Martian Gardens for December 22, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 22, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date: TBA
Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update: December 23, 2013 @ 12:27 a.m.)

SINGLE PLAY
William S. Burroughs: The Junky's Christmas
Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales
Island Red Label/1993
voice, text: William S. Burroughs (from Interzone); music: The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy; voice recorded in Lawrence, Kansas; music recorded in San Francisco, California; time: 15:54
 
SET ONE
Frank Zappa and the Mothers: Uncle Bernie's Farm
Absolutely Free
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. Verve LP/1967)
recorded at Sunset-Highland Studios, Los Angeles, November 1966; time: 2:11

Pahl-Mer: 
a. The Unhappy Accident (1:44)
b. A Late Night Ride Interrupted (4:52)
Frank Pahl/2013
synthesizers, samplers: Dennis Palmer; other instruments: Frank Pahl; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan, 2012; total time: 6:36

Shelley Hirsch/Jon Rose/Chris Cutler: 
After Hours/The Colour of BLOOD
The ReR Quarterly Vol. 4 Number 2 [various artists]
ReR Megacorp/1997
voices: Shelley Hirsch, Jon Rose; violin, keyboard: Jon Rose; electronics, percussion: Chris Cutler; recorded at Radio Student, Ljublana, Slovenia, November 15, 1993; time: 5:00 

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979:
a. The Visitation (3:09)
b. Berceuse for the Infant Jesu (1:43)
c. The Shepherd's Noel (1:09)
d. Adoration of the Magi (3:00)
e. Nativity Dance (0:58)
f. Canticle of the Holy Night (3:03)
g. Canticle of the Bells (3:31)
Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, Apparition, Suite for Christmas
Bridge Records/1991
piano: Lambert Orkis; recorded at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, October 1982; composition year: 1979; total time: 15:00

SET TWO
Phil Kline: from Unsilent Night
a. The Crossing (2:57)
b. On the Waters of the Sun (5:35)
Unsilent Night
Cantaloupe Music/2002
street promenade of boomboxes: Phil Kline and company; composition: Phil Kline; total excerpt time: 8:33

John Bischoff: Sidewalk Chatter
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
crackle box, electronics, processing: John Bischoff; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, California; composition year: 2010; time: 12:32

SET THREE
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Rendezvous (J. Bischoff)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. LP/1979)
composer: John Bischoff; keyboards: BGT; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1978; time: 8:35

Andrew Lewis: Dark Glass
Au-delà
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
electroacoustic music: Andrew Lewis; realized at the University of Bangor Electronic Music Studios (Wales), 2009-2011, revised: 2013; premiered at the MANTIS Festival, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester, UK, October 28, 2011; time: 13:50

SINGLE PLAY
Xenia Pestova: Schattenklavier (A. Lewis)
Shadow Piano
Innova Recordings/2013
(for piano and computer) recorded at Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Bangor New Music Festival, 2009; composition years: 2009-2011; time: 15:36

SET FOUR
Walter Zimmermann: Schatten der Ideen
Schatten der Ideen
Mode Records/2003
(for piano quartet) Ensemble Recherche; recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, Germany, 1998-1999; composition year: 1993; time: 13:37

Miwako Abe: Maxfield's Reel (D. Mahler)
Works for Violin 
by Antheil, Beyer, Cowell, Dodge, Crawford, Mahler, Polansky, Wolpe
New World Records/2006
composer: David Mahler; violin: Miwako Abe; recorded at the Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia, August 2005; time: 8:06

SET FIVE
John Luther Adams: Inuksuit 1
Inuksuit
Cantaloupe Music/2013
(for percussion and environmental sounds) percussion director: Doug Perkins; recorded in the woods of Guilford, Vermont; composition year: 2013; time: 11:32

John Luther Adams: Apple Blossom Round
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, October 2006; time: 1:55

John Luther Adams: In the Rain
In the Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
tape music: JLA; mastered at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, 2009; tapes recorded: 1970s; time: 8:53

SET SIX
David Mahler: La Ciudad de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles
Cold Blue [various artists]
Cold Blue Music/2002
piano: Bryan Pezzone; recorded at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles; composition year: 1985; time: 5:51

Richard Maxfield: Night Music
New Sounds in Electronic Music [various artists]
Odyssey/ 1967
tape music: Richard Maxfield; composition year: 1960; time: 9:05

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Martian Gardens for December 15-16, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 15, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date:December 15, 2013
Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Laurie Spiegel: Drums
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
(for computer) realized at Bell Labs, March 1975; time: 7:07

