Martian Gardens for March 15 & 18, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
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March 15, 2015

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webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: March18, 2015 
Host: Max Shea  
online playlists:
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SINGLE PLAY
Bernard Rands: ...in the receding mist
Music for Chamber Ensemble (various composers)
Neuma Records/1992
(for violin, viola, cello, and harp); The Boston Musica Viva, director: Richard Pittman; composition year: 1988; time: 10:35

SET ONE
Richard Carrick: The Veins of Marble
Cycles of Evolution
New World Records/2015
Either/Or, conductor: Richard Carrick; recorded at the Either/Or Spring Festival, The Kitchen, New York City, May 30, 2013; composition years: 2000, 2013; time: 8:34

Florent Ghys: Melody from Mars
Télévision
Cantaloupe Music/2014
alto double bass; voice, text, percussion: Florent Ghys;  recorded at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn; composition year: 2014; time: 7:45

Christian Wolff:  Jasper, Part 1
Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass)
Mode Records/2002
bass: Robert Black; violin: Robin Lorenz; recorded at Millard Auditorium, Hartt School of Music, Hartford, Connecticut, January 13, 2000; composition year: 1991; time: 5:19

SET TWO
John Cage: Four³ (excerpt)
The Number Pieces I
Mode Records/1996
(for rainsticks, violin, and two pianos); violin, rainsticks; Ami Flammer; piano, rainsticks: Martine Josete; piano, rainsticks: Dominique Alchourroun; rainsticks: Jean Michaut; recorded at Radio France, Paris, January 1994; composition year: 1991 (for Merce Cunningham's dance "Beach Birds;" excerpt time: 6:00

Frances White: Birdwing
CDCM Cmputer Music Series Volume 25 (various artists)
The International Computer Music Association Commission Awards 1994-1996
Centaur Records/1997
(for computer and shakuhachi); shakuhachi: Tomie Hahn; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, November 1996; composition year: 1996; time: 15:06

SET THREE
Tod Dockstader & James Reichert: Omniphony 1, Movement I
Omniphony 1 
ReR Megacorp/2002
(musique concrete for chamber ensemble, processed ensemble, magnetic tape, and loudspeakers);  instrumentalists: bassoon: Elias Carmen; cello: Harvey Shapiro; b-flat clarinet: Stanley Drucker; flute: Harvey Estrin; French horn: Joseph Singer; baritone horn: Abraham Pearlstein; oboe: Harry Shulman; percussion: Walter Rosenberger, Herbert Harris; piano, celesta: John Carter; timpani: Morris Lang; bass trombone: Richard Hixon; trumpet: Raymond Crisara. conductor: James Reichert; composed and recorded in 1966; time: 10:27

Tod Dockstader: Apocalypse, Part 2
OHM -- The Early Gurus of Electronic Music -- 1948-1980 (various artists)
Ellipsis Arts/2000
(for magnetic tape); composition year: 1961; time: 2:01

Tod Dockstader & David Lee Myers: Assembly
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005
ecological sound recordings, electronics, processing: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers; time:6:20

In memory of Tod Dockstader (March 20, 1932 - February 27, 2015)

SET FOUR
Jean Derome: Le Fruit du Hasard
MusicWorks #121 (various artists)
MusicWorks Magazine/2015
(for saxophone, ensemble, and chance operations via coin toss); saxophone: Jean Derome; with Ensemble SuperMusique; recorded in Montreal, 2012; time: 10:07

Fünf: 
a. Chaleur (3:39)
b. Radis for the Road (2:23)
La règle
Ambiances Magnetiques/2014
electronics, receivers, amplifiers, devices: Magali Babin, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Martine H. Crispo, Anne-Françoise Jacques, Emilie Mouchous, Erin Sexton; recorded in Montreal, 2011-2014; total time: 6:02

David R. Mooney: Can't Get There from Here (Concert Version)
Interior Landscape
David R. Mooney/2013
field recordings, processing: David R. Mooney; recorded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; processed at the composer's studio, Pittsburgh; time: 3:53

Pierre Schaeffer: Plutôt Harmonique (from Trièdre Fertile)
L'oeuvre musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
musique concrete recorded at the Groupe de Recherche Musicales, Paris, 1975; time: 3:05

SET FIVE
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Ces énigmes lumineuses 
(Three Radiant Enigmas)
Quelques reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music realized at the studio of Miso Music Portugal, Lisbon; premiered at the Musica Viva Festival, Instituto Franco-Português, Lisbon, September 23, 2010; composition year: 2010; time: 12:29

