Martian Gardens for October 5 & 8, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 5, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 8, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY 
Joan Tower: Petroushskates
CRI: Forty Years of Discovery 1954--1994  (various artists)
CRI/1994
Da Capo Chamber Players (flute: Patricia Spencer; clarinet: Laura Flax; violin: Joel Lester; cello: Andre Emellanoff; piano: Joan Tower); recorded at the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York City, February 23-24, 1981; composition year: 1980; time: 5:35

SINGLE PLAY
Joan Tower: Rising
American Flute Quintets (Tower/Foote/Beach)
Carol Wincec, flute  - Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival
Bridge Records/2012
(for flute and string quartet); flute: Carol Wincenc; violins: Kevin Lawrence, Carolyn Stuart; viola: Sheila Browne; cello: Brooks Whitehouse; recorded at Watson Hall, University of North Carolina School of Arts, Winston-Salem, December 19-21, 2011; composition year: 2010; time: 16:09

SET ONE
Roger Reynolds: Ambages 
Three Circuitous Paths to the Music of Roger Reynolds
Neuma Records/2002
(for solo flute); flute: Rachel Rudich; recorded at June in Buffalo Festival, 2002; composition year: 1965; time: 8:11

Eric Chasalow: Flute Concerto -- Three Love Poems
I. fight and confession (5:38)
II. eggshell, more like a heart (2:51) 
III. feather, breath, mirror (4:42)
Feather, Breath, Mirror
Suspicious Motives Records/2014
(for flute and chamber ensemble); flute: Tara O'Connor; clarinet: Alan Key; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Fred Sherry; percussion: Tom Kolor; piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded at SUNY Purchase, September 2010; composition year: 2005; total time: 13:51

SET TWO
Chris Newman: Piano Sonata No. 1
I. (3:33)
II. The dinosaurs roamed the planes in herds (3:21)
III. (4:06)
Piano Sonatas
Mode Records/2009
piano: Michael Finnissy; recorded at Funkhaus, Kleiner Sendesaal, Köln, Germany, November 2006; composition year: 1982; total time: 11:00

Chris Newman: Cologne
Ghosts
Mode Records/2014
voice: Chris Newman; Ensemble KNM Berlin, conductor: Steffen Taast; recorded at the Studio Für Elektroakustische Musik Der Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, January 2004; composition year: 1987; time: 10:28

SET THREE
Fortner Anderson: It's a Small World (Anderson/Dumas)
Annunciations
Les blocs errants/2013
electroacoustic music: Chantal Dumas; text, voice: Fortner Anderson; time: 11:35

Bernd Klug: Abandoned Satellite Dishes I
Cold Commodities
Innova Recordings/2014
double bass, extension, amplifications: Bernd Klug; recorded at East 19th Street Studio, Brooklyn, New York, September 2013; time: 3:27

Philip Perkins: westshoe
Mister Anyhow -- Live in the studio 2011-14
Fun Music/2014
electronics, tapes: Philip Perkins; time: 2:55

David Mooney: 
a. Facts About Air, part 1 (1:00)
b. Wheel (1:00)
c. Hairpin (1:00)
Facts About Air
Heavy Mental Music by David R. Mooney
David Mooney/2009
electronics, tapes: David Mooney; total time: 3:00

SET FOUR
Suk-Jun Kim: Midong
Cultures électroniques Bourges 2001 (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2001
electroacoustic music realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 2001; time: 10:03

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

Gordon Mumma: Greys
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 (boxed set)
New World Records/2002
electronic music for film: Gordon Mumma; performed at the ONCE Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; February 16, 1963; composition year: 1963; time: 3:19

SET FIVE
Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials   
Voice is the Original Instrument: Early Works  
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003  
voices, tapes: Joan La Barbara; premiered at The American Center for Students and Artists, Paris, France, October 1980; time: 14:16

Jerry Tabor: lemon; birch
Electro Acoustic Music VII (various artists)
Neuma Records/2006
computer music: Jerry Tabor; composition year: 2002; time: 5:57

SET SIX
Sten Hanson: Trompe d'écorce de bouleau (birch bark horn)
from Cors longs (Long horns)
Music of Sten Hanson
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2001
electroacoustic music realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 1996; time: 2:00

