Martian Gardens for 11/29/2009

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for November 29, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Christian Wolff: Beginning
Long Piano
New World Records/2009
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded October, 2007, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University

SET ONE
Eric Moe: I Have Only One Itching Desire
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble; recorded 3/23/06 at Legacy Hall, Columbus State University, Georgia

John Luther Adams: Velocities Crossing in Phase-Space
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded November, 1998, at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati

SET TWO
Katherine Kemler: Techno Yaman (R. Dick)
Lipstick
Centaur Records/2008
flute, drum machine/electronics: K. Kemler; recorded June, 2007, LSU Recital Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Elizabeth McNutt: The Blistering Price of Power (E. Lyon)
Pipe Wrench
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: E. McNutt; drum machine tape: Eric Lyon; recorded at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

SET THREE
Larry Nelson: Music for Flute and Electronic Sounds
The Starry Messenger
Albany Records/2005
flute: Christina Jennings; electronics: L. Nelson; recorded 9/18/04 at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore

Arthur Kreiger: Close Encounters
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
flute: Jayn Rosenfeld; electronics: A. Kreiger; recorded October, 2001, Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, SUNY, Purchase

SET FOUR
Cornelius Cardew: There is Only One Lie, There is Only One Truth
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
P.C.A. Singers and English Chamber Choir, conductor: Guy Protheroe; performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the Cornelius Cardew Memorial Concert, 5/16/82.

Joseph Waters: The Populist Manifesto
Joseph Waters
North Pacific Music/2000
soprano: Brenda Baker; accordion: Gernot Blume; saxophone: Tom Bergeron;cello: John Hubbard; percussion: Julie Spencer; text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

SET FIVE
James Paul Sain: Tag till...
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

Paul Koonce: Hothouse
Walkabout and Back--Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2000

SET SIX
Dean Rosenthal: Antinomy
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
sampled voice/music: Henry Cowell

Henry Cowell: The Banshee
Piano Music
Smithsonian Folkways
spoken introduction, piano: H. Cowell, recorded 1963

Jeff Feddersen: This Time I Want Them All
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Sonic Circuits XI
Innova Recordings/2006
sampled voice: Henry Cowell; sound source: H. Cowell, "The Banshee"

Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records/2001
readers: Susan McCully, Phil Maki; text: Gertrude Stein, "The Making of Americans"; recorded 2000, W.I.N.C. Studio, West Newton, Mass.

John Cage: Voiceless Essay (excerpt)
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
text sources: Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," published 1849

John Cage: The best government is no government at all
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage

SINGLE PLAY
Andrew Byrne: Tracks
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded October, 2006, Patrych Studios, Bronx, NY

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Martian Gardens for 11/22/2009

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for November 22, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: In C (excerpt)
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands

SET ONE
Heather O'Donnell: The Celestial Potato Fields (In Memoriam Charles Ives) (S. Corbett)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, January, 2008

George Crumb: Gamma Draconis (Celestial Mechanics III*)
The Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
first piano: Haewon Song; second piano: Robert Shannon; recorded at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, June, 2001

SET TWO
Tim Brady: Traces (Hommage a Charlie Christian)
My 20th Century
Actuellecd/2009
Bradyworks and Quatuor Mollinari; recorded at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, May, 2008

Martin Bresnick: Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon
My Twentieth Century
New World Records/2005
Povera Players; recorded live at Izumi Hall, Osaka, 9/24/03

SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
Sound Collaborations
Centaur Records/2007
Maine loons recorded by William Barklow, included on his CD "Voices of the Loon" on
Swallowtail Records

Mara Helmuth/Allen Otte: Loonspace
Implements of Actuation
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
percussion: A. Otte; recordings of Maine loons, ibid.

SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Etudes -- aux accidents (1958)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

Iannis Xenakis: Concrete PH (1958)
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997

Sawako Kato: Crab
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2001

Erik Santos: Himotku Niwa (Garden of Turning Pages)
KUU -- Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007

Noah Creshevsky: Breathless (opening)
Hyperrealism in Music 1992-2005
Noah Creshevsky/CD-R compiled 2005

SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Psalmus XXIII
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik/2007
vocal samples: Beth Griffith; baritone: Zach Kurth-Nelson

Timeless Pulse: Light**
Quintet
Mutable Music/2007
baritone: Thomas Buckner; percussion: George Marsh; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; live electronics: David Wessel; percussion: Jennifer Wilsey

Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: William Smith; psaltery, organ, electronic processor: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard University electronic music studio, fall, 1981

Raul LaFuret Pereyra: Song for Cave
Anillo en Abril
Goethe Institute of Cordoba/2003

Luiz Eduardo Casteloes: Mobile das letras
Musica Eletroacustica Brasileira, Vol. III #
Electroacoustic Music Society of Brazil/2004
contrabass: Andre Satos; electric guitar: Gabriel Santiago; percussion: Rodrigo Foti

SET SIX
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII #
Nuema Records/2006

Åke Parmerud: Renaissance
Jeu D'Ombres
empreintes DIGITALes/2003

John Cage: Quick, a Word of Truth!
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage

SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Koppelman: Unnatural Selection (C. Dobrian)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008

*from George Crumb's Makrokosmos book Four
**Unsure of title as the CD times and titles are out of sync.

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Martian Gardens for 11/15/2009

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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for November 15, 2009

SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Long Piano #63
Long Piano (Peace March 11)
New World Records/2009
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded October, 2007, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University

Christian Wolff: Pebbles (excerpt)
Complete Music for Violin & Piano
Mode Records/2003
violin: Marc Sabat; piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded 8/10/00 at Glenn Gould Studios, Toronto

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 7 (New England Night Weave)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Jude Trexler; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC, October, 2008

Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; voice: Sylvia Smith

SET THREE
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Motion
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; arr. Anthony Fiumara; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands.

Matteo Sommacal: Counter Rotating in Vacuum
Minimamachta
Centaur Records/2009
Piccola Accademia degli Specchi; director: Giovanni Rosati; recorded summer, 2004, at Urban Recording Studio, CaswaDelleaMusica, Trieste, Italy

Miguel Del Aguila: from Clocks
a. Midnight Strikes
b. The Old Clock's Story
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio; recorded summer, 2008, First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas

Miguel Del Aguila: Cantando, semplice (from Pacific Serenade)
eXchange--Latin America #
CRI/2000
Pacific Serenade Ensemble; recorded live at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, 3/15/99

SET FOUR
Heather O'Donnell: The Missing Nail at the River (W. Zimmermann)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, April, 2007

Walter Zimmermann: Ursache und Vorwitz (Cause and Pertness)
Schatten der Ideen (Shadow of Ideas)
Mode Records/2003
Ensemble Recherche (with tape), recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, May, 1998

SINGLE PLAY
David Felder: November Sky*
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute: Rachel Rudich; computer sounds realized at SUNY, Buffalo, at the Banff Centre, Alberta; recorded at UC, San Diego

SINGLE PLAY
Eric Moe: Dead Elf Tugboat*
Kicking and Screaming
Albany Records/2003
flute: Rachel Rudich; keyboard sampler: E. Moe; recorded 11/09/98, American Academy of Arts and Letters

SET FIVE
Joan La Barbara:
a. Cathing (excerpt, first 68 seconds)
b. Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation (brief excerpt)
c. Autumn Signal (entire)
d. Hear What I Feel (brief except)
Voice Is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
a. voice: Cathy Berberian from radio interview, 6/19/77; b. voice: J. La Barbara; c. voice, Buchla synthesizer: JLB; text: JLB, inspired by Emmett Williams, "Sweethearts"; premiered 10/22/78, Metamusik Festival, Berlin; d. voice: JLB

Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 #
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
voice: G.L. Nelson; text: Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky"

SET SIX
Paul De Marinis: The Lecture of Comrade Stalin*
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music,
Leonardo Music Journal, CD Series Volume 8 #
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
voice, text: General Secretary Josef Stalin; musique concrete: P. De Marinis

Marcelo Radulovich: The Evil Ones
The Evil Ones
Marcelo Radulovich/2005
voice, text: President George W. Bush; musique concrete: M. Radulovich

A link regarding a special benefit for Mode Records at Abron's Art Center, 466 Grand Street, NYC, next Saturday, November 21st, featuring music by John Cage, John Zorn, and Philip Glass.

