)
d. Anomaly Mvt. 7 (3:04)
Adventureland 
Cantaloupe Music/2014
(for percussion and string quartet); drumkit, acoustic and electronic percussion: Glenn Kotche; string quartet, percussion: Kronos Quartet; recorded at The Loft, Chicago; composition year: 2007; total excerpts time: 13:06

Beth Anderson: March Swale
Swales and Angels
New World Records/2004
Rubio String Quartet (violins: Dirk Van de Velde, Dirk Van den Hauwe; viola: Marc Sonnaert, cello: Ilia Laporev); recorded at Mirror Image, New York City, November, 2003; composition year: 2000; time: 5:26

Beth Anderson: Comment
The Praying Mantis and the Bluebird 
MSR Classics/2013
flute: Andrew Bolotowsky; recorded at Patrych Studios, New York City, August 2012; composition year: 2003; time: 3:14

SET TWO
Ben Johnston: selections from The Tavern
a. Prelude (0:45)
b. Who Says Words With My Mouth (3:41)
c. A Community of Spirit (2:41)
d. A Children's Game (6:43)
Ruminations - Settings of Rumi & Billie Holiday 
MicroFest Records/2014
voice, microtonal guitar: John Schneider; texts: Rumi; composition year: 1998; total excerpts time: 12:45

John Schneider: December 1942 (H. Partch)
a. Come Away, Death (2:59)
b. The Heron (1:16)
c. The Rose (2:30)
Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003
composer: Harry Partch; voice, Adapted Guitar I: John Schneider; texts: a. Shakespeare; b. Tsurayuki; c. Ella Young; recorded in Los Angeles, 1997; composition year: 1942;  time: 6:45

hour two
Updated March 30, 2014 

SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Goode: Circular Thoughts
Annbling
New World Records/2014
solo clarinet: Daniel Goode; recorded in New York City, circa 1980, composition year: 1974; time: 19:41

SET THREE 
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring (Side One)
Volume 2: Electronic Works (Sidewinder/Until Spring)
Mode Records/2004
(for 4-channel tape); synthesizer, tape: Morton Subotnick; recorded at CalArts, 1975; remastered 2003; time: 15:01

Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
(for 16-channel tape) electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 2003; premiered at Open Space, Victoria, British Columbia, October 9, 2003; time: 5:39

SINGLE PLAY
Jorge Antunes: Mixolydia *
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for theremin and electronics); theremin: Lydia Kavina; recorded at Sala-Villa-Lobos's Teatro Nacional de Brasilia, Brazil, December 5, 1997; composition year: 1995; time: 11:30
*WMUA live version only

hour three
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only
Updated April 1, 2014

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Orgone
Ghost Words
Aucourant Records/2008
electroacoustic music: RST; composition year: 2008; premiered at SOUND Festival of Music, Aberdeen, Scotland, November 15, 2008; time: 15:31

SET FOUR
Eleanor Hovda: Ikima
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
shakuhachi: Eleanor Hovda; composition year: 1985; time: 4:40

Tim Hodgkinson: Amhas/Nirriti
Onsets
Mode Records/2014
(for ensemble and electronic sound); The Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Tim Hodgkinson; recorded at the Auditorium St. Germain, Paris, SPECTRUM XXI 2006 Festival, November 21, 2006; composition year: 2001; time: 16:53

SET FIVE

In fond memory of Robert Ashley (March 28, 1930 -- March 3, 2014)

Melody Sumner Carnahan: Victims
The Time is Now -- The Fiction of MSC (various artists)
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice: Robert Ashley; text: MSC; time: 8:07

Robert Ashley: Empire (excerpt)
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voice, text: Robert Ashley; voice: Jacqueline Humbert; electronic orchestration, processing: Robert Ashley, Tom Hamilton; Atalanta (Acts of God) composed 1982-1991; excerpt time: 21:00

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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


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