WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR JANUARY 4, 2009
SINGLE PLAY
Martin Bresnick: Three Intermezzi, I, II, III
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
cello: Ole Akahoshi
SET 1
Lou Harrison: from Serenade--Usul-little homage to Sinan
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; Just Strings
Seth Josel: Water on the Mountain...Fire in Heaven [Section B] (J. Tenney)
Long Distance
CRI/1995
Seth Josel: Until it Blazes (E. Beglarian)
The Stroke That Kills
New World Records/2008
SINGLE PLAY
Musica Elettronica Viva: Stop the War (1st 1/2)
MEV 40
New World Records/2008
piano: Frederic Rzewski; VC3-Putney synthesizer, piccolo trumpet, mbira
thumb piano, miscellaneous: Alvin Curran; trombone: Garret List; percussion:
Gregory Reeve; modular Moog synthesizer: Richard Teitelbaum; marimabaphone:
Karl Berger; recorded at WBAI 12/31/72
SET 2
Luciano Berio: Sequenza V
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
trombone: Stuart Dempster
Stuart Dempster: Standing Waves (excerpt)
In the Great Abbey of Clement VI
1750 Arch/1979
Recorded at Palais des Papes, Avignon, 8/76
Deep Listening Band: Dream Time
Tosca Salad
Deep Listening/1995
SET 3
Noah Creshevsky: Intrada
Favorite Encores
Pogus Productions/2008
voice samples: Chris Mann
Arie Shapira: Freudiger's Testimony
The Kastner Trial Opera
Arie Shapira/1992
Alice Shields: Scene Six--The Sea
Apocalypse--An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993
Jocy De Oliveira: Milk of Love
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000
Aura Bogado: Rocket
Deep Wireless 2--Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
Selections from: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Concert 2004 13-18 of 60:
13. David McIntire: Nearly Hidden
14. Sandeep Bhangwati: All Over Again
15. Allen Strange: Return to Misty Magic Land
16. Aaron Acosta: Wave
17. Ray Cole: Sodium
18. Serban Nichifor: One Minute of Eternity
SET 4
Toshimaru Nakamura/Mark Trayle: Stationary part 3
Stationary
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
The Hub: Crybaby
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
Ensemble SuperMusique: Discussion au Living Room
Y'a du Bruit dans ma Cabane
actuellecd/2008
--fin--
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Martian Gardens for 12/28/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 28-29, 2008
extended edition
SET 1
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
Dawn of the Cycads
Cuneiform Records/2008
Bernard Falaise: Clic
Clic
Actuellecd/2008
Little Bang Theory: Tumbleweed
Elimentary
Acdisoxx Recordings2008
Frank Pahl:
a. Creatures, Real and Mythical, Part 1
b. Creatures, Part 2
The Romantic Side of Schizophrenia
FOT Records/1994
featuring the Blue Sun Quintent
SET 2
David Lee Myers & Marco Oppedisano: Throttle Body Lifter
Tesla At Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008
John Oswald: Massive
Plexure
Disk Union/1993
David Shea: Trio for Samplers
Shock Corridor
Disk Union/1992
SELECTIONS FROM: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Concert 2003 first 6 of 60:
1. Douglas Cohen: Welcome 2004
2. Allen Strange: Shadowboxer
3. Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
4. Noah Creshevsky: Try
5. Gene Pritsker: Junk Fragment
6. Daniel Eichenbaum: Car Accident
Coil: Disco Hospital
Love's Secret Domain
Wax Trax!/1991
David Hahn: Don't Fuck Giraffes
David Hahn E.P.
davidhahnonline/2005
SET 3
Ingram Marshall: The Emporer's Birthday
IKON--And Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
Chris Cutler and Thomas DiMuzio: Percolation/Floating Plates
Quake
ReR Megacorp/1999
Thomas DiMuzio: Cold Fusion Off Broadway
Mono-Poly
Asphodel/Gench/2003
SET 4
Henry Brant: Altitude 8750
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2008
The Telluride Glacial Spatial Ensemble, conductor: H. Brant; vocal ensemble conducted by Bruce Neely; text: John Lifton; recorded at Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO, 7/15/90
Lejaren Hiller: Computer Cantata--Strophe V; Epilog to Strophe V
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
soprano: Helen Hamm; Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players,
conductor: Jack McKenzie
SET 5
Sylvia Smith: A Flower (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith
John Cage/Joan La Barbara: A Flower
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; closed piano: William Winant
Sylvia Smith: Forever and Sunsmell (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; Chinese tom-toms: Sylvia Smith; Ayano Kataoka: Chinese cymbal; text: e.e. cummings
John Cage/Joan La Barbara: Forever and Sunsmell
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; percussion: William Winant, suspended cymbal: Scott Evans; text: e.e. cummings
Jacqueline Humbert: Via Dolorita, Street of Sorrows, Street of Sighs (J. La Barbara)
Chanteuse--Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
SET 6
Michael Hamman: Discourse/current
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records
text, voice: Chris Mann
Larry Polansky: #10--Four Boys Mannin'
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
text, voice: Chris Mann
Pamela Z: Geekspeak
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2004
SINGLE PLAY
Alice Shields: Shenandoah
Shenandoah--Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004
SINGLE PLAY
Quatuor Bozzini: Koan for String Quartet
Arbor Vitae (Music of James Tenney)
Actuellecd/2008
SET 7
Philip Glass: Pruit Igoe
Koyaanisqatsi
Island--Antilles/1983
Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Michael Riesman; chorus: Western Wind Ensemble
Kronos Quartet: Arioso [from Quasi una Fantasia] (H.M. Gorecki)
Released/Unreleased 1985-1995
Nonesuch Records/1995
Martin Boykan: Movement IV from String Quartet No. 2
City of Gold
CRI/1999
Pro Arte Quartet
SET 8
James Tenney: Ergodos I
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
Quatuor Bozzini: Clouds for Iannis Xenakis
Arbor Vitae (Music of James Tenney)
Actuellecd/2008
Iannis Xenakis: Mists
Works for Piano
Mode Records/2006 (orig. 1999)
piano: Aki Takahashi
Matthew Burtner: Mists
Portals of Distortion
Innova Recordings/2002
SET 9
Andrew Imbrie: Dandelion Wine
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
Collage Music Ensemble; conductor: David Hoose
Roger Sessions: Two Tableaux and Malinche's Aria from Montezuma
ibid.