*Dr. Moe's "Dead Elf Tugboat" and Dr. Felder's "November Sky" got orphaned from their original sets. I had prepared for five hours rather than the normal three as I was slated to cover "A Thousand Plateaus," but since Mr. Berry returned from Maryland early on Sunday afternoon, he decided he'd like to do his program just the same. Oh well. I had a fantastic five hours lined up. I will broadcast most of what I cut from the original 11/15/09 program on the 11/22/09 program. I will post that playlist in a few days. I kept Moe's and Felder's works on this program because they both feature flutist Rachel Rudich, and I want to make sure I get "November Sky" programmed during November. I have two more programs in November, but I just arbitrarily prefer the middle of the month rather than late in the month. Anyway...

**full title: The Lecture of Comrade Stalin at the Extraordinary 8th Plenary Congress about the Draft Concept of the Constitution of the Soviet Union on November 25, 1936

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Martian Gardens for 11/08/2009

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for November 8, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Heather O'Donnell: Study No. 21: Some Southpaw Pitching! (C. Ives)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, April, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Steve Reich: City Life
a. Check it out
b. Pile driver/alarms
c. It's been a honeymoon...can't take no mo'
d. Heartbeats/boats and buoys
e. Heavy smoke
The Minimalists #
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding; conductor: Jessi Jaatinen; arrangements, sampler: Anthony Fiumara; piano: Sepp Grotenhuis; clarinets: Fie Schouten, Dominique Zwartele; recorded April 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands.

SET ONE
Jonty Harrison: Free Fall (from ReCycle)
Environs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

Massimo Carlentini: Recycling recycled
Electroacoustic Music From Sicily #
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: Alessandra Marino

SET TWO
Francesco Galante: El Mio Paese e la Notte
Electroacoustic Music Volume VI #
Electroshock Records/1999

Adolfo Nuñez: The Nightingales Sing
Electroacoustic Music of Adolfo Nuñez
CD-R/2004 (compiled)
voice: Patrician Mikishka; text: Elizabeth Parsons

SET THREE
David Monacchi: Nightingale
ECO-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation--Earth Ear/2003
flute; environmental sounds: D. Monacchi; nightingales and incidental sounds recorded in the Marche region of Italy.

Pink Floyd: Cirrus Minor*
Soundtrack from the film More
EMI/1969
Farfisa and Hammond organs, Binson Echoric platter echo: Richard Wright; acoustic guitar: David Gilmour; composition, vocals, lyrics: Roger Waters; other sound effects include samples from a field recording of bird songs entitled "Dawn Chorus," and a field recording of a nightingale, both issued by HMV in 1961 (according to Wikipedia, veracity uncertain).

Chris Watson: Mozambique Nightjar
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch Records/1998
recorded October 1996 on the banks of the Zimbezi River, Zimbabwe

SET FOUR
Richard Maxfield: Pastoral Symphony
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999

Bob Gluck: Cape Cod Imaginary Landscape (1974)
Electric Songs
Electronic Music Foundation/2003

David Dunn: Skydrift (excerpt)
Music, Language and Environment
Innova Recordings/1996
voices: Ellen Band, Ric Cupples, Dennis Dunn, Peter, Hamlin, Gene Johnson, Phil Keeney, Chris Robbins, Ronnald Robboy, Peter Seibel, Paul William Simons; flutes: Norbert Bach, Donna Caruso, David Savage, Jeri Webb; clarinets: Duane Lakin-Thomas, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Paredes, Larry Rhodes; trumpets: Alan Brewer, David Dickey, Larry Fant, Jack Logan,; trombones: Bob Burns, Ruessel Estes, Mark Mayer, Jeff Peterson, engineer: Eugene Wahl; realized 12/11/77 at Little Blair Valley, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California

