Martian Gardens for November 4, 2012

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

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

Program for November 4, 2012

SET ONE
Guy Klucevsek: The Nova Scotia Polka
Polka from the Fringe
Starkland/2012 (orig. 1992)
composer: Bobby Previte; violin: Mark Feldman; drums, marimba: Bobby Previte; recorded at Baby Monster Studios, New York City, January 1990, time: 8:23

Peter Garland: Nights in the Gardens of Maine
Cold Blue Two [various artists] 
Cold Blue Music/2012
accordion: Guy Klucevsek; recorded at Kilgore Recording studio, New York City, December 2010; composition year: 2010; time: 5:15

SET TWO
Hans Werner Henze: Carillon, Récitatif, Masque
a. Carillon
b. Récitatif
c. Masque
Musica da Camera
Mode Records/2008
members of Ensemble Dissonanzen (mandolin: Avi Avital; guitar: Marco Cappelli; harp: Lucia Bova); recorded at the Conservatorio S. Pietro a Majella, Sala Scarletti, Naples, Italy, 2006; composition year: 1974; time: 12:05

In memory of Hans Werner Henze (July 1, 1926 -- October 27, 2012)

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Intuition 
Detours
Unseen Worlds/2012
piano and electronics: BGT; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, July 21, 2010; composition years: 1987, 2010; time: 5:52

Brian Eno: Little Fishes
Another Green World
EG Records/1975
prepared piano and Farfisa organ: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Studios, London, summer 1975; time: 1:30

John Luther Adams: Mourning Dove
Songbird Songs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort; director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, October 3, 2006; composition years: 1974-1979, 2006; time: 5:50

SET THREE
Elodie Lauten: Power
Tronik Involutions
O.O. Discs/1996
electronics: Elodie Lauten; composition year: 1993; time: 7:06

Elodie Lauten: Revelation 
Piano Works
Unseen Worlds/2010
piano and sequencer loops: Elodie Lauten; recorded in New York City, 1983; composition year: 1983; time:   5:55

Kristin Norderval: 
a. Extreme Weather
b. Narco Kyrie
Aural Histories (Post-Ambient Arias for Voice and Electronics)
Deep Listening/2012
voice, electronics: Kristin Norderval; composition year: 2010; time: 3:14

John Cage: Music for Marcel Duchamp
As It Is
ECM Records/2012
prepared piano: Alexei Lubimov; recorded at Radio Studio DRS, Zurich, December 2011; composition year: 1947; time: 6:20

SET FOUR
Laurie Spiegel: Appalachian Grove I, II, and III
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
computers, synthesizer: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, May-June 1974; composition year: 1974; time: 16:28

Steve Moore: Protomorphosis
Light Universe
Cuneiform Records/2012
synthesizers: Steve Moore, recorded in 2011;  time: 8:53

SET FIVE
Monique Jean: 13'13 pour voix défigurées 
L'adieu au S.O.S.
Empreintes Digitales/2003
electroacoustic music for three-channel tape: Monique Jean; processed voices: Sylvio Archambault, Emmanuel Madan, Pascale Malaterre, Marie-France Marcotte, and Alain Pelletier; texts: Hélène Cixous, Alejo Carpentier; realized at Prim Studios, Montreal, 1997; composition year: 1997; time: 13:13

Lajaren Hiller: from Computer Cantata --
Prolog to Strophe III; Strophe III; Epilog to Strophe III
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
computer: Lajaren Hiller; recorded at the University of Illinois Digital Computer Laboratory; 1963; composition year: 1960; time: 5:42

SET SIX
Annie Gosfield: Daughters of the Industrial Revolution (excerpt)
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; cello: Felix Fan; drums, percussion: Ches Smith, Alex Lipowski; recorded at EastSide Studios, New York City; composition year: 2011; time: 5:35 (excerpt)

Einstürzende Neubauten: Steh au Berlin
Kollaps
Potomak/1987 (orig. 1981)
recorded and mixed in Germany, 1981; time: 3:47

Judy Dunaway: The Balloon Factory
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006
giant balloon, sampling, processing: Judy Dunaway; recorded at Harsh House, Jersey City, New Jersey; composition years: 2004-2006; time: 3:12

Enzo Minarelli: The Flavor is the Presence of Each Person
Fame
Open Space/2009
processed sounds: Enzo Minarelli; time: 2:48

