Martian Gardens for July 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
July 13, 2014
extended broadcast 9:00 p.m. -- 12:16 a.m.

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

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

SINGLE PLAY
George Perle: Modal Suite
a. Moderato (0:32)
b. Slowly (1:32)
c. Very Quickly (0:38)
Eight Pieces (1938-1997)
Bridge Records/2014
piano: Michael Brown; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, New York, May 2013; composition year: 1940; time: 2:45

SET ONE
Guy Barash: Blind Huber
a. Blind Huber [i] (1:42)
b. Swarm (1:00)
c. Blind Huber [ii] (1:38)
d. Workers [attendants] (1:20)
e. Geometry (1:39)
f. Burmens [i] 1:58
Facts About Water
Innova Recordings/2014
soprano: Jamie Jordan, tenor: Eric Dudley; piano: Kathleen Supové; guitar: Nadav Lev; violin: Rachel Golub; clarinet: Vasko Dukovski; marimba: Amy Garapic; trombone: Daniel Linden; conductor: David Bloom; text: Nick Flynn; recorded at Dubway Studios, New York City; composition year: 2011; total time: 7:07

John Cage: 
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (2:32)
b. Nowth Upon Nacht (0:49)
Sylvia Smith -- The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
composer: John Cage; voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; recorded at the University of Baltimore County, Maryland; composition years: a. 1942, b. 1984; text: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake," total time: 3:21

Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon: Páramo
Exchange -- Latin America (various artists)
CRI/2000
The Furious Band (flute, piccolo: Andrée Martin; clarinet, bass clarinet: Oscar Espina-Ruiz; violin: Gabrielle Painter, cello: David Russell; piano: Gabriel Shuford; percussion: Tomm Roland; conductor: Paul Paul Vaillancourt; recorded at the Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY, Stony Brook, December 11, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 7:01

SET TWO
Percy Grainger: 
a. In a Nutshell III
b. Pastorale
Yvar Mikhashoff -- Panorama of American Piano Music
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Percy Grainger); piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1916; time:11:47

Percy Grainger: 
a. Free Music No. 1 [for Four Theremins] (1:33)
b. Free Music No. 2 [for Six Theremins] (1:19)
c. Beatless Music [for Six Theremins] (0:33)
Lydia Kavina -- Spellbound! Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
composer: Percy Grainger; theremins: Lydia Kavina; recorded at Patrych Sound, Bronx, New York, July 10, 2000; composition years: a. 1936, b. 1937, c. 1937; total time: 3:18

Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop --
a. Daphne Oram: Amphitryon 38 (1:50)
b. Daphne Oram and Desmond Briscoe: Sound for a Radio Drama (1:05)
c. Desmond Briscoe: Quartermass and the Pit (sound effects) (0:36)
BBC Radiophonic Workshop -- A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2000
compositions, electronics: Daphne Oram, Desmond Briscoe; composition year: 1958 (a,b,c); total time: 3:31

Cluster & Eno: Schöne Hände
Cluster & Eno
Gyroscope Records/1996 (orig. Sky Records LP/1977)
composition, synthesizers: Brian Eno, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius; recorded at Conny Plank's Studio, Munich, Germany, 1977; time: 3:03

SET THREE
Fountainhead: Wind on Water
Cloud Cover
Aucourant Records/1998
composition, electronics: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at RST's studio, Roswell, Georgia; time: 6:19

Steve Roach: Trancemigration
Land Mass
Timeroom Editions/2008
synthesizers, electronics: Steve Roach; recorded live on Star's End, WXPN, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008; time: 7:52

Music from University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios --
a. Lejaren Hiller: Vocalise from Seven Electronic Studies for Two-Channel Tape (5:32)
b. IBM 7094: Early sound synthesis sample (1:41)
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University of Illinois
Experimental Music Studios (1958 -- 2008) [various artists]
University of Illinois School of Music EMS/2008
a. composer: Lejaren A. Hiller, b. composer: anonymous; MUSICOMP computer program written by Lejaren Hiller and Robert Blake; composition year: 1963 (a,b); total time: 7:13

SET FOUR
John Bischoff: Audio Combine
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
electronics, computers: John Bischoff; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, California; composition year: 2009; time: 12:53

Juan Blanco: Music para Danza
Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings/2013 
sine-wave generator, tape dubbing: Juan Blanco; recorded in Cuba; composition year: 1961; time: 5:28

Hugh Le Caine: 
a. Dripsody [An Etude for Variable Speed Recorder] (1:28)
b. Invocations (2:20)
c. Nocturne (3:07)
Compositions and Demonstrations 1946 -- 1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999
electronics, tapes: Hugh Le Caine; recorded at National Research Council's Electronic Music Laboratory (ELMUS) , Ottawa, Canada; composition years: a. 1955, b. 1957; c. 1962; total time:6:55

