Sunday, September 4, 2011

Martian Gardens for 09/04/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 04, 2011

SET ONE
Richard Carrick: In Flow
The Flow Cycle for Strings
New World Records2011
violin: Andrea Schultz

Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 9 (Duo Capriccioso)
The Music of Mario Davidovsky Volume 3
Bridge Records/2005
violin: Curtis Macomber; electronics; recorded at K.A.S. Music Sound, Astoria, NY

Todd Reynolds: End of Day
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
viola: T. Reynolds

SET TWO
Maya Beiser: I Was There (K. Kahlor)
Provenance
Innova Recordings/2011
oud: Bassam Saba; cello: M. Beiser; percussion: Shane Shanahan, Jamey Haddad; recorded at Kilgore Studios, New York City

Mohammed Saleh Abd Al-Saheb Lelo/Haitham Hasan: Bead Konto
Music of Islam Volume 4--Music of the Arabian Peninsula (Doha, Qatar)
Celestial Harmonies/1997
oud: Mohammed Saleh; percussion: Haitham Hasan

SET THREE
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary DVD
Mode Records/2011
performed by Steven Schick and red fish blue fish; National Gallery of Arts, Washington D.C.

Michael Lipsey: King of Denmark (M. Feldman)
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2008
percussion: M. Lipsey; recorded at David Cossin's apartment, New York City

SET FOUR
Harry Partch: End of Scene Three and all of Chorus Four --
from Revelation in the Courthouse Park, after the Bacchae of Euripides
Enclosure 5 -- Harry Partch anthology
Innova Recordings/1998
Gate 5 Ensemble, conductor John Garvey; performed for the Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois, 4/11/61

Jody Diamond: Hard Times (S. Foster)
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts; voice: J. Diamond; recorded at the ISI, Surakarta, July, 2001

SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Land Below the Wind -- Parts 1 & 2
Land Below the Wind
MPS Music & Video/2011

Robert Scott Thompson: Waters of Cabeus (A)
Elemental
Aucourant Records/2010

SET SIX
Christine Groult: Vertiges
La Condition Captive
Trace Label/2007

Gerard Pape: Funeral Sentences
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
sopranos: Janet Pape, Armelle Orieux; percussion: Roland Auzet; conductor: Alain Bancquart; texts: Anglican Book of Common Prayer, Funeral Sentences (after Henry Purcell); unnamed Jewish poem

Jacques Tremblay: L'enigme anima
Chroniques d'une séduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2009

SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: Central Section (excerpt)
Systems of Judgment
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 4
Centaur Records/1989
recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM), Mills College, completed in May, 1988

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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Martian Gardens for 8/28/2011

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 August 28, 2011

SET ONE
Henry Brant: 1955. Eleven Hurricanes. Atlantic Coast
Autumn Hurricanes -- The Henry Brant Collection Volume 5
Innova Recordings/2006
musicians of Stetson University, chief conductor: H. Brant; recorded at
Elizabeth Hall Auditorium, Stetson University, Deland Florida, 4/26/86


Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Music for Berlin
Celestial Voices
O.O. Discs/1998
flutes: Robert Dick; piano: Anthony DeMare, recorded at the University
of Maryland Baltimore County

SET TWO
Giacinto Scelsi: Manto I, II, III
The Works for Viola
Mode Records/2011
viola, voice: Vincent Royer; recorded at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, 2008

Richard Carrick: Shadow Flow
The Flow Cycle for Strings
New World Records/2011
viola: Dov Scheindlin

SET THREE
Benjamin Broening: Third Nocturne
Recombinant Nocturnes
Innova Recordings/2011
pianos: Daniel Koppelman; electronics; recorded at Camp Concert Hall,
Modlin Center for the Arts, University of Richmond, May, 2010