Robert Scott Thompson:  The Musical Box
Folio, Volume Two
Aucourant Records/2011
electronics and music boxes: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2011; time: 14:00

Michael John Fink: From a Folio (selections)
a. Invocation (2:13)
b. Hieroglyph (2:01)
c. Melos (2:36)
From a Folio
Cold Blue Music/2014
cello: Derek Stein; piano: Michael John Fink; recorded at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, winter 2014; total excerpts time: 6:55

Kenneth Gaburo: Lemon Drops*
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
harmonic tone generator: Kenneth Gaburo; recorded at the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios; composition year: 1965

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

*TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for Sept. 28, 2014 & Oct. 1, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 28, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 1, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY 
Harry Partch: Nor these lips upon your eyes (Rumba)
Even Wild Horses, Act II, Scene I
Plectra and Percussion Dances
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); text: Arthur Rimbaud;  recorded at Disney Hall/Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, June 9, 2013; composition year: 1952; total time: 3:25

SET ONE 
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: 14:50

Heiner Goebbels: 
a. On the Road (2:42)
b. And We Said Goodbye (0:38)
c. On the Radio (1:54)
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten [Landscape with Distant Relatives]
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts (a.,c.): Gertrude Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; SWR Baden-Baden; composition year: 2004; total excerpt time: 5:32
 
SET TWO 
The Vocal Constructivists: Medium (M. Applebaum)
Walking Still
Innova Recordings/2014
(for quartet); composer: Mark Applebaum; vocals: The Vocal Constructivists, director: Jane Alden; recorded at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 2014; composition year: 2008; time: 10:08

Mark Applebaum: On the Nature of the Modern Age
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
(for piano duo and live electronics); Duo Runedako (pianos: Ruth Neville, Dan Kappelman); recorded at PINK, July 23, 2007; composition year: 2005; time: 8:53

SET THREE
Patrick Kosk: Plastique sans titre
IMEB Opus 30 - 1984 -- 1999, Volume 2 (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2003
(electroacoustic music); realized at GMEB/IMEB, Bourges, France, 1994; time: 10:15

Mario Verandi: Plastic Water
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
(electroacoustic music); realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the Berlin Technical University, Germany, 2000; time: 8:00

SET FOUR
Gilles Gobeil: Nuit cendre
...dans le silence de la nuit...
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
(electroacoustic music); realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 1995; premiered at Échange Québec-Belgique, L’orchestre de haut-parleurs 1, Agora de la danse, Montreal, February 27, 1996; time: 12:19

Erdem Helvacıoğlu: Dance of Fire
Wounded Breath
Aucourant Records/2008
(electroacoustic music); mastered at ITU MIAM Studios, Istanbul; composition year: 2007; time: 11:16

SET FIVE
Robert Scott Thompson: Aviary (Homage to Alwin Nikolais)
Folio Volume One
Aucourant Records/2011
(electroacoustic music); recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year; 2011; time: 5:13

Alwin Nikolais: 
a. Aviary: Dance 3 (2:51)
b. Aviary: Dance 2 (2:06)
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993
synthesizers, electronics: Alwin Nikolais; composition year: 1978; total excerpts time: 4:57

Paul Lansky:  selections from Threads
II. Recitative I (1:57)
III. Chorus I (2:13)
Textures & Threads
Bridge Records/2014
(for four percussionists); percussion 1: Gwendolyn Burgett; percussion 2: Svet Stoyanov; percussion 3: Ian Rosenbaum; percussion 4: Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University, May 21 & 22, 2012; composition year: 2005; total excerpts time: 4:10   

Gerard Pape: 
a. Funeral Sentences, part 2 (2:51)
b. Ascension au Purgatoire, part 2 (1:42)
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
a. (for percussion and two sopranos) percussion: Roland Auzet; conductor: Alan Bancquart; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville, France; composition year: 1998; b. (for percussion and computer); percussion: Roland Auzet; Stochos programming: Sinan Bakesoy; recorded at CCMIX, Paris; composition year: 2004; total excerpts time: 4:33