SET FIVE
David Rosenboom: Given the Senses the Real Pregeometry 
Zones of Influence, Part III
Zones of Influence
Pogus Productions/2014
electronics: David Rosenboom; percussion: William Winant; recorded at the Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Complex, California Institute of the Arts, and the composer's studio, Valencia, California, composition years: 1984, 1985; revised for this recording 2013; time: 8:36

Gil Delindro: Live in Silent Barn 
MusicWorks #119 (various artists)
MusicWorks Magazine/2014 
field recordings, amplified sounds, feedback: Gil Delindro; recorded at The Silent Barn, Brooklyn, New York, March 24, 2014; time: 12:58

SET SIX
David D. McIntire: The Pornography of Unfettered Optimism 
Electronic Music Midwes [various artists]
Irritable Hedgehog Music/2014
voices: Michelle Allen McIntire; electroacoustics: David McIntire; realized at the composer's studio, Kansas City, Missouri, 2010; premiered at Electronic Music Midwest, 2011; time: 6:55

Ann Magnuson: Art Professor
Pretty Songs & Ugly Stories
Asphodel/2007
music: Chopin, Prelude in E Minor; text: Ann Magnuson; piano, voice: Ann Magnuson; time: 2:29

Robert Ashley: Gretchen (from Au Pair)
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Robert Ashley; Jacqueline Humbert; text: J. Humbert; electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Teatro Olimpico in Rome, 1985; time: 4:54

Melody Sumner Carnahan: My Pleasure
The Time is Now
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, arrangement: Barbara Golden; additional voices: Ben Azarm, Sheila Davies, Carla Fabrizio; cello: Carla Fabrizio; keyboards: Barbara Golden; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan, 1983; time: 8:21

If, Bwana/Al Margolis: Tattooed Love Muffins
Rex Xhu Ping
Pogus Productions/2005
voice, text: Dan Andreana; voice: Laura Biagi; bowed cymbals:: Detta Andreana; tapes, clarinets, processing: Al Margolis; time: 11:52

J.K. Randall: Intimacy (a polemic) (1-3)*
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; time: 10:00
*excerpt on TAINT Radio version 3:40 

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Bells & Whistles for July 10, 2014

 

Bells & 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
July 10, 2014

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

SELECTIONS PLAYED
Buddhadev Das Gupta: Alap, Jor, and Jhala
Raga Jhinjhoti
India Archive Music/1991
sarod: Buddhadev Das Gupta; tabla: Samar Saha; recorded at the Hit Factory, New York City, October 23, 1989; time: 24:05

Dai Nhac Ensemble:
The Tradition of Huế Music and Theater of the Court
a. Dance of the Horse and Mang (3:59)
b. Dance of the Phoenix (3:28)
c. Mounting the Esplanade (2:00)
d. Ten "Royal" Pieces (9:20)
e. Mad Woman's Song (traditional theater) 8:02)
Anthology of World Music: The Music of Vietnam
Rounder Records/1999
Dai Nhac Ensemble, director: Nguyen Ngoc Cong; studio recordings from Vietnam; total time: 26:00

Palace Orchestra at Luang Prabhang: I Shall Return
Anthology of World Music: The Music of Laos
Rounder Records/1999
Recorded in Luang Prabhang, Laos, 1965-1966; time: 10:53

Miao Xiaoyun: 
a. Yngzhou Ancient Tunes (2:45)
b. Moon Over Jade Mansion (7:25)
The Art of the Chinese Lute
Arc Music/1998
pipa, zhongruan: Miao Xiaoyun; recorded at ARC Music Studios, East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK, February, 1997; total time: 10:10

Samulnori Percussion Ensemble: Al-Ari
Record of Changes
CMP/1990
Korean percussion, vocals: Samulnori, director: Kim Duk Soo; recorded at the Power Station, New York City, February 1988; time: 17:10

Jin Hi Kim: Garden of Venus
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
Chinese pipa: Min Xiao-Fen; Japanese yokubue: Michiko Akao; Indonesian gender, suling, voice: I Ketut Suryatini; JHK: Korean komungo, janggo; performed at the Asia Society, NYC, for Asian Women in Music Today; time: 16:19

Steve Roach: 
a. Medicine of the Moment (12:06)
b. Thunderwalkers (11:13)
Steve Roach Live at SoundQuest Fest
Timeroom Editions/2011
electronics, synthesizers: Steve Roach; percussion, frame drum: Byron Metcalf; didgeridoos: Dashmesh Khalsa, Brian Parnham; recorded at SoundQuest Fest, Tucson, Arizona, October 23, 2010; total time: 23:19


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Martian Gardens for July 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
July 6, 2014
extended broadcast 9:00 p.m. -- 12:18 a.m.