soprano: Susan Narucki; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Fred Sherry; flute:
Tara Helen O'Connor; clarinet: Charles Neidich; percussion: Daniel Druckman,
James Baker; piano: Donald Berman; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky;
arr. Richard Aldag
Jack Beeson: Prescription for Living*
ibid.
soprano: Susan Narucki; baritone: Chris Pedro Trakas; piano: Donald Berman
*from Beeson's opera "Doctor Heidegger's Fountain of Youth," and included in
"An American Academy in Rome Songbook"
SET 10
New Millennium Ensemble: Percussion Duo (C. Wuorinen)
H.C.E. -- Here Comes Everybody
CRI/1998
percussion: John Ferrari; piano: Margaret Kampmeier
Charles Wuorinen: Time's Encomium Part 2 (excerpt)
Time's Encomium--For Synthesized Sound & Processed Synthesized Sound
Nonesuch Records/1969
SINGLE PLAY
Edgard Varese: Ameriques
Xenakis/Varese
Mode Records/1997
Carnegie-Mellon Philharmonic, Conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo
Recorded in Pittsburgh, 4/95
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 28-29, 2008
extended edition
SET 1
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
Dawn of the Cycads
Cuneiform Records/2008
Bernard Falaise: Clic
Clic
Actuellecd/2008
Little Bang Theory: Tumbleweed
Elimentary
Acdisoxx Recordings2008
Frank Pahl:
a. Creatures, Real and Mythical, Part 1
b. Creatures, Part 2
The Romantic Side of Schizophrenia
FOT Records/1994
featuring the Blue Sun Quintent
SET 2
David Lee Myers & Marco Oppedisano: Throttle Body Lifter
Tesla At Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008
John Oswald: Massive
Plexure
Disk Union/1993
David Shea: Trio for Samplers
Shock Corridor
Disk Union/1992
SELECTIONS FROM: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Concert 2003 first 6 of 60:
1. Douglas Cohen: Welcome 2004
2. Allen Strange: Shadowboxer
3. Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
4. Noah Creshevsky: Try
5. Gene Pritsker: Junk Fragment
6. Daniel Eichenbaum: Car Accident
Coil: Disco Hospital
Love's Secret Domain
Wax Trax!/1991
David Hahn: Don't Fuck Giraffes
David Hahn E.P.
davidhahnonline/2005
SET 3
Ingram Marshall: The Emporer's Birthday
IKON--And Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
Chris Cutler and Thomas DiMuzio: Percolation/Floating Plates
Quake
ReR Megacorp/1999
Thomas DiMuzio: Cold Fusion Off Broadway
Mono-Poly
Asphodel/Gench/2003
SET 4
Henry Brant: Altitude 8750
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2008
The Telluride Glacial Spatial Ensemble, conductor: H. Brant; vocal ensemble conducted by Bruce Neely; text: John Lifton; recorded at Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO, 7/15/90
Lejaren Hiller: Computer Cantata--Strophe V; Epilog to Strophe V
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
soprano: Helen Hamm; Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players,
conductor: Jack McKenzie
SET 5
Sylvia Smith: A Flower (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith
John Cage/Joan La Barbara: A Flower
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; closed piano: William Winant
Sylvia Smith: Forever and Sunsmell (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; Chinese tom-toms: Sylvia Smith; Ayano Kataoka: Chinese cymbal; text: e.e. cummings
John Cage/Joan La Barbara: Forever and Sunsmell
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; percussion: William Winant, suspended cymbal: Scott Evans; text: e.e. cummings
Jacqueline Humbert: Via Dolorita, Street of Sorrows, Street of Sighs (J. La Barbara)
Chanteuse--Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
SET 6
Michael Hamman: Discourse/current
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records
text, voice: Chris Mann
Larry Polansky: #10--Four Boys Mannin'
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
text, voice: Chris Mann
Pamela Z: Geekspeak
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2004
SINGLE PLAY
Alice Shields: Shenandoah
Shenandoah--Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004
SINGLE PLAY
Quatuor Bozzini: Koan for String Quartet
Arbor Vitae (Music of James Tenney)
Actuellecd/2008
SET 7
Philip Glass: Pruit Igoe
Koyaanisqatsi
Island--Antilles/1983
Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Michael Riesman; chorus: Western Wind Ensemble
Kronos Quartet: Arioso [from Quasi una Fantasia] (H.M. Gorecki)
Released/Unreleased 1985-1995
Nonesuch Records/1995
Martin Boykan: Movement IV from String Quartet No. 2
City of Gold
CRI/1999
Pro Arte Quartet
SET 8
James Tenney: Ergodos I
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
Quatuor Bozzini: Clouds for Iannis Xenakis
Arbor Vitae (Music of James Tenney)
Actuellecd/2008
Iannis Xenakis: Mists
Works for Piano
Mode Records/2006 (orig. 1999)
piano: Aki Takahashi
Matthew Burtner: Mists
Portals of Distortion
Innova Recordings/2002
SET 9
Andrew Imbrie: Dandelion Wine
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
Collage Music Ensemble; conductor: David Hoose
Roger Sessions: Two Tableaux and Malinche's Aria from Montezuma
ibid.
