Saturday, May 5, 2012

Martian Gardens for 05/06/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for May 06, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Ethel: Sphere ('s) [J. Halle]
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
Ethel String Quartet -- violin: Cornelius Dufalo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson; recorded at BiCoastal Recordings, Ossing, New York, February 2011

SET ONE
Mary Ellen Childs: Welding
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
Ethel String Quartet; Sound Montage by Neverwas

R. Weis: Quantum Hayride
Mystery of the Egg
R. Weis/2012
sampler and sampling: R. Weis

Jon Hassell:
a. Chor Moiré
b. Courage
Dream Theory in Malaya
EG Records/1981
electronically filtered trumpet: Jon Hassell; drums: Brian Eno; bass: Michael Brook; recorded at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario

Alva Noto: Xerrox Soma
Xerrox Vol. 2
Raster-Norton/2009
electronic music: Alva Noto

SET TWO
Eric Moe: On the Tip of My Tongue
I. Two Part Contraption
II. Tim's Tune
III. Double Take
IV. What the Drums Say
IV. I. What the Drums Say (alternate take)
On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996
synthesizer: Eric Moe; clarinet: Tim Smith; recorded at Baby Monster Studios, October 1994

Krzysztof Wolek: Mobile Variations
Cultures électroniques 20 [various artists]
Prix Trivium et Magisterum 2007 -- IMEB series
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2007
electroacoustic music: Krzysztof Wolek; realized at the University of Chicago

SET THREE
Tom Lopez: Curvatures
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2003
Zeta String Quartet (2002 -- violins: Gillian Rivers and Amie Weiss, viola: Amy Cimini, cello: Sarah Biber), and electronics, recorded at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music

Zack Browning: Breakpoint Screamer
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
trumpets: Michael Ewald, Salvatore Percoco, Charles Saenz, James Zingara, Kevin Vos; computer processing: Zack Browning; commissioned for performance at the International Trumpet Guild 1994 Conference

Salvatore Martirano: SATBehind Demo
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22
The Composer in the Computer Age -- V
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective 1962-92
Centaur Records/1995
computers, digital keyboard: Salvatore Martirano

SET FOUR
Paul Koonce: Whitewash
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
electroacoustic music: Paul Koonce

Paul Koonce: The Flywheel Dream
Walkabout and Back
Mode Records/2000
electroacoustic music: Paul Koonce

SET FIVE
Adrian Moore: 3Pieces -- Piano
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio and premiered at Firth Hall, Sheffield, March 20, 2007

Mecha Fixes Clocks: Curvature dφ/ds of Takahashi’s Curves
Teoria dell’elasticità di Girolamo Papariello
Ambiances Magnetiques/2012 

Andrew Byrne: from Fata Morgana -- Mirages on the Horizon
a. Third Mirage
b. Fourth Mirage
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
prepared piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, 2006


SET SIX
Harry Partch: I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds...
Enclosures 2 -- Historic Speech-Music Recordings
Innova Recordings/1995
voice: Harry Partch; recorded in Gualala, California, 1950, for introduction of the 78 rpm recording of  "Intrusions"

Harry Partch: Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegans Wake
a. Isobel
b. Annah the Allmaziful
Enclosures 2 -- Historic Speech-Music Recordings
Innova Recordings/1995
soprano: Lola Harding; flutes: Dorothy Holden, Hilmar Luckhardt; Kithara: Harry Partch; recorded in New York City, 1945


Harry Partch: August 11 -- SERA Camp, Ingot
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
voice: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto


Beth Anderson: Yes Sir Ree
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voice: Beth Anderson; percussion: Michael Blair


Meredith Monk: Candy Bullets and Moon
Beginnings 
Tzadik/2009
voice, bass guitar: Meredith Monk; drums, organ: Don Preston; recorded at Garrick's Theatre, New York City, July 1967

SET SEVEN
If, Bwana/Trio Scordatura: The Tempest, Fuggit
E (and sometimes why)
Pogus Productions/2012 
speaker: Michael Peters; voice: Lisa Barnard Kelly; text: Shakespeare, The Tempest, act I, scene II;  recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, June 2010;


Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing (excerpt)
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
synthesizer, electronics: Robert Ashley; voices: Mimi Johnson, Robert Ashley, completed 1979


