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 September 16, 2012
SINGLE PLAY
Roger Kleier: The Night Has Many Hours
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
electric guitar; electronics: Roger Kleier; recorded at Master Element Studio, New York City; time: 4:22
SET ONE
Annie Gosfield: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory
a. Part I
b. Part II
Burnt Ivory and Loose Wires
Tzadik/1998
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; percussion: Jim Pugliese and Christine Bard; recorded at Harvestworks/Studio PASS, New York City; composition date: 1996; time: 11:00
Dean Drummond: Different Drums for Different Strokes
Newband Play Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994
percussion, Korg Digital Drums, Yamaha DX7II: Dominic Donato; recorded at Cove City Sound Studio, Glen Cove, New York, January 26, 1991; composition year: 1988; time: 11:06
SET TWO
Mathew Rosenblum: Yanah's Dream
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
Newband featuring Harry Partch instruments, conducted by Dean Drummond; recoreded at the New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2011; compostion year: 2008; time: 8:44
Harry Partch: Ring Around the Moon -- A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now*
a. Phase One -- Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!)
b. Phase Two -- One, two, three, four -- X,Y, Zee
c. Phase Three -- Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the bell come out fighting!
d. Phase Four -- Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity...(Look out! He's got a gun!)
The Harry Partch Collection Volume I
New World Records/2004 (orig. 1997)
* Part II of Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater
intoned voice: Harry Partch; Gate Five Ensemble (Sausalito) featuring Harry Partch intruments, conducted by Horace Schwarz; recorded in Sausalito, California, 1953; composition date: 1952; time: 9:21
SET THREE
Meredith Monk:
a. Mapping
b. Mapping continued
Songs of Ascension
ECM New Series/2011
a. voices: Meredith Monk, Ching Gonzalez; percussion: John Hollenbeck; b. voices: Meredith Monk, Ching Gonzalez, Bruce Rameker, Allison Sniffin; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009; time: 3:39
Kristin Norderval: A Flat Ground
Aural Histories (post-ambient arias for voice and electronics)
Deep Listening/2012
voice, electronics: Kristin Norderval; composition year: 2001; time: 6:00
New Circle Five:
a. If it's on...
b. Never Deceived?
Dreaming Wide Awake
Deep Listening/2003
a. percussion: Susie Ibarra; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; soprano: Kristin Norderval; b. violin, voice: Rosi Hertlein; soprano: Kristin Norderval; time: 7:39
Susie Ibarra: Umaga (from Lakbay)
Folklorica
Tzadik/2004
Susie Ibarra Trio (violin: Jennifer Choi; piano: Craig Taborn; drums, percussion: Susie Ibarra); 4:29
Meredith Monk: Chinook Winds
Facing North
ECM New Series/1992
voice: Meredith Monk; recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, 1992; time: 0:32
SET FOUR
Walter Zimmermann: Keuper
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012
Sonar Quartett; recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin Lankwitz; July 2010; composition year: 1980; time: 6:51
Tom Hamilton and Bruce Eisenbeil: Dryer Mouth
Shadow Machine
Pogus Productions/2009
Nord modular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; guitar: Bruce Eisenbeil; recorded at the Pickle Factory, New York City, 2008; time: 8:32
Normal Love: Breathe Through Your Skin
Survival Tricks
ugExplode/2012
vocals and keyboard: vocals and keyboards: Merissa Marligoni; amplified violin and vocals: Jessica Pavone; electric bass: Evan Lipson; electric guitar and electronics: Annon Freidlin; drums: Eli Litwin
SET FIVE
Annette Vande Gorne: Figures d’espace
a. Vide et Plein
b. Texture
c. Ritournelle 1
d.Waves
e. Ritournelle 2
Exils
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
electroacoustic music: Annette Vande Gorne; recorded at the Metamorphoses d'Orphee studio, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at the Rainy Day festival at Villa Louvigny, Luxemburg; composition year: 2004; time: 13:49
Elainie Lillios: Shoe Factory (from Backroads)
Entre espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio, Bowling Green, Ohio; premiered at Rien à voir (12) concert series presented by Réseaux at Espace GO, Montreal, September 13, 2002; composition date: 2002; time: 3:51
Elainie Lillios: Pool (from Earth Ascending)
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 11 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2002
voice: Deborah Norin-Kuehn; electroacoustic music: Elainie Lillios; text: Cynthia Fuller; recorded at the University of North Texas, Denton, and the Center for Teaching and Learning, Bowling Green, Ohio; composition year: 2000; time: 4:22
SET SIX
Steven Ricks: CommunalLoopsImprov
Available Resonances
Comprovise Recordings/2012
found sounds, computers: Steven Ricks; time: 3:39
R. Weis: Kirby's Ball
Excitable Audible
R.Weis/2012
sampling, computers: R. Weis; time: 4:41
Enzo Minarelli:
I don't like poets who add dead complexities to living ones
Fame
Pogus Productions/2012
vocals, words, sounds, vocalizations: Enzo Minarelli; time: 2:56
Frank Pahl: The House on Tulip Mountain
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
music by Frank Pahl; time: 2:11
Carlo Serafini: Bicycles and Bowls
Possible Worlds [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2012
music by Carlo Serafini; time: 4:24
David Mooney: Lift Temporarily Suspended
Rhythmiconic Sections
Arizona University Recordings/2004
computer music: David Mooney; time: 1:10
Frank Pahl: The Romantic Side of Schizophrenia
The Romantic Side of Schizophrenia
FOT/1994
mandolins, accordions, baritones, clarinets: Frank Pahl; octavin, saxophones: Marko Novachoff; flutes, saxophones: Tim Holmes; time: 3:29
Edward Ka Spel: The Char Char
Down in the City of Heartbreak and Needles
Soleilmoon Records/1995
voice; keyboards: Edward Ka Spel; time 3:30
Steve Beresford: Toy Piano
Not Necessarily "English" Music [various artists]
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
toy piano, sound effects: Steve Beresford; recorded at Charing Cross Station, London, January 18, 1975
Enzo Minarelli: Seeking the Sound of Pharmacopoeia
Fame
Pogus Productions/2012
vocals, words sounds, vocalizations: Enzo Minarelli; time:3:40
SINGLE PLAY
Bob Gluck: Electric Songs 1-3
Electric Songs
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
shofar: Bob Gluck and electronics; voice: Zoe Zak
-- FIN --
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Martian Gardens for September 9, 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 September 9, 2012
SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Song of Quetzalcoatl
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group (William Winant, Todd Manley, David Rosenthal, Daniel Kennedy); recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, August 1993; composition year: 1941; time: 06:32
Phil Kline: Three Rumsfeld Songs
a. As We Know
b. That Many Vases
c. Near-Perfect Clarity
Zippo Songs
Cantaloupe Music/2004
The Zippo Band (vocals: Theo Bleckmann; violin: Todd Reynolds; guitars: Phil Kline; percussion: David Cossin); recorded at Ft/lb Studio, Brooklyn, August-September 2003; composition year: 2003; time: 5:35
SET TWO
Darren Copeland: They're Trying to Save Themselves
Lost and Found
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
electroacoustic music: Darren Copeland; premiered on Loss and Legacy, Radio One (CBC), September 11, 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 3:53
Eric Lyon: Liberation #1
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004
computer music: Eric Lyon; composition year: 2003; time: 9:11
Scott A. Wyatt: In the Arms of Peril
Music from SEAMUS volume 11 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2002
electroacoustic music: Scott Wyatt; recorded at the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studio; composition year: 2001; time: 10:00
SET THREE
Walter Zimmermann: 10 Fränkische Tänze
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012
string quartet/drone quartet: Sonar Quartett (violins: Suanne Zapf, Kirsten Harms; viola: Nikolaus Schlierf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt); recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin-Lankowitz, Germany, February 2011; composition year: 1977; time: 12:56
Miguel Del Aguila: Pacific Serenade
I. Cantando, semplice
II. Recitando, molto rubato
Exchange -- Latin America [various artists]
