Martian Gardens

Friday, August 15, 2014

Martian Gardens for August 17 & 20, 2014

¿What Next? Recordings/1997 (original Tangent LP 1970)
glass objects played by Annea Lockwood from The Glass World concert series 1966-1973; total excerpts time: 6:10

Djalma Farias: Telas Sonoras No. 3
Música Eletroacústica Brasileira, Vol. III (various artists0
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/2004
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Brasilia, cello: Ocello Mendonça; composition year: 2002; time: 4:58

Madeleine Shapiro: Synchronisms No. 3 (M. Davidovsky)
Electricity - Works for Cello and Electronics
Albany Records/2004
(for cello and electronic sounds); composer: Mario Davidovsky; cello: Madeleine Shapiro; composition year: 1964; time: 5:19

SET THREE
Robert Scott Thompson: Gossamer
Lachrymose -- In Memoriam János Négyesy
Auccourant Records/2014
violin: János Négyesy; electronics: Robert Scott Thompson; composition years: 1989-2013; time: 11:31

Robert Scott Thompson: Liminal Worlds
Arcana
Relaxed Machinery/2014
electronics, synthesizers: Robert Scott Thompson; composition year: 2014; time: 5:32

Rapoon: The Summer Lies Heavy
Cultural Forgeries
Alrealon Musique/2014
cello, instruments: Robin Storey; time: 5:00

SET FOUR
Rapoon: Waters Reaching
Easterly 6 or 7
Staalplaat/1997
synthesizers, instruments: Robin Storey; time: 8:49

Erdem Helvacioğlu: Below the Cold Ocean
Wounded Breath
Aucourant Records/2008
(electroacoustic music); mastered at ITU MIAM Studios, Istanbul; composition year: 2007; time: 11:51

SET FIVE
Pierre Boeswillwald: Au fond, la mer est belle
Pierre Boeswillwald
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2006
(electroacoustic music); realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 15:51

Sten Hanson: Promenade dans la forêt
from the Peckos suite
Sten Hanson
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2001
(electroacoustic music); realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 1995; composition year: 1995; time: 4:04

SET SIX
John Cage: One⁴
The Works for Percussion 3
Mode Records/2014
(for solo percussion); drummer: D'Arcy Philip Gray; recorded at Sutton United Church, Sutton, Quebec, July 2008; composition year: 1990; time: 6:56

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

Elsa Justel: Du libe tu?
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized at the composer's studio in Paris; premiered in 1996 during the Tombeau de Pierre Schaeffer concert at the Synthèse Festival in Bourges, France; composition year: 1996; time: 2:14

Joane Hétu: Fragment Territoire
La Femme territoire ou 21 fragments d'humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
objects, noises: Joane Hétu; flute: Jean Derome; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2011: time: 1:15

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Wireless Fantasy
Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-1972
New World Records/2007
(electronic music on tape, primary source: wireless code signals); realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1960; composition year: 1960; time: 4:36

SET SEVEN
Fritz Hauser: Deep Time (excerpt)
Deep Time
Deep Listening/2005
accordion, extended instrument system: Pauline Oliveros; extended instrument system, electronics, miscellaneous instruments: David Gamper; saxophones: Urs Leimgruber; percussion: Fritz Hauser; recorded in Basel, Switzerland, May 1991; style: experimental, improvisational; excerpt time: 6:00

Ursula Mamlok: Sonar Trajectory
Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
electronic music on magnetic tape: Ursula Mamlok; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966; composition year: 1966; time: 4:07

Pauline Oliveros: Something Else
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
electronic music (Layfette tone generators, noise source, tape delay): Pauline Oliveros; recorded at Electronic Music Studio of the University of Toronto, summer 1966; time: 13:51

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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Bells & Whistles for August 14, 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
August 14, 2014

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

SET ONE
Harry Partch: Ulysses at the Edge
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 1
New World Records/2004 (orig. CRI/1997)
Gate 5 Ensemble (Evanston, Illinois)-- voice, baritone saxophone: David Reid; alto saxophone: Dick Schleppe; bamboo marimba, cloud-chamber Bowls: Danlee Mitchell; diamond marimba, cloud-chamber bowls: Harry Partch; recorded in Evanston, 1958; composition year: 1955; time: 6:38