SET SIX
Dorota Czerner: Caves
Open Space 24 -- Dorota Czerner/Elaine Barkin
Open Space/2009
voice,  text: Dorota Czerner; sound: Benjamin Boretz; recorded in 2009; time: 6:03

Judith Exley: The Cave of Tidal Sound
Open Space 16 [various artists]
Open Space/2004
two-channel tape: Judith Exley; composition date: 1993; time: 9:17

Tom Hamilton & Bruce Eisenbeil: Walleye Spawn
Shadow Machine
Pogus Productions/2009
Nord modular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; electric guitar: Bruce Eisenbeil; time: 5:51
 
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Martian Gardens for October 28, 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 October 28, 2012

FUND DRIVE WEEK -- NO REGULAR SET LIST

SELECTIONS BROADCAST

UMass Percussion Ensemble: Ionisation
UMass Amherst Music Ensembles
UMass Dept. of Music & Dance/2011
composer: Edgard Varese; faculty coach: Ayano Kataoka; guest conductor: Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr.

Alvin Curran/Leo Smith: World Music
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
fog horns and maritime sound recordings of the U.S. East Coast: Alvin Curran; trumpet, seal horn: Wadada Leo Smith; mixed in Rome, 1985; composition year: 1985; time: 13:00

Wadada Leo Smith/Louis Moholo-Moholo: Jackson Pollock -- Action
Ancestors
TUM Records/2012
trumpet, percussion: Wadada Leo Smith; drums, percussion: Louis Moholo-Moholo; recorded at Master Recording, Esopo, Finland, February 6, 2011; time: 9:16

Morton Feldman: from Music for Jackson Pollock
a. Music for Jackson Pollock
b. Signature 
c. Jackson Pollock Speaks
d. Pollock Paints
First Recordings -- 1950s
Mode Records/1999
cellos: Helmut Menzler; Michael Sterling (from the Turfan Ensemble); recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk Studio I, Frankfurt, 1996-98; voice of Jackson Pollock excerpted from the Jackson Pollock film by Hans Namuth, 1951; composition years: 1950-1951; time: 6:00

Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston (disc b, trak 3)
For Philip Guston
Bridge Records/1997
flutes: Dorothy Stone; percussion: Arthur Jarvinen; piano/celeste: Gloria Cheng Cochran (from the California EAR Unit); recorded at Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego; composition year: 1987; time: 31:28

Barbara Monk Feldman: In theSmall Time of a Desert Flower
The Northern Shore
Mode Records/2012
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at Crowell Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, August 14, 2002; composition year: 2000; time: 27:00

Benjamin  Boretz: Lament for Sarah (April 3, 1990)
Open Space 29 (Barkin/Czerner/Boretz)
Open Space/2012
piano: Benjamin Boretz; in memory of Sarah Vaughan; composition year: 1990; time: 13:43

J.K. Randall: 
a. BAB-O (B. Boretz)
b. Slitherest (1st Gathering, part 1)
A Garland of C-Sound
Open Space/2004
computer, C-Sound software: J.K. Randall; recorded at Taplin Hall, Princeton, April 17, 2004; time: 9:00

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co: All Set
Like a Duck to Water
Cuneiform Records/2001
synthesizers: David Borden, Judy Borsher, Steve Drews; recorded at Celebration Sound, Ithaca,  New York; composition years: 1973-74; time: 7:26

David Borden: For Laurie Spiegel
Places, Times & People
Cuneiform Records/1994
synthesizers: David Borden; recorded in Ithaca, New York; time: 6:00

Laurie Spiegel: Patchwork
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012 (orig. Philo/1980)
computer, programming: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, 1974-76; time: 9:44

Robert Normandeau: Palindrome
Palimpsestes
Empreintes Digitales/2012
electroacoustic music: Robert Normandeau: commissioned by IMEB, realized at the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges, Elektronisches Studios of the Technische Universität Berlin, and the composer's studio, Montreal, 2005-06; premiered at Festival Synthès, Bourges, Cher, France, June 7, 2006; revised in 2007

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Martian Gardens for October 21, 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 October 21, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Guy Klucevsek: Polking Around
Polka from the Fringe
Starkland/2012 (orig. 1992)
composer: William Duckworth; Guy Klucevsek and Ain't Nothin' But A Polka Band; ride cymbal: Bobby Previte; recorded at  Baby Monster Studios; 1990-91; composition year: 1986; time: 3:44

