Friday, February 19, 2016

Martian Gardens for February 25, 2016

Host: Max Shea 
online playlists:
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TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 25, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Premiering March 4, 2016
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST

SINGLE PLAY
Steve Reich: Nagoya Marimbas
Third Coast Percussion/Steve Reich
Çedille Records/2016
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, December 15-19, 2014; composition year: 1994; total time: 4:48

SET ONE
Henri Pousseur: At Moonlight, Downland's Shadow Passes Along Ginkakuji
Electronic, Experimental and Microtonal, 1953-1999
Sub Rosa/2008
koto: Mikoto Jakahata; shamisen: Sumila Goto; shakuhachi: Shuzan Morita; composition year: 1989; time: 12:38

Barton McLean: Ice Canyons
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
keyboards, computer, "Composer's Playpen" software: Barton McLean; recorded at the composer's studio, Petersburg, New York, composition year: 2010; time: 8:23

SET TWO
Marco Oppedisano: The Transfixed
Resolute
Spectropol Records/2015
electric guitar, electroacoustic electric guitar, electronics, samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 4:43

Paul Rudy: Tikkun Olam
Possible Worlds [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2011
electronics: Paul Rudy; composition year: 2008; time: 4:00

R. Weis: Cardboard Serenade
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2011
electroacoustic music: Robert Weis  (sound sources; cardboard tubes, vocal tone); time: 4:09

John Duesenberry: Agitato (Ergo Sum)
Electro Acoustic Music II
Neuma Records/1991
electroacoustic music: John Duesnberry; Boston Musica Viva; composition year: 1990; time: 6:18

SET THREE
Benjamin Boretz: I. Overture
String Quartet
Open Space/2009
The Quartet DAFO (violins: Justyna Duda, Danuta Augustyna; viola: Aneta Dumanowska; cello: Anna Armatys); recorded at the Studios of the Polish National Radio and Television, Warsaw, September 20-22, 2007; composition year: 1957; time: 11:02

Michael Byron: Invisible Seeds (for James Tenney)
Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl
Cold Blue Music/2000
CalArts New Century Players (violins: Mark Menzies, Cindy Mousas, viola: Ray Tischer, cello: Guenevere Measheam, contrabass: Barry Newton, pianos: Vicki Ray, Brian Pezzone, synthesizer: Brent Crayon), conductor: David Rosenboom; recorded at Dizzy Gillespie Recording Studio, California Institute of the Arts, 2000, composition year: 1998, time: 15:35

SET FOUR
Michael Vincent Waller: Atmosfera di Tempo
The South Shore
XI Records/2015
violins: Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim-Harris; viola: Daviel Panner; cello: Christine Kim; recorded at Oktaven Studios, New York City, composition year: 2013; time: 6:03

Elliott Carter: Elegy
Arditti Quartet 1974-1994
Montaigne/1994
Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, David Alberman; viola: Garth Knox; cello: Rohan de Saram); recorded at WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln June 1991, December 1992; composition year: 1943, arr. for string quartet: 1946); time: 3:39

Michael Vincent Waller: Miniatures III. Return from The Fork
The South Shore
XI Records/2015
piano: Marija Ilic; recorded at Oktaven Studios, New York City, composition year: 2014; time: 3:04

Elliott Carter: Shard
The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Four
Bridge Records/2001
guitar: David Starobin; recorded at Mastersound, NY, December 1997, composition year: 1997; time: 2:37

Ursula Mamlok: Kontraste
I. Humoresque (0:41)
II. Largo e Mesto (2:46)
The Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume Three
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; harp: Ursula Holliger; recorded at Radio Zurich, Switzerland, February 12, 2011; composition years: 2009, 2010; total time: 3:30

SET FIVE
Ulrich Krieger: Pitch Black
Winter in the Abyss
Pogus Productions/2015
trombone: Matt Burbier; French horn: Zara Rivera; contrabass trombone: Paul Rivera; recorded at
the Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Studio, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 2012; edited at π-Farm, Acton, California, 2013, mastered at TV Tray Studio, Valencia, California, 2014, 2015; time: 13:00

Alvin Curran: Coastline (Curran/Lacy)
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
soprano saxophone: Steve Lacy; 1985 tape--East Coast U.S. foghorns, U.S. Coast Guard personnel in Maine and Maryland; recorded and mixed by Alvin Curran, Rome, Italy, 1985; time: 11:33

SINGLE SIX
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie
Complete Early Percussion Works
Mode Records/2014
(for tamtam, 2 microphones, 2 filters, and controllers); red fish blue fish, director: Steven Schick; recorded at Theater A, University of California San Diego, May 21-22, 2008; composition year: 1964; time: 31:44

Gerard Pape: Makbenach IV
Lux Fugit
Stradivarius/2015
trombone: John Kenny; live electronics: Stefan Tiedje; recorded live, Paris, November 2012; composition years: 1998-2012; time: 10:03