Harry Partch:
a. Castor (excerpt) (1:56)
b. Pollux (excerpt) (2:09)
c. Allegro Paranoia (Live at Mills College) (4:20)
CD-R excerpts from the PARTCH ensemble, courtesy of John Schneider
composition years: a,b: 1952; c. 1950; total time: 8:35

Andrew McGraw:
a. 6321 (3:39)
b. Rebong (2:08)
c. Powerhouse (3:29)
d. Sanghyang (0:53)
Kolaborasi
Porter Records/2008
Indonesian instruments: Andrew McGraw, et al.; recorded in Bali; total time: 10:10

SET TWO
Arvind Parikh: selections from Raga Pila
a. Madhya Gat in Tintal (3:56)
b. Drug Gat in Tintal (3:32)
Raga Gunji Kauns/Raga Pilu
India Archive Music/2002
sitar: Arvind Parikh; tabla: Samiran Das; recorded at Astoria Sound, New York City, March 27, 1996; time: 7:28

Salawek Dulang performers: selections from drumming competitions
a. Dol-Tasa 2 (4:33)
b. Dol-Tasa 3 (0:28)
c. Dol-Tasa 4 (0:43)
d. Rapai 1 (1:00)
e. Rapai 2 (0:53)
f. Rapai 3 (0:32)
g. Rapai 4 (0:46)
h. Rapai Daboih 2 (3:04)
The Music of Islam Volume 15
Muslim Music of Aceh and West Sumatra
Celestial Harmonies/1997
traditional Javenese percussion recorded in Kampuang Pincuran Songsang, Kabupaten Padang-Pariaman, Indonesia; February 14, 1982; total time: 11:54

Rapoon: Bells Temple Ask
Cultural Forgeries
Alrealon/2014
instruments: Robin Storey; time: 5:00

SET FIVE
Jin Hi Kim & Joseph Celli: Duo Improvisation
No World Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1990
electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; digital synthesizer: Joseph Celli; recorded in February 1990, time: 12:05

Neil B. Rolnick: ReBong
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
gamelan instruments, real-time digital processing: Barbara Benar, David Demnitz, Nick Didkovsky, Daniel Goode, Neil B. Rolnick; composition year: 1989; time: 8:48

SINGLE PLAY
Fong Naam ensemble:
a. The Maiden Plays in the Water Overture (13:42)
b. Lullaby (5:35)
c. Wind in the Coconut Trees (3:18)
Ancient-Contemporary Music from Thailand
Celestial Harmonies/1995
Thai instruments: Fong Naam, conductor: Bruce Gaston; recorded at Rachamongkol Auditorium, Bangkok; total time: 22:35

SINGLE PLAY
Loren Nerell: Galungan
Lilin Dewa
Side Effects/1997
Indonesian instruments, field recordings: Loren Nerell; recorded and mixed at Earthbound, June 1993 -- August 1995; field recordings recorded in Indonesia, 1992 and 1994; time: 18:05

SINGLE PLAY
Steve Roach: Spiral Meditation -- Part Two
Spiral Meditations
Timeroom Editions/2014
electronic instruments performed and recorded by Steve Roach, Timeroom Studios, January -- November, 2013; time: 17:14

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Friday, August 8, 2014

Martian Gardens for August 10 & 13, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 10, 2014
(extended edition 9:00 p.m. -- 12:14 a.m. EDT)

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: August 13, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SET ONE
Gunther Schuller: Transformation
The Birth of the Third Stream (various artists)
Columbia/1996
alto sax: John LaPorta; tenor sax: Hal McKusick; bassoon: Manuel Zegler; trumpets: Louis Mucci, Art Farmer; trombone: Jimmy Knepper; French horn: Jim Buffington; piano: Bill Evans; vibraphone: Teddy Charles; guitar: Barry Galbraith; bass: Joe Benjamin; drums Teddy Summer; harp: Margaret Ross; conductor: Gunther Schuller; Brandeis University Festival of the Arts, New York City, recorded June 20, 1957; time: 5:57

Neil B. Rolnick's Fish Love That: Monkey Mind (T. Reynolds)
Neil B. Rolnick's Fish Love That
Deep Listening/2003
composer: Todd Reynolds; Fish Love That (violin: Todd Reynolds, tenor saxophone: Andrew Sterman; flutes: Ron Horton; keyboards: Neil Rolnick; bass: Steve Rust; drums: Dean Sharp); recorded at Levon Helm's Studio, Woodstock, New York, June 1998; composition year: 1995; time: 8:22

