Martian Gardens for 06/27/2010

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

Program for June 27, 2010

SET ONE
Gamelan Son of Lion: Descarga Elizabeth (D. Demnitz)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Hungry Hollow Studio, Georgetown, Ontario

Charles Dodge: Fades, Dissolves, Fizzles
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010

SET TWO
Pauline Oliveros: Lion's Tale
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 7 #
iEAR Studios at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1990
digital sampler: Carter Scholz

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

SET THREE
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII #
Neuma Records/2006

Maggi Payne: 60 Spin
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004

Maggi Payne: 60 Fizz
60 x 60 -- 2004 - 2005 #
Vox Novus/2006

Eve Beglarian: My Heart is Trembling
ibid.

Cheryl Leonard: Ashi
60 x 60 -- 2006 - 2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Jin Hi Kim: Garden of Venus
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
Chinese pipa: Min Xiao-Fen; Japanese yokubue: Michiko Akao; Indonesian gender, sling, voice: I Ketut Suryatini; JHK: Korean komungo, janggo; performed at the Asia Society, NYC, for Asian Women in Music Today

SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus (Oedipus in June concluded)
a. Fourth Chorus
b. Herdsman Scene
c. Fifth Chorus
d. Instrumental Commentary
e. Antiphony
f. Exit Oedipus -- Pantomime
g. Final Chorus and Coda
Enclosure Five--Harry Partch...on an ancient Greek theme
Innova Recordings/1998
recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Cast: Oedipus, King of Thebes: Allan Louw; Priest: Ian Zellick; Chorus Spokesman: William Derrell Bond; Creon, Brother-in-law of Oedipus: Robert Hood; Tiresias, A Seer: Bruce Cook; Jocasta, Wife of Oedipus: Rudolphine Radil; Messenger: Gregory Millar; Herdsman: Bruce Cook; Second Messenger: Ian Zellick; Antigone: Elvena Green; Ismene: Margaret Calhoun; Attendants: Ian Zellick, Allison Berry, James Allen Leland, Flora Lynn Kirschner; Singing Chorus: Ann Arness, Gina Brown, Gertrude Feather, Peggy Parlour, B.J. Ross, Jean Sundstrom, Berniece Fredrickson; Dance Chorus: Joan Dubrow, Judith Hodge, Patricia Cooper, Emily Platt, Patricia Hagglund; Suppliants: Jeanne White, Pat Christopher, Natalie Samper. -- Instruments: Marimba Eroica: Jane Van Rysselberghe; Bass Marimba: Darlene Mahnke; Kithara: Barbara Browning; Harmonic Canon: Ute Miessner; Chromelodeon Sub-bass: Patricia Carey; Chromelodeon: Angela Thorpe, Nancy Wiebenson; Diamond Marimba: Sheila Bates; Cloud-Chamber Bowls: Elizabeth Brunswick, Jackie Fox; Microtonal String Bass: Dante Zaro; Microtonal Cello: Ellen Ohdner; Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone: George Probert; Adapted Guitars: Marjorie Sweazey, H. Partch.

SET FOUR
Alvin Lucier: Music for Solo Performer (excerpt)
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
alpha waves transmission: A. Lucier; production supervised by Ron Kuivila with the assistance of graduate students Ivan Naranjo, Phillip Schulze, and Forrest Leslie at the Wesleyan University Experimental Music Studio, December, 2007.

Hugh Le Caine:
a. Dripsody Demonstration
b. Dripsody: An Étude for Variable Speed Recorder (Stereo Version)
Compositions & Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundations/1999

SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
samples: The Klez Dispensers

Eric Chasalow: In A Manner of Speaking
Left to His Own Devices
New World Records/2003
bass clarinet: Guido Arbonelli; tape: E. Chasalow; recorded in Rome, Italy, February, 2001

Esther Lamneck: Event Horizon III
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2009
clarinet: Orlando Legname; tape: E. Lamneck recorded in Balbano-Lucca, Italy

Frank London: Laundry Dance -- Agitato
The Debt
Tzadik/2000
from the Ivye Project --
violin: Mark Feldman; clarinet: David Krakauer; trumpet: F. London; cello: Boris Rayskin; director: Tamar Rogoff (1994)

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Variations III
Variations I-III
Mode Records/2003
The Motion Ensemble; recorded at Memorial Hall, Fredrickton, New Brunswick, 6/19/01; electronics: John D.S. Adams, D'Arcy Philip Gray, Andrew R. Miller