SET SIX
Huck Hodge: re(f)usel 
Life is Endless Like Our Field of Vision
New World Records/2014
(for string quartet, percussion, and computer); JACK Quartet (violins: Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); melodica, computer: Huck Hodge; recorded on June 6, 2013, DXArts, Seattle; composition year: 2012; time: 17:44

Iannis Xenakis: Akea
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
(for string quartet and piano); piano: Aki Takahashi; JACK Quartet (violins: Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); recorded at SUNY Purchase, June 23, 2008; composition year: 1986; time: 13:53

SET SEVEN
Julia Wolfe: Destiny
Steel Hammer
Cantaloupe Music/2014
vocals: Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum); ensemble: Bang On A Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate; bass: Robert Black; piano, melodica: Vicky Chow; drums, percussion, bones: David Cossin; electric guitar, banjo, mountain dulcimer, jaw harp, harmonica, clogging, humming: Mark Stewart; clarinets, harmonica, whistling, humming: Evan Ziporyn; All: sand sticks, body percussion); recorded at the James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, November 2011, February 2012; composition year: 2009; text: selected from numerous versions of the John Henry ballad; time: 11:05

Annie Gosfield: Daughters of the Industrial Revolution (excerpt)*
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; cello: Felix Fan; drums, percussion: Ches Smith; percussion: Alex Lipowski; recorded at the Kitchen, New York City; composition year: 2011; time: 5:35

Annie Gosfield: Mentryville*
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Tzadik/2004
prepared piano: Annie Gosfield; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts; March 31, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 4:57

Annie Gosfield: Wild Pitch**
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
(for piano, cello, percussion) Real Quiet (piano: Andrew Russo; cello: Felix Fan; percussion: David Cossin); recorded at Spin Studios, New York City; composition year: 2004; time: 12:42 

Zack Browning: Thunder Roll (Night Attack)**
Venus Notorius
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Jee-Ean Kim; percussion: Mark Eichenberger; percussion: James Press; timpani: Samuel Carroll; conductor: Mei-Fang Lin; recorded at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2006-2008; composition year: 1975; time: 4:27

*WMUA Version only
**TAINT Radio version only
 
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Martian Gardens for September 21 & 24, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 21, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 24, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY 
David Lang: Forbidden Subjects
Love Fail
Cantaloupe Music/2014
vocals: Anonymous 4 (Ruth Cunningham, Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek); text: Lydia Davis; premiered at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, Connecticut, June 29, 2012; time: 2:57

SET ONE
David Lang: Right and Wrong
Love Fail
Cantaloupe Music/2014
vocals: Anonymous 4 (Ruth Cunningham, Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek); text: Lydia Davis; premiered at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, Connecticut, June 29, 2012; time: 2:22

Meredith Monk: Double Fiesta
Do You Be
ECM/1987
vocals: Meredith Monk; pianos: Edmund Niemann, Nurit Tilles; recorded in New York City and Ludwigsbourg, Germany, 1986-1987; time: 5:21

Lei Liang: Howling Bamboo
Bamboo Lights, Movement I
Bamboo Lights
Bridge Records/2014
(for chamber orchestra); The Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, October 1, 2013; composition year: 2013; time: 2:45

Robert Scott Thompson: Cloud Pale and Dream Dimmed
Gold Flowers Bloom Mercury Petals
Aucourant Records/2009
synthesizers, electronics: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; time: 6:43

SET TWO
Eric Chasalow: Due (Cinta)mani
I. Three Symbolic Gestures (4:26)
II. Cloudlands (2:49)
Feather, Breath, Mirror
Suspicous Motives Records/2014
(for piano and fixed media); piano: Vicki Ray; recorded at Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, March 2005; composition year: 2002; total time: 6:15

Vicki Ray: The Meaning of the Treat
From the Left Edge
CRI/1999
composer: Arthur Jarvinen; piano: Vicki Ray; recorded at Abell Pianos, Los Angeles, February & April, 1999; composition year: 1995

Gordon Mumma: Meanwhile, A Twopiece
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 (boxed set)
New World Records/2003
piano, percussion: Robert Ashley; French horn, percussion: Gordon Mumma; magnetic tape; recorded at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 10, 1962; composition year: 1961; time: 7:16

