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 January 8, 2012
SINGLE PLAY
Deep Listening Band: Invocation
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
DLB; voice: Julie Lyon Balliet; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, New York, 1993-1994
SET ONE
Charles Dodge: Folia
Music for Computers, Electronic Sound and Players
CRI/1974
ensemble conducted by Jacques-Louis Monod
Charles Dodge: Violin Variations I-IV
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
violin: Baird Dodge
SET TWO
Little Bang Theory: Toy Suite #5
Toy Suites and Themes
Tranmogrification/2011
toys, whistling, voice: F. Pahl; toys, voice: Terri Sarris; toys, drums, voice: Doug Shimmin
Ge Gan-Ru: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Lost Style
New Albion Records/2006
voice, toy orchestra: Margaret Leng Tan; text: Lu You; recorded at Classic Sound, New York City, 8/10/06
SET THREE
Philip Mantione: Social Immune System
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
based on field recordings at an Occupy LA Protest, 10/15/11; premiered at Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona
Brian Eno & David Byrne:
a. Help Me Somebody
b. Come with Us
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Nonesuch/2006 (orig. 1981)
instruments, objects, samples: Byrne/Eno with(a.) congas, metals: Steve Scales; drums: John Cooksey; recorded 1979-1980 at various locations
Musci-Venosta: The Snout in the Dark
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
treated voice, percussion, gamelan, kanun, nadaswaram, clarinet, kalimba, musical tube, Japanese market field recordings: Giovanni Venosta, Roberto Musci; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, 1991-1992
SET FOUR
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Goma Arábica
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recorded in 1995 at University of Edinburgh Electroacoustic Music Studios; orchestra: The Contemporary Music Group, conductor: Steve Davismoon
Mother Tongue: The Voice and The Ear
Touch.Sampler
Touch/1997
Mother Tongue: Andrew McKenzie, Dorothea Franck, Z'ev; recorded at Suitcase Studios, London, 1987
Sarah Peebles: 10 Below
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
Arthur Gottschalk: Phase 59
60 x 60 2006-2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
Sarah Peebles: Lift
Deep Wireless 5 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008
Chris Watson: Lemon-Rumped Tinkerbird
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch/1998
recorded in the Cameroon rain forest, June, 1997
Hsiao-Lan Wang: A Golden Leaf Drifts Downstream
Electroacoustic Works
Hsiao-Lan Wang/2003
for two tinkliks (Indonesian xylophones), and computer
SET FIVE
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape # 1
The Percussion Works I
Mode Records/2011
for two variable-speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano, and cymbal; performed by Joey Van Hassel; recorded at Robert J Werner Concert Hall, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 6/12/08
Alexei Borisov: My Voices
Polished Surface of a Table
Electroshock Records/2004
Øystein Kapperud: Leland Wrapped in Plastic
The Wire Tapper 26 [various artists]
The Wire magazine/2011
Chris Watson: Adult Cheetah
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch/1998
recorded in Pamuzinda, Zimbabwe, June, 1994
Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde [various artists]
Pogus Productions/2009
realized at Tangent Studio, London and the Electronic Music Studio, University of London, Goldsmith College; original release: Source Record No. 6; Source Records journal Vol. 5, No. 1, 1971
SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Dempster: Standing Waves 78/87
In The Great Abbey Of Clement VI
New Albion Records/1987
trombone, tape playback: S. Dempster; recorded at Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, California, 5/21/78
--FIN--
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Martian Gardens for 01/01/2012
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 January 1, 2012
SINGLE PLAY
Godfrey Winham: NP (Two Pieces for Computer-Synthesized Sound)
a. NP I
b. NP II
Computer Works [various artists]
CRI/1978
realized at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory at Princeton University, 1972
SET ONE
Hideko Kawamoto: Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly
Sonic Circuits VII [various artists]
Innova Recordings/1999
Morton Subotnick: Butterfly No. 3
Until Spring: Revisited; 4 Butterflies
Mode Records/2011
composition for 4-Channel tape (original mix 1973; new mix 2011)
Morton Subotnick: And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
New World Records/1997
The Amernet String Quartet; double bass: Bleda Elibal; MIDI keyboard: James Tocco; computer program: M. Subotnick; recorded at Corbett Studios, Cincinnati
SET TWO
James Corrêa: Danças & Intermezzi
a. Meta-Funk
b. Mirror of Sand
c. Winter Dance
d. Mirror of Granite
e. Circle of Fire
Plural [Corrêa/Miranda]
Fumproarte/2002
piano: Catarina Domenici; electronics: J.Corrêa; recorded at PUC Auditorium, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002
Ricardo Dal Farra: ...Due Giorni Dopo
Travels of the Spider -- Electroacoustic Music from Argentina [various artists]
Pogus Productions/1998
composed and produced at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of Padova's University, Italy, 1988; premiered at Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 1988
John Cage: Excerpt from Voiceless Essay
Ghosts and Monsters
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music --
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/Leonardo Music Journal/1998
vocalizations derived from a recitation of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), Henry David Thoreau; composition for for four computer-generated tapes, first performance 11/21/86, San Francisco, with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (dance: Points in Space); first broadcast BBC2, 7/18/87
SET THREE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Robotapithecos
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recorded at Tempo Reale Centre, Italy
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Rapports bruit/signal (éclats d’égalité)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at at the Studio 116C of Ina-GRM, Paris, and the composer's studio, Huddersfield, UK, 2009; premiered at the Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France, 12/06/09
John Bischoff: Override
The Lab 20th Anniversary CD [various artists]
The Lab/2004
Leo Kupper: Sabratrana (from Rezas Populares Do Brasil)
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/1999
mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; bass: Eduardo Janho-Abumrad; electronics: Leo Kupper; recorded in Brussels
SET FOUR
Richard Lainhart: Staring at the Moon
Ten Thousand Shades of Blue
XI Records/2001
bowed and struck vibraphone; interactive computer music system; recorded at SUNY Albany Electronic Music Studio and O-Town Media
In memory of Richard Lainhart, February 14, 1953 -- December 30, 2011
Paul Dresher: Chorale Times Two (from Concerto for Violin & Electro-Acoustic Band)
Cage Machine
New Albion Records/2004
