Sunday, May 2, 2010

Martian Gardens for 05/02/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for May 02, 2010
(extended edition 19:30 -- 00:15)

SINGLE PLAY
Peter Garland: Another Sunrise
a. Madrid (NM)Mambo -- Dos Muertas!
b. The Things I Wish I'd Said (Ballad)
c. On Entre O.K. -- On Sort K.O.(Rumba -- Elegy)
d. Voy a Hablar de Esperanza (Bolero)
e. Chupando la Rosa
f. Another Sunrise (Gospel Medley)

Another Sunrise
Mode Records/2002
Essential Music -- pianos: Aki Takahashi and Judith Gordon; percussion: Maya Gunji, John Kennedy, Mark Suter, Charles Wood; recorded December, 1995, SUNY Purchase

SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Icarus
I. Majestic
II. Delirious
III. Soaring
IV. Wild

Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
Borup-Ernst Duo -- violin: Hasse Borup; piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst

SET ONE
Chinary Ung: Child Song
Luminous Spirals -- Chamber Music of Chinary Ung
Bridge Records/2010
Da Capo Chamber Players; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 5/28/07

Guillermo Gregorio: Coplanar 3
Coplanar
New World Records/2005
piano: Steffan Schleiermacher; MADI Ensemble; recorded at Airwave Recording Studios, Chicago, 10/20/01

SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown and Pauline Oliveros: Noctilucent Clouds
Music in the Air
Deep Listening Institute/2010
piano, SuperCollider: C. Brown; accordion, conch, percussion, expanded instrument system: P. Oliveros; recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08

SINGLE PLAY
Lukas Foss: String Quartet No. 3
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
Columbia String Quartet; recorded c. 1980 in New York City

SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Trio (CD 2, track 1)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
piano: Aki Takahashi; cello: Rohan de Saram; violin: Marc Sabat; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin

Bill Alves: Angel's Crest
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2010
The HMC American Gamelan; recorded at Harvey Mudd College

Gamelan Son of Lion: Gamelan Around (D. Maroney)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Hungry Hollow Studio, Georgetown, Ontario

SET THREE
Christian Banasik: ...letzte Gebärde offener Münde
Music of Christian Banasik
Christian Banasik/CD-R compiled 2010

Diane Labrosse: Electric Percolators
Music for Objections on the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd/2007

SET FOUR
Gary DiBenedetto: A Question of Principle
a. 1st Movement
b. 2nd Movement
c. 3rd Movement

Twin Towers
Electroshock Records/2010
mastered at Electroshock Records Studio, Moscow, December, 2009

Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975

J.C. Combs: Abysmal
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
mastered at Electroshock Records Studios, Moscow, December, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Imago
ETC. -- J. Harrison/H. Vaggione/T. Wishart
Electronic Music Foundation/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Anatoly Pereslegin: Kiss White Dwarf
Xenophobia
Electroshock Records/2010
mastered at Electroshock Records Studios, Moscow, December, 2009


SET FIVE
Marcelle Deschênes: Big Bang II
Petits Big Bangs -- Mixed, Multimedia, & Acousmatic Music 1976-2002 Retrospective
Empreintes Digitales/2007

Alexander Abramovitch Krejn: Memorial Ode on the Death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Ghosts and Monsters -- Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music #
Leonard Music Journal Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Christian von Borries (1925)

Henning Christiansen: Reality is a Ghost in my Mind (Cruelty & Terror) op. 174
ibid.
recorded 5/07/98

SINGLE PLAY
Piccola Accademia degli Specchi: Facades (P. Glass)
Minimamachta
Centaur Records/2009
Recorded 2004 at Urban Recording Studio, CasaDellaMusica, Trieste, Italy

--fin--

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Martian Gardens for 04/25/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 25, 2010
(extended edition)

