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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Host: Max Shea
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Program for November 28, 2010
SET ONE
Roland Auzet: Convergence (Y. Taïra)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
marimba: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, France
John Luther Adams: Shimmer
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2002-2003
SET TWO
Steven Ricks: Haiku
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
Tibetan prayer bowls, tam-tams: Dominic Donato; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 2006
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 10 (Who are we? Where are we?)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Studio 508, University of Maryland Baltimore County, May, 2008
SET THREE
The New Music Consort: Double Music (J. Cage/L. Harrison)
Pulse -- The New Music Consort
New World Records/1990
percussion: Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman,Claire Heldrich, William Trigg; recorded at Studio A, BMG Studios, NYC
Noah Creshevsky: Brother Tom
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
vocal samples: Thomas Buckner
Mari Kimura: Bucknerian for voice, violin and computer
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
violin: M. Kimura; vocal samples: Thomas Buckner; recorded at Harvestworks and Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY
SET FOUR
Amy Horvey: People Deserving Something (A. Horvey/J. Morton)
Catchment
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A. Horvey; organ: Jeff Morton; recorded at Paved Arts & New Media, Inc., Saskatoon
Al Margolis: Deck for Chair, Too
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
If, Bwana: Six Minus 6
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté
SET FIVE
David Behrman: My Father's Grocery Store
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
vocalists: T. Buckner, Eric Barsness, Maria Ludovici; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trumbone: Peter Zummo; keyboard and electronics: D. Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton; text: S.N. Behrman, "The Worcester Account"; recorded in New York City, 2003
Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe:
a. Panel Review
b. I Blame the Tenants
The Carbon Copy Building -- A Comic-Strip Opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
text: Ben Katchor; music director: Martin Goldray; vocal (a): Tony Boutte, (b) Toby Twining ; electric guitar: John Benthal; percussion: David Cossin; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; keyboards: Martin Goldray
SET SIX
Hildegard Westerkamp: A Walk Through the City
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig.1996)
realized at the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 1981, text: Norbert Ruebsaat
Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now -- Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, percussion, synthesis, electronics, recording: J. La Barbara; bowed pianos: Gaylord Mowfrey; text: M.S. Carnahan, "One Pink Mask"
SET SEVEN
Anne LeBaron, Wadada Leo Smith, Peter van Bergen: An Even Loan
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
harp: A. LeBaron; trumpet: W.L. Smith; woodwinds: P. van Bergen
John Cage: One-7 (1st 1/2)
a CAGE of saxophones volumes 3 & 4 -- Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2010
performed by Ulrich Krieger; recorded at the π Farm, Germany, 2004
--FIN--
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Martian Gardens for 11/21/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
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Program for November 21, 2010
SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come
Nonesuch Records/2001
The American Composers Orchestra, conductor: Paul Lustig Dunkel; recorded at SUNY Purchase Concert Hall, The Performing Arts Center, recorded April, 2000
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Svjete tihij (Byzantine Chant)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
SET TWO
Lou Harrison: Belle's Bull (from Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
piano: Adrienne Varner; Gamelan Pacifica, Cornish College of Arts, director: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010
Ezra Sims: Flight
The Microtonal Music of Ezra Sims
CRI/1993
flute: Hanneke Provily; electronic tape: E. Sims; recorded at Studio van Schuppen, Veenendaal, NL, 6/10/90
Esther Lamneck & Roberto Fabbriciani: Winds of the Heart (parts 10,11)
Winds of the Heart
Innova Recordings/2010
tárogató: E. Lamneck; hyperbass flute: R. Fabbriciani; recorded at Studio Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy, 2008
John Cage: Sculptures Musicale VI
a CAGE of saxophones, vols. 3 & 4 - Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at the π Farm, Germany, 6/24/04
SET THREE
Ingrid Drese: Amaryllis
a. Verticalité — horizontalité — densité
b. Émergence — complémentarité — suspendu
c. Balancement
d. Vide — strette
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
composed in the Métamorphoses d'Orphée studio, Ohain, Belgium
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa for contrabass & 8 channel tape
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2009
SET FOUR
David Felder: November Sky
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute, piccolo, alto flute, bass flute: Rachel Rudich; electronic tape: D. Felder; recorded at University of California, San Diego
John Melby: Concerto No. 1 for Flute and Computer-Synthesized Tape (excerpt)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 10 #
The Virtuosos in the Computer Age I
Centaur Records/1991
flute: Rachel Rudich; electronic tape: J. Melby; recorded at the Experimental Music Studios, University of Illinois
SET FIVE
Coil: Disco Hospital
Love's Secret Domain
Wax Trax-Threshold House/1991
Coil/Derek Jarman: Impatient Youths of the Sun...(edit)*
Blue -- A Film by Derek Jarman
Elektra-Nonsuch/1994
music: Coil, Simon Fisher Turner; narration (edited): D. Jarman; recorded at Brian Eno's Wilderness Studio; Suffolk, UK; *aka. "Disco Hospital"
Dean Rosenthal: Do it!(The Dialectic of the Mode of Utterance)
Dean Rosenthal/2010
sound sources: Van McCoy, "The Hustle," Steve Reich: "The Desert Music, Mvt.1"
Steve Reich: The Desert Music I (Fast)
Theillim/The Desert Music
Cantaloupe Music/2002
Alarm Will Sound and Ossia, conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded at the Kresege Recordings Studios, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, May, 2001; text: William Carlos Williams
Alarm Will Sound: Logon Rock Witch (R. James)
Acoustica -- Aphex Twin performed by Alarm Will Sound
Cantaloupe Music/2005
Alarm Will Sound; conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2005
Bruce Haack: Epilogue
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
original release: "Haackula" (1978)
SET SIX
If, Bwana: Cicada #1 -- EHG Version
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté; Nord modular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; flute: Jacqueline Martelle; computer: Al Margolis; sourced from a performance at the Emily Harvey Gallery, NYC, 9/18/08
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A Political Prisoner's Dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
composed at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May, 1973-May, 1977
Trevor Wishart: Facets (from "Two Women")
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
voice/text source: Princess Diana commenting on press photographers
Severed Heads: Harold and Cindy Hospital
Come Visit The Big Bigot (With Dead Eyes Opened e.p.)