violin soloist: David Abel; Electro-Acoustic Band -- keyboard: Phil Aaberg; bassoon: Paul Hanson; electric guitar: Paul Dresher; mallet percussion: Amy Knoles; recorded at the Dresher Ensemble studios, September 1999
SET FIVE
Meehan/Perkins Duo: Observations (T. Perich)
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; 1-bit microchip music program: Tristan Perich; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010
Sō Percussion: Drumming, Part Three (S. Reich)
Steve Reich -- Drumming
Cantaloupe Music/2005
recorded at the Hit Factory and Sony Music Studios, New York City, November 2004
SET SIX
Chaya Czernowin: Ina
Afatsim -- Chamber Music
Mode Records/1999
flute soloist and prerecorded flutes: John Fonville; recorded at the University of California, San Diego
Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster/Panaiotis: Nike
Deep Listening
New Albion Records/1989
conch shell, mouthpiece whistling, trombone, voice: Dempster; conch shell, metal pieces, voice: Oliveros; metal pieces, pipes, voice: Panaiotis; recorded in Fort Worden Cistern, Port Townsend, Washington, 1988
SET SEVEN
Frank Pahl: The Ice House
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
Jin Hi Kim: No World Improvisations
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
komungo: Jin Hi Kim; Senegalese djambey: Mor Thiam; Australian didgeridoo: Adam Plack; double reed, mukhaveena: Joseph Celli; performed at American Music Week, Bonn, Germany
--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 January 1, 2012
SINGLE PLAY
Godfrey Winham: NP (Two Pieces for Computer-Synthesized Sound)
a. NP I
b. NP II
Computer Works [various artists]
CRI/1978
realized at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory at Princeton University, 1972
SET ONE
Hideko Kawamoto: Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly
Sonic Circuits VII [various artists]
Innova Recordings/1999
Morton Subotnick: Butterfly No. 3
Until Spring: Revisited; 4 Butterflies
Mode Records/2011
composition for 4-Channel tape (original mix 1973; new mix 2011)
Morton Subotnick: And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
New World Records/1997
The Amernet String Quartet; double bass: Bleda Elibal; MIDI keyboard: James Tocco; computer program: M. Subotnick; recorded at Corbett Studios, Cincinnati
SET TWO
James Corrêa: Danças & Intermezzi
a. Meta-Funk
b. Mirror of Sand
c. Winter Dance
d. Mirror of Granite
e. Circle of Fire
Plural [Corrêa/Miranda]
Fumproarte/2002
piano: Catarina Domenici; electronics: J.Corrêa; recorded at PUC Auditorium, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002
Ricardo Dal Farra: ...Due Giorni Dopo
Travels of the Spider -- Electroacoustic Music from Argentina [various artists]
Pogus Productions/1998
composed and produced at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of Padova's University, Italy, 1988; premiered at Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 1988
John Cage: Excerpt from Voiceless Essay
Ghosts and Monsters
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music --
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/Leonardo Music Journal/1998
vocalizations derived from a recitation of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), Henry David Thoreau; composition for for four computer-generated tapes, first performance 11/21/86, San Francisco, with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (dance: Points in Space); first broadcast BBC2, 7/18/87
SET THREE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Robotapithecos
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recorded at Tempo Reale Centre, Italy
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Rapports bruit/signal (éclats d’égalité)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at at the Studio 116C of Ina-GRM, Paris, and the composer's studio, Huddersfield, UK, 2009; premiered at the Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France, 12/06/09
John Bischoff: Override
The Lab 20th Anniversary CD [various artists]
The Lab/2004
Leo Kupper: Sabratrana (from Rezas Populares Do Brasil)
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/1999
mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; bass: Eduardo Janho-Abumrad; electronics: Leo Kupper; recorded in Brussels
SET FOUR
Richard Lainhart: Staring at the Moon
Ten Thousand Shades of Blue
XI Records/2001
bowed and struck vibraphone; interactive computer music system; recorded at SUNY Albany Electronic Music Studio and O-Town Media
In memory of Richard Lainhart, February 14, 1953 -- December 30, 2011
Paul Dresher: Chorale Times Two (from Concerto for Violin & Electro-Acoustic Band)
Cage Machine
New Albion Records/2004
violin soloist: David Abel; Electro-Acoustic Band -- keyboard: Phil Aaberg; bassoon: Paul Hanson; electric guitar: Paul Dresher; mallet percussion: Amy Knoles; recorded at the Dresher Ensemble studios, September 1999
SET FIVE
Meehan/Perkins Duo: Observations (T. Perich)
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; 1-bit microchip music program: Tristan Perich; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010
Sō Percussion: Drumming, Part Three (S. Reich)
Steve Reich -- Drumming
Cantaloupe Music/2005
recorded at the Hit Factory and Sony Music Studios, New York City, November 2004
SET SIX
Chaya Czernowin: Ina
Afatsim -- Chamber Music
Mode Records/1999
flute soloist and prerecorded flutes: John Fonville; recorded at the University of California, San Diego
Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster/Panaiotis: Nike
Deep Listening
New Albion Records/1989
conch shell, mouthpiece whistling, trombone, voice: Dempster; conch shell, metal pieces, voice: Oliveros; metal pieces, pipes, voice: Panaiotis; recorded in Fort Worden Cistern, Port Townsend, Washington, 1988
SET SEVEN
Frank Pahl: The Ice House
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
Jin Hi Kim: No World Improvisations
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
komungo: Jin Hi Kim; Senegalese djambey: Mor Thiam; Australian didgeridoo: Adam Plack; double reed, mukhaveena: Joseph Celli; performed at American Music Week, Bonn, Germany
--FIN--
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Martian Gardens for 12/18/2011
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 December 18, 2011
SET ONE
Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music [Randall/Vercoe/Dodge]
Nonesuch/1974
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Barry Vercoe: Synapse for Viola and Computer
Computer Works [Winham/Vercoe/Hoffman/Gressel]
CRI/1978
viola: Marcus Thompson; realized at the M.I.T. Experimental Electronic Music Studio
Frances White: A veil barely seen
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen; electroacoustics: F. White
SET TWO
Charles Dodge: Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
New Albion Records/1992
tenor: Enrico Caruso (sourced from Ruggerio Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci," aria: "Vesti la Giuba"); piano: Alan Feinberg
ZNR: Seynette
Barricade 3
ReR Megacorp/1994 (orig. 1977)
synthesizer, voice: Hector Zazou; piano: Joseph Racaille; violin: Gilly Bell; bass clarinet: Patrick Portella; flute: David Rueff; tenor saxophone: Andre Jaume; recorded at Gilly Bell's studio, Ventabren (Bouches-du-Rhône), France, January 1976
Hervé Zénouda: Reflets Fauves
Demain, dès l'aube...