SINGLE PLAY
Frances White: The Seasons and the Constellations
Music by Frances White
Rose White Music/CD-R compiled 2004
The Dale Warland Singers; conductor: Dale Warland; title: T.S. Eliot

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: It is the Night and Dawn of Constellations Irradiated
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records
piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, November, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Trio (CD 1, tracks 10, 11, 12)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat, cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin

SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Poems of Louis Zukofsky
I. Tall and Singularly Dark
II. Alba
III. Finally a Valentine
IV. O Sleep
V. The Rains
VI. Rune
VII. Strange
VIII. Daisy
XI. You Were Made for this Music

Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
16 Compositions -- 2002-2009
Bridge Records/2010
soprano: Lucy Shelton; clarinet: Charles Neidich; texts: Louis Zukofsky; recorded October, 2009, Lefrak Concert Hall, Queens College, New York City

Russell Pinkston: Gerrymander
Third Practice -- Commissions and Premieres #
New Music from the Third Practice Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music at the University of Richmond
Centaur Records/2004
Bb clarinet: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at the Fine Arts Recording Studio, University of Texas, Austin, 1/09/03

SET TWO
Carrie Rose: Gesto (H. Brun)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
piano: Thomas Moore; piccolo: C. Rose

Lukas Foss: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
mezzo-soprano: RoseMarie Freni; flute: Robert Dick; percussion: Jan Williams; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; text: Wallace Stevens; recorded in New York City, April, 1980

SET THREE
Antanas Jasenka: Output 1 (from In/Out)
Point/Circle
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded at Lithuanian Composer Sound Studio, Vilnius; electric piano, computer: A. Jasenka

Zack Browning: Coming Up Sevens
Funktasia -- Music by Zack Browning and Sever Tipei
Centaur Records/2006
xylophone: Jeff Matter; marimba: Andrew Buchanan; vibraphone: Sean Darby; piano: Soohyun Yun; electric guitar: Cyrus Pireh; conductor: Z. Browning; recorded at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne

Mark Applebaum: 16 Things
Mousetrap Music
Innova Recordings/1996
electro-acoustic sound-sculpture, electronics: M. Applebaum; recorded at Salmagundi Recording Studio, Northfield, MN, 2/18/93

Mark Applebaum: Theme in Search of Variations I
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
percussion: Florian Conzetti, Christopher Froh, Terry Longshore; recorded at the Braun Music Center, Stanford University, 11/22/07

Zae Munn: Interface
The Aerial No. 3 #
Nonsequitur/1991
viola: Guillermo Perich; marimba: David Bessinger; recorded recorded at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne, 1983

James Rolfe: Sticky
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Beverly Johnson; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, WI, summer 2009

SET FOUR
Gary DiBenedetto: Toy Store
Twin Towers
Electroshock Records/2010

Tom Hamilton: Modhera
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975

Tom Hamilton: Queens Plaza
Off-Hour Wait State -- Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo; electronic environment recorded at The Pickle Factory, New York City, 1996

SET FIVE
Luigi Nono: from Como una de fuerza y luz
a. Beginning
b. Interno Dolce

Como Una de Fuerza y Luz
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
soprano: Slavka Taskova; piano: Maurizio Pollini; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Claudio Abbado; text: Julio Huasi; recorded at Herkules-Saal, München, October, 1973

Milica Paranosic:
a. Lulla
b. Duet

Give to Grow
Electroshock Records/2010
"'Give to Grow' is Milica Paranosic's multicultural music exchange between the composer and school age children stuyding music in Kopeyia, Ghana."