soprano: Susan Narucki; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Fred Sherry; flute:
Tara Helen O'Connor; clarinet: Charles Neidich; percussion: Daniel Druckman,
James Baker; piano: Donald Berman; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky;
arr. Richard Aldag
Jack Beeson: Prescription for Living*
ibid.
soprano: Susan Narucki; baritone: Chris Pedro Trakas; piano: Donald Berman
*from Beeson's opera "Doctor Heidegger's Fountain of Youth," and included in
"An American Academy in Rome Songbook"
SET 10
New Millennium Ensemble: Percussion Duo (C. Wuorinen)
H.C.E. -- Here Comes Everybody
CRI/1998
percussion: John Ferrari; piano: Margaret Kampmeier
Charles Wuorinen: Time's Encomium Part 2 (excerpt)
Time's Encomium--For Synthesized Sound & Processed Synthesized Sound
Nonesuch Records/1969
SINGLE PLAY
Edgard Varese: Ameriques
Xenakis/Varese
Mode Records/1997
Carnegie-Mellon Philharmonic, Conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo
Recorded in Pittsburgh, 4/95
--fin--
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Martian Gardens for 12/21/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 21-22, 2008
extended edition
SET 1
Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
Robert Erickson: Pacific Sirens
Pacific Sirens
New World Records/2003
Cleveland Chamber Symphony; conductor: Edwin London
SET 2
Charles Ives: December
The Light That is Felt
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman; text: Folgóre da San Gimignano
Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings
Bernadette Speach: Angels in the Snow
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
Antoine Berthiaume/Quentin Sirjacq/Norman Teale: Leaves and Snows
Leaves and Snows
Actuellecd/2005
Joelle Leandre/Quentin Sirjacq: Moon Journey
Out of Nowhere
Actuellecd/2008
SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: Music of Nights without Moon or Pearl
Music of Nights without Moon or Pearl
Cold Blue Music/2000
CalArts new Century Players; Conductor: David Rosenboom
SET 2
Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 2
b. Chinook Whispers
Facing North
ECM New Series/1992
M. Monk, Robert Een: pitch pipe, voice
Madelyne Byrne: Winter
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
sampled bowed crotales: Lisa Frisari; sampled voice: Malin Serner
Stanislav Kreitchi: Winter (from Four Fantasies)
Voices and Movement
Electroshock Records/2002
SET 3
Stuart Saunders Smith: Family Portraits--Embden Pond
At Sixty--Selections
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
alto flute: Lisa Cella; vibraphones: Amber Mace, Bobby Parker
Sylvia Smith: The Year Begins to be Ripe (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; text: Henry David Thoreau
John Cage The Year Begins to be Ripe
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002 (orig. 1998)
voice: Paul Hillier; closed piano: Alan Bennett; text: Henry David Thoreau
Sylvia Smith: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; text: James Joyce
Anthony De Mare: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (works by J. Cage/M. Monk)
Koch/1992
text: James Joyce
SET 4
Laetitia Sonami: Overture on Ice
Messiah Remix #
Cantaloupe Music/2004
source material: G.F. Handel, Messiah
Helmut Lachenmann: excerpts from Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern
a. In dieser Kalte
b. Trio und Reprise (Frier-Arie, 2. Teil)
c. Die Weihnachtslieder stiegen hoher
d. Abendsegen (Wenn ein Stern Fallt)
Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern (The Little Matchgirl)
ECM New Series/2004
SWR Synphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg/SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, concertmaster: Matthias Hermann; leader: Sylvain Cambreling; soprano: Eiko Morikawa, Nicole Tibbels; piano: Yukiko Sugawara, Tomoko Hemmi; sho: Mayumi Miyata; narrator: H. Lachenmann; text: Hans Christian Anderson; electronic realization: SWR experimental studio Freiburg; recorded 7/02, Konzerthaus Freiburg; conductor: Helmut Hanusch
Eve Beglarian: Be/Hold
Messiah Remix #
Cantaloupe Music/2004
source material: G.F. Handel, Messiah
SET 5
James Mobberley: Beams!
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
trombone plus tape: John Leisenring
James Mobberley: TNT
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33--
Music from iMPACT, UMKC #
Centaur Records/2002
double bass and tape: Robert Black
SET 6
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
Alexei Borisov: Dense Drift
Polished Surface of a Table
Electroshock Records/2004
SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Polytope de Cluny
Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
see also: Xenakis Electronic Works 2
SELECTIONS FROM: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Series 2003--2007 first 6 of 60:
60 x 60--2003--random 6 of 61*
16. Scott Brickman: Signiture Piece
36. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: The Warbler Garden
51. Robert Voisey: Ripples in the Sand
61. Christopher Ward: Dance Truman, Dance
25. Mary Jane Leach: Dido Remembered
19. Michael Kinney: Forrob--One Minute of Listening Pleasure
*I intended to program the first 6 selections, but CD player
malfunction gave me these 6 instead!