Trace Label/2002
electric guitar: Thomas Petit; piano, percussion, electronics: H. Zénouda; recorded at Sudio de la Rotonde, Châtenay-Malabry, France
Arie Shapira: Ex Machina
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004
guitar: Ruben Serussi; electronic tape: Arie Shapira; recorded in Israel
SET THREE
Elainie Lillios: Listening Beyond...
Entre espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studio of the Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, 2007; premiered at the High Voltage concert in the Recital Hall at Louisiana State University, 12/03/07
Sarah Peebles: Nocturnal Premonitions
Music from Nature [various artists]
Terra Nova/1997
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme,
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recored at the Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music Studio, France, 2001
SET FOUR
James Corrêa: O jardim dos caminhos que se bifurcam
Plural [Corrêa & Miranda]
Fumproarte/2002
classical guitar, electronics: J. Corrêa; recorded at the Dreher Studio, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002
Adolfo Núñez: Jurel
Electroacoustic Music CD-R
Adolfo Núñez/2004
musique concrete sourced from flamenco performances; recorded at the studio of Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges, France, 1993
Alfredo Lagos/Giovanni Venosta/Massimo Mariani: Estudio sobre el ritmo
Metamorphoses
ReR Megacorp/1999
Spanish guitar: A. Lagos; treatments, engineering: G. Venosta, M. Mariani; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, July 1997
SET FIVE
Marco Capelli and Sintax Error: Selections from
In the Shadow of No Towers
a. The Flag
b. Maus 1
c. Maus 2
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narrator: John Turturro; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; recorded at Musicisti Associati, Naples, 2008 and Harvestworks, New York City, 2011
Heiner Goebbels: Selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 2: Gertrude Stein texts
a. Just Like That
b. On the Road
c. And We Said Goodbye
d. On the Radio
e. Different Nations
f. Out Where the West Begins*/Train Travelling
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten [Landscape with Distant Relatives]
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; SWR Baden-Baden
*music and lyrics: Arthur Chapman (1917)
Little Bang Theory: Dmitri Rides Again
Toy Suites and Themes
Transmogrification/2011
toys, whistling: F. Pahl; toys, voice: Terri Sarris; toys, drums: Dough Shimmin
Tom Waits: Russian Dance
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
Emax strings: Tom Waits; cello: Matt Brubeck; viola: Linda Deluca; bass: Bill Douglas; boots: Kathleen Brennan, Clive Butters, Tom Waits, Francis Thumm, Joe Marquez; recorded at Prairie Sun Recording Studios, Cotati, California
Tom Waits: Poor Little Lamb
Orphans -- Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Anti-/2006
performed by Tom Waits (voice, accordion); originally appearing in the 1987 motion picture "Ironweed"
Frank Pahl: The Mid-Century Modern Waltz
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
upright Vose piano, various noise-making objects: F. Pahl
SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: Return -- A Triumph of Reason, part I
a. Beginning of the Universe
b. Earth, the beginning of our solar system
c. Descending Dance
d. Chord dance: Dance of Destruction
e. 12 b.c.
f. Comet
g. Giotto
h. 1862--Halley
i. CODA--return
j. D Major
The Key to Songs
New Albion Records/1986
Yamaha Computer Assisted Music Systems: M. Subotnick; recorded at the Enterprise, Burbank, California
SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Anticredos (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
performed by Songcircle, director: Gregory Rose; recorded in the Music Center, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March/April, 1982
--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 December 18, 2011
SET ONE
Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music [Randall/Vercoe/Dodge]
Nonesuch/1974
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Barry Vercoe: Synapse for Viola and Computer
Computer Works [Winham/Vercoe/Hoffman/Gressel]
CRI/1978
viola: Marcus Thompson; realized at the M.I.T. Experimental Electronic Music Studio
Frances White: A veil barely seen
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen; electroacoustics: F. White
SET TWO
Charles Dodge: Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
New Albion Records/1992
tenor: Enrico Caruso (sourced from Ruggerio Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci," aria: "Vesti la Giuba"); piano: Alan Feinberg
ZNR: Seynette
Barricade 3
ReR Megacorp/1994 (orig. 1977)
synthesizer, voice: Hector Zazou; piano: Joseph Racaille; violin: Gilly Bell; bass clarinet: Patrick Portella; flute: David Rueff; tenor saxophone: Andre Jaume; recorded at Gilly Bell's studio, Ventabren (Bouches-du-Rhône), France, January 1976
Hervé Zénouda: Reflets Fauves
Demain, dès l'aube...
Trace Label/2002
electric guitar: Thomas Petit; piano, percussion, electronics: H. Zénouda; recorded at Sudio de la Rotonde, Châtenay-Malabry, France
Arie Shapira: Ex Machina
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004
guitar: Ruben Serussi; electronic tape: Arie Shapira; recorded in Israel
SET THREE
Elainie Lillios: Listening Beyond...
