Martian Gardens for April 14-15, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 14, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
April 15, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Eve Beglarian: In and Out of the Game
Songs from the River Project II
EVBVD Music/2012
The Guidonian Hand trombone quartet (trombones: Mark Broschinsky, William Lang, James Rogers, Sebastian Vera); time: 4:21

Cluster & Eno: Schöne Hände
Cluster & Eno
Caroline Records/1996 (orig. Sky Records LP/1977)
synthesizers: Moebius, Roedelius, Brian Eno; recorded at Conny's Studio, Germany, June 1977; time: 3:03

William O. Smith: Transformations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 31 [various artists]
Music from CARTAH, University of Washington
Centaur Records/2001
trombone and computer-realized sound; trombone: Chad Kirby; composition year: 1999; time: 10:12

SET TWO
Joane Hétu: Fragment 0
La Femme Territoire ou 21 Fragments d'Humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
conductor, voice, objects, melodica: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; accordion, voice: Alice Tougas St-Jak, voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussion, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal; composition year: 2012; time: 2:13

Christian Calon: HMS Calypso/Tempête 1 + Calypso
Le projet Ulysse
Empreintes Digitales/2011
electroacoustic music realized at Christian Calon's studio, Montreal, 2006-2011; voice: Shelley Hirsch; time: 7:15

Fortner Anderson/Chantal Dumas: It's A Small World
Annunciations
Electrocd/2013
electroacoustic music: Chantal Dumas; text, voice: Fortner Anderson; recorded in Montreal, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 11:35

SET THREE
Lou Cohen: Symphony 3
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
computer music: Lou Cohen; time: 12:50

Jon Christopher Nelson: l'Horlage imaginaire
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 14 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2005
clock sounds, eight-channel tape: JCN, realized at Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France; composition year: 2002; time: 10:22

SET FOUR
Alvin Lucier: Fan
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
kotos: Miki Maruta, Ryuko Mizutani, Kayoko Nakagawa, Yoko Nishi; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, February 8, 2005; composition year: 2003; time: 12:05

Deep Listening Band: Sanctuary
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
Deep Listening Band (trombones, didjeridus, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; just tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; organ, overtone flutes, electronics: David Gamper); Expanded Instrument System; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, New York, January 1994; time: 11:55 

SET FIVE
Burr Van Nostrand: Oh! Oh? Oh...Violent, Sad, Fragments
(Voyage in a White Room 1, movement 1)
Voyage in a White Room 1
New World Records/2013
New England Conservatory Chamber Ensemble, conductor: Anthony Coleman; speaker: Lautaro Mantillo; text: Hart Crane ("Voyages 1" from the White Buildings collection) recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, October 8, 2012; composition year: 1969; time: 13:10

Salvatore Martirano: from O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag
a. Warning (4:09)
b. Spring (5:11)
O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag
New World Records/1998
University of Illinois Chamber Choir And Madrigal Singers, uncredited performers: clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, tenor-bass trombone, double-bass, piano, percussion; conductor Salvatore Martirano; texts: T.S. Eliot (title refers to "The Waste Land," lines 127-134), William Shakespeare (a. The Tempest, Act II, Scene I; b. Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene II); Shakespeherian (sic.); composition year: 1959

SET SIX
Patti Monson: Rapid*Fire (J. Higdon)
Conspirare -- Chamber Music for Solo Flute
CRI/2000
composer: Jennifer Higdon; flute: Patti Monson; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University; composition year: 1992; time: 6:33

Jennifer Higdon: Inward (Light Refracted, movement I)
An Exaltation of Larks
Bridge Records/2013
clarinet: Todd Palmer; violin: Deborah Buck; viola: Kathryn Lockwood; cello: Caroline Stinson; piano: Blair McMillen; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2011; composition year: 2002; time: 11:31

SET SEVEN
Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Crystal Springs (P. Schroeder)
Here (and there)
Innova Recordings/2013
composer: Phillip Schroeder; piano: Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi; recorded at Harwood Recital Hall, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, June 2012; fixed media realized at Henderson State University, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 10:48

Phillip Schroeder: The Patience it Contains*
Move in the Changing Light
Innova Recordings/2006
pianos and piano with digital delays, synthesizer, and suspended cymbal: Phillip Schroeder; Harwood Recital Hall, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, 2005
*TAINT RADIO version only