CRI/2000
Pacific Serenade Ensemble (clarinet: Gary Gray; violins: Miwako Watanabe, Connie Kupta; viola: Simon Oswell; viola: David Speltz); recorded at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angales, March 15, 1999; composition year: 1998; time: 7:15
SET FOUR
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 1
The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
Wergo/1994
instruments: constant and variable frequency records, cymbal, and piano; performers: John Cage, Doris Dennison, Xenia Cage, Margaret Jansen); recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958; composition year: 1939; time: 8:30
David Tudor and John Cage: Rainforest II/Mureau (excerpt)
Rainforest/Mureau
New World Records/2000
live electronics: David Tudor; voice, pre-recorded tape: John Cage; text: Henry David Thoreau; recorded at Radio Bremen, May 5, 1972; composition year: 1972/1970; excerpt time: 11:30
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Art and Overpopulation & Royanji
From Zero
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
Art and Overpopulation lecture delivered at Stanford University, January 1992; Royanji (soprano: Isabelle Ganz, percussion: Michael Pugliese); composition years: 1992/1983-1985; time: 26:00
SET FIVE
If, Bwana: Walking der Dog
I, Angelica
Pogus Productions/2002
tapes, synthesizers, computer, and other instruments: Al Margolis; walking dog: Ted the Dog; time: 12:06
Tom Hamilton: What Fell Through
Local Customs
Mutable Music/2009
flute: Jacqueline Martelle; clarinets: Richard Cohen; trombone: James Martin; contrabass: Terry Kippenburger; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; electronic harmony generator: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri; composition year: 2005; time: 8:11
SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: 40 Rooms
Wind Shdadows
New World Records/2005
for quintet and digital reverberation system; The Barton Workshop (clarinet: John Anderson; violin: Marieke Keser; cello: Judith Van Swaay; double bass: Jos Tieman; trombone: James Fulkerson; directors: James Fulkerson, Frank Denyer);recorded in the Maria Minor Kerk; Ultrecht, The Netherlands; May 12, 2003; composition year: 1996; time: 15:12
--FIN--
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 September 9, 2012
SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Song of Quetzalcoatl
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group (William Winant, Todd Manley, David Rosenthal, Daniel Kennedy); recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, August 1993; composition year: 1941; time: 06:32
Phil Kline: Three Rumsfeld Songs
a. As We Know
b. That Many Vases
c. Near-Perfect Clarity
Zippo Songs
Cantaloupe Music/2004
The Zippo Band (vocals: Theo Bleckmann; violin: Todd Reynolds; guitars: Phil Kline; percussion: David Cossin); recorded at Ft/lb Studio, Brooklyn, August-September 2003; composition year: 2003; time: 5:35
SET TWO
Darren Copeland: They're Trying to Save Themselves
Lost and Found
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
electroacoustic music: Darren Copeland; premiered on Loss and Legacy, Radio One (CBC), September 11, 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 3:53
Eric Lyon: Liberation #1
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004
computer music: Eric Lyon; composition year: 2003; time: 9:11
Scott A. Wyatt: In the Arms of Peril
Music from SEAMUS volume 11 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2002
electroacoustic music: Scott Wyatt; recorded at the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studio; composition year: 2001; time: 10:00
SET THREE
Walter Zimmermann: 10 Fränkische Tänze
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012
string quartet/drone quartet: Sonar Quartett (violins: Suanne Zapf, Kirsten Harms; viola: Nikolaus Schlierf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt); recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin-Lankowitz, Germany, February 2011; composition year: 1977; time: 12:56
Miguel Del Aguila: Pacific Serenade
I. Cantando, semplice
II. Recitando, molto rubato
Exchange -- Latin America [various artists]
CRI/2000
Pacific Serenade Ensemble (clarinet: Gary Gray; violins: Miwako Watanabe, Connie Kupta; viola: Simon Oswell; viola: David Speltz); recorded at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angales, March 15, 1999; composition year: 1998; time: 7:15
SET FOUR
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 1
The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
Wergo/1994
instruments: constant and variable frequency records, cymbal, and piano; performers: John Cage, Doris Dennison, Xenia Cage, Margaret Jansen); recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958; composition year: 1939; time: 8:30
David Tudor and John Cage: Rainforest II/Mureau (excerpt)
Rainforest/Mureau
New World Records/2000
live electronics: David Tudor; voice, pre-recorded tape: John Cage; text: Henry David Thoreau; recorded at Radio Bremen, May 5, 1972; composition year: 1972/1970; excerpt time: 11:30
SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Art and Overpopulation & Royanji
From Zero
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
Art and Overpopulation lecture delivered at Stanford University, January 1992; Royanji (soprano: Isabelle Ganz, percussion: Michael Pugliese); composition years: 1992/1983-1985; time: 26:00
SET FIVE
If, Bwana: Walking der Dog
I, Angelica
Pogus Productions/2002
tapes, synthesizers, computer, and other instruments: Al Margolis; walking dog: Ted the Dog; time: 12:06
Tom Hamilton: What Fell Through
Local Customs
Mutable Music/2009
flute: Jacqueline Martelle; clarinets: Richard Cohen; trombone: James Martin; contrabass: Terry Kippenburger; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; electronic harmony generator: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri; composition year: 2005; time: 8:11
SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: 40 Rooms
Wind Shdadows
New World Records/2005
for quintet and digital reverberation system; The Barton Workshop (clarinet: John Anderson; violin: Marieke Keser; cello: Judith Van Swaay; double bass: Jos Tieman; trombone: James Fulkerson; directors: James Fulkerson, Frank Denyer);recorded in the Maria Minor Kerk; Ultrecht, The Netherlands; May 12, 2003; composition year: 1996; time: 15:12
--FIN--
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Martian Gardens for September 2, 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 September 2, 2012
SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: September Canons
September Canons
New World Records/2009
violin with electronic processing: Todd Reynolds; composition year: 2002; selection time: 13:13
Ursula Mamlok: Five Capriccios I-V
Ursula Mamlok Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; piano: Anton Kernjak; recorded at Radiostudio, Zürich, Switzerland, February 12, 2011; composition year: 1968; selection time: 7:10
SET TWO
Annie Gosfield: EWA7, part 2
Pipes: Transmission of a Yellow Pipe, Mechanical Firing of a Yellow Pipe
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; electronics: Ikue Mori; drums, percussion: Jim Pugliese and Sim Cain; metal factory percussion: Hans-günter Brodmann and Matthias Rosenbauer; factory sounds sourced from the EWA 7 factory, Nuremburg, Germany; music recorded at Mission Sound, Brooklyn, January 2001; composition year: 1999; selection time: 11:06
Yvonne Troxler: from Shergotty
a. Shergotty I
b. Shergotty III
Brouhaha
Innova Recordings/2012
performed by the Glass Farm Ensemble; recorded at Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, July 2011; composition year: 2004/2011; selection time: 6:43
John Cage: from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
a. Sonata XI
b. Fourth Interlude
Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946-1948)
CRI/1995
prepared piano: Maro Ajemian; recorded at WOR Studios, New York City, 1950; composition year: 1946-1948; selection time: 6:01
SINGLE PLAY
Walter Zimmermann: Songs of Innocence & Experience
23 ritornels for string quartet and tape
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012
performed by the Sonar Quartett; children's voices recorded on the streets of Nuremburg; poem "The Tyger" from William Blake's "Songs of Experience" recited by Allen Ginsberg; recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, February 2010; composition year: 1996/2004; selection time: 22:10
SET THREE
Elaine Barkin: Anonymous was a Woman
Open Space 3 (Barkin, Boretz, et al.)
