Saturday, March 19, 2016

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Version, March 24, 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: March 24, 2016

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

SINGLE PLAY
The Space Negros: Martians Have Landed
Dig Archeology 1975-1986
Arf Arf/1992
instruments, vocals: Erik Lindgren; recorded at 93 St. Josephine Street, Somerville, Massachusetts, Fall 1975; time: 1:32

SINGLE PLAY
Anne La Berge: Drive
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, texts, flute, MAX/MSP computer program: Anne La Berge (text performed as Mary Anderson, inventor of the windshield wiper; texts discussing the diesel engine; texts discussing the human uterus); additional voices: Amy Walker, Josh Griffin, Misha Mayers; recorded at Studio VOLSAP and Studio 150, Amsterdam, 2009; composition years: 2003-2006; time 25:13

SET ONE
Robert Ashley Act II (Years 15-28)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

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

SET TWO
John Oliver: selections from Time's Wheel
a. un/authorized invocation (3:37)
b. Exhibit: the censor that is Time inserts this sutra (2:47)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renée Sarojini Saklikar; computer processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total excerpts time: 6:23

Maggi Payne: Flaptics (M. Trayle)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
flute, vocalizations: Maggi Payne; interactive electronics: Mark Trayle; realized at CCM (Center for Contemporary Music), Mills College, Oakland California; composer: Mark Trayle; composition year: 1997; time: 6:47

Jacqueline Humbert: Mosquitolove (S. Ashley)
Chanteuse -- Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
voice: Jacqueline Humbert; soundscape, electronics realized by David Rosenboom at his studio at the California Institute of the Arts, composition, lyrics: Sam Ashley; time: 5:46

Sarah Peebles: Spring
from Tomoe (Revolving life) (version 4)
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
shō, mouth organ: Hiromi Yoshida; perucussion, Midi Katcontroller, noise-makers: Ikuo Kakehashi; MIDI keyboard, sampled sound, electronics, shō, noise-makers: Sarah Peebles; recorded at Shukoji, Kawasaki , Main Hall, September 25, 1993; time: 5:00

SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Mélanges (Pléïades movement I)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
percussion: red fish blue fish -- Gustavo Aguillar, Rob Esler, Ross Karre, Don Nichols, Morris Palter, Lisa Tolentino, director: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego; composition year: 1978; time: 8:52

Luc Ferrari: Etudes -- aux accidents
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
musique concrète: Luc Ferrari, realized at GRM, Paris,1958, time: 2:19

Steven Ricks: Sounded along dove dōve
Young American Inventions
New Focus Recordings/2015
electroacoustic music: Steven Ricks; composition year: 1999; time;  2:38

Larry Polansky: Baa Baa Birthday, Have You Any Star?
from Three Anna Studies
Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
voices: Anna Polansky, Eleanor Wilson; computer: Larry Polansky: composition year: 1995; time: 1:46

Eldad Tsabary: Creatures of the Ice
Demo
Eldad Tsabary/2006
multi-channel electronics: Eldad Tsabary (sound source: ice shards in Nunavut); composition year: 2006; time: 4:45

Triple Point: Pivot Point
Phase/Transitions
Pogus Productions/2014
instruments, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Noort; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 3:28

SET FOUR
Michael Vincent Waller: Profondo Rosso
The South Shore
XI Records/2015
Project SiS (piano: Charity Wicks; violin: Pauline Kim-Harris; cello: Christine: Kim); recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, New York; composition year: 2013; time: 4:42

Peter Garland: selections from String Quartet No. 1,
"In Praise of Poor Scholars"
a. Rondeau "Nouveau" (4:12)
b. Like an elegant slow dance...(3:41)
String Quartets
Cold Blue Music/2009
performed by Apartment House; recorded at the School of Music at the University of East Anglia, U.K., September 14, 2008; composition year: 1986; excerpts time: 7:53

Luigi Dallapicolla: selections from Tartiniana Seconda
(Divertimenta for Violin & Piano)
I. Pastorale (2:18)
II. Tempo di Bourée (1:34)
III. Presto; Leggerissimo (1:43)
Musica da Camera (Dallapiccola/Petrassi)
Mode Records/2006
violin: Daniele Colombo; piano: Ciro Longobardi (of Ensemble Dissonanzen); recorded at Teatro delle Palme, Naples; February 21-23, 2005; composition year: 1956; excerpts time: 4:35

Otto Luening: Dramatic Scene
(Movement II from Sonata for Piano -- In Memoriam Ferruccio Busoni)
Music of Otto Luening
New World Records/2010 (orig. CRI LP/1975)
piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded November 5, 1974 (location unspecified); composition year: 1966; time: 4:59