Carey Nutman: No Place for Theory
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music & Video/2010
electronic music: Carey Nutman; recorded at the composer's studio Houghton-Le-Spring, England; time: 10:48

SET SIX
Pauline Oliveros: Rattlesnake Mountain
Accordion & Voice
Important Records/2006 (orig. Lovely Music LP/1982)
microtonally tuned accordion: Pauline Oliveros; composition year: 1982; time: 22:00

Jon Gibson: Song 1
Two Solo Pieces, plus Melody IV Part I, Melody II, Song 1
Felmay/Newtone Records/2006
violin: Barbara Benary; cello Arthur Russell; cello: Martha Siegel; soprano saxophone: Jon Gibson; recorded at Washington Square Church, New York City, March 3, 1974; composition year: 1972; time: 7:58

Malcolm Goldstein: Configurations in Darkness*
A Sounding of Sources
New World Records/2008
solo violin: Malcolm Goldstein; recorded at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, August 24, 2002; composition year: 1995; time: 10:01
* TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for March 8 & 11, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
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March 8, 2015

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webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: March11, 2015
Host: Max Shea  online playlists:
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SINGLE PLAY
James Mobberley: Strap on Your Lobster (from Icarus Wept) 
Music of James Mobberley
CD-R/2009
trumpet: Keith Benjamin; fixed media: James Mobberley; composition years: 1995-1997; time: 3:48

SET ONE
Florent Ghys:
a. Blazer et/ou Cravate (1:57)
b. This is the Album of the Future (5:51)
Télévision
Cantaloupe Music/2014
alto double bass, voice, text, other instruments, and noise-makers: Florent Ghys;  recorded at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn; composition year: 2014; time: 7:45

Harry Breuer: Paris 2079
Electronic Toys 2 (various artists)
A Retrospective of Early Synthesizer Music
Q.D.K. Media/2000
synthesizers: Harry Breuer; time: 2:19 

Morton Subotnick: Crime or Miracle
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: 3:24

Elainie Lillios: Shoe Factory (from Backroads)
Entre espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio, Bowling Green, Ohio; premiered at Rien à voir (12) concert series presented by Réseaux at Espace GO, Montreal, September 13, 2002; composition date: 2002; time: 3:51

Delia Derbyshire: Know Your Car (Get Out and Under)
BBC Radiophonic Workshop [A Retrospective] (Various Artists)
BBC Music/2000
electronic music: Delia Derbyshire; written by Adams/Clarke; arr. Derbyshire; recorded at BBC Radiophonic Workshop, London, 1963; time: 0:57

Robert Black: Radio Sonata (J. Sellars)
State of the Bass
O.O. Discs/1994
(composer: James Sellars, for double bass and computer-operated synthesizers); double bass: Robert Black; composition year: 1992; time: 3:23

SET TWO
Rune Lindblad: Dimstråk (Op. 203)
Objekt-2 -- Electronic and Concrete Music 1962-1988
Pogus Productions/1998
electronic music: Rune Lindblad; composition years: 1987-1988; time: 3:23

Stan Link: 
a. Cavatina (0:54)
b. [-snow)] (1:00)

In Amber Shadows
Albany Records/2006
a. electronic music: Stan Link; voice: Barbara Bins; composition year: 2003; b. electronic music: Stan Link; total time: 1:54

Daniel Koppelman: Psychic Driving (E. Lyon)
Escapement (DVD) (various composers)
Everglade/2009
(composer: Eric Lyon, for piano, MIDI controller, voice, and computer); computer sounds: Eric Lyon; piano, reader (text 1): D. Koppelman; computer-generated voice sample: text 1: Reverend Jim Jones; text 2: Secretary of State Madeline Albright; Shaker hymn: Paulina Bates, "Come to Zion," performers unknown; composition year: 2000; time: 18:51

SET THREE
Stockhausen: Zyklus
Complete Early Percussion Works
Mode Records/2014
solo percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at Theatre A, University of California San Diego, October 2008; composition year: 1959; time: 10:30

Robert Normandeau: Hamlet-Machine without actors
Dômes
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 2014; adapted from music composed for Heiner Müller's play Hamletmachine (1977), staged by Brigitte Haentjens in Montreal, (2001) ; composition years: 2003, 2014; time: 8:15

Robert Iolini: "Edwin Armstrong"
Iolini
ReR Megacorp/2002
electroacoustic chamber ensemble; time: 3:42