Robert Scott Thompson:
a. Origin
b. Lattice

Blue Day
Aucourant Records/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Less Than Two
Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
pianos: Jean-Charles François, Delores Stevens; percussion: Daniel Dunbar,
Daryl Pratt (orig. Lovely Music, Ltd./1984)


SET FOUR
Meredith Monk: Respite
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: Meredith Monk, Bruce Rameker, Ching Gonzalez, Allison Sniffin;
shruti boxes: Ellen Fisher, Bohdan Hilash, John Hollenbeck, B. Rameker,
C. Gonzalez, Katie Geisinger, A. Sniffin; violins: Todd Reynolds, Courtney
Orlando; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; recorded at the Academy
of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009


Hervé Zénouda: Les êtres indécis
Demain, dès l'aube
Trace Label/2002
alto saxophone: Cathy Heyden; electric guitar: Thomas Pettit; percussion:
Hervé Zénouda


Jon Hassell: Dream Theory
Dream Theory in Malaya
EG/1981
electronically filtered trumpet: J. Hassell; drums: Brian Eno; bass:
Michael Brook; recorded at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario


Jin Hi Kim & Gerry Hemingway: Saturn's Rings
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
electric komungo: JHK; percussion: G.Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury,
Massachusetts, 8/18/09


SINGLE PLAY
Sarah Boothroyd: All in Time
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011

SINGLE PLAY
Quatuor Bozzini: 2nd Movement
a. Pulsations
b. 38 Pièces
c. Shiatsu
d. Mélopées d'ADN

Quatuor Bozzini-Actuellecd/2011
recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 12/15/07

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Bonampak
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
ARP 2500 synthesizer: T. Hamilton; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; wind instruments: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1975

--FIN--

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Martian Gardens for 08/14/2011

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 August 14, 2011

SET ONE
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary
Mode Records/2011
performed by Steven Schick and red fish blue fish; National Gallery of Arts, Washington D.C.

Gordon Mumma: Meanwhile, A Twopiece
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966
New World Records/2003
piano, percussion: Robert Ashley; French horn, percussion: G. Mumma; magnetic tape; recorded at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2/10/62

SET TWO
Evidence: Burden
Iris
Deep Listening/2007

Daniel Menche: Coughing Angel
Screaming Caress
Side Effects/1997

Anla Courtis and Daniel Menche: Harmful Rainstorm
The Torrid (Anla Courtis, et al.)
Porter Records/2011
rainstorm recording, live mix: D. Menche; harmonica sound sources: A. Courtis; recorded in Portland, Oregon, 2008

Anla Courtis: Invisible Clown Sonata
Tape Works
Pogus Productions/2006
Minimoog: A. Courtis

SET THREE
The Legendary Pink Dots: Femme Mirage
Asylum
Play It Again Sam/1985

Jenny Q Chai: Serenity (C. Ives)
New York Love Songs
Arpaviva Foundation, Inc./2010
amplified piano, voice: JQ Chai; text: J.G. Whittier

Charles Ives: August
The Light That Is Felt -- Songs of Charles Ives
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman; text: Folgore da San Gimignano, translation by Dante Gabriel Rosetti;

Hervé Zénouda: Jour de colère
Vies Secondes
Trace Label/1999
violin: Alain Petit; MIDI tuba: Pierre Pouget; MIDI programming: H. Zénouda; recorded at Le Cult Du Cargo studio, Paris

Paolo Angeli:
a. La Mulina (Parlando)
b. La Mulina de Pepa

ReR Megacorp/2005
recorded in Italy, 2002-2004

A Touch of the Sun: Geese
Not Necessarily "English" Music (various artists)
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
guitar: Peter Cusack; clarinet: Simon Mayo; recorded in London, c. 1974

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Ptoccata II
Petrophonics
Cuneiform Records/2000
additional musicians -- percussion: Terry Donahue, Ken Winokur; turntable: Pacey Foster; recorded at Sounds Interesting, Middleborough, Mass., 1999/2000