Nettwerk-Volition/1987 (orig. 1985/1984)
recorded at Terse Tapes, Sydney, Australia, 1984-1985
Kassen: Ill at ease at home?
Why Record? -- Life in the age of digital performance*
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
remasterd by Tom Erbe at University of California San Diego, Department of Music, La Jolla
*Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 18: Curated by Click Nilson
Simon Wickham-Smith: Unsafeday (from "Justkidding")
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Helen Kidd; mastered at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, February, 2010
SET SEVEN
Noah Creshevsky: Hoodlum Priest
Hyperrealism -- Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Mutable Music/2003
voice samples: Thomas Buckner
Noah Creshevsky: Breathless
Who -- Electoacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Centaur Records/2000
Dedicated to Ruth Anderson and Annea Lockwood
Annea Lockwood & Ruth Anderson: World Rhythms (1997 Version) (excerpt)
Sinopah
XI Records/1998
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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Program for November 21, 2010
SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come
Nonesuch Records/2001
The American Composers Orchestra, conductor: Paul Lustig Dunkel; recorded at SUNY Purchase Concert Hall, The Performing Arts Center, recorded April, 2000
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Svjete tihij (Byzantine Chant)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
SET TWO
Lou Harrison: Belle's Bull (from Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
piano: Adrienne Varner; Gamelan Pacifica, Cornish College of Arts, director: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010
Ezra Sims: Flight
The Microtonal Music of Ezra Sims
CRI/1993
flute: Hanneke Provily; electronic tape: E. Sims; recorded at Studio van Schuppen, Veenendaal, NL, 6/10/90
Esther Lamneck & Roberto Fabbriciani: Winds of the Heart (parts 10,11)
Winds of the Heart
Innova Recordings/2010
tárogató: E. Lamneck; hyperbass flute: R. Fabbriciani; recorded at Studio Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy, 2008
John Cage: Sculptures Musicale VI
a CAGE of saxophones, vols. 3 & 4 - Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at the π Farm, Germany, 6/24/04
SET THREE
Ingrid Drese: Amaryllis
a. Verticalité — horizontalité — densité
b. Émergence — complémentarité — suspendu
c. Balancement
d. Vide — strette
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
composed in the Métamorphoses d'Orphée studio, Ohain, Belgium
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa for contrabass & 8 channel tape
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2009
SET FOUR
David Felder: November Sky
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute, piccolo, alto flute, bass flute: Rachel Rudich; electronic tape: D. Felder; recorded at University of California, San Diego
John Melby: Concerto No. 1 for Flute and Computer-Synthesized Tape (excerpt)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 10 #
The Virtuosos in the Computer Age I
Centaur Records/1991
flute: Rachel Rudich; electronic tape: J. Melby; recorded at the Experimental Music Studios, University of Illinois
SET FIVE
Coil: Disco Hospital
Love's Secret Domain
Wax Trax-Threshold House/1991
Coil/Derek Jarman: Impatient Youths of the Sun...(edit)*
Blue -- A Film by Derek Jarman
Elektra-Nonsuch/1994
music: Coil, Simon Fisher Turner; narration (edited): D. Jarman; recorded at Brian Eno's Wilderness Studio; Suffolk, UK; *aka. "Disco Hospital"
Dean Rosenthal: Do it!(The Dialectic of the Mode of Utterance)
Dean Rosenthal/2010
sound sources: Van McCoy, "The Hustle," Steve Reich: "The Desert Music, Mvt.1"
Steve Reich: The Desert Music I (Fast)
Theillim/The Desert Music
Cantaloupe Music/2002
Alarm Will Sound and Ossia, conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded at the Kresege Recordings Studios, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, May, 2001; text: William Carlos Williams
Alarm Will Sound: Logon Rock Witch (R. James)
Acoustica -- Aphex Twin performed by Alarm Will Sound
Cantaloupe Music/2005
Alarm Will Sound; conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2005
Bruce Haack: Epilogue
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
original release: "Haackula" (1978)
SET SIX
If, Bwana: Cicada #1 -- EHG Version
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté; Nord modular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; flute: Jacqueline Martelle; computer: Al Margolis; sourced from a performance at the Emily Harvey Gallery, NYC, 9/18/08
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A Political Prisoner's Dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
composed at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May, 1973-May, 1977
Trevor Wishart: Facets (from "Two Women")
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
voice/text source: Princess Diana commenting on press photographers
Severed Heads: Harold and Cindy Hospital
Come Visit The Big Bigot (With Dead Eyes Opened e.p.)
Nettwerk-Volition/1987 (orig. 1985/1984)
recorded at Terse Tapes, Sydney, Australia, 1984-1985
Kassen: Ill at ease at home?