SET FIVE
Mari Kimura: ComeCryWithMe (M. Paranosic)
Polytopia -- Music for Violin and Electronics
Bridge Records/2007
violin, electronics: Mari Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, Fall, 2004; composer: Milica Paranosic; composition year: 2005; time: 8:09

Allen Strange: Goddess
Music by Allen Strange
Permanent Press/2005
(for amplified violin and digital media); violin: Pat Strange; composition year: 2002; time: 15:26

SINGLE PLAY
Quartetski: selections from Quartetski Does Bartók
a. Répétition #26 (1:07)
b. Accompagnment en accords brisés #12 (2:42)
c. Méditiation #45 (206)
d. Rhythme syncopé #27 (0:33)
e. L'extrême-orient #58 (1:54)
f. Sixtes et accords #73 (0:35)
g. En augmentent - en diminuant #46
h. En mode Mixolydian #48
Quartetski Does Bartók
Ambiances Magnétiques/2016
Quartetski (electric guitar, melodica: Bernard Falaise; bass clarinette, soprano saxophone, melodica; electric bass, synthesizer: Pierre-Yves Martel; violin: Joshua Zubot; drums: Isaiah Ceccarelli), director: Pierre-Yves Martel; recorded at Studio Resther; Montreal, March 2015; composer: Bela Bartók, "Mikrokosmos"; composition years: 1926-1939; total excerpts time: 13:52

-- FIN --

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Martian Gardens, Valley Free Radio Version, March 18, 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: March 10, 2016

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

SINGLE PLAY
Dorothy Hindman: Drift
Tapping the Furnace
Innova Recordings/2013
(for saxophone quartet); Atlas Saxophone Quartet (Carey Polacek; Susan Cook; Shawn Tracy; Bryan Polacek); composition year: 2002; time: 5:13

SET TWO
Robert Ashley Act I (Years 1-14)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now (various artists)
Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1998
voice, percussion, synthesizer, electronics: Joan La Barbara; bowed pianos: Gaylord Mowfrey; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan, "One Pink Mask," recorded 1996; time: 3:23

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot
XI Records/2011
ambient arctic sounds: Charlie Morrow; composition year: 1997; time: 3:28

SET THREE
John Oliver: selections from The Archives
a. -- and her redactions (0:56)
b. Exhibit: When I dance a morning raga (1:41)
c. Exhibit: His brother excels (1:29)
d. Exhibit: Bombay girl (1:58)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renée Sarojini Saklikar; computer processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total excerpts time: 6:04

Laurie Anderson: Strange Perfumes
Homeland
Nonesuch Records/2010
vocals, percussion, keyboards: Laurie Anderson; vocal: Antony; marxophone, accordion, keyboards: Rob Burger; viola: Eyvind Kang; keyboards: Peter Scherer, percussion: Shahzad Ismaily; recorded in New York City, 2010; time: 7:25

Audrey Churgin: Arctic Sun Arctic Wind
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
voice, recordings: Audrey Churgin; drum dance and song: Rosalie Pissuk and son; composition year: 2004; time: 4:46

Larry Polansky: #14 Kid Canon
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
voices: Anna Diamond Polansky, Eliza Polli, Meghan Gallagher, Hester Godfrey, Nick Sinnott-Armstrong, Saskia Nislow, Kathie Lenhart; mixing, processing: Larry Polansky, Miriam Kolar; recorded at Brittrax, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and Los Angeles, summer 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 1:37

Larry Polansky: #13 DIY Canon/Java 2 (Goode Version)
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
tape, narration: Daniel Goode (source: Java 2, Midtown Manhattan Restaurant) processed by Daniel Goode and Larry Polansky, New York City, and Hanover, NH, March 2002; composition year: 2001; time: 3:15

Fred Frith: Levity
Prints -- Snapshots, Postcards, Messages, and Miniatures 1987-2001
ReR Megacorp/2003
electric guitar, electric guitar samples, other samples, electric guitar improv: Fred Frith; recorded at WDR Radio, January 1997; time: 2:36

Marco Oppedisano: Breathe
Resolute
Spectropol Records/2015
electroacoutistic electric guitar, electric guitar samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 2:34

SET FOUR
Luigi Nono: 
Selections from Como Una Ola Fuerza y Luz (Like a Wave of Strength and Light)
II. Piano Entry (6:55)
III. Dolcessimo Sereno (2:12)
Como una olo fuerza y luz, etc.
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
(for soprano, piano, orchestra, and tape; text: Julio Huasi, paen to Luciano Cruz); soprano: Slavka Taskova; piano: Maurizio Pollini; Symphony Orchestra of Bayerischen Radio, conductor: Claudio Abbado; composition years: 1971-1972; excerpts time: 9:07