SET FOUR
Deep Listening Band: Invocation by Ione
Dunrobin Sonic Gems (live)
Deep Listening/2014
voice: Ione; instruments, sound systems: Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Stuart Dempster, Jessie Stewart, Jonas Braasch, Johannes Welsch; recorded at the Dunrobin Sonic Gym, Ottawa, Ontario; total excerpt time: 7:35

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

Guido Arbonelli: 
a. Continuous Cities (After Calvino) (K. Steen) (1:09)
b. Flash (J.L. Darbellay) (1:40)
c. Song 1 ( P. Rosato) (1:52)
Namaste suite
MPS Music & Video/2003
clarinets: Guido Arbonelli; recorded at Guido Arbonelli's studio, Perugia, Italy; total excerpt time: 4:40

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Shinrin-yoku
Elemental
Aucourant Records/2010
electroacoustic music: RST; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2010; time: 22:08

SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Spectrum 3
Spectrum Pieces
New World Records/2009
(for chamber orchestra); The Barton Workshop, directors: Frank Denyer, James Fulkerson; composition year: 1995; time: 18:04

SET FOUR
George Crumb: Night of the Four Moons
I. La luna está muerta, muerta... (2:33)
II. Cuando sale la luna (3:29)
III. Otro Adán oscuro está sonando... (2:50)
IV. ¡Huye luna, luna, luna! (8:26)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 11
Bridge Records/2008
The Aeolian Chamber Players -- alto flute/piccolo: Erich Graf; banjo: Lewis Kaplan; cello: Paul Tobias; percussion: Raymond DesRoches; mezzo soprano: Jan DeGaetani; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca; recorded 1974; composition year: 1969; total time: 17:28
  
In memory of Tod Dockstader (1932-2015)

Tod Dockstader & David Lee Myers: Glottalk*  
Pond  
ReR Megacorp/2005
amphibian sound recordings, electronics, processing: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers; time: 4:04
 *TAINT Radio version only
 
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Martian Gardens for February 22 & 25, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
   
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February 22, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 25, 2015  

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

SET ONE
Roger Reynolds: they come/different and the same 
(from Odyssey, an opera in the mind)
The Paris Pieces
Neuma Records/1996
mezzo-soprano: Marie Kobayashi; bass baritone: Philip Larsen; Ensemble InterContemporain, conductor: David Robertson; computer processing at IRCAM; composition year: 1989-1993; time: 9:11

Roger Reynolds: 
a. In the Dark (1:02)
b. Focus on a beam, emptied of thinking outward... (11:10)
Complete Works for Cello
Mode Records/2014
a. reading: James Merrill; b. cello: Alexis Descharmes; a. recorded at the University of California San Diego, September 2014; b. recorded at Salle Cortet, Paris, July 2014; total time: 12:12

SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu & Ensemble SuperMusique: La Neige
a. Neige 1-2
b. Neige 5-3
c. Neige 4-2
d. Regarder la neige tomber (Watch the snow fall)
Récits de neige
Ambiances Magnetiques/2010
performed by Ensemble SuperMusique, recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, Montreal, 2008; texts: a: Dyane Raymond, b: Lise Hétu, c: Luc Proulx; d: Miranda Nienson; total time: 18:27

SINGLE PLAY
Elizabeth Anderson: Ether
L'envol
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music realized at  Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain, Belgium, the electroacoustic studios of City University, London, and the the Studio Akousma of the Academy of Soignies, Belgium; 2001, CCMIX, Paris, 2000; premiered at the 8th international acousmatic festival L’Espace du son at the Théâtre Marni, Brussels, October 3, 2001; dedicated to the victims of the 9/11 attacks; time: 13:43

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Vespers
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
music for hand-held echolocation devices in a room; composition year: 1968-1969; time: 16:00

SET TWO
Judy Dunaway: Champagne in Mexico City (Fragment Set 2)
Balloon Music
CRI/1998
balloons: Judy Dunaway; electronics: Dan Evans Farkas; composition year: 1997; time: 7:48

Pauline Oliveros: Bottoms Up
Reverberations -- Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
Important Records/2014
electronics: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, 1966; time: 12:50

SET THREE
Triple Point: Jupiter Smiles
Phase/Transitions
Pogus Productions/2014
Triple Point (Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort, Jonas Braasch): electronics, instruments, sound systems; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 3:31