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Cruising Speed (from Travel Diary) (P. Lansky)
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
composer: Paul Lansky; percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010; composition year: 2007; time: 4:15

SET TWO
John Luther Adams: Triadic Iteration Lattices
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
(for 4 air-raid sirens) Percussion Group Cincinnati;  recorded at the Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, November 1998; composition year: 1997; time: 7:42

John Luther Adams: Inuksuit 4
Inuksuit
Cantaloupe Records/2013
(for percussion, air-raid sirens, and environmental sounds) percussion group led by Douglas Perkins; recorded in the woods at Guilford, Vermont; composition year: 2009; time: 9:33

Edgard Varèse: Ionisation 
The Varèse Album
Wounded Bird/2007 (orig. LP Sony/1972)
(for 13 percussionists, with high and low pitched sirens, and lion's roar) The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Robert Craft; composition years: 1929-1931; time: 4:13

SET THREE
Jorge Antunes: Canção da paz
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for baritone voice, piano, and tape) voice: Leonardo Neiva; piano: Deyvison Miranda; recorded at the National Theater of Brasilia, Brazil, March 20, 2010; composition year: 1965; time: 6:29

Arie Shapira: Gideon Kleins Marterstraße
Different Compositions 1967-20003
Arie Shapira/2003
voice: Arie Shapira; piano: Uriel Tzachor; violin: Carmela Leiman; clarinet: Ilan Schul; composition year: 1977; time: 3:24

Gideon Klein: Polovina Života (The Middle of Life) 
[from Tri Pisne -- Three Songs]
Spiritual Resistance -- Music from Theresienstadt [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009
baritone: Wolfgang Holzmair; piano: Russell Ryan; text: Friedrich Hölderlin; recorded at the Music Room, Caramoor Arts Center, Katonah, New York, March 30-31, 2008; composition year: 1940; time: 2:54

Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
soprano: Susan Botti; piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 4, 1997; composition year: 1990; time: 4:45

Bruno Maderna: Serenata per un satellite 
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
flutes: Louisella Batteon, Roberto Fabbriciani; arr. Fabbriciani; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1969; time: 5:17

SET FOUR
Barry Truax: The Shaman Ascending
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe) [various artists]
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
(electroacoustic music) realized at the composer's studio and the Sonic Research Studio, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2004-2005; time: 15:45

Trevor Wishart: Red Bird (A political prisoner's dream) [excerpt]
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
(for voices, environmental sounds, and processing) recorded at York University Electronic Music Studio, 1973-1977; excerpt time: 6:00

SET FIVE
Liam O'Gallagher: Border Dissolve in Audiospace
10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces
Other Minds/2003 (orig. LP 1975)
voice, telephony: Liam O'Gallagher; composition year: 1970; time: 12:43

Timothy Leary: What do you turn on when you turn on?
You Can be Anyone This Time Around
Rykodisc/1992 (orig. LP Douglas Records/1970)
" rap" monologue: Dr. Timothy Leary;  music uncredited; time: 6:36

Lydia Kavina: Free Music #1 (P. Grainger)
Music from the Ether -- Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/1999
(composer: Percy Grainger; for four Theremins); Theremins: Lydia Kavina: recorded at Baby Monster Studios, New York City, May 31, 1997; composition year: 1936; time: 1:22

SET SIX
Matthew Burtner: Snowprints
NOISE Plays Burtner
Innova Recordings/2013
saxophone: Matthew Burtner; computer: Nathan Brock; NOISE (flute: Lisa Cella; cello: Franklin Cox; piano: Christopher Adler); recorded at the University of California San Diego, Studio A; composition year: 2001; time: 15:36

Ellen Band: Swinging Sings
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2001
violin: Ellen Band; RAAD electric violin: Adele Armin; composition year: 1992; time: 12:02

SET SEVEN
Bilting/Karkowski: Als der Himmel Brannte (As the Sky Burned)
Phauss-Karkowski-Bilting
Silent Records/1992
(computer music) realized by Zbigniew Karkowski  and Ulf Bilting at the Computer Music Studio at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1990; time: 7:22 

In memory of Zbigniew Karkowski (March 14, 1958 – December 12, 2013)

Alexei Borisov: 
a. Dense Drift (5:39)
b. Blue Vinyl (2:29)
Polished Surface of a Table
Electroshock Records/2004
electronic music: Alexei Borisov; mastered by Edward Antonenko at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, November 2003; total time: 7:07

SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird (A political prisoner's dream) [excerpt]
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
(for voices, environmental sounds, and processing) recorded at York University Electronic Music Studio, 1973-1977; excerpt time: 2:00


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Martian Gardens for December 8-9, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 8 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date:December 9, 2013
Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update: December 8, 2013 @ 23:40)

SET ONE
Fishers O'Wufmen: Okami Yasha
Fishers O'Wufmen
Frank Pahl/2013
keyboards, harp, melodica, clarinet, voice: Frank Pahl; synthesizers, bird calls: Dennis Palmer; drums, horn: Bob Stagner; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan, April 2012; time: 5:24

Elaine Barkin: Poem
Open Space 16 [various artists]
Open Space/2004
UCLA Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conductor: Thomas Lee; composition year: 1999; time: 4:53

Yvar Mikhashoff: Quest (J. Cage)
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: John Cage) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1935; time: 1:10

Noah Creshevsky: Canto di Malavita (excerpt 2)
Hyperrealism in Music
Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky 1992-2005
Noah Creshevsky/2005
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 2002; time: 1:00 

Yvar Mikhashoff: Souvenir -- Portrait of Paul Bowles (V. Thomson)
Panorama of American Piano Music [various artists]
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Virgil Thomson) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1935; time:0:58

DJ Spooky: Being Black
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk
Bridge Records/2009
electronics: Paul Miller; voice, text: Ursula Rucker; time: 1:13

Yvar Mikhashoff:  Tora! Tora! Tora! 
(Makrokosmos Vol. 2 - VIII) (G. Crumb)
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: George Crumb) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1973; time: 2:28

ETHEL String Quartet: Movement 3 (D. Byron)
(from String Quartet No. 2: Four Thoughts on Marvin Gaye) 
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
(composer: Don Byron) ETHEL (violins: Cornelius Dufallo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson); recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, New Jersey; June 2010; composition year: 2006); time: 2:06

Yvar Mikhashoff: Dance (S. Paulus) 
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Stephen Paulus) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1987; time: 2:03

SET TWO
Frank Zappa: 
a. Food Gathering in Post-Industrial America, 1992 (2:52)
b. Welcome to the United States (6:19)
The Yellow Shark
Barking Pumpkin/1993
Ensemble Modern, conductor: Frank Zappa; recorded at Alte Opera, Frankfurt, September 1992; composition year: 1992; total time: 8:11

In fond memory of Frank Zappa 
(December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993)

Alvin Curran: Animal Behavior
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 [various artists]
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
samples, sampler: Alvin Curran; recorded at CCM, Mills College, Oakland, California; composition year: 1992; time: 13:00

In celebration of Alvin Curran's 75th birthday
(b. December 13, 1938)

SET THREE
Richard Teitelbaum: In the Accumulate Mode
Piano Plus -- Piano Music 1963 -- 1998
New World Records/2013
Digital Piano System (three computer-assisted pianos): Richard Teitelbaum; recorded at the San Francisco Exploratorium, 1982; composition year: 1982; time: 14:13

Xenia Pestova: An Wem -- Notes from Underground (D. Hurst)
Shadow Piano
Innova Recordings/2013
(composer: Derek Hurst, for toy piano and electronics) toy piano: Xenia Pestova; recorded at Streetlight Sound, Somerville, Massachusetts; composition year: 2007; time: 5:48

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Omega (3:52)*
b. Thalleïn (18:33)
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), conductor: Steven Schick; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California, San Diego, January 2010; composition year: 1984; time: 18:31
*WMUA version only

SET FOUR
Mel Powell: Events for Tape Recorder
Music for Electronic and Older Instruments
(Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell)
CRI/1968 (CD transfer via New World Records/2011)
(for magnetic tape and voices) voices: Mildred Dummock, Lee Bowman, Martha Scott; composition year: 1963; time: 6:56

Mary Lee Roberts: White Writing
I. Bird (1:51)
II. Night Foxes (3:59)
6 Compositions/Open Space 9
Open Space/1997
(for computer) mastered at NYU Sonic Solutions, New York University, 1997; total time: 5:50

Neil B. Rolnick: Macedonian AirDrumming
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
(for MIDI performance system and AirDrums) performer: Neil Rolnick; recorded in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1990; composition year: 1990; time: 8:10

SET FIVE
Marco Oppedisano: Mechanical Uprising
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
electric guitars, electric bass, processing, samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 8:11

Philip Mantione: Deadman Overlook
Salvatore
Petroglyph Music/2013
electronic sounds realized on car stereos, Mullholland  Drive, California; composition year: 2012; time: 9:56

