Sunday, June 24, 2012

Martian Gardens for June 24, 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 June 24, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--01:00 June 17-18, 2012 

SET ONE
Tania León: Singin' Sepia (Five Songs on Poems by Rita Dove)
I. Wiring Home
II. Persephone Abducted
III. The Slave's Critique of Practical Reason
IV. In the Bulrush
V. Then Came Flowers
Singin' Sepia
Bridge Records/2008
Continuum ensemble -- soprano: Tony Arnold; clarinet: David Gresham; violin: Renée Jolles; piano for four hands: Joel Sachs, Cheryl Seltzer; text: Rita Dove; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 3, 2004 

George Cacioppo: Time on Time in Miracles
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
soprano: Janet Pape; Ensemble 2e2m, conductor: Paul Méfano; recorded at the Atrium Theater, Chaville, France 

SET TWO
John Luther Adams: Strange Birds Passing
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
flutes: New England Conservatory Contemporary Music Ensemble; director: John Heiss; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music; Boston, October 3, 2006 

Leo Kupper: Arbre-jeux de Rabelais
Le sixte livre dit électroacoustique de François Rabelais [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
electroacoustic music, processing: Leo Kupper; reciter: René Zosso; text: François Rabelais; Recorded at IMEB, Bourges, for the Synthése 94 festival

Leo Kupper: Paroles sur Levres (Words on Lips)
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2011
bass baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; electronic music: Leo Kupper; recorded at the Studio de Recherches, Brussels

SET THREE
Annea Lockwood: Jitterbug (1st 1/2)
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
zither, psalter, rattle, rainstick, processing: David Behrman; electric guitar, viola, processing: John King; percussion, tape: William Winant

Yves Daoust: Le temps fixé
Voix
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio in Montreal, premiered at Rien à voir (15) concert series, February 14, 2004, Espace GO in Montréal

SET FOUR
Jinok Cho: CoCo III
Measures of Change [various artists]
EMS School of Music University of Illinois/2011

Annette Vande Gorne: Crise (Folie de Vincent)
Exils
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
VCS3 syntheesizer: Annette Vande Gorne; realized Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques and Recherches in Ohain, 1983, for Philippe Maranne's play "Sulpher Sun,"  premiered at Stalker, Brussels, January 13, 1984

John Oliver: Give Us Peace
Time is Dust
Earsay Productions/2012
electroacoustic music: John Oliver; commissioned by CBC Radio One to commemorate the first anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001

Icebreaker: Deep Blue Day
Apollo
Music composed by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Roger Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
Icebreaker group, director: James Poke; steel pedal guitar: BJ Cole; recorded at the Brighton International Festival, Brighton Dome, May 2010

SET FIVE
Marcelle Deschênes: Die Dyer
Cultures electroniques -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005

James Fei: Klangumwandler Solo
Bode Sound Project [various artists]
Institute for Electronic Arts/2006
Bode 735 Frequency Shifter: James Fei

Hugh Le Caine: The Burning Deck (Without Words)
Compositions and Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999

Mecha Fixes Clocks: Linear-elastic beams will not pass through the centroid
Teoria dell'elasticita di Girolamo Papariello
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
Mecha Fixes Clocks group, directed by Michel F. Côté, recored at Studio 270, Montreal, January 11, 2010

SET SIX
Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer
New Electronic Music from Leaders of the Avant-Garde [various artists]
Columbia Records/1968
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Hubert S. Howe: Clusters
Milton Babbitt -- A Composer's Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer music: Hubert S. Howe

SET SEVEN
Charles Dodge: Changes (excerpt)
Computer Music [various artists]
Nonesuch/1974

Larry Polansky: Four-Voice Canon #23a (for Charles Dodge)
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios 50th Anniversary [various artists]
EMS School of Music University of Illinois/2008

Larry Polansky: Four-Voice Canon #18 -- Trio Canon for Christian Wolff
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
fretless electric guitar: Larry Polansky; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; percussion: Nathan Davis; recorded and mixed June-August 2002, Brittrax, Dartmouth College, and in Los Angeles 

Christian Wolff: Exercise 14b
10 Excercises
New World Records/2006
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky, Christian Wolff; recorded in Umbria, Italy, September 2005

SET EIGHT
Luc Ferrari: Madame de Shanghai
Visages 2 - Après presque rien - Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Scottish Flute Trio with tape realized at Ateliers UPIC/CCMIX (tape: Brigitte Robindoré and voice of Madame de Shanghai: Li Pi Ting; field recordings from the Asian commercial center of Paris (Avenue d'Ivry), featuring samples of Orson Welles from the film "The Lady of Shanghai" (1947) 

Christine Groult: Thème D' Ubu
La condition captive
Trace Label/2007 
electroacoustic music: Christine Groult; music for a production of Ubu Unbound (Alfred Jarry)

SINGLE PLAY
The Hub: Crybaby (Mark Trayle)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
Live in Seattle, May 29, 1992

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