SET ONE
Stuart Saunders Smith: Thaw
Breath -- The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2004
 solo orchestra bells: Jonas Larsson; recorded at Studio 508 UMBC, Baltimore, 2004; composition year: 1993; time: 5:34

Ken Field: Bells of Balance
Pictures of Motion
sFz Recordings/1999
percussion: Ken Field; recorded at Wellspring Sound, Concord, Massachusetts, 1998-99; time: 2:27

Ken Field: A Space in a Place
Subterranea
O.O. Discs/1996
percussed objects, egg shaker, frame drum, flutes: Ken Field; recorded in The Henge cave, Roswell, New Mexico, May 1995; time: 3:57

Tom Hamilton: Crimson Sterling Mvt. III
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
ARP 2500 synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; wind instruments: JD Parran; recorded at Technisonic Studios, St. Louis, 1977; time: 9:23

SET TWO
Adam Rudolph & GO -- Organic Orchestra: Pléïades (Parts 1 & 2)
Web of Light
META Records/2002
GO: Organic Orchestra, conducted by Adam Rudolph; recorded in concert at Electric Lodge, Venice, California, March 2002; time: 9:12

Iannis Xenakis:  Pléïades, Mvt. II -- Métaux
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
percussion: red fish blue fish, conductor: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego, 2006; composition year: 1978; time: 13:31

SET THREE
Adam Rudolph & Go -- Organic Orchestra: Wing Swept
The Sound of a Dream
META Records/2011
GO: Organic Orchestra, conducted by Adam Rudolph; melodica: Peter Apfelbaum; recorded in concert at Roulette Intermedium, New York City, 2010; time: 2:07

The Maya Beiser/Steven Schick Project: The Dance (cbtsww, part 1)
Caught by the Sky With Wire
O.O. Discs/2000
composer: Nick Didkovsky; cello: Maya Beier; malleted percussion, percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios at the University of California San Diego; composition year: 1996; time: 4:50

Maya Beiser & Michael Harrison: Just Ancient Loops, Mvt. III -- Ascension
Time Loops
Cantaloupe Music/2012
composer: Michael Harrison; cello: Maya Beiser; shakers: Payton MacDonald; recorded at Westchester Studios, New York; composition years: 2007--2011; time: 8:39

SET FOUR
Barry Schrader: The Romanesque and Gothic Entranceways
The Barnum Museum
Innova Recordings/2012
electroacoustic music: Barry Schrader; recorded in Valencia, California; composition years: 2009 -- 2012; time: 7:27

R. Weis: 
a. Sky Palace Ritual
b. Crossing Circles
Web of Illusion
R. Weis/1998
samples and sampler: R. Weis; time: 5:50

Codona: Hey Da Ba Doom
The Codona Trilogy
ECM/2009
composer: Collin Walcott; performed by Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos, and Collin Walcott; recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany, September 1982; time: 7:11

SET FIVE
Laurie Spiegel: from Four short visits to different worlds --
a. Swells
b. Mines
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
modular analog synthesizers: Laurie Spiegel; composition years: a. circa 1972, b. 1971; time: 3:30

Steven Ricks: A Glimpse Beyond the Zero
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 [various artists] 
Vox Novus/2007
electronics: Steven Ricks; violin: Curtis Macomber; composition year: 2004; time: 1:00

Steven Ricks: Percept Can Improv
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
microphones, samples and sampler: Steven Ricks;  composition years: 2009 -- 2011; time: 4:04

Elainie Lillios: Arturo
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
Empreintes Digitales/2011
electroacoustic music: Elainie Lillios; realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham (BEAST), UK, 1998; premiered at the First Symposium on Music and Computers, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, October 23, 1998; time: 13:35

SET SIX
Roger Reynolds: imAge/piano
Epigram and Evolutions -- Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Yuji Takahashi; recorded in Tokyo, 2010, composition year: 2007; time: 6:56

Somei Satoh: Litania
Litania -- Margaret Leng Tan Plays Somei Satoh
New Albion Records/1988
two pianos with digital delay: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at SUNY Purchase; August 6, 1985; composition year: 1973; time: 13:06

SINGLE PLAY
Margaret Lancaster: Io
Io
New World Records/2009
composer: Lois V. Vierk; flute: Margaret Lancaster; electric guitar: Larry Polansky; marimba: Matthew Gold; recorded at 2nd Story Sound, New York City; December 16, 2008; composition year:1999; time: 10:09

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