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

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

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
from Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) 
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Four
Bridge Records/2001
(for two amplified pianos and percussion); Quattro Mani (piano 1: Susan Grace; piano 2: Alice Rybak; percussion 1: John Kinzie; percussion 2: David Colson); recorded at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, August 2000; composition year: 1974; time: 5:44

SET ONE
Robert Scott Thompson: Music for a Summer Evening
Section D (0:34)
Section G (3:44)
Music for a Summer Evening
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 1998)
computer music for the Mobile installation, created 1997; total excerpts time: 4:14

Roxanne Turcotte: DMXnébula
Libellune
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music for François Doyon's DMXnébula installation; realized at Productions RTM and Multisons studio, Montreal, 2000-2002; premiered at Place du Canada for the Montreal Highlights Festival / International Light Symposium, February 11, 2000; time: 7:15

R. Weis: Tubular March
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
(music for samples and MacFive sampling software); samples: two cardboard tubes dropping, single vocal tone; recorded at the composer's studio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; time: 2:16

Keith De Mendonca: Electromagnetic Journey
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures In Sound Art/2006
recording via coil transducer of the electromagnetic field surrounding the motor of a London Underground train traveling between Pimlico and Victoria stations; time: 3:00

James Correa: When I drift into my thoughts
Plural (Corea/Miranda)
Fumproarte/2002
computer music synthesized on Chaosynth software, developed by Eduardo Reck Miranda; recorded at the composer's studio Rochester, New York, 1999; time: 5:00

SET TWO
David Rosenboom:
Epigenesis, Ontogenesis, Phylogenesis, Parthenogenesis
Zones of Influnce, Part IV
Zones of Influence
Pogus Productions/2014
electronics: David Rosenboom; percussion: William Winant; recorded at the Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Complex, California Institute of the Arts, and the composer's studio, Valencia, California, composition years: 1984, 1985; revised for this recording 2013; time: 9:08

Iannis Xenakis: Peaux
Pléïades, Part IV
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
percussion ensemble red fish blue fish (Patti Cudd, Terry Longshore, Ivan Manzanilla, Brett Reed, David Shively, Vanessa Tomlinson), director: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego; composition year: 1978; time: 11:55

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: String Quartet No. 1 (sections 40-49)
String Quartet No. 1/Structures/Three Pieces for String Quartet
Mode Records/2014
FLUX Quartet (violins: Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris, viola: Max Mandel, cello: Felix Fan); recorded at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, October 2009; composition year: 1979; excerpt time: 8:56

Annie Gosfield: Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
(for string quartet and purcussion quartet); FLUX Quartet (violins: Tom Chiu, Cornelius Dufalo, viola: Kenji Bunch, cello: Darrett Adkins); Talujon Percussion Quartet (Michael Lipsey, Dominic Donato, Tom Kolor, Jim Pugliese); recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, 2001; composition year: 2000; time: 14:38

SINGLE PLAY
Judy Dunaway: For Balloon and String Quartet
a. First Movement (5:24)
b. Second Movement (8:43)
c. Third Movement (7:25)
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006
balloons: Judy Dunaway; FLUX Quartet (violins: Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris; viola: Max Mandel; cello: David Eggar); recorded at Harsh House Studio, Jersey City, New Jersey, Spin Studio, Brooklyn, New York, MLab, Somersworth, New Hampshire, and DB Studio, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; composition year: 2001; total time: 22:00

SINGLE PLAY
Douglas Doherty: Heart of the City
On the Edge of Chaos
MPS Music and Video/2012
(electroacoustic music); recorded at the composer's Studio, Newcastle, England; preacher recorded at Grey's Monument, Newcastle Upon Tyne; composition year: 2000; time: 21:30

SET FOUR
Robert Ashley: The Fourth of July
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961--1966 [various artists]
New World Records/2003
(electronic music on tape); sounds recorded at Robert Ashley's Fourth of July party, 1960; premiered at the ONCE Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 25 1961; composition year: 1960; time: 18:37

Trevor Wishart: Fireworks
excerpt from from Tongues of Fire
MusicWorks 98 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
(electroacoustic music); realized on the composer's home computer and mixed at GMEB, Bourges, France; Tongues of Fire premiered at the Synthese Festival, Bourges, 1994; composition years: 1993-1995; excerpt time: 1:19