Marco Oppedisano: 
a. Hoodlum Priest (N. Creshevsky)
b. Eternal Lovers
Guitars in Brooklyn, Live 5.21.03
Marco Oppedisano/2005
composer: Noah Creshevsky; vocal samples: Thomas Buckner; electric guitar, guitar samples: Marco Oppedisano: composition year: 2002; b. composer, electroacoustic electric guitar: Marco Oppedisano time: 6:20

Barry Lewis: 
a. Tremas (2:07)
b. Square Sweep (2:04)
Curves and Jars 2 -- Fractal Music
MPS Music & Video/2015
computer music: Barry Lewis; recorded at Projects UK Studio, Newcastle, UK, 1994; total time: 4:11

Barry Schrader: Bachahama
a. Figure 0.1
b. Air
c. Figure 0.2
EAM --Electro Acoustic Music
Innova Recordings/2002
(an electronic deconstruction of Bach's C Minor Fugue, Air on the G String, and Triptych)

an electronic deconstruction of Bach's C minor fugue and Air on the G string, and Triptych - See more at: http://barryschrader.com/eam/#sthash.7t3l5y8q.dpuf

an electronic deconstruction of Bach's C minor fugue and Air on the G string, and Triptych - See more at: http://barryschrader.com/eam/#sthash.7t3l5y8q.dpuf

electroacoustics: Barry Schrader; recorded at the composer's studio, Valencia, California; composition years: 1986, revised 2000; total time: 7:07

SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Visage 2
Madame Shanghai/Après Presque Rien/Visage 2
Mode Records/2011
(for brass, piano, and percussion) Musiques Nouvelles, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at l'Auditorium Abel Dubois à Mons, Belgium, April 21, 2006; composition years: 1955-1956; time: 10:02

Steven Ricks: Haiku
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2003
Tibetan prayer bowls, tam tams: Dominic Donato; electronics: Steven Ricks; premiered at SUNY Purchase, September 2006; composition year: 2006; time: 9:15

SET FIVE
Artemiy Artemiev:
a. Freezing (3:26)
b. Cold (10:25)
Cold
Electroshock Records/1995
electronics: A. Artemiev, recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, December, 1994; time: 13:51
 
Richard Pinhas:
a. Iceland, Part 1 (1:05)
b. Short Transition (0:35)
c. Greenland (8:56)
Iceland
Cuneiform Records/1992 (org. Polydor LP/1979)
 synthesizers, guitar: Richard Pinhas; Mini-Moog: Jean-Phillippe Goude; recorded in Heldon Electronic Music Studio and Ramsès Studio, Paris, 1979; time: 10:30


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Martian Gardens for February 15 & 18, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
   
WMUA .ORG
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February 15, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 18, 2015  

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

SET ONE
Roger Reynolds: imagE/Cello
Complete Cello Works
Mode Records/2014
cello: Alexis Descharmes; recorded at Salle Cortot, Paris, July 2014; composition year: 2007; time: 4:47

Barry Lewis: Snowflake Halls
Curves and Jars 2 -- Fractal Music
MPS Music & Video/2014
computer music recorded in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, 1994; time: 2:19

SINGLE PLAY
Barbara Monk Feldman: String Quartet No. 1 (Desertscape)
I. 11:34
II. 19:22
Soft Horizons
New World Records/2015
FLUX Quartet (violins: Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris; viola: Max Mandel; cello: Felix Fan); recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 2014; composition year: 2004; total time: 31:03

SINGLE PLAY
Barbara Monk Feldman: The Northern Shore
The Northern Shore
Mode Records/2012
Sabat/Clarke -- violin: Mark Sabat; piano: Stephen Clarke; percussion: Dirk Rothbrust; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, Germany, August 26, 2003; composition year: 1997; time: 28:26

SET TWO
Ron Nagorcka: Atom Bomb (excerpt)
Atom Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
(for cassette tape recorders, toy instruments, and other devices); The Golden Fur New Music Project (Samuel Dunscombe, Judith Hamann, James Rushford); realized by Golden Fur, 2010, Australia; composition year: 1977; excerpt time: 7:00

Gavin Bryars with Tom Waits: 
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (radio edit)
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet/"Low" Symphony (promo)
Point Music/1993
vocals: Tom Waits; tape loop: Gavin Bryars; orchestra: The Gavin Bryars Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman; recorded at Looking Glass Studios, New York City; composition years: 1971, revised 1993; excerpt time: 6:20

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Wireless Fantasy
Music for Electronic and Older Instruments (Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell)
CRI/1968
electronics, tape collage: Vladimir Ussachevsky; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, composition year: 1960; time: 4:41

