Bells and Whistles for May 29, 2014

BELLS AND WHISTLES
A survey of world music and its derivatives
 
WMUA .ORG
Thursdays, Summer 2014 live broadcast/webcast
12:00 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 29, 2014

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

SELECTIONS PLAYED
Gamelan Semar Pegulingan Saih Pitu: Gending Lasem, saih selsir
The Heavenly Orchestra of Bali
CMP Records/1991
Gamelan Semar Pegulingan Saih Pitu of Kamasan, director: I Wayan Sumendra; recorded at Pura Bole Batur, Kamasan, Bali, September 1991; time 23:28

Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro
a. Kunsonoro kaj Gloro (2:27)
b. Strofo 1 (4:42)
c. Strofo 2 (3:45)
d. Strofo 3 (1:24)
e. Strofo 4 (4:08)
f. Strofo 5 (4:27)
g. Strofo 6 (2:27)
h. Strofo 7 -- Mantro kaj Kunsonoro (5:08)
La Koro Sutro
New Albion Records/1988
(for 100-voice chorus and gamelan); The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of The University of California at Berkeley, conductor: Philip Brett; harp: Karen Gottlieb; organist: Agnes Saurbeck; American Gaemelan (Don R. Baker, Scott Evans, Gino Robair Forlin, Todd Manley, Peter Thielen, William Winant); director: William Winant; gamelan builder: William Colvig; technician: Ron Engel; recorded at Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, November 7-8, 1987; total time: 28:50

Tarun Bhattacharya: Vilambit Bandish in Tintal
Raga Basant Mukhari/Raga Mishra Todi
India Archive Music/2002
santur: Tarun Bhattacharya; tabla: Bikram Ghosh; recorded at Master Sound Studios, New York City, September 28, 1997;  style: Carnatic raga; time: 19:58

Ardavan Kamkar: Memory of Friends
Over the Wind
Traditional Crossroads/2001
santoor: Ardavan Kamkar; recorded at Pejvak Studio, Tehran, 1998; style: modern Persian santoor; time: 12:23

Leo Kupper:  Electro-Acoustic Santur
a. Part I (3:54)
b. Part II (2:56)
c. Part III (6:09)
Electro-Acoustic
Pogus Productions/1996
(for 2 santurs, 4 microprocessors, and electronic sounds); santurs, electronics: Leo Kupper, Kyomars Peregalou; composition year: 1989; style: electronically processed Persian santur; total time: 14:00

Ivan Tcherepnin: Santur Live!
Scenes from Santur Opera:
a. Overture: The Situation in the Land (3:58)
b. Tenatives II (2:09)
c. The Call of the Lunar Feline (2:26)
d. Night Idyll (6:47)
e. Dream Filterings I (1:32)
f. Dream Filterings II (1:22)
g. The Army and the Chase (3:29) 
h. Heralder of Good Tidings (3:21)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
Composers Recordings, Inc./2001 (orig. 1982, 1985)
(for santur and Serge modular electronics); composed and performed by Ivan Tcherepnin, 1977-1995; style: electronically processed Persian santur; total time: 27:28

Janna Aivazian: Tgha-tgha (Boy, boy) (trad.)
The Music of Armenia Volume Six
Nagorno-Karabakh
Celestial Harmonies/1997
solo vocal: Janna Aivazian; recorded in the Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia; time: 2:00
 
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Martian Gardens for May 25 & 28, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 25, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: May 28, 2014
Host: Max Shea
No webcast this week

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
Curtis Roads: Sonal Atoms (excerpt from Half-Life)
CCMIX Paris [various artists]
Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
electronic music on tape recorded at CCMIX Paris; premiered at the Australian National Academy of Music, May 1998; composition year: 1998; time: 3:41

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Dancetracks (Remix)
Ride
Bridge Records/2000
(for computer-synthesized drum track and electric guitar); electric guitar samples: Steve Mackey; composition years: 1994, 1997; time: 16:37

SET ONE
Rand Steiger: Elliott's Instruments
A Menacing Plume
New World Records/2014
Talea Ensemble (flute, piccolo: Tara Helen O'Connor; clarinet, bass clarinet: Rane Moore; piano: Steven Beck; percussion: Alex Lipowski; violin: Yuki Numata Resnick; cello: Chris Gross, conductor: James Baker); recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, January 2013; composition year: 2010; time: 12:11

Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
16 Compositions (2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
(for six percussionists); New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, February 12, 2009; composition year: 2008; time: 7:36

SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Elijah's Chariot
Time to Burn
Innova Recordings/2014
(for amplified string quartet & processes shofar sounds); The Cassatt String Quartet; recorded at Abeshouse Productions, New York City;  shofar sounds recorded by Dr. Mel Siegel, Minneapolis; composition year: 1995; time: 19:42

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Three for Two
I. Across the Kennebec (2:19)
II. The Forks (1:16)
III. Caratunk (2:20)
A River Rose -- Music for Violin
New World Records/2014
violin: Airi Yoshioka; viola: Maria Labros; recorded at the Recital Hall of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2013; composition year: 1972; time: 5:55

Frank Denyer: Ghosts Again
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
The  Barton Workshop (muted violin: Marieke Keser; voice: Yula Andrews; flute: Jos Zwaanburg; clarinet: John Anderson; percussion: Juan Martinez Cortés, Jose Garcia Rodrigues; voices & percussion staves: Christopher Best, Richard Gonski, Patrick Ozzard-Low, Michael Basset, Ian Wellens, Trevor Wiggns; recorded at Bethanienklooser, Amsterdam, March 3, 2006 and Darlington College of Arts, U.K, March 3, April 4, 2006; composition years: 2004, 2005; time: 12:54

SINGLE PLAY
Nick Didkovsky: What Sheep Herd
Tube Mouth Bow String
Pogus Productions/2006
(for string quartet & computer); Sirius String Quartet (violins: Gregor Huebner, Meg Okura; viola: Ron Lawrence; cello: Dave Eggar); recorded at the Steinhardt School, New York University, time: 21:07

SET THREE
Orlando Jacinto Garcia: #3 from Three Pieces for Double Bass and Tape
Fragmentos del Pasado [Fragments of the Past]
New Albion Records/2004
double bass: Robert Black; recorded at WLRN Studios, Miami, Florida, November, 1990; composition year: 1990; time: 12:39

Annie Gosfield: Impulse Turbine: Inlet, Exaust - Combustion Chamber
from EWA7
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
keyboard sampler: Annie Gosfield, electronics: Ikue Mori; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; drums, percussion: Jim Pugliese, Sim Cain; recorded at EWA7 industrial complex, Nuremberg, Germany; composition year: 1999; time: 12:10

SET FOUR
Roger Kleier: What is the Price of Iron?
I. (4:56)
II. (3:24)
III. (4:00)
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
(for cello & electronics); cello: Joan Jeanrenaud; recorded at Master Element Studios, New York City; total time: 12:20

Jorge Antunes: Valsa Sideral (Sideral Waltz)
Savage Songs (1961-1970)
Early Brazilian Electronic Music
Pogus Productions/2003
electronic music composed and recorded in the composer's studio, Rio De Janeiro, 1962; time: 3:12

Elizabeth Hoffman: Water Spirits
Intérieurs Harmoniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music); composed and recorded at the composer's studio, New York City, 2007-2011; premiered at the SEAMUS 2006 Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, March 30, 2006; time: 10:41

SINGLE PLAY*
Elizabeth Hoffman: Alchemy
Miniatures concrètes (various artists)
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
(electroacoustic music); time: 3:00

*WMUA live version only

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Bells and Whistles for May 22, 2014

BELLS AND WHISTLES
A survey of world music and its derivatives
 
WMUA .ORG
Thursdays, Summer 2014 live broadcast/webcast
12:00 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 22, 2014

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

SET ONE
Kecak Ganda Sari: excerpts
a. Sita's Captivity (7:28)
b. Meganda Attacks Rama (2:19)
c. Twalen and Delem (2:13)
Kecak from Bali
Bridge Records/2005
Kecak Ganda Sari, I Gusti Putra, director; recorded September 17, 1987, Bona Kelod, Gianyar, Bali; style: Kecak, Indonesian dance drama; total excerpts time: 12:00

Paul Dutton: Sonorality
Oralizations
Actuellecd.com/2005
voice: Paul Dutton; recorded at The Roundhouse, Toronto; style: oral sound art; time: 12:11

SINGLE PLAY
Shartse College of Ganden Monastery: Jigje kyi dagjug chenmo --
The Grand Self-Empowerment of Yamāntaka
Opening section, with ritual orchestra
Tibetan Buddhism
Bridge Records/1989
Shartse College of Ganden Monastery, chant master: Ven. Lobsang Tenzin; recorded at Shartse Dratsang, Ganden Monastery, Mundgod, Karnataka, South India, February 1987; style: Buddhist overtone chanting; time: 31:10