Open Space/1992
tape collage for for choreographer Annamaura Siverblatt; realized at UCLA, 1984; composition year: 1984; selection time: 10:45
George Todd: Wordscapes
a. Word
b. Water Asleep
c. Green Idea
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 2 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
Synclavier programming: George Todd, Middlebury College; composition year: 1991; selection time: 5:35
Barry Lewis: Hexa-Squigs
Curves and Jars
MPS Music & Video/1994
computer music: Barry Lewis; recorded at Projects UK, Newcastle; selection time: 2:15
Alwin Nikolais: Aviary -- Dance 3
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993
Synclavier programming: Alwin Nikolais; composition year: 1978; selection time: 2:51
SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: FIZZ
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
computer, electroacoustic music: Maggi Payne; realized at CCM, Mills College, Oakland; composition year: 2004; selection time: 10:18
Tom Erbe: After A Day
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 [various artists]
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
computer music: Tom Erbe; composition year: 1991; selection time: 4:32
Richard Maxfield: Pastoral Symphony
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
electronic music on tape: Richard Maxfield; composition year: 1960; selection time: 4:03
SET FIVE
Pete Stollery: Still Voices
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music: Pete Stollery; realized in 2005 and premiered on November 8, 2005 during the 34th concert of the Discoveries series; Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, Scotland; composition year: 2005; selection time: 6:22
John Cage: Living Room Music
a. To Begin
b. Story
c. Melody
d. End
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
percussion and voices: Third Coast Percussion; recorded at the Ruth Ford House, Aurora, Illinois, June 29, 2011; composition year: 1940; selection time: 8:04
Meredith Monk
a. Masks
b. Shaking
Mercy
ECM New Series/2002
a. voices: Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger; Ching Gonzalez; John Hollenbeck; Allison Sniffen, Meredith Monk; b. voices: Theo Bleckmenn, Katie Geissinger, Ching Gonzalez, Meredith Monk; piano: Allison Sniffen; percussion: John Hollenbeck; a/b recorded at Sorcerer Sound, New York City; composition year: 2001; selection time: 4:48
John Cage: Two Pieces for Piano
I. Slowly
II. Quite Fast
Early Piano Music
ECM New Series/2005
piano: Herbert Henck; recorded at Festebeurgkirche, Frankfurt am Main; December 2002; composition year: 1935; selection time: 3:40
SINGLE PLAY
Malcolm Goldstein: Summer
The Seasons -- Vermont
XI Records/1998
double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Woods; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; saxophones, vibraphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; vocalizing, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, February 26, 1983; composition year: 1980-1982; selection time: 16:05
SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown:
a. Hawaii bird park, Hawaii
b. Frogs in irrigation canals, Champuan, Bali
Talking Drum
Binaural motion recordings as a dialogue of distances
Pogus Productions/2005
field recordings, instruments, processing: Chris Brown; composition year: 1990s; selection time: 4:50
-- FIN ---
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 September 2, 2012
SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: September Canons
September Canons
New World Records/2009
violin with electronic processing: Todd Reynolds; composition year: 2002; selection time: 13:13
Ursula Mamlok: Five Capriccios I-V
Ursula Mamlok Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; piano: Anton Kernjak; recorded at Radiostudio, Zürich, Switzerland, February 12, 2011; composition year: 1968; selection time: 7:10
SET TWO
Annie Gosfield: EWA7, part 2
Pipes: Transmission of a Yellow Pipe, Mechanical Firing of a Yellow Pipe
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; electronics: Ikue Mori; drums, percussion: Jim Pugliese and Sim Cain; metal factory percussion: Hans-günter Brodmann and Matthias Rosenbauer; factory sounds sourced from the EWA 7 factory, Nuremburg, Germany; music recorded at Mission Sound, Brooklyn, January 2001; composition year: 1999; selection time: 11:06
Yvonne Troxler: from Shergotty
a. Shergotty I
b. Shergotty III
Brouhaha
Innova Recordings/2012
performed by the Glass Farm Ensemble; recorded at Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, July 2011; composition year: 2004/2011; selection time: 6:43
John Cage: from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
a. Sonata XI
b. Fourth Interlude
Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946-1948)
CRI/1995
prepared piano: Maro Ajemian; recorded at WOR Studios, New York City, 1950; composition year: 1946-1948; selection time: 6:01
SINGLE PLAY
Walter Zimmermann: Songs of Innocence & Experience
23 ritornels for string quartet and tape
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012
performed by the Sonar Quartett; children's voices recorded on the streets of Nuremburg; poem "The Tyger" from William Blake's "Songs of Experience" recited by Allen Ginsberg; recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, February 2010; composition year: 1996/2004; selection time: 22:10
SET THREE
Elaine Barkin: Anonymous was a Woman
Open Space 3 (Barkin, Boretz, et al.)