Meredith Monk: Candy Bullets and Moon
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, bass: Meredith Monk; drums, organ: Don Preston; recorded at Garrick's Theatre, New York City, July 1967; time: 4:22

SET THREE
John Cage: The Ten Thousand Things (excerpt)
The Ten Thousand Things
Microfest Records/2013
narrator: John Cage; prepared piano:Vicki Ray; prepared piano: Aron Kallay; double bass: Tom Peters; percussion: William Winant; Cage's narration recorded at UCLA, 1962; other instruments for The Ten Thousand Things recorded at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles, Mills College in Oakland, Second Story Studios in Venice, CA, and Private Island Trax, Hollywood, CA; engineer: John Schneider (except Matt Snyder at Private Island Trax); recorded 2008-2012; composition years: 1954, 1955, 1956; excerpt time: 10:00

Carey Nutman: One Thing at a Time (Homage to John Cage)
One Thing at a Time (CD single)
MPS Music & Video/1992
tape collage: Carey Nutman; recorded in 1992; time: 11:15

SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: Red Horse Headache (excerpt)
Reverberations - Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (boxed set)
Important Records/2014
electronics: Pauline Oliveros; realized at the University of California San Diego Electronic Music Studio 1967-1970; excerpt time: 12:00

Merzbow: Ambient Study for Kinbaku-bi Part 2
Music for Bondage Performance 2
Extreme Records/1996
electronics, noises: Masami Akita; recorded at ZSF Produkt Studio, Tokyo, 1990-1994; time: 6:04

Roxanne Turcotte: Tout en rouge (Everything in Red)
Fenêtres intérieures
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
tape collage, electroacoustics: Roxanne Turcotte; realized at RTM Studios, Montreal, 2012-2014; time: 4:33

SET FIVE
Beatriz Ferreyra: Siesta Blanca (Winter)
Les Saisons 1972 [GMEB] -- 2002 [IMEB] (various artists)
IMEB/2002  
electroacoustic music on tape: Beatriz Ferreyra; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France; composition year: 1972; time: 14:30

Joane Hétu & Ensemble SuperMusique: Réveil brutal
Récits de neige
Ambiances Magnetiques/2010
recorded in Montreal, 2008; time: 3:30 

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Martian Gardens for February 8 & 11, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
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February 8, 2015

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February 11, 2015
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Newman & Rick Cox: A Well Staring at the Sky
35 Whirlpools Below Sound
Cold Blue Music/2014
instruments, electronics, field recordings; Thomas Newman, Rick Cox; recorded at Deep Sleep and SnakeHouse Studios, Pacific Palisades, California; time: 3:20

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds:
a. It was because of evil that the Furies were born... (2:22) 
b. Process and Passion (22:14)
Complete Cello Works
Mode Records/2014
a. reader: Roger Reynolds; text: Aeschylus, "Song of the Furies";  recorded at the University of California San Diego Music Department Studios, September 2014;  b. (for violin, cello, and computer processed sound) cello: Alexis Descharmes, violin: Nicholas Maribel; electronics: Frédéric Voisin; recorded at the Auditorium of the Paris Conservatoire, November 15, 2013; composition year: 2002; total time: 24:36

SET ONE
Paul Panhuysen and The Galvanos:
a. Long Strings (4:09)
b. Humming (4:46)
Lost for Words
Table of the Elements/1999
long string instrument, electronics, processing: Paul Panhuysen; recorded at Het Apolluis, Eindoven, The Netherlands, 1997; total time: 8:55

In memory of Paul Panhuysen (August 21, 1934 - January 29, 2015) 

Ellen Fullman: Never Gets Out of Me
Through Glass Panes
Important Records/2011
long string instrument: Ellen Fullman; cello: Henna Chou, Theresa Wong; violin: Travis Weller; time: 10:26

SET TWO
Robert Normandeau: Kuppel
Dômes
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music realized at the studios of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM, Germany) and in the composer’s studio in Montreal. 2005, 2006; premiered at trans_canada_release, ZKM_Kubus (Karlsruhe, Germany), December 9, 2006; revised at the composer's studio, Montreal, 2014; time: 17:49

Vertical Squirrels: This is Not (What this Is)
Time of the Sign
Ambiances Magnetiques/2014
guitars, percussion, synthesizer: Daniel Fischilin; piano, melodica: Ajay Heble; bass, baritone saxophone, pedal steel guitar, percussion; Lewis Melville; percussion: Ted Warren;  recorded in Ontario, Canada (Toronto, Guelph, Hamilton), June 2012; time: 3:59