-- FIN --









Saturday, April 28, 2012

Martian Gardens for 04/29/2012

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 April 29, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Echoes of Time and the River
Four Processionals for Orchestra (Echoes II)
I. Frozen Time
II. Remembrance of Time
III. Collapse of Time
IV. Last Echoes of Time
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 6
Bridge Records/2003
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Thomas Conlin; recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw, Poland, August 2002

SET ONE
John Luther Adams: Clusters on a Quadrilateral Grid 3
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati; November 1998

John Luther Adams: Wood Thrush
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 2006-2008

Kui Dong: Flying Apples
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 8 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1999
computer music: Kui Dong; recorded at CCRMA, Stanford University

SET TWO
Kui Dong: Crossing -- Movement II
Pangu's Song
New World Records/2004
computer music: Kui Dong; recorded at CCRMA, Stanford University, October 21, 2000

Karen Tanaka: Water and Stone
Invisible Curve (Chen Yi/K. Tanaka)
New World Records/2008
The Azure Ensemble, conductor: Gerald Steichen; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 16, 2008

SET THREE
Karen Tanaka: Metallic Cristal
Percussion (s) [Roland Auzet]
Mode Records/2008
electronic music with percussion; percussion performed by Roland Auzet; recorded at IRCAM La Muse en Circuit, Atelier en Bel Air

Kwok-ping John Chen: Ring Shades
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 1 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1993
two-channel tape with percussion; percussion: Heung-Wing Lung

SET FOUR
Yves Daoust: Objets Trouvés
Compendium International -- Bourges 2002 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2012
commissioned by the IMEB, recorded at Bourges' Studio Charybde, November 2002

Nicolas Bernier:
Travaux Mécaniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012 
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio 2010-2011; premiered at Concierto de música electroacústica, Auditorio Noel Werthein — Instituto de Tecnología ORT, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 7, 2011; speech sampled: "Bodies upon gears," Mario Savio, Berkeley, December 2, 1964

SET FIVE
Mara Helmuth: Where is My Voice?
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
electroacoustic music: Mara Helmuth; poet/speaker: Steve Sunderland

David Behrman: Statement Against the War
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
speaker: Thomas Buckner; text: Siegfried Sassoon; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo; keyboards, electronics: David Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton

Christian Calon: Au travers du livre + Deuxième voyage 
Le Projet Ulysse
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
recorded/revised in Montreal 1996-2001; premiere: Werkstatt, Deutschlandradio Berlin, December 4, 1998
 
Heiner Goebbels:
a. Je ne voyage plus
b. Freight Train
Landscape with Distant Relatives
ECM New Series/2007
voice: David Bennett; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern with Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; a. text: Henri Michaux; b. traditional; recorded at Le Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers; Paris, October 2004

SINGLE PLAY
Frances White: Chōshi
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson 

Patrick Lenfant: Khem
Compendium International --Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
electroacoustic music: Patrick Lenfant


R. Weis: Shimmer
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
samples and sampler: R. Weis

SINGLE PLAY
David Mooney: Screws in their Shoes
Rhythmiconic Sections
Arizona University Recordings/2005 
computer music: David Mooney

-- FIN --

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Martian Gardens for 04/22/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 22, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Evan Ziporyn: Mumbai I
Big Grenadilla/Mumbai
Cantaloupe Music/2012
tabla: Sandeep Das; the Boston Modern Orchestra Project; conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, May 29, 2011

SET ONE
Mecha Fixes Clocks: Stresses Due to Galactic Bending
Teoria dell'elasticita de Girolamo Papariello
Ambiances Magnétiques/2011
Recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, November 2010

Roderik De Man: Cordes Invisibles
Cultures électroniques -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005
electroacoustic music, text: Roderik De Man; piano: Frans van Ruth; piano: Doris Hochscheid; voice: Clotilde Verwearde; commissioned by the Fund for the Creation of Music, Amsterdam

SET TWO
Horacio Vaggione: SCHALL
Musique pour Piano et electroacoustique
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
electroacoustic music: H. Vaggione; commissioned by GMEB for the Synthése Festival of Bourges, 1994