Why Record? -- Life in the age of digital performance*
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
remasterd by Tom Erbe at University of California San Diego, Department of Music, La Jolla
*Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 18: Curated by Click Nilson
Simon Wickham-Smith: Unsafeday (from "Justkidding")
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Helen Kidd; mastered at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, February, 2010
SET SEVEN
Noah Creshevsky: Hoodlum Priest
Hyperrealism -- Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Mutable Music/2003
voice samples: Thomas Buckner
Noah Creshevsky: Breathless
Who -- Electoacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Centaur Records/2000
Dedicated to Ruth Anderson and Annea Lockwood
Annea Lockwood & Ruth Anderson: World Rhythms (1997 Version) (excerpt)
Sinopah
XI Records/1998
--FIN--
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Martian Gardens for 11/14/2010
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 November 14, 2010
SET ONE
Henryk Górecki: Amen (Opus 35)
Miserere
Elektra-Nonesuch/1994
Chicago Symphony Chorus, director: Margaret Hillis; recorded April, 1994, at St. Mary of the Angels Church, Chicago
In memoriam Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: December 6, 1933 -- November 12, 2010
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Alleluia. Nativitas (Pérotin)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
Howard Skempton:
a. Music, when soft voices die
b. He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Bolt From The Blue
Mode Records/2010
Exaudi -- sopranos: Juliet Fraser, Katie Trethewey, Julie Doyle; mezzo soprano: Ruth Massey; countertenor: Tom Williams; tenors: Stephen Jeffes, Jonathan Bungard; bass-baritone: Jonathan Saunders; bass: Jimmy Holliday, director: James Weeks (Doyle, Bungard on b. only); texts: a. Percy Bysshe Shelley, b. William Butler Yeats; a. recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07, b. St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, 1/17/07
Giacinto Scelsi: Lento -- Misterioso, soprannaturale (from Cinque Incantesimi)
The Piano Works 3
Mode Records/2006
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, March, 2005
SET TWO
Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: The Bird on the Scene Says Yes
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
flute with glissando headjoint: R. Dick; vocals: T. Buckner; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09
Mari Kimura: Gemini for solo violin
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
recorded by Tom Hamilton at Harvestworks and Systems Two, NYC
Mari Kimura: Axon (T. León)
Polytopia
Bridge Records/2007
recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, June 2005
SET THREE
Mrs. Frances Perry: Cranberry Song
Folk Music from Wisconsin -- The Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture
Rounder Records - Library of Congress/2001 (orig. 1960)
recorded by Helene Stratman-Thomas and Aubrey Snyder at Black River Falls, 1946
Amy Horvey: Cranberry Flats Mobile
Catchment
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A. Horvey; recorded at Cranberry Flats Conservation Area, South Saskatchewan River, August, 2001
SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Kits Beach Soundwalk
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
narration: H. Westerkamp; realized at the composer's studio, 1989, sounds recorded at Kitsilano Beach (aka "Kits Beach"), Vancouver featuring sounds sampled from Xenakis' "Concrete PH"
Iannis Xenakis: Concrete PH
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
sound source: smoldering charcoal; composed and recorded at GRM, Paris, for the Phillips Pavilion at the World's Fair, Brussels, 1958
Iannix Xenakis: Polytope De Cluny (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2009
premiered at the Festiveal d'Automne, Paris, 1972
SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Gentle Sediments (Barely: part-3)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
realized at the composer's studio, Oslo; premiered at the 38th Synthèse festival, Bourges, 6/04/08
Luigi Nono: Omaggio a Vedova
Omaggio a Vedova
WERGO/1993 (orig. 1972)
recorded at Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rome, 1960
Flutronix: Run-On
Flutronix
Flutronix Music/2010
flutes, electronics: Nathalie Joachim, Allison Logggins-Hull; recorded at Total Sonic Media, Brooklyn
SET SIX
Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde, Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971
Pogus Productions/2008
recorded at Tangent Studio, London, and The Electronic Music Studio, Goldsmith College, 1970
Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm (purring reprise)
ibid.
Alvin Curran: Light Flowers Dark Flowers I
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
performed and recorded in Rome, 1974
SINGLE PLAY
Zack Browning: Venus Notorious
Venus Notorious
Innova Recordings/2010
pianos: Julie Gunn, Edward Rath; xylophone: William Moersch; drum set: Ricardo Flores; recorded at the University of Illinois
--FIN--
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 November 14, 2010
SET ONE
Henryk Górecki: Amen (Opus 35)
Miserere
Elektra-Nonesuch/1994
Chicago Symphony Chorus, director: Margaret Hillis; recorded April, 1994, at St. Mary of the Angels Church, Chicago
In memoriam Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: December 6, 1933 -- November 12, 2010
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Alleluia. Nativitas (Pérotin)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
Howard Skempton:
a. Music, when soft voices die
b. He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Bolt From The Blue
Mode Records/2010
Exaudi -- sopranos: Juliet Fraser, Katie Trethewey, Julie Doyle; mezzo soprano: Ruth Massey; countertenor: Tom Williams; tenors: Stephen Jeffes, Jonathan Bungard; bass-baritone: Jonathan Saunders; bass: Jimmy Holliday, director: James Weeks (Doyle, Bungard on b. only); texts: a. Percy Bysshe Shelley, b. William Butler Yeats; a. recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07, b. St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, 1/17/07
Giacinto Scelsi: Lento -- Misterioso, soprannaturale (from Cinque Incantesimi)
The Piano Works 3
Mode Records/2006
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, March, 2005
SET TWO
Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: The Bird on the Scene Says Yes
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
flute with glissando headjoint: R. Dick; vocals: T. Buckner; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09
Mari Kimura: Gemini for solo violin
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
recorded by Tom Hamilton at Harvestworks and Systems Two, NYC
Mari Kimura: Axon (T. León)
Polytopia
Bridge Records/2007
recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, June 2005
SET THREE
Mrs. Frances Perry: Cranberry Song
Folk Music from Wisconsin -- The Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture
Rounder Records - Library of Congress/2001 (orig. 1960)
recorded by Helene Stratman-Thomas and Aubrey Snyder at Black River Falls, 1946
Amy Horvey: Cranberry Flats Mobile
Catchment
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A. Horvey; recorded at Cranberry Flats Conservation Area, South Saskatchewan River, August, 2001
SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Kits Beach Soundwalk
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
narration: H. Westerkamp; realized at the composer's studio, 1989, sounds recorded at Kitsilano Beach (aka "Kits Beach"), Vancouver featuring sounds sampled from Xenakis' "Concrete PH"
Iannis Xenakis: Concrete PH
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
sound source: smoldering charcoal; composed and recorded at GRM, Paris, for the Phillips Pavilion at the World's Fair, Brussels, 1958
Iannix Xenakis: Polytope De Cluny (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2009
premiered at the Festiveal d'Automne, Paris, 1972
SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Gentle Sediments (Barely: part-3)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
realized at the composer's studio, Oslo; premiered at the 38th Synthèse festival, Bourges, 6/04/08
Luigi Nono: Omaggio a Vedova
Omaggio a Vedova
WERGO/1993 (orig. 1972)
recorded at Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rome, 1960
Flutronix: Run-On
Flutronix
Flutronix Music/2010
flutes, electronics: Nathalie Joachim, Allison Logggins-Hull; recorded at Total Sonic Media, Brooklyn
SET SIX
Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde, Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971
Pogus Productions/2008
recorded at Tangent Studio, London, and The Electronic Music Studio, Goldsmith College, 1970
Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm (purring reprise)
ibid.