Robert Normandeau: Jeu de langues
Palimpsestes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, premiered at the Musica Viva 2009 festival of the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal; September 19, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 11:50

Annea Lockwood: Buoyant
Ground of Being
Recital Records/2014
field recordings (water sounds, Flathead Lake, Montana; boat sounds, Hoboken Ferry Terminal, New Jersey and Lake Como, Italy); composition year: 2013; time: 6:18

SET FIVE
Ulrich Krieger: before/QUAKE
[Urban Dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for cello, piano, and percussion) California E.A.R. Unit (cello: Erika Duke-KirkPatric; piano: Vicky Ray; percussion: Amy Knoles); recorded at RBB Berlin, Kleiner Sendesaal, Germany, 2006; composition year: 2005; time: 5:35

Mary Lee Roberts: White Writing
I. Bird (1:52)
II. Night Foxes (4:00)
Open Space 9: Computer Works by Mary Lee Roberts
Open Space/1997
computer music: Mary Lee Roberts, mastered at Sonic Solutions, New York University; time: 5:52

Bischoff/Brown/Erbe/Payne: selections from CCM Flotsam
a. #20 (0:17)
b. #16 (0:10)
c. #8 (0:14
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artists)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
computer music: John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Tom Erbe, Maggi Payne; recorded at CCM, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1993; total time: 0:41

-- FIN --

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Version, March 17, 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: March 10, 2016

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

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Kleier: Dark Matter
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
electric guitars, computers, processing: Roger Kleier; recorded at Master Element Studios, New York City; time: 5:28

SET ONE
Codona: Que Faser
Codona 2
ECM Records/1981
berimgau, talking drum, percussion, voice: Naná  Vasconcelos; sitar, tabla, mbira, timpani, voice: Collin Wolcott; melodica, flute, voice: Don Cherry; composer: Naná  Vasconcelos; recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany; time: 7:12

Dedicated to Naná Vasconcelos, August, 2, 1944 -- March 9, 2016

Don Cherry: Brown Rice
Brown Rice
A&M/1975
trumpet, electric piano, voice: Don Cherry; acoustic bass: Charlie Haden; drums: Billy Higgins; tenor saxophone: Frank Lowe; electric piano: Ricky Cherry; electric bongos: Bunchie Fox; voice: Vema Gillis; composer: Don Cherry; recorded at The Basement Recording Studio, New York City; time: 5:14

Meredith Monk: Dungeon
Key
Lovely Music, Ltd./1995 (orig. Increase LP/1971)
extended vocals: Meredith Monk; mrdingam drum: Collin Wolcott; time: 6:49

Nicolas Caloia
a. L'Horizon (2:58)
b. Restent des Absents (1:09)
c. L'Allemeuse (3:14)
Les Bonnes Histoires
Ambiances Magnetiques/2016
double bass, percussion, drum machine: Nicolas Caloia; piccolo, bass flute, tenor saxophone: Jean Derome; voice: Gabriel Dharmoo; clarinets, bells: Lori Freedman; voice, texts Genevieve LeTarte; recorded in Montreal, July 2015; total time: 7:21

SET TWO
Robert Ashley Act I (Years 1-14)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now (various artists)
Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1998
voice, percussion, synthesizer, electronics: Joan La Barbara; bowed pianos: Gaylord Mowfrey; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan, "One Pink Mask," recorded 1996; time: 3:23

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot
XI Records/2011
ambient arctic sounds: Charlie Morrow; composition year: 1997; time: 3:28

SET THREE
John Oliver: Trope 1 -- Mourning
a. Exhibit No. 1: She boards the plane (7:40)
b. Exhibit No. 2: He runs down the hallway (1:35)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renee Sarojini Saklikar; computer, processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total time: 8:15

Polly Moller: Three-Quarters (Nabanusit and Contoocook)
Diogenes
Northwestern Music/2003
flute, voice, guitar, percussion, programming, various instruments: Polly Moller; recorded at Lucky Dog Studios, Eugene, Oregon; time: 4:07

Rapoon
a. Bodhran and Ran (1:27)
b. Banjo Arabiata (2:41)
Cultural Forgeries
Alrealon Music/2014
bodhran, banjo, other instruments: Robin Storey; total time: 4:08

Musci - Venosta: Dusty Zebra
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
electric guitar: Luciano Margorani; composition, Japanese percussion tape loops, Congolese field recordings: Roberto Musci, Giovanni Venosta; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, time: 3:40