In memory of George Manupelli, September 29, 1931 -- September 14, 2014, art professor, filmmaker, and member of the ONCE Group, 

SET THREE 
J.D. Parran & Mark Deutsch: Explore Coming Forth
from Omegathorp: Living City
Omegathorp: Living City
Y'All of New York/2005
alto clarinet, soprano saxophone, bamboo flute, E-flat contrabass clarinet: J.D. Parran, bazantar, sitar: Mark Deutsch; cello, electronics, electro-vocals: David Darling; percussion: Kevin Norton; piano: Joseph Kubera; voice; Thomas Buckner; text: Glenn Spearman; time: 8:43

Timeless Pulse: Light
Quintet
Mutable Music/2007
voice: Thomas Buckner; percussion: George Marsh, Jennifer Wilsey; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; live electronics: David Wessel; time: 9:48

The Vocal Constructivists: Sound Patterns (P. Oliveros)
Walking Still
Innova Recordings/2014
(for mixed chorus); composer: Pauline Oliveros; vocals: The Vocal Constructivists, director: Jane Alden; recorded at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 2014; composition year: 1961; time: 3:58

SET FOUR
Paul Lansky: from Textures
I. Striations (3:52)
II. Loose Ends (3:28)
Textures & Threads
Bridge Records/2014
(for two pianists and two percussionists); piano 1: Thomas Rosenkranz; piano 2: Michael Sheppard; percussion 1: Svet Stoyanov; percussion 2: Gwendolyn Burgett; recorded at Clonick Hall and Recording Studio, Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio, October 9, 2013; composition years: 2012-2013; total excerpts time: 7:20

Iannis Xenakis: O-Mega
Ensemble Works 3
Mode Records/2013
(for percussion and ensemble); percussion: Steven Schick; International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), conductor: Steven Schick; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, January 2010; composition year: 1977; time: 3:52

Roland Auzet: Metallic Cristal (K. Tanaka)
Percussion (s) [boxed set]
Mode Records/2008
(for percussion and electronics); composer: Karen Tanaka; percussion:  Roland Auzet; electronics realized at and percussion performed at IRCAM, La Muse en Circuit, Atelier en Bel Air, Alfortville, France; composition year: 1995; time: 9:26

SET FIVE
Anna Rubin & Laurie Hollander: Family Stories: Sophie, Sally
Electric Music
Capstone Records/2004 (via Neuma Records)
(for voices and fixed media); music: Anna Rubin, Laurie Hollander; voices, texts: Anna Rubin, Aleta Hayes; composition years: 1998-2000; time: 16:05

Sylvia Smith: Family Portraits: Delbert (great-grandfather) (S.S. Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
composer: Stuart Saunders Smith; solo percussion, voice: Sylvia Smith; recorded at University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 1994; time: 3:45

SET SIX
Alain Savouret: La trans-solitaire
Alain Savouret
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2004
(electroacoustic music); realized at GMEB/IMEB, Bourges, France, 1984; time: 10:45

Alain Thibault: La soleil et l'acier
Volt
empreintes DIGITALes/1990
(for soprano and tape); soprano: Pauline Vaillancourt; recorded at the composer's studio, Montreal, premiered at the Du Maurier Theater, Toronto, February 22, 1988; revised, 1990; composition years: 1988, 1990; time: 8:01

Thomas DeLio: ...Transients
Selected Compositions (1991-2013)
Neuma Records/2013
(for tape); composition year: 2011; time: 3:40

SET SEVEN
Charles Dodge: Profile
Electro Acoustic Music I [various artists]
Neuma Records/1990
(computer music); composition year: 1988; time: 6:57

François Giraudon: La Corrida
La Corrida
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1998
(electroacoustic music) realized at CNR, Marseilles, France, 1990; time: 9:15 

Erdem Helvacioğlu: Lead Crystal Marbles*
Wounded Breath
Aucourant Records/2008
(electroacoustic music); mastered at ITU MIAM Studios, Istanbul; composition year: 2007; time: 17:11

*TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for September 14 & 17, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 14, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 17, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY 
Darren Copeland: They're Trying to Save Themselves
Perdu et Retrouve
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
commissioned by CBC Radio One for the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks; all sounds sourced from CNN immediately following the bombings of the World Trad Center towers, September 11, 2001; realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered on CBC Radio One, 9/11/02; time: 3:53

SET ONE 
Ingram Marshall: September Canons
September Canons
New World Records/2009
violin, electronic processing: Todd Reynolds; a lamentation on the events of September 11, 2001; composition year: 2002; time: 13:19
 
ETHEL: Uh...It all happened so fast (T. Reynolds)
ETHEL
Cantaloupe Music/2003
composer: Todd Reynolds; ETHEL (violins: Todd Reynolds, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Mary Lawson; recorded at LOHO Studios, New York City, 2003; composition year: 2000; time: 5:54

SET TWO
Julia Wolfe: The States
Steel Hammer
Cantaloupe Music/2014
vocals: Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum); ensemble: Bang On A Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate; bass: Robert Black; piano, melodica: Vicky Chow; drums, percussion, bones: David Cossin; electric guitar, banjo, mountain dulcimer, jaw harp, harmonica, clogging, humming: Mark Stewart; clarinets, harmonica, whistling, humming: Evan Ziporyn; All: sand sticks, body percussion); recorded at the James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, November 2011, February 2012; composition year: 2009; text: selected from numerous versions of the John Henry ballad; time: 9:48 

Steve Reich: It's been a honeymoon -- can't take no mo'
from City Life
The Minimalists (various composers)
Mode Records/2009
performed by Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; percussion: Tatiana Koleva; clarinet: Fie Schouten; piano: Sepp Grotenhuis; samplers: Anthony Fiumara; recorded at MCO Studios, Hilversum, The Netherlands, April 28-30, 2009; composition year: 1995; time: 5:00

Paul Dolden: The Village Choir asks the important questions of the day
Who Has the Biggest Sound?
Starkland/2014
instruments, electroacoustics, processing: Paul Dolden; recorded at the composer's studio, Val-Morin, Québec, 2005-2008; total excerpts time: 2:58

Paulo Chagas: Tarazed 
Possible Worlds Vol. 3 (various artists)
Microtonal/Xenharmonic music and sound art from around the world
Spectropol/2014
woodwinds: Paulo Chagras; time: 2:27

SET THREE
Eric Chasalow: Trois Espaces du Son
I. Dramatic, deliberate (3:21)
II. Driven, with energy (2:52)
III. Meditative and resonant (4:51)
Feather, Breath, Mirror
Suspicious Motives Records/2014
(for piano, percussion, and fixed media); piano: Ancuza Aprodu; percussion: Thierry Miroglio; recorded at Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, March 2009; composition year: 2004; total time: 11:04

Luciano Berio: Sequenza II
New Music Series Volume 2 (various artists)
Neuma Records/1988
(for harp); harp: Emily Laurence; composition year: 1963; time: 8:05

SET FOUR
Gabriel Valverde: El Silencio ya no es el Silencio  
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
(for harp); harp: Sofia Asunción Claro; recorded at DIEM Studio, Copenhagen, 1997; composition year: 1996; time: 6:33

Huck Hodge: Out of a Dark Sea
Life is Endless Like Our Field of Vision
New World Records/2014
Talea Ensemble (harp: Nuiko Wadden; flute, piccolo: Barry Crawford; clarinet, bass clarinet: Rane Moore; horn: John Glattis; piano: Steve Beck; percussion: Alex Lipowski; violin: Miranda Cuckson; cello: Chris Gross); conductor: Jim Baker; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, November 21, 2014; composition years: 2006, revised 2007; time: 15:26

SET FIVE
Linda Dusman: Dindirindin
Electro Acoustic Music III (various artists)
Neuma Records/1994
(for computer-generated tape and soprano); soprano: Maria Tegzes; composition year: 1990; time: 8:31

Sten Hanson: Suite Brasiliera 
a. Apito (1:25)
b. Iemanjá (2:44)
c. Piranha (2:40)
d. Guerra (1:35)
e. Jogo de bicho (2:55)
f. Samba (2:29)
Sten Hanson -- Chrysopée Electronique series
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2001
electroacoustic music realized at IMEB, Bourges, 1993; total time: 13:35