Alvin Curran: Light Flowers Dark Flowers I
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
performed and recorded in Rome, 1974
SINGLE PLAY
Zack Browning: Venus Notorious
Venus Notorious
Innova Recordings/2010
pianos: Julie Gunn, Edward Rath; xylophone: William Moersch; drum set: Ricardo Flores; recorded at the University of Illinois
--FIN--
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Martian Gardens for 11/07/2010
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 November 07, 2010
SET ONE
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely
Howard Skempton: Resister
Bolt From the Blue
Mode Records/2010
piano: Daniel Becker; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07
Bruce Haack: Electric To Me Turn
Farad-The Electric Voice
Stones Throw Records/2007
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music/2003
J. La Barbara: voice, Buchla Synthesizer; premiered 10/22/78,
Metamusic Festival, Berlin
SET TWO
Arlene Zallman: East, West of the Sun
I. Town Life
II. Pan
III. Three Strophes with Negligible Variations
IV. Epitaph of the a Sailor
V. Epithalamium
VI. The Game Keeper: Model Conservation or it Lacks Point
VII. Nahuatl: Aztec Song
Sei La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
Wellesley College Chamber Singers and Instrumental Ensemble, conductor Brian Hulse; accompanist: Jenny Tang; V -- soprano: Bess Conners, flute: Kathy Boyd; texts: I, III, V, VI -- Classic Anthology by Confucius (translated by Ezra Pound); II -- Plate inscription for a statue of Pan (from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dudley Fitts); IV -- (from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dudley Fitts); VII -- Magic World American Indian Songs (edited by William Brandon); recorded at Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College, 1998
ETHEL
a. Lighthouse (C. Dufallo)
b. Also Sprach Einstein (M. Rowell)
Light
Cantaloupe Music/2006
ETHEL string quartet; (b) vocals: Erin Grey, Einstein the African Gray Parrot, whistle: Randy Crafton; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ, March, 2006; (b) also recorded at Knoxville Zoo, Knoxville, TN
SET THREE
Philip Glass/Robert Wilson:
a. Trial 1 -- "All Men Are Equal"
b. Knee 2
Einstein On The Beach
Elektra Nonesuch/1993
music, lyrics: P. Glass; design, direction: R. Wilson; Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman; (a) spoken voice: Jasper McGruder, (b) spoken voice: Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton texts: (a) Samuel M. Johnson, Christopher Knowles (b) C. Knowles; recorded at Looking Glass Studios, NYC, winter-spring 1993
Eurythmics: Doubleplusgood
1984 (For The Love of Big Big Brother)
RCA/1984
chanted lyrics inspired by George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," (1948), sampled words from the film "1984," based on Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," (written and directed by William Radford, 1984)
Laurie Anderson: Dark Time In The Revolution
Homeland
Nonesuch/2010
vocals, percussion, keyboards, radio: L. Anderson; drums: Joey Baron; viola: Eyvind Kang; bass: Skúli Sverrison; accordion, keyboards: Rob Burger; recorded in New York City
SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Fantasie for Horns II
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
French horn: Brian G'Froerer; electroacoustics: H. Westerkamp; realized at Sonic Research Studio, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, 1978
Amy Horvey: Marionette-Lazarus
Catchement
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A Horvey; organ: Valerie Hall recorded in a pedestrian underpass, Saskatoon, SK
SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Sub Terra Cycle: Kongsberg Silver Mines
Bouteilles de Klein (Installations) DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
recorded on the miner's train in the disused silver mines of Kongsberg Silver Mines, Buskerud County, Norway
Alejandro José: Todo Es Uno
Desde El Otro Lado -- Electroacoustic Music from Latin America #
O.O. Discs/1998
sound sources: pulsar signals 175 light years from Earth registered by the Arecibo Radio Telescope, Puerto Rico; human amino acids registered as sound
Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: Makemake
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
vocalizations: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton, Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09
SET SIX
If, Bwana: Ringing the Bell
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
Trio Scardaturo -- viola: Elisabeth Smalt, voice: Alfrun Schmid, keyboard: Bob Gilmore; assembled from recordings of Interpretations concert at Roulette, NYC, 3/18/08
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
SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Curran: The Works II
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
A. Curran: all instruments, sounds, tapes; performed, mixed at Sound 80 Studios, Minneapolis, 2/24/80
--FIN--
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 November 07, 2010
SET ONE
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely
Howard Skempton: Resister
Bolt From the Blue
Mode Records/2010
piano: Daniel Becker; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07
Bruce Haack: Electric To Me Turn
Farad-The Electric Voice
Stones Throw Records/2007
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music/2003
J. La Barbara: voice, Buchla Synthesizer; premiered 10/22/78,
Metamusic Festival, Berlin
SET TWO
Arlene Zallman: East, West of the Sun
I. Town Life
II. Pan
III. Three Strophes with Negligible Variations
IV. Epitaph of the a Sailor
V. Epithalamium
VI. The Game Keeper: Model Conservation or it Lacks Point
VII. Nahuatl: Aztec Song
Sei La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