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Martian Gardens for February 18, 2016

Host: Max Shea 
online playlists:
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email: martiangardens@gmail.com

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 11, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Premiering March 4, 2016
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Nauert: Two Miniatures
I. 1:38
II. 1:31
A Distant Music
New World Records/2015
clarinet: Paul Miller; piano: Carl Pantle; recorded at the Music Center Recital Hall, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 7, 2014; composition year: 2012; total time: 3:09

SET ONE
Tom Johnson: Tilework for Violin
I. 3:10
II. 3:11
III. 3:14
Correct Music
Populist Records/2012
violin: Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh; recorded at the home of Dr. William Rutherford, Mount Washington, California; composition year: 2003; total time: 9:35

Alvin Lucier: Broken Line
Broken Line
Mode Records/2015
Trio Nexus (flute: Erik Drescher, vibraphone: Martin Lorenz, piano: Sebestian Berweck); recorded at Siemensvilla, Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, July 9-11, 2012;  composition year: 2006; time: 11:55

SET TWO
Elsa Justel: Mâts (Masts)
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2002
electroacoustic music on stereo tape (sound sources: Andean erkencho, African rainstick, Chinese bamboo and percussion instruments), realized in the studio of the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM), Paris, 1999; premiered at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France, Paris, February 1999, commissioned by the French State Music Office and Ina-GRM, composition year: 1999; time: 10:57

Eric Moe: I Have Only One Itching Desire
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Paul Vallancourt; recorded at Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Schwob School of Music, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia; composition year: 2006; time: 10:00

SET THREE
John Cage: Trio
a. Allegro (0:59)
b. March (1:51)
c. Waltz (1:40)
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, June 2011; composition year: 1936; total time: 4:30

Steve Reich: Mallet Quartet
a. Fast (6:39)
b. Slow (3:16)
c. Fast (5:03)
Third Coast Percussion/Steve Reich
Çedille Records/2016
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, December 15-19, 2014; composition year: 2009; total time: 15:00

SINGLE PLAY
Julius Eastman: Stay On It
Unjust Malaise
New World Records/2005
Creative Associates (voice: Georgia Mitoff, piano: Petr Kotik; violin: Benjamin Hudson; clarinet: Amrom Chodos; saxophones: Joseph Ford, Doug Gaston; percussion: Dennis Kahle, Jan Williams); recorded in concert at SUNY Buffalo, December 16, 1973; composition year: 1973; time: 24:20
See also: The Julius Eastman Project (Mary Jane Leach)

SET FOUR
Warren Burt: Lucas (2-1) C Right Drone
Four Microtonal Immersions for iPad
Scarlet Aardvark/2014
apps, iPad: Warren Burt; composition year: 2014; time: 19:28

Pauline Oliveros: 5000 Miles (excerpt)
Reverberations -- Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (boxed set)
Important Records/2014
synthesizers, tapes: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Center, 1966; excerpt time: 10:15

SET FIVE
George Crumb: An Idyll for the Misbegotten
(Images III) for amplified flute and percussion
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 17
Bridge Records/2015
flute: Rachel Rudich; percussion: Paul Herrick, A.J. Matthews; recorded at  California State University, Chico, November 18, 2002; composition year: 1986; time: 11:43

Polly Moller: Blood Sugar
Summerland
Silverwheel Music/1999
flute, intoned voice, lyrics, effects: Polly Moller; time: 2:23

Okkyung Lee: Anything You Say, Anything You (Don't) Say
Nihm
Tzadik/2005
cello: Okkyung Lee; percussion: Tim Barnes; harp: Shelley Burgon; piano: Sylvie Courvoisier; recorded at Frank Booth, January 2005; time: 2:42

Marco Oppedisano: Flash Forward
Resolute
Spectropol Records/2015
electoacosutic electric guitar, electric bass, samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 3:31

Brian Eno: Sombre Reptiles
Another Green World
EG/1988 (orig. LP 1975)
Hammond organ, electric guitars, synthetic percussion, Peruvian percussion, electronics, samples: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Studios, London, summer 1975; time: 2:26

Colin Newman: Blue Jay Way (G. Harrison)
Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish/Not To
4AD/1988 (orig. LPs 1981/1982)
vocals, tabla, cymbals, vibes, effects: Colin Newman; bass guitar, backing vocals: Simon Gilham; drum kit: Robert Gotobed; recorded at Scorpio Sound, London, 1981; composer: George Harrison; composition year: 1967; time: 3:11

SET SIX
Jim Fox: Appearance of Red
Cold Blue (various artists)
Cold Blue Music/2002 (orig. LP 1984)
electric guitar: Rick Cox; piano: Robert Krupnick; cello: Dane Little; recorded in Los Angeles, 1983, time: 5:36