Todd Reynolds: Transamerica (featuring Kid Beyond)
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
vocals, vocal percussion samples: Kid Beyond; violin, electric guitar: Todd Reynolds; time: 5:07

Paul Dolden:
a. Who Can Talk Faster: Crickets or Man? (4:08)
b. The Village Orchestra: Tonic Tango (2:48)
Who Has the Biggest Sound?
Starkland/2014
instruments, electroacoustics, processing: Paul Dolden; recorded at the composer's studio, Val-Morin, Québec, 2005-2008; total excerpts time: 6:54

SET TWO
Rapoon:
a. Sway...down down (1:46)
b. Bodhran and ran (1:27)
Cultural Forgeries
Alrealon Musique/2014
instruments, composition: Robin Storey; total excerpts time: 3:13

John Cage: For one-sided drums with or without jangles
from ¢Composed Improvisation
The Works for Percussion 3
Mode Records/2014
solo percussion: D'Arcy Philip Gray; recorded at Sutton United Church, Sutton, Quebec, July 2008; composition year: 1990; time: 8:03

Milford Graves: Nothing 13
Percussion Ensemble
ESP-Disk/2008
drums, bells, gongs, shakers: Milford Graves; drums, bells: Sunny Morgan; recorded July 1965; time: 5:16

Zoviet France: Second Sight
Look Into Me
Charm/1990
instruments, composition: Robin Storey, Mark Spybey, Ben Penton; recorded in UK, 1986-1988; time: 4:17

SET THREE
Elzbieta Sikora: Rouge d’été (Red Summer)
Les Saisons 1972 [GMEB] -- 2002 [IMEB] (various artists)
IMEB/2002
electroacoustic music on tape: Elzbieta Sikora; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France; composition year: 2002; time: 10:28

Christian Clozier: Ont été (Have been) [Listening Exercise] (excerpt)*
Les Saisons 1972 [GMEB] -- 2002 [IMEB] (various artists)
IMEB/2002
electroacoustic music on tape: Elzbieta Sikora; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France; composition year: 2002; excerpt time: 3:00

R. Weis:
a. Sky Palace Ritual (2:19)
b. Acid & Acrobat (3:01)
Web of Illusion
R. Weis/1998
electronics, compositions: Robert Weis; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, total time: 5:20

Peter Van Zandt Lane: The donning of masks (Scene I)
Hackpolitik -- An electroacoustic ballet
Innova Recordings/2014
(for electroacoustic music and ensemble); Juventas New Music Ensemble; recorded at Fraser Studio, WGBH, Boston, 2014; time: 5:57

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: Summer
The Four Seasons
Hyperrealist Music by Noah Creshevsky
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: 12:05

David Rosenboom: Study for 'Zones'
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: 9:20

SET FIVE
Ming Tsao: Canon
Pathology of Syntax
Mode Records/2014
clarinet: Anthony Burr; cello: Charles Curtis; recorded at Warren Music Center Studios, San Diego, California, December 3, 2001; time: 10:02

Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 10
Flashbacks
Bridge Records/2000
(for guitar and electronic sounds); guitar: David Starobin; composition year: 1992; time: 9:25

SET SIX
Marcelle Deschênes: Lux (excerpt)
Petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music composed with Alain Thibault for a multimedia presentation by Renée Bourassa; realized in 1985 at the Bruit Blanc studio in Montreal; premiered at (S)pace - SMCQ, Spectrum, Montreal; December 5, 1985; excerpt time: 10:00

Pierre Boeswillwald: The right sound in the right silence
Compendium International -- Bourges 2003 (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2003
electroacoustic music realized at IMEB, Bourges, composition year: 2003; time: 12:09

SET SEVEN
Gordon Mumma: Telepos
Music for Merce 1952--2009 boxed set (various artists)
Music commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
New World Records/2010
Gordon Mumma controlling sounds activated by dancers with telemetry-accelerometer belts; recorded in Venice, Italy, for the dance TV Rerun, November 12, 1972; excerpt time: 18:27

Alvin Lucier: Music on a Long Thin Wire (excerpt)
Music on a Long Thing Wire
Lovely Music, Ltd./1992
(music for electro-magnetic vibrations); recorded at the Rotudna of the U.S. Custom House, Bowling Green, New York City, May 10, 1979; composition years: 1977-1979; excerpt time: 12:00

Alvin Lucier: Clocker (excerpt)**
Clocker
Lovely Music, Ltd./1994
(for ticking clock, contact microphones, contact electrodes, and digital delay system); recorded in the North Gallery of the Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, June 11, 1991; composition years: 1978, 1987, 1988, 1991; total excerpts time: 15:00

*WMUA Live version only
** TAINT Radio version only
The program states Alvin Lucier was a member of the ONCE Group/ONCE Festival. He was not. MG regrets the error.