SET SIX
Leo Kupper: Sabatrana 
from Rezas Populares do Brazil
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/2002
(for bass baritone, mezzo soprano, and digital processing); mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; bass: Eduardo Janho-Abumrad; electronics: Leo Kupper; recorded in Brussels; time: 5:47; composition year: 1998

Robert Scott Thompson: Flora of Fynbos
Flora of Fynbos (single)
Aucourant Records/2014 
computer/electroacoustic music: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2014; time: 14:43

SET SEVEN
Robert Scott Thompson: Star Map
Folio Volume One
Aucorant Records/2011
synthesizers, electronics: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia, composition year: 2011; time: 3:13

Marco Marinoni: To Walk the Night
IMEB --  Cultures Électroniques 16 (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2002
(for violin, flute, piano, percussion, and tape); realized at IMEB, Bourges, composition year: 2002; time: 7:16

Douglas Doherty: On the Toon In the Toon On the Tyne
On the Edge of Chaos
MPS Music & Video/2011
(for electronics and tape); composition year: 1997; time: 3:00

Wendy Carlos: Incantation*
Beauty in the Beast
East Side Digital/2000 (orig. Audion LP/1986)
synthesizers, vocoder: Wendy Carlos; composition year: 1986; time: 6:47

Wendy Carlos:
a. Yusae Aisae (3:12)**
b. Poem for Bali (17:56 **
Beauty in the Beast
East Side Digital/2000 (orig. Audion LP/1986)
synthesizers, vocoder: Wendy Carlos; composition year: 1986; total time: 21:08

*WMUA version only
**TAINT Radio version only


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Martian Gardens for September 7 & 10, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 24, 2014
(extended edition 9:00 p.m. -- 12:30 a.m. EDT)

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: August 27, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY 
Béla Bartók: Hungarian Song
from 44 Duos for Two Violins, Book 1
The Complete Violin Duos
Nuema Records/1993
violins: János Négyesy, Päivikki Nykter; composition year: 1931; time: 0:43

SET ONE
János Négyesy: Bittersweet Music II (Bun-Ching Lam)
Solo Violin Recital
Acourant Records/2006
composer: Bun-Ching Lam; violin: János Négyesy; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego, June 2005; composition year: 1981; time: 12:32

Bun-Ching Lam: Run
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
pipa: Min Xiao Fen; recorded in Heidelberg, Germany, 2009; composition year: 1993; time: 7:25  

SET TWO
Chris Newman: Symphony
Ghosts
Mode Records/2014
Ensemble KNM Berlin (flute: Rebecca Lenton; clarinet: Winfried Rager; xylophone: Thomas Meixner; piano: Holger Groschopp; trumpet: Markus Schwind; trombone: Andrew Digby; double bass: Arnuff Ballhorn); conductor: Steffen Tast; recorded at the Studio für elektroakustische Musik; Berlin, January 2004; composition year: 1981; time: 12:00

Iannis Xenakis: Xas
Ensemble Music 2
Mode Records/1996
(for saxophone quartet); members of  ST-X Ensemble Xenakis USA; soprano saxophone: Susan Cook; alto saxophone: John Engerbretson; tenor saxophone: Shawn Tracy; baritone saxophone: Mathew Cashman; recorded at Streeterville Studio, Chicago, September 15, 1996; composition year: 1987; time: 8:56

SET THREE
Steven Schick: Watershed I (1st 1/4) (R. Reynolds)
Drumming in the Dark
Neuma Records/2000
composer: Roger Reynolds; percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego; composition year: 1995; excerpt time: 7:10

Meehan/Perkins Duo & the Baylor Percussion Group: 
 Percussion Music (G. Strang)
I. Alla marcia (2:39)
II. Moderato (2:47)
III. Rondino (1:44)
Restless, Endless, Tactless
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
composer: Gerald Strang; percussion: Meehan/Perkins Duo, Baylor Percussion Group, recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, February 9, 2010; composition year: 1936; total time: 7:10