Ron Nagorcka: Grey 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: 4:31

SINGLE PLAY
Scott Smallwood: Whitecap
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 (various artists)
Vox Novus/2008
electronics: Scott Smallwood; time: 1:00


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Sunday, February 7, 2016

Martian Gardens for February 11, 2016

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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 11, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Premiering March 4, 2016
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST

SET ONE
Michael Byron: As She Sleeps
Awakening At the Inn of the Birds
Cold Blue Music/2003
piano: Sarah Cahill; recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, December 2002; composition year: 2000; time: 3:18

Mary Kathleen Ernst: Keeping Time (V. Fung)
Keeping Time
Innova Recordings/2014
piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst; composer: Vivian Fung; recorded at Reston, Virginia, composition year: 2011; time: 3:49

SET TWO
Paul Lansky: Contemplating Weather (excerpts)
IX. Snow Arithmetic (4:20)
X. Stratus (1:55)
XI. Chorales (4:58)
Contemplating Weather
Bridge Records/2015
(for SATB chorus and eleven instruments); Western Michigan University Chorale with Birds On A Wire ensemble, conductor: Kimberly Dunn Adams; recorded at Western Michigan University Dalton Center, Kalamazoo, February 27-28, 2014; composition year: 2013; excerpts time: 11:15

Judith Shatin: Time to Burn
Time to Burn
Innova Recordings/2014
oboe: Aaron Hill; percussion: I-Jen Fang, Mike Schultz; recorded at Charlottesville, Virginia, composition year: 2006; time: 10:25

SET THREE
Beth Anderson: New Mexico Swale
Swales and Angels
New World Records/2004
flute, piccolo: Andrew Bolotowski; violin: Dink Van den Hauwe; viola: Mark Sonnaert; cello: Ilia Laporev; percussion: David Rozenblatt: conductor: Gary M. Schneider; recorded at Studio C, Mirror Image, New York City, November 20-21, 2003; composition year: 1995; time: 10:23

Chou Wen-chung: Ode to Eternal Pine
Eternal Pine
New World Records/2015
Boston Musica Viva (flute: Ann Bobo, clarinet: William Kirkley, piano: Geoffrey Burleson, violin: Bayla Keyes, cello: Jan Muller-Szeraws; percussion: Robert Schulz, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded at Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, November 19, 2012; composition year: 2009; time: 14:32

SET FOUR
Jorge Antunes: Invocação em defesa da máquina
I. A máquina não desumanziza a música (2:35)
II. Reflexão (1:03)
III. A música humaniza a máquina (5:13)
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for 4 percussionists, 4 metronomes, and electronic sounds); percussion: Adriano Letzel, Arturo Uribe, Bruno Cabrera, Catarina Percinio, Clenio Henrique, Rosângela Rhafaelle, Rubens Lopes, Sérgio Coutinho; recorded at Teatro Maria de Lourdes Sekeff, the Art Institute of UNESP, São Paulo, March 27, 2010; composition year: 1968; total time: 8:51

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

Martin Alejandro Fumarola: El peregrinar de la araña
Travels of the Spider (various artists)
Pogus Productions/1998
computer, tone generator: Martin Alejandro Fumarola; recorded at de Laboratorio de Musica Electroacústica, National University of Córdoba, Argentina, 1995; time: 4:10

Craig Dongoski & Robert Scott Thompson: The Larval Staircase
Orbital Lullaby
Aucourant Records/2011
electronics: Craig Dongoski, Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at RST's studio, Roswell Georgia; time: 2:25

James Tenney: Ergodos II
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music on stereo magnetic tape; composition year: 1964; time: 4:02

SET FIVE
Linda Dusman: Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
I Need No Words
Neuma Records/2013
voice: Wendy Salkind; percussion: Tom Goldstein; text: Gertrude Stein, 1922; composition year: 2010; time: 15:05

Stuart Sunders Smith: Tunnels
Crux
O.O. Discs/1992
percussion/actor: Thomas Goldstein; composition year: 1982; time: 7:06

SET SIX
Ulrich Krieger: Il cimitero chiuso
[urban dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for amplified chamber ensemble); Sonic Boom ensemble (contrabass clarinet: Alex Sramek, trumpet: Chris Kallmyer, tuba: Luke Storm, accordion: Robert Altaire, piano innards: Emi Tamura, percussion: Lydia Martin, cello: Aniela Marie Perry, contrabass: Jake Rosenzweig; recorded at CalArts, ROD, Valencia California, 2011; composition years: 1997, 2011; time: 7:16

Ulrich Krieger: Desert Center
(from RAW: Desert Towns of Southern California (Universe series, part 2) 
/RAW: ReSpace/
Pogus Productions/2015
electronic tenor saxophone, saxophone-controlled feedback, pedals, delays, 1/4-inch jack cable: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at π-Farm, Acton, California, 2013; mixed and mastered at TV Tray Studios, Ventura, California, 2014-2015; time: 12:43