SET THREE 
R. Weis: Parrot & Paperback, Part I
Parrot & Paperback
R. Weis/2015
musique concrete sourced from Congo the African Grey Parrot and a paperback book (about the Congo jungle) dropping on the floor; time: 3:14

Gen Ken Montgomery: Birds & Machines (Bird Suite)
Birds + Machines 1980 - 1989
Pogus Productions/2010
noises, electronics, processing: Gen Ken Montgomery; recorded in New York City, 1989; time: 8:05

Ron Nagorcka: Pied Butcherbird (from the Artamidae suite)
Atom Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
fretless electric guitar, mandolin: Larry Polansky; trombone; Joe Cook; flute, piccolo: Jennie McDonald; clarinet, bass clarinet: Karlin Love; MIDI keyboard, didgiridoo: Ron Nagorcka; conductor: Marta Mumford; composition year: 2012; time: 5:00

Sarah Peebles: Insect Groove
Insect Groove
Cycling '74/2002
electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; altered electric guitar, Boomerang, Whammy 2, processors; Max software, Sample Cell 1 & 2 editing; Unity DS-1 sampler, shō: S. Peebles; composition: 2002; time: 6:02

SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: Boone Bog (1st 1/2)
Reverberations -- Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (boxed set)
Important Records/2014
realized at the Mills Tape Music Center, Mills College, Oakland, 1966-1967; excerpt time: 16:30

David Tudor: Rainforest (1968) (excerpt)
David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
live electronics performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Teatro Novo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 30, 1968; excerpt time: 5:00

 SINGLE PLAY
Robert Erickson: Pacific Sirens
Pacific Sirens
New World Records/2003
Cleveland Chamber Symphony, conductor: Edwin London, recorded at Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland, April 8, 2001 (electronically treated tape recorded at Pescadero Beach, California, 1969); composition year: 1969; time: 14:00

SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Rituals Do Matter
Electroacoustic Music Volume VI (various artists)
Electroshock Records/2000
electroacoustic music: Carey Nutman; composition year: 1998; time: 11:15

Samuel Pellman: Perelandra (Venus)
Selected Planets
Innova Recordings/2003
computer music: Samuel Pellman; realized at the Studio for Contemporary Music, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York; time: 11:28

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Martian Gardens for February 1 & 4, 2015

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WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 1, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 4, 2015
Host: Max Shea

Updated and corrected: February 1, 2014
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SET ONE
R. Weis: Parrot & Paperback (Part II)
Parrot & Paperback
R. Weis/2015
musique concrete sourced from Congo the African Grey Parrot and a paperback book (about the Congo jungle) dropping on the floor; time: 3:36

Pril Smiley: Kolyasa*
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI 1991)
electronic music on tape: Pril Smiley; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; composition year: 1970; time: 6:37
*TAINT Radio version only

SET TWO
Tangerine Dream: Phaedra
Phaedra
Virgin Records/1985 (orig. LP 1974)
VC3 synthesizer, Mellotron, electric organ: Edgar Froese; VC3 synthesizer. electric organ, electric piano; flute: Peter Baumann; Moog synthesizer, VC3 synthesizer, keyboards: Chris Franke; recorded at The Manor studio, Shepton-on-Cherwell, UK, December 1973; time: 17:39

Edgar Froese: Macula Transfer
Beyond the Storm
Virgin Records/1995
synthesizers, electronics: Edgar Froese; time: 3:25

In memory of Edgar Froese (June 6, 1944 - January 20, 2015)

SET THREE
Roxanne Turcotte: Bestiare (Bestiary)
Fenêtres intérieures
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music on 16-track tape; realized at Productions RTM, Montreal, 2010-2011; revised 2014; time: 10:01

David Monacchi: Echoes of a Sonic Habitat 
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Earth Ear/2008
original sounds recorded in Montefeltro, Italy, echoic effects and further sounds recorded at the Großer Wasserspeicher cisterns, Berlin; composition year: 2004; time: 11:05

SET FOUR
Stockhausen: Schlagtrio
Complete Early Percussion Works
Mode Records/2014
(for piano and two timpanists); piano: Katalin Lukács; timpanis: Justin DeHart, Fabio Oliveira; recorded at Theater A, University of California San Diego, October 2008; composition years: 1952, revised 1973; time: 16:08