Jin Hi Kim: & Gerry Hemingway: Saturn's Ring
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
composition, electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; percussion, drums: Gerry Hemingway; recorded Shutesbury, Massachusetts, August 18, 2010; time: 3:37

SET FOUR
Philip Mantione: Fabrics
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
computer music: Philip Mantione; composition year: 2010; time: 8:42

Elainie Lillios: Threads
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music realized at the electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the 19th EuCuE concert series at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University, Montreal, November 13, 1998; composition year: 1998; time: 4:50

Eduardo Kusnir: La Panderia (The Bakery)
Lily
Mnemosyne Musique Media/1996
electroacoustic music realized at the Instituto di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1970, composition year: 1970; time: 9:20

SET FIVE
Mathew Rosenblum: Two Harmonies
a. Gymnopedie for Art Jarvinen (3:52)
b. Fantasy for Roberta Liss (3:00)
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
viola: Wendy Richman; percussion: Timothy Feeney; piano: Shirly Yoo; recorded at SUNY Fredonia, New York, February 5, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 6:52

Anna Rubin: Remembering
Electric Music
Capstone Records/2004
(for soprano, piano, and tape) soprano: Judith Kellock; piano: Karl Paulnack; recorded March 6, 1993 (location unspecified); composition years: 1989; revised: 1993; time: 14:40

SET SIX
Roger Reynolds: Colombi Daydream
Complete Cello Works
Mode Records/2014
cello: Alexis Descharmes; recorded at Salle Cortot, Paris, July 2014, composition year: 2010; time: 7:48

Ulrich Krieger: before/QUAKE
[Urban Dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for cello, piano, and percussion) California E.A.R. Unit (cello: Erika Duke-KirkPatric; piano: Vicky Ray; percussion: Amy Knoles); recorded at RBB Berlin, Kleiner Sendesaal, Germany, 2006; composition year: 2005; time: 5:35

Mary Lee Roberts: Things Fall Apart
Open Space 9: Computer Works by Mary Lee Roberts
Open Space/1997
computer music: Mary Lee Roberts, mastered at Sonic Solutions, New York University; time: 7:40

Robert Scott Thompson: Cloud Fragments
Frontier
Mirage/1998
synthesizers, electronics: Robert Scott Thompson; time: 5:38

Laurie Spiegel: Hurricane's Eye
from Two Archetypes
Unseen Worlds
Scarlet Records/1991
computer music: Laurie Spiegel; composition year: 1990; time: 3:36

-- FIN --

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Martian Gardens, Valley Free Radio Edition, March 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: March 10, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST
Webcast/Broadcast date: March 11, 2016

SET ONE
The Disguises: As Ten, As Twenty
Songs & Dances from The Muted Note
Based poems by P.K. Page
Ambiances Magnetiques/2015
voice: Susanna Hood; trombone: Scott Thomson; alto saxophone: Yves Charouest; bass: Nicolas Caloia; drums: Pierre Tanguay; texts: P.K. Page; Recorded at Hotel2Tango, Montreal, January 2015; time: 4:22

Frank Zappa & Ensemble Modern: Dog Breath Variations
The Yellow Shark
Barking Pumpkin/1993
Ensemble Modern, conductor: Peter Rundel; arr. Ali N. Askin; recorded in Frankfurt, Germany, September, 1992; composition year: 1969; time: 2:07

Eric Chasalow: Wolpe Variations
Are You Radioactive, Pal?
Suspicious Motives Records/2015
electroacoustic music commissioned for the Wolpe Centennial; composition year: 2003; time: 5:46

Mel Powell: Second Electronic Setting
Works by Luening, Ussachevsky, and Powell
New World Records/2010 (orig CRI LP/1968)
electronic music: Mel Powell; realized at the Yale Electronic Music Studio, Yale University, 1962; composition year: 1962; time: 4:49

Warren Burt: Heat-Stressed Pelicans at Swan Bay
Cellular Etudes (2012-2013)
Scarlet Aardvark Records/2013
computers, software, samplers: Warren Burt; recorded in Melbourne, Australia, 2013; time: 5:08

Donal Fox: Gone City, Mvt. III -- Scherzo, Macabre
Gone City -- Ballet in Three Movements  (Concert Version)
Gone City
New World Records/1997
clarinet: Eric Thomas; piano: Donal Fox; double bass: John Lockwood; recorded in Boston, May 23, 1994; composition year: 1994; time: 3:27