60 x 60--2004--first 6 of 60:
1. Justin Breme: Counting Time
2. Robert Gluck: Stazmin
3. Christian Banasik: Glass Cutter
4. John Allemeir: Just a Minute...
5. Mark Henry: Hacked Metal
6. Killick: Submersion/subversion/heart
60 x 60--2005--first 6 of 60:
1. Adam Sovkoplas: Train Racer
2. Mike McFerron: Minute Distance
3. Paul Clouvel: Pianobsession
4. John Bilotta: A 12 Step Rag for the Totally Co-Dependent
5. Leslie de Melcher: Jerusalem
6. John Link Clarient: Clarinet Fantasy
60 x 60--2006--first 6 of 60:
1. Ivan Zavada: Neutron
2. CDZabu (collective): Tobio
3. David Hahn: America Ist Nun Erwacht
4. Balie Todd: De and Reconstruction
5. Scott Smallwood: Whitecap
6. Christopher Cook: Gamaka
60 x 60--2007--first 6 of 60:
1. Adam Caird: Going To The March
2. Alphonse Izzo: Ground
3. Doug Geers: Verbosity One
4. John Schappert: Phase Shift
5. John Maters: Double Future Container Love Music
6. Christian McLeer: Black Lung
SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: On Being Invisible, Part 1
Invisible Gold
Pogus Productions/2000
Live electronic music involving extended musical interface
with the human nervous system
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 21-22, 2008
extended edition
SET 1
Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
Robert Erickson: Pacific Sirens
Pacific Sirens
New World Records/2003
Cleveland Chamber Symphony; conductor: Edwin London
SET 2
Charles Ives: December
The Light That is Felt
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman; text: Folgóre da San Gimignano
Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings
Bernadette Speach: Angels in the Snow
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
Antoine Berthiaume/Quentin Sirjacq/Norman Teale: Leaves and Snows
Leaves and Snows
Actuellecd/2005
Joelle Leandre/Quentin Sirjacq: Moon Journey
Out of Nowhere
Actuellecd/2008
SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: Music of Nights without Moon or Pearl
Music of Nights without Moon or Pearl
Cold Blue Music/2000
CalArts new Century Players; Conductor: David Rosenboom
SET 2
Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 2
b. Chinook Whispers
Facing North
ECM New Series/1992
M. Monk, Robert Een: pitch pipe, voice
Madelyne Byrne: Winter
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
sampled bowed crotales: Lisa Frisari; sampled voice: Malin Serner
Stanislav Kreitchi: Winter (from Four Fantasies)
Voices and Movement
Electroshock Records/2002
SET 3
Stuart Saunders Smith: Family Portraits--Embden Pond
At Sixty--Selections
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
alto flute: Lisa Cella; vibraphones: Amber Mace, Bobby Parker
Sylvia Smith: The Year Begins to be Ripe (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; text: Henry David Thoreau
John Cage The Year Begins to be Ripe
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002 (orig. 1998)
voice: Paul Hillier; closed piano: Alan Bennett; text: Henry David Thoreau
Sylvia Smith: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; text: James Joyce
Anthony De Mare: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (works by J. Cage/M. Monk)
Koch/1992
text: James Joyce
SET 4
Laetitia Sonami: Overture on Ice
Messiah Remix #
Cantaloupe Music/2004
source material: G.F. Handel, Messiah
Helmut Lachenmann: excerpts from Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern
a. In dieser Kalte
b. Trio und Reprise (Frier-Arie, 2. Teil)
c. Die Weihnachtslieder stiegen hoher
d. Abendsegen (Wenn ein Stern Fallt)
Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern (The Little Matchgirl)
ECM New Series/2004
SWR Synphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg/SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, concertmaster: Matthias Hermann; leader: Sylvain Cambreling; soprano: Eiko Morikawa, Nicole Tibbels; piano: Yukiko Sugawara, Tomoko Hemmi; sho: Mayumi Miyata; narrator: H. Lachenmann; text: Hans Christian Anderson; electronic realization: SWR experimental studio Freiburg; recorded 7/02, Konzerthaus Freiburg; conductor: Helmut Hanusch
Eve Beglarian: Be/Hold
Messiah Remix #
Cantaloupe Music/2004
source material: G.F. Handel, Messiah
SET 5
James Mobberley: Beams!
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
trombone plus tape: John Leisenring
James Mobberley: TNT
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33--
Music from iMPACT, UMKC #
Centaur Records/2002
double bass and tape: Robert Black
SET 6
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
Alexei Borisov: Dense Drift
Polished Surface of a Table
Electroshock Records/2004
SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Polytope de Cluny
Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
see also: Xenakis Electronic Works 2
SELECTIONS FROM: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Series 2003--2007 first 6 of 60:
60 x 60--2003--random 6 of 61*
16. Scott Brickman: Signiture Piece
36. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: The Warbler Garden
51. Robert Voisey: Ripples in the Sand
61. Christopher Ward: Dance Truman, Dance
25. Mary Jane Leach: Dido Remembered
19. Michael Kinney: Forrob--One Minute of Listening Pleasure
*I intended to program the first 6 selections, but CD player
malfunction gave me these 6 instead!
60 x 60--2004--first 6 of 60:
1. Justin Breme: Counting Time
2. Robert Gluck: Stazmin
3. Christian Banasik: Glass Cutter
4. John Allemeir: Just a Minute...
5. Mark Henry: Hacked Metal
6. Killick: Submersion/subversion/heart
60 x 60--2005--first 6 of 60:
1. Adam Sovkoplas: Train Racer
2. Mike McFerron: Minute Distance
3. Paul Clouvel: Pianobsession
4. John Bilotta: A 12 Step Rag for the Totally Co-Dependent
5. Leslie de Melcher: Jerusalem
6. John Link Clarient: Clarinet Fantasy
60 x 60--2006--first 6 of 60:
1. Ivan Zavada: Neutron
2. CDZabu (collective): Tobio
3. David Hahn: America Ist Nun Erwacht
4. Balie Todd: De and Reconstruction
5. Scott Smallwood: Whitecap
6. Christopher Cook: Gamaka
60 x 60--2007--first 6 of 60:
1. Adam Caird: Going To The March
2. Alphonse Izzo: Ground
3. Doug Geers: Verbosity One
4. John Schappert: Phase Shift
5. John Maters: Double Future Container Love Music
6. Christian McLeer: Black Lung
SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: On Being Invisible, Part 1
Invisible Gold
Pogus Productions/2000
Live electronic music involving extended musical interface
with the human nervous system
--fin--
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Martian Gardens for 12/14/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 14, 2008
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Esprit Rude, Esprit Doux II (for Pierre Boulez)
Homages & Dedications
Naive Classique/2003
clarinet: Harmen de Boer; flute: Harrie Starreveld marimba: Herman Halewijn;
In honor of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday this Thursday, December 11, 2008
SET 1
Charles Ives: The Housatonic at Stockbridge
The Light That is Felt
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman;
text: Robert Underwood Johnson
Michael Byron: A Bird Revealing the Unknown Sky
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records/2008
piano: Joseph Kubera
SET 2
Luciano Berio: Gesti
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
recorder: Lucia Mense
Carrie Rose: Gesto (H. Brun)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
piano: Thomas Moore; piccolo: C. Rose
Herbert Brun: Gesto
Language, Message, Drummage
Electronic Music Foundation/
Smith Publications/2008
piano: Kathleen Keasey; piccolo: ?
Giacinto Scelsi: Rucke di Guck (1-3)
Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2002
piccolo: Clara Novakova; oboe: Cathy Milliken
SET 3
Eleanor Hovda: Costal Traces Tidepools 2
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
bowed grand piano innards: E. Hovda
Sylvia Smith: Pacific Sirens (R. Erickson)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
timpani: S. Smith; bass flute: Lisa Cella; flute, alto flute: Carrie Rose;
voice, bowed gongs, cymbals: Lee Hinkle; additional voices: Bonnie Lander,
Lisette Abreu, Megha Jacob; tape of Pacific Ocean sounds: Robert Erickson
SET 4
Barry Schrader: Monkey King, Part II--
Monkey's Underwater Voyage-The Staff of the Milky Way
Monkey King
Innova Recordings/2008
Jon Appleton: Pacific Rimbombo
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 15 #
Centaur Records/1994
Max Mathews: Mathews Radio Drum
Artemiy Artemiev: Seaside Walk
The Warning
Electroshock Records/1993
SET 5
Paul Lansky:
a. Two by Two
b. Wordless
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007
David Behrman: Watercress Well
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
voice: Thomas Buckner; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo;
electronics: D. Behrman, Tom Hamilton; text: Siegfried Sassoon
SET 6
Ensemble SuperMusique: 8 Moments Brefs
Y'a du Bruit dans ma Cabane
Actuellecd/2008
Joane Hetu/Ensemble SuperMusique: Calcium Sloche, part 1
Nouvelle Musique D'Hiver
Actuellecd/2007
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 14, 2008
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Esprit Rude, Esprit Doux II (for Pierre Boulez)
Homages & Dedications
Naive Classique/2003
clarinet: Harmen de Boer; flute: Harrie Starreveld marimba: Herman Halewijn;
In honor of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday this Thursday, December 11, 2008
SET 1
Charles Ives: The Housatonic at Stockbridge
The Light That is Felt
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman;
text: Robert Underwood Johnson
Michael Byron: A Bird Revealing the Unknown Sky
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records/2008
piano: Joseph Kubera
SET 2
Luciano Berio: Gesti
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
recorder: Lucia Mense
Carrie Rose: Gesto (H. Brun)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
piano: Thomas Moore; piccolo: C. Rose
Herbert Brun: Gesto
Language, Message, Drummage
Electronic Music Foundation/
Smith Publications/2008
piano: Kathleen Keasey; piccolo: ?
Giacinto Scelsi: Rucke di Guck (1-3)
Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2002
piccolo: Clara Novakova; oboe: Cathy Milliken
SET 3
Eleanor Hovda: Costal Traces Tidepools 2
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
bowed grand piano innards: E. Hovda
Sylvia Smith: Pacific Sirens (R. Erickson)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
timpani: S. Smith; bass flute: Lisa Cella; flute, alto flute: Carrie Rose;
voice, bowed gongs, cymbals: Lee Hinkle; additional voices: Bonnie Lander,
Lisette Abreu, Megha Jacob; tape of Pacific Ocean sounds: Robert Erickson
SET 4
Barry Schrader: Monkey King, Part II--
Monkey's Underwater Voyage-The Staff of the Milky Way
Monkey King
Innova Recordings/2008
Jon Appleton: Pacific Rimbombo
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 15 #
Centaur Records/1994
Max Mathews: Mathews Radio Drum
Artemiy Artemiev: Seaside Walk
The Warning
Electroshock Records/1993
SET 5
Paul Lansky:
a. Two by Two
b. Wordless
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007
David Behrman: Watercress Well
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
voice: Thomas Buckner; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo;
electronics: D. Behrman, Tom Hamilton; text: Siegfried Sassoon
SET 6
Ensemble SuperMusique: 8 Moments Brefs
Y'a du Bruit dans ma Cabane
Actuellecd/2008
Joane Hetu/Ensemble SuperMusique: Calcium Sloche, part 1
Nouvelle Musique D'Hiver
Actuellecd/2007
--fin--
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Martian Gardens for 12/07/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 7, 2008
SET 1
Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60 2004/2005
Vox Novus/2007
John Cage: Indeterminacy #55 (concerning "Ha-Ha, your mushrooms are gone!")