Open Space/1992
tape collage for for choreographer Annamaura Siverblatt; realized at UCLA, 1984; composition year: 1984; selection time: 10:45
George Todd: Wordscapes
a. Word
b. Water Asleep
c. Green Idea
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 2 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
Synclavier programming: George Todd, Middlebury College; composition year: 1991; selection time: 5:35
Barry Lewis: Hexa-Squigs
Curves and Jars
MPS Music & Video/1994
computer music: Barry Lewis; recorded at Projects UK, Newcastle; selection time: 2:15
Alwin Nikolais: Aviary -- Dance 3
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993
Synclavier programming: Alwin Nikolais; composition year: 1978; selection time: 2:51
SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: FIZZ
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
computer, electroacoustic music: Maggi Payne; realized at CCM, Mills College, Oakland; composition year: 2004; selection time: 10:18
Tom Erbe: After A Day
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 [various artists]
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
computer music: Tom Erbe; composition year: 1991; selection time: 4:32
Richard Maxfield: Pastoral Symphony
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
electronic music on tape: Richard Maxfield; composition year: 1960; selection time: 4:03
SET FIVE
Pete Stollery: Still Voices
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music: Pete Stollery; realized in 2005 and premiered on November 8, 2005 during the 34th concert of the Discoveries series; Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, Scotland; composition year: 2005; selection time: 6:22
John Cage: Living Room Music
a. To Begin
b. Story
c. Melody
d. End
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
percussion and voices: Third Coast Percussion; recorded at the Ruth Ford House, Aurora, Illinois, June 29, 2011; composition year: 1940; selection time: 8:04
Meredith Monk
a. Masks
b. Shaking
Mercy
ECM New Series/2002
a. voices: Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger; Ching Gonzalez; John Hollenbeck; Allison Sniffen, Meredith Monk; b. voices: Theo Bleckmenn, Katie Geissinger, Ching Gonzalez, Meredith Monk; piano: Allison Sniffen; percussion: John Hollenbeck; a/b recorded at Sorcerer Sound, New York City; composition year: 2001; selection time: 4:48
John Cage: Two Pieces for Piano
I. Slowly
II. Quite Fast
Early Piano Music
ECM New Series/2005
piano: Herbert Henck; recorded at Festebeurgkirche, Frankfurt am Main; December 2002; composition year: 1935; selection time: 3:40
SINGLE PLAY
Malcolm Goldstein: Summer
The Seasons -- Vermont
XI Records/1998
double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Woods; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; saxophones, vibraphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; vocalizing, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, February 26, 1983; composition year: 1980-1982; selection time: 16:05
SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown:
a. Hawaii bird park, Hawaii
b. Frogs in irrigation canals, Champuan, Bali
Talking Drum
Binaural motion recordings as a dialogue of distances
Pogus Productions/2005
field recordings, instruments, processing: Chris Brown; composition year: 1990s; selection time: 4:50
-- FIN ---
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Martian Gardens for August 26, 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 August 26, 2012
SINGLE PLAY
Icebreaker: An Ending (Ascent) I
Apollo
Music composed by Brian Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
In memory of Neil Armstrong
SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: In Memoriam
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky
SET ONE
Robert Carl: Warm Waxing Wail
Works for Piano
Centaur Records/1995
piano and voice: Anthony De Mare; recorded at Millard Auditorium, The Hartt School, West Hartford, Connecticut; June 1994
David Mahler: Deep Water
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; voice, text: David Mahler; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009
Sylvia Smith: Two songs by John Cage --
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
b. Nowth Upon Nacht
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christine Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"
SET TWO
John Cage: 36 Mesostics re and not re Marcel Duchamp
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002
voice (with electronics): Paul Hillier
John Cage: from Series re Morris Graves
a. Page 11
b. Page 12
John Cage performs Cage -- The Text Pieces I: The Artistic Pieces
Mode Records/1999
recorded at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. for John Cage's watercolors exhibition, April 19, 1990
John Cage: Three, part F
The Number Pieces 4
Mode Records/2009
recorders: Trio Dolce; recorded at Maria Minor Church, Ultrecht, The Netherlands; February 1, 1998
SET THREE
John Cage: In the Name of the Holocaust*
The Works for Piano 8 -- Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at German radio, Frankfurt, 2002
* Title this 1942 composition is a pun on "In the name of the Holy Ghost" and taken from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939)
Victoria Jordanova: Sonatina No. 3
a. Dogged
b. Nagging
c. Vacilating
Cosmogony
Arpaviva/2012
amplified piano: Victoria Jordanova
Victoria Jordanova: Requiem
Requiem for Bosnia
CRI/1994
harp, broken piano: Victoria Jordanova
SET FOUR
Francis Dhomont: Lettre de Sarajevo
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music: Francis Dhomont; realized in the Syter studio at Ina-GRM (Paris, France) and in the composer’s studio in 1995-96 and premiered on 22 February 1996 as part of the Festival Présences of Radio France in the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris, France)
Marcelle Deschênes:
selections from Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles (Naissance des roches molles)
[Moll, a Lilliputian opera for six soft pebbles (Birth of the Soft Rocks)]
a. Zig and Puce
b. Dry insects -- Yawning one's head off
c. Variable star
d. Bittuber insects: drinking the sea with a straw
petits Big Bangs
mixed media, multimedia, and acousmatic music 1976-2002 retrospective
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music: Marcelle Deschênes; clarinets: Pierre Langevin; trombones: Réjean Marois; percussion and toys: René Joly, Raynald Lévesque, Robert Pelletier, Robert Leroux, realized in 1976 in the studio of the Université Laval (Québec City) and premiered on March 18, 1976 at McGill University’s Pollack Hall in Montréal by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ)
SET FIVE
Walter Zimmermann: Ursache und Vorwitz
Schatten der Ideen
Mode Records/2003
performed by the Ensemble Recherche (with electronic tape); recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, May 1998
George Crumb: Palmpsest (from Other Worldly Resonances)
Complete Crumb Editions, Vol. 11
Bridge Records/2008
pianos: Susan Grace and Alison Rybak; recorded at Packard Recital Hall, Colorado Springs, March 17, 2006
SET SIX
David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees (excerpt)
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
interior recordings of bark beetles in Pinyon pine trees, New Mexico, David Dunn: bioacoustic recordings
Tod Dockstader/David Lee Myers: Pterygota
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005
amphibian sound recordings and electronics: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers
Steven Ricks: Can Cup Pipe
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
found objects, microphone, computer: Steven Ricks
SET SEVEN
Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
recordings for electronic installation recorded throughout Japan, 2007
Tom Hamilton: Modhera
Pieces for Kohn/Formal and Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
keyboards, synthesizer, custom electronics: Tom Hamilton; drums, percussion, bells, cymbals: Rich O'Donnell; flute, clarinet: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1975
If, Bwana: Flute Thang
33Birdswent
Pogus Productions/1995
vocals: Ellen Christi; soprano sax: Brian Charles; sampled flute, electronics, tape: Al Margolis
SINGLE PLAY
Icebreaker: An Ending (Ascent) II
Apollo
Music composed by Brian Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
In memory of Neil Armstrong
-- FIN --
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 August 26, 2012
SINGLE PLAY
Icebreaker: An Ending (Ascent) I
Apollo
Music composed by Brian Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