SET SEVEN
Philip Mantione: Traffic for Strings
Traffic for Strings CD-R
Philip Mantione/2005
SEM Ensemble, conducted by Petr Kotik; recorded at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, 2005; time 11:54

Thomas Buckner: Luminescence, Movement I (A. Lockwood)
New Music for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner; SEM Ensemble (flute: Helen Richman, trumpet: Kyle Resnick, viola: Lev Zhurbin; cello: Ariane Lallemand; piano: Joseph Kubera, percussion, Chris Nappi, conductor: Petr Kotik; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, composer: Annea Lockwood; text: Etel Adnan; composition year: 2004; time: 7:13

Harry Partch: The Rose
from Eleven Intrusions
Newband: Harry Partch/Dean Drummond
Innova Recordings/2001
bass-baritone: Robert Osborne; Newband playing on Partch instruments; director: Dean Drummond; text: Ella Young; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2000; composition years: 1949-1950; time: 2:02

Thomas Newman/Rick Cox: Goldmine Nectarine
35 Whirlpools Below Sound
Cold Blue Music/2014
piano, phase metals, sound effects, processing: Thomas Newman, Rick Cox; recorded in Pacific Palisades, California; time: 3:53

Artemiy Artemiev & Christopher De Laurenti: Recalibration
57 Minutes to Silence
Electroshock Records/2002
electronics, computer, synthesizers: Artemiy Artemiev, Christopher De Laurenti; recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, January 2002; time: 7:10

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Monday, February 1, 2016

Martian Gardens for February 4, 2016

Host: Max Shea 
online playlists:
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email: martiangardens@gmail.com

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 4, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Coming February 2016, day/time TBA

SINGLE PLAY
Eve Beglarian: I Am Worried Now, But I Won't Be Worried Long
BRIM -- Songs from the River Project
EV/BVD Music/2012
electronics, electric guitar, bass: Eve Beglarian; violin electric, violin, acoustic guitar; time: 4:45

SET ONE
Larry Polansky: Three Pieces for Two Pianos I
Three Pieces for Two Pianos
New World Records/2016
pianos: Joseph Kubera, Marilyn Nonken; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, June 2, 2015; composition years: 2006, 2007; time: 8:00

Harry Partch: Castor 
a. Leda  & the Swan (Insemination) [1:53]
b. Conception [1:51]
c. Incubation [1:51]
d. Chorus of Delivery from the Egg [1:53]
(From Castor & Pollux: Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini)
Plectra and Percussion Dances
An Evening of Dance Theater 
Bridge Records/2014

PARTCH ensemble (ingredients may include -- diamond marimba, Eroica, cymbal: Erin Barnes; voice: Paul Berkoids; kithara: Alison Bjorkedahl; canon, surrogate kiethara, Eroica: Matt Cook; cloud chamber bowls, chromelodeon: David Johnson; saxophone: Ulrich Krieger; percussion: Yumi Lee; canon: Tom Peters; guitars, canons: John Schneider; adapted viola: Derek Stein; bowls, bass marimba, Eroica, fight bell: Nick Terry; bass marimba, voice: T.J. Roy; guitar, canons: Alex Wand); recorded at Disney Hall/Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, June 9, 2013; composition year: 1952; total time: 7:30

Mary Ellen Childs: Welding
Dream House
Innova Recordings/2007
Ethel (violin: Cornelius Dufallo; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson; violin: Mary Rowell); recorded at The Clubhouse, Rhinebeck, New York, July 2006; composition year: 2006; time: 4:09

SET TWO
Frances White: Three Small Pieces for Flute and Electronic Sound
a. The Sound of the Bell as it Leaves the Bell (4:31)
b. Interlude (2:31)
c. Rose Pogonia (4:31)
Music by Frances White (CD-R)
Rosewhite Music/2004
flutes 1 & 2: Elizabeth Brown; composition year: 2002; total time: 11:33

Kristin Norderval: Glass and Mirrors
Aural Histories
Deep Listening/2012
voice, electronics: Kristin Norderval; composition year: 2011; time: 5:35

Meredith Monk: Liquid Air
Mercy
ECM New Series/2002
voices: Meredith Monk, Katiie Geisinger, The Bleckmann, Ching Gonzalez, Allison Sniffin; bowed vibraphone: John Hollenbeck; recorded at Sorcerer's Sound, New York City, March 19-20, 2002; time: 3:53

SET THREE
Xenia Pestova: Being and Becoming (L. Bunk)
Shadow Piano
Innova Recordings/2014
for toy piano and electronics; toy piano: Xenia Pestova; recorded at University of Bangor, Wales, and Cambridge, Massachusetts; composer: Lou Bunk; composition year: 2010; time: 13:47