SET TWO
László Hortobágyi: Russian Chakra
6the All-India Music Conference
Annals of the Gayan Uttejak Society
Erdenklang Records/1995
Choir of the St. Sophia Cathedral, Nowgorod; tabla, electronics, processing: László Hortobágyi; recorded in Budapest, Hungary, 1991; style: world fusion; time: 8:05

Steve Roach: Thunder Brother
Artifacts
Fortuna Records/1994
acoustic and electronic instruments: Steve Roach; recorded at the Timeroom, Tucson, Arizona, 1994; style: world fusion; time, ambient: 9:29

Andrew Hulme: Buddhist Funeral March
Solar -- A Travelogue Volume One (various artists)
Soleilmoon/1997
recorded in Kathmandu, Nepal, December 23, 1995; style: field recording; time: 2:20

SINGLE PLAY
Shujaat Khan: 
a. Raga Charukeshi (12:07)
b. Raga Bhairavi (9:41)
Ragas
India Archive Music/1998
sitar: Shujaat Khan; tabla: Shyam Kane; recorded at Sound Astoria, New York City, July 19, 1990; style: Carnatic music, South Indian classical music; total time: 23:50

SET THREE
Al-Sheikh Nail Kesova and musicians:
Sem-I Ruhuna Cismimi Pervane düşürdüm
(My body is a moth drawn to the flame of your spirit)
The Music of Islam Volume Fourteen [various artists]
Mystic Music through the ages
Celestial Harmonies/1997
vocal: Al-Sheikh Nail Kesova; composer, poet: Sultan Veled; recorded at Doruk Studios, Istanbul; style: İlahî, mystic folk hymn; time: 7:11

Galata Mevlevi Music and Sema Ensemble: Suite in Segah
a. Part 1 -Peşrev (prelude)
b. Part 2 - Sol Cennetin: Irmaklari Akar Allah Deyu Deyu
(The rivers of paradise flow, saying "Allah, Allah")
c. Part 3 - Ey Allahim Bensenden Ayirma
(O My God do not separate me from you)
d. Part 4 - Canim Kurban Olsun Senin Yoluna
(Let my soul be sacrificed to your way)
The Music of Islam Volume Nine [various artists]
Mawlawiyah Music of the Whirling Dervishes
Celestial Harmonies/1997
Galata Mevlevi Music and Sema Ensemble, director: Al-Sheik Nail Kesova; composers: a. Neyzen Yusuf Pasha, b. unknown, c. Hulusi Gokmen, d. Amer Ates; poets: b., d. Yusuf Emre; c. Esrefoglu Roumi; recorded at the Great Süleymaniye Mosque and Doruk Studios, Istanbul; total time: 12:45

SINGLE PLAY
Meredith Monk: Vow
Ascension Music
ECM/2011
voices Katie Geissinger; violin: Todd Reynold; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: HaYang Kim; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009; time: 4:12

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Martian Gardens for May 18 & 21, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 11, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: May 14, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Lord, Let Me Fly!
from Voices from the Heartland
American Songbook VII
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 16
Bridge Records/2014
soprano: Ann Crumb; bass baritone: Patrick Mason; Orchestra 2001 (amplified piano: Marcantonio Barone; percussion: Brenda Weckerly, David Nelson, Greg Giannascoli, William Kerrigan); conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swarthmore College, October 2012; composition year: 2010; time: 2:16
 
SET ONE
Stuart Saunders Smith: A Gift for Bessie
A River Rose -- Music for Violin
New World Records/2014
violin: Airi Yoshioka; piano: John Novacek; bassoon: Sue Heineman; percussion: Lee Hinkle; recorded at the Recital Hall of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2013; composition year: 1971; time: 10:15

Barrie Webb & Peter Neville: The Memory of the Glance of God (E. Duncan)
Hoy! -- New Music for Trombone and Percussion
MPS Music and Video/2006
composer: Eve Duncan; trombone: Barrie Webb; percussion: Peter Neville; recorded at Melba Hall, Melbourne, Australia, April 18, 2004; time: 11:56

SET TWO
Ming Tsao: (Un)Cover
Pathology of Syntax
Mode Records/2014
(for trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, cellos, and 2 percussionists); Ensemble Ascolta, conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer; recorded at Donaueschinger Musiktage, October 19, 2008; composition year: 2008; time: 9:09