SET TWO
Brunhild Ferrari: La Piano Englouti (viola version)
Edition Luc Ferrari 4 -- Ephémère
Mode Records/2015
tape: Brunhild Ferrari (sources: ocean sounds from an island in the Aegean Sea and a quiet island in Japan); viola: Vincent Royer; realized at the Atelier post-billig (Luc Ferrari's studio), Paris, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 18:03

Luc Ferrari: Et si tout entière maintenant...(excerpt)
A symphonic tale for orchestra, narration, and field recordings on a Swedish icebreaker 
Chansons pour le corps; Et si tout entière maintenant
Mode Records/1999
Nouvelle Orchestre Philharmonique, conductor: Yves Prin; narrating voice: Anne Sèe; synthesizer: Michel Musseau; texts: Collette Fellous; produced by Le ministère des Affaires étrangères, Radio France, La Muse en Circuit; composition years: 1986-1987; excerpt time: 5:30 of 34:08

SET THREE
Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood
Third Coast Percussion/Steve Reich
Çedille Records/2016
(for five clave players); tuned claves: Third Coast Percussion; recorded at the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, December 15-19, 2014; composition year: 1973; total time: 14:20

Bill Alves: Angin Listrik
Guitars & Gamelan
MicroFest Records/2015
(for two electric guitars and gamelan) electric guitars: Sean Hayward, Nat Condit-Schultz; Gamelan Semar Pegulingan Dharma Kanti; director: Linda Burman-Hall; recorded at the University of California Santa Cruz; composition year: 2010; time: 9:22

SET FOUR
Paul Lansky: selections from Travel Diary
I. Leaving Home (5:01)
II. Cruising Speed (4:14)
Contemplating Weather
Bridge Records/2015
(for two percussionists); The Meehan/Perkins Duo (percussion: Todd Meehan/Doug Perkins); recorded at the Glennis McRary Music Building, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 8, 2010; composition year: 2007; excerpts time: 9:15

David Rosenboom: The Tripartite Structure 
Zones of Influence Part I -- The Winding of a Spring
Zones of Influence
Pogus Productions/2014
electronics: David Rosenboom; percussion: William Winant; The Dizzy Gillespie Recording Studio Complex, California Institute of the Arts and the composer's studio, Valencia, California; composition years: 1984, 1985, revised 2013; time: 12:02

SET FIVE
Anne LeBaron: Mirage
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
amplified violin: Leroy Jenkins; electric harp, live electronics: Anne LeBaron; recorded at Disney Hall, Californian Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 2002; time: 6:59

Christian Wolff: Incidental Music #59
Incidental Music and Keyboard Miscellany
Mode Records/2015
piano: Christian Wolff; recorded at Radiohuset, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2005; composition years: 2003, 2004; time: 0:19

-- FIN --

Monday, March 7, 2016

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Edition, March 10, 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: March 10, 2016

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

SINGLE PLAY
Dorothy Hindman: Drift
Tapping the Furnace
Innova Recordings/2013
(for saxophone quartet); Atlas Saxophone Quartet (Carey Polacek; Susan Cook; Shawn Tracy; Bryan Polacek); composition year: 2002; time: 5:13

SET ONE
The Disguises: As Ten, As Twenty
Songs & Dances from The Muted Note
Based poems by P.K. Page
Ambiances Magnetiques/2015
voice: Susanna Hood; trombone: Scott Thomson; alto saxophone: Yves Charouest; bass: Nicolas Caloia; drums: Pierre Tanguay; texts: P.K. Page; Recorded at Hotel2Tango, Montreal, January 2015; time: 4:22

Frank Zappa & Ensemble Modern: Dog Breath Variations
The Yellow Shark
Barking Pumpkin/1993
Ensemble Modern, conductor: Peter Rundel; arr. Ali N. Askin; recorded in Frankfurt, Germany, September, 1992; composition year: 1969; time: 2:07

Eric Chasalow: Wolpe Variations
Are You Radioactive, Pal?
Suspicious Motives Records/2015
electroacoustic music commissioned for the Wolpe Centennial; composition year: 2003; time: 5:46

Mel Powell: Second Electronic Setting
Works by Luening, Ussachevsky, and Powell
New World Records/2010 (orig CRI LP/1968)
electronic music: Mel Powell; realized at the Yale Electronic Music Studio, Yale University, 1962; composition year: 1962; time: 4:49

Warren Burt: Heat-Stressed Pelicans at Swan Bay
Cellular Etudes (2012-2013)
Scarlet Aardvark Records/2013
computers, software, samplers: Warren Burt; recorded in Melbourne, Australia, 2013; time: 5:08