Margaret Leng Tan: She Herself Alone (L. Liben)
She Herself Alone
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, toy psaltery: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Systems 2, Brooklyn, January 2010; composer: Laura Liben; composition years: 1996, 20002; time: 6:06

SET FOUR
Frank Pahl & Klimperei: Ladies Kisses
Music for Desserts
InPolySons/2004
numerous and varied instruments: Frank Pahl; numerous and varied instruments: Christophe & Françoise Petchanatz (Klimperei); time: 3:16

Frank Pahl: Apple Butter
Chime 5: Musique du Jouet (various artists)
Novel Cell Poem/2001
numerous and varied instruments: Frank Pahl; time: 1:19

Susan Ann Brewster: Rainbucket
Possible Worlds Vol. 3 (various artists)
Spectropol/2014
dulcimer, guitar harmonics, electronics, tapes: Susan Ann Brewster; thunderstorm recorded in the Canadian Rockies, summer 2013; time: 4:49

Chas Smith: Sometimes the Sword of Seven
Cold Blue Two (various artists)
Cold Blue Music/2012
steel guitars, Hammond organ, guitars, electronics: Chas Smith; recorded at the composer's studio, Reseda, California, Summer 2008; time: 4:52

Bill Gilonis & Tim Hodgkinson: Night by the Sea
Woof 7-Inches (various artists)
ReR Megacorp/2005
instruments, recording: Bill Gilonis, Tim Hodgkinson; recorded at the Royal College of Art, London,, July, 1979; original release "I Do I Do I Do I Don't," 1980, Woof Records; time: 2:07

Robert Voisey: Hunger
Vox Novus 3" EP
Vox Novus/2004
processed voice, lyrics: Robert Voisey; time: 2:25

Marco Oppedisano: The End is Near
60 x 60 2004 (various artists)
Capstone Records/2004
electric guitar samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 1:00

SET FIVE
Pauline Oliveros: Bog Bog (excerpt)
Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
Important Records/2014
synthesizer, tape: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at Mills Tape Music Center, Mills College, Oakland; 1966-1967; excerpt time: 10:00

Maggi Payne: Resonant Places
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artist)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music At Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
electroacoustic music; realized at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, 1992; composition year: 1992; time: 10:51

Morton Subotnick: Butterfly No. 1
Volume 3 -- Electronic Works
Until Spring: Revisited; 4 Butterflies
Mode Records/2011
composition for 4-Channel tape (original mix 1973; new mix 2011); time: 7:46

Tom Erbe: After A Day
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artist)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music At Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
electronics, computer: Tom Erbe; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, 1991; composition year: 1991; time: 4:32

SET SIX
Carey Nutman: In a New Pond (Caen Mix)
Resurrection?
MPS Music & Video/2009
synthesizer, computer: Carey Nutman; recorded at the composer's studio, Houghton-Le-Spring, UK, composition year: 2001; time: 12:44

Noah Creshevsky: You Are Here
Hyperrealism Music, 2011-2015
EM Records/2015
electronics, computer: Noah Creshevsky; recorded at the composer's studio, New York City; composition year: 2015: time: 3:50

Kaija Saariaho: NoaNoa
Electro Acoustic Music III (various artists)
Neuma Records/1994
(for flute and electronics); flute: Camilla Hoitenga; electronics realized at the IRCAM Signal Processing Center, Paris; composition year: 1991; time: 9:10

James Dashow: The Lost Son
from Songs from a Spiral Tree
Music of Thomas Delio/James Dashow
Capstone Records/1997
mezzo soprano: Constance Beavon; flute, alto flute, piccolo: Lauren Weiss; harp: Lucia Bova; recorded at RCA Studios, Rome, Italy, January 1992; text: Theodore Roethke; time: 3:57

Charles Ives:
a. Songs My Mother Taught Me (2:56)
b. The Sea of Sleep (1:00)
The Light That is Felt -- Songs of Charles Ives
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman; recorded at the Recital Hall at the Performing Arts Center, SUNY, Purchase, March 2008; a. composition year: 1901, text: Adolf Heyduk; b. composition year: 1903, text: unknown; total time: 3:56

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Martian Gardens for January 28, 2016

Host: Max Shea 
online playlists:
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email: martiangardens@gmail.com

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: January 21, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Coming February 2016, day/time TBA

SINGLE PLAY
Florent Ghys: Pull Blanc, Chemise Rouge
Baroque Tardif
Cantaloupe Music/2011
double bass, electric bass, pianino, guitars, percussion, voices: Forent Ghys; recorded in Bourdeaux, 2007-2010; time: 4:26

SET ONE
Annea Lockwood: In Our Name
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
baritone: Thomas Buckner; prerecorded voices: Bill Hart and Bruce Odland; cello: Theodore Mook; tape: Annea Lockwood; poems of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay:  "Death Poem," Jumah Al-Dossari (Bahrain), "The Truth," Emad Abdullah Hassan (Yemen), "Is it true," "Osama Abu Kabir (Jordan); didjeridu sample: Stuart Dempster, Didjerilayover; composition year: 2010; time: 11:48