Chaya Czernowin: Six miniatures and a simultaneous song
Shu Hai Practices Javelin
Mode Records/2002
(for a trio: voice, viola, guitar; and a quartet: bass flute, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, cello); ELISION Ensemble, conductor: Simon Hewett; recorded at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia, 2002; composition year: 1998; time: 11:30

Bora Yoon: Finite Infinity
Sunken Cathedral
Innova Recordings/2014
voice, instruments, sound design: Bora Yoon; time: 4:38

Howard Skempton: Lyric Study
Bolt from the Blue
Mode Records/2010
piano: Daniel Becker; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, September 26, 2007; time: 0:45

hour two

SET THREE
Malcolm Goldstein: Spring
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;  time: 7:30

Greg Dixon: Cedar Forest
Electronic Music Midwest [various artists]
Irritable Hedgehog Music/2014
(computer music); pre-recorded sounds: Greg Dixon; guitar: Nevada Hill; melodica: Rachel Yoder; modular synthesizer: David Townsend; composition year: 2013; time: 5:58

Tod Dockstader & David Lee Myers: Glottalk
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005
amphibian sound recordings, electronics, processing: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers; time: 4:04

David Lee Myers & Marco Oppedisano: Storm and Drain
Tesla at Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008
feedback, noise, samples: David Lee Myers; guitars, samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 5:02

SET FOUR
Marco Oppedisano: Nocturne
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars, samples, processing: Marco Oppedisano; time: 4:19

Paul Lansky: Memory Pages
More Than Idle Chatter
Bridge Records/1994
(computer music); NeXT computer, Cmix software: Paul Lansky; text, readers: Hannah MacKay, Paul Lansky; time: 13:10

J.K. Randall: Remembrance of Things Past
from A Garland of MIDI: Intermezzo in Midi
Ars Antiqua/A Garland of  Midi
Open Space/2008
(computer music); Midi processing: J.K. Randall; composition year: 2008; time: 3:45

Lynn Job: Lake House Letter
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
electronics, samples: Lynn Job; time: 1:00

Charles Norman Mason: The Startling Clock Wound
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
electronics, samples: Charles Norman Mason; time: 1:00

Laurie Spiegel: Remembering Home
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
synthesizers, electronics: Laurie Spiegel; time: 0:55

hour three

SET FIVE
Charles Dodge: Cascando (excerpt)
Cascando --A realization of Samuel Beckett's radio play
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
Opener: John Nesci; Voice: computer synthesis based on a reading by Steven Gilborn; Music: computer synthesis based on the character Voice; composition year: 1977; excerpt time: 6:25

Elainie Lillios: Arturo
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music: Elainie Lillios; realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham (BEAST), UK, 1998; premiered at the First Symposium on Music and Computers, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, October 23, 1998; time: 13:35

SET SIX
Melody Sumner Carnahan: The X,Y, Z of it
The X, Y, Z of it
Burning Books/2000
text: Melody Sumner Carnahan; principal voice: Robert Ashley and Joan La Barbara; additional voice: Paul Goddard, Peter Kowitz, Sarah Aubrey, Vanessa Downing; studio direction: Richard Buckham; sound design assistance: Michael Sumner; music composition: Mayim Alpert and Spilt (David Smith, James Hurley); solar flares recorded by Tom Ashcraft; recorded at ABC Radio, Studio Arts, Sydney, Australia; time: 29:25

Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim; time: 0:45

Thierry Gauthier: Cycles I
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
computer, microloops: Thierry Gauthier; time: 0:56


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Bells and Whistles for May 15, 2014

BELLS AND WHISTLES
A survey of world music and its derivatives
 
WMUA .ORG
Thursdays, Summer 2014 live broadcast/webcast
12:00 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 15, 2014

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

SINGLE PLAY
Syamsudin: Sigumendar
Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra (various artists)
Sublime Frequencies/2005
collected from Indonesian radio by Alan Bishop (2004);
style: Rabab Dangdut (Indonesian pop music with violin (Rabab)

SINGLE PLAY
Kecak Ganda Sari: excerpts
a. Introduction (3:52)
b. Forest Scene (6:11)
c. Sita's Abduction (5:48)
d. Interlude (4:38)
Kecak from Bali
Bridge Records/2005
Kecak Ganda Sari, I Gusti Putra, director; recorded September 17, 1987, Bona Kelod, Gianyar, Bali; style: Kecak, Indonesian dance drama; total excerpts time: 19:00