Professional Uhuru: Mensu Koraa
Tempos-Ramblers-Uhuro -- Giants of Ghanaian Danceband Highlife 1950s-1970s
Afrodisia Records--Original Music/1990

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

Ganesh Anandan & Hans Reichel: Amphibian
Self Made
Actuellecd/2009
shuti stick, metallophone: G. Anandan; daxophone: H. Reichel; recorded in Montreal, 2008

Bob Gluck: Interlude
Electric Songs -- Live performances: 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
saz, electronics: B. Gluck

Nous Perçons Les Oreilles: (track 10)
Shaman
Actuellecd/2009

SINGLE PLAY
François Bayle: Labyrinthe I, II, III
Camera Obscura - Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000

SET SIX
John Cage: Paying Attention
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
soundtrack from a film by Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver, based on an Interview with J. Cage, Rotterdam, 1982

Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing (excerpt)
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
synthesizer, electronics, voice: R. Ashley; voice: Mimi Johnson (1979)

SET SEVEN
Simon Wickham-Smith: Songs and Dreams the Whalers Weave
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice, text: Keith Jebb; electronics: S. Wickham-Smith

David Monacchi: Fading Away Whales
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/Earth Ear/2008
archive whale recordings: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; composition: D. Monacchi

SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Buckner: Luminescence (parts 1,2,3) (A. Lockwood)
New Music for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble
Mutable Music/2007
spoken word: Tania León; baritone: T. Buckner; S.E.M. Ensemble, conductor: Petr Kotik; text: Etnel Adnan, "Sea"

--FIN--

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Martian Gardens for 04/18/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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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 April 18, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Widdershins
I. Energetic
II. Tranquil
III. Savage

Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst

SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Sea of Reeds
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29 #
Music from the Virginia Center for Computer Music
Centaur Records/1999
clarinet: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, 10/98, post-production/engineering: J. Shatin, Chris Kress at PMD Recording, Charlottesville, VA

F. Gerard Errante: Canto (De Las Sombras) (R.S. Thompson)
Shadows of Ancient Dreams
Capstone Records/1997
recorded at Chandler Recital Hall, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 1996

SET TWO
Lukas Foss: Echoi II
Echoi--The Fragments of Archilochos--Non-improvisation
Electronic Music Foundations/1998
percussion: Jan Williams; cello: Douglas Davis; clarinet: Edward Yadzinski; piano: L. Foss; recorded in 1968, Buffalo, NY

Lukas Foss: Music for Six
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
University of Buffalo Percussion Ensemble -- vibraphones: Jan Williams, Edward Folger; marimbas: Bruce Penner, Rick Kazmierczak; electric piano, marimba: Kathryn Kayne; synthesizer: James Calabrese; recorded 1980, New York City

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: Trio (disk 1, tracks 5-8)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat, cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin

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

SET FOUR
Daria Semegen: Vignette
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 #
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Cathy Callis; recorded July, 1999, Spring Hall, CUNY-Staten Island

Daria Semegen: Electronic Composition No. 1
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
recorded at C-PEMC, summer 1971

John Eaton: Thoughts on Rilke
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; Syn-Kets: Jane Schoonover Smith, J. Eaton; vibration plate, sound mixing: Paolo Ketoff; text: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnet to Orpheus II," recorded 1966

SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Down Stairs Pad
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music and Video/2009

Tom Hamilton: Bonampak
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975

Martin Alejandro Fumarola: Shaguir
Electroacoustic Music Volume 3 #
Electroshock Records/1999

SET SIX
Bill Alves: Tingklik Toccata
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral HarmoniesSpectral Harmonies/2008
electronics: B. Alves; Balinese tingklik: Linda Michelou; electronics and gong: Jean-Pierre Michelou; shakuhachi: Bill Shozan Schultz; recorded at Harvey Mudd College

Philip Gelb and Jie Ma: Comp. 40 N and Comp. 110 A (A. Braxton)
Meridian Music - Earth Music #
Innova Recordings/2009
shakuhachi: P. Gelb; pipa: J. Ma; recorded 3/12/08, Meridian Gallery, San Fancisco

Richard Teitelbaum: Kichiku's Dream (from Kyotaku Denshi)
Blends
New Albion Records/2002
shakuhachi: Katsuya Yokoyama; bass: Mark Dresser; drums: Gerry Hemingway; Kurzweil K2000 sampler keyboard, Macintosh Powerbook: R. Teitelbaum; recorded Olin Auditorium, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2/12/95