Donal Fox: Gone City, Mvt. III -- Scherzo, Macabre
Gone City -- Ballet in Three Movements  (Concert Version)
Gone City
New World Records/1997
clarinet: Eric Thomas; piano: Donal Fox; double bass: John Lockwood; recorded in Boston, May 23, 1994; composition year: 1994; time: 3:27

SET TWO
John Oliver: selections from The Archives
a. -- and her redactions (0:56)
b. Exhibit: When I dance a morning raga (1:41)
c. Exhibit: His brother excels (1:29)
d. Exhibit: Bombay girl (1:58)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renée Sarojini Saklikar; computer processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total excerpts time: 6:04

Laurie Anderson: Strange Perfumes
Homeland
Nonesuch Records/2010
vocals, percussion, keyboards: Laurie Anderson; vocal: Antony; marxophone, accordion, keyboards: Rob Burger; viola: Eyvind Kang; keyboards: Peter Scherer, percussion: Shahzad Ismaily; recorded in New York City, 2010; time: 7:25

Audrey Churgin: Arctic Sun Arctic Wind
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
voice, recordings: Audrey Churgin; drum dance and song: Rosalie Pissuk and son; composition year: 2004; time: 4:46

Larry Polansky: #13 DIY Canon/Java 2 (Goode Version)
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
tape, narration: Daniel Goode (source: Java 2, Midtown Manhattan Restaurant) processed by Daniel Goode and Larry Polansky, New York City, and Hanover, NH, March 2002; composition year: 2001; time: 3:15

Fred Frith: Levity
Prints -- Snapshots, Postcards, Messages, and Miniatures 1987-2001
ReR Megacorp/2003
electric guitar, electric guitar samples, other samples, electric guitar improv: Fred Frith; recorded at WDR Radio, January 1997; time: 2:36

Marco Oppedisano: Breathe
Resolute
Spectropol Records/2015
electroacoutistic electric guitar, electric guitar samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 2:34

SINGLE PLAY
Brunhild Ferrari: La Piano Englouti (viola version)
Edition Luc Ferrari 4 -- Ephémère
Mode Records/2015
tape: Brunhild Ferrari (sources: ocean sounds from an island in the Aegean Sea and a quiet island in Japan); viola: Vincent Royer; realized at the Atelier post-billig (Luc Ferrari's studio), Paris, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 18:03

SET THREE
Luigi Nono: 
Selections from Como Una Ola Fuerza y Luz (Like a Wave of Strength and Light)
II. Piano Entry (6:55)
III. Dolcessimo Sereno (2:12)
Como una olo fuerza y luz, etc.
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
(for soprano, piano, orchestra, and tape; text: Julio Huasi, paen to Luciano Cruz); soprano: Slavka Taskova; piano: Maurizio Pollini; Symphony Orchestra of Bayerischen Radio, conductor: Claudio Abbado; composition years: 1971-1972; excerpts time: 9:07

Robert Normandeau: Jeu de langues
Palimpsestes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, premiered at the Musica Viva 2009 festival of the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal; September 19, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 11:50

Annea Lockwood: Buoyant
Ground of Being
Recital Records/2014
field recordings (water sounds, Flathead Lake, Montana; boat sounds, Hoboken Ferry Terminal, New Jersey and Lake Como, Italy); composition year: 2013; time: 6:18

SET FOUR
Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood
Third Coast Percussion/Steve Reich
Çedille Records/2016
(for five clave players); tuned claves: Third Coast Percussion; recorded at the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, December 15-19, 2014; composition year: 1973; total time: 14:20

Bill Alves: Angin Listrik
Guitars & Gamelan
MicroFest Records/2015
(for two electric guitars and gamelan) electric guitars: Sean Hayward, Nat Condit-Schultz; Gamelan Semar Pegulingan Dharma Kanti; director: Linda Burman-Hall; recorded at the University of California Santa Cruz; composition year: 2010; time: 9:22

SET FIVE
Paul Lansky: selections from Travel Diary
I. Leaving Home (5:01)
II. Cruising Speed (4:14)
Contemplating Weather
Bridge Records/2015
(for two percussionists); The Meehan/Perkins Duo (percussion: Todd Meehan/Doug Perkins); recorded at the Glennis McRary Music Building, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 8, 2010; composition year: 2007; excerpts time: 9:15

David Rosenboom: The Tripartite Structure 
Zones of Influence Part I -- The Winding of a Spring
Zones of Influence
Pogus Productions/2014
electronics: David Rosenboom; percussion: William Winant; The Dizzy Gillespie Recording Studio Complex, California Institute of the Arts and the composer's studio, Valencia, California; composition years: 1984, 1985, revised 2013; time: 13:44