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 06/20/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
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Sundays 19:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for June 20, 2010
Extended edition

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening
a. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
b. Wanderer-Fantasy
c. The Advent
d. Myth
e. Music of the Starry Night
Black Angels; Music for a Summer Evening
Mode Records/2006
pianos: Luz Manriquez, Walter Morales; percussion: Nena Lorenz,
Brian Spurgeon, Michel Passaris, Mark Shope; voice, whistles:
Andres Cladera, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded at
Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Fall 2002

SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Penelope's Song
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
violin: Hasse Borup; tape: J. Shatin

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

SET TWO
David Mahler: La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles
COLD BLUE Night @ REDCAT
Cold Blue Music/2006 (CD-R)
piano: Sarah Cahill; recorded at REDCAT, Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, 2/18/06

David Mahler: selections from Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field (for Steve Mitchell)--
a. Chorale (track 6)
b. Chorale (track 9)
c. Cascades
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; voices: Julie Hanify, D. Mahler, N. Tilles; a. and b: melody: "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" (trad.), lyrics: J.M. Neale; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November, 2009

SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Mélanges (from Pléïdes)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
red fish blue fish; recorded at Warren Studios, UC San Diego

Alvin Lucier: Music for Solo Performer (excerpt)
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
alpha waves transmission: A. Lucier; production supervised by Ron Kuivila with the assistance of graduate students Ivan Naranjo, Phillip Schulze, and Forrest Leslie at the Wesleyan University Experimental Music Studio, December, 2007.

SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus (continued from MG 6/13/10)
a. Second Chorus
b. Creon Scene
c. Jocasta Scene
d. Incidental Music
e. Third Chorus
f. Messenger Scene
Enclosure Five--Harry Partch...on an ancient Greek theme
Innova Recordings/1998
recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Cast: Oedipus, King of Thebes: Allan Louw; Priest: Ian Zellick; Chorus Spokesman: William Derrell Bond; Creon, Brother-in-law of Oedipus: Robert Hood; Tiresias, A Seer: Bruce Cook; Jocasta, Wife of Oedipus: Rudolphine Radil; Messenger: Gregory Millar; Herdsman: Bruce Cook; Second Messenger: Ian Zellick; Antigone: Elvena Green; Ismene: Margaret Calhoun; Attendants: Ian Zellick, Allison Berry, James Allen Leland, Flora Lynn Kirschner; Singing Chorus: Ann Arness, Gina Brown, Gertrude Feather, Peggy Parlour, B.J. Ross, Jean Sundstrom, Berniece Fredrickson; Dance Chorus: Joan Dubrow, Judith Hodge, Patricia Cooper, Emily Platt, Patricia Hagglund; Suppliants: Jeanne White, Pat Christopher, Natalie Samper. -- Instruments: Marimba Eroica: Jane Van Rysselberghe; Bass Marimba: Darlene Mahnke; Kithara: Barbara Browning; Harmonic Canon: Ute Miessner; Chromelodeon Sub-bass: Patricia Carey; Chromelodeon: Angela Thorpe, Nancy Wiebenson; Diamond Marimba: Sheila Bates; Cloud-Chamber Bowls: Elizabeth Brunswick, Jackie Fox; Microtonal String Bass: Dante Zaro; Microtonal Cello: Ellen Ohdner; Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone: George Probert; Adapted Guitars: Marjorie Sweazey, H. Partch.
(Oedipus in June to be concluded 6/27/10)

SET FOUR
Dmitry Mazurov: Sisters of Gloom
Creature on a Lavatory Pan
Electroshock Records/2010
violin: Oleg Huhua; electric guitar: Jury Starosotnikov; recorded at Electroshock Records studio, 2009

David Jaggard: Mary & Ann
Sonic Circuits VIII #
Innova Recordings/2000
voice, sounds: D. Jaggard; text: Samuel Beckett, "Watt"

SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: Cascando -- Realization of Samuel Beckett's Radio Play
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
Opener: John Nesci; Voice: computer synthesis based on a reading by Steven Gilborn; Music: computer synthesis based on Voice; all text by S. Beckett; realized at Columbia University and CUNY computer music centers, and the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College

SET FIVE
Minus: 91
103
Barnzstuff/2009
reyong: Steve Coxe; cowbells: David Barnes; recorded at Barnzstuff Studio

Gen Ken Montgomery: Nylon Glasses 3am
Birds + Machines 1980-1989
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at Nylon Vinyl's studio, Berlin, 1986

David Campbell: The Sputnik Diary
60 x 60 2003 #
Capstone Records/2004

Eldad Tsabary: Decay Date 14 April, 1966
60 x 60 2004 - 2005 #
Vox Novus/2006

Lynn Job: Lily
ibid.