Entre espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studio of the Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, 2007; premiered at the High Voltage concert in the Recital Hall at Louisiana State University, 12/03/07
Sarah Peebles: Nocturnal Premonitions
Music from Nature [various artists]
Terra Nova/1997
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme,
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recored at the Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music Studio, France, 2001
SET FOUR
James Corrêa: O jardim dos caminhos que se bifurcam
Plural [Corrêa & Miranda]
Fumproarte/2002
classical guitar, electronics: J. Corrêa; recorded at the Dreher Studio, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002
Adolfo Núñez: Jurel
Electroacoustic Music CD-R
Adolfo Núñez/2004
musique concrete sourced from flamenco performances; recorded at the studio of Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges, France, 1993
Alfredo Lagos/Giovanni Venosta/Massimo Mariani: Estudio sobre el ritmo
Metamorphoses
ReR Megacorp/1999
Spanish guitar: A. Lagos; treatments, engineering: G. Venosta, M. Mariani; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, July 1997
SET FIVE
Marco Capelli and Sintax Error: Selections from
In the Shadow of No Towers
a. The Flag
b. Maus 1
c. Maus 2
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narrator: John Turturro; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; recorded at Musicisti Associati, Naples, 2008 and Harvestworks, New York City, 2011
Heiner Goebbels: Selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 2: Gertrude Stein texts
a. Just Like That
b. On the Road
c. And We Said Goodbye
d. On the Radio
e. Different Nations
f. Out Where the West Begins*/Train Travelling
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten [Landscape with Distant Relatives]
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; SWR Baden-Baden
*music and lyrics: Arthur Chapman (1917)
Little Bang Theory: Dmitri Rides Again
Toy Suites and Themes
Transmogrification/2011
toys, whistling: F. Pahl; toys, voice: Terri Sarris; toys, drums: Dough Shimmin
Tom Waits: Russian Dance
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
Emax strings: Tom Waits; cello: Matt Brubeck; viola: Linda Deluca; bass: Bill Douglas; boots: Kathleen Brennan, Clive Butters, Tom Waits, Francis Thumm, Joe Marquez; recorded at Prairie Sun Recording Studios, Cotati, California
Tom Waits: Poor Little Lamb
Orphans -- Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Anti-/2006
performed by Tom Waits (voice, accordion); originally appearing in the 1987 motion picture "Ironweed"
Frank Pahl: The Mid-Century Modern Waltz
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
upright Vose piano, various noise-making objects: F. Pahl
SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: Return -- A Triumph of Reason, part I
a. Beginning of the Universe
b. Earth, the beginning of our solar system
c. Descending Dance
d. Chord dance: Dance of Destruction
e. 12 b.c.
f. Comet
g. Giotto
h. 1862--Halley
i. CODA--return
j. D Major
The Key to Songs
New Albion Records/1986
Yamaha Computer Assisted Music Systems: M. Subotnick; recorded at the Enterprise, Burbank, California
SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Anticredos (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
performed by Songcircle, director: Gregory Rose; recorded in the Music Center, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March/April, 1982
--FIN--
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Martian Gardens for 12/11/2011
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 December 11, 2011
HAPPY 103rd BIRTHDAY, ELLIOTT CARTER! DECEMBER 11, 1908
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 2/12/09
SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Sound Fields
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Oliver Knussen; recorded at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh, England, 6/20/09
Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano and Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
The Arditti Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY Purchase, 12/07/98
SET TWO
John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion Records/1994
prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 1993
Ingram Marshall: Introduction
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1991
piano, synthesizer: I. Marshall
Philip Glass: Metamorphosis Two
Solo Piano
CBS/1989
piano: P. Glass
SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro
a. Kunsonoro kaj Gloro
b. Strofo 1
c. Strofo 2
d. Strofo 3
e. Strofo 4
f. Strofo 5
g. Strofo 6
h. Strofo 7
i. Mantro kaj Konsonoro
New Albion Records/1988
The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of the University of California at Berkeley, director: Philip Brett; text: the Heart Sūtra; harp: Karen Gottlieb; organ: Agnes Sauerbeck; American Gamelan -- Don R. Baker, Scott Evans, Gino Robari Forlin, Todd Manley, Peter Thielen; director: William Winant; gamelan builder: William Colvig; technician: Ron Engel; recorded at Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, November 7-8, 1987
SET THREE
Heiner Goebbels: selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 1: Gertrude Stein texts
a. The Sirens
b. In the 19th Century
c. Well Anyway
d. Did It Really Happen?
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; tonmeister: Max Federhofer, SWR Baden-Baden
John Young: selections from Ricordiamo Forlì
a. In Piazza Saffi
b. Interlude I
c. Bitter Storm
d. Ancient Tear
Lieu-temps
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
narrator: Franco Bianchini; text (Ancient Tear): Giosuè Carducci, "Pianto Antico." "Ricordiamo Forlì" was realized in 2005 in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and premiered on Radio New Zealand’s ConcertFM program, 7/25/06.
SET FOUR
Charles Amirkhanian: Church Car, Version 2
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voices: C. Amirkhanian, Anthony J. Gnazzo; recorded at California State University, Hayward, 1980
Pamela Z: 50 (for Charles Amirkhanian)
A Delay is Better
Starkland Records/2004
voice: Pamela Z
Daniel Lentz: You Can't See the Forest...Music
Cold Blue [various artists]
Cold Blue Music/2002 (orig. 1984)
for three speaker-drinkers, three malleted wine glasses, and red wine, cascading echo system; performers: D. Lentz, Garry Eister, Stan Carey
Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (Matthews/Ping/Klucevsek)
Play Nice
O.O. Dics/1999
voice: Jon Smith; gopichan: Eve Beglarian; text: adapted from a Chinese tea package: arr. Eve Beglarian recorded at Baby Monster, New York City
Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 1
b. Northern Lights 2
Facing North
ECM Records/1992
voice, piano, organ, pitch pipe: M. Monk; voice, pitch pipe: Robert Een; recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, April 1992
SET FIVE
James Tenney: Beast
Modern American Bass [various artists]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts; August 2006
James Tenney: Percussion Response (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Inderterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, February 2007
SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Postal Pieces
New World Records/2004
percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in the Netherlands, 2003
--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 December 11, 2011
HAPPY 103rd BIRTHDAY, ELLIOTT CARTER! DECEMBER 11, 1908
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 2/12/09
SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Sound Fields
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Oliver Knussen; recorded at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh, England, 6/20/09
Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano and Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
The Arditti Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY Purchase, 12/07/98
SET TWO
John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion Records/1994
prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 1993
Ingram Marshall: Introduction
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1991
piano, synthesizer: I. Marshall
Philip Glass: Metamorphosis Two
Solo Piano
CBS/1989
piano: P. Glass
SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro
a. Kunsonoro kaj Gloro
b. Strofo 1
c. Strofo 2
d. Strofo 3
e. Strofo 4
f. Strofo 5
g. Strofo 6
h. Strofo 7
i. Mantro kaj Konsonoro
New Albion Records/1988
The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of the University of California at Berkeley, director: Philip Brett; text: the Heart Sūtra; harp: Karen Gottlieb; organ: Agnes Sauerbeck; American Gamelan -- Don R. Baker, Scott Evans, Gino Robari Forlin, Todd Manley, Peter Thielen; director: William Winant; gamelan builder: William Colvig; technician: Ron Engel; recorded at Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, November 7-8, 1987
SET THREE
Heiner Goebbels: selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 1: Gertrude Stein texts
a. The Sirens
b. In the 19th Century
c. Well Anyway
d. Did It Really Happen?