İlhan Mimaroğlu: Postlude No. 8 (to the Memory of Edgar Varèse)
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 (various artists)
New World Records/1998
electronic music realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; composition year: 1966; time: 3:54

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Monday, February 29, 2016

Martian Gardens, Valley Free Radio Edition, March 4, 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: March 3, 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
Laurie Anderson: Only An Expert
Homeland
Nonesuch Records/2010
vocals, percussion, keyboards: Laurie Anderson; keyboards: Rob Burger; viola: Eyvind Kang; guitar: Lou Reed; drums: Omar Hakim; keyboards: Peter Scherer, Kieran Hebden; recorded in New York City, 2010; time: 7:25

SET ONE
Yvonne Troxler:
a. Kaleidoskop I (2:05)
b. Kaleidoskop II (2:04)
c. Kaleidoskop III (2:10)
Brouhaha
Innova Recordings/2012
Glass Farm Ensemble (piano: Yvonne Troxler; flute, bass flute: Margaret Lancaster; bass clarinet: Amy Advocat; violin, viola: Gregor Kitzis; cello: Matt Goeke; tenor saxophone: Taimur Sullivan; electric guitar: Oren Fader; percussion: Matt Gold); recorded at Ovation Sound, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, August 25, 2007; composition year: 2005; total time: 6:20

Edmund Campion: Losing Touch
Outside Music
Albany Records/2008
(for vibraphone and fixed electronics); vibraphone: Christopher Froh; recorded at the University of California, Berkeley; composition year: 1994; time: 11:13

SET TWO
Annie Gosfield: Puncher -- The Product of Force and Motion
from EWA7
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
keyboard sampler: Annie Gosfield, electronics: Ikue Mori; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; drums, percussion: Jim Pugliese, Sim Cain; pipes -- transmission from a yellow pipe; mechanical firing of a yellow pipe; recorded at EWA7 industrial complex, Nuremberg, Germany; composition year: 1999; time: 11:06

Steven Ricks: Extended Play (I-III)
(CD-R)
Steven Ricks/2013
Flexible Music Ensemble (piano, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, guitar, percussion); composition year: 2007; total time: 15:00

SET THREE
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

Ingrid Drese: Tout autant
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
electroacoustic music on stereo tape; realized at the composer's studio, Ohain, Belgium; voice: Ingrid Drese; text: Étienne Leclercq; realized at Musiques en marge, Théâtre-Poème, Brussels, Belgium, May 28, 2000; composition year: 2000; time: 9:37

SET FOUR
David Rosenboom: Station Oaxaca
Future Travel
New World Records/2007 (orig. Street LP 1981)
voice: Jacqueline Humbert; keyboards, computers, text: David Rosenboom; recorded at Zoetrope Studios, San Francisco, 1981; composition year: 1981; time: 3:26

Connie Beckley: Edison Night
The Aquarium
Sonic Meditations on Life in the City
CRI/1997 (orig. 1995)
voice, text, electronics: Connie Beckley; recorded in New York City, 1995; time: 5:00

Alice Shields: The Sea
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993
voice, text, keyboards, synthesizers: Alice Shields; electric guitar: Jim Matus; recorded at Quality Studios and the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City; composition year: 1990; time: 3:51

John Oliver: Flight 182 Meditations (excerpts)
a. Ghost Sutra (1:55)
b. The Archives -- Exhibit: June 23, 1985 -- detonation (1:35)
c. The Archives -- from the archive, the weight (1) (3:10)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renée Sarojini Saklikar; computer processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total excerpts time: 5:10

Genevieve Robertson & Jayson Ellerbeck: Killing Fields
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
guitar, narration, field recordings, processing:  Robertson & Ellerbeck; recorded in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; time: 5:12

Thomas Dolby: Love is a Loaded Pistol
A Map of the Floating City
Lost Toy People/2011
vocals, lyrics, piano: Thomas Dolby; string quartet: Ethel; arr. Thomas Dolby, Dorothy Lawson; recorded in the UK, 2009-2011; time: 2:57

Morton Feldman: Illusions, parts 1 & 4
a. Very Fast (2:23)
b. Very Fast (0:39)
Feldman Edition I -- Aki Takahashi Plays Morton Feldman
Mode Records/1996
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at SUNY Purchase, December 1995; composition years: 1949, 1950; time 3:54

Christian Wolff: Incidental Music, part 2
Incidental Music and Keyboard Miscellany
Mode Records/2015
piano: Christian Wolff; recorded at Radiohuset, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2005; composition years: 2003, 2004; time: 0:13