SET SIX
Alvin Lucier: Carbon Copies
Still and Moving Lines
Pogus Productions/2013
(for saxophone, flute, piano, and playback) performed by DECIBEL (flute: Cat Hope, saxophone: Lindsay Vickery, piano: Stuart James, electronic playback: Malcolm Riddoch); recorded at the Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth; composition year: 1989; time: 18:29

Matthew Burtner: (dis) Sensus (excerpts)
a. Dissensus (0:31)
b. Sxape (3:57)
c. Modification 1 (0:24)
d. Modification 2 (0:37)
e. Sensus (1:35)
Noise Plays Burtner
Innova Recordings/2013
saxophone: Matthew Burtner; computer: Nathan Brock; NOISE (flute: Lisa Cella; violin: Mark Menzies; cello: Franklin Cox; guitar: Colin McAllister; percussion: Morris Palter); recorded at the University of San Diego, Studio A; composition year: 2008; total excerpts time: 7:14

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Martian Gardens for December 1 & 23, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00--24:00 EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 1, 2013

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
Webcast date: December 23, 2013
Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
 
SET ONE
Iannis Xenakis: O-Mega
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
(for percussion & ensemble) percussion: Steven Schick; International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, January 2010; composition year: 1997; time: 3:52

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Percussion, Opus 14 (J. Beyer)
Restless, Endless, Tactless 
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
(composer: Johanna Beyer) percussion: Todd Meehan, Doug Perkins; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Glennis McRary Music Building, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, December 15, 2009; composition year: 1939; time: 3:17

SET TWO
Yvar Mikhashoff: Little House I Used to Live In (Introduction)  
Panorama of American Piano Music (boxed set)
From Antheil to Zappa 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Frank Zappa) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1970; time: 3:15

Fishers O'Wufmen: Loup Garou
Fishers O'Wufman
Frank Pahl/2013
keyboards, piano, siren, harp, melodica, ukulele, voice: Frank Pahl; synthesizers, bird calls: Dennis Palmer; drums, horn, ukulele; Bob Stagner; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan, April 2012; time: 5:07

Pahl-Mer: Player Piano Flu
Pahl-Mer
Frank Pahl/2013
ruined player piano with hi-speed motors and microcontroller sequencer on strings, piano overdub: Frank Pahl; synthesizers, samples: Dennis Palmer

Ross Bolleter: Unfinished Business
Crow Country
Pogus Productions/2000
ruined bar piano exposed to the elements: Ross Bolleter; recorded at Nallan Sheep Station, Western Australia, July 1987; mastered at Goodshit Studios, Perth, Australia, September 1987; time: 11:15

SET THREE
Richard Teitelbaum: Intersections
Piano Plus -- Piano Music 1963-1998
New World Records/2013
piano: Frederic Rzewski; recorded at CBC, Toronto, 1965; composition year: 1963; time: 5:53

Yvar Mikhashoff: Four Piano Pieces No. 4 (F. Rzewski)
Panorama of American Piano Music (boxed set)
From Antheil to Zappa 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Frederic Rzewski) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1977; time: 3:15

Ursula Mamlok: Love Song of Two Pigeons
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Garrick Ohlson; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 27, 2007; composition years: 1991, 1993; time: 0:56

Ursula Mamlok: Three Bagatelles
I. Grazioso (0:38)
II. Very calm (1:08)
III. Playful (1:08)
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 4
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Holger Groschopp; recorded at Berlin Gärtnerstraße, September 2012; composition year: 1987; total time: 2:56

SET FOUR
Steven Ricks: Boundless Light
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
(for solo flute and electronics) flute: Carlton Vickers; premiered at Brigham Young University, October 9, 2004; composition year: 2003; time: 8:07

Bang On A Can All-Stars: from Four Player Piano Studies  
a. Study 3C (3:24)
b. Study 11 (3:29)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2012
(composer: Conclon Nancarow; arranger: Evan Ziporyn) Bang On A Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate, bass: Robert Black, piano: Vicky Chow, percussion: David Cossin, guitar: Mark Stewart, reeds, gongs: Evan Ziporyn) recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010; composition years: 1948-1960; Ziporyn arrangement: 2010; total excerpt time: 6:53

Bang On A Can All-Stars: from Life  
(with film by Marijke van Warmerdam) 
a. Part III: In the distance (1:30)
b. Part IV: Light (2:15)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2012
(composer: Louis Andriessen) Bang On A Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate, bass: Robert Black, piano: Vicky Chow, percussion: David Cossin, guitar: Mark Stewart, reeds, gongs: Evan Ziporyn) recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010; composition year: 2009; total excerpt time:3:45