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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Bells & Whistles for August 7, 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
August 7, 2014

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

SINGLE PLAY
Bali Conservatory of Music Bali:
Jauk and Barong dance contest at STSI, Denpasar
Trance Gamelan in Bali
Felmay/2011
Recorded at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Denpasar, Bali; composition: traditional; time: 10:31

SET ONE
Jody Diamond: Gending Chelsea
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
Musicians from the Indionesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta; voices: Jodey Diamond, STSI musicians, introduction: Matt Peterson; text: Virgil Thomson; recorded at Indonesion Institute of the arts, Surakarta, July, 2001; composition year: 1982; time: 11:09

Lou Harrison: Threnody for Carlos Chavez
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
viola: Geraldine Walther; Gamelan Sekar Kembar, director: William Winant; recorded at Fantasy Records, Berkeley, California, August 2002; composition year: 1978; time: 8:04

SET TWO
Jorge Liderman: Open Strings (1-3)
Walking Dances
Bridge Records/2004
(for guitar orchestra and electric bass); Jugend-Guitarrenorchester, Baden Wurttenberg, conductor: Helmut Osterreich; electric bass: Sebastian Maurer; composition year: 2001; time: 12:18

Gustavo Santolalla:
a. Way Up (4:06)
b. Gaucho (3:12)
c. Atacama (3:18)
Ronroco
Nonesuch Records/1998
guitar, ronroco: Gustavo Santaolalla; recorded at La Casa, Los Angeles, 1997; total time: 10:36

SET THREE
Lou Harrison: Palace Music
from Suite for National Steel Guitar
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California, July 5, 2004; time: 3:00

Lou Harrison: Plaint & Variations on 'Song of Palestine'
a. Plaint (3:08)
b. Variations (4:37)
Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003
guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Studio 34, Los Angeles, July 2000; time: 7:45

Ben Johnston: Who Says Words with My Mouth
from The Tavern
Ruminations
MicroFest Records/2014
microtonal guitar, voice: John Schneider; text: Rumi; recorded at Studio 34, Los Angeles, 2010; time: 3:41

Stephen Dickman: Who Says Words
Who Says Words
New World Records/1999
baritone: Thomas Buckner; cello: Michael Finckel; text: Rumi; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn; composition year: 1992; time: 6:16

SET FOUR
Robert Dick: Piece in Gamelan Style
Steel & Bamboo
O.O. Discs/1993
flute: Robert Dick; time: 9:08

Robert Dick & Steve Gorn: Calaveras Jump
Steel & Bamboo
O.O. Discs/1993
flute: Robert Dick; bansuri: Steve Gorn; time: 5:58

Barbara Benary: Downtown Steel I
Sun on Snow
New World Records/2006
piano: Joseph Kubera; clarinet: Daniel Goode; soprano sax: Jon Gibson; marimba: Bill Ruyle; drum set: Chris Nappi; trombone: Peter Zummo; tuba: Marcus Rojas; percussion: Nick Didkovsky; vibraphone: Barbara Benary; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2005; composition year: 1993; time: 6:46

SINGLE PLAY
Arie Shapira: We Are Heading, Hiroshima, Towards the Rising Sun
Selected Compostions 1971 -- 1995
Arie Shapira/1996
(for actor/singer, chamber orchestra, electroacoustics); narrator/singer: Gil Alon; text: Robert Penn Warren, "New Dawn," Hebrew translation: Moshe Dor; Ensemble Neue Pegnitzschaefer von Nürnberg, conductor: Jeffrey Burns; recorded at the Akademie Der Künste , Berlin, November 1993; composition year: 1987; time: 23:29

SINGLE PLAY
David Macbride: Bells of Remembrance
A Special Light
Innova Recordings/2014
percussion, bells: Benjamin Toth; piano, bells: David Macbride; recorded at the Hartt School, University of Hartford; December 16, 2012; composition year: 2004; time: 9:28