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for April 7-8, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 7, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
April 8, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: Subaru
Celestial Excursions
Lovely Music, Ltd./2005
speaker, text: Robert Ashley; singers: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley; piano: Blue Gene Tyranny; electronic orchestra: Tom Hamilton, Robert Ashley; recorded live at the Kitchen, New York City; composition year: 2002; time: 1:48

SET ONE
If, Bwana: Ellen, Banned
Red One
Pogus Productions/2013
voice: Ellen Band; composition year: 2009; time: 10:16

Charles Amirkhanian: Hypothetical Moments
Mental Radio
New World Records/2011 (orig. LP CRI/1985)
voice, ocarina, bells, sampled harpsichord samples (via Dennis Russell Davies); text: Charles Amirkhanian; recorded in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 1980; composition year: 1980; time: 5:35

Eve Beglarian: I am worried now, but I won't be worried long
BRIM -- Songs from The River Project
EVBVD Music/2011
vocals, electronics, electric guitar, bass: Eve Beglarian; violin, acoustic guitar: Mary Rowell; time: 5:55

SET TWO
John Cage: ASLSP (excerpt)
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at Nederluleå Church, Gammelstads kyrkstad, Luleå, Sweden, November 8, 2008; composition year: 1985; excerpt time: 8:10

Lou Cohen: Homage to Cage
Music
Pogus Prodcutions/2013
electronics: Lou Cohen; composed for the Bohlen-Pierce Symposium, Boston, March 2010; time: 8:43

Mark Trayle: _28
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
magnetic strips, card reader, computer processing: Mark Trayle; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts; 2006-2007; time: 3:12

SET THREE
Lou Cohen: Symphony 6 (for Noah Creshevsky)
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
sampled instruments, MIDI keyboard: Lou Cohen; time: 9:33

Noah Creshevsky: Talea
Man & Superman
Centaur Records/1992
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 1991; time: 8:15

Ensemble Supermusique: Malgré tout Face A
Bruit court-circuit
Actuellecd.com/2012
composer: Martin Tétreault; Ensemble SuperMusique: alto saxophone, voice, objects: Joane Hétu; percussion, microphones: Michel F Côté; violin: Guido Del Fabbro; cello: Émilie Girard-Charest;  tenor saxophone, flute, objects: Jean Derome; percussion: Danielle Palardy Roger; synthesizers: Vergil Sharkya; electric bass, electronics: Alexandre St. Onge; turntables: Martin Tétreault; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012, time: 5:22

SET FOUR
Elaine Barkin: GamÈlange
ee²--a sound album by Elaine Barkin
Open Space/2000
harp: Sue Carole DeVale; gamelan: Michael Bakan, Wanda Bryant, Lindsay Clare, Alice Hunt, Jay Keister, Grace M., David Martinelli, Elaine Barkin; recorded at UCLA, July 1992 - April, 1993; time: 13:56

Bill Alves: Imbal-Imbalan
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2008
The HMC American Gamelan; Harvey Mudd College; composition year: 2001; time: 8:39

SET FIVE
Robert Voisey: Hunger
Vox Novus e.p.
Vox Novus/2004
processed voice: Robert Voisey; time: 2:25

Fortner Anderson/Ned Bouhlassa: 3 Out of Every 10
Fortner Anderson -- Annunciations
Les Blocs Errants/2013
voice, text: Fortner Anderson; electroacoustic music: Ned Bouhlassa; voice recorded at The Pines studio, Montreal; electroacoustic music recorded at Ned Bouhlassa's studio, Montreal, October 2011; time: 7:22

The Legendary Pink Dots: Glasshouse
Chemical Playschool 10
Soleilmoon/1999
keyboards, voice, text: Edward Ka Spel; sound treatments: Frank Verschuuren; recorded in the Netherlands, 1997; time: 3:45

Ned Bouhlassa/Fortner Anderson:
a. Montreal I (3:37)
b. Montreal II (8:00)
Empreintes Digitales/2008
realized at Ned Bouhlass'as studio, Montreal, 2005; premiered in Berlin, Germany, May 19, 2005

SET SIX
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2009
electronic music for 8-channel tape: Iannis Xenakis; premiered at the Osaka World Fair, Osaka, Japan, 1970; composition year: 1969-1970; excerpt time: 8:00

Ben Johnston & Jaap Spek: Museum Piece
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists[
EMS -- University of Illinois School of Music/2008
sound collage: EMS, U. Ill, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution; recorded 1968; time: 5:05