Horacio Vaggione: KITAB
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 21 [various artists]
The International Computer Music Association Composition Awards -- 1992-1993
Centaur Records/1995
bass clarinet: Andy Connell; piano: Delores Duran; contrabass: Christy Crews; with computer processed and controlled sounds; conductor: Pablo Furman; recorded at the University of California San Jose and the University of Paris VIII, 1992

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: Evensong
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 2006 and 2008

Ingram Marshall: Prelude/Now the day (from Evensongs)
Evensongs
New Albion Records /1996
performed by the Maia Quartet and the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet; recorded at SUNY Purchase, February 1996

Christian Wolff: Peace March 2
(Re): Making Music -- Works 1962-99
Mode Records/2004
The Barton Workshop, conductor: Jos Zwannenburg; recorded the Netherlands, 1999

Lou Harrison: Fox Trot
Rhymes with Silver
New Albion Records/2000
cello: Jean Jeanrenaud; violin: David Abel; viola: Benjamin Simon; piano: Julie Steinberg; percussion: William Winant; recorded at Fantasy Records, Berkeley, June 2000

SET FOUR
Scott A. Wyatt: Time Mark
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 2 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
solo percussion with tape accompaniment; percussion: Glenn Schaft

Stuart Saunders Smith: Tunnels
Crux
O.O. Discs/1993
percussion, actor: Thomas Goldstein

Noah Creshevsky: Rounded with a Sleep
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky

SET FIVE
Maggi Payne: Electric Ice
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
electroacoustic music: Maggi Payne

Pete Stollery: Serendipities and Synchronicity
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2005 and premiered at the 34th concert of the Discoveries series, Thainstone Centre, Scotland, November 8, 2005

Earl Howard: Strasser 60 (excerpt)
Granular Modality
New World Records/2012
synthesizer: Earl Howard; recorded at the Roulette, New York City

Merce Cunningham Event group: Sept. 14, 1996, Annemasse, France
Music for Merce 1952--2009 boxed set
New World Records/2010
laptop, percussion: David Behrman; electric violin, live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; steel pan, objects: Fast Forward

SET SIX
R. Weis: Nowhere
Mystery of the Egg
R. Weis/1994
sampling and sampler: R. Weis

Russell Pinkston: Gabo
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 17 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2008
oboe and electronics; oboe: Rebecca Henderson

John Shirley: Bauble
Sonic Ninjutsu
Cycling '74/2004
computer processed autoharp: John Shirley

-- FIN --

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Martian Gardens for 04/15/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 15, 2012

SET ONE
Gavin Bryars: Titanic Lament
The Sinking of the Titanic (radio edits)
Point Music/1995

Barney Childs: London Rice Wine
A Music; That it Might Be...
New World Records/2002
flute with live electronics: Philip Rehfeldt

SET TWO
Frank Denyer: Woman, Viola and Crow
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted viola, voice, percussion sounds: Elisabeth Smalt; recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, March 20, 2006

If, Bwana/Trio Scordatura: Gilmore's Girls
E (and sometimes why)
Pogus Productions/2012
Trio Scordatura -- viola d'amore: Elisabeth Smalt; voice: Alfrun Schmid; keyboard/laptop: Bob Gilmore; voice: Lisa Bernard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté; keyboard: Al Margolis who is If, Bwana; recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, June 2010

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel, part one
Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns?
New Albion Records/1991
UC Berkeley Chorus, director: Philip Brett; viola: David Abel; celeste: Karen Rosemak; percussion: William Winant; recorded at Skywalker Sound, October 1990

Morton Feldman: For Franz Kline
Only -- Works for Voice and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
soprano: Joan La Barbara; violin: Roy Malan; cello: Stephen Harrison; French horn: Lawrence Ragent; piano: Marvin Tartak; chimes: William Winant, director: Stephen L. Mosko; recorded in Los Angeles, 1995

SET FOUR
Harry Partch: Near Lodi I cut the huge Tokays*
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto; recorded at Second Story Studio, Venice, California, Summer 2010
*Flame Tokay grape native to Lodi, California

Harry Partch:
a. While my Heart Keeps Beating Time
b. Yankee Doodle Birds

Enclosure Two --
Historic Speech-Music Recordings from the Harry Partch Archives
Innova Recordings/1995
a. voice: Philip Blackburn; piano: Liz Schmidt; b. voice: Harry Partch, from 1970 interview