Ivan Zavada: Neutron
60 x 60 2006 - 2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Stephen B. Rothman: Follow the Triangle
ibid.

Jane Wang: Numero Uno
ibid.

Viv Corringham: Where is Home?
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2010

Martin Williams: No Place Like Home
ibid.

Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Negativland: Sycamore
Escape From Noise
SST/1987

David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees (excerpt)
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006

SET SIX
Anatoly Pereslegin: Heteroemergency (excerpt)
Xenophobia
Electroshock Records/2010

Stanley Lunetta: moosack machine
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde, Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971 #
Pogus Productions/2009
original issue: July, 1970

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: The Etchings (from "Max")
Atalanta (Acts of God) Vol. II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert; R. Ashley; electronics: Tom Hamilton; text: R. Ashley, after Max Ernst's graphic novel "Une semaine de bonté"

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Martian Gardens for 06/13/2010

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

Program for June 13, 2010
Extended edition

SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Sibelius in His Radio Corner
IKON --And Other Early Works
New World Records/2000

SET ONE
Alvin Lucier: Sferics
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
recorded in Church Park, Colorado, 8/27/81

Chris Brown and Pauline Oliveros: Troposphere (excerpt)
Music in the Air
Deep Listening/2010
piano and live computer signal processing (SuperCollider): Chris Brown; accordion, conch, percussion, Expanded Instrument System: Pauline Oliveros; recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08

Charles Stankievech: Transmission
Music Works 106 -- Spring 2010 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2010
recorded from broadcast signals of the DEW project, Yukon, Canada

SET TWO
Dragan Todorović: In My Language I am Smart
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010

Ann Magnuson: Art Professor
Pretty Songs & Ugly Stories
Asphodel/2007
voice, text, piano (Chopin: Prelude in E-minor, Op. 28, no.4): A. Magnuson

Robert Ashley: Simone (from Au Pair)
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: R. Ashley; Jacqueline Humbert; text: J. Humbert; electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Teatro Olimpico in Rome, 1985

SET THREE
Tom Hamilton: Crimson Sterling Mvt. I
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
KVIST Records/2010
electronics: Tom Hamilton; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; woodwinds: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1973-1977

John Schappert: Phase Shift
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Lou Harrison: The Only Jealousy of Emer
a. Music for the unfolding of the cloth
b. Eithne Inguba
c. Emer's Story
d. The Evil of Bricriu
e. Emer's Incantation
f. The Woman of the Sidhe
g. Music for the folding of the cloth
Works 1939 -- 2000
Mode Records/2003
California Parallèle Ensemble members -- flutes: Leta Miller; cello: Karen Andrie; bass: Stan Poplin; tack-piano: Jodi Gandolfi; celesta: Michael McGushin; conductor: Nicole Paiement; storyline: W.B. Yeats' play from the Celtic legend of Éimhear

SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus
a. Introduction to King Oedipus by H. Partch
b. Introduction
c. Opening Scene
d. First Chorus
e. Tiresias Scene (Beginning)
f. Tiresias Scene (Continued)
Enclosure Five--Harry Partch...on an ancient Greek theme
Innova Recordings/1998
a. recorded with H. Partch on KPFA FM, Berkeley, 7/16/54; b-f. recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Cast: Oedipus, King of Thebes: Allan Louw; Priest: Ian Zellick; Chorus Spokesman: William Derrell Bond; Creon, Brother-in-law of Oedipus: Robert Hood; Tiresias, A Seer: Bruce Cook; Jocasta, Wife of Oedipus: Rudolphine Radil; Messenger: Gregory Millar; Herdsman: Bruce Cook; Second Messenger: Ian Zellick; Antigone: Elvena Green; Ismene: Margaret Calhoun; Attendants: Ian Zellick, Allison Berry, James Allen Leland, Flora Lynn Kirschner; Singing Chorus: Ann Arness, Gina Brown, Gertrude Feather, Peggy Parlour, B.J. Ross, Jean Sundstrom, Berniece Fredrickson; Dance Chorus: Joan Dubrow, Judith Hodge, Patricia Cooper, Emily Platt, Patricia Hagglund; Suppliants: Jeanne White, Pat Christopher, Natalie Samper. -- Instruments: Marimba Eroica: Jane Van Rysselberghe; Bass Marimba: Darlene Mahnke; Kithara: Barbara Browning; Harmonic Canon: Ute Miessner; Chromelodeon Sub-bass: Patricia Carey; Chromelodeon: Angela Thorpe, Nancy Wiebenson; Diamond Marimba: Sheila Bates; Cloud-Chamber Bowls: Elizabeth Brunswick, Jackie Fox; Microtonal String Bass: Dante Zaro; Microtonal Cello: Ellen Ohdner; Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone: George Probert; Adapted Guitars: Marjorie Sweazey, H. Partch.
(Oedipus in June to be continued 6/20/10)