SET ONE
Dody Satya Ekagustdiman: Diya 
Asmat Dream - New Music Indonesia, Vol. 1 (Sunda)
Lyrichrord/1992
Instruments: Kacapi, sandpaper, rubber-headed clay drums, flextone, voices, genta bell, suling, iron saron, triangle, tin cans, glass bottles, small gongs, woks, found objects; players: Dody, Ismet Ruchimat, Agus Sukmana, Dinda S.U. Budhi, Didi Wiardi, Yaya Suryadi; recorded at Jugla Studios in Bandung, West Java, June 1989; producers: Larry Polansky and Jody Diamond; style: Sundanese music murni (concert music); time: 13:22

Jody Diamond: Hard Times
In That Bright World - Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
voice: Jody Diamond; musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta, Central Java; recorded at Studio 19, Indonesian Institute of the Arts, July 2001; style: Javanese Gamelan based on American folk song ("Hard Times Come Again No More," Stephen Foster, 1854); composition year: 1984, revised 2001; time: 11:31

SET TWO
Larry Polansky: Bedhaya Guthrie/Bedhaya Sadra
Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
clarinet, kemanak: Daniel Goode; Central Javanese pelog gendèr, kemanak; HMSL software: Larry Polansky; recorded at P.A.S.S./Harvestworks, New York City, circa 1994; style: Bedhaya (ritualized dance of Java) morphed via software with American folk song (Woody Guthrie, "Ranger's Command," 1945) and the Bedhaya tune "Bedhaya Sadra," (I Wayan Sadra, 1990); composition years: 1989-1990; time: 9:24

Gamelan Orchestra Of The Yogyakarta Royal Palace: 
Gendhing Lintang Karahinan (Morning Star)
Gamelan of the Kraton 
Celestial Harmonies/1997
court musicians of the Gamelan Orchestra recorded at the residence of Drs. G.B.P.H. Yudhaningrat,Yogyakarta, Indonesia; produced by David Parsons; style: Javanese palace Gamelan music in Ghending structure; time: 13:34

SET THREE
Pauline Oliveros: Lion's Tale
CDCM Computer Music Series, Volume 7 [various artists]
iEAR Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Instute, Troy, New York
Centaur Records/1990
digital sampler, computer: Carter Scholz, engineer: Robert Rich; recorded at Sound Scape Productions, California; samples: Berekely Gamelan; style: Gamelan structured music composed for digital sampler; time: 15:06

Gamelan Son of Lion: Music Box (J. Kruskal)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
composer: Jody Kruskal; Gamelan Son of Lion (Barbary Benary, David Demnitz, Miguel Frasconi, Daniel Goode, Patrick Grant, Lisa Karrer, Judy Kruskal, Laura Liben, Denman Maroney, John Morton, David Simons; guests: Anna Dembska, Marija Ilic, Joseph Kubera, Bill Ruyle); recorded at Hungry Hollow Studio, Georgetown, Ontario; composition year: 2003; style: Gamelan suling (flutes), with violins; time: 5:30

SINGLE PLAY
Newband: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
Newband Play Microtonal Works (various composers)
Mode Records/1994
composer: Harry Partch; Newband (Dean Drummond, Frank Cassara, Dominic Donato, Nina Kellman, Michael Lipsey, Tod Mook, James Pugliese, Elizabeth Rodgers): Partch instruments; recorded at Master Sound, Astoria, New York, 1991 and 1993; composition year: 1958, revised 1967; style: Partch-developed microtonal tuning for theater; time: 18:24


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Martian Gardens for May 11 & 14, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 11, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: May 14, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Ghost Dance (Pawenee tribal chant)
from Voices from the Heartland
American Songbook VII
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 16
Bridge Records/2014
bass baritone: Patrick Mason; Orchestra 2001 (amplified piano: Marcantonio Barone; percussion: Brenda Weckerly, David Nelson, Greg Giannascoli, William Kerrigan); conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swarthmore College, October 2012; composition year: 2010; time: 3:30

SINGLE PLAY
Rand Steiger: Elusive Peace
A Menacing Plume
New World Records/2014
drum set: Ben Reimer; cello: Leanne Zacharias; recorded at McGill University, Montreal, May 11, 2012; composition year: 2000; time: 14:12

SET ONE
Ming Tsao: Pathology of Syntax
Pathology of Syntax
Mode Records/2014
The Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan; viola: Ralf Ehlers; cello: Lucas Fels); recorded at Stolberger Straße, Köln, Germany, April 15, 2010; composition years: 2006-2007; time: 15:53