Hsiao-Lan Wang: A Gold Leaf Drifts Downstream
Electoacoustic Works
Hasio-Lan Wang/2005
tingkliks: H.Wang, Daniel Zajicek

SINGLE PLAY
Miguel Chuaqui: El Canto Repartido (The Shared Out Song)
a. (II) Que el amor nos defienda (May love defend us)
b. (III) Que suban los racimos (May the boughs rise)

Memoria -- Chamber and Electroacoustic Works
Centaur Records/2009
Canyonlands New Music Ensemble, conductor: Morris Rosenzweig; titles: Pablo Neruda; recorded at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall, Salt Lake City, spring 2006

--FIN--

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Martian Gardens for 04/11/2009

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

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

Program for April 11, 2010

SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Tower of the Eight Winds
I. Taku
II. Barber
III. Caver
IV. Williwaw

Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
performed by the Borup-Ernst Duo

Johanna Beyer: Suite for Violin and Piano I,II,III
Works for Violin
New World Records/2006
violin: Miwako Abe; piano: Michael Kieran Harvey; recorded August, 2005, Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre, Southbank, Melbourne

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: On Conversing with Paradise
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
(16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
baritone: Leigh Melrose; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conductor: Oliver Knussen; text: Ezra Pound, Pisan Canto LXXXI and fragment Canto CXX, recorded at BBC 3 Studios, 6/20/09

SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Trio (disc 1,tracks 1-4)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat; cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin

KIVA: 11 April 1991, part one (excerpt)
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
piano: Keith Humble; percussion: Jean-Charles François; trombone, violin: John Silber; violin, viola: Mary Oliver; recorded at the Center for Music Experiment, UC San Diego, 4/11/91

SET THREE
Lukas Foss: The Fragments of Archilochos
Echoi--The Fragments of Archilochos--Non-Improvisations
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Crane Collegiate Singers, State University College at Potsdam, director: Brock McElheran; tenor: Robert Betts; speakers: Miriam Abramowitsch, Melvin Strauss; mandolin: Oswald Rantucci; guitar: Jonathan Marcus; percussion: Jan Williams, Edward Burnham, Lynn Harbod; recorded at Potsdam, Spring, 1968; texts: Archilochos

Harry Partch: Revelation in the Courthouse Park, Chorus One
Enclosure 5--Harry Partch
Innova Recordings/1998
performed by the Gate 5 Ensemble, conductor: John Garvey, for the Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois,Champaign-Urbana, 4/11/61; text: H. Partch after Euripides' "Bacchae"

SET FOUR
Lou Harrison: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
HMC American Gamelan, director Bill Alves; National Steel guitar: John Schneider; recorded Pomona College 05/06/07

Bill Alves: Elegy for Lou Harrison
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2008
HMC American Gamelan, director Bill Alves; cello: Roger Lebow

Bill Alves: Time Auscultations
The Terrain of Possibilities
Electronic Music Foundation/1988

SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Bonjour Pythagoras
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music and Video/2009

Erik Santos: ...In the Belly of Nowhere
KUU--Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007

SET SIX
César Bolaños: I-10-AIFG/Rbt-1
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
performers: Antonio Tauriello, Roberto Vilanuela, Francisco Cortese, Ethel Gandini, Oscar Bazan; instrumentation/devices: horn, trombone, electric guitar, percussion, light projection, slide projectors, automatic system to punched tape; recorded at the VII Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 10/26/68

Dean Rosenthal: Sinfonieren
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: Future Remembrance
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Noah Creshevsky: Free Speech
ibid.
voice samples: Chris Mann

Noah Creshevsky: Happy Ending
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
samples courtesy of Ray Marchica and Sons of Silence--
drums: Ray Marchica; tenor sax: Teodross Avery; guitar: Rodney Jones; bass: Lonnie Plaxico