Wendy Mae Chambers:  Fire-Breathing Serpent
12²
New World Records/1998
percussion: Michael Pugliese, Randy Crafton, Jason Cirker, Charles Kiger, Andy Bowman, Kory Grossman, Mark Belair, Dan McMillan, Frank Cassara, David Cossin, Jimmy Musto, Dominic Donato, conductor: Howard Van Hyning; recorded at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, July 21, 1994; time: 4:56

SET FOUR
Otto Laske:  Furies and Voices
a. Prelude
b. Scherzo
c. Song
Electro Acoustic Music VI (various artists)
Neuma Records/1999
(electroacoustic music); composition year: 1990; time: 10:27

Robert Scott Thompson: Unwoven
Arcana
Relaxed Machinery/2014 
electronics, synthesizers: Robert Scott Thompson; composition year: 2014; time: 9:09

SET FIVE
Victoria Jordanova: Outer Circles, part 6
Outer Circles
Innova Recordings/2004
ham radio signal collage: Victoria Jordanova; recorded in Rome, Italy; composition year: 2004;  time: 8:03

Odeya Nini: There are so many things that I have to tell you
Vougheauxyice (Voice)
pfMENTUM/2014
text, voice, processing: Odeya Nini; recorded at California Institute of the Arts, June 2012; time: 9:52

Biosphere: The things I tell you
Substrata
All Saints/1997
electronics, voice, text: Geir Jenssen; recorded at Aurora Lydstudio, Tromsdalen, Norway; time: 6:17

SET SIX
Françoise Barrière: Musique pour le Temps de Noël (Yuletide Music)
Series Chrysopée Electronique - Bourges
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1992
(for viola, cello, saxophone, percussion, and tape); members of Ensemble 2e2m (viola: Alain Dubois; cello: Marcus Jenny; saxophone: Kemicho Muto; percussion: Jean-Pierre Drouet); conductor: Alain Savouret; recorded at the 9th International Festival of Experimental Music, Bourges, court of the Jacques Cœur Palace, 1979; composition year: 1979; time: 16:16

Gonzalo Biffarella: Mestizaje
Mestizaje
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1997
(musique concrete); recorded at LIPM (Research and Musical Production Laboratory - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983-1984; time: 8:11

SET SEVEN
John Luther Adams: At a Still Point
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
(musique concrete); composed in Fairbanks, Alaska, and Los Angeles, 2008, time: 12:32

John Luther Adams: Inuksuit, part 4
Inuksuit
Cantaloupe Music/2013
(for percussion, air raid sirens, and environmental sounds) percussion ensemble directed by Doug Perkins; recorded in the woods of Guilford, Vermont, 2012; composition year: 2009; time: 9:33

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Table of Contents (D. Lang)*
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
(composer: David Lang); percussion: The Meehan/Perkins Duo; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco Texas, January 2010; composition year: 2008; time: 8:57

Lou Harrison: Fugue*
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
performed by the William Winant Percussion Group; recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, California, August, 1993; composition year: 1942; time: 3:55

*TAINT Radio version only

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Martian Gardens for Aug. 31 & Oct. 29, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 31, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 29, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY 
Frances White: Rose Pogonia 
Music by Frances White
CD-R/2004
(for flutes and electronics); flute: Elizabeth Brown; composition year: 2002; time: 4:31

SET ONE
Barry Lewis: Agglutination 
Curves and Jars
MPS Music & Video/1994
computer music: Barry Lewis; recorded at Projects UK Studio, Newcastle, UK; time: 2:22

Bruce Bennett & Vance Galloway: Evaporation
Desolation
Spectropol/2014
electronics, keyboards: Bruce Bennet; guitar: Vance Galloway; time: 6:32

Shriekback: Evaporation
The Y Records Years
Castle Music/2000
synthesizers, keyboards: Barry Andrews; vocals, guitar: Carl Marsh; bass guitar: Dave Allen; recorded at KPM Studios, Denmark; originally released on Care LP (Y Records/1983); time: 3:21

Kyong Mee Choi: Sublimation 
Sori
Acourant Records/2013
(for marimba and electronics); marimba: Sean Darby; composition year: 2004; time: 7:00

Dr. Ox: Meiotic Recombination 
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM, Oslo, Norway; time: 3:30