SET FIVE
Viv Corringham: Town with Sea
Walking
Innova Recordings/2013
vocals, interviews, field recordings; Viv Corringham; recorded in Porto, Portugal; composition years: 2009-203; time: 9:35

Steven Naylor: Bitter Orchids
Lieux Imaginaires 
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music, field recordings) source materials recorded in Chiang Mai marketplace, Thailand, 1990; realized at the University of Birmingham Electroacoustic Music Studios, UK, 2000; premiered at the MET Concert Series, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, December 9, 2000; composition year: 2000; time: 11:17

SET SIX
Morton Feldman: from Three Voices
a. a non accented legato (1:15)
b. snow falls (2:24)
c. legato (3:30)
Three Voices for Joan La Barbara
New Albion Records/1989
voices: Joan La Barbara; text: Frank O'Hara ("Wind"), recorded in Los Angeles; composition year: 1982; total excerpts time: 6:09

Mary Lee Roberts: Eusebio Consumed
I. Eusebio reconciled with his passions (5:26)
II. Dialoguing with the Ventana sea nymphs (4:34)
III. Re-birthing, back to the womb (4:02)
6 Compositions/Open Space 9 (Roberts)
Open Space/1997
(computer music) mastered on Sonic Solutions at New York University by Mary Lee Roberts, 1997; total time: 14:02

SET SEVEN
Philip Mantione: Earthquake V1
Salvatore
Philip Mantione/2013
electronic composition based on seismic data gathered from Southern California Earthquake Data Center at CalTech, 3/23/13; time: 10:20

David R. Mooney: Elevation
Interior Landscape
David R. Mooney/2013
field recordings from Pittsburgh: David Mooney; time: 14:06

SINGLE PLAY
Natasha Barrett: Under the Sea Floor (Coring and Strata)
(from the Sub Terra Cycle)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
marine and geological recordings: Natasha Barrett; recorded in a fjord and on a drilling ship at Oslo, Norway;  realized for 10-track tape at the composer's studio, Oslo, 2007-2008; time: 6:30


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Martian Gardens for November 24-25, 2013

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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
November 25, 2013 Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update: 21:21, November 24, 2013)

SET ONE
John Tavener: Threnos
Out of the Night (Pärt/Tavener)
Sony/1999
solo cello: Moray Welsh; recorded at St. George's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge, England, February 1999; composition year: 1990; time: 6:20

In memory of Sir John Tavener (January 28, 1944 - November 12, 2013)

Kitty Brazelton: Motet
Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio 
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band (countertenor, mandolin, y bell: David Bryan; tenor, x bell: John Brauer;  baritone, z bell: Keith Borden; bass, c bell: Mark Lin; cello de bell, conducting: Matte Goeke; extended drum kit, concert bass drum, hammered dulcimer, e bells, small bells: Alex Vittum) laptop, drones, soundtracks, voice, conductor: Kitty Brazelton; Motet text: Eccles. 3:1-8, 15; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, New York; composition year: 2009; time: 7:05

Controlled Bleeding: Awakened Beneath the Ground
Penetration
Third Mind/1992
guitars, keyboards, drums, electronics, vocals: Paul Lemos; keyboards, drums, electronics, percussion, vocals: Chris Moriarty; percussion, tapes, vocals: Joe Papa; recorded in New York City 1990-1992; time: 6:43

SET TWO
Dorota Czerner: Dunes
Open Space 24 (Czerner/Barkin)
Open Space/2009
recitation, text: Dorota Czerner; electronic sound: Benjamin Boretz; recorded in 2009; time: 6:03

Laetitia Sonami: Perfume (M.S. Carnahan)
The Time is Now -- Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan (various artists)
Frog Peak Music/1996
(for voice and electronics); recitation: Laetitia Sonami; recorded at Studio PASS, New York City; time: 4:47

Bill Alves: Mystic Canyon for Violin and Gamelan
Mystic Canyon
Microfest Records/2013
violin: Susan Jensen; The HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; composition year: 2008; time: 5:22

Jody Diamond: Bubaran Bill (for William Colvig)
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
Musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta, Central Java; recorded at Studio 19, the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Indonesia, July 24-25, 2001; composition year: 1984; time: 4:49

SET THREE
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
voice, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusic Festival, Berlin, October 22, 1978; time: 13:18