Laurie Anderson: Another Day in America
Homeland
Nonesuch/2010
vocals, percussion, violin, keyboards, essay: Laurie Anderson; viola: Eyvind Kang; percussion, drums: Ben Wittman; bass: Skúli Sverrisson; background vocals: Antony; recorded in New York City, 2010; time: 11:24

SET TWO
Kenneth Gaburo: Mouthpiece II
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
electronics, processing, monologue: Kenneth Gaburo; recorded at Lewis Studio, University of Iowa, Iowa City; composition year: 1992; time: 9:09

David Berezan:
Thumbs Allusions Sonores
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
electroacoustic music on 8 channel tape (sourced from Balinese thumb piano); processing: David Berezan; realized at the electroacoustic music studios of  Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras, CMMAS,  Morelia, Mexico, the University of Calgary, and the University of Montreal; premiered at the Places for Our Ears To Go concert, August 12, 2011, Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art, Wychwood Theatre, Toronto; composition year: 2011; time: 11:57

SET THREE
Jerry Hunt:
a. String 1 (1:02) 
b. String 12: Shut Up and Love Me (0:41)
c. Song Drape 2 (I Can't Stop) (4:47 
d. String 2: Mail Order Church (1:21) 
Song Drapes
Tzadik/1999
electronic music created by Jerry Hunt, 1992, for the Finley-Hunt Report project presented at the Kitchen, New York City, 1992; b., c. voice, text: Karen Fnley; d. voice, text: Shelley Hirsch; total time: 5:21 

Eve Beglarian: Landscaping for Privacy
Tell the Birds
New World Records/2006
voice, text, electronics: Eve Beglarian; composition year: 1995; time: 7:03

Robert Ashley: Theosophy
Dust -- An Opera
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
vocal: Jacqueline Humbert, with chorus; chorus: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Tom Hamilton, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara; "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Robert Ashley; text: Robert Ashley; electronic orchestration: Robert Ashley, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Tom Hamilton; recorded at The Kitchen, New York City; composition year: 1998; time: 9:57

SET FOUR
Eric Chasalow: Symphony of Popular Misconceptions
I. What Remains (4:20)
II. Dream Song (2:55)
III. What is Essential (4:24)
Are You Radioactive, Pal?
Suspicious Motives Records/2015
electroacoustic music: Eric Chasalow; II. text: John Berryman (1969); composition year: 2009; total time: 11:40

Eric Lyon: None of Us Will Ever be The Same
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004
computer music: Eric Lyon; composition year: 2000; time: 7:40

SET FIVE
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

Steven Ricks: Can Improv 1
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
computer-realized sounds: Steven Ricks; improvised and recorded by Steven Ricks, 2009-2011; time: 10:21

SINGLE PLAY
Lewis Nielson: Tocsin
Axis
Mode Records/2015
(for six percussionists), red fish blue fish, conductor: Steven Schick; recorded at Conrad Prebys Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, December 10, 2012; composition year: 2009; time: 21:17

SET SIX
Paul Lansky: Contemplating Weather (excerpts)
I. Weather Lament (6:23)
II. Clouds I (0:52)
III. Climate Change Riffs (3:28)
IV. Clouds II (0:50)
V. Echo of...(After Hurricane Sandy) (4:37)
Contemplating Weather
Bridge Records/2015
(for SATB chorus and eleven instruments); Western Michigan University Chorale with Birds On A Wire ensemble, conductor: Kimberly Dunn Adams; recorded at Western Michigan University Dalton Center, Kalamazoo, February 27-28, 2014; composition year: 2013; excerpts time: 16:00

Paul Nauert: Subtext
A Distant Music
New World Records/2015
guitar: David Tennenbaum; recorded at the Music Center Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz, October 12, 1999; composition year: 1998; time 7:01

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Monday, January 18, 2016

Martian Gardens for January 21, 2016

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

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Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: January 21, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Coming February 2016, day/time TBA

SINGLE PLAY
David Bowie: Warszawa (Bowie/Eno)
Low
RCA-Victor/1977 (Rykodisk/1991)
vocals: David Bowie; MiniMoog, Chamberlin keyboard, EMI synthesizer, piano: Brian Eno; recorded in Berlin, 1976, 1977; time: 6:17

SET ONE
Philip Glass: Some Are (Bowie/Eno; arr. Glass)
Symphony No "Low"
Point Music/1993
Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Conductor: Dennis Russel Davies; recorded at Looking Glass Studios, New York City; composition years: 1976 (David Bowie/Brian Eno); 1992 (Glass); time: 11:17