Wellesley College Chamber Singers and Instrumental Ensemble, conductor Brian Hulse; accompanist: Jenny Tang; V -- soprano: Bess Conners, flute: Kathy Boyd; texts: I, III, V, VI -- Classic Anthology by Confucius (translated by Ezra Pound); II -- Plate inscription for a statue of Pan (from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dudley Fitts); IV -- (from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dudley Fitts); VII -- Magic World American Indian Songs (edited by William Brandon); recorded at Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College, 1998
ETHEL
a. Lighthouse (C. Dufallo)
b. Also Sprach Einstein (M. Rowell)
Light
Cantaloupe Music/2006
ETHEL string quartet; (b) vocals: Erin Grey, Einstein the African Gray Parrot, whistle: Randy Crafton; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ, March, 2006; (b) also recorded at Knoxville Zoo, Knoxville, TN
SET THREE
Philip Glass/Robert Wilson:
a. Trial 1 -- "All Men Are Equal"
b. Knee 2
Einstein On The Beach
Elektra Nonesuch/1993
music, lyrics: P. Glass; design, direction: R. Wilson; Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman; (a) spoken voice: Jasper McGruder, (b) spoken voice: Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton texts: (a) Samuel M. Johnson, Christopher Knowles (b) C. Knowles; recorded at Looking Glass Studios, NYC, winter-spring 1993
Eurythmics: Doubleplusgood
1984 (For The Love of Big Big Brother)
RCA/1984
chanted lyrics inspired by George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," (1948), sampled words from the film "1984," based on Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," (written and directed by William Radford, 1984)
Laurie Anderson: Dark Time In The Revolution
Homeland
Nonesuch/2010
vocals, percussion, keyboards, radio: L. Anderson; drums: Joey Baron; viola: Eyvind Kang; bass: Skúli Sverrison; accordion, keyboards: Rob Burger; recorded in New York City
SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Fantasie for Horns II
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
French horn: Brian G'Froerer; electroacoustics: H. Westerkamp; realized at Sonic Research Studio, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, 1978
Amy Horvey: Marionette-Lazarus
Catchement
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A Horvey; organ: Valerie Hall recorded in a pedestrian underpass, Saskatoon, SK
SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Sub Terra Cycle: Kongsberg Silver Mines
Bouteilles de Klein (Installations) DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
recorded on the miner's train in the disused silver mines of Kongsberg Silver Mines, Buskerud County, Norway
Alejandro José: Todo Es Uno
Desde El Otro Lado -- Electroacoustic Music from Latin America #
O.O. Discs/1998
sound sources: pulsar signals 175 light years from Earth registered by the Arecibo Radio Telescope, Puerto Rico; human amino acids registered as sound
Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: Makemake
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
vocalizations: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton, Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09
SET SIX
If, Bwana: Ringing the Bell
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
Trio Scardaturo -- viola: Elisabeth Smalt, voice: Alfrun Schmid, keyboard: Bob Gilmore; assembled from recordings of Interpretations concert at Roulette, NYC, 3/18/08
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
SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Curran: The Works II
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
A. Curran: all instruments, sounds, tapes; performed, mixed at Sound 80 Studios, Minneapolis, 2/24/80
--FIN--
Monday, November 1, 2010
Martian Gardens for 10/31/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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 31, 2010
WMUA fund drive week: 10/30/10 -- 11/05/10
Selections broadcast between obligatory
exhortations for donations. Grin and bear it.
Alvin Curran: Songs and Views from the Magnetic Garden, part I
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
Performed, recorded, and mixed by A. Curran at Via dell'Orso 28, Rome, 1974
Chaya Czernowin: Mei mecha'a (Water of Dissent)
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; saxophone, tubax: Rico Gubler: piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn; live electronics recorded at EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO of SWR, Freiburg, sound direction: Michael Acker, Rinhold Braig, Thomas Hummel; recorded at the Konzerthaus Berlin, 3/17/07
David Monacchi: Stati d'Acqua
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
sound sources: course of the Tiber River from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea; sound scan of a human fetus
Matthew Burtner and MICE: Sandprints
MICE World Tour
EcoSono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble created by Matthew Burtner
sounds on Sandprints: Microphones in the Nambian Desert, performers whistling
John Cage: Song Books I-II/Empty Words III (continued)
Edition John Cage -- Sonata XIII-Music for Marcel Duchamp-
Song Books I-II-Empty Words III
Wergo/1992
Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, conductor: Clytus Gottwald; spoken words, electronics: J. Cage; recorded live, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Stuttgart, 6/22/75
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Litany
a. Litany (N. Kedrov)
b. Otche nash (Lipovan Old Believers Tradition)
c. Dostoino est (anonymous)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
Kitty Brazelton: the beginning and ending of all things
Ecclesiastes--A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band, conductor: K. Brazelton; laptop drones, soundtracks: K. Brazelton; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, New York
Julia Wolfe: my lips from speaking I-III (for six pianos)
Dark Full Rides -- Music in Multiples
Cantaloupe Music/2009
pianos: Lisa Moore; recorded by Michael Riesman at Look Glass Studios, NYC
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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 31, 2010
WMUA fund drive week: 10/30/10 -- 11/05/10
Selections broadcast between obligatory
exhortations for donations. Grin and bear it.