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; tonmeister: Max Federhofer, SWR Baden-Baden
John Young: selections from Ricordiamo Forlì
a. In Piazza Saffi
b. Interlude I
c. Bitter Storm
d. Ancient Tear
Lieu-temps
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
narrator: Franco Bianchini; text (Ancient Tear): Giosuè Carducci, "Pianto Antico." "Ricordiamo Forlì" was realized in 2005 in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and premiered on Radio New Zealand’s ConcertFM program, 7/25/06.
SET FOUR
Charles Amirkhanian: Church Car, Version 2
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voices: C. Amirkhanian, Anthony J. Gnazzo; recorded at California State University, Hayward, 1980
Pamela Z: 50 (for Charles Amirkhanian)
A Delay is Better
Starkland Records/2004
voice: Pamela Z
Daniel Lentz: You Can't See the Forest...Music
Cold Blue [various artists]
Cold Blue Music/2002 (orig. 1984)
for three speaker-drinkers, three malleted wine glasses, and red wine, cascading echo system; performers: D. Lentz, Garry Eister, Stan Carey
Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (Matthews/Ping/Klucevsek)
Play Nice
O.O. Dics/1999
voice: Jon Smith; gopichan: Eve Beglarian; text: adapted from a Chinese tea package: arr. Eve Beglarian recorded at Baby Monster, New York City
Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 1
b. Northern Lights 2
Facing North
ECM Records/1992
voice, piano, organ, pitch pipe: M. Monk; voice, pitch pipe: Robert Een; recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, April 1992
SET FIVE
James Tenney: Beast
Modern American Bass [various artists]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts; August 2006
James Tenney: Percussion Response (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Inderterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, February 2007
SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Postal Pieces
New World Records/2004
percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in the Netherlands, 2003
--FIN--
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Martian Gardens for 12/04/2011
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 December 4, 2011
SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Look She Said (I-V)
Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass)
Mode Records/2002
bass, voice: Robert Black; recorded at Millard Auditorium, Hartt School, University of Hartford; 1/04/00
Joseph Iadone: Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
a. Con moto
b. Adagio
c. Scherzo
Modern American Bass [various composers]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; piano: John McDonald; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, August, 2006
SET TWO
Arthur Kreiger: Dance for Sarah
Electronic Works [Kreiger/Matthews/Tanenbaum]
New World Records - CRI/1982
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1976
Arthur Kreiger: Voyage
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
Buchla Synthesizers, electronics; premiered at the WBAI Free Music Store, NYC, 10/10/76
Péter Eötvös: Electrochronicle (Session: June 8, 1974)
Electrochronicle
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
stereo tape, live session recorded by WDR in 1974; electronics, electric organ: Péter Eötvös; electric organ: Mesias Maiguashca
Roxanne Turcotte: from Musée sonore (Sound Museum)
a. Est-ce que je rêve? (Am I Dreaming?)
b. Télé réalité (Reality TV)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at Productions RTM, 2003-2004, for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005
SET THREE
Mark Applebaum: Scipio Wakes Up (and Smells the Coffee)
Intellectual Property
Innova Recordings/2006
for 6 electroacoustic sound-sculptures (the Micro Mice), with electronic drumset, electronic marimba, violin, and bassoon; performance: The Paul Dresher Ensemble; electronic keyboards and sound sculptures: Phil Aaberg, Paul Dresher; violin and sound sculptures: Craig Fry; bassoon and sound sculptures: Paul Hanson; electronic marimba and sound sculptures: Amy Knoles; electronic drumset and sound sculptures: Gene Reffkin; recorded live at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, 4/20/96 and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 5/31/96
Mark Applebaum: Scipio ReMix
The Janus ReMixes -- Excercises in Auto-Plundering
Innova Recordings/1999
computer processing: Mark Applebaum
Herbert Brün: Wayfaring Sounds
Wayfaring Sounds -- Compositions for Instruments with Tape
Electrnic Music Foundation/1998
recorded at the Siemens Studio for electronic music, Munich, 1962
SET FOUR
Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta: Rozart
Digital Music
Mode Records/1990
electronics: E. Pimenta; sourced voice: Enrico Caruso; realized during E. Pimenta's participation on the Loop Committee for a performance of John Cage's Rozart Mix in New York City, 1989
Jorge Antunes: Hombres Tristes...*
Música Electroacústica Brasileira Vol. II [various artists]
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/1999
computers, synthesizer: J. Antunes; recorded at the Laboratorio de informática y electrónica Musical, CDMC, Madrid, summer 1998
*full title: Hombres Tristes Y Sin Titulo Rodeados De Pajaros En Noche Amarilla, Violeta Y Naranja [inspired by Joan Miró]
SET FIVE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba I
Southern Cones -- Music Out of Africa and South America
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
realized in at the University of York, 1990
Drew Krause: Lounge Hell
Powder
Innova Recordings/2007
realized in 2001, mastered at Legacy Sound, New Rochelle, September 2005
Barbara Held: The Well
Power and Responsibility: Converted to Streaming Between Machines
Leonardo Music Journal Volume 9 [various artists]
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Blends
Blends
New Albion Records/2002
shakuhachi: Katsuya Yokoyama; Micromoog and Polymoog synthesizers: R. Teitelbaum; tabla and percussion: Trilok Gurtu; recorded at A&R Studios, New York City, 1983
SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Golem I
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 2 [various artists]
iEAR Studios at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1988
computer music performance system: R. Teitelbaum; realized 1987
--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 December 4, 2011
SET ONE
Christian Wolff: Look She Said (I-V)
Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass)
Mode Records/2002
bass, voice: Robert Black; recorded at Millard Auditorium, Hartt School, University of Hartford; 1/04/00
Joseph Iadone: Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
a. Con moto
b. Adagio
c. Scherzo
Modern American Bass [various composers]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; piano: John McDonald; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, August, 2006
SET TWO
Arthur Kreiger: Dance for Sarah
Electronic Works [Kreiger/Matthews/Tanenbaum]
New World Records - CRI/1982
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1976
Arthur Kreiger: Voyage
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
Buchla Synthesizers, electronics; premiered at the WBAI Free Music Store, NYC, 10/10/76
Péter Eötvös: Electrochronicle (Session: June 8, 1974)
Electrochronicle
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
stereo tape, live session recorded by WDR in 1974; electronics, electric organ: Péter Eötvös; electric organ: Mesias Maiguashca
Roxanne Turcotte: from Musée sonore (Sound Museum)
a. Est-ce que je rêve? (Am I Dreaming?)