Trevor Wishart: excerpts from Red Bird
a. Lis to Bird Song (sic.) (0:27)
b. Reasonable to Water (0:08)
MusicWorks 98 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
(for voices, environmental sounds, and processing); recorded at York University Electronic Music Studio, 1973-1977; total excerpts time: 0:35

Trevor Wishart: excerpt from Anticredos
MusicWorks 98 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
(for vocals, vocalizations); performed by Songcircle, director: Gregory Rose; recorded at The Music Center, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England; March/April, 1982; composition year: 1989; excerpt time: 2:35

Jonny Dovercourt: Soundscapes from Knoxville, Tennessee
MusicWorks 107 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2010
recorded in various locations in Knoxville, March 2010; time: 4:14

Beth Anderson: Ode
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
electronic music recorded at the electronic music studios of City University of New York and Wesleyan University; auctioneer Spec Edwards recorded at the Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, tobacco warehouses, December 1972; composition year: 1975; time: 14:00 (6:00 edit on TAINT Radio version)

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Bells & Whistles for July 3, 2014

 

Bells & 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
July 3, 2014

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

SELECTIONS PLAYED
Lou Harrison: 
a. Threnody for Carlos Chávez (7:06)
b. Serenade for Betty Freeman and Franco Assetto (5:48)
Chamber and Gamelan Works
New World Records/2006
a. violin: Susan Bates, Gamelan Sekar Kembar; composition year: 1979; b. suling player: Lou Harrison, Gamelan Sekar Kembar; composition year: 1978; recorded in San Francisco, 1979; total time: 12:54

Evan Ziporyn: selections from ShadowBang
a. Frogs (2:12)
b. Forest/Tari Subali/Quiet Battle/Loud Battle/Priest's Curse (17:47)
c. Tabuh Gari (5:59)
ShadowBang
Cantaloupe Music/2003
vocals, dialogue: I Wayan Wija; Bang On A Can All-Stars (bass: Robert Black; percussion: Eduardo Leandro; keyboard: Lisa Moore; guitar: Mark Stewart; cello: Wendy Sutter; soprano saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet: Evan Ziporyn); recorded at Kresage Little Theater, MIT, Cambridge, October 14, 2001; style: traditional Balinese shadow puppet theater, contemporary Western chamber music; composers: Evan Ziporyn, I Wayan Wija (2001); total time: 26:00

Kecak Ganda Sari: excerpts  
a. Rama's Liberation (8:05)
b. Final Scene (4:35)
Kecak from Bali
A Balinese Music Drama
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: 12:40

Danielle Palardy Roger: Nnaaaooon
Bruiducœur, prières des infidèles
Ambiances Magnétiques/2006
amplified vocals, vocalizations: VivaVoce; reciters: Danièle Panneton, Jacques Piperni; soloists: DB Boyko, Christine Duncan; percussion: Patrick Graham, Jean Martin; recorded at Espace GO, Montreal, June 3, 2004, mixed at Studio 270, Montreal, 2005; composition year: 2002; style: experimental oratorio; time: 8:02

Fong Naam ensemble: 
a. Javanese Suite (6:36)
b. The Chinese Doctor's Puzzle (10:57)
c. The Votive Candle (Laotian) (5:05)
Ancient-Contemporary Music from Thailand
Celestial Harmonies/1995
Thai instruments: Fong Naam, conductor: Bruce Gaston,  all selections; a. for string ensemble with Javanese oboe; composers: Luang Pradit Pairoh Strong Ensemble; pi java (Javanese clarinet/oboe): Suwit Kaewkramon; b. composer: Kru Boonyong Kaetkhong; solo renat ek (Thai xylophone): Lamoon Phuakthongkham; c. in Laotian style, featuring the Northern Thai Oboe Ensemble; recorded at Rachamongkol Auditorium, Bangkok; total time: 22:34

Harry Partch: I Am Harry Partch
Enclosure Two -- Harry Partch
Innova Recordings/1995
voice: Harry Partch; recorded in Gualala, California, 1950; time: 0:24

Harry Partch: Ten Li Po Lyrics
a. A Dream (4:33)
b. An Encounter in the Field (0:48)
c. On Hearing the Flute (0:59)
d. The Intruder (1:09)
e. I Am a Peach Tree (1:25)
f. With a Man of Leisure (0:44)
g. A Midnight Farewell (1:16)
h. Before the Cask of Wine (2:10)
i. On the Ship of Spicewood (2:31)
j. By the Great Wall (1:55)
Enclosures Two -- Harry Partch
Innova Recordings/1995
(for voice and adapted viola); voice -- speaking on tones: Harry Partch; viola adapted to monophony: William Wendlant; texts: Li Po; recorded by Warren Gilson, Madison, Wisconsin, 1947; composition years: 1930-1933; style: Partch microtonal music settings for Tang Dynasty poetry by Li Bai (AKA Li Po) total time: 17:45

Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana: Ascension for Protection
Cavern of Sirens
Projekt Records/1997
electronics, percussion: Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana; Tibetan Buddhist chant: Thupten Nyandak, Pema Lama; recorded at Timeroom Studio, Tucson, Arizona, and Serenity Studio, Belgium, 1995-1996; style: ambient, spiritual; time: 11:27


Byron Metcalf: Unfolding Clarity
The Shaman's Heart
Dr. Bam's Music/2005
percussion, idiophonic instruments: Byron Metcalf; electronics, wind instruments: Steve Roach; recorded at The Liar, Prescott, Arizona; style: ambient; time: 5:51

Forrest Fang: Water Birds
Gongland
Projekt Records/2000
electronics: Forrest Fang; recorded at the Hangar, Richmond, California; style: ambient; time: 3:36

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Martian Gardens for June 29, 2014 & July 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
June 29, 2014

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

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

SINGLE PLAY
Mason Bates: Terrycloth Troposphere 
Stereo is King
Innova Recordings/2014
percussion: Cynthia Yeh, Jacob Nissly, Eric Banks; electronics: Mason Bates; time: 5:15

SET ONE
Eno - Hyde: Time to Waste It
High Life
Warp Records/2014
CDJ processing, distorted organ, backing voice: Brian Eno; electric guitars, backing voice: Karl Hyde; drums: Fred Gibson; electric guitar, processed electric guitar: Leo Abrahams; recorded at Brian Eno's studio, London, April 2014; time: 8:19

Brian Eno: I Fall Up
Ali Click maxi-single
Opal/1992
vocal, synthesizer, processing: Brian Eno; lead and rhythm guitar: Jamie West Oram; drum loop: Ian Dench; recorded 1991 for the cancelled album My Squelchy Life; time: 4:54

Brian Eno: Distributed Being
Nerve Net
Opal/1992
piano: John Paul Jones; drums: Richard Bailey; conga: Isaac Cheapenin; guitar solo: Robert Fripp; bass, voice, organ, synthesizer mix: Brian Eno; time: 4:41

SET TWO
Tirta Sari Ensemble: Kapi Raja (King of Birds)
The Music of Bali Volume II - Legong Gamelan
Celestial Harmonies/1997
The Tirta Sari Gamelan Ensemble of Peliatan Village; recorded at the Pura Gunung Sari Temple, Bali; total time: 3:05

Glenn Kotche: Traveling Turtle
Adventureland
Cantaloupe Music/2014
(for Gamelan); Gamelan Galak Tika, director: Evan Ziporyn; additional percussion: Glenn Kotche; recorded at the Endicott World Music Room, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; composition year: 2007; time: 5:20

Glenn Kotche: Clapping Music Variations (after Steve Reich)
Mobile
Nonesuch Records/2006
clapping, electronics: Glenn Kotche; recorded at The Loft, Chicago; time: 4:45

Steve Reich: Clapping Music
Early Works
Nonesuch Records/1987
clapping: Russ Hartenberger, Steve Reich; recorded at RCA Studio A, New York City; composition year: 1972; time: 4:45

Brian Chase: Stick Shot Harmonies Drone
Drums and Drones
Pogus Productions/2013
(for percussion); recorded in Brooklyn, New York; time: 4:49

Timorese percussion group: Tari Likurai
[Retrieving Heroes from Battle] 
Music of Timor
Celestial Harmonies/2000
(from Kabupaten  Belu drum dance (Likurai), field recording, Atambua, Timor; recorded in January, 1990; time: 4:52

SET THREE
Arie Shapira: Piano Concerto
Jerusalem Symphony, conductor: Yuval Zorn; piano: Amit Dolberg; recorded in Jerusalem, May 6, 2014; composition years: 2000--2003; time: 11:30
(download courtesy of Arie Shapira) 

George Cacioppo: Bestiary I: Eingang
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
(for soprano, piano, and 5 percussionists); Ataelier de Musique Contemporaine de CNR de Versailles; conductor: Lionel Arnaud; piano: Jacqueline Méfano; soprano: Janet Pape; text: Rainer Rilke; recorded at the CNR de Versailles, March 26, 2004; remixed at CCMIX, Paris; composition year: 1960; time: 8:12