Alvin Curran: Songs and Views from the Magnetic Garden, part I
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
Performed, recorded, and mixed by A. Curran at Via dell'Orso 28, Rome, 1974
Chaya Czernowin: Mei mecha'a (Water of Dissent)
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; saxophone, tubax: Rico Gubler: piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn; live electronics recorded at EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO of SWR, Freiburg, sound direction: Michael Acker, Rinhold Braig, Thomas Hummel; recorded at the Konzerthaus Berlin, 3/17/07
David Monacchi: Stati d'Acqua
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
sound sources: course of the Tiber River from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea; sound scan of a human fetus
Matthew Burtner and MICE: Sandprints
MICE World Tour
EcoSono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble created by Matthew Burtner
sounds on Sandprints: Microphones in the Nambian Desert, performers whistling
John Cage: Song Books I-II/Empty Words III (continued)
Edition John Cage -- Sonata XIII-Music for Marcel Duchamp-
Song Books I-II-Empty Words III
Wergo/1992
Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, conductor: Clytus Gottwald; spoken words, electronics: J. Cage; recorded live, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Stuttgart, 6/22/75
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Litany
a. Litany (N. Kedrov)
b. Otche nash (Lipovan Old Believers Tradition)
c. Dostoino est (anonymous)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
Kitty Brazelton: the beginning and ending of all things
Ecclesiastes--A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band, conductor: K. Brazelton; laptop drones, soundtracks: K. Brazelton; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, New York
Julia Wolfe: my lips from speaking I-III (for six pianos)
Dark Full Rides -- Music in Multiples
Cantaloupe Music/2009
pianos: Lisa Moore; recorded by Michael Riesman at Look Glass Studios, NYC
--FIN--
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Martian Gardens for 10/24/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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 24, 2010
SET ONE
Howard Skempton: Five Poems of Mary Webb
a. To Life
b. Reflections
c. The Spirit of Earth
d. Safe
e. To the World
Bolt from the Blue -- Music for Piano and Voices
Mode Records/2010
EXAUDI, director: James Weeks; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07
Jan Garbarek: Allting Finns
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; text: Pär Lagerkvist, "Den döde," conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
David Mahler: from Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field
a. Chorale
b. Chorale
c. Chorale
d. Chorale
e. VIII. Distant Sounds
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
voices: Julie Hanify, D. Mahler, Nurit Tilles; piano: N. Tilles; text: J.M Neale, "The Teams Are Waiting in the Field," to the melody of Chevy Chase; recorded at The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November, 2009
Iva Bittová and Bang On A Can: Nejsi
Elida
Cantaloupe Music/2005
Bang On A Can; violin, voice: I. Bittová; Systems Two, Brooklyn, December, 2004
SET TWO
David First: Thought You Said Sherbet
The Alternative Schubertiade #
CRI/1999
sampler, computer synthesizer, electric guitar: D. First; motif:
first nine measures of "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Schubert, arr. Liszt)
David First: Aw!-Drawline Spout-Holi Spank (excerpts)
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
guitars, computers, computerized guitar: D. First
SET THREE
Alvin Lucier: Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (marimba)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Quiet Design/2010
marimba: Nick Hennies; recorded at University of Texas-Austin Percussion Studio
John Cage: from Sculptures Musicale
I. soprano sax, sax-mouthpiece, accordion, e-bow guitar, percussion, radio, no input mixer, sine tone
II. tenor and baritone saxes, percussion, piano, cello
III. alto sax, bass-cl a rinet, launeddas, bamboo flute, melodica
The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4 -- A CAGE of Saxophones
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded (mainly) at the π-Farm, Germany, 2004
SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith: The Previous Evening Part I (Homage to John Cage)
The Previous Evening
ReR Megacorp/1998
clarinets: Christian Kaya, percussion: Heike Liss, voice: Bernd Weber, F. Frith: voice, instruments, processing; recorded at Studio Gordon, Munich, spring, 1993
Fred Frith to perform a the University of Massachusetts for the Magic Triangle Jazz Series presented in conjunction with WMUA, Thursday, 10/28/10, at Bezanson Recital Hall
SET FOUR
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes-Gradual Requiem-Gambuh I
New Albion Records/1988
trumpets: Jim Miller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kenelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty; conductor: John Adams; recorded at Tres Virgos Studio, San Rafael, California; tape material: fog horns in San Francisco Bay
Pauline Oliveros: Sound Patterns and Tropes
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
University of Wisconsin-River Falls Concert Choir and Percussion Quartet; recorded at UW-RF Abbott Concert Hall, River Falls, Wisconsin
SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Bédé
a. The Realm of Childhood
b. The Valley of Phantoms
c. In Search of the Voice
Tangram
empreintes DIGITALes/1994
electroacoustics: R. Normandeau; voice: Marie-Hélène Blain; produced at Normandeau's studio, Montreal, and GRM Paris, 1990
Lori Freedman: Bridge One: Firth of Forth
Bridge
Actuellecd/2009
clarinet: L. Freedman; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, June, 2009
Lawrence Moss: Into the Woods
Unseen Leaves
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: William Montgomery; recorded in Gildenhorn Recial Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
Bang On A Can: 1/2 (B. Eno)
Music for Airports (Live)
Cantaloupe Records/2007
Bang On A Can All-Stars -- cello: May Beiser, clarinets: Evan Ziporyn, guitar: Mark Stewart, percussion: Steven Schick, piano/keyboards: Lisa Moore, bass: Robert Black; recorded live, spring, 1998
SET SIX
David Congo: Fusions I. The Art of Movement
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2009
recorded at the composer's studio, West Springfield, Massachusetts, June, 2009
Edward Artemiev: Peregrini
Mood-Pictures
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: T. Kuindji; electronics: E. Artemiev; recorded in Moscow
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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 24, 2010