Justin DeHart: They Looked Like Strangers, Part I (S.S. Smith)
Strange Paths
Innova Recordings/2013
composer: Stuart Saunders Smith; solo vibraphone: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Music Studio, La Jolla, California; composition year: 2009; time: 5:40

SET FIVE
Robert Carl: Time/Memory/Shadow
New Music Series Volume 3 (various artists)
Neuma Records/1993
(double trio for piano quintet and harp); performed by Extension Works (Trio I. violin: Si-Jing Huang, cello: David Finch, piano: Kathleen Supové; Trio II. violin: Bonnie Berwick, viola: Scott Woolweaver, harp: Elizabeth Morse), conductor: Ronald Feldman; composition year: 1988; time: 14:37

Robert Carl: Brown Velvet
From Japan
New World Records/2012
(for bassoon and live electronics); bassoon: Ryan Hare; laptop: Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn; recorded at Washington State University, April 15, 2012; composition years: 2009, 2010; time: 7:13

SET SIX
Pauline Oliveros: Team & Desecrations Improvisation (1st 1/2)
Reverberations -- Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (boxed set)
Important Records/2014
synthesizers, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Center, 1966; excerpt time: 11:30

Hugh Le Caine: Invocation
Compositions & Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999
musique concrete on multi-track tape; Hugh Le Caine; composition year: 1957; time: 2:20

Fünf: The Name's Name
La règle
Ambiances Magnétiques/2014
electronics, receivers, amplifiers, devices: Magali Babin, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Martine H. Crispo, Anne-Françoise Jacques, Emilie Mouchous, Erin Sexton; recorded in Montreal, 2011-2014; time: 1:31

Martine H. Crispo: Transitive Property of Equality (excerpt)
Deep Wireless 4 (various artists)
Radio Arts Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2007
electronics: Martine H. Crispo; time: 3:45

Barry Lewis: 
a. Koch Island (2:27)
b. Wisps (2:06)
Curves and Jars
MPS Music & Video/1994
computer music: Barry Lewis; recorded at Projects UK studio, Newcastle, UK, 1994; total time: 4:33

SET SEVEN
Anna Rubin: Crying the Laughing and Golden
Electric Music (Rubin/Hollander)
Capstone Records/2004
digital media: Anna Rubin; composition year: 1983; time: 9:20

Eduard Artemiev: I would like to return
IMEB Opus 30 - 1984 -- 1999, Volume 2 (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2003
electroacoustic music: Eduard Artemiev; composition year: 1993; time: 11:33

SET EIGHT
Noah Creshevsky: Borrowed Time
Auxesis (Amirkhanian/Creshevsky)
Centaur Records/1995
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 1992; time: 11:43

Charles Amirkhanian: Hypothetical Moments
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voice, ocarina, bells, harpsichord samples, poem: Charles Amirkhanian; harpsichord samples courtesy of Dennis Russell Davies; composition year: 1981; time: 5:35

 
In celebration of the 70th birthdays of Noah Creshevsky and Charles Amirkhanian 
Charles Amirkhanian (b. January 19, 1945,  Fresno, California)
Noah Creshevsky (b. January 31, 1945, Rochester, New York)

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Martian Gardens for January 25 & 28, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 25, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: January 28, 2015
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY
Amy Denio:  Mildly Tempered Piano
Prodigal Light
Spoot Music/2013
piano tuning: Stephan Fandrich; time: 1:01

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros: Mnemonics I
Reverberations -- Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (boxed set)
Important Music/2014
electronics, tapes: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center 1964-1966; time: 15:09

Pauline Oliveros: Bye Bye Butterfly
Women in Electronic Music 1977 (various artists)
New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media
New World Records/1997 (orig. 1750 Arch LP/1977)
(for electronics and phonograph record); recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1965; time: 8:08

SET TWO
If, Bwana: Mal Air
33BirdsWent
Pogus Productions/1995
vocals: Ellen Christi; bass clarinet: Brian Charles; percussion: Kevin Sparkle; synthesizers: Al Margolis; recorded live to DAT at PASS Studio, New York City; time: 9:30

Ellen Fullman: Flowers
Through Glass Panes
Important Records/2011
long string instrument: Ellen Fullman; cello: Henna Chou, Theresa Wong; violin: Travis Weller; time: 9:50

SET THREE
Erik Nyström: Latitudes
Morphogenèse
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music realized at Electroacoustic Studio of City University London, 2011; premiered at the concert Éphémère 8 at Studio Loos in The Hague, May 12, 2011; time: 13:45