In memory of Neil Armstrong
SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: In Memoriam
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky
SET ONE
Robert Carl: Warm Waxing Wail
Works for Piano
Centaur Records/1995
piano and voice: Anthony De Mare; recorded at Millard Auditorium, The Hartt School, West Hartford, Connecticut; June 1994
David Mahler: Deep Water
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; voice, text: David Mahler; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009
Sylvia Smith: Two songs by John Cage --
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
b. Nowth Upon Nacht
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christine Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"
SET TWO
John Cage: 36 Mesostics re and not re Marcel Duchamp
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002
voice (with electronics): Paul Hillier
John Cage: from Series re Morris Graves
a. Page 11
b. Page 12
John Cage performs Cage -- The Text Pieces I: The Artistic Pieces
Mode Records/1999
recorded at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. for John Cage's watercolors exhibition, April 19, 1990
John Cage: Three, part F
The Number Pieces 4
Mode Records/2009
recorders: Trio Dolce; recorded at Maria Minor Church, Ultrecht, The Netherlands; February 1, 1998
SET THREE
John Cage: In the Name of the Holocaust*
The Works for Piano 8 -- Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at German radio, Frankfurt, 2002
* Title this 1942 composition is a pun on "In the name of the Holy Ghost" and taken from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939)
Victoria Jordanova: Sonatina No. 3
a. Dogged
b. Nagging
c. Vacilating
Cosmogony
Arpaviva/2012
amplified piano: Victoria Jordanova
Victoria Jordanova: Requiem
Requiem for Bosnia
CRI/1994
harp, broken piano: Victoria Jordanova
SET FOUR
Francis Dhomont: Lettre de Sarajevo
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music: Francis Dhomont; realized in the Syter studio at Ina-GRM (Paris, France) and in the composer’s studio in 1995-96 and premiered on 22 February 1996 as part of the Festival Présences of Radio France in the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris, France)
Marcelle Deschênes:
selections from Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles (Naissance des roches molles)
[Moll, a Lilliputian opera for six soft pebbles (Birth of the Soft Rocks)]
a. Zig and Puce
b. Dry insects -- Yawning one's head off
c. Variable star
d. Bittuber insects: drinking the sea with a straw
petits Big Bangs
mixed media, multimedia, and acousmatic music 1976-2002 retrospective
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music: Marcelle Deschênes; clarinets: Pierre Langevin; trombones: Réjean Marois; percussion and toys: René Joly, Raynald Lévesque, Robert Pelletier, Robert Leroux, realized in 1976 in the studio of the Université Laval (Québec City) and premiered on March 18, 1976 at McGill University’s Pollack Hall in Montréal by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ)
SET FIVE
Walter Zimmermann: Ursache und Vorwitz
Schatten der Ideen
Mode Records/2003
performed by the Ensemble Recherche (with electronic tape); recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, May 1998
George Crumb: Palmpsest (from Other Worldly Resonances)
Complete Crumb Editions, Vol. 11
Bridge Records/2008
pianos: Susan Grace and Alison Rybak; recorded at Packard Recital Hall, Colorado Springs, March 17, 2006
SET SIX
David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees (excerpt)
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
interior recordings of bark beetles in Pinyon pine trees, New Mexico, David Dunn: bioacoustic recordings
Tod Dockstader/David Lee Myers: Pterygota
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005
amphibian sound recordings and electronics: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers
Steven Ricks: Can Cup Pipe
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
found objects, microphone, computer: Steven Ricks
SET SEVEN
Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
recordings for electronic installation recorded throughout Japan, 2007
Tom Hamilton: Modhera
Pieces for Kohn/Formal and Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
keyboards, synthesizer, custom electronics: Tom Hamilton; drums, percussion, bells, cymbals: Rich O'Donnell; flute, clarinet: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1975
If, Bwana: Flute Thang
33Birdswent
Pogus Productions/1995
vocals: Ellen Christi; soprano sax: Brian Charles; sampled flute, electronics, tape: Al Margolis
SINGLE PLAY
Icebreaker: An Ending (Ascent) II
Apollo
Music composed by Brian Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
In memory of Neil Armstrong
-- FIN --
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Martian Gardens for August 19, 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 August 19, 2012
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
electroacoustic music: Robert Normandeau; recorded at the composer's studio, Montreal; premiered at Open Space, Victoria, BC, October 9, 2003
SINGLE PLAY
Roger Doyle: The Ninth Set (Sector 4)
Cultures Electroniques -- Bourges 2007 [various artists]
Prix Trivium et Magisterium IMEB Festival
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2007
electroacoustic music: Roger Doyle (sounds derived from the innards of an upright piano), fourth of five parts
SET ONE
Karl Korte: Meeting the Enemy
Extensions -- A retrospective of electro-acoustic compositions
Centaur Records/1998
electroacoustic music: Karl Korte (sounds derived from stock recordings of children's laughter, sporting events, and military drills); recorded at the Recording Studios of the University of Texas at Austin, 1995
Arthur Krieger: Joining Hands
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 17
SEAMUS/2008
electronic sound: Arthur Krieger; percussion: Michael Lipsey; realized at the Cummings Electronic and Digital Studio of Connecticut College, December 2001
SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes
New Albion Records/1988
trumpets: Jim Miller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kenelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty, conductor: John Adams; fog horns and ambient sounds recorded around San Francisco Bay; ensemble recorded at Tres Virgos Studio, San Rafael, California, 1982
Alvin Curran: Songs and Views from the Magnetic Garden I & II (excerpts)
Solo Works -- The '70s
New World Records/2010
for flugelhorn, kalimba, synthesizer, and ambient sounds recorded in Rome; assembled, performed, recorded, and mixed in 1974 by Alvin Curran in his studio-loft, via dell'Orso 28, Rome
SET THREE
Chaya Czernowin: Second vocal entrance (from Shu Hai in an orchestral setting)
Shu Hai Practices Javelin
Mode Records/2002
voice: Ute Wasserman; Basel Sinfonietta; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; live electronics: Experimental Studio of Heinrich Strobel Foundation SWR, director: Andre Richard; recorded at Dempfcentrale, Bern, Switzerland, during the Biennale Bern, 2001
Jean Kopperud: Amgydala, parts 3-5 [Steven Ricks]
Extreme Measures
Albany Records/2010
clarinet: Jean Kopperud; piano: Stephen Gosling; electronics: Steven Ricks; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, February, 2009
SET FOUR
Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
source material recorded by Robert Carl throughout Japan, 2007
John Cage: from Works of Calder
II. Film soundtrack with narration
III. Film soundtrack with percussion
The Works for Piano 4
Mode Records/2002
II. narrator: Burgess Meredith; III. percussion and tape collage: John Cage; recorded for film Works of Calder, directed by Herbert Matter (1950)
John Cage: Three Seconds on Zen Buddhism (from 19 Questions)
From Zero
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
voice, stopwatch: John Cage; director: Frank Scheffer
John Cage and David Tudor: from Indeterminacy
a. Story #83 (concerning D.T. Suzuki's lectures at Columbia University)
b. Story #84 (concerning D.T. Suzuki's response to a question on Meister Eckhart)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
stories, readings: John Cage; electronics, piano: David Tudor
Joan La Barbara: from Songbooks --
a. Solo for Voice 49 -- Song with electronics
b. Solo for Voice 52 -- Aria No. 2
Singing Through -- Vocal compositions by John Cage
New Albion Records/1990
a. text: Henry David Thoreau; b.texts: John Cage, Eric Satie, Thoreau
SET FIVE
If, Bwana: Cicada #1 -- EHG Version
Assemble.Age!