Henry Pousseur: Scambi (Exchanges)
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music [various artists]
first a-chronology 1921--2001
Sub Rosa/2001
electroacoustic music realized at the RAI Studios, Milan, 1957; time: 6:27

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Mantione: Dialtones and Strings
Compilation for Max CD-R
Philip Mantione/2011
dialtones, samples: Philip Mantione; composition year: 2009; time: 9:10

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for March 31-April 1, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 31, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EDT
April 1, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST
(updated March 31, 17:40 EDT)

SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Flora
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
computer-generated tape; sampled voice: Karol Bennett, soprano; composition year: 1989; time: 4:14

SINGLE PLAY
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company: Easter
MMPMC 1970-1973
Cuneiform Records/1999
synthesizers: David Borden, Linda Fisher, Steve Drews; recorded at the R.A. Moog Co;, Trumansburg, New York, 1970, and the Mother Mallard Farmhouse, Enfield, New York, 1972-1973; composition year: 1970; time: 19:23

SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Homemade Music
JKR Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday [various artists]
Open Space/2007
percussive sounds, electronics: Judith Shatin; composition year: 2004; time: 3:08

Helmut Lachenmann: Guero
  „ … Zwei Gefühle …“ and Solo Works
Mode Records/2012
piano: Helmut Lachenmann; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, March 2010; composition year: 1970; time: 3:57

Eve Beglarian: Testy Pony
Songs from the River Project II
EVBVD Music/2012
BRIM -- vocals, electronics: Eve Beglarian, guitar: Taylor Levine, vocals: Malcolm Merriweather, violin: Mary Rowell; text: Zachary Schomberg; composition year: 2012, time: 3:52

Laurie Anderson: One White Whale
Life on a String
Nonesuch/2001
vocals, keyboard: Laurie Anderson; vocals: Tom Neils; background vocals: John Kelly; percussion: Joey Baron; recorded at The Lobby; New York City, 2000; time: 2:03

Elodie Lauten: Answer
The Time is Now [various artists]
The fiction of Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1996
electronics: Elodie Lauten; soprano: Mary Hurlbut; mezzo-soprano: Oreen Zeitlin; flutes: Andrew Bolotowsky; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan; recorded at WNYC; time: 5:52

Eric Moe: down the stream, merrily
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
marimbas: DoublePlay Percussion Duo (Dominic Donato, Stephen Paysen); recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, April 22, 2007; composition year: 2002; time: 2:11

SINGLE PLAY*
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No.3
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Steven Sehman; recorded at Studio 508, University of Maryland Baltimore County, January 2009
*TAINT RADIO version only

SET TWO
Christian Wolff: For a Medley
8 Duos
New World Records/2013
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky, Joey Baron; recorded at Schulkowsky's studio, Berlin, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 11:32

Robyn Schulkowsky: Armadillo, Part I (excerpt)
Armadillo
New World Records/2013
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; drums: Joey Baron, Fredy Studer; recorded in Poggliolo, Italy, and Zurich, Switzerland, 2006 and 2009; composition years: 1990-2007; excerpt time: 10:00

SET THREE
Benjamin Boretz: Black/Noise I
Open Space 13 (Boretz/Randall)
Open Space/2001
computer-processed piano: Benjamin Boretz; composition year: 1998 (mastered in 2000), time: 12:55

John Cage:
a. Our Spring Will Come (4:30)
b. And the Earth Shall Bear Again (3:25)
The Works for Piano 8
The Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at the Hessischer Rundfunk Sendesall, Frankfurt, 2001-2002; composition years: a. 1943, b. 1942

SET FOUR
Joseph Celli & Jin Hi Kim: April One
No World (Trio) Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1992
voice: Shelley Hirsch; electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; reeds, piri: Joseph Celli; recorded at Coyote Studios, Brooklyn, 1991; time: 10:55

Brian Chase: Bass Drum Drone
Drums & Drones
Pogus Productions/2013
percussion: Brian Chase; recorded in Melbourne, Australia, time: 8:37

SET FIVE
Sever Tipei: LilDaria
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008)
In Celebration of the University of Illinois EMS
EMS-University of Illinois School of Music/2008
computer music: Sever Tipei; recorded at EMS University of Illinois, 2008; time: 5:08

Yves Daoust: About Time
Voix
Empreintes Digitales/2011
electroacoustic music: Yves Daoust; realized at the composer's studio in Montreal, 2005; premiered at the Deep Wireless festival, Toronto, May 25, 2005; time: 8:32