David Tudor: Neural Networks Plus (excerpt)
The Art of David Tudor 1963-1992
New World Records/2013
live electronics; David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi; recorded in Lisbon, Portugal, June 5, 1994; composition year: 1992; excerpt time 6:42

SET FOUR
John Cage: 
a. A Room (2:48)
b.Totem Ancestor (2:02)
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk (Sendesaal), Frankfurt, Germany; 2001-2002; composition years: a. 1943; b. 1942; total time: 4:50

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 5
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
(for any 42 recordings on magnetic tape, first version, using period jazz records); realization: Michael Barnhart of the Percussion Group Cincinnati; composition year: 1952; time: 3:09

John Cage: Williams Mix
The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage (1958)
Wergo/1994
(magnetic tape collage playback on eight loudspeakers) realization: Earle Brown, John Cage, and David Tudor; recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958; composition year: 1952; time: 4:15 (applause omitted)

Earle Brown: Octet I, for Eight Loudspeakers 
Selected Works 1952-1965
New World Records/2006
(magnetic tape and sound projection) realized as part of  the project Music for Magnetic Tape with John Cage; composition year: 1953; time: 3:22

Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Creshevsky/If, Bwana)
Pogus Productions/2008
(electroacoustic music for violin samples) violin: Mari Kimura; composition year: 2007; time: 5:46

John Cage: Etude 18
Freeman Etudes, Books Three and Four
The Complete Music for Violin, Disc 2
Mode Records/1994
violin: Irvine Arditti; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, Studio I, Frankfurt, Germany, September 13-14, 1993; composition year: 1980; time: 3:06

SET FIVE
Adrian Moore: Fields of Darkness and Light
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music, violin) violin: Darragh Morgan; realized at the composer's studio, 2009-2010, Sheffield, UK; premiered at Clothworkers Centenary Hall, Leeds, UK, April 28, 2010; composition years: 2009, 2010; time: 10:23

Rodrigo Sigal: Tolerance
Electroacoustic Music Vol. VII [various artists]
Electroshock Records/2002
(electroacoustic music, cello) composition year: 2001; time: 11:24

SET SIX
David R. Mooney: Can't get there from here
Interior Landscape
David R. Mooney/2013
field recordings from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; processing: David Mooney; time: 10:10

Robert Scott Thompson: Engraved in Freehand
Play is the Supreme Bricoleur of Frail Transient Constructions 
Aucourant Records/2012
electroacoustic music: RST; time: 7:55

Andrea Borghi: Emissions
Musica Per Nastro (Tape Music)
Spectropol/2012
musique concrete: Andrea Borghi; time: 4:37

SINGLE PLAY
Viv Corringham: Maresia
Walking
Innova Recordings/2013
vocals, field recordings, interviews: Viv Corringham; recorded in Porto, Portugal; time: 8:57

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Martian Gardens for November 17-18, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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Amherst, Massachusetts
November 10, 2013

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November 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update: 22:50; November 17, 2013)

SET ONE
Brian Eno and David Byrne: Mea Culpa
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Nonesuch Records/2006 (orig. Sire LP/1981)
voices, synthesizers, samples, found objects: Brian Eno, David Byrne; bodhran: Dennis Keeley; recorded in New York City and San Francisco, 1979-1980; time: 4:57 

Polly Moller: Pelen Tan 
Summerland
Silver Wheel Music/1999
voice, flutes, drum programming: Polly Moller; bass: Jordan Avon ; time: 3:30

SET TWO
Guy Klucevsek: 
a. Fez Up (3:59)
b. Reprieve (4:07)
Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse
XI Records/1991
a. accordion: Guy Klucevsek; soprano saxophone: Steve Elson; clarinet: Douglas Wieselman; electric guitar: Douglas Seidel; drums: Bobby Previte; b. accordion Guy Klucevsek; violins: Laura Seaton, Mia Wu; cello: Erik Friedlander; recorded in New York City; total excerpts time: 8:06

Todd Reynolds: 
a. TaskForce -- Farmlab (6:29)
b. Centrifuge (3:03)
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
a. violin, vocals: Todd Reynolds; b. performed by the GuitarBot of the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR), director: Eric Singer; total excerpts time: 9:33

SINGLE PLAY
Bruno Maderna: Honeyrêves
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; piano: Massimilliano Damerini; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1961; time: 4:35

SINGLE PLAY
Pierre Boulez: Rituel in Memoriam Maderna 
Notations
Montaigne/2003
Orchestra National de Lyon, conductor: David Robertson; recorded in the Auditorium Lyon, France,  September 2002; composition years: 1974-1975; time: 26:12