SINGLE PLAY
Artemiy Artemiev: Time
Time, Desert, and a Sound
Electroshock Records/2004

--FIN--

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Martian Gardens for 04/04/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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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 April 4, 2010
(extended edition)

SET ONE
George Crumb: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? (trad.)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Ten
The River of Life & Unto The Hills

Bridge Records/2007
soprano: Ann Crumb; Orchestra 2001; conductor: James Freeman; recorded November, 2005, Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College

George Crumb: Easter Dawning
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Five
Bridge Records/2007
carillon: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University, September, 2001

SINGLE PLAY
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Missa Brevis
I. Kyrie
II. Sanctus
III. Benedictus
IV. Agnus Dei

Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-1972 (orig. CRI/1973)
New World Records/2007
soprano: Jo Ann Ottley; Chorus of the University of Utah with brass from the Utah Symphony; conductor: Newell Weight

SINGLE PLAY
David Baker: Through This Vale of Tears
I. Thou Dost Lay Me in the Dust of Death
II. If There Be Sorrow
III. My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
IV. Parades to Hell
V. Deliver My Soul
VI. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
VII. Now That He Is Safely Dead

VIDEMUS
New World Records/1992
tenor: William Brown; violins: Lynn Chang, Marylou Speaker Churchill, viola: Marcus Thompson; cello: Mark Churchill; piano, artist director: Vivian Taylor; recorded at The African American Meeting House, Boston, 1991; texts: I., III., V. Psalm 22; II. Mari Evans; IV. Solomon Edwards; VI. traditional; VII. Carl Hines
In memoriam Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, assassinated April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tenn.

SET TWO
Charles Ives: from April 24, 1943
a. Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., "Emerson" (partial)
b. Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., "The Alcotts"

Ives plays Ives -- The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano (1933-1943)
New World Records/2006
recorded at Mary Howard Studio, New York City, 4/24/43

Charles Ives: The Alcotts
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 7
Innova Recordings/2007
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; conductor: Dennis Russell Davies; recorded at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 9/15/00; Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2, transcribed and orchestrated by H. Brant

SET THREE
Henry Cowell: Suite for Small Orchestra
a. Largo
b. Chorale (lento cantabile)
c. Vivo

Dancing with Henry -- New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell
Mode Records/2001
The California Parallèle Ensemble; conductor: Nicole Paiement; recorded at the recital hall of UC Santa Cruz, January 2000

Stefan Wolpe: Hexachord Suite (1936)
a. Sostenuto
b. Pastorale, molto lento
c. Fuge, allegro moderato
d. Adagio

Wolpe in Jerusalem
Mode Records/2006
oboe: Jaime González; clarinet: Shizuyo Oka (Ensemble Recherche)
SWR-Studio Karlsruhe, recorded October, 2003


SET FOUR
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere Inside the Red Circle
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner; environmental/electronic sounds recorded by BGT; text: BGT; mixed at Systems II, Brooklyn

Viv Corringham: Improvisation (with San Francisco sounds)
Meridian Music -- Earth Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
voice, electronics, field recordings: V. Corringham; improvised at the Meridian Gallery, 11/09/05

Lisa Walker: Transients
Electroacoustic Music Volume VIII #
Electroshock Records/2002
violin: L. Walker; humpback whale sounds recorded in southeast Alaska

SET FIVE
Mara Helmuth: No. 7
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Mara Helmuth: Sound Collaborations

Centaur Records/2007
gyil, logs: Allen Otte; computer: M. Helmuth; recorded at the Cohen Family Studio Theater College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 1/20/06

Andrián Pertout: Görüşmeler (conversations)
Society of Composers, Inc. "Soundscapes" #
Capstone Records/2004
amplified èrhú: Zheng Ho; cajón: Alex Pertout; bombo: Salvador Persico; sampled harmonium: Andrián Pertout; recorded at Andrián Pertout Studio, Melbourne