The Arditti Quartet: Fünf Sätze (excerpts) (A. Webern)
a. Heftig bewegt (2:15)
b. Sehr langsam (2:21)
c. Sehr bewegt (0:41)
The Arditti Quartet 1974-1994
Montaigne Auvidis/1994
composer: Anton Webern; The Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, David Alberman; viola: Levine Andrade; cello: Rohan de Saram); recorded at St. Michael's, Highgate, London, February 1990; composition year: 1909; total excerpts time: 5:29

SET TWO
Mari Kimura: The Old Rose Reader (F. White)
Polytopia
Bridge Records/2007
(composer: Frances White, for violin, video, and electronics); violin: Mari Kimura; text: James Pritchett; reciter:  Hervé Brönnimann; recorded at New York University Music Technology Studios, November 2004; composition year: 2004; time: 15:24

hour two

Bora Yoon: New American Theater
Sunken Cathedral
Innova Recordings/2014
voice, instruments: Bora Yoon; poem, recitation: Sekou Sundiata; time: 5:20

SET THREE
Seth Josel: Canon for Six Guitars (T. Johnson)
The Stroke That Kills
New World Records/2008
composer: Tom Johnson; electric guitars: Seth Josel recorded at Trace Elements Records, New York City, 2008; composition year: 1998; time: 4:56

Robin Hayward: Travel Stain
Nouveau Saxhorn Nouveau Basse (Elegy to a Failed Instrument)
Pogus Productions/2014
microtonal F tuba: Robin Hayward; guitar: Seth Josel; recorded at Evangelische Brüdergemeine, Berlin; time: 8:42

Barney Childs: The Golden Bubble
A Music; That it Might Be...
New World Records/2002
E flat contrabass sarrusophone: Philip Rehfeldt; percussion: Ron George; recorded at the University of Redlands, California, 1991; composition year: 1967; time: 9:29

SET FOUR
Melody Sumner Carnahan & Out of Context: 
a. Fingertips (6:13)
b. Profile (4:56)
1" = 25 Mi.
Burning Books/2005
texts: Sumner Carnahan; music: J.A. Deane; Out of Context (drums, percussion: Jefferson Voorhees, viola: Alicia Ultan; vocals: Molly Sturges; bassoon: Sam Rhodes; cello: Katie Harlow; acting, voice: John Flax; oud, electronics: Stefan Dill; sampler, live electronics: C.K. Barlow; cornet: Jon Baldwin; conductor, sampler, uniflute: J.A. Deane); recorded at Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque; December 10, 2004; total excerpts time: 11:10

hour three

Mark Applebaum: The Mind Altering Concert, Part 4
The Bible Without God
Innova Recordings/2005
solo Mouseketier, live electronics: Mark Applebaum; recorded at Trayon Hall, Stanford University, April 7, 2005; time: 11:44

SET FIVE
Odeya Nini: Everyday Cantor
Vougheauxyice (Voice)
pfMENTUM/2014
voice, water sounds: Odeya Nini; recorded at Joshua Tree, California, September 25, 20102; time: 3:07

José Mataloni: Adivinanza 
Magical Realism of Sound
José Mataloni/2003
(electroacoustic music); realized at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina; time: 3:14

Deep Listening Band: Processional
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
voice: Julie Lyon Balliet; trombones, didjeridu, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; just tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; organ, overtone flutes, electronics: David Gamper; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kinsgston, New York, June 1993; time: 8:45

Joane Hétu: 
a. Fragment Bruitiste (1:00)
b. Cochonne (4:53)
La femme territoire ou 21 fragments d’humus
Actuellecd/2012
conductor, voice, objects, melodica: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood;  accordion, voice: Alice Tougas St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussions, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; text (b): Joane Hétu; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012; total excerpts time: 5:53

SET SIX
Carey Nutman: Moonspin 2000
The Sea and the Snake
MPS Music & Video/2013
electronic music: Carey Nutman; time: 10:21

The Hub: Peyote
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/20008
interactive computer network: The Hub; session: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Mark Trayle; recorded in Albany, California, 1986; time: 6:35

Bobby Lombardi: do you love me?*
Music from SEAMUS Volume 5 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1996
(for two-channel tape based on text from William S. Burroughs, "The Ticket that Exploded"); electric guitar samples: Bobby Lombardi; realized at the composer's studio, Belgium, 1993-1994; time: 7:11

William S. Burroughs: Throat Microphone Experiment*
The Best of William Burroughs [boxed set]
Giorno Poetry Systems/1998
throat microphone, subvocal speech: WSB; recorded circa 1965; time: 1:00

* TAINT Radio and WMUA automated versions only

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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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