SET FIVE
Alvin Lucier: Nothing is Real (Lennon/McCartney)
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music,
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8 #
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
piano: Margaret Leng Tan; arr. A. Lucier; "Nothing is Real" is based on the melodic structure of The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967), first released on the 1991 Capitol CD "Hyper Beatles" performed by Aki Takahashi, the Margaret Leng Tan version was recorded at Radio Bremen, February 1998.

Eldad Tsabary: Julia
DEMO
Eldad Tsabary/CD-R compiled 2006
A 2005 electronic music composition based on the melodic line of The Beatles' "Julia" (1968), though, unlike Lucier's piece above, Tsabary renders the melody itself abstract enough not to warrant legal credit to Lennon/McCartney.

Richard Karpen: Denouement**
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 12 #
Centaur Records/1992

SET SIX
Ignaz Schnick/Martin Tetreault: Cave 12 part 2
Live
Actuellecd/2009

Francisco Lopez: ConOps (excerpt)
ConOps
GD Stereo/2009

*I will leave who said it unsaid, but he said, "You're playing Pink Floyd? I thought you just did high art on Martian Gardens."
Well, if Pink Floyd isn't "high" art, I don't know what is.

**Karpen's 1991 computer music piece segues well with Tsabary's "Julia," but my selection of it above several other candidates relates to an eye-rolling comment Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) made in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on November 5. This is in regard to Al Gore, John Kerry, big words, French words, and big French words.

In his insipid defense of Al Gore's former running mate in the 2004 presidential elections, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), who is now fighting behest of the health insurance crime syndicates to keep the health care of the American people under fascist tyranny, Gore declared: "I would urge people to wait until the denouement of this health care debate to see where it falls out because I do believe that Harry Reid is going to be successful in passing it very soon." (emphasis mine).

Along with the bogus narrative defaming Kerry's military service pushed by the equally bogus "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," the right-wing attacked Kerry for his refined demeanor and good diction. We were all raised to believe these were positive attributes, but since George W. Bush was badly wanting for either, it was the Republican strategy to call Kerry's manner "elitist." They also appealed to longstanding American bigotry against the French by getting their pundits to say Mr. Kerry "looks French." What did this mean? French people look a lot of different ways. I suppose you could claim anybody of Indo-European heritage "looks French." It is scary how well the right-wing's vapid trashing of Kerry worked. It kept him on the defensive side for the entire campaign season. Certainly, Mr. Kerry's advisers told him not to use big words and not to use French words, and there was Al Gore (believe you me, the same rules apply to him) on national television using a big French word! But now it is late in 2009, and Mr. Gore is so irrelevant that even the troglodytes at FOX News didn't bother commenting. Thus, we see the denouement of Sen. Gore political career.

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 11/01/2009

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for November 1, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; bass, accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely

SET ONE
Ilse Weber: I Wander Through Theresienstadt
Spiritual Resistance--Music from Theresienstadt
Bridge Records/2009
voice: Wolfgang Holzmair

Arie Shapira: Gideon Klein's Marterstraße
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004 (compiled)
piano: Uriel Tzachor; violin: Carmela Leiman; clarinet: Ilan Schul; vocal: A. Shapira; text: G. Klein, “Concert in the Attic of the Old School”

Gideon Klein: Tri písne (Three Songs)]
a. Vodotrysk (The Fountain)
b. Polovina života (The Middle of Life)
c. Soumrak shůry sesouvá (Twilight Sank from High Above)
Spiritual Resistance--Music from Theresienstadt
Bridge Records/2009
baritone: Wolfgang Holzmair; piano: Russell Ryan; texts: (a)Johann Klaj,(b) Friedrich Hölderlin, (c) Goethe; recorded March, 2008, at the Music Room at Caramoor, Katonah, New York