SET FOUR
Jason Eckhardt: 16
Undersong
Mode Records/2011
amplified flute: Claire Chase; International Contemporary Ensemble, conductor: Steven Schick; recorded at Sweeney Auditorium, Smith College, 3/19/08

Margaret Lancaster: Io (L. V. Vierk)
Io
New World Records/2009
electric guitar: Larry Polansky; marimba: Matthew Gold; flute: M. Lancaster;
recorded at 2nd Story Sound, New York City, 2/06/09


SET FIVE
F. Gerard Errante: Water Crossing (A. Shapiro)
Delicate Balance
Aucourant Records/2010
clarinet: F. G. Errante; electronics

Alex Shapiro: Bioplasm
Notes from the Kelp
Innova Recordings/2007
The Los Angeles Flute Quartet; recorded at Citrus City Studios, Glendora, CA, March 2004

SET SIX
Maggi Payne: System Test (Fire and Ice)
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010

Marcelle Deschênes: Indigo
a. Peur apprivoisée (Tamed Fear)
b. Trame de tension (Weft of Tension)

Petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur
a. Opening
b. Dance

The Electronic Works I
Mode Records/2001
Buchla synthesizer: M. Subotnick, 1978

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Saturday, August 13, 2011

The Ghost of Esperanto Volume 03

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

THE GHOST OF ESPERANTO, VOLUME 03
Music from the archives of Esperanto
broadcast Sunday evenings 1995--2000 on WMUA

For automated station programming
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Recorded August 13, 2011

SET ONE
Single Cell Orchestra: Knock Out Drops (200 Proof Mix)
Single Cell Orchestra
Asphodel/1996

Orbital: The Box (1 & 2)
In Sides
FFRR-London Records/1996

SET TWO
Robert Black: Radio Sonata (J. Sellars)
State of the Bass
O.O. Discs/1994

Severed Heads: Snow
Gigapus
Volition/1994

Spoonfed Hybrid: Boys in Zinc
Spoonfed Hybrid
4AD/1994

Peter Lazonby: Humble Servant
Your Humble Servant
Braniak/1995

SET THREE
Leif Brush: Terrain Instruments Are Activated
The Aerial (various artists)
Nonsequitur/1994

Amorphous Androgynous: Fat Cat
Tales of Ephidrina
Astralwerks/1993

Bionaut: Astral Unraveler
Au Naturel
Tiny Bubbles Music/1996

SET FOUR
The Higher Intelligence Agency: Fleagle
Freefloater
Waveform/1996

Vidna Obmana: Challenging Boundaries
Assemblage Volume Two (various artists)
Extreme Records/1996

Muslimgauze: Beit Nuba
Citadel
Extreme Records/1994

SET FIVE
The Legendary Pink Dots: Stitching Time
Shadow Weaver
Play It Again Sam/1992

Gong:
a. Magick Mother Invocation
b. Master Builder

You
Decal/1991 (orig. Virgin/1974)

The Legendary Pink Dots: Oasis Malade
9 Lives to Wonder
Play It Again Sam/1994

Bill Nelson: Memory Babe
After the Satellite Sings
Gyroscope/1996

SET SIX
Alquimia & Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma: Foundations (Basamentos)
Dead Tongues (Lenguas Muertas)
Cuneiform Records/1996

Dead Can Dance: Dedicacé Outò
Spirit Chaser
4AD/1996

Hungry Ghost: Cloud Sculptors
Sugar Skulls
Tone Casualties/1995

This Mortal Coil: At First And Then
Filigree & Shadow
4AD/1986

Muslimgauze: Caste the First Stone
Salaam Alekum, Bastard
Staalplaat/1995

SET SEVEN
Richard Pinhas: Marie et Virginie Comp (Live)
Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale
Cuneiform/1995 (orig. 1978)

Steve Tibbetts:
a. Interlude
b. Alvin Goes to Tibet

Steve Tibbetts
Cuneiform/1995 (orig. 1977)