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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Martian Gardens for August 3 & 6, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 3, 2014

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

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

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Erickson: Summer Music
Orchestral, Chamber, & Vocal Music
Naxos Records/2007 (orig. 1990)
(for violin and tape); violin: Mia Wu; recorded at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, June 1989; composition year: 1974; time: 15:41

SET ONE
John Luther Adams: Among Red Mountains
Red Arc/Blue Veil
Cold Blue Music/2007
piano: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, composition year: 2001; time: 11:00

John Luther Adams: Strange Birds Passing
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
New England Conservatory Music Ensemble, director: John Heiss; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music; October 3, 2006; composition years: 1983, 2003; time: 6:43

John Cage: In A Landscape (excerpt)
In A Landscape
Catalyst Records/1994
piano: Stephen Drury; recorded at Clinton Studios, New York City; composition year: 1948; excerpt time: 1:25

SET TWO
John Cage: Child of Tree
The Works for Percussion 3
Mode Records/2014
amplified plant materials: D'Arcy Philip Gray; recorded at Sutton United Church, Sutton, Quebec, July 2008; composition year: 1975; time: 8:11

Paul Rudy: Degrees of Separation, "Grandchild of Tree"
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33 (various artists)
Toys in the Attack: Electroacoustic Music from the UMKC iMPACT Center
Centaur Records/2002
(for amplified cactus, digital effects, tape); cactus: Nathan David; recording engineer: Paul Rudy; recorded at the University of Missouri Kansas City; composition year: 1999; time: 10:01

Brian Eno: In Dark Trees
Another Green World
EG Editions/1987 (orig. Island LP/1975)
rhythm generator, percussion, electric guitar: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Studios, London, Summer 1975; time: 2:29

SET THREE
Robert Scott Thompson: Wind in the Trees (excerpt)
Amorphia
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 1995)
electroacoustic music: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; excerpt time: 10:30

Eduardo Kusnir: Como es Lily
Lily
Mnémosyne Musique Média/1996
electroacoustic music: Eduardo Kusnir; recorded at LPM Studios, Buenos Aires; Argentina; composition year: 1985; time: 10:30

SET FOUR
Malcolm Goldstein: Summer
The Seasons -- Vermont
XI Records/1998
double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Woods; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; saxophones, vibraphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; vocalizing, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, February 26, 1983; composition year: 1980-1982; excerpt time: 16:05

Laurie Spiegel: Riding the Storm
Unseen Worlds
Scarlet Records/1991
Music Mouse, MIDI, FM, digital processing: Laurie Spiegel; composition year: 1990; time: 4:22

SET FIVE
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
cricket song and environmental sounds recorded in the "Zone of Silence" in the desert of Northern Mexico; completed at Westerkamp's Studio, Vancouver, BC, 1987; composition year: 1987; time: 10:55

Mary Lee Roberts: Things Fall Apart
6 Compositions
Open Space/1997
(computer music) mastered on Sonic Solutions at New York University by Mary Lee Roberts, 1997; time: 7:40

Marco Oppedisano: In Dark Wood
from Scenes from Dante's Inferno
Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar
OKS Recordings of North America/2007
electric guitar, processing: Marco Oppedisano; composition year: 3:30

SET SIX
Ricardo Mandolini: El cuaderno del alquimista
Cultures Électroniques 16 (various artists)
Magistère Prix 29e Concours International 2002
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2002
electroacoustic music: Ricardo Mandolini; realized at IPEM Studio, Gand, Beligium, 1979; time: 9:28

Alex Shapiro: Bioplasm
Notes from the Kelp
Innova Recordings/2007
flutes, piccolo: Los Angeles Flute Quartet; recorded at Citrus Studios; Glendora, California, March 2004; composition year: 2004; time: 11:56

SET SEVEN
Eve Beglarian: Preciosilla
Overstepping
O.O. Discs/1998
voice, percussion: Eve Beglarian; flute Margaret Lancaster; text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at Noise Production, New York City; composition year: 1990; time: 7:42

John Cage: Living Room Music
a. To Begin (1:06)
b. Story (2:25)
c. Melody (3:10)
d. End (1:23)
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
(for percussion, household objects, recorder, and voices); Third Coast Percussion; text (b.): Gertrude Stein, "The World is Round"; recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Norther Illinois, University DeKalb, Illinois, June 2011; composition year: 1940; time: 8:00