Arcane Device: Mantra 5
Noise Matrix Mantras & Modular Waves
pulsewidth.com/2014
electronics: David Lee Myers;  recorded in New York City, 2014; time: 7:05

SET FOUR
Vittorio Rieti: Triptych for Two Harpsichords
I. Andante tranquillo -- Allegretto (2:05)
II. Andante tranquillo -- Dolcemente moderato (4:31)
III. Andante Tranquillo -- Allegro (2:18)
Music for Harpsichord & Instruments
New World Records/2015
harpsichords: Martin Sassman, Michael Johnson; recorded at Jerusalem Music Center, Jerusalem, Israel, March 13, 2014; composition year: 1982; total time: 8:34

Robin Crutchfield: We Find Our Way In
The Hidden Folk
Important Records/2009
harp: Robin Crutchfield; time: 1:41

Fünf: L'or de Mona Lisa
La règle
Ambiances Magnétiques/2014
electronics, receivers, amplifiers, devices: Magali Babin, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Martine H. Crispo, Anne-Françoise Jacques, Emilie Mouchous, Erin Sexton; recorded in Montreal, 2011-2014; time: 1:48
 
Nurse With Wound:
a. Rockette Morton, Part 2*
b. Scissor Rock Bicycle Revelation **
A Sucked Orange
United Diaries/1995 (orig. 1989)
electronics, voice, processing: NWW; a. time: 3:11/b. time: 2:24
*WMUA version only
** TAINT radio version only

Bora Yoon: Speratus
Sunken Cathedral
Innova Recordings/2014
voices, instruments: Bora Yoon; symphonic performance: Sympho; time: 2:04

John Schneider & Just Strings: Jahla (from Suite No. 2) (L. Harrison)
Just West Coast
Music for Guitar and Harp in Just Intonation
Bridge Records/1993
composer: Lou Harrison; just guitar: John Schneider; harp: Amy Shulman; percussion: Gene Sterling; composition years: 1972, 1992; time: 1:51

Lou Harrison: Allegro Moderato (from A Sonata for Harpsichord)
Complete Harpsichord Works, etc.
New Albion Records/2002
harpsichord: Linda Burman-Hall; composition years: 1999-2000; time: 3:29

SET FIVE
Walter Zimmermann: 10 Fränkische Tänze
Songs of Innocence & Experience  
Mode Records/2012
(sublimated for string quartet); string quartet/drone quartet: Sonar Quartett (violins: Suanne Zapf, Kirsten Harms; viola: Nikolaus Schlierf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt); recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin-Lankowitz, Germany, February 2011; composition year: 1977; time: 12:56

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

SET SIX
Robyn Schulkowsky: Armadillo, Part II
Armadillo
New World Records/2013
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; drums: Joey Baron, Fredy Studer; recorded in Poggliolo, Italy, and Zurich, Switzerland, 2006 and 2009; composition years: 1990-2007; time: 5:05 

Jorge Reyes: Arbol Sagrado
The Flayed God
Staalplaat/1994
composition, percussion: Jorge Reyes; recorded at El Cuarto de Maquinas, Mexico City, 1990; remixed by Steve Roach at the Timeroom, Phoenix, Arizona; time: 1:36

Test Dept: Firedance
Materia Prima
Invisible Records/1997 (orig. Ministry of Power Records/1990)
percussion, percussed objects, voices: Test Dept; unspecified live performance, Europe, 1988-1989; time: 8:07

Amy Denio: Construction 
Tattoo (for the Pat Graney Dance Co.)
Unit Circle Rekkids/2001
voice, text: Saiko Kobayashi; tapes: Amy Denio; recorded in Seattle; time: 3:56

Annie Gosfield: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory, Part II
Burnt Ivory and Loose Wires
Tzadik/1998
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; percussion: Jim Pugliese and Christine Bard; recorded at Harvestworks/Studio PASS, New York City; composition date: 1996; time: 4:52

SET SEVEN
Steve Roach: The Edge Opens
At the Edge of Everything
Timeroom Editions/2013
percussion, didgeridoo; sampler, electronics: Steve Roach; flute, hand percussion, voice: Vidna Obmana; frame drum: Jeffrey Fayman; recorded at the E-Live Festival, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, September 11, 2000; time: 15:26

Robert Rich: Ibn Sina*
Seven Veils
Hearts of Space/1998
synthesizer, percussion, stringed instruments, flutes: Robert Rich; recorded 1996--1997, mastered at Hearts of Space, Sausalito, California, 1997; time: 8:39
*TAINT radio version only
 
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