Jin Xiang: Sad Melody at Yanshi City
Exchange -- China #
CRI/1999
Chinese Instrument Orchestra, conductor: Jin Xiang

SET SIX
Roger Sessions: Five Pieces for Piano
a. Lento
b. Con Fuco
c. Andante, leggiero e grazioso
d. Molto agitato
e. Molto adagio

Complete Works for Solo Piano
Albany Records/2005
piano: Barry David Salwen

Gabriel Valverde: Resplandor de los Surem
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
piano: Haydée Schvartz; recorded at Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires; 11/24/98

SET SEVEN
Lois V. Vierk: Go Guitars
Simoom
XI Records/1990
guitars: David Seidel

Tim Brady: Yellow, Add Green
GO (Guitar Obsession)
Actuelle/2006
recorded at Bradyworks Studio, Montreal, 7/08/06

SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (tracks 2,3,4)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
female voice source material: Poppy Holden, Pippa Pierce; male voice source material: T. Wishart, Hugh Bernays; interrogator's voice source material: Graham Treacher; organic and mechanical sounds: T. Wishart; recorded at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May 1973 -- May 1977

SINGLE PLAY
John Eaton: Blues Machine
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
Syn-Ket: J. Eaton, with rhythm section, recorded at Decca Studios, West Hampstead, 1968

--FIN--

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Martian Gardens for 03/28/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

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

Program for March 28, 2010

SET ONE
Chinary Ung: Oracle
Luminous Spirals
Bridge Records/2010
Da Capo Chamber Players; recorded 11/17/08, UC San Diego

Chinary Ung: Cinnabar Heart
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2010
marimba, voice: Beverly Johnson; Pali text: C. Ung; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, summer 2009

Elliott Carter: Figment V
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
(16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Simon Boyar; recorded 9/22/09, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC

SET TWO
Elliott Carter: Fragment II
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
Arditti Quartet; recorded 2/20/00, St. Peter's Church, NYC

Roger Reynolds: Whispers Out of Time, movement IV --
The Surprise, The Tension are in the Concept
Whispers Out of Time/Transfigured Wind II
New World Records/1991
SONOR solists -- violin: János Négyesy; viola: Yun-Jie Liu; cello: Peter Farrell; contrabass: Bertram Turetzky; The San Diego Symphony Ensemble, conductor: Harvey Sollberger

Elliott Carter: Retrouvailles
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 12/20/00

Roger Reynolds: Epigram and Evolution
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 #
New World Records/2002
piano: Robert Ashley; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, 3/04/61

SET THREE
KIVA: 11 April 1991 (track one) (excerpt)
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
piano: Keith Humble; percussion: Jean-Charles François; trombone, violin: John Silber; violin, viola: Mary Oliver; recorded at the Center for Music Experiment, UC San Diego, 4/11/91

Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (CD 2, track two) (excerpt)
Treatise
Mode Records/2009
The QUaX Ensemble, director: Petr Kotik; recorded in Prague, 1967


SET FOUR
David Congo: Invention 1:16
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2009
recorded June 2009, West Springfield, Mass.

David Congo: Chronos II
Society of Composers, Inc. "Soundscapes" #
Capstone Records/2004

John Bischoff: Quarter Turn
Meridian Music -- Earth Music #
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, 2/05/99

The Hub: The Glass Hand (J. Bischoff)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
recorded for "Mob Ecstasy," KPFA-FM, Berkeley, 3/07/94

SET FIVE
Bill Alves: Redundant I
The Terrain of Possibilities
Electronic Music Foundation/1988
processed soprano: Eva Vazzana; text: Mark R. Harborth; Harvey Mudd College, 1985

ZNR: Seynète
Barricade 3
ReR Megacorp/1993
vocal, VC3, director: Hector Zazou; piano: Joseph Racaille; violins: Gilly Bell; bass clarinet: Patrick Portella; flute: David Rueff; tenor saxophone: Andre Jaume; recorded January, 1976, Gilly Bell studio, Ventabren, Bouches-du-Rhône

Erik Santos: Yuutsu Tatsumaki (Romance by the Sea)
KUU -- Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007
sample source: Suyuan sa Dagat by Rosendo Ejercito Santos, Jr.