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
piano/noises: David Tudor
Cindy Cox: Nature Is
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2007
John Cage Indeterminacy #86 (concerning Deception Pass, Puget Sound)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
piano/noises: David Tudor
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: selections from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
I. Improvisation
III. Moto Perpertuo
V. Canto
VIII. Canaries
The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Four
Bridge Records2001
timpani: Daniel Druckman
In honor of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday this Thursday, December 11, 2008
SET 2
Barbara Benary: Downtown Steel I
Sun on Snow
New World Records/2006
piano: Joseph Kubera; clarinet: Daniel Goode; soprano sax: Jon Gibson;
marimba: Bill Ruyle; drum set: Chris Nappi; trombone: Peter Zummo;
tuba: Marcus Rojas; percussion: Nick Didkovsky; vibraphone: B. Benary
Evan Ziporyn: Ngaben (for Sari Club)
Typical Music
New Albion Records/2005
Gamelan Galak Tika; New England Conservatory Philharmonic,
conductor: Dante Azolini
SET 3
Douglas Ovens: Improvisation #4B (Music Box)
Seven Improvisations
North/South Recordings/2004
Eric Moe: Songs and Dances of the Automobile
I. Mambo
II. Nocturne
III. Rubber Riff
IV. Lullaby with Variations
V. Piston Fling
On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Great Masters of Melody (P. DeMarinis)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
SET 4
Sylvia Smith: Poems I, II, III (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
brake drums: Sylvia Smith; voice, text: Stuart Saunders Smith
Harry Partch: Pray for Me
Delusion of the Fury
Innova Recordings/1999 (orig. Sony/1971)
Ensemble conducted by Danlee Mitchell, supervised by H. Partch, Recorded at
UCLA, 1969
New Circle Five: Ghost Women
Dreaming Wide Awake
Deep Listening/2003
SET 5
Morton Feldman: Durations part 5
Indeterminate Music
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble; directors: Philipp Vandre, Thaddeus Watson
Christian Wolff: For Morty
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop, conductor: James Fulkerson
Mark Applebaum: Entre Funerailles II
Disciplines
Innova Recordings/2004
vibraphone: Terry Longshore
SET 6
Stuart Saunders Smith: In Bingham
At Sixty
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
Recorded March 8, 2008, Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron
S.S. Smith: Maine English, Regular English
Alvin Curran Curran: From Center of Rainbow, Sounding (M. Goldstein)
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
violin sounding: Malcolm Goldstein; maritime sounds and lobstermen recorded in
Maine
Malcolm Goldstein: Autumn (exerpt)
The Seasons--Vermont
XI Records/1998
Ensemble recorded 2/26/83 at Real Art Ways, Hartford; autumnal
sounds recorded in Vermont
--fn--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 7, 2008
SET 1
Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60 2004/2005
Vox Novus/2007
John Cage: Indeterminacy #55 (concerning "Ha-Ha, your mushrooms are gone!")
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
piano/noises: David Tudor
Cindy Cox: Nature Is
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2007
John Cage Indeterminacy #86 (concerning Deception Pass, Puget Sound)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
piano/noises: David Tudor
SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: selections from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
I. Improvisation
III. Moto Perpertuo
V. Canto
VIII. Canaries
The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Four
Bridge Records2001
timpani: Daniel Druckman
In honor of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday this Thursday, December 11, 2008
SET 2
Barbara Benary: Downtown Steel I
Sun on Snow
New World Records/2006
piano: Joseph Kubera; clarinet: Daniel Goode; soprano sax: Jon Gibson;
marimba: Bill Ruyle; drum set: Chris Nappi; trombone: Peter Zummo;
tuba: Marcus Rojas; percussion: Nick Didkovsky; vibraphone: B. Benary
Evan Ziporyn: Ngaben (for Sari Club)
Typical Music
New Albion Records/2005
Gamelan Galak Tika; New England Conservatory Philharmonic,
conductor: Dante Azolini
SET 3
Douglas Ovens: Improvisation #4B (Music Box)
Seven Improvisations
North/South Recordings/2004
Eric Moe: Songs and Dances of the Automobile
I. Mambo
II. Nocturne
III. Rubber Riff
IV. Lullaby with Variations
V. Piston Fling
On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Great Masters of Melody (P. DeMarinis)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
SET 4
Sylvia Smith: Poems I, II, III (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
brake drums: Sylvia Smith; voice, text: Stuart Saunders Smith
Harry Partch: Pray for Me
Delusion of the Fury
Innova Recordings/1999 (orig. Sony/1971)
Ensemble conducted by Danlee Mitchell, supervised by H. Partch, Recorded at
UCLA, 1969
New Circle Five: Ghost Women
Dreaming Wide Awake
Deep Listening/2003
SET 5
Morton Feldman: Durations part 5
Indeterminate Music
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble; directors: Philipp Vandre, Thaddeus Watson
Christian Wolff: For Morty
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop, conductor: James Fulkerson
Mark Applebaum: Entre Funerailles II
Disciplines
Innova Recordings/2004
vibraphone: Terry Longshore
SET 6
Stuart Saunders Smith: In Bingham
At Sixty
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
Recorded March 8, 2008, Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron
S.S. Smith: Maine English, Regular English
Alvin Curran Curran: From Center of Rainbow, Sounding (M. Goldstein)
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
violin sounding: Malcolm Goldstein; maritime sounds and lobstermen recorded in
Maine
Malcolm Goldstein: Autumn (exerpt)
The Seasons--Vermont
XI Records/1998
Ensemble recorded 2/26/83 at Real Art Ways, Hartford; autumnal
sounds recorded in Vermont
--fn--
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Martian Gardens for 11/30/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 30, 2008
SET 1
Elliott Carter: Asko Concerto
What Next?/Asko Concerto
ECM New Series/2003
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Peter Eotvos
Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (excerpt)
Kraanerg
Mode Records/2008
Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury
SET 2
Sylvia Smith: In Hours Like These (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
orchestra bells: Syliva Smith, speaking voice; singing voice: Christie Finn
text: Vladimir Mayokovsky
Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
ibd.