SET FOUR
Morton Feldman: String Quartet No. 1 (31-40)
String Quartet No. 1/Structures/Three Pieces
Mode Records/2014
Flux Quartet (violins: Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris; viola: Max Mandel; cello: Felix Fan); recorded at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; October 2009; composition year: 1979; excerpt time: 10:11

Philip Corner: Calling! OM ("from the '70s")
Extreme Positions
New World Records/2007
(for piano and 2 trombones); piano: Philip Corner; trombones: James Fulkerson, Hilary Jeffery (the Barton Workshop); recorded at Het Bethanienklooster, Amsterdam, spring 2006; composition year: 1972; time: 8:54

Philip Corner: Short Piano Piece XIII
40 Years and One -- Philip Corner Plays the Piano
XI Records/2001
piano: Philip Corner; recorded at iiwii studios, New Jersey, January 1998; composition year: 1957; time: 1:50

SET FIVE
David Rosenboom: The Stochastic Port
from The Winding of a Spring
Zones of Influence
Pogus Productions/2014
electronics: David Rosenboom; percussion: William Winant; recorded in the Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Studio, California Institute of the Arts and the composer's studio, Venice, California; composition years: 1984, 1985, revised 2013; time: 11:21

Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
(electronic music on tape); recorded at The University of Illinois Experimental Music Studio and the composer's studio; composition year: 1964; time: 3:43

The League of Automatic Music Composers: Radio Air Check
LAMC 1978-1983
New World Records/2007
computer music network: Tim Perkis, John Bischoff, Jim Horton; recorded at Mills College, Oakland, California, 1981; time: 2:58

Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
electroacoustic processing: Noah Creshevsky; vocals, trumpet: Susan Watts, clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontorovich; violin, vocals: Amy Zakar; bass, vocals: Heather Chriscaden Versace; tenor sax, alto sax: Audrey Betsy Welber; trumpet: Ben Holmes; piano: Adrian Banner; drums: Gregg Mervine; samples: The Klez Dispensers; composition year: 2009; time: 4:04

SET SIX
Douglas Doherty: Pacific 462
On the Edge of Chaos
MPS Music & Video/2012
(electroacoustic music); recorded at the University of Birmingham, UK; composition year: 1997; time: 8:50

Pete Stollery: Back to Square One
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
(electroacoustic music); realized at the Studio Circé of IMEB, Bourges, 2007; North East Scotland’s Festival of New Music Sound at the Mitchell Hall, University of Aberdeen, September 1, 2007; time: 10:17

SINGLE PLAY
Manuel Rocha Iturbide: Purusha-Prakriti
Cultures électroniques Vol. 19 (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2012
(electroacoustic music); realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 2006; time: 12:23

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Bells & Whistles for June 26, 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
June 26, 2014

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

SELECTIONS PLAYED
Noura Mint Seymali: Eguetmar
Tzenni
Glitterbeat Records/2013
lead vocal, ardine: Noura Mint Seymali; guitar: Jeiche Ould Chighaly; drums: Matthew C. Tinari; bass: Ousmane Touré; backing vocals: Mayassa Hemed Vall; recorded at Zaza Productions, Nouakchott, Mauritania, 2013; time: 3:38

Music from Indonesia
Kajang
a. Rikong (7:16)
b. Tempa Sarong (7:33)
Music of Indonesia 18 -- Sulawesi: Festivals, Funerals, Work
Smithsonian Folkways/1999
a. female singers, flute duo; b. flute duo; Musicians of Desa Tana Toa, South Sulawesi; recorded at Desa Bontolangkasa Selatan Kec. Bontompo, September 1996; style: vocal and instrumental music of the peoples of Sulawesi; composer: traditional; time: 14:49

Sulawesi gong groups:
Mongondow
a. Toki Hajat Perkawinan [gong ensemble] (4:10)
b. Toki Hajat [gong ensemble] (2:45)
Music of Indonesia 18 -- Sulawesi: Festivals, Funerals, Work
Smithsonian Folkways/1999
a. Musik Kulintang Molosing, director: L.A. Dilapanga; b. Ds. Tudu Aog, Kec Passi, Kab. Bolang Mongondow gong group; a. recorded at the home of L.A. Dilapanga, North Sulawasi, August 29, 1997; b. recorded in North Sulawesi, August 30, 1997; style: vocal and instrumental music of the peoples of Sulawesi; composer: traditional; total time: 6:55

Music from Malaysia:
a. field recording [Bird songs and River Sounds] (0:55)
b. The Princess of Mt. Səwilu [Cince: m] (3:53)
c. Penhə: y (2:46)
Dream Songs and Healing Sounds in the Rainforests of Malaysia
Smithsonian Folkways/1995
a. recorded at Berok River, Kelantan, Malaysia, July 10, 1981; b. singer: Along Indan, recorded at Berok River, Kelantan, Malaysia, March 5, 1981; singer: Abilem A/L Along Lum; recorded at Kelanton, Malaysia, September 7, 1982;  style: folk songs of the Temiar peoples of Malaysia; composer: traditional; total time: 6:34