SINGLE PLAY
Hilda Paredes: Cotidales
Listen How They Talk
Mode Records/2005
piano: Ian Pace; the Arditti Quartet; recorded at SudWestRundfunk, Germany, September, 2003

SET FOUR
Olivier Messiaen: Amen de la Création
Visions de l'Amen
Bridge Records/2010
piano I: Marilyn Nonken; piano II: Sarah Rothenberg; recorded at Stude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, May, 2009

Ezra Sims:
a. Briskly
b. Very slow
c. As fast as possible and strongly accented
Musing and Reminiscence
New World Records/2010
piano: Eric Moe; recorded in Pelham, NY, 6/05/09

Eric Moe: Time Will Tell
Up & At 'Em
Albany Records/2002
flute, piccolo: Jayn Rosenfeld; Jean Kopperud: clarinet, bass clarinet; violin: Rolf Schulte; viola: Lois Martin; piano: James Winn; conductor: William Purvis; recorded at Astoria Mastersound, Astoria, NY, 5/07/96

SET FIVE
Joel Chadabe: Many Times Jan
Many Times...
Electronic Music Foundation/2004
conga, djembe, hand-held percussion, interactive electronics: Jan Williams; recorded at Cotton Hill Studios, Albany

Michael Lipsey: Mr. Trampoline Man (D. Rakowski, from "Snaggle")
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2008
talking drum, tabla: M. Lipsey

SINGLE PLAY
Elsa Justel:
a. Du Libe Tu?*
b. Au Loin...Bleu
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
*An anagram on Pierre Schaeffer's piece "Bidule en ut" (lit. "Thingy in C"), from which Justel derives sound samples; a. and b. realized at the composer's studio, Paris, 1996 and 1997

Horacio Vaggione: KITAB
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 21 #
The International Computer Music Association Commission Awards -- 1992-93
Centaur Records/1995
bass clarinet: Andy Connell; piano: Delores Duran; contrabass; Christy Crews; conductor: Pablo Furman; recorded at the Creative Percussion & Recerding Studio, San Jose, October, 1992; post production mixing: H. Vaggione, University of Paris-VIII Computer-aided Composition Studio

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 06/06/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for June 6, 2010

SET ONE
Frank Denyer: Woman, Viola, and Crow
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted viola, voice, percussion sounds: Elizabeth Smalt; recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, 3/20/06

James Tenney: Koan
Postal Pieces
New World Records/2004
viola: Elizabeth Smalt; recorded in the Netherlands, 20003

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: Invisible "Seeds" for James Tenney
Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl
Cold Blue Music/2000
CalArts New Century Players; conductor: David Rosenboom; recorded at Dizzy Gillespie Recordings Studio, California Institute of the Arts, 2000

SINGLE PLAY
Antanas Jasenka: Out Off Čiurlionis
Point/Circle
Electroshock Records/2010
Chordos String Quartet; live electronics: A. Jasenka, Antanas Kučinskas; recorded at Lithuanian Composer Sound Studio, Vilnius

SET TWO
Reena Katz: Can You Say Haa?
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Arts Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2010

Arie Shapira: Resurrection, Part I
Ensemble Meitar, conductor: Karin Ben-Yossef; rock vocals: Eran Tzur

SET THREE
Olivier Messiaen: Amen du Désir
Visions de l'Amen
Bridge Records/2010
piano I: Marilyn Nonken; piano II: Sarah Rothenberg; recorded at Stude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, May, 2009

Salvatore Martirano: Cocktail Music
O, O, O, O, That Shakespherian Rag
New World Records/1998
piano: Marilyn Nonken