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; voice: Sylvia Smith
Stuart Saunders Smith: Rose
At Sixty--Selections
11 West Records/2008
flute; voice: Carrie Rose; text: Anne Sexton
Carrie Rose: Legacy Variations #1 (Stuart Saunders Smith)
Book of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
flutes: Lisa Cella, Kathie Trahan, C. Rose
SET 3
Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera
a. Simbolo
b. Accenti
c. Contrapunctus Primus
d. Linee
e. Contrapunctus Secondus (Canon Contrario Motu)
f. Fregi
g. Andantino Amoroso e Contrapunctus Tertius (Canon Cancrizans)
h. Ritmi
i. Coloro
j. Ombre
k. Quartina
Musica da Camera (Dallapiccola/Petrassi)
Mode Records/2006
piano: Ciro Longobardi
Arthur Levering: Tesserae
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
piano: Donald Berman
viola: Jonathan Bagg
SINGLE PLAY
Lejaren Hiller: A Portfolio for Diverse Performers and Tape
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
Gregg Smith Singers, conductor: Gregg Smith; electronics realized
at the Experimental Studio, Polish National Radio, Warsaw
SET 4
Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37,
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
text: Lewis Carroll
Douglas Ovens: Improvisation #6 for Electronic Percussion and Tape
Seven Improvisations
North/South Recordings/2004
Noah Creshevsky: Independence Day
To Know and Not To Know
/Tzadik/2007
SET 5
Fred Frith + Danielle Palardy Roger: Sala Nera
Pas de Deux
Actuellecd/2008
Hans Fjellestad: Dual Resonance I
Dual Resonance
/Circumvention Music/2003
tenor saxophone: Jason Robinson
contrabass: Peter Kowald
Dana Reason: Piano
H. Fjellestad: piano, synthesizer
Alan Sondheim: 778
Ritual-All-7-78
ESP Disk/2008
trumpet: Robert Poholek; bass drums: JP;
vocals: Ruth Ann Hutchinson; xylophone: A. Sondheim
Recorded 1/67, Povidence, RI
Meredith Monk: Totentanz
Impermanence
ECM New Series/2003
piano, violin: Allison Sniffin; percussion: John Hollenbeck;
reeds: Bohdan Hilash; voices: Meredith Monk, Theo Blackmann
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 30, 2008
SET 1
Elliott Carter: Asko Concerto
What Next?/Asko Concerto
ECM New Series/2003
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Peter Eotvos
Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (excerpt)
Kraanerg
Mode Records/2008
Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury
SET 2
Sylvia Smith: In Hours Like These (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
orchestra bells: Syliva Smith, speaking voice; singing voice: Christie Finn
text: Vladimir Mayokovsky
Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
ibd.
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; voice: Sylvia Smith
Stuart Saunders Smith: Rose
At Sixty--Selections
11 West Records/2008
flute; voice: Carrie Rose; text: Anne Sexton
Carrie Rose: Legacy Variations #1 (Stuart Saunders Smith)
Book of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
flutes: Lisa Cella, Kathie Trahan, C. Rose
SET 3
Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera
a. Simbolo
b. Accenti
c. Contrapunctus Primus
d. Linee
e. Contrapunctus Secondus (Canon Contrario Motu)
f. Fregi
g. Andantino Amoroso e Contrapunctus Tertius (Canon Cancrizans)
h. Ritmi
i. Coloro
j. Ombre
k. Quartina
Musica da Camera (Dallapiccola/Petrassi)
Mode Records/2006
piano: Ciro Longobardi
Arthur Levering: Tesserae
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
piano: Donald Berman
viola: Jonathan Bagg
SINGLE PLAY
Lejaren Hiller: A Portfolio for Diverse Performers and Tape
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
Gregg Smith Singers, conductor: Gregg Smith; electronics realized
at the Experimental Studio, Polish National Radio, Warsaw
SET 4
Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37,
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
text: Lewis Carroll
Douglas Ovens: Improvisation #6 for Electronic Percussion and Tape
Seven Improvisations
North/South Recordings/2004
Noah Creshevsky: Independence Day
To Know and Not To Know
/Tzadik/2007
SET 5
Fred Frith + Danielle Palardy Roger: Sala Nera
Pas de Deux
Actuellecd/2008
Hans Fjellestad: Dual Resonance I
Dual Resonance
/Circumvention Music/2003
tenor saxophone: Jason Robinson
contrabass: Peter Kowald
Dana Reason: Piano
H. Fjellestad: piano, synthesizer
Alan Sondheim: 778
Ritual-All-7-78
ESP Disk/2008
trumpet: Robert Poholek; bass drums: JP;
vocals: Ruth Ann Hutchinson; xylophone: A. Sondheim
Recorded 1/67, Povidence, RI
Meredith Monk: Totentanz
Impermanence
ECM New Series/2003
piano, violin: Allison Sniffin; percussion: John Hollenbeck;
reeds: Bohdan Hilash; voices: Meredith Monk, Theo Blackmann
--fin--
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Martian Gardens for 11/23/2008
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 23, 2008
SET 1
Elliott Carter: Scrivo in Vento
Eight Compositions (1948-1993)
Bridge Records/1994
flute: Harvey Sollberger
Gabriel Valverde: El Silencio ya no es el Silencio
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
harp: Sofia Ascuncion Claro
Christian Wolff: Untitled (1-3)
Look She Said--The Complete Works for Bass
Mode Records/2002
electric bass: Robert Black
Elliott Carter: Hiyoku
The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five--
Nine Compositions (1994-2002)
Bridge Records/2003
clarinets: Charles Neidich, Ayoko Oshima
SET 2
David First: Key Lights in a Palace Balloon