SET THREE
John Cage: Music of Changes III
The Piano Works 6 
Mode Records/2005
piano: Martine Joste; recorded in France 2003-2004; composition year: 1951; time: 10:02

John Cage: selections from Sixteen Dances
VI. Fleeting Images (3:05)
VII. Hero's Dance [heroic] (3:15)
VIII. Jig for John (3:55)
The Works for Piano 9
Mode Records/2013
piano: Jovita Zähl; recorded at Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismark-Saal, Köln, 2012-2013; composition years: 1950-1951; total excerpts time: 10:15

SET FOUR
Richard Teitelbaum: Interlude in Pelog  
Piano Plus
New World Records/2013
Digital Piano System (three computer-assisted pianos); Richard Teitelbaum; recorded at San Francisco Exploratorium, 1982; composition year: 1982; time: 6:08

Xenia Pestova: Being and Becoming (L. Bunk)
Shadow Piano -- Music for Piano/Toy Piano & Electronics 
Innova Recordings/2013
(composer: Lou Bunk; for toy piano and electronics); toy piano: Xenia Pestova; recorded at Streetlight Sound, Somerville, Massachusetts; composition year: 2010; time: 13:47

SET FIVE
Luigi Russolo: Risveglio di una città (Awakening of a City)
Futurism & Dada Reviewed [various artists]
Sub Rosa/1988
(for Intonarumori) reconstructed Intonarumori: Mario Abate and Pietro Verardo; recorded at the Historical Contemporary Art Archive of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1977; composition year: 1913; time: 3:45

David R. Mooney: Noise of the City
Interior Landscape
David Mooney/2013
(composition for field recordings) field recordings: David Mooney; recorded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; composition year: 2013; time: 7:45

R. Weis: East Village Suite (This is Bobby excerpt)
East Village Suite
R. Weis/2013
(composition for sound collage) sound collage: R. Weis; recorded in New York City, early 1980s; excerpt time: 1:00

R. Weis: Casserole Around
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
sampler and samples (glass casserole lid rocking on ceramic casserole; blowing over plastic bottle); recorded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; time: 3:39

Philip Mantione: Larghetto -- Excerpt 1
It's ALIVE!
Philip Mantione/2009
improvisation on hacked electronic devices, amplified metronome, and suspended cymbal: Philip Mantione, Martin Back; recorded at the Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 2008; time: 4:25

Steven Ricks: Irritating one way or another, that is to say keeping us from ossifying 
Steven Ricks CD-R
Steven Ricks/2012
electroacoustic music: Steven Ricks; composed for SEAMUS Electro-Acoustic Miniatures 2012: Re-Caged; time: 3:04

SET SIX
ZWERM guitar quartet: 
a. Mayhem (the hammer) (1:01)
b. Mayhem (the arrow) (1:01)
c. Mayhem (the blade) (1:06)
d. Burdocks, Part VII (7:02)
Underwater Princess Waltz -- A Collection of One-Page Pieces
New World Records/2013
(composers: a,b,c. Nick Didkovsky and Leo Didkovsky; d. Christian Wolff) a,b,c, d: guitars: Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelisson, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Toon Callier; saxophone: Bertel Schollaert, banjo: Toon Callier; drums: Eric Thielemans; recorded at Artcity, DeSingel, Antwerp, Belgium, April 2013: total time: 10:10

Tim Brady: 
a. Vampyr! (5:33)
b. As Softly Sounds (3:12)
GO (Guitar Obsession)
Actuellecd/2006
(composers: a. Tristan Murail; b. Tim Brady) electric guitars: Tim Brady; a. recorded live at Merkin Hall, New York City, October 2002; b. recorded at Studio Bradyworks, Montreal, July 8, 2006; composition years: a. 1986; b. 1984-2006; total time: 8:45

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Martian Gardens for November 10-11, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS

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

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Mondays 9:00 -- Noon EST
November 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea

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

PLAYLIST
(latest update #22:43, November 10, 2013)

SET ONE 
Anne LeBaron: Wake
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Georg Graewe; harp, percussion: Anne LeBaron; bass: John Lindberg; recorded at Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts; Valencia, California, 2008; time: 12:32

Mathew Rosenblum: Yanah's Dream
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
(for Partch instruments) Newband, conductor: Dean Drummond; recorded at the New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2011; composition year: 2008; time: 8:44