Joane Hétu:
a. Fragment Bruitiste (1:00)
b. Cochonne (4:53)
La Femme territoire ou 21 fragments d’humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
conductor, voice, objects, melodica: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood;  accordion, voice: Alice Tougas St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussions, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; text (b): Joane Hétu; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012

SINGLE SIX
Gary Sloan and Clone:
a. Mind Script/Vacation Permit #35-17 (2:25)
b. Good Indian (5:24)
Harmonitalk
Finders Keepers/2012 (org. LP 1980)
harmonica: Gary Sloan; synthesizers: Paul Alexander,  Kurt Riemannn; recorded in Anchorage, Alaska, 1980

Salvatore Martirano:
a. UIUS (6:19)
b. Jest fa' Laffs (6:26
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 14 [various artists]
The Virtuoso in the Computer Age -- IV
Centaur Records/1993
computer music: Salvatore Martirano; the Ciosoni Trio (flute: Tim Lane; clarinet: Eric Mandat; string bass: Michael Cameron); recorded at the University of Illinois, December 1992; composition years: 1990-1991; time: 12:45

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for March 24-25, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 10, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
March 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Three Poems of Robert Frost
a. Dust of Snow (1:22)
b. The Rose Family (1:20)
c. The Line Gang (2:00)
The Vocal Works
Bridge Records/1989
baritone: Patrick Mason; Speculum Musicae, conductor: David Starobin; RCA Studio A; composition year: 1942

SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: George Fox Searches
Detours
Unseen Worlds/2012
piano: BTG; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, July 21, 2010; composition year: 2009; time: 19:26

SET ONE
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Two Sketches for a Computer Piece
a. Sketch 1 (0:57)
b. Sketch 2 (2:11)
Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-1972
New World Records/2007
realized at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1971

Throbbing Gristle: AB/7A
Greatest Hits -- Entertainment through Pain
Mute Records/1990
recorded in London, 1978; time: 4:31

James Fei: Klangumwandler Solo
Bode Sound Project [various artists]
Institute for Electronic Arts/Bode Archive/2005
Harald Bode frequency shifter: James Fei; time: 4:31 

David Barnes: Below
Axiom
DavidBarnesMusic/2013
synthesizers, sampler: David Barnes; time: 6:37

Horacio Vaggione: Schall
Musiques pour Piano et Electroacoustique
(Chrysopée électronique 5)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
electroacoustic music commissioned by GMEB Bourges Synthèse Festival, 1994; time: 7:28

SET TWO
Christian Wolff: Percussionist 5
8 Duos
New World Records/2013
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky, Joey Baron; recorded at Robyn Schulkowsky's studio, Berlin, 2012-2013; composition year: 2002; time: 9:12

Justin DeHart: Bone Alphabet (B. Ferneyhough)
Strange Paths
Innova Recordings/2013
composer: Brian Ferneyhough; percussion: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Studios, La Jolla, California, composer: Brian Ferneyhough; composition year: 1992; time: 11:24

SET THREE
Tim Brady: Atacama Movement 6
a. Where are you from?
b. Primer Nocturno
c. Que Alguien Escuche
Atacama: Symphonie No. 3
Atmaclassique.com/2013
electric guitar: Tim Brady; Bradyworks; Vivavoce, conductor: Peter Schubert; texts: Elías Letelier; recorded at the Conservatory of Montreal, June 2012; composition years: 2007-2012

John Cage: Transmigration (from Some of "The Harmony of Maine")
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
original hymns: Supply Belcher; arr. John Cage; pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at Nederluleå Church, Gammelstads kyrkstad, Luleå, Sweden, November 8, 2008; composition year: 1976

SINGLE PLAY*
Brian Eno: Lux (excerpt)
Lux
Warp/2012
excerpt time: 5:00
*TAINTRADIO version only

SET FOUR
Robert Normandeau: Tropes
Tangram
Empreintes Digitales/1994
electroacoustic music sourced from Mozart's chamber music (unspecified) and Mozart's Concerto for Clarinet; realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, presented on the program Mozart l"Intmiste, on Radio Canada, Ottawa, December 3, 1991, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death; composition year: 1991; time: 13:40