Evan Ziporyn: Frog's Eye
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2008
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP); conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, May 24, 2004; composition year: 2002; time: 12:47

SINGLE PLAY
Pierre Boulez: Poésie Pour Pouvoir
Orchestral Works & Chamber Music
Col-Legno/2000
SWF Symphony Orchestra, conductors: Hans Rosbaud, Pierre Boulez; voice on tape: Michel Bouquet; recorded at Donaueschinger Musiktage, Germany, October 19, 1958; composition year: 1958; time: 18:29

SET TWO
Olivier Messiaen: Petites Esquisses D'Oiseaux (Little Sketches of Birds
I. Le rouge-gorge (Robin) 2:43
II. Le merle-noir (Blackbird) 2:37
III. Le rouge-gorge (Robin) 2:31
IV. La grive musicienne (Song Thrush) 2:39
V. La rouge-gorge (Robin) 3:08
VI. L'alouette des champs (Skylark) 2:00
Complete Works for Piano Volume 1 -- Birdsong
Centaur Records/2001
piano: Paul S. Kim; recorded January 2001, Patrych Sound, New York City, composition year: 1985; total time: 13:46

Pierre Boulez: Douze Notations
I.  Fantastique - Modéré (0:54)
II. Très vif (0:22)
III. Assez lent (0:55)
IV. Rhythmique (0:30)
V. Doux et improvisé (0:31)
VI. Rapide (0:25)
VII. Hiératique (1:17)
VIII. Modéré jusqu'a très vif (0:52)
IX. Lointain - Calme (1:33)
X. Mécanique et très sec (0:35)
XI. Scintillant (0:45)
XII. Lent - Puissant et après (1:33)
Complete Music for Solo Piano
Bridge Records/2015
piano: Mark Panthus; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 11-12, 2012; composition year: 1945; total time: 9:44

SET THREE
Noah Creshevsky: Pulp Fiction
Hyperrealist Music, 2011 - 2015
EM Records/2015
electronics: Noah Creshevsky; flute: Matt Samolis; player piano samples: Kyle Gann; electric guitar samples: Marco Oppedisano; composition year: 2014; time: 7:26

Luc Ferrari: Éphémère
Éphémère -- Luc Ferrari/Brunhild Ferrari/Vincent Royer
Mode Records/2015
tape: Luc Ferrari; viola: Vincent Royer; composition year: 1974 (tape score); revised for tape & viola in 2012 by Brunhild Ferrari; time: 13:08

SET FOUR
Gerard Pape: Harmonies of Form and Time
Harmonies
Mode Records/2015
(for six soloists and six chamber orchestras); Ensemble 'U," Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Risto Joost; recorded live in Talinn, March 23, 2012; composition years: 2010-2011; time: 10:17

Larry Polansky: k-toods
a. growth spurt (2:21)
b. tween (1:11) 
c. not in this house...(3:14)
d. baby pictures (4:42)
e. one thing at a time (2:46)
Three Pieces for Two Pianos
New World Records/2016
pianos: Tobin Chodos; Ittai Rosenbaum; recorded at the UC Santa Cruz Concert Hall, June 4, 2012; composition year: 2002; time: 14:35

SET FIVE
Laurie Spiegel; Clockworks
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
computer music: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, March 1975; time: 5:20

R. Weis: Dog Choir
Dog Choir CD-R
R. Weis/2003
dog noises recorded by Robert Weis; processing: Robert Weis; premiered at the Pour L'Amour des Chiens," Mona Bismarck Foundations, Paris, summer 2003; time: 3:00

John Oswald: Manifold (Bing Springsteen)
a. Philosophy
b. Phase
Plexure
Avant/1993
Plunderphonics: John Oswald; recorded at Mystery Lab, 1992-1993; time: 2:14

Alvin Curran: Toto Angelica
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
sampler, midi-keyboard, computer: Alvin Curran; composition year: 2000; time: 1:29

Beth Anderson: Yes Sir Ree
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voice: Beth Anderson; percussion: Michael Blaire; composition year: 1978; time: 1:27

John Eaton: Bone Dry
First Performance Pieces
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
Syn-Ket, rhythm section: John Eaton; composition year: 1968; time: 3:00

Jerry Tabor: Lemon; Birch
Electroacoustic Music VIII (various artists)
Neuma Records/2006
computer music: Jerry Tabor; composition year: 2002; time: 5:57

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Another Dissipative Structure
Folio Volume One
Aucourant Records/2011
electronics, computer, processing: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2011; time: 8:16

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Friday, April 17, 2015

Martian Gardens for April 19 & 26, 2015


MARTIAN GARDENS
 
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Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 19, 2015

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 26, 2015 
Host: Max Shea  
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog        
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SET ONE

Olly Wilson: A City Called Heaven (I-III)
Music for Chamber Ensemble (various composers)
Neuma Records/1992
The Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded April 1989 (world premier); composition year: 1988; time: 20:06