SET ONE
Howard Skempton: Five Poems of Mary Webb
a. To Life
b. Reflections
c. The Spirit of Earth
d. Safe
e. To the World
Bolt from the Blue -- Music for Piano and Voices
Mode Records/2010
EXAUDI, director: James Weeks; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07
Jan Garbarek: Allting Finns
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; text: Pär Lagerkvist, "Den döde," conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
David Mahler: from Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field
a. Chorale
b. Chorale
c. Chorale
d. Chorale
e. VIII. Distant Sounds
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
voices: Julie Hanify, D. Mahler, Nurit Tilles; piano: N. Tilles; text: J.M Neale, "The Teams Are Waiting in the Field," to the melody of Chevy Chase; recorded at The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November, 2009
Iva Bittová and Bang On A Can: Nejsi
Elida
Cantaloupe Music/2005
Bang On A Can; violin, voice: I. Bittová; Systems Two, Brooklyn, December, 2004
SET TWO
David First: Thought You Said Sherbet
The Alternative Schubertiade #
CRI/1999
sampler, computer synthesizer, electric guitar: D. First; motif:
first nine measures of "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Schubert, arr. Liszt)
David First: Aw!-Drawline Spout-Holi Spank (excerpts)
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
guitars, computers, computerized guitar: D. First
SET THREE
Alvin Lucier: Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (marimba)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Quiet Design/2010
marimba: Nick Hennies; recorded at University of Texas-Austin Percussion Studio
John Cage: from Sculptures Musicale
I. soprano sax, sax-mouthpiece, accordion, e-bow guitar, percussion, radio, no input mixer, sine tone
II. tenor and baritone saxes, percussion, piano, cello
III. alto sax, bass-cl a rinet, launeddas, bamboo flute, melodica
The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4 -- A CAGE of Saxophones
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded (mainly) at the π-Farm, Germany, 2004
SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith: The Previous Evening Part I (Homage to John Cage)
The Previous Evening
ReR Megacorp/1998
clarinets: Christian Kaya, percussion: Heike Liss, voice: Bernd Weber, F. Frith: voice, instruments, processing; recorded at Studio Gordon, Munich, spring, 1993
Fred Frith to perform a the University of Massachusetts for the Magic Triangle Jazz Series presented in conjunction with WMUA, Thursday, 10/28/10, at Bezanson Recital Hall
SET FOUR
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes-Gradual Requiem-Gambuh I
New Albion Records/1988
trumpets: Jim Miller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kenelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty; conductor: John Adams; recorded at Tres Virgos Studio, San Rafael, California; tape material: fog horns in San Francisco Bay
Pauline Oliveros: Sound Patterns and Tropes
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
University of Wisconsin-River Falls Concert Choir and Percussion Quartet; recorded at UW-RF Abbott Concert Hall, River Falls, Wisconsin
SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Bédé
a. The Realm of Childhood
b. The Valley of Phantoms
c. In Search of the Voice
Tangram
empreintes DIGITALes/1994
electroacoustics: R. Normandeau; voice: Marie-Hélène Blain; produced at Normandeau's studio, Montreal, and GRM Paris, 1990
Lori Freedman: Bridge One: Firth of Forth
Bridge
Actuellecd/2009
clarinet: L. Freedman; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, June, 2009
Lawrence Moss: Into the Woods
Unseen Leaves
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: William Montgomery; recorded in Gildenhorn Recial Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
Bang On A Can: 1/2 (B. Eno)
Music for Airports (Live)
Cantaloupe Records/2007
Bang On A Can All-Stars -- cello: May Beiser, clarinets: Evan Ziporyn, guitar: Mark Stewart, percussion: Steven Schick, piano/keyboards: Lisa Moore, bass: Robert Black; recorded live, spring, 1998
SET SIX
David Congo: Fusions I. The Art of Movement
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2009
recorded at the composer's studio, West Springfield, Massachusetts, June, 2009
Edward Artemiev: Peregrini
Mood-Pictures
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: T. Kuindji; electronics: E. Artemiev; recorded in Moscow
--FIN--
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Martian Gardens for 10/17/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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 17, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Johnson:
a. The 78 two-note chords
b. The 266 three-note chords
c. The 715 four-note chords
The Chord Catalogue -- all the 8178 chords possible in one octave
XI Records/1999
piano: T. Johnson; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Paris, March, 1998
SET ONE
Arthur Jarvinen: The Vulture's Garden
a. The Vulture's Garden
b. The War of Time
c. The Last Dim Weird Battle of the West
d. Not with a Bang but a Whimper
Edible Black Ink
O.O. Discs/1996
California Ear Unit -- featuring Dorothy Stone, flutes; recorded at Mad Hatter, Los Angeles, June, 1996
Dorothy Stone: Indigenous Music II -- Flute (S. L. Mosko)
None But The Lonely Flute
New World Records/1994
In memory of three composers/performers, and affiliates of The California Institute of the Arts and The California Ear Unit --
Stephen Lucky Mosko: 1947 - 2005
Dorothy Stone (wife of Mosko): 1958 - 2008
Arthur Jarvinen: 1956 - 2010
SET TWO
Kitty Brazelton: Motet
Ecclesiastes: A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band -- conductor, laptop soundtrack: K. Brazelton; text: Book of Ecclesiastes; recorded at 2nd Story Sound, NYC
Jan Garbarek: Ov zarmanali -- Hymn of the baptism of Christ (Komitas)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
Arvo Pärt: Ode VII
Kanon Pakajanen
ECM New Series/1998
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor: Teije van Geest; text from "Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ" by St. Andrew of Crete, recorded at Niguliste Church, Tallinn, June, 1997
SET THREE
Anatoly Pereslegin: Isiah No. 2
Download the God
Electroshock Records/2000
performed and recorded by A. Pereslegin, Jerusalem, 1994-1995; final mix by A. Pereslegin, Moscow, 1999-2000
Cesare Rosa Calamaro: Ludus
Electroacoustic Music from Sicily #
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
SET FOUR
Barton McLean: Magic at Xanadu (MAX)
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
B. McLean: keyboards in Composer's Playpen (in MAX computer language)
Mike Swinchoski: Alternative Song
60 x 60 -- 2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2006
André Cormier: 380
ibid.