 -- FIN --

Friday, February 26, 2016

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Edition, March 3, 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: March 3, 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 Vincent Waller: Tra Pezzi per Trio di Pianoforte
a. Pezzo I (2:28)
b. Pezzo II (4:14)
c. Pezzo III (1:52)
The South Shore
XI Records/2015
piano: Yael Manor; violin: Esther Noh; cello: Christine Kim; recorded at Oktaven Studios, New York City; composition year: 2014; total time: 8:26

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: 13 Detours
Detours
Unseen Worlds/2012
piano: "Blue" Gene Tyranny; recorded at Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, California, February 14, 2005; time: 12:16

SET TWO
Chou Wen-chung: Eternal Pine II
Eternal Pine
New World Records/2015
gayageum: Yi Ji-young; changoo: Kim-Woong-sik; recorded at Zhongzhan Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, May 26, 2012; composition year: 2010; time: 15:47

Chou Wen-chung: Twilight Colors (excerpts)
IV. Mountain Peaks Rising (Contrapunctus Variabilis VIII) (4:57)
V. Coda: Their silhouettes neither parallel nor contrary (Contrapunctus Variabilis IX) (1:17)
Clouds
Mode Records/2011
Boston Music Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded at Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, September 17, 2008; composition year: 2007; total excerpts time: 6:54

SET THREE
Natasha Barrett: The Utility of Space
Cultures électroniques Bourges 2001 (various artists)
electroacoustic music  realized in 2000 at the composer’s studio with spatialization research carried out at NOTAM(Norsk nettverk for Teknologi, Akustikk og Musikk / Norwegian network for Technology, Acoustics and Music) in Oslo, Norway; premiered at the Space Escape NICEM (Norwegian Section of the International Confederation for Electroacoustic Music) concert during the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Norway, October 7; 2000; time: 13:25

Ingrid Drese: Paysage avec miroir
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio; premiered at L’Espace du son, M&R  Théâtre Marni, Brussels, October 17, 2007; composition year: 2006; time: 6:46

SET FOUR
David Rosenboom: Station Oaxaca
Future Travel
New World Records/2007 (orig. Street LP 1981)
voice: Jacqueline Humbert; keyboards, computers, text: David Rosenboom; recorded at Zoetrope Studios, San Francisco, 1981; composition year: 1981; time: 3:26

Connie Beckley: Edison Night
The Aquarium
Sonic Meditations on Life in the City
CRI/1997 (orig. 1995)
voice, text, electronics: Connie Beckley; recorded in New York City, 1995; time: 5:00

Alice Shields: The Sea
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993
voice, text, keyboards, synthesizers: Alice Shields; electric guitar: Jim Matus; recorded at Quality Studios and the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City; composition year: 1990; time: 3:51

John Oliver: Flight 182 Meditations (excerpts)
a. Ghost Sutra (1:55)
b. The Archives -- Exhibit: June 23, 1985 -- detonation (1:35)
c. The Archives -- from the archive, the weight (1) (3:10)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renée Sarojini Saklikar; computer processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total excerpts time: 5:10

Genevieve Robertson & Jayson Ellerbeck: Killing Fields
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
guitar, narration, field recordings, processing:  Robertson & Ellerbeck; recorded in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; time: 5:12

Thomas Dolby: Love is a Loaded Pistol
A Map of the Floating City
Lost Toy People/2011
vocals, lyrics, piano: Thomas Dolby; string quartet: Ethel; arr. Thomas Dolby, Dorothy Lawson; recorded in the UK, 2009-2011; time: 2:57

SET FIVE
If, Bwana: Massed Roses
Thirty
Pogus Productions/2016
guitars: Steve Roe, Kevin Geraghty, processing: Al Margolis; time: 11:57

Douglas Doherty: Neptune's Children (on the edge of chaos)
On the Edge of Chaos
MPS Music & Video/2012
electronic music: Douglas Doherty; realized at Hopkins Studio at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Mjumbo Studios, March 1996; composition year: 1996; time: 12:40

SINGLE PLAY
Lewis Nielson: Le Journal du Corps
Axis
Mode Records/2015
The JACK Quartet ((violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); vocals: The JACK Quartet; text: Aimé Césaire; recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, New York, May, 2013; composition year: 2010; time: 23:43

SET SIX
Morton Feldman: Piano Piece (to Philip Guston)
Feldman Edition I -- Aki Takahashi Plays Morton Feldman
Mode Records/1996
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at SUNY Purchase, December 1995; composition year: 1963; time 3:54

Morton Feldman: Legato
Three Voices (for Joan La Barbara)
New Albion Records/1989
voices: Joan La Barbara; recorded in Los Angeles; composition year: 1982; time: 11:47

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