Music from Timor:
a. Tari Woleka [Happy Dance] (2:25)
b. Tarian gong [Gong Dance] (3:17)
c. Tari Likurai [Retrieving Heroes from Battle] (4:52)
Music of Timor
Celestial Harmonies/2000
a. gongs and drums (katala-bedu): Bp Daniel Tangureda, et al [Weikombak Village, West Timor]; b. Tetun gong and drum dance (leku-sene) [field recording] (Subulaku village, Kefamenanu, Timor); c. Belu drum dance (Likurai) [field recording, Atambua, Timor]; style: percussion music of Timor; composer: traditional; total time: 9:34

I Wayan Sadra:
a. O-A-E-O (3:08)
b. Snow's Own Dream (7:00)
New Music of Indonesia Volume 3: Karya -- Compositions by I Wayan Sadra
Lyrichord/1994
a. percussion and chorus; recorded at STSI (Indonesian Institute of the Arts), Surakarta, Indonesia by Larry Polansky, April 30, 1989; b. digital synthesizer, electronics: I Wayan Sadra; recorded at the Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College, 1992; style: contemporary compositions based on traditional Balinese music; composer: I Wayan Sadra; total time: 10:08

Evan Ziporyn with I Wayan Wija: selections from ShadowBang
a. Head 1 (2:58)
b. Head 2/Scene 1 (11:31)
c. Angklat (3:31)
d. Ocean (5:12)
e. Meditas/Presta Raksasa (11:39)
ShadowBang
Cantaloupe Music/2003
vocals, dialogue: I Wayan Wija; Bang On A Can All-Stars (bass: Robert Black; percussion: Eduardo Leandro; keyboard: Lisa Moore; guitar: Mark Stewart; cello: Wendy Sutter; soprano saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet: Evan Ziporyn); recorded at Kresage Little Theater, MIT, Cambridge, October 14, 2001; style: traditional Balinese shadow puppet theater, contemporary Western chamber music; composers: Evan Ziporyn, I Wayan Wija (2001); total time: 35:00

Ziya Tabassian: Chante mon tambour 
Tombak
Ambiances Magnetiques/2007
tombak drum: Ziya Tabassian; recorded at DeTour Sound Studio, Montreal, 2005; style: original tombak composions; composer: Ziya Tabassian; time: 2:43

Arie Shapira: Poem for Guni
Electronics Plus
Arie Shapira/2000
vocal: Na'ama Gannot; text: Natan Zach; electronics: Arie Shapira; style: contemporary Hebrew poetry set to electronic music; composer: Arie Shapira (1996); time: 3:34

Larry Polansky: B'reysheet (In the Beginning...) [Cantillation Study #1) 
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
vocal: Jody Diamond; live interactive computers: Phil Burk, Larry Polansky; engineer: Tom Erbe; recorded at Mills College Concert Hall, January, 1990 (HMSL software designed by Larry Polansky and Phil Burk, 1984-1990); composition: Larry Polansky (1985-1989); style: traditional Hebrew cantillation and live computer music; time: 13:36

Ziya Tabassian: Impressions 2
Tombak
Ambiances Magnetiques/2007
tombak drum: Ziya Tabassian; recorded at DeTour Sound Studio, Montreal, 2005; style: original tombak composions; composer: Ziya Tabassian; time: 2:10

Fela Kuti: J'ehin J'ehin
Fela's London Scene
Stern's Music/1994 (orig. LP 1971, 1983)
Kuti and the Africa '70 (congas: Akwesi Korranting, Friday Jumbo, Henry Kofi; drums: Tony Allen; percussion (sticks): Tony Abayomi; shekere: Isaac Olaleye; genor saxophone: Igo Chiko; baritone saxophone: Lekan Animashaun; trumpet: Eddie Faychum, Tunde Williams; bass guitar: Maurice Ekpo), director, composer: Fela Ransome Kuti; recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, 1971; time: 7:28

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Martian Gardens for June 22 & 25, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 22, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: June 25, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SET ONE
Lee Hyla: Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra
Trans
New World Records/2004
bass clarinet: Tim Smith; Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, January 21, 2001; composition year: 1988; time: 10:52

In memory of Lee Hyla (August 31, 1952 -- June 6, 2014)