SET TWO
Lori Freedman and John Heward: Improvisation 3
On No On
Mode Records/2013
clarinets: Lori Freedman; drums, percussion: John Heward; recorded at The Pines, Montreal, September 20009; time: 6:26

Lori Freedman: Low Memory #3 (M. Jean)
Bridge
Actuellecd.com/2009
composer: Monique Jean; bass and B-flat clarinets: Lori Freedman; tape, processing: Monique Jean; realized in the composer's studio, Montreal; premiered at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montreal, April 19, 2005; time: 11:46

Alvin Curran: Shofar der Zeit
Shofar Rags
Tzadik/2013
shofar: Alvin Curran; accordion: Arnold Dreyblatt; soprano clarinet: Michael Riesser; recorded at the Studio Spagnoletti, Rome, Italy, 2012; composition years: 1990, 2012; time: 4:03

SET THREE
Lydia Kakabadse: Arabian Rhapsody Suite
I. Marrakesh (3:11)
II. Reverie (4:17)
III. Sultan's Feast (2:20)
The Phantom Listeners
Naxos/2011
violin: Madeleine Easton; viola: Sarah-Jane Bradley; cello: Boizadar Vukotic; double bass: Ben Griffiths; recorded at St. Michael's Church, South Grove, Highgate, London, February 2010; composition years: 2007-2008; total time: 9:48

Elizabeth Brown: Three Arias from "A Bookmobile for Dreamers"
a. Bookmusic
b. Swamp Aria
c. Lullabye
Mirage
New World Records/2013
(for theremin and tape); theremin: Elizabeth Brown; recorded at the Liguria Study Center, Bogliasco, Italy, March 2012; composition year: 2011; time: 6:55

Matthew Burtner: ianopianop (from [dis] Semsus)
NOISE Plays Burtner
Innova Recordings/2013
saxophone: Matthew Burtner; computer: Nathan Brock; ensemble NOISE; recorded at Studio A, UC San Diego; composition year: 2007; time: 4:01

SET FOUR
Bruno Maderna: Cadenza da 'Demensioni III'
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
solo flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1963; time: 4:57

Claire Chase: Density 21.5 (E. Varèse)
Density
Claire Chase/2013
composer: Edgard Varèse) solo flute: Claire Chase; recorded at Oktaven Studio, Yonkers; composition year: 1936; time: 4:14

Edgard Varèse: Octandre
The Varèse Album
Wounded Bird Records/2007 (orig. Sony LP/1972)
(for seven winds and double-bass) The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Robert Craft; composition year: 1923; time: 6:47

Pierre Boulez: selections from Notations
a. Notations IV (1:54)
b. Notations VI (2:06)
Notations
Montaigne/2003
Orchestre National de Lyon; conductor: David Robertson; recorded at the Auditorium Lyon, France, September 2002; composition year: 1980; total excerpts time: 4:00

SET FIVE
Bill Alves: Concerto for Violin and Gamelan, part 4
Mystic Canyon
Microfest Records/2013
violin: Susan Jensen; The HMC American Gamelan, conductor: Bill Alves; composition year: 2008; time: 5:15

John Cage: selections from Sonatas & Interludes
a. Sonata IX (3:58)
b. Sonata X (3:29)
c. Sonata XI (4:11)
Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano
CRI/1995 (orig. Dial LP/1951)
prepared piano: Maro Ajemian; recorded at WOR Studios, New York City, 1950; composition years: 1946-1948; total excerpts time: 11:37

Charity Chan: Films of the Decamarone
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd.com/2009
extended piano, objects: Charity Chan; recorded in Guelph, Ontario, July 2008; composition year: 2008; time: 4:37

Henry Cowell: Antimony
New Music--Piano Compositions by Henry Cowell
New Albion Records/1997
piano: Chris Brown; recorded at Hertz Hall, Berkeley, February 1997; composition year: 1914; time: 3:49

SET SIX
Benjamin Boretz: Argument (from Language ,as a music)
Open Space 10 (Randall/Boretz)
Open Space/1999
piano: Benjamin Boretz; composition year: 1979; time: 6:47

Robert Morris: About the Same
Music of Robert Morris
Albany Records/2005
computer music: Robert Morris; composition year: 1999; time: 14:34

SET SEVEN
Juan Blanco: Loops
Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings/2013
computer music: Juan Blanco; composition year: 1991; time: 9:28

Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music (Randall/Vercoe/Dodge)
Nonesuch Records/1974
computer music: Barry Vercoe; composition year: 1970; time: 4:35

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