Ensemble Supermusique: Malgré tout Face B
Bruit court-circuit
Actuellecd.com/2012
composer: Martin Tétreault; Ensemble SuperMusique: alto saxophone, voice, objects, composition: Joane Hétu; percussion, microphones: Michel F Côté; violin: Guido Del Fabbro; cello: Émilie Girard-Charest;  tenor saxophone, flute, objects: Jean Derome; percussion: Danielle Palardy Roger; synthesizers: Vergil Sharkya; electric bass, electronics: Alexandre St. Onge; turntables: Martin Tétreault; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012, time: 5:22

SET FIVE
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring (Side Two)
Volume 2: Electronic Works
Mode Records/2004
Buchla Electronic Music Box: M. Subotnick; recorded 1975, Mills College; time: 14:24

Morton Subotnick: Until Spring -- Revisited (excerpt)
Volume 3: Electronic Works
Mode Records/2011
live electronics: M. Subotnick; live electronics, glass harp: Miguel Frasconi; recorded live at Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco, Aprill 6, 2007,; original composition: 1975; excerpt time: 6:00

SET SIX
Laurie Spiegel: 
a. Finding Voice (2:45)
b. The Hollows (4:49)
Unseen Worlds
Scarlet Records/1991
digital synthesizers, digital processing: Laurie Spiegel 

R. Weis: Under Underworld
Mystery of the Egg
R. Weis/1994
sounds, sampling: R. Weis

-- FIN --  

Martian Gardens for March 17-18, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 10, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
March 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
 John Cage: Roaratorio -- An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
a. Part Two (16:14)
b. Part Four (3:13)
Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier; voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; texts: James Joyce; premiered at West German Radio, Cologne, October 22, 1979; composition year: 1979

SET ONE 
Tim Brady: Roche noire (Chronique Irlandaise) [R. Lussier)
Imaginary Guitars
Justin Time/1995
composer: René Lussier  electric guitar: Tim Brady; electric bass, tapes: René Lussier; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; tapes, soundscapes: Claude Beaugrand; commentary: Grace Adaline Bamford-Brady, Frank Patrick Brady; "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" sung by the Right Honorable Brian Mulroney; recorded at Studio 270, Outremont, Quebec, 1992; composition years: 1991-1992; time: 10:34

Arturo Parra: L'envers du temps [R. Normandeau]
Parr(A)cousmatique 
Empreintes Digitales/2003
composer: Robert Normandeau; guitar: Arturo Parra; acousmatic music: Robert Normandeau; premiered at Victoriaville, Quebec, May 15, 1998; time: 10:18

SET TWO
Tim Brady: selections from Atacama -- Symphonie No. 3
a. Movement 3: Funeral Descalzo (4:35)
b. Movement 4: Telegrama (5:24)
Atacama -- Symphonie No. 3
Atmaclassique/2012
electric guitar: Tim Brady; performed by Bradyworks with Vivavoce, conductor: Peter Schubert; texts: Elías Letelier-Ruz; recorded at the Concert Hall of the Conservatory of Music of Montreal, June 2012

Sonic Youth + I.C.P. + The Ex: VI
In The Fishtank -- 9
Konkurrent/2002
electric guitars: Lee Ranaldo, Terrie Ex, Thurston Moore; bass guitar: Luc Ex; percussion: William Winant; drums: Han Bennink, Steve Shelley; reeds: Ab Baars; trombone: Wolter Wierbos; recorded at E-Sound Studio in Weesp, Holland, June 2001; time: 3:02

David Starobin: Berceuse bas de gamme (Cheap Lullaby)
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
the $100 guitar: David Starobin; time: 3:15

Leo Ciesa: Beyond the Red
Coat of Arms
Soundyard/2013
solo drum kit: Leo Ciesa; time: 3:01

SET THREE
Christian Wolff: Rosas
a. No. 1 (1:31)
b. No. 2 (3:17)
c. No. 3 (1:22)
d. No. 4 (1:36)
e. No. 5 (3:25)
8 Duos
New World Records/2013
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; piano: Frederic Rzewski; recorded at Robyn Schulkowsky's studio, Berlin, 2011-2012; composition year: 1990

Alarm Will Sound: selections from Canzonas Americanas (D. Bermel)
a. I. El Dude (5:44)
b. III. Montuno Blue (5:11)
Canzonas Americanas
Cantaloupe Music/2012
composer: Derek Bermel; Alarm Will Sound, conductor: Alan Pierson; composition year: 2010    

SET FOUR
Joane Hétu: 
a. Fragment Territoire (1:19)
b. Enthousiasme (4:31)
La Femme Territoire ou 21 Fragments d'Humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
voice, objects, melodica, conductor: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; accordion, voice: Alice Tougas-St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussion, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; text: Constantin Cavafy; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2011