John Luther Adams: Apple Blossom Round
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 2006 and 2008

Evan Ziporyn: Mumbai II
Big Grenadilla/Mumbai
Cantaloupe Music/2012
tabla: Sandeep Das; Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, May 29, 2011

R. Weis: Tubular March
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
sampling and sequencing: R. Weis

SET FIVE
Frances White: In the Library of Dreams
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
viola d'amore: David Cerutti; electronics: Frances White

Mathew Adkins: Silk to Steel
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2012
electroacoustic music: Mathew Adkins

SET SIX
Christian Bouchard: Impasto 46
Automacité
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music: Christian Bouchard; commissioned by Codes d’accès, realized at the composer's studio, premiered at Les machines à communiquer electroacoustic music concerts at La Chapelle, Montreal, April 29, 2006

Christian Bouchard: Brazil Wins (from Parcelles 2)
Fractures
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music: Christian Bouchard; commissioned by Réseaux des arts médiatiques; realized at the composer's studio, premiered at the Rien à voir (14) series, Réseaux at Espace GO, Montreal, October 18, 2003

SET SEVEN
Roderik De Man: Wait a Minute
Electrified Music
Electroshock Records/2004

Diego Garro: O Que a menina ouve
Cultures électroniques --
Prix Trivium et Magisterium 2005, IMEB series [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005

Kyle Bruckmann: Orgone Accelerator
On Procedural Grounds
New World Records/2012
oboe, English horn, electronics: Kyle Bruckmann; recorded in Oakland, California, 2011

PAS: Vacation Beat
Flanked by Women and Pumpkins
Alrealon Musique/2012

SINGLE PLAY
Elaine Barkin: Xtet -- Last Dance for Milton
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer music: Elaine Barkin

-- FIN --

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Martian Gardens for 04/08/2012

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 April 08, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Jorge Rapp: Electronic Study II
Cultures électroniques 19 -- Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
composed at the Music Production and Research Laboratory from Recoleta Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, 1985; Synclavier II and software: Jorge Rapp

SINGLE PLAY
Mauricio Kagel: Phonophonie --
Four melodramas for two voices and other sound sources
Transición II/Phonophonie
Mode Records/2003
bass baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; tapes and sound direction: Stefano Bassanese; offstage voice: Tim Greacon; prerecorded percussion: Dmitri Fiorin; prerecorded voices: Piera Acone, Elena Barbalich; additional voices: Daniele Del Giudice, Xavier Tabet; Nicholas Isherwood; realized in Venice and Paris, 1999-2001

SET ONE
Leo Kupper:
a. Lumiere sans Ombre
b. Aviformes (Part 1)

Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
a. bass baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; b. soprano: Barbara Zanichelli; electronic music: Leo Kupper; recorded at Studio de Recherches, Brussels

John Luther Adams: Morningfieldsong
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort; director: Stephen Drury; featured bird songs: song sparrow, field sparrow; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 2006 and 2008

SET TWO
John Luther Adams: Mourning Dove
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort; director: Stephen Drury; featured bird songs: mourning dove; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 2006 and 2008

Adrian Moore: Fields of Darkness and Light
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
violin: Darragh Morgan; realized at the composer's studio and premiered at Clothworkers Centenary Hall, Leeds, UK, April 28, 2010; commissioned by Darragh Morgan

Samuel Adler: for Milton
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
violin: Michelle Ross

SET THREE
R. Weis: Plastic Foil Rubber
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2011
sampling and sequencing: Robert Weis


Joel Gressel: Crossings
Computer Generations [various artists]
CRI/2011 (orig. 1978, 1996)
computer music realized at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton University, 1976

Joel Gressel: Is It Serious?
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer music: Joel Gressel

SINGLE PLAY
Françoise Barrière: Trois modes d'air et de lamentations
a. Premier mouvement
b. Second mouvement
c. Troisième mouvement

Compendium International -- Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
accordion: Claudio Jacomucci; electronic music: Françoise Barrière; realized at IMEB, Bourges, 2004-2005

SET FOUR
Kyle Bruckmann: Cell Structure
On Procedural Grounds
New World Records/2012
oboe, electronic music: Kyle Bruckmann; clarinet: Matt Ingalls; recorded at New Improved Recording, Oakland, June 29, 2011