Giacinto Scelsi:
a. Brilliante
b. Pesante
The Piano Works 2
Mode Records/2005
piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, 8/27/03

SET FOUR
Gen Ken Montgomery: Birds & Machines (Bird Suite)
Birds + Machines -- 1980-1989
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded in New York City, 1989

Ellen Band: Closet Bird (excerpt)
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2000

Chris Watson:
a. Red Rumped Tinkerbird
b. Lemon Rumped Tinkerbird
c. Insect, hidden in the leaf litter
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch Records/1998
a, b, c -- field recordings from the Cameroon rain forest, 1996-1997

Tom Lopez: Moth
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004

Piotr Szewezyk: Cosmic Insects
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Julian Cartwright: Grasshopper
ibid.

SET FIVE
Madeleine Shapiro: Petals (K. Saariaho)
Electricity -- Works for Cello and Electronics
Albany Records/2004

Alex Shapiro: Deep
Notes from the Kelp
Innova Recordings/2007
contrabassoon: Leslie Lashinsky; percussion: Dan Morris; electronics: A. Shapiro; recorded in Los Angeles, 2004-2006

SINGLE PLAY
Tim Brady: Escapement
Unison Rituals
Actuellecd/2004
Bradyworks ensemble -- electric guitar: T. Brady, saxophones: André Leroux, cello: Isabelle Bozzini; perucssion: D'Arcy Phillip Gray; recorded at Concordia University's Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Montreal, December 2001

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 05/30/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for May 30, 2010

SET ONE
George Cacioppo: Pianopieces
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966
New World Records/2003
piano: Donald Bohlen; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, 2/16/1963

Morton Feldman: Trio (CD 2, tracks 9-11)
Trio
Mode Records/2009
violin: Marc Sabat; cello: Rohan de Saram; piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded April, 2006, Teldex Studio, Berlin

SET TWO
Elliott Carter: Wind Rose
Music of Elliott Carter Volume 8
(16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Oliver Knussen; recorded at BBC 3, 12/16/08

Steven Stucky: Threnos
Music for Wind Ensemble
Albany Records/1997
Baylor University Wind Ensemble, conductor: Michael Haithcock; recorded 9/24/96

Flute Force: Eyewitness, Movement 1 (R. Dick)
Eyewitness
Innova Recordings/2001
recorded at SUNY Purchase, c. 2000

SET THREE
Phillip Bimstein: The Bushy Wushy Rag
Larkin Gifford's Harmonica
Starkland/2006
The Equinox Chamber Players; tape portion recorded at Busch Stadium, St. Louis

Emmanuel Madan: FREEDOM HIGHWAY
Deep Wireless 2 #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005

SINGLE PLAY
George Cacioppo: Holy Ghost Vacuum or America Faints
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
electric organ: G. Cacioppo; recorded in Ann Arbor, 1966

SET FOUR
Matthew Burtner: Prismic Generations
Signal Ruins (DVD)
EcoSono/2009
noise generators: W. Aniseh Khan-Burtner; noise generators, computer, percussion: M. Burtner; recorded at the University of Virginia

Lukas Foss: Non-Improvisation
Echoi
Electroninc Music Foundation/1998
piano, harpsichord: L. Foss; percussion, Hammond organ: Jan Williams; cello: Douglas Davis; clarinet: Edward Yadzinski; premiered on Danish Radio, Copenhagen, fall, 1967, original recordings mastered at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library 11/20/68

SINGLE PLAY
Jorge Antunes: Vivaldia MCMLXXV
Works by Jorge Antunes eo GeMUnB
UnB Discos/2002
GeMUnB (Group of Musical Experimentation of the University of Brasilia) -- voice: Laura Conde; flute: Geraldo Moreira; English horn/French horn: Raimundo Martins; viola: Fernando: Vasques; cello: Jorge Armando Nunes; piano: Mariuga Lisbôa Antunes; dancer: Maria Salma; magnetic tape, conductor: J. Antunes; recorded at University of Brasilia, 1975

SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Ergodos II (for John Cage)
Selected Works 1961-1969 -- Psychoacoustic/Electroacoustic
New World Records/2003
recorded at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, 1964

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 05/23/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for May 23, 2010
(Extended edition)

SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Fledermaus
I. Waltzing On the Edge
II. I'm No Maid
III. Czárdás
IV. Tick-Tock Around the Clock
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
The Borup-Ernst Duo -- piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst; violin: Hasse Borup