John Schneider: Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (H. Partch)
a. Study on Olympos' Pentatonic (1:14)
b. Study on Archytas' Enharmonie (2:28)
Just West Coast
Bridge Records/1993
composer: Harry Partch: Just Strings -- guitar: John Schneider; harp: Amy Shulman; recorded at Studio A, KPFK FM, Los Angeles, winter 1993; composition years: 1946-1950

PARTCH: Castor [excerpt] (H. Partch)
CD-R 2008
ensemble PARTCH, director: John Schneider; recorded live at Mills College, Oakland; composition year: 1952; excerpt time: 1:56

Lou Harrison: Gending Ptolemy (from Scenes from Cavafy)
Scenes from Cavafy
New World Records/2010
Gamelan Pacifica, director: Jarrad Powell voice: John Duykers; text: Constantin Cavafy; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010; composition years: 1979-1980; time: 6:14

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot!
XI Records/2011
ambient arctic sounds: Charlie Morrow; composition year: 1997; time: 3:28

David Barnes: Nocturne
Axiom
DavidBarnesMusic/2013
sampler (kalimbas, temple bells), violas, piano, tubulon, synthesizer; flutes: Matt Somolis; time: 5:51

Howard Skempton:
a. Starlight (1:22)
b. Music, when soft voices die (1:20)
Bolt from the Blue
Mode Records/2010
a. piano: Daniel Becker; b. EXAUDI choir, director: James Weeks; text: Percy Bysshe Shelley; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, September 26, 2007; composition years: a. 1996, b. 1992

SINGLE PLAY
Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Confetti Variations (T. Lopez)
Here (and there)
Innova Recordings/2013
piano: Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi; fixed media: Tom Lopez, realized at TIMARA Studios, Oberlin, Ohio, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 18:09

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Lopez: Hollow Ground II (excerpt)
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 7 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1998
soprano: Larisa Montanaro; fixed media: Tom Lopez; realized at Studio III at the University of Texas, Austin, 1996; composition year: 1996; excerpt time: 3:45

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Martian Gardens for March 10-11, 2012

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 10, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
March 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Helmut Lachenmann: Die Jagd (The Hunt)
Das Mädchen Mit Den Schwefelhölzern, Tokyo-Fassung 2000
ECM/2005
SWR Sinfoniorchester, conductor: Sylvain Camberling; recorded at Konzerthaus Freiburg, July 2002; electronics realized at Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des WDR; time: 3:56

SINGLE PLAY
Helmut Lachenmann: „…Zwei Gefühle – Musik mit Leonardo …“
 „…Zwei Gefühle …“ and Solo Works
Mode Records/2012
Ensemble Signal, conductor: Brad Lubman; speaker: Helmut Lachenmann;  text: Leonardo Da Vinci (Codex Arundel); recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, March 2010; composition years: 1991-1992; time: 21:38

SET ONE
Phil Burk: Snow Falls on the Rising Tide
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
The $100 guitar, stomp box: Phil Burk; time: 2:42

Brian Chase: Drone State of Mind, v. 1
Drums & Drones
Pogus Productions/2013
drum, feedback: Brian Chase; recorded in Brooklyn; time: 7:24

Joseph Byrd: Water Music
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
electronic tape and percussion; percussion: Alan Zimmerman; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, October 16, 2010; composition year: 1963; time: 12:46

SET TWO
Douglas Geers: Turnstile
Music from SEAMUS Volume 10 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2001
computer generated sounds and violin; violin: Maja Cerar; composition year: 1999; time: 5:20

Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60 2006-2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim; composition year: 2005; time: 0:45

Judith Shatin: Penelope's Song
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electronics and violin; violin: Hasse Borup; composition year: 2003; time: 9:07

Mary Ellen Childs: The Gathering
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2012
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin: Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney; Jacqueline Ultan; percussion: Peter O'Gorman; written for Carl Flink's Black Label Movement dance company, Minneapolis; recorded at Wild Sound Studio, Minneapolis, 2011; time: 4:16

SET THREE
Steven Ricks: Wrecked Angles (Waves/Particles II)
CD-R Winter 2013
Canyonlands New Music Ensemble; composition year: 2008; time: 7:28