Dr. Ox: Beta Receptor
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM, Oslo, December 2006

Christian Calon:
a. Hauteur des simulacres (At the Level of Simulacra)
b. Le parking (The Parking Lot)

Le Projet Ulysse [The Ulysses Project]
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music: Christian Calon; guitar: Rene Lussier; voice: Shelley Hirsch; premiered the studios of German radio, Berlin, December 4, 1998

SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall:
a. Inside
b. Rules and Regulations
c. Cell Doors

Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1991

-- FIN --

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Martian Gardens for 04/01/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 01, 2012

SET ONE
Earle Brown:
a. Three Pieces I-III
b. Perspectives

Music for Piano(s), 1951-1995
New Albion Records/1996
piano: David Arden

Johanna Beyer: Movement for Double Bass and Piano
Modern American Bass [various artists]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; piano: John McDonald

Johanna Beyer: Gebrauchs-Musik I-III
Crawford/Beyer
New Albion Records/2001
piano: Sarah Cahill

SET TWO
Harry Partch: November 15 -- Leaving Santa Barbara
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto

Harry Partch: selections from Water! Water!
a. Water Criers. Visitors from strange and foreign places:
The Singer from Spoleto, and an Alabama Mocking Bird --
Dear Old Alabama
b. Water Criers. The baseball game is called on account of
rain!
c. Opening Epilogue.
Ghosts, Undele, Oomph! (The Indian Ghosts dance
over Clarence's body and play on liquor bottles)
d.
Do-lo-lo-lo -- doom! (Aldermen, Ladies, and Ghosts) Phoebus bids
farewell. The Indian Runners bring news. The final song and dance,
Gone, Man, Gone! (whole ensemble). With the descending moan of sirens
Phoebus plunges wildly into nothingness.

The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
New World Records/1997
Water! Water! An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues, Gate 5 Ensemble Cast and Instrumentalists conducted by John Garvey; recorded at the University of Illinois, 1962

SET THREE
Warren Burt: The Shape of the Voice I -- Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer music: Warren Burt

Kim Cascone: Edgeboundaries 123
Dust Theories
Cycling '74/2001
computer music: Kim Cascone

Pete Stollery: Back to Square One
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Studio Circé of IMEB, Bourges, 2007; North East Scotland’s Festival of New Music Sound at the Mitchell Hall, University of Aberdeen, September 1, 2007

SET FOUR
Milton Babbitt: Phonemena for soprano and tape
Philomel
New World Records/1995
soprano: Lynne Webber

John Melby: for Milton
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer and soprano; coloratura soprano: Patricia Sonego

Lydia Kavina: In Whims of the Wind
Music from the Ether -- Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/1999
Theremin: Lydia Kavina; piano: Joshua Pierce; coloratura soprano: Elizabeth Parcells; recorded at John Ford Auditorium, Portland, Maine, June 22, 1997

SET FIVE
Joseph Cell and Jin Hi Kim: April One
No World (Trio) Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1992
voice: Shelley Hirsch; electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; reeds, Korean piri: Joseph Celli; recorded at Coyote Studios, Brooklyn, September 12, 1991

Eleanor Hovda:
a. Jo Ha Kyu
b. Ikima

The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/
a. oboe: Lydia Van Cleve; b. shakuhachi: Eleanor Hovda

Luciano Berio:
a. Comma
b. Chanson pour Pierre Boulez

Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
a. e-flat clarinet: Carol Robinson; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville, France, September 2, 2005; b. cello: Rohan de Saram; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, April 2, 2006

SET SIX
Carlo Serafini: Bicycles and Bowls
Possible Worlds -- Recent Xenharmonic Explorations [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2012

Douglas Geers: Polk Pond
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2007

Nicolas Bernier: Antithèse électronique
Travaux Mécaniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012

Christian Banasik: Glass Cutter
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2007

R. Weis: Casserole & Singing Bowl
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2011

Annea Lockwood: Dialogue -- Bottles & Jars
The Glass World
¿What Next? Recordings/1997 (orig. 1970)

PAS: Melancholy Drink Coaster
Pure Energy Output Sessions
Alrealon Musique/2012

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: excerpts from La légende d'Eer
Electronic Works I: La Legend D'Eer
Mode Records/2005
7-channel tape (1977-1978) remixed by Gerard Pape at GRM, Paris, 2004