Mario Davidovsky: Duo Capriccioso
The Music of Mario Davidovsky Volume 3
Bridge Records/2005
violin: Curtis Macomber; piano: Aleck Karis; recorded at KAS Music Sound, Astoria

SET TWO
Mel Powell: Sextet--Second Movement
Settings
New World Records/2003
The California Ear Unit; conductor: Stephen L. Mosko; recorded December, 2001, O'Henry Sound Studios, Burbank

Ann Milikan: Landing Inside the Inside of an Animal
Ballad Nocturne
Innova Recordings/2010
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra; recorded at Studio 1 of the Bulgarian National Radio, Sofia, summer, 2009

SET THREE
Lauri des Marais: Philosphy of Perception
CD-R compiled 2010
piano: L. de Marais; voice samples: Alan Watts

Lauri des Marais:
a. Beetle Forest
b. Beetle Forest (reprise)
Stimuli -- Stories in Sound (des Marais/Lindgren)
SFZ Recordings/1999
sound design, synthesizer, voice: L. des Marais; guitar, voice: Susan DeLeo; recorded at Sounds Interesting, Middleborough, MA

David Tudor: Sliding Pitches in the Rainforest in the Field -- Rainforest IV (excerpt)
Rainforest
Mode Records/1998
originated 1973, Chocorua, NH; recordings provided by John Driscoll and ICA

Thor Magnússon and Rúnar Magnússon:
Giooia -- a variation of SameSameButDifferent v.02 -- Iceland
Why Record? -- Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 18
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
field recordings: Magnússon and Magnússon

Natasha Barrett:
a. Displaced:Replaced -- Fog, light wind
b. Displaced:Replaced -- Wet and gusty
c. Displaced:Replaced -- Gathering wind
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
realized at Ms. Barrett's studio and NoTAM, Oslo, 2001

SET FOUR
Milica Paranosic:
a. Lastavice/Departure
b. Kisa Pada
c. Venus Song
Give To Grow
Electroshock Records/2010
recitation,text (c.): Roger Bonair-Agard

Valery Siver and Kirill Trepakov:
a. Russian Troyka, Part 1 (on the motives of N. Gogol's poem "The Dead Souls")
b. Childhood in the USSR (on the motives of S. Mikhalkov)
Music from the Russian Pages
Electroshock Records/2010

François Bayle: Sequenza (from Seven Preludes)
Camera Obscura/Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000
recorded in 1976, revised 2000

SINGLE PLAY
Ronald Perera: Three Poems of Günter Grass
I. Gleisdreieck
II. Klappstühle (Folding Chairs)
III. Schlaflos (Sleepless)
Crossing the Meridian
CRI/1998
soprano: Elsa Charlston; Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; electronic tape recorded 1974 at Smith College Electronic Music Studio; texts: G. Grass

SET FIVE
Lukas Foss: Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
New World Records/2010
accordion: Guy Klucevsek

Guy Klucevsek: Loosening Up the Queen
Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse
XI Records/1991
accordion: G. Kucevsek; recorded at New Breed Studios, NYC

Pauline Oliveros: Reason in Madness Mixed
Crone Music
Lovely Music, Ltd./1990
accordion, processing: P. Oliveros; recorded at Studio PASS/Harvestworks, NYC

SET SIX
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring ("Side One")
Volume 2 -- Electronic Works: Sidewinder -- Until Spring
Mode Records/2004
Buchla Electronic Music Box: M. Subotnick; recorded 1975, Mills College

Mark Trayle: 27
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
laptop, electronics: M.Trayle

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Tom Hamilton: Formal & Informal Music
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
E-mu microprocessor keyboard, Serge synthesizer, custom electronics: T. Hamilton; bass drums, bowed cow bells, tabla, gamelan gongs, talking drum, marimba bars, timpani, cymbals: Rich O'Donnell; flute, clarinet: JD Parran; recorded at Technisonic Studios, St. Louis, 1978-1980

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Martian Gardens for 05/16/2010

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

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

Program for May 16, 2010
(Extended edition)

Selections 1-4 in celebration of Milton Babbitt's 94th birthday (b. May 10, 1916)

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer
New Leaders of the Avant-Garde
Columbia/1967
recorded in 1964 on the RCA Mark II Synthesizer, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, Columbia University