Namaste Duo: Clarinet Vision (C. Nutman)
Different Visions
MPS Music & Video/2008
(composer: Carey Nutman, for clarinet and tape); clarinet: Guido Arbonelli; composition year: 1992; time: 11:15

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Erickson: Solstice
Complete String Quartets
New World Records/2014
Del Sol Quartet (violins: Kate Stenberg, Rick Shinozaki; viola: Charlton Lee; cello: Kathryn Bates); recorded at Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California, December 2013; composition years: 1981-1985; time: 21:48

SET TWO 
Ming Tsao: The Book of Virtual Transcriptions
Pathology of Syntax
Mode Records/2014
Ensemble SurPlus (oboe: Peter Veale; trumpet: Markus Schwind; horn: Christine Chapman; trombone: Andrew Digby; violin: Stefan Haeussler; viola: Bodo Friedrich; cello: Beverly Ellis), conductor: James Avery; recorded at Steinhalle, Emmendingen, Germany, November 19, 2008; composition years: 2004, 2005; time: 13:51

César Bolaños: Sialoecibi, ESEPCO I
Computer Sound-Expressive Structure
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
(for piano, computer processing, and reciter); piano: Gerardo Gandini; actor/reciter: Norberto Campos; premiered during the IX Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, October 29, 1970; composition year: 1970; time: 9:19

SET THREE
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 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany, and Clinton Studios, New York City, 1986 and 1987; time: 6:40

Leo Kupper: O Ar Vivo (Living Air)
from Rezas Populares do Brasil
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/1999
(for voices and computer processing); mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; bass: Eduardo Janho-Abumrad; realized at Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Electroniques Auditives, Brussels, Belgium; composition year: 1998; time: 3:16

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Les trois petits c... (A Woman in Berlin)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
(for electroacoustic music and voice); realized at Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio, Ohain, Belgium; voices, vocalizations: uncredited; realized at the Trois visages des musiques électroacoustiques: musique électroacoustique et videomusique, Espace Senghor, Brussels, Belgium, May 25, 2011; composition year: 2010; time: 13:09

SET FOUR
Francisco Kröpfl:  Lento come l'alghe 
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2005
(for electroacoustic music and voice); voice: Lucia Maranca; poem: Aldo Maranca;  realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 2005; time: 10:00

Gerard Pape: Two Electro-Acoustic Songs
a. Time Caught in a Net
b. On the Road at Night
Electroacoustic Chamber Works
Mode Records/1998
(for voice, flute, tape, and sound projection; texts: Dahlia Ravikovitch); soprano: Janet Pape; flute: Cécile Daroux; tape, sound projection: Gerard Pape; recorded at the Festival Aspekte, Salzburg, Austria, 1994; composition year: 1993; total time: 10:50

SET FIVE
Otto Luening: Synthesis for Orchestra and Electronic Sound
Music of Riegger, Luening, & McPhee
CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor; tape realized and synchronized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City; composition year: 1960; time: 7:50

Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets
I. Something Else (3:57)
II. Syncopated Pandemonium (3:08)
III. Storm Signal (1:34)
IV. Celestial Voices (3:14)
A Saucerful of Secrets
EMI/1994 (orig. EMI Columbia LP/1968)
(for Farfisa organ, Mellotron, piano, tapes, feedback, microphoned cymbals, electric guitar distortion, non-lexical vocals, and percussion); vocals, electric guitar: David Gilmour; piano, organ, Mellotron; electric bass, percussion: Roger Waters; drums, percussion: Nick Mason; recorded at Abbey Road Studios, April 1968; total time: 11:52 

SET SIX
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I (excerpt)
Mikrophonie I & II
Columbia/1967 (orig. CBS West Germany LP/1965)
(for tamtam, two microphones, two filters, and pontentiometers); tamtam: Aloys Kontarsky, Fred Alings; microphones: Johannes Fritsch, Harald Bojé; filters, potentiometers: Stockhausen, Hugh Davies, Jaap Spek; recorded at Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln, December 1965; composition years: 1964, 1965; excerpt time: 11:00

Matthew Burtner: Glass Phase
Portals of Distortion
Innova Recordings/1999
computer polyrhythmicon, electronics: Matthew Burtner; composition year: 1998; time: 9:51
 
Matthew Burtner: from Polyrhythmicana 
a. C Acceleration Phase (2:24)
b. Metal XY* (1:30)
c. Melody in Triangles* (5:19)
NOISE Plays Burtner
Innova Recordings/2013
(for ensemble, electronics, and saxophone); Ensemble NOISE; saxophone: Matthew Burtner; computer: Nathan Brock; recorded at UCSD Studio A, San Diego, California; composition year: 2002; time: 2:24/total time: 9:12
*TAINT Radio version only 

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