Jonty Harrison: Unsound Objects
Articles indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
composed at Harrison's studio at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK
SET FIVE
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2009
Nicola Cisternino: Xöömij
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum #
Mode Records/2001
bass: Nicholas Isherwood; realized at the Ateliers UPIC (CCMIX), Paris, April, 1997
SET SIX
Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe:
a. Opening Slide Lecture
b. Where is that Boy
The Carbon Copy Building -- A comic-strip opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
performed by Bang On A Can All-Stars -- singers: Theo Bleckmann, Tony Boutté, Katie Geissinger, Toby Twining; musicians: electric guitar: John Benthal, percussion: David Cossin; keyboards: Martin Goldray; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; text, illustrations: Ben Katchor; recorded at Avatar Studios, NYC, August, 2000
Joëlle Léandre and Quentin Sirjacq: Moon Journey
Out of Nowhere
Actuelle/2008
contrabass: J. Léandre; piano: Q. Sirjacq; recorded at Studio Lu Hullette, Paris, 1/13/08
Fred Frith: Trocosi
Prints
ReR Megacorp/2003
acoustic bass: Sebastian Grimms; other instruments and voice: F. Frith; text: International Herald Tribune edition 1/28/97, "Enslavement of Women in Ghana"; sample: Kahil El'Zabar, "Where Do You Want to Go"
SINGLE PLAY
Olly Wilson: Piano Piece
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 #
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
piano: Thomas Fosnocht
--FIN--
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 17, 2010
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Johnson:
a. The 78 two-note chords
b. The 266 three-note chords
c. The 715 four-note chords
The Chord Catalogue -- all the 8178 chords possible in one octave
XI Records/1999
piano: T. Johnson; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Paris, March, 1998
SET ONE
Arthur Jarvinen: The Vulture's Garden
a. The Vulture's Garden
b. The War of Time
c. The Last Dim Weird Battle of the West
d. Not with a Bang but a Whimper
Edible Black Ink
O.O. Discs/1996
California Ear Unit -- featuring Dorothy Stone, flutes; recorded at Mad Hatter, Los Angeles, June, 1996
Dorothy Stone: Indigenous Music II -- Flute (S. L. Mosko)
None But The Lonely Flute
New World Records/1994
In memory of three composers/performers, and affiliates of The California Institute of the Arts and The California Ear Unit --
Stephen Lucky Mosko: 1947 - 2005
Dorothy Stone (wife of Mosko): 1958 - 2008
Arthur Jarvinen: 1956 - 2010
SET TWO
Kitty Brazelton: Motet
Ecclesiastes: A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band -- conductor, laptop soundtrack: K. Brazelton; text: Book of Ecclesiastes; recorded at 2nd Story Sound, NYC
Jan Garbarek: Ov zarmanali -- Hymn of the baptism of Christ (Komitas)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009
Arvo Pärt: Ode VII
Kanon Pakajanen
ECM New Series/1998
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor: Teije van Geest; text from "Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ" by St. Andrew of Crete, recorded at Niguliste Church, Tallinn, June, 1997
SET THREE
Anatoly Pereslegin: Isiah No. 2
Download the God
Electroshock Records/2000
performed and recorded by A. Pereslegin, Jerusalem, 1994-1995; final mix by A. Pereslegin, Moscow, 1999-2000
Cesare Rosa Calamaro: Ludus
Electroacoustic Music from Sicily #
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
SET FOUR
Barton McLean: Magic at Xanadu (MAX)
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
B. McLean: keyboards in Composer's Playpen (in MAX computer language)
Mike Swinchoski: Alternative Song
60 x 60 -- 2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2006
André Cormier: 380
ibid.
Jonty Harrison: Unsound Objects
Articles indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
composed at Harrison's studio at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK
SET FIVE
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2009
Nicola Cisternino: Xöömij
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum #
Mode Records/2001
bass: Nicholas Isherwood; realized at the Ateliers UPIC (CCMIX), Paris, April, 1997
SET SIX
Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe:
a. Opening Slide Lecture
b. Where is that Boy
The Carbon Copy Building -- A comic-strip opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
performed by Bang On A Can All-Stars -- singers: Theo Bleckmann, Tony Boutté, Katie Geissinger, Toby Twining; musicians: electric guitar: John Benthal, percussion: David Cossin; keyboards: Martin Goldray; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; text, illustrations: Ben Katchor; recorded at Avatar Studios, NYC, August, 2000
Joëlle Léandre and Quentin Sirjacq: Moon Journey
Out of Nowhere
Actuelle/2008
contrabass: J. Léandre; piano: Q. Sirjacq; recorded at Studio Lu Hullette, Paris, 1/13/08
Fred Frith: Trocosi
Prints
ReR Megacorp/2003
acoustic bass: Sebastian Grimms; other instruments and voice: F. Frith; text: International Herald Tribune edition 1/28/97, "Enslavement of Women in Ghana"; sample: Kahil El'Zabar, "Where Do You Want to Go"
SINGLE PLAY
Olly Wilson: Piano Piece
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 #
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
piano: Thomas Fosnocht
--FIN--
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