Michael Gordon: Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Part 1 (5:48)
Part 2 (7:39)
Dystopia
Cantaloupe Music/2014
Bamberger Symphoniker, conductor: Jonathan Nott; recorded at the Beethovenfest Bonn, September 30, 2006 (world premier); composition year: 2006; total excerpt time: 13:31

SET TWO
Martin Bresnick: Josephine the Singer
Prayers Remain Forever
Starkland/2014
(for violin); violin: Sarita Kwok; recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University, composition year: 2011; time: 9:14

Alvin Lucier: Broken Line
Broken Line
Mode Records/2015
(for flute, vibraphone, and piano); Trio Nexus (flute: Erik Drescher; vibraphone: Martin Lorenz; piano: Sebastian Berwick); recorded at Siemensvilla Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, July 2012; composition year: 2006; time: 11:55

SET THREE
James Tenney: Poem
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy 
Mode Records/2007
(for flute); flute: Jos Zwaanenburg; recorded in Amsterdam, 2007; composition year: 1955; time: 2:12

James Tenney: Harmonium No. 3
Postcard from Heaven (various composers)
New World Records/2015
(for three harps); harps: Susan Allen, Ellie Choate, Marilu Donovan; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts, July 2014; composition year: 1980; time: 4:31

Elizabeth Panzer: Dancing in Place (E. Hovda)
Dancing in Place
O.O. Discs/1999
(composer: Eleanor Hovda, for harp); harp: Elizabeth Panzer; composition year: 1997; time: 3:30

Anne LeBaron: 
a. Submerged Cavern (1:41)
b. Full Fathom Funayurei (3:05)
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
(for harp, shakuhachi, and koto); harp: Anne LeBaron, shakuhachi: Kiku Day; koto: Kinku Nishi; recorded at Mills College, Oakland, 2005; composition year: 2005; total time: 4:46

Flute Force: Travelogue (E. Brown)
Eyewitness 
Innova Recordings/2001
(composer: Elizabeth Brown, for flutes); Flute Force (flute: Wendy Stern; flute, piccolo: Sheryl Henze; flute, alto flute: Gretschen Pusch; flute, bass flute: Rie Schmidt); recorded at SUNY Purchase 1998-2000; composition year: 1995; time: 8:41

SET FOUR
Elizabeth Brown: Seahorse 
Mirage
New World Records/2013
(for theremin and Partch instruments); theremin: Elizabeth Brown; Partch instruments: Newband (guitar 1: Dean Drummond; harmonic canon 1: Jared Soldiviero; chromolodeon: Dave Broom; diamond marimba: Bill Ruyle; bass marimba: Joel Bergen; zoomoozophone, juststrokerods: Joe Free; recorded at Leshowitz Recital Hall, Montclair State University, New Jersey, January 10, 2013; composition year: 2008; time: 9:09

Lydia Kavina: In the Whims of the Wind
Music from the Ether
Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/1999
(for theremin, coloratura soprano, and piano); theremin: Lydia Kavina; coloratura soprano: Elizabeth Parcells; piano: Joshua Pierce; recorded at John Ford Auditorium, Portland, Maine, June 22, 1997; composition year: 1994; time: 11:27

SINGLE PLAY*
Lydia Kavina: 
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)
Spellbound! Music for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
(composer: Percy Grainger); theremins: Lydia Kavina; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, New York, July 10, 2000; composition years: a. 1936, b. 1937, c. 1937; total time: 2:25
*TAINT Radio version only

SET FIVE
Wu Shu-Cheng: Axiometric Projection
Transient Images (various artists)
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
U.Il. EMS/2015
electroacoustic music for eight channel tape performance; composition year: 2013; time: 6:05

James O'Callaghan: Bodies-Soundings
Musicworks #121 (various artists)
Musicworks Magazine/2015
electronic music for acoustic guitar and toy piano via tactile transducer speakers; composition year: 2014; time: 10:20

Monique Jean: Un haut-parleur dans le désert 
(A Loudspeaker in the Desert) (from Figures du Temps)
L'adieu au S.O.S.
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 1998-1999; time: 5:50

SINGLE PLAY
Pauline Oliveros: Mnemonics III
Reverberations
Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (boxed set)
Important Records/2014
electronic music realized at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1964-1966; time: 17:34

Beatriz Ferreyra: La ba balle du chien chien a sa me mere
IMEB Compendium International 2001 Bourges (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2001
electroacoustic music realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 2001; time: 11:17

Zanana: What a Pretty Dog*
Holding Patterns
Deep Listening/2005
spoken voice: Barbara Berg; laptop, voice: Kirstin Norderval; trombone, conch, didgeridu, live processing: Monique Buzzarté; recorded live in concert in New York City, composition year: 2003; time: 8:51
*TAINT Radio version only
 
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