b. Télé réalité (Reality TV)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at Productions RTM, 2003-2004, for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005
SET THREE
Mark Applebaum: Scipio Wakes Up (and Smells the Coffee)
Intellectual Property
Innova Recordings/2006
for 6 electroacoustic sound-sculptures (the Micro Mice), with electronic drumset, electronic marimba, violin, and bassoon; performance: The Paul Dresher Ensemble; electronic keyboards and sound sculptures: Phil Aaberg, Paul Dresher; violin and sound sculptures: Craig Fry; bassoon and sound sculptures: Paul Hanson; electronic marimba and sound sculptures: Amy Knoles; electronic drumset and sound sculptures: Gene Reffkin; recorded live at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, 4/20/96 and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 5/31/96
Mark Applebaum: Scipio ReMix
The Janus ReMixes -- Excercises in Auto-Plundering
Innova Recordings/1999
computer processing: Mark Applebaum
Herbert Brün: Wayfaring Sounds
Wayfaring Sounds -- Compositions for Instruments with Tape
Electrnic Music Foundation/1998
recorded at the Siemens Studio for electronic music, Munich, 1962
SET FOUR
Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta: Rozart
Digital Music
Mode Records/1990
electronics: E. Pimenta; sourced voice: Enrico Caruso; realized during E. Pimenta's participation on the Loop Committee for a performance of John Cage's Rozart Mix in New York City, 1989
Jorge Antunes: Hombres Tristes...*
Música Electroacústica Brasileira Vol. II [various artists]
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/1999
computers, synthesizer: J. Antunes; recorded at the Laboratorio de informática y electrónica Musical, CDMC, Madrid, summer 1998
*full title: Hombres Tristes Y Sin Titulo Rodeados De Pajaros En Noche Amarilla, Violeta Y Naranja [inspired by Joan Miró]
SET FIVE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba I
Southern Cones -- Music Out of Africa and South America
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
realized in at the University of York, 1990
Drew Krause: Lounge Hell
Powder
Innova Recordings/2007
realized in 2001, mastered at Legacy Sound, New Rochelle, September 2005
Barbara Held: The Well
Power and Responsibility: Converted to Streaming Between Machines
Leonardo Music Journal Volume 9 [various artists]
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Blends
Blends
New Albion Records/2002
shakuhachi: Katsuya Yokoyama; Micromoog and Polymoog synthesizers: R. Teitelbaum; tabla and percussion: Trilok Gurtu; recorded at A&R Studios, New York City, 1983
SINGLE PLAY
Richard Teitelbaum: Golem I
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 2 [various artists]
iEAR Studios at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1988
computer music performance system: R. Teitelbaum; realized 1987
--FIN-
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Martian Gardens for 11/27/2011
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 November 27, 2011
SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Palace Music (from Suite for National Steel Guitar)
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California 7/15/04
John Schneider/Just Strings: Three Intrusions [H. Partch]
I. The Rose
II. The Crane
III. The Waterfall
Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003
Adapted Guitar, voice: John Schneider; Diamond Marimba: Gene Sterling; texts: Ella Young (I, III), Tsurayuki (II)
Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Timbres Artificiales
Fragments of the Past
New Albion Records/2004
guitar: Jaime Marquez; recorded at Mahler Sound, Miami, Florida, April 2003
SET TWO
Dan Joseph: Wind Patterns
Tonalization (for the Afterlife)
Mutable Music/2011
hammer dulcimer: Dan Joseph; flute: Leah Paul; recorded at Spin Studios, Long Island City; July 2010
Martin Bresnick:
a. Farandula de Politicos -- Contra el Bien General
b. Farandula de Populacho
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, New Haven, 4/02/09
Larry Polansky: Rue Plats (Resting Place) (for Ben Johnston)
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
guitars: Toon Callier; harp: Jutta Troch; live guitar tuning, percussion: Jeroen Stevens; voice: W. Victor; text, melody: Morris Rosenfeld
Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
text: Federico Garcia Lorca, "Bodas de Sangre" (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 1995
SET THREE
Peter Zummo: Fresh Batteries
Experimenting with Household Chemicals
XI Records/1995
trombone, voice: Peter Zummo; amplified cello, keyboard bass, voice: Arthur Russell; marimba, voice: Bill Ruyle; recorded at various locations 1987-1991
Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
Piero Milesi: Avanti La Tre
Within Himself
Cuneiform Records/2000
programming, keyboards: P. Milesi; sound effects, video: Luca Scarzella; recorded at Deffenu Recording Studio, Milan, 1991
SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
vocals, trumpet: Susan Watts, clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontorovich; violin, vocals: Amy Zakar; bass, vocals: Heather Chriscaden Versace; tenor sax, alto sax: Audrey Betsy Welber; trumpet: Ben Holmes; piano: Adrian Banner; drums: Gregg Mervine; samples: The Klez Dispensers
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba X
Desde El Otro Lado -- Electroacoustic from Latin America (various artists)
O.O. Discs/1998
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008
premiered in 1970 at the Osaka World's Fair for the Federation of Iron and Steel Companies' pavilion
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Les trois petits c… (A Woman in Berlin)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2010 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio in Ohain (Belgium) and at the composer’s studio and premiered on May 25, 2011; premiered at Trois visages des musiques électroacoustiques: musique électroacoustique et videomusique, Espace Senghor, Brussels
SET FIVE
Ragnar Grippe: Musique Douze
International Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records - CRI/1976
realized at Electronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm, 1975
Lisa Moore: Machine-like, but with some groove (A. Gosfield)
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010
SET SIX
Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms -- The Nerve Events Project (various artists)
Cuneiform Records/1993
Ingram Marshall: Gradual Requiem, Part 3
Fog Tropes
New Albion Records/1988 (orig. 1984)
mandolin: Foster Reed; voice, piano, Serge Modular synthesizer: I. Marshall; recorded at Möbius Studio, San Francisco
Otto Luening: Synthesis for Orchestra and Electronic Sound
Music of Riegger, McPhee & Luening
New World Records - CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor; electronics realized on the RCA synthesizer, synchronized at the Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center (1960)
SINGLE PLAY
Salvatore Martirano: Sampler -- Everything Goes When the Whistle Blows
a. Goes
b. Bnkquan 3
c. Drm 18.3
d. Add 1
e. Whistle, Train, Harpbird
f. BS 2Bak
g. End 1 Go