Stefan Wolpe: Excerpts from Dr. Einstein's Address About Peace in the Atomic Era
Vocal Music
Bridge Records/2007
baritone: Patrick Mason; piano: Robert Shannon; text: Albert Einstein, February 12, 1950

SET TWO
Jim Fox: Colorless Sky Became Fog
Cold Blue Night @ REDCAT, 2/18/06 (CD-R)
Cold Blue Music/2006 (compiled)
hammered dulcimer: Theresa Diamond; piano: Bryan Pezzone; violin: Robin Lorentz; cellos: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Jessica Catron; double bass: Barry Newton; recorded 2/18/06 at REDCAT, Disney Hall, Los Angeles

Tim Brady: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously*
Scenarios -- Music for Electric Guitar, Electronics, and Tape
Justin Time Records/1994

George Todd: Wordscapes --
a. Word
b. Water Asleep
c. Green Idea
Green Ideas Furiously Asleep
Electronic Music Foundation/1996

Larry Kucharz: Green Wash no. 3
Ambient Green Washes
International Audiochrome/2005

SET THREE
Lynn Job: Lake House Letter
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Susan Botti: 3 Poèmes de Jaccottet
a. Je ne veux plus me poser
b. La ou la terre s'achève
c. La Veillée funèbre
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; soprano: S. Botti; texts: Philippe Jacottet; recorded 12/04/97 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Michael Tenzer:
a. Invention
b. Etude
Let Others Name You
New World Records/2009
piano: Naoko Christ-Kato; recorded at Kammermusiksaal Musikhochschule, Lubeck, 2/22/05

Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

SET FOUR
Walter Zimmermann: Lied Im Wustenvogelton (Song in the Tone of a Desert Bird)**
The Echoing Green -- Chamber Works 1986-1989
Mode Records/2005
bass-flute: Dietmar Wiesner; piano: Hermann Kretschmar; Recorded at Studio Beginner, Berlin, 5/31/01

Maggi Payne: Interpolation -- Mobile pour flûte (1, 2, et 3)
(R. Haubenstock-Ramati)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999

SET FIVE
John Cage: Three Seconds on Zen Buddhism
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
director: Frank Scheffer; text, voice, stopwatch: J. Cage

David Claman: The Next Number
Music by David Claman (CD-R)
David Claman/2005 (compiled)

Jackson Mac Low: Thanks
Open Secrets
XI Records/1992
voices: Anne Tardos; J. Mac Low; realization: Three superimposed duo-performances circa 1982-1993, texts: "Forties" (J. Mac Low), "Girl over the Eiffel Tower" (Tibor Tardos), "Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be" (Simone Signoret), WordPerfect magazine, March 1993 issue

Istvan Marta: October
The Wind Rises -- Electropleinair sound diary -- 1973, 1985-1986
ReR Megacorp/1998
sounds: Rain, distant thunder near Budapest

José Mataloni: Adivinanza
Magical Realism of Sound
José Mataloni/2003

David Claman: Loomings
Music by David Claman (CD-R)
David Claman/2005 (compiled)

SET SIX
Daniel Zajicek: Rituals
CD-R/2005

Ned Bouhalassa: Songe Errant
Gratte-cite (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004

James Mobberley: Caution to the Winds
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33 #
Toys in the Attic: Electroacoustic Music from the UMKC iMPACT Center
Centaur Records/2002
piano: Richard Cass

Charity Chan:
a. Cabinets of Curiosities I
b. Cabinets of Curiosities II
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd/2009
extended piano, objects: C. Chan

*Both Tim Brady and George Todd play on Noam Chomsky's famous grammatically correct but semantically nonsensical sentence, and in my opinion, there are far too many colorless "green" ideas nowadays pushed by commercial interests who, in the end, will only make our fading green world all the more colorless.

**Zimmermann takes this title "Lied Im Wustenvogelton" (Song in the Tone of a Desert Bird) from a Nietzsche poem of the same name

--fin--

My fund drive gripe

Grumble, grumble, grumble.