African Head Charge: Stebeni's Theme
Great Vintage Volume 1 & 2
On-U-Sound/1991
traditional African chant: Stebeni, AHC; percussion: Style Scott, Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah; production: Adrian Sherwood, recorded at Berry Street Studio, London; 1981, time: 3:42

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Bells & Whistles for July 31, 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 31, 2014

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

SINGLE PLAY
Forrest Fang: Gender Lament
Folklore
Cuneiform Records/1995
composers: Forrest Fang, I Wayan Sujana; Balinese gender: I Wayan Sujana; kempluk (Balinese flat gong), sampler: Forrest Fang; recorded at The Hangar, Richmond, California; time: 3:42

SET ONE
Gamelan Kraton Surakarta: Bawa and Gendhing Terbang (Rebana)
Gamelan of Central Java XIV -- Ritual Sounds of Sekaten

Felmay/2010
recorded during the Sekaten celebrations, Java, 2004; time: 12:16

W. Lyar, H. Abdul Adjib, Ujang Suryana:
a. Mojang Priangan (A Girl fom Priangan) [6:15]
b. Warung Pojok (Coffee Shop) [7:00]
Degung-mojang Priangan: Sundanese Music of West Java, Vol. 1
Interra Records/1995
total time: 13:15

SINGLE PLAY
Evan Ziporyn: selections from Amok! (1,2,6)
a. 6:24
b. 5:20
c. 7:02
Gamelan Galak Tika -- Amok!/Tire Fire
New World Records/2000
Gamelan Galak Tika, director: Evan Ziporyn; double bass: Robert Black; Alex Rigopulos: Gamelan samples; recorded at the Endicot Music Room, MIT, Cambridge; May 1999; total excerpts time: 18:44

SINGLE PLAY
Chinary Ung: Spiral IX (Maha Sathukar)
Music of Chinary Ung Vol. 3
Bridge Records/2011
percussion, voice: Stephen Solook; percussion, voice: Lynn Vartan; viola, voice, percussion: Susan Ung; bass baritone, percussion: Thomas Buckner; conductor: Chinary Ung; composition year: 2006; time: 29:55

SET TWO
Hamiet Bluiett:
a. Prayer (1:20)
b. Rain Shout (1:58)
Dangerously Suite
Soul Note/1994
baritone saxophone, alto clarinet, voice: Hamiet Bluiett; drums: Jabali Billy Hart; African percussion: Chief Bey; recorded at Right Track Recording Studio, New York City, April 9, 1981

Musicians of Burma: Shwe Kyet Kel Han Chi (Jaunty Air of the Cock)
White Elephants & Golden Ducks
Shanachie/1997
maung zaing (metal gongs): Kyaw Kyaw Naing; hne (double reed oboe): U Phone; other percussion instruments: chauk lon bat, siwa, situ (uncredited); compsosition: traditional; recorded at Khin Sabe Oo Studios, Rangoon, Burma, November 1996; time: 4:02

No World (Trio): My Friend
No World (Trio) Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1992
African percussion: Mor Thiam; reeds, mukha veena (double reed): Joseph Celli; komungo: Jin Hi Kim; time: 9:20

Ricardo Dal Farra: Ashram
Desde El Otro Lado (various artists)
Electroacoustic Music from Latin America
O.O. Discs/1998
mukha veena (double reed): Joseph Celli; composition, electroacoustics, processing: Ricardo Dal Farra; composition year: 1991; time: 9:20

SET THREE
Daniel Wyman: excerpt from Wena Wendlovu
Southern Cones (various artists)
Music Out of Africa and South America
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
electroacoustic music: Daniel Wyman; realized at Vista Sound, Sereno, California, 1993-1995; excerpt time: 7:36

Milford Graves: Nothing 11-10
Percussion Ensemble with Sunny Morgan
ESP-Disk/2008
drums, bells, gongs, shakers: Milford Graves; drums, bells: Sunny Morgan; recorded July, 1965; time: 6:24

Gabin Dabiré: Kjima
Afriki Djamana -- Music from Burkina Faso
Amiata Records/1997
percussion: Gabin Dabiré, and other musicians, recorded at Carlo Maria Cordio Recordings Studio, Rome, Italy, January 1994; time: 3:58

SINGLE PLAY
Eno + Hyde: DBF
High Life
Warp Records/2014
CDJ groove, treatments, guitar treatments, distortion organ: Brian Eno; spike guitar: Karl Hyde; keyboard, electronic percussion: Fred Gibson; bass guitar: Leo Abrahams; recorded at Eno's studio, London; time: 4:14

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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Martian Gardens radio for July 27 & July 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
July 27, 2014
(extended edition 9:00 p.m. -- 12:14 a.m.)