SET SIX
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
female voice source material: Poppy Holden, Pippa Pierce; male voice source material: T. Wishart, Hugh Bernays; interrogator's voice source material: Graham Treacher; organic and mechanical sounds: T. Wishart; recorded at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May 1973 -- May 1977

Lab Report: Shoot and/or Defenestrate
Excision
Invisible Records/1997

Christian Banasik: Glass Cutter
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Mark Snyder: Alluvium
Messy
Mark Snyder/2009
recorded at Cleveland, Miss.

William Price: 2 Days in the Tank
Electoacoustic Works
William Price/cd-r compiled 2004
realized at Louisian State University, Birmingham; voice: W. Price; text: Charles Bukowski, "The Drunk Tank Judge"

SINGLE PLAY
John Young: Arriverderci
Lieu-temps (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
Stroma ensemble, conductor: Hamis McKeich; recorded at Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, NZ, 7/20/06

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Martian Gardens for 03/21/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

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

Program for March 21, 2010

SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Estancia
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010

Marco Cappelli: Amygdala (E. Sharp)
EGP -- Extreme Guitar Project
Mode Records/2006

SET TWO
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
16 Compositions, 2002-2009
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded 2/12/09, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory


Stuart Saunders Smith: ...And Points North...
a. Scene I
b. Scene II
c. Scene III

Breath: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2008
percussion: Steven Schick, voice, objects; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC

SINGLE PLAY
Glenn Gould: The Idea of North (excerpt)
The Solitude Trilogy (1967-1977)
CBC/1992
for five speaking voices

SET THREE
Larry Austin: Canadian Coastlines -- Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 19 -- The Composer in the Computer Age IV
A Larry Austin Retrospective 1967-1994
Centaur Records/1994
CBC Radio Ensemble, recorded live for "Two New Hours," 5/01/81, CBC Radio

Lawrence Moss: Into the Woods
Unseen Leaves -- Music for Electronics and Instruments
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: William Montgomery; recorded at Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, 2000

SET FOUR
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
female voice source material: Poppy Holden, Pippa Pierce; male voice source material: T. Wishart, Hugh Bernays; interrogator's voice source material: Graham Treacher; organic and mechanical sounds: T. Wishart; recorded at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May 1973 -- May 1977

KIVA: Two Poems of the Absurd & Two Poems on the Absurd
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
Tape collage by John Silber of KIVA performances -- DX7 synthesizer, voice, electronics: Keith Humble; percussion, voice, electronics: Jean-Charles François; violin: Mary Oliver; trombone, violin: John Silber; sampled voice: Antonin Artraud ("To Have Done With the Judgment of God," 1947); computer vocoder manipulation of J. Silber's sounds: Eric Lyon; original recordings 1987-1990, UC San Diego

SET FIVE
Felix Werder: Banker (2nd 1/2)
The Tempest
Pogus Productions/2007
synthesizers: F. Werder, Keith Humble; percussion: John Seale; guitar: Jochen Schubert; piano: Dennis Henning; realized by Peter Mumme (orig. release 1973)

Robert Ashley and Paul De Marinis: In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt)
In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women
Lovely Music, Ltd./2002
text: John Barton Wolgamot; voice: R. Ashley, electronics: P. De Marinis; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1973

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies XI-XIV
Rational Melodies
New World Records/2009
Dedalus ensemble; director: Didier Aschour; recorded at the Muse en Circuit studio,
Paris, 10/06/08


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