Anyway, if you tried to call in during my Fund Drive program and did not get through, you probably called while I was speaking on microphone. There were no volunteers to answer phones. None. Zero Zip.

Hey, who cares about Martian Gardens?

Fund Drive week is the one week of the year during which I really get passionate about the idea that working on Martian Gardens for the other 51 weeks is totally...not worth it.

Therefore, I am changing the format to shake-your-booty funk-rock or maybe that AAA Adult Acoustic Alternative drivel all the folks here in the Happy Valley love so well.

Who gives a crap about John Cage or Pauline Oliveros? We wanna giddown and boogie!

Or maybe I could just broadcast Noam Chomsky speeches and New Age vegan gardeners talking wheat grass juice and herbal douche. Then I'd bring in tons of cash!

Meh. I'm just venting. I'll get over it. Negativity won't get the job done either

But, hey, you can still donate to the WMUA fund drive for the sake of Martian Gardens @ (413) 577-3000 or via the Donate link at wmua.org.

Thanx.

--Max

Martian Gardens for 10/25/2009

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for October 25, 2009

FUND DRIVE WEEK

SET ONE
Steve Roach & Roger King: Lost and Forgotten
Dust to Dust
Projekt/1998

Christopher Roberts: Traveling Alone
Last Cicada Singing
Cold Blue Music/2009
qin: C. Roberts

Alarm Will Sound: Movimento preciso e meccanico (G. Ligeti)
A/Rhythmia
Nonesuch Records
Alarm Will Sound; conductor: Alan Pierson

Gyorgy Ligeti: Continuum for Harpsichord
(six works)
Wergo/1988
harpsichord: Antoinette Vischer

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Nelson: Seven Clay Songs
a. Begin Here
b. Dense Clay List
c. O Let's Go Visit
d. Who Comes?
e. Drenched Tidings
f. Ben-Ray Dots
g. Begin Again
The Starry Messenger--Chamber Music of Larry Nelson
Albany Records/2005
soprano: Sharla Nafziger; piano: Charles Abramovic; text: Rachel Blau DuPlessis

SINGLE PLAY
Barney Childs: Clay Music
The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue Music
Cold Blue Music/2003
instrumentation--Space whistles, transverse flute, tuba flutes, small necklace ocarinas, middle-sized ocarinas (tuned in E and C), bass ocarina, pipes, Aztec pipes, double pipe, triple pipes; performers: Susan Rawcliffe Lisette Rabinow, Georgia Lwan, Scott Wilkinson; recorded in Los Angeles 2/28/81

SET TWO
Forrest Fang: A Walk Through the Clouds
Phantoms
Projekt/2009

Jorge Reyes: Danza de los Peyoteros
Niereka
Silent Records/1993

Rhomb:
a. Empty Roads
b. Vacant Cities
Hidden Topographies
The Foundry/1998

SINGLE PLAY
Diane Thome: Ringing, Stillness, Pearl Light
Palaces of Memory
Centaur Records/1995
piano: D. Thome; recorded at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest Park, Washington

SET THREE
Mark Trayle: Primitive Still Life (With Pairs)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30 #
Transmigration Mussic: Music from the Center for Experiments in
Art, Information, and Technology, California Institute of Arts
Centaur Records/2000
recorded at CEIT, 1998

Ronald Perera: Alternate Routes
Crossing the Meridian
CRI/1998
produced at Bregman Electronic Music Studios, Dartmouth, 1971

SET FOUR
Max Neuhaus: Four Amplified Cymbals (E. Brown)
Electronics and Percussion
Columbia Masterworks/1969
realized 1964

Earle Brown: Octet I (for eight loudspeakers)
Selected Works 1952-1965
New World Records/2006
realized via the Project for Music and Magnetic Tape, Columbia University, 1953

Pauline Oliveros: Something Else
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
realized with Lafayette tone generators, noise source, tape delay, Mills College, 1966

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Mycenae Alpha
CCMIX Paris --- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum #
Mode Records/2001
realized at UPIC, Paris, 1978

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