Ensemble SuperMusique: Poème à faible résistance
Bruit court-circuit
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
Ensemble SuperMusique: alto saxophone, voice, objects, composition: Joane Hétu; percussion, microphones: Michel F Côté; violin: Guido Del Fabbro; cello: Émilie Girard-Charest;  tenor saxophone, flute, objects: Jean Derome; percussion: Danielle Palardy Roger; synthesizers: Vergil Sharkya; electric bass, electronics: Alexandre St. Onge; turntables: Martin Tétreault; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012, time: 12:45

SET FOUR
Joane Hétu: selections from La Femme Territoire...
a. Opinion (3:51)
b. Fragment Territoire 2 (1:04)
c. L’amoureuse (4:29)
d. Fragment Amour (1:03)
La Femme territoire ou 21 fragments d'humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
voice, objects, melodica, direction: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; voice, accordion, glockenspiel: Alice Tougas St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, clarinet, objects: Jean Derome; percussion, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; texts: Constantin Cavafy (a); Joane Hétu (c); recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2011

Kenneth Gaburo: Fat Millie's Lament
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
sound collage: Kenneth Gaburo; composition year: 1965; time: 4:54

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention:
a. The Voice of Cheese (0:27)
b. Nine Types of Industrial Pollution (aka. 400 Days of the Year) (5:56)
c. Zolar Czakl  (0:57)
Uncle Meat
Rykodisk/1987 (orig. Bizarre Records LP 1969)
voice of Suzy Creamcheese: Pamela Zarubica; The Mothers on Uncle Meat: Jimmy Carl Black, Roy Estrada, Ray Collins, Ian Underwood, Artie Tripp, Euclid James Sherwood, Ruth Komanoff, Nelcy Walker, Bunk Gardner, Billy Mundi, Don Preston, Frank Zappa; recorded at Apostolic Studios, New York City and Sunset Studios, Los Angeles, 1968-1969

SET FIVE
David Barnes: Danz Kompaktor
Axiom
DavidBarnesMusic/2013
violas, djembes, electric guitars, sampler (steel cello, steel drums), synthesizer, sampled viola, hammer dulcimer, percussion: David Barnes; electric guitars: James Brooks; Buchla analog synthesizers: Charles Cohen; recorded in Somerville, Massachusetts; time: 6:45

Steve MacLean: M-Theory
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
The $100 guitar and $100 guitar-modified instruments: Steve MacLean; time: 2:02

Steve MacLean: Piano 2
Flies in the Face of Logic
Didkovsky/MacLean/Vrtacek
Pogus Productions/1994
upright piano, upright piano innards, objects, microphones: Steve MacLean; time: 4:43

David Mooney: A Little Noise Goes a Long Way
Facts About Air
Heavy Mental Music by David R. Mooney
David Mooney/2009
noises: David Mooney; time: 5:48

Gen Ken Montgomery: Storage Devices
Pondfloorsample
XI Records/2002
tapes, computers: Ken Montgomery; recorded at Spritzenhaus, Hamburg, 1999; time: 3:11

SINGLE PLAY
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme (abridged)*
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
electronics, speech synthesis: Eduardo Miranda; recorded at Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music; composition year: 2001; abridged time: 10:00

SINGLE PLAY
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Maelstrom (from Grain Streams)**
Plural (Miranda/Correa)
James Correa/2002
electronics: James Correa; piano: Catarina Domenici; time: 4:42

* TAINT RADIO version only
** WMUA version only

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Martian Gardens for March 3-4, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 3, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
March 4, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Helmut Lachenmann: Weigenmusik
 „ … Zwei Gefühle …“ and Solo Works
Mode Records/2012
piano: Helmut Lachenmann; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, March 2010; composition year: 1963; time: 3:25

Joseph Byrd: Three Aphorisms
a. Movement 1 (1:11)
b. Movement 2 (0:33)
c. Movement 3 (1:33)
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
prepared piano: Timothy Andres; recorded at Mission Sound, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 2010; composition year: 1960

Richard Teitelbaum: TBCi/bRT
Solo Live
Mutable Music/2012
piano, bells, slide whistle, Crackle Box, distant sirens: Richard Teitelbaum; recorded for the "Creative Differences" series at An Die Musik, Baltimore, April 11, 2009; time: 14:28

SET TWO
John Cage: some of Some of "The Harmony of Maine" (S. Belcher)
a. Alpha C.M. (1:35)
b. Majesty C.M. (3:29)
c. Harmony C.M. (3:30)
d. Creation L.M. (1:50)
e. Hallowell S.M. (3:50)
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
original hymns: Supply Belcher; arr. John Cage; pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at Nederluleå Church, Gammelstads kyrkstad, Luleå, Sweden, November 8, 2008; composition year: 1976