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté; synthesizers: Tom Hamilton; flute: Jacqueline Martelle; computer: Al Margolis; original performance at the Emily Harvey Gallery, New York City, September 18, 2008
Tom Hamilton: World Trade Center
Off-Hour Wait State -- Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
voice: Thomas Buckner; The System: alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo; percussion: Jonathan Haas; electronic environment: Tom Hamilton; recorded at numerous studios throughout New York City, 1995
SET SIX
Jin Hi Kim and Gerry Hemingway: Windtails
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: Jin Hi Kim; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, August 18, 2009
David Dunn: Simulation 1 -- Sonic Mirror
Four Electroacoustic Compositions
Pogus Productions/2002
electronics and computers: David Dunn
SINGLE PLAY
Adrian Moore: 3Pieces -- Violin
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music: Adrian Moore; violin: Peter Cropper; realized at the composer's studio, Sheffield, 2006-2007; premiered at Crossing Continents, Firth Hall, University of Sheffield, March 20, 2007
-- FIN --
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 August 19, 2012
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
electroacoustic music: Robert Normandeau; recorded at the composer's studio, Montreal; premiered at Open Space, Victoria, BC, October 9, 2003
SINGLE PLAY
Roger Doyle: The Ninth Set (Sector 4)
Cultures Electroniques -- Bourges 2007 [various artists]
Prix Trivium et Magisterium IMEB Festival
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2007
electroacoustic music: Roger Doyle (sounds derived from the innards of an upright piano), fourth of five parts
SET ONE
Karl Korte: Meeting the Enemy
Extensions -- A retrospective of electro-acoustic compositions
Centaur Records/1998
electroacoustic music: Karl Korte (sounds derived from stock recordings of children's laughter, sporting events, and military drills); recorded at the Recording Studios of the University of Texas at Austin, 1995
Arthur Krieger: Joining Hands
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 17
SEAMUS/2008
electronic sound: Arthur Krieger; percussion: Michael Lipsey; realized at the Cummings Electronic and Digital Studio of Connecticut College, December 2001
SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes
New Albion Records/1988
trumpets: Jim Miller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kenelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty, conductor: John Adams; fog horns and ambient sounds recorded around San Francisco Bay; ensemble recorded at Tres Virgos Studio, San Rafael, California, 1982
Alvin Curran: Songs and Views from the Magnetic Garden I & II (excerpts)
Solo Works -- The '70s
New World Records/2010
for flugelhorn, kalimba, synthesizer, and ambient sounds recorded in Rome; assembled, performed, recorded, and mixed in 1974 by Alvin Curran in his studio-loft, via dell'Orso 28, Rome
SET THREE
Chaya Czernowin: Second vocal entrance (from Shu Hai in an orchestral setting)
Shu Hai Practices Javelin
Mode Records/2002
voice: Ute Wasserman; Basel Sinfonietta; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; live electronics: Experimental Studio of Heinrich Strobel Foundation SWR, director: Andre Richard; recorded at Dempfcentrale, Bern, Switzerland, during the Biennale Bern, 2001
Jean Kopperud: Amgydala, parts 3-5 [Steven Ricks]
Extreme Measures
Albany Records/2010
clarinet: Jean Kopperud; piano: Stephen Gosling; electronics: Steven Ricks; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, February, 2009
SET FOUR
Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
source material recorded by Robert Carl throughout Japan, 2007
John Cage: from Works of Calder
II. Film soundtrack with narration
III. Film soundtrack with percussion
The Works for Piano 4
Mode Records/2002
II. narrator: Burgess Meredith; III. percussion and tape collage: John Cage; recorded for film Works of Calder, directed by Herbert Matter (1950)
John Cage: Three Seconds on Zen Buddhism (from 19 Questions)
From Zero
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
voice, stopwatch: John Cage; director: Frank Scheffer
John Cage and David Tudor: from Indeterminacy
a. Story #83 (concerning D.T. Suzuki's lectures at Columbia University)
b. Story #84 (concerning D.T. Suzuki's response to a question on Meister Eckhart)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
stories, readings: John Cage; electronics, piano: David Tudor
Joan La Barbara: from Songbooks --
a. Solo for Voice 49 -- Song with electronics
b. Solo for Voice 52 -- Aria No. 2
Singing Through -- Vocal compositions by John Cage
New Albion Records/1990
a. text: Henry David Thoreau; b.texts: John Cage, Eric Satie, Thoreau
SET FIVE
If, Bwana: Cicada #1 -- EHG Version
Assemble.Age!
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté; synthesizers: Tom Hamilton; flute: Jacqueline Martelle; computer: Al Margolis; original performance at the Emily Harvey Gallery, New York City, September 18, 2008
Tom Hamilton: World Trade Center
Off-Hour Wait State -- Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
voice: Thomas Buckner; The System: alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo; percussion: Jonathan Haas; electronic environment: Tom Hamilton; recorded at numerous studios throughout New York City, 1995
SET SIX
Jin Hi Kim and Gerry Hemingway: Windtails
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: Jin Hi Kim; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, August 18, 2009
David Dunn: Simulation 1 -- Sonic Mirror
Four Electroacoustic Compositions
Pogus Productions/2002
electronics and computers: David Dunn
SINGLE PLAY
Adrian Moore: 3Pieces -- Violin
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music: Adrian Moore; violin: Peter Cropper; realized at the composer's studio, Sheffield, 2006-2007; premiered at Crossing Continents, Firth Hall, University of Sheffield, March 20, 2007
-- FIN --
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Martian Gardens for August 12, 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 August 12, 2012
SET ONE
Charles Amirkhanian: Dog of Stravinsky
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voices: Dashiell Hammett, Belgian sheep hound; recorded in Oakland, October 7, 1979
Laurie Anderson: For Electronic Dogs
You're the Guy I Want to Spend My Money With
East Side Digital/1993 (orig. Giorno Poetry Systems/1981)
violin, electronics: Laurie Anderson; drums: Wharton Tiers
SET TWO
Laurie Anderson: The Geographic North Pole
The Ugly One with the Jewels
Warner Bros./1995
vocals, electronics: Laurie Anderson; recorded at Sadler's Wells, UK
Audrey Churgin: Arctic Sun Arctic Wind
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
voice, recordings: Audrey Churgin; drum dance and song: Rosalie Pissuk and son
John Cage: excerpt from Voiceless Essay
Ghosts and Monsters [various artists]
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD series, Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
for four computer-generated tapes with 18 computer-generated mesostics; source text: Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," recorded for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Herbst Theater, San Francisco, November 21, 1986
Lydia Kavina: Voice of Theremin (V. Komarov)
Music from the Ether
Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/1996
Theremin and tape: Lydia Kavina
SET THREE
Annea Lockwood: In Our Name
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
baritone: Thomas Buckner; prerecorded voices: Bill Hart and Bruce Odland; cello: Theodore Mook; tape: Annea Lockwood; poems of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay: "Death Poem," Jumah Al-Dossari (Bahrain), "The Truth," Emad Abdullah Hassan (Yemen), "Is it true," "Osama Abu Kabir (Jordan); didjeridu sample: Stuart Dempster, "Didjerilayover."
Victoria Jordanova: Outer Circles (parts 1 and 2)
Outer Circles
Innova Recordings/2004
sound collage inspired by the 9-11 Commemorative Net
SET FOUR
Beth Anderson: Ode
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
electronic tape: Beth Anderson; Auctioneer: Spec Edwards, recorded at the Mt. Sterling tobacco warehouses, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, December 1972; realized and mixed at Queen's College electronic music studio, Wesleyan University electronic music studio, and ZBS Media; completed in 1975; dedicated to the composer's father, an auctioneer and friend of Spec Edwards
Phillip Kent Bimstein: Garland Hirschi's Cows
a. A little bit about my cows
b. Pasturale
c. Moovement
Garland Hirschi's Cows
Starkland/1996
sampler: PBK; cows and Garland Hirschi's narration recorded at Springdale, Utah, 1990
SET FIVE
Richard Karpen: Life Studies #5
Solo/Tutti
Centaur Records/2004
computer-realized sounds: Richard Karpen, including a sample of J.S. Bach's "Art of the Fugue," composed in Seattle, Washington, and Bourges, France, 1996
Steven Ricks:
a. Percept Can Improv
b. Play the DC Metro 1
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
computer-realized sounds: Steven Ricks; improvised and recorded by Steven Ricks, 2009-2011
R. Weis: These Buttons are Trash
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
samples and samplers: R. Weis
SET SIX
Iannis Xenakis: Akanthos
Ensemble Music 1
Mode Records/1996
ST-X -- Ensemble Xenakis USA; conductor: Charles Zachary Bornstein; recorded at the Thread Waxing Space, New York City, June 21, 1995
Ulrich Suesse: Les Vusions [sic.]