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

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

SET ONE
Earle Brown: Three Pieces(No. 2)
Yvar Mikhashoff - Panorama of American Music [various artists]
From Antheil to Zappa 1911-1991
Mode Records/2013
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1951; time: 1:45

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

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Variations III
for one or any number of people performing any actions
Variations I-III
Mode Records/2003
electronics: John D.S. Adams, D'Arcy Philip Gray, Andrew R. Miller (MOTION Ensemble); recorded at Memorial Hall, University of New Brunswick, Fredricton, New Brusnwick, Canada, June 19, 2001; composition years: 1962-1963; time: 20:00

SET TWO
Carey Nutman: Moon Spin 2001
The Sea and the Snake
MPS Music and Video/2013
electronics: Carey Nutman; time: 9:04

Morton Subotnick: And the Butterflies Begin to Sing IV
Images Will Descend to the Ground
a. The waves are bitter (0:39)
b. Truth will remain simple, and gigantic wheels, will ride the bitter waves (1:13)
c. And images will descend to the ground (1:52)
And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
New World Records/1997
electronics: Morton Subotnick; The Amernet String Quartet (violins: Kyoko Kashiwagi, Marcia Littley de Arias; viola: Malcolm Johnson; cello: Javier Arias-Flores); recorded at Corbett Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, composition year: 1988; time: 3:36

Paul Dolden: excerpts from Who Has the Biggest Sound?
a. The Village Wind Orchestra - The Answer is Blowing in the Winds (3:37)
b. Who Has the Biggest Noise (2:00)
c. To Play or Not to Play? (1:00)
d. The Village Wind Orchestra - more Blowing in the Wind (2:55)
Who Has the Biggest Sound?
Starkland/2014
instruments, electroacoustics, processing: Paul Dolden; recorded at the composer's studio, Val-Morin, Québec, 2005-2008; total excerpts time: 10:32

SET THREE
Louis Dufort: Hi_Res
Trans_Canada -- ZKM/Karlsruhe [various artists]
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
electroacoustic music realized at the studios of the zkm, Germany, premiered at trans_canada, zkm, Mediantheater, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2005; composition year: 2005; time 13:37

Louis Dufort: Matério_*
Montreal Sound Matter [various artists]
Pogus Productions/2006
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, premiered at Spatio Lumino — Festival Montréal / Nouvelles musiques 2007, Société des arts technologiques (SAT), Montreal, February 24, 2007; composition year: 2006

SINGLE PLAY
Françoise Barrière: Aujourd'hui
Par Temps Calme Et Ensoleillé
Le Chant De Monde/1992
electroacoustic music realized at Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges, 1975, time: 18:53

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Curran: Canti Illuminati II
Solo Works -- The '70s
New World Records/2010
instruments, tapes, processing: Alvin Curran; recorded in Rome, 1974; composition year: 1977; time: 19:00

SINGLE PLAY
Jorge Antunes: Sinfonia Das Diretas (Direct Elections Symphony) (1st 1/2)
Sinfonia Das Diratas
Sistrum Edições Musicais Ltd./1995
for choir, ensemble, electronic effects and car horns; composed for Diretas Já, 1984; excerpt time: 20:00

SET FOUR
Beatriz Ferreyra: Río de los pájaros azules
Cultures Électroniques 14 (various artists)
Le Chant Du Monde/2000
electroacoustic music: Beatriz Ferreyra; realized at the composer's studio, commissioned by the Bregman Studio, Dartmouth College, 1998; time: 12:07

Peter Cusack: selections from Where is the Green Parrot?
a. Squabble (1:28)
b. Safari (5:46)
c. Good Sport (3:44)
d. Nightjar (1:00)
Where is the Green Parrot?
ReR Megacorp/1999
field recordings: Peter Cusack; seabirds on b: Chris Watson; total excerpts time: 10:30

WMUA LIVE VERSION ONLY
Chris Watson: Mozambique Nightjar
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch Records/1998
recorded at the Zimbazi River, Zimbabwe, 1996; time: 2:57

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