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Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995 (orig. Acoustic Research/1971)
recorded in 1964 on the RCA Mark II Synthesizer, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, Columbia University; soprano: Bethany Beardsley; text: Ovid; libretto: John Hollander

SET ONE
Milton Babbitt: Swan Song No. 1
The Music of Milton Babbitt
Bridge Records/2003
Cygnus Ensemble -- flute: Tara Helen O'Connor; oboe: Robert Ingliss; mandolin: William Anderson; guitar: Oren Fader; violin: Calvin Wiersma; cello: Susannah Chapman; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky; recorded at Eonta Sound, Bronxville, NY, 2003

Milton Babbitt: Composition for Guitar
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2003
guitar: William Anderson; recorded at New Jersey State Museum, Trenton

SET TWO
David Congo: Prelude (Winter '95)
a. Introduction
b. Electronic Transformation
c. Dirge
d. Homage to Varèse
e. Coda
Voyage
Capstone Records/2006
recorded in West Springfield, Mass.

David Congo: Prelude (Spring '96)
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2010
Recorded in West Springfield, Mass.

Joel Chadabe: Spring
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundations/2002
percussion: Jan Williams

SET THREE
Ezra Sims: If I Told Him
a. Quick -- Fleet and flexible as speech
b. Slow, flexible, introspective
c. Calmly brisk
Musing and Reminiscence
New World Records/2010
alto: Christina Ascher; cello: Christoph von Erffa; text: Gertrude Stein, "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso"; recorded in Darmstadt, June, 2003

Pauline Oliveros: Poem of Change
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
voice, accordion, text: P. Oliveros; recorded at Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR), Akustich Kunst studio, 1990, WWII sounds from the WDR library; sample -- Nat King Cole: These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (Maschwitz/Strachey)

SET FOUR
Christian Wolff: Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses -- Piano Works 1976-1983
Mode Records/1995
variations on "Bread and Roses" (C. Kohlsaat, c. 1912); piano: Sally Pinkas; recorded at the Performing Arts Concert Hall, UC Santa Cruz, December, 1993

Christian Wolff: (track one)
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, text: Chris Mann; guitars: Larry Polansky; piano, bass, percussion, melodica: C. Wolff; computer, electronics: Douglas Repetto; processing, editing: Tom Erbe; recorded by Repetto and Erbe, Hanover, NH, 1998

SET FIVE
Iannis Xenakis: À la mémoire de Witold Lutoslawski
Ensemble Music 2
Mode Records/1996
members of ST-X Ensemble Xenakis USA; recorded at St. Peter's Church, NYC, 1996

John Cage: Five-4
The Works for Saxophone Vol. I (A Cage of Saxophones)
Mode Records/1996
soprano sax: Ulrich Krieger; alto sax: Reimar Volker; percussion: Friedemann Werzlau, Raymond Kaczynski, Andreas Peters; recorded at the SBF studios, Berlin, 1999

Dean Rosenthal: Underpinnings
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
CalArts Millennium Chamber Players, recorded 1998, Valencia, California (available on
Trace label release "Post-Minimalism")

SET SIX
Barnz: Age of Jubilation
Lost in the Garden of Delay
David Barnes/2008
feedback: George Locke; drum machines, percussion instruments, SEPTA turnstile, Rhodes piano, sampled cowbells, electric guitar: Barnz

Mario Verandi: Heartbreaker
orillas distantes/distant shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
produced at the Electroacoustic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 1996

SET SEVEN
Margaret Schedel: The Beautiful Don't Lack the Wound
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 #
Bridge Records/2010
táragató, interactive electronics: Esther Lamneck; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, May, 2008

Esther Lamneck: Crack Hammer (Z. Browning)
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2007
clarinet: E. Lamneck, with tape

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Bodil Rørbech: RH* (S. Link)
Violin Vision
Albany Records/2005
*ref. Roman Haubenstock-Ramati; recorded at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Park City, Utah; January, 2002

SET EIGHT
Dmitry Mazurov: Mask for Delicate Aesthetes
Creature on a Lavatory Pan
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded at Electroshock Records studio, December, 2009

Yney: Closed Lection
Micro Macro
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded at Electroshock Records studio, December, 2009

Coil:
a. Disco Hospital
b. Teenage Lightning
Love's Secret Domain
Threshhold House/1991

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Here and There
...Et Autres Utopies
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
recorded at Francis Dhomont's studio, Montreal, 2003

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