Resolver
O.O. Discs/1991
piano: Joseph Kubera
Michael Byron: It is the Night and Dawn of Constellations Irradiated (1st 1/2)
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records/2008
piano: Joseph Kubera
SET 3
Jody Redhage: Paint Box (A. Clyne)
MusicWorks 102 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2008
Craig Hultgren: The Artist and his Model (C. N. Mason)
Music of the NEXT Moment
Innova Recordings/1995
Charles Norman Mason: The Starling Clock Wound
60 X 60 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
Les Poules: Serpents Luisants
Phenix
Actuellecd/2008
Shelley Hirsch: Burst
States
Tellus-Harvestworks/1997
SET 4
Peter Gordon: I'm Dreaming in the Sun and Dreaming in the Moon
Star Jaws
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1978)
guitars: Steve Bartek; drums: Tony Johnson; backup vocals: Lynne Morrow,
Jane Sharp; flute: Maggi Payne; bassoon: Arthur Stidfole; electric piano:
"Blue" Gene Tyranny; Karl Young: clarinet, tenor sax;
B. Gordon: vocals, alto sax, piano; lyrics: Kathy Acker;
recorded at CCM, Mills College, 1977
Coil: Restless Day
Scatology
Force & Form/1984 (CD version 1988)
Coil: The Last Rites of Spring
Gold is the Metal
Some Bizzare/1987
sample: I. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Part II--
"The Glorification of the Chosen One"
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: (Excerpts from) The Rite of Spring
Dawn of the Cycads--The Complete Ace of Heart Recordings (1983-1987)
Cuneiform Records/2008
I. Stravinsky, arr. BSOTM
SET 5
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Rendezvous (J. Bischoff)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
The Hub: Perry Mason in East Germany (J. Bischoff)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
Nicolas Chausseau: James Bond vs. the Venominator
60 X 60 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus 60 x 60/2008
XEX: SNGA (Soviet Nerve Gas Attack)
Group: XEX
smackshire.com/2004
This website appears to be defunct
William C. Harrington: We All Marched Together
Nuclear Menace
Tanatone Records/2007
SET 6
Jon Christopher Nelson: Dhoormages
I. Variations on a Door, Not a Sigh
II. I Am Sitting in a...
III. Waterrun
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2003
Alice Shields: Dance Piece No. 3
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
--fin--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 23, 2008
SET 1
Elliott Carter: Scrivo in Vento
Eight Compositions (1948-1993)
Bridge Records/1994
flute: Harvey Sollberger
Gabriel Valverde: El Silencio ya no es el Silencio
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
harp: Sofia Ascuncion Claro
Christian Wolff: Untitled (1-3)
Look She Said--The Complete Works for Bass
Mode Records/2002
electric bass: Robert Black
Elliott Carter: Hiyoku
The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five--
Nine Compositions (1994-2002)
Bridge Records/2003
clarinets: Charles Neidich, Ayoko Oshima
SET 2
David First: Key Lights in a Palace Balloon
Resolver
O.O. Discs/1991
piano: Joseph Kubera
Michael Byron: It is the Night and Dawn of Constellations Irradiated (1st 1/2)
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records/2008
piano: Joseph Kubera
SET 3
Jody Redhage: Paint Box (A. Clyne)
MusicWorks 102 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2008
Craig Hultgren: The Artist and his Model (C. N. Mason)
Music of the NEXT Moment
Innova Recordings/1995
Charles Norman Mason: The Starling Clock Wound
60 X 60 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
Les Poules: Serpents Luisants
Phenix
Actuellecd/2008
Shelley Hirsch: Burst
States
Tellus-Harvestworks/1997
SET 4
Peter Gordon: I'm Dreaming in the Sun and Dreaming in the Moon
Star Jaws
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1978)
guitars: Steve Bartek; drums: Tony Johnson; backup vocals: Lynne Morrow,
Jane Sharp; flute: Maggi Payne; bassoon: Arthur Stidfole; electric piano:
"Blue" Gene Tyranny; Karl Young: clarinet, tenor sax;
B. Gordon: vocals, alto sax, piano; lyrics: Kathy Acker;
recorded at CCM, Mills College, 1977
Coil: Restless Day
Scatology
Force & Form/1984 (CD version 1988)
Coil: The Last Rites of Spring
Gold is the Metal
Some Bizzare/1987
sample: I. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Part II--
"The Glorification of the Chosen One"
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: (Excerpts from) The Rite of Spring
Dawn of the Cycads--The Complete Ace of Heart Recordings (1983-1987)
Cuneiform Records/2008
I. Stravinsky, arr. BSOTM
SET 5
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Rendezvous (J. Bischoff)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
The Hub: Perry Mason in East Germany (J. Bischoff)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
Nicolas Chausseau: James Bond vs. the Venominator
60 X 60 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus 60 x 60/2008
XEX: SNGA (Soviet Nerve Gas Attack)
Group: XEX
smackshire.com/2004
This website appears to be defunct
William C. Harrington: We All Marched Together
Nuclear Menace
Tanatone Records/2007
SET 6
Jon Christopher Nelson: Dhoormages
I. Variations on a Door, Not a Sigh
II. I Am Sitting in a...
III. Waterrun
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2003
Alice Shields: Dance Piece No. 3
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
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