Le sixte livre dit électroacoustique de François Rabelais
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
electroacoustic music: Ulrich Suesse; IMEB, Bourges
SET SEVEN
Alvin Curran: Romulus and Remus make a ruckus
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
electronic music: Alvin Curran; remix of sound installation for projections by Kristin Jones, University of Rome, 2003
Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
processed found sounds: Robert Carl
SINGLE PLAY
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: For Ever Now Soon an End
Quelques Reflets (Some Reflections)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music: P.A. Tremblay; realized in 2010 at the composer's studio, Huddersfield, U.K., and at the Elektronisches Studios of the Fachgebiet Audiokommunikation of the Technische Universität Berlin; premiered at Das Elektronische Studio der TU Berlin concert, January 21, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Deep Listening Band: CCCC (Cistern Chapel Chance Chants)
The Ready-Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1991
brass didjeridu, trombone, voice: Stuart Dempster; voice: Thomasa Eckert; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; voice: Panaiotis: voice; recorded at the Cistern Chapel -- the Ft. Worden Cistern, Olympic Peninsula, Washington; February 1990
A sad goodbye and a big thank you to New Albion Records (1983--2012).
New Albion Records shuttered its retail operations after releasing a steady stream of contemporary classical and experimental music recordings since the 1980s. New Albion's roster of artists and composers such as the Deep Listening Band, Lou Harrison, Ingram Marshall, Morton Feldman, and Somei Satoh was a seminal influence in the formative period of Martian Gardens 15 years ago and shall remain a staple of my programming as long as Martian Gardens continues its run here on WMUA.
With honor and gratitude to New Albion founder and proprietor Foster Reed -- Thank you very much,
Max Shea
-- FIN --
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 August 12, 2012
SET ONE
Charles Amirkhanian: Dog of Stravinsky
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voices: Dashiell Hammett, Belgian sheep hound; recorded in Oakland, October 7, 1979
Laurie Anderson: For Electronic Dogs
You're the Guy I Want to Spend My Money With
East Side Digital/1993 (orig. Giorno Poetry Systems/1981)
violin, electronics: Laurie Anderson; drums: Wharton Tiers
SET TWO
Laurie Anderson: The Geographic North Pole
The Ugly One with the Jewels
Warner Bros./1995
vocals, electronics: Laurie Anderson; recorded at Sadler's Wells, UK
Audrey Churgin: Arctic Sun Arctic Wind
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
voice, recordings: Audrey Churgin; drum dance and song: Rosalie Pissuk and son
John Cage: excerpt from Voiceless Essay
Ghosts and Monsters [various artists]
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD series, Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
for four computer-generated tapes with 18 computer-generated mesostics; source text: Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," recorded for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Herbst Theater, San Francisco, November 21, 1986
Lydia Kavina: Voice of Theremin (V. Komarov)
Music from the Ether
Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/1996
Theremin and tape: Lydia Kavina
SET THREE
Annea Lockwood: In Our Name
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
baritone: Thomas Buckner; prerecorded voices: Bill Hart and Bruce Odland; cello: Theodore Mook; tape: Annea Lockwood; poems of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay: "Death Poem," Jumah Al-Dossari (Bahrain), "The Truth," Emad Abdullah Hassan (Yemen), "Is it true," "Osama Abu Kabir (Jordan); didjeridu sample: Stuart Dempster, "Didjerilayover."
Victoria Jordanova: Outer Circles (parts 1 and 2)
Outer Circles
Innova Recordings/2004
sound collage inspired by the 9-11 Commemorative Net
SET FOUR
Beth Anderson: Ode
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
electronic tape: Beth Anderson; Auctioneer: Spec Edwards, recorded at the Mt. Sterling tobacco warehouses, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, December 1972; realized and mixed at Queen's College electronic music studio, Wesleyan University electronic music studio, and ZBS Media; completed in 1975; dedicated to the composer's father, an auctioneer and friend of Spec Edwards
Phillip Kent Bimstein: Garland Hirschi's Cows
a. A little bit about my cows
b. Pasturale
c. Moovement
Garland Hirschi's Cows
Starkland/1996
sampler: PBK; cows and Garland Hirschi's narration recorded at Springdale, Utah, 1990
SET FIVE
Richard Karpen: Life Studies #5
Solo/Tutti
Centaur Records/2004
computer-realized sounds: Richard Karpen, including a sample of J.S. Bach's "Art of the Fugue," composed in Seattle, Washington, and Bourges, France, 1996
Steven Ricks:
a. Percept Can Improv
b. Play the DC Metro 1
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
computer-realized sounds: Steven Ricks; improvised and recorded by Steven Ricks, 2009-2011
R. Weis: These Buttons are Trash
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
samples and samplers: R. Weis
SET SIX
Iannis Xenakis: Akanthos
Ensemble Music 1
Mode Records/1996
ST-X -- Ensemble Xenakis USA; conductor: Charles Zachary Bornstein; recorded at the Thread Waxing Space, New York City, June 21, 1995
Ulrich Suesse: Les Vusions [sic.]
Le sixte livre dit électroacoustique de François Rabelais
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
electroacoustic music: Ulrich Suesse; IMEB, Bourges
SET SEVEN
Alvin Curran: Romulus and Remus make a ruckus
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
electronic music: Alvin Curran; remix of sound installation for projections by Kristin Jones, University of Rome, 2003
Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
processed found sounds: Robert Carl
SINGLE PLAY
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: For Ever Now Soon an End
Quelques Reflets (Some Reflections)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music: P.A. Tremblay; realized in 2010 at the composer's studio, Huddersfield, U.K., and at the Elektronisches Studios of the Fachgebiet Audiokommunikation of the Technische Universität Berlin; premiered at Das Elektronische Studio der TU Berlin concert, January 21, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Deep Listening Band: CCCC (Cistern Chapel Chance Chants)
The Ready-Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1991
brass didjeridu, trombone, voice: Stuart Dempster; voice: Thomasa Eckert; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; voice: Panaiotis: voice; recorded at the Cistern Chapel -- the Ft. Worden Cistern, Olympic Peninsula, Washington; February 1990
A sad goodbye and a big thank you to New Albion Records (1983--2012).
New Albion Records shuttered its retail operations after releasing a steady stream of contemporary classical and experimental music recordings since the 1980s. New Albion's roster of artists and composers such as the Deep Listening Band, Lou Harrison, Ingram Marshall, Morton Feldman, and Somei Satoh was a seminal influence in the formative period of Martian Gardens 15 years ago and shall remain a staple of my programming as long as Martian Gardens continues its run here on WMUA.