Ken Field: Takuskanskan
Subterranea
O.O. Discs/1996

SINGLE PLAY
Jeffrey Krieger: themythofAcceptance (H. Gwiazda)
Night Chains
CRI/1995

--FIN--

Friday, August 12, 2011

Martian Gardens: Auto-Archive Volume 2

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

MARTIAN GARDENS
Archived for Automation, Volume 02

Selections from the empreintes DIGITALes label
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Recorded August 12, 2011

SET 0NE
Robert Normandeau: Le Renard et la Rose (The Fox and The Rose)
a. Babbling and Rhythm
b. Nostalgia and Tone
c. Anger and Dynamics
d. Weariness and Space
e. Serenity and Texture

Figures
IMED 9944/1999

Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles DVD
IMED 0575/2005

SET TWO
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow
Isotasie
IMED 0262/2001

Natasha Barrett: Racing Through, Racing Unseen
Miniatures Concrètes (various artists)
IMED 9837/1998

SINGLE PLAY
Marc Tremblay: Cowboy Fiction
Bruit-Graffiti
IMED 9949/1999

SET THREE
Micheline Coulumbe Saint-Marcoux: Zones
Impulsion
IMED 0159/2001

Pete Stollery: Altered Images
Un Son Peut en Cacher un Autre
IMED 0678/2006

SINGLE PLAY
Roxanne Turcotte: Libellune
Libellune
IMED 0370/2003
wind instruments: Michel Dubeau

SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformations
IMED 1031/2010 (orig. 1996)

Elsa Justel: Puntos, comas y refritos (Points, commas and clichés)
Mâts
IMED 0785/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Jonty Harrison: Streams
Évidence matérielle
IMED 0052/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Voyage-Miroir
...Et Autres Utopies
IMED 0682/2006

--FIN--

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Martian Gardens for 08/07/2011

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 August 07, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary DVD
Mode Records/2011
percussion: red fish blue fish, director: Steven Schick

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death
Part One
a. Refrain One
I. La Guitarra (The Guitar)
b. Refrain Two
II. Casida de Las Palomas Oscuras (Casida of the Dark Doves)
Part Two
c. Refrain Three
III. Canción de Jinete, 1860 (Song of the Rider, 1860)
d. Refrain Four
IV. Casida del Herido por el Agua (Casida of the Boy Wounded by Water)

Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death
Bridge Records/1991
Speculum Musicae -- baritone: Sanford Sylvan; electric guitar: David Starobin; electric contrabass: Donald Palma; electric piano and electric harpsichord: Aleck Karis; percussion: Daniel Druckman and Eric Charlston; texts: Federico García Lorca; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 6/17/90

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: The Angel of Death
Epigram and Evolution -- The Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Marilyn Nonken; technician: J.T. Rinker; The Slee Sinfonietta, conductor: Magnus Mårtensson; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY, Buffalo, 6/01/04 for the June in Buffalo Festival

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Ghost Words After Trees Fall
Ghost Words
Aucourant Records/2008
electronics: RST; commissioned by IMEB; composed in Bourges, 2007

SET ONE
F. Gerard Errante: Cherry Blossom and A Wrapped Thing (After Hokusai) (J. Shatin)
Delicate Balance
Aucourant Records/2010
clarinet: FGE; electronics: Judith Shatin

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; MAX/MSP: R. Pinkston; recorded at the Fine Arts Recording Studio, University of North Texas, 1/09/03

SET TWO
Lauzier/Martel/Myhr/Tétreault: Traitement Thermique
Disparition de l’usine éphémère
Actuellecd/2008
alto saxophone, bass clarinet, preparations: Phillippe Lauzier; viola de gamba, objects, preparations; acoustic guitar, objects, preparations: Kim Myhr; turntables: Martin Tétreault; recorded at Hotel2Tango, 7/23/08

Scott Smallwood: Sunkraft
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
antique electrotherapy machines: S. Smallwood