John Cage:  selections from 44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776
a. Hymn XXVI (Judea) [1:14]
b. Hymn XXVII (Reflection) [1:15]
c. Hymn XXVIII (Greenwich) [5:39]
The Works for Violin 6--The String Quartets 4
Mode Records/2005
original hymns: a. William Billings, b. Supply Belcher, c. Andrew Law; arr. John Cage, Irivine Arditti; The Arditti String Quartet; recorded at Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks, Frankfurt; July 2000; composition year: 1976

SINGLE PLAY
Joëlle Léandre: No Comment 6
No Comment
Red Toucan/2001
upright bass, voice: Joëlle Léandre; recorded at the Vancouver Jazz Festival, June 1995 and at the Ibleo Jazz Festival, Ragusa, Italy, October 1994 (notes do not specify the which track was where); time: 4:53

SET THREE
Monique Jean: Low Memory #2
L' Adieu au S.O.S.
Empreintes Digitales/2003
flute, piccolo: Claire Marchand; 4-channel tape; tape realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 2001; premiered by Clair Marchand at Studio 12, Maison de Radio-Canada, Montreal, April 8, 2001; stereo version realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 2002; time: 10:25

Elsa Justel: Gwerz
Mâts
Empreintes Digitales/2007
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio in Paris; premiered at the Festival Synthèse, Bourges, June 3, 2002; time: 11:40

SET FOUR
Marco Oppedisano: Red Cent
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
electroacoustic music produced from the $100 guitar; composition year: 2012; time: 2:08

Marco Oppedisano: Three Short Electronic Pieces
a. What's that noise? (1:06)
b. Did you hear that? (1:08)
c. The end is near (1:06)
Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar
OKS Recordings of North America/2007
guitars, electronics: Marco Oppedisano; composition year: 2003

Herbert Brün: More Dust (with percussion)
SAWDUST Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
SAWDUST music synthesis computer program: Herbert Brün; Percussion Group Cincinnati members: Allen Otte, James Culley, William Youhass; composition year: 1977; time: 13:16

Luc Ferrari: Etudes
a. aux accidents (2:19)
b. aux sons tendus (2:56)
c. Visages V, Part 1 (2:15)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
musique concrète: Luc Ferrari, realized at GRM, Paris,1958, 1959

SET FIVE
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno: Wind on Water
The Essential Fripp and Eno
Virgin-EG/1994
guitar: Robert Fripp; tape loops, synthesizers: Brian Eno; recorded in Paris and London, 1975; time: 5:30

James Moore: Birds
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
The $100 guitar: James Moore; time: 1:53

Pink Floyd/Roger Waters: Grantchester Meadows
Ummagumma
EMI/1994 (orig. LP Harvest/1969)
acoustic guitar, vocals, lyrics, tape effects (birds, insects, field sounds): Roger Waters; recorded in June 1969; time: 7:48

Alan Licht: Muhammed Ali & the Crickets
A New York Minute
XI Records/2003
field recordings: Alan Licht; edited at Quakebasket, New York City, by Tim Barnes and Alan Licht, 2001; time: 6:41

SET SIX
Alvin Lucier: Broken Line
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2011
flute: Robert Dick; vibraphone: Danny Tunick; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Studio P4, Nalepastrasse, Berlin, 2007; composition year: 2006; time: 12:21

Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (G. Klucevsek)
Play Nice
O.O. Discs/2000
composer: Guy Klucevsek; arrangement, vocals, one-stringed gopichand (aka. ektara) Eve Beglarian; composition year: 1995; time: 4:29

Meredith Monk:
a. Panda Chant I (1:56)
b. Panda Chant II (1:35)
Do You Be?
ECM Records/1987
voices: Robert Een, Andrea Goodman, Wayne Hanklin, Naaz Hosseini, Nurit Tilles, Ching Gonzalez, Meredith Monk; recorded in New York City, 1986-1987

SINGLE PLAY
Ronu Majumdar: 
Madhya Bandish in Ektal (from Raga Miyan Ki Malhar)
Bansuri
India Archive Music/2002
Bansuri flute: Ronu Majumdar; tabla: Abhijit Banerjee; recorded at Master Sound Astoria, New York City, September 28, 1997; time: 6:16

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