-- FIN --

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Martian Gardens for 03/25/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 25, 2012

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros and Miya Masaoka: Afternoon (Hirusugi)
Accordion Koto
Deep Listening/2007
koto: Miya Masaoka; accordion: P. Oliveros; recorded in the Bard College Recording Studio

Earl Howard: Crupper
Granular Modality
New World Records/2012
koto: Miya Masaoka; synthesizer, processing: Earl Howard; recorded in concert at Roulette, New York City

Christopher Bailey: Can't Sleep
Possible Worlds [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2011

SET TWO
Frank Denyer: Two Beacons
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
The Barton Workshop and guests, directors: Frank Denyer and James Fulkerson;
recorded Bethanieklooster, Amsterdam, and Darlington College of Arts, 2006


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

SET THREE
Philip Glass: Knee 2
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch Records/1993
The Philip Glass Ensemble and Chorus, conductor: Michael Riesman; recorded in 1993

Alvin Curran:
a. Harmony Circus
b. Corny Island (Ochs solo)
c. Dust Bowl

Electric Rags II
New Albion Records/1990
Rova Saxophone Quartet (baritone and alto: Jon Riskin; tenor and sopranino: Larry Ochs; alto and sopranino: Steve Adams; sorano: Bruce Ackley); electronics: Alvin Curran; Oberheim Xpander: Scot Gresham-Lancaster; recorded in San Francisco, 1989

Frank Garvey and DeusMachina:
a. Goodbye
b. Tweedledee-dee

House of the Deafman
Innova Recordings/2001
recorded for the OmniCircus, San Francisco

Lou Harrison: Rapunzel, Act VI
Rapunzel and Other Works
New Albion Records/1997
soprano: Patrice Maginnis; mezzo soprano: Lynne McMurtry; baritone: John Duykers; Ensemble Parallèle, conductor: Nicole Paeiement; recorded at the University of California Santa Cruz, June 1996
SET FOUR
Adrian Moore: Sustain
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio and premiered at the 20 Years of Musical Innovation at PACE Studio 1 of De Montfort University, Leicester, 3/01/10

John Bischoff: Decay Trace
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
computer music by John Bischoff recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland

SET FIVE
PAS: Electric Rain on Adams Bridge
Flanked by Women and Pumpkins
Alrealon Musique/2012

Blue Sausage Infant: Aphid's Lament
Manitou
Blue Sausage Infant/2012

John Shirley: Memoriam
Sonic Ninjutsu
Cycling '74/2004

David Buddin: Canticle III
Canticles for Electronic Music
ugEXPLODE Records/2012

SET SIX
Shelley Hirsch: In the Basement
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009

Shelley Hirsch: Dipped
O Little Town of East New York
Tzadik/1995

Christian Calon: Le rêve (The Dream)
Le projet Ulysse
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
voice of Penelope: Shelley Hirsch; guitar: René Lussier; electroacoustic music: C. Calon; text: C. Calon inspired by James Joyce; realized at the composer's studio in Montreal 1996-2001; additional recording in Paris, Marseille, Montreal, and Berlin; premiered at Werkstatt, Deutschlandradio Berlin, 12/04/98

Jerry Hunt:
a. String 5 -- Birds
b. String 6

Song Drapes
Tzadik/1999
electronic music: Jerry Hunt (1992); voice/text on Birds: Shelley Hirsch; recorded at Avatar, New York City, 1999

Noah Creshevsky: The Kindness of Strangers
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
voice and guitar: Gary Heidt; lap steel/banjo: Rich Gross; bass: Orin Buck; electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky

Shelley Hirsch: Blanche Dubois
States
Tellus-Harvestworks/1997
voice/improvised text: S. Hirsch; electronic music: David Weinstein; recorded at Roulette, New York City, 1987

Robert Ashley: The Angel of Loneliness
Dust -- An Opera
Lovely Music/2000
voice: Sam Ashley; chorus: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Tom Hamilton, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara; "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Robert Ashley; text: Robert Ashley; electronic orchestration: Robert Ashley, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Tom Hamilton; recorded at The Kitchen, New York City

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Blackburn: Scratch I-Ching
Ghostly Psalms
Innova Recordings/2012

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