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 3 [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios and Computer Music Project at
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Centaur Records/1989
yahaSALmaMAC MIDI orchestra: S. Martirano; Zeta violin: Dorothy Martirano; recorded at the University of Illinois School of Music, 1989
--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 November 27, 2011
SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Palace Music (from Suite for National Steel Guitar)
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California 7/15/04
John Schneider/Just Strings: Three Intrusions [H. Partch]
I. The Rose
II. The Crane
III. The Waterfall
Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003
Adapted Guitar, voice: John Schneider; Diamond Marimba: Gene Sterling; texts: Ella Young (I, III), Tsurayuki (II)
Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Timbres Artificiales
Fragments of the Past
New Albion Records/2004
guitar: Jaime Marquez; recorded at Mahler Sound, Miami, Florida, April 2003
SET TWO
Dan Joseph: Wind Patterns
Tonalization (for the Afterlife)
Mutable Music/2011
hammer dulcimer: Dan Joseph; flute: Leah Paul; recorded at Spin Studios, Long Island City; July 2010
Martin Bresnick:
a. Farandula de Politicos -- Contra el Bien General
b. Farandula de Populacho
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, New Haven, 4/02/09
Larry Polansky: Rue Plats (Resting Place) (for Ben Johnston)
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
guitars: Toon Callier; harp: Jutta Troch; live guitar tuning, percussion: Jeroen Stevens; voice: W. Victor; text, melody: Morris Rosenfeld
Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
text: Federico Garcia Lorca, "Bodas de Sangre" (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 1995
SET THREE
Peter Zummo: Fresh Batteries
Experimenting with Household Chemicals
XI Records/1995
trombone, voice: Peter Zummo; amplified cello, keyboard bass, voice: Arthur Russell; marimba, voice: Bill Ruyle; recorded at various locations 1987-1991
Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
Piero Milesi: Avanti La Tre
Within Himself
Cuneiform Records/2000
programming, keyboards: P. Milesi; sound effects, video: Luca Scarzella; recorded at Deffenu Recording Studio, Milan, 1991
SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
vocals, trumpet: Susan Watts, clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontorovich; violin, vocals: Amy Zakar; bass, vocals: Heather Chriscaden Versace; tenor sax, alto sax: Audrey Betsy Welber; trumpet: Ben Holmes; piano: Adrian Banner; drums: Gregg Mervine; samples: The Klez Dispensers
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba X
Desde El Otro Lado -- Electroacoustic from Latin America (various artists)
O.O. Discs/1998
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008
premiered in 1970 at the Osaka World's Fair for the Federation of Iron and Steel Companies' pavilion
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Les trois petits c… (A Woman in Berlin)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2010 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio in Ohain (Belgium) and at the composer’s studio and premiered on May 25, 2011; premiered at Trois visages des musiques électroacoustiques: musique électroacoustique et videomusique, Espace Senghor, Brussels
SET FIVE
Ragnar Grippe: Musique Douze
International Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records - CRI/1976
realized at Electronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm, 1975
Lisa Moore: Machine-like, but with some groove (A. Gosfield)
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010
SET SIX
Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms -- The Nerve Events Project (various artists)
Cuneiform Records/1993
Ingram Marshall: Gradual Requiem, Part 3
Fog Tropes
New Albion Records/1988 (orig. 1984)
mandolin: Foster Reed; voice, piano, Serge Modular synthesizer: I. Marshall; recorded at Möbius Studio, San Francisco
Otto Luening: Synthesis for Orchestra and Electronic Sound
Music of Riegger, McPhee & Luening
New World Records - CRI/1965
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: David Van Vactor; electronics realized on the RCA synthesizer, synchronized at the Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center (1960)
SINGLE PLAY
Salvatore Martirano: Sampler -- Everything Goes When the Whistle Blows
a. Goes
b. Bnkquan 3
c. Drm 18.3
d. Add 1
e. Whistle, Train, Harpbird
f. BS 2Bak
g. End 1 Go
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 3 [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios and Computer Music Project at
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Centaur Records/1989
yahaSALmaMAC MIDI orchestra: S. Martirano; Zeta violin: Dorothy Martirano; recorded at the University of Illinois School of Music, 1989
--FIN--
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Martian Gardens for 11/20/2011
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 November 20, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely
SET ONE
Haydée Schvartz: An Tasten (A Piano Study)[M. Kagel]
New Piano Music from Europe and The Americas
Mode Records/1993
piano: H. Schvartz; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, January 1992
David Lang: Cello (in memory of Anna Cholakian)
This Was Written by Hand
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: D. Lang; recorded at the Royal College of Music, London, January 2011
Anna Thorvoldsdottir: Hidden -- Rain
Rhízōma
Innova Recordings/2011
percussionist on grand piano: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Music Studios, San Diego
Lisa Moore: Languid and Layered [A. Gosfield]
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 2
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Steven Sehlman; recorded at Studio 508, University of Baltimore County, May 2008
SET TWO
Daria Semegen: Vignette
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 [various artists]
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Cathy Callis; recorded at Springer Hall, CUNY Staten Island, July 1999
Daria Semegen: Spectra (Electronic Composition No. 2)
Satan's Sermon and Other Electronic Fantasies [various artists]
New World Records - CRI/1980
realized at the Electronic Music Studio, SUNY Stony Brook
Ursula Mamlok: Kontraste
a. Humoresque
b. Largo e mesto
Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; harp: Ursula Holliger; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Köln Kammermusikaal
SET THREE
Meredith Monk: Autumn Variation
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
Todd Reynolds String Quartet; alto saxophone: Bohdan Hilash; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009
Meredith Monk: Do You Be
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, organ: M. Monk; recorded at Schaubuhne am Hallesches Ufer, Berlin, July 1980
Meredith Monk: Mapping
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: M. Monk, Ching Gonzalez; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
voice, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusik Festival, Berlin, 10/22/78
SET FOUR