SET TWO
Dorota Czerner: A Poem for Bob Morris at 70
Robert Morris at 70 (various artists)
Compositions and Performances in Celebration
Open Space/2014 
voice, text: Dorota Czerner; time: 4:04

J.K. Randall: Cleophila 
Cleophila/The Fish/Svejk/Some Old Troubadour Songs
Open Space/1999
voice: Martha Elliott; text: Sir Philip Sidney ("The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia); composition year: 1997; time: 7:27

John Cage & Joan La Barbara: A Flower
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
(for voice and closed piano); vocalized phonemes: Joan La Barbara; percussed piano lid: William Winant; recorded at Skywalker Music, Lucas Valley, California, July 1990; composition year: 1950; time: 3:30

Odeya Nini: Cyclicality 
Vougheauxyice (voice)
pfMENTUM/2014
improvised voice: Odeya Nini; recorded in Los Angeles, 2012; time: 6:36

SET THREE
Elsa Justel: Débris
Compendium International - Bourges 2003 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2003
electroacoustic music: Elsa Justel; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, composition year: 2003; time: 9:35

Francisco Kröpfl: Winds
Opous 30 ans musiques compositeurs, Vol. 2 (1984 - 1999) (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2003
electroacoustic music: Francisco Kröpfl; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, composition year: 1996; time: 10:53

SET FOUR
Robert Scott Thompson: Liminality (Homage to Iannis Xenakis)
Folio Volume Two
Aucourant Records/2011
percussion: Stuart Gerber; electronics, processing: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2011; time: 11:10

Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (section 5)
Kraanerg
Mode Records/2008
(for 23 instruments and 4-channel tape); Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, March 7, 2006; composition years: 1967 - 1969; section time: 3:45

Musicians for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Event -- Oslo
Music for Merce 1953-2009 [various artists] (boxed set)
New World Records/2010
live electronics, percussion, voice: Takehisa Kosugi; electric guitar, live electronics: James Woodrow; recorded September 29, 2002, Oslo, Norway; time: 4:12

SET FIVE
David Rosenboom: Zones of Influence, Part II
Closed Attracting Trajectories (Melody Set 2)
Zones of Influence
Pogus Productions/2014
electronics: David Rosenboom; percussion: William Winant; recorded at the Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Complex, California Institute of the Arts, and the composer's studio, Valencia, California, composition years: 1984, 1985; revised for this recording 2013; time: 13:44

David Rosenboom: In The Beginning Etude II (Keyboard-Plucked Strings)
In The Beginning (1978-1981)
New World Records/2012
harp: Jane Grothe; piano and computer: David Rosenboom; guitar, lute, banjo: Jerónimo "Jxel" Rajchenberg; recorded at the Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Complex, California Institute of the Arts, 2008; composition year: 1980; time: 8:00

SET SIX
John Cage: Branches
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: 1976; time: 16:12

Stuart Saunders Smith: ...And Points North...Scene III
Breath: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2004
percussion, hand claps, rustling tree leaves, stones, bird calls: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 1990; time: 3:56

SET SEVEN
George Crumb: Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (A Little Midnight Music)
Ruminations on 'Round Midnight by Thelonius Monk
 I. Nocturnal Theme (1:28)
II. Charade (1:22)
III. Premonition (1:29)
IV. Cobweb and Peaseblossom (Scherzo) (2:05)
V. Incantation (3:18)
VI. Golliwog Revisited (2:09)
VII. Blues in the Night (3:27)
VIII. Cadenza with Tolling Bells (2:20)
IX. Midnight Transformation (2:57)
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Nine
Bridge Records/2005
piano: Emanuele Arciuli; composition year: 2001 (orig. Thelonius Monk, published 1944); total time: 20:42

NewBand:  'Round Midnight (T. Monk)*
NewBand Play Microtonal Works (various composers)
Mode Records/1994
cello: Ted Mook; zoomoozphone: Dominic Donato, Frank Cassara; recorded at The Magic Shop, New York City, January 31, 1993; composition year: 1944 (Thelonius Monk, published); arr. Dean Drummond, 1990, revised 1993); time: 5:36

*TAINT Radio version only

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