With honor and gratitude to New Albion founder and proprietor Foster Reed -- Thank you very much,
Max Shea
-- FIN --
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Martian Gardens for August 5, 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 August 5, 2012
Extended edition 21:00 -- 00:30
SET ONE
Marco Cappelli's Italian Surf Academy:
The Sundown/San Antonio Mission (E. Morricone)
The American Dream
Mode Records -- Avant/2012
electric guitar: Marco Cappelli; bass: Luca Lo Bianco; drums: Francesco Cusa; voice: Gaia Mattiuzzi; recorded at Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, March 2011
Jack Vees: Surf Music Again
Surf Music Again
CRI/1996
electric cello and sequencer: Jeff Krieger; narrator: Tony Forkush
SET TWO
Cornelius Dufallo: Playlist One (Resonance) (V. Iyer)
Journaling
Innova Recordings/2012
violin and electronics: Cornelius Dufallo;
Brian Belet: Lyra
Lyra CD-R
violin: Patricia Strange; Kyma programming: Brian Belet (2003)
SET THREE
Allen Strange: Heroes IV; The Boys
Music by Allen Strange CD-R
Permanent Press /2005
digital media: Allen Strange
Marc Tremblay: Cowboy Fiction
Bruit-Graffiti
empreintes DIGITALes/1998
electroacoustic music composed at the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges in November, 1998; premiered at the IMEB Synthèse Festival, June 2, 1999
SET FOUR
Margaret Leng Tan: Suite for Toy Piano (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano: M. L. Tan; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, January 2010
John Cage: Second Construction
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, June 2011
Margaret Leng Tan and Third Coast Percussion to to perform at MoMA's John Cage Day, Thursday, August 9, 2012
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Takt 109--151
Mantra
Wergo/1995
pianos: Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, October 1993
SET FIVE
Edgard Varése: Poème électronique
The Varése Album
Wounded Bird/2007 (orig. Sony/1972)
realized by the composer on magnetic tape for Le Corbusier's Philips Pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair, Brussels
Un Drame Musical Instantané: French Resistance
Dry Lungs II (various artists)
Placebo Records/1986
trumpet: Bernard synthesizer, voice: Vitet; Jean Jacques Birge; guitar, synthesizer: Francis Gorge; accordion: Michael Buirette
César Bolaños: I-10--AIFG/Rbt-1
Peruvian Experimental and Electroacoustic Music 1964-1970
Pogus Productions/2009
for amplified ensemble and light projection system; premiered during the VII Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto di Tella, Buenos Aires, October 26 1968
SET SIX
Elaine Barkin and the UCLA Experimental Workshop Ensemble:
Music Collage
ee2
Open Space/2000
recorded at UCLA, April 17, 1991
Vincent Berger Rond: Sedna et le clavecin à la mer
Elle avait raison hathor
Spectropol/2012
electric guitar, harpsichord, percussion: VBR
SET SEVEN
Robert Carl: Bullet Cycle
From Japan
New World Records/2012
cello: Katie Kennedy; vibraphone: Bill Solomon; percussion, percussive timekeeper: Sayun Chang; processing, computer music: Robert Carl; recorded at the Hartt School University of Hartford, May 19, 2009
Diane Labrosse: Ticking Alarm Clocks
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd/2007
alarm clocks and ensemble recorded at Studio 270, Montreal
SET EIGHT
Carla Scaletti: SlipStick
Music from SEAMUS volume 19 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2010
Kyma synthesis, Continuum Fingerboard: Carla Scaletti
Salvatore Martirano: Look at the back of my head for awhile
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22
The Composer in the Computer Age V --
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective: 1962-1992
Centaur Records/1995
Sal-Mar Construction performed live at the composer's studio, Urbana-Champaign, January, 1974
-- FIN --
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 August 5, 2012
Extended edition 21:00 -- 00:30
SET ONE
Marco Cappelli's Italian Surf Academy:
The Sundown/San Antonio Mission (E. Morricone)
The American Dream
Mode Records -- Avant/2012
electric guitar: Marco Cappelli; bass: Luca Lo Bianco; drums: Francesco Cusa; voice: Gaia Mattiuzzi; recorded at Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, March 2011
Jack Vees: Surf Music Again
Surf Music Again
CRI/1996
electric cello and sequencer: Jeff Krieger; narrator: Tony Forkush
SET TWO
Cornelius Dufallo: Playlist One (Resonance) (V. Iyer)
Journaling
Innova Recordings/2012
violin and electronics: Cornelius Dufallo;
Brian Belet: Lyra
Lyra CD-R
violin: Patricia Strange; Kyma programming: Brian Belet (2003)
SET THREE
Allen Strange: Heroes IV; The Boys
Music by Allen Strange CD-R
Permanent Press /2005
digital media: Allen Strange
Marc Tremblay: Cowboy Fiction
Bruit-Graffiti
empreintes DIGITALes/1998
electroacoustic music composed at the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges in November, 1998; premiered at the IMEB Synthèse Festival, June 2, 1999
SET FOUR
Margaret Leng Tan: Suite for Toy Piano (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano: M. L. Tan; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, January 2010
John Cage: Second Construction
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, June 2011
Margaret Leng Tan and Third Coast Percussion to to perform at MoMA's John Cage Day, Thursday, August 9, 2012
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Takt 109--151
Mantra
Wergo/1995
pianos: Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, October 1993
SET FIVE
Edgard Varése: Poème électronique
The Varése Album
Wounded Bird/2007 (orig. Sony/1972)
realized by the composer on magnetic tape for Le Corbusier's Philips Pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair, Brussels
Un Drame Musical Instantané: French Resistance
Dry Lungs II (various artists)
Placebo Records/1986
trumpet: Bernard synthesizer, voice: Vitet; Jean Jacques Birge; guitar, synthesizer: Francis Gorge; accordion: Michael Buirette
César Bolaños: I-10--AIFG/Rbt-1
Peruvian Experimental and Electroacoustic Music 1964-1970
Pogus Productions/2009
for amplified ensemble and light projection system; premiered during the VII Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto di Tella, Buenos Aires, October 26 1968
SET SIX
Elaine Barkin and the UCLA Experimental Workshop Ensemble:
Music Collage
ee2
Open Space/2000
recorded at UCLA, April 17, 1991
Vincent Berger Rond: Sedna et le clavecin à la mer
Elle avait raison hathor
Spectropol/2012
electric guitar, harpsichord, percussion: VBR
SET SEVEN
Robert Carl: Bullet Cycle
From Japan
New World Records/2012
cello: Katie Kennedy; vibraphone: Bill Solomon; percussion, percussive timekeeper: Sayun Chang; processing, computer music: Robert Carl; recorded at the Hartt School University of Hartford, May 19, 2009
Diane Labrosse: Ticking Alarm Clocks
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd/2007
alarm clocks and ensemble recorded at Studio 270, Montreal
SET EIGHT
Carla Scaletti: SlipStick
Music from SEAMUS volume 19 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2010
Kyma synthesis, Continuum Fingerboard: Carla Scaletti
Salvatore Martirano: Look at the back of my head for awhile
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22
The Composer in the Computer Age V --
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective: 1962-1992
Centaur Records/1995
Sal-Mar Construction performed live at the composer's studio, Urbana-Champaign, January, 1974
-- FIN --
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