Elainie Lillios: Threads
Entre Espaces [Between Spaces]
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the 19th EuCuE concert series at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University in Montréal, 11/13/98
Roxanne Turcotte: Moteur, on tourne![from Musée sonore]
Désordres DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," presented at Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005
Alvin Lucier: Sferics
Sferics and Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
radio signals for composition recorded at Church Park, Colorado, 8/27/81
David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees [excerpt]
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
sound frequencies for composition recorded inside pinyon pine trees, New Mexico, 2005
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Cartridge Music/11 Instruments
a CAGE of saxophones -- The Works For Saxophone Volumes 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
intersax -- soprano saxophone, artistic director: Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone: Martin Losert, tenor saxophone: Tobias Rüger, baritone saxophone: Reimar Volker; guests -- violin: Burkhard Schlothauer; viola: Johannes Platz; cello: Ulrich Maiß; contrabass: Alexander Frangenheim; piano: Michael Iber; accordion: Gerhard Scherer; percussion: Andreas Peters; recorded at several locations, mastered at the π-Farm, 2004
SET FIVE
François Bayle: Staccato (from Sept Preludes)
Camera Obscura and Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000
recorded at Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris, 1976, revised 2000
Mel Powell: Events for Tape Recorder
Music for Electronic & Older Instruments [Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell]
New World Records - CRI/1968
actors: Mildred Dunnock, Lee Bowman, Martha Scott; text: Hart Crane, "Legend" recorded 1963
Mel Powell: Immobiles (for chamber ensemble with tape)
Settings
New World Records/2003
California EAR Unit -- cello: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, violin: Robin Lorentz, flute: Dorothy Stone, piano: Vicki Ray, clarinet: Marty Walker, percussion: Amy Knoles; recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios, Burbank, California, December 2001
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Fatehpur (excerpt)
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
--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 November 20, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely
SET ONE
Haydée Schvartz: An Tasten (A Piano Study)[M. Kagel]
New Piano Music from Europe and The Americas
Mode Records/1993
piano: H. Schvartz; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, January 1992
David Lang: Cello (in memory of Anna Cholakian)
This Was Written by Hand
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: D. Lang; recorded at the Royal College of Music, London, January 2011
Anna Thorvoldsdottir: Hidden -- Rain
Rhízōma
Innova Recordings/2011
percussionist on grand piano: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Music Studios, San Diego
Lisa Moore: Languid and Layered [A. Gosfield]
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, spring 2010
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 2
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Steven Sehlman; recorded at Studio 508, University of Baltimore County, May 2008
SET TWO
Daria Semegen: Vignette
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 [various artists]
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Cathy Callis; recorded at Springer Hall, CUNY Staten Island, July 1999
Daria Semegen: Spectra (Electronic Composition No. 2)
Satan's Sermon and Other Electronic Fantasies [various artists]
New World Records - CRI/1980
realized at the Electronic Music Studio, SUNY Stony Brook
Ursula Mamlok: Kontraste
a. Humoresque
b. Largo e mesto
Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; harp: Ursula Holliger; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Köln Kammermusikaal
SET THREE
Meredith Monk: Autumn Variation
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
Todd Reynolds String Quartet; alto saxophone: Bohdan Hilash; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009
Meredith Monk: Do You Be
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voice, organ: M. Monk; recorded at Schaubuhne am Hallesches Ufer, Berlin, July 1980
Meredith Monk: Mapping
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: M. Monk, Ching Gonzalez; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
voice, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusik Festival, Berlin, 10/22/78
SET FOUR
Elainie Lillios: Threads
Entre Espaces [Between Spaces]
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the 19th EuCuE concert series at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University in Montréal, 11/13/98
Roxanne Turcotte: Moteur, on tourne![from Musée sonore]
Désordres DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio for François Doyon's installation "Attractions," presented at Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005
Alvin Lucier: Sferics
Sferics and Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
radio signals for composition recorded at Church Park, Colorado, 8/27/81
David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees [excerpt]
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
sound frequencies for composition recorded inside pinyon pine trees, New Mexico, 2005
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Cartridge Music/11 Instruments
a CAGE of saxophones -- The Works For Saxophone Volumes 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
intersax -- soprano saxophone, artistic director: Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone: Martin Losert, tenor saxophone: Tobias Rüger, baritone saxophone: Reimar Volker; guests -- violin: Burkhard Schlothauer; viola: Johannes Platz; cello: Ulrich Maiß; contrabass: Alexander Frangenheim; piano: Michael Iber; accordion: Gerhard Scherer; percussion: Andreas Peters; recorded at several locations, mastered at the π-Farm, 2004
SET FIVE
François Bayle: Staccato (from Sept Preludes)
Camera Obscura and Espaces Inhabitables
Magison/2000
recorded at Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris, 1976, revised 2000
Mel Powell: Events for Tape Recorder
Music for Electronic & Older Instruments [Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell]
New World Records - CRI/1968
actors: Mildred Dunnock, Lee Bowman, Martha Scott; text: Hart Crane, "Legend" recorded 1963
Mel Powell: Immobiles (for chamber ensemble with tape)
Settings
New World Records/2003
California EAR Unit -- cello: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, violin: Robin Lorentz, flute: Dorothy Stone, piano: Vicki Ray, clarinet: Marty Walker, percussion: Amy Knoles; recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios, Burbank, California, December 2001
SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Fatehpur (excerpt)
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975
--FIN--
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