Diane Labrosse: Manual Coffee Mill
Music for Objects of the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd.com/2007
percolators; violin: Marie-Soleil Bélanger; flute, trumpet: Jean Derome; electric guitar: Bernhard Falaise; clarinet: Lori Freedman; accordion: D. Labrosse; viola: Jean Réne; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; musicians recorded at Studio 270 Montreal; percolators recorded at Studio Le 2e, Montreal

Stephen Vitiello: Circuit Tension
Bode Sound Project
Bode Archive -- Institute for Electric Arts/2006
Harald Bode electronic instruments: S. Vitiello, Andrew Deutsch, Peer Bode

Luc Ferrari:
a. Etudes aux accidents (1958)
b. Etudes sons tendus (1958)

Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

SET THREE
James Tenney: Phases (for Edgard Varèse)
Selected Works 1961-1969
New World Records/2003 (orig. Frog Peak Music/1992)
recorded at Bell Labs, 1963

Edgard Varèse: Intégrales
The Varèse Album
Wounded Bird/2007 (orig. Sony/1972)
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Robert Craft

--FIN--

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Martian Gardens: Auto-Archive Volume 01

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

MARTIAN GARDENS
Archived for Automation, Volume 01

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

Recorded August 03, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Steve Reich: Piano Phase
Early Works
Nonesuch/1987
Double Edge -- pianos: Nurit Tilles and Edmund Niemann;
recorded at RCA Studio A, New York City, May 1986


SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass: Music In Fifths
Two Pages-Contrary Motion-Music in Fifths-Music in Similar Motion
Nonesuch/1994
electric organ: P. Glass; soprano saxophones: Jon Gibson, Dickie Landry; electronics, engineering: Kurt Munkacsi; recorded at Butterfly Studios, New York City, June 1973

SET
Sarah Peebles: Nocturnal Premonitions
Music from Nature -- A Terra Nova Compilation
Terra Nova/1997

Ingram Marshall: Cortez
Ikon and Other Early Works
New World Records/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Meredith Monk: Dolmen Music
a. Overture and Men's Conclave
b. Wa-Ohs
c. Rain
d. Pine Tree Lullaby
e. Calls
f. Conclusion

Dolmen Music
ECM New Series/1981
voices: Andrea Goodman, Julius Eastman, Monica Solem, Robert Een, Paul Langland, M. Monk; cello: R. Een; percussion: J. Eastman; recorded at Hometown Studios, New York City, March 1980

SINGLE PLAY
Leo Kupper: Amkéa
a. Récit 1
b. Vocalique
c. Récit 2
d. Mélodique
e. Glissandi Vocaux

Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/1999
mezzo soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; recorded in Brussels, 1985

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Living Room Music
I. To Begin
II. Story
III. Melody
IV. End

The Choral Works I
Mode Records/1998
vocal group: Ars Nova, conductor: Támas Vetö; percussion: Gert Sorensen; recorded at Energy Field Studio, August 1997

SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: HMBIPRHLOTP* Section V (Humanity)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims
New World Records/2009
tabla: Swapan Chaudhari; piccolo, flute, bass flute: Vinny Golia; sarode: Aashish Khan; trumpet: Daniel Rosenboom; piano, computer: David Rosenboom; pemade: I Nyoman Wenten; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts, 11/01/08; historical performance -- David Rosenboom, Donald Buchla: two Buchla Series 300 Electronic Music Boxes; recorded at the Music Gallery, Toronto, 4/07/79

SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom and Donald Buchla: HMBIPRHLOTP* Section V
Rosenboom & Buchla -- Collaboration in Performance
1750 Arch Records/1979
Buchla synthesizers: D. Rosenboom, D. Buchla; orchestration, instrumentation: D. Buchla; electronic voice 1: D. Rosenboom; electronic voices 2,3,4: D. Buchla; recorded at 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, 4/21/78

*How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims


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