Martian Gardens for February 23 & 26, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 23, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 26, 2014
Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

HOUR ONE
(updated February 23, 2014 @ 10:56 p.m.)

SINGLE PLAY
Yvar Mikhashoff: A Boat Slowly Sailing (E. Krenek)
Panorama of American Piano Music [various artists]
from Antheil to Zappa 1911-1991 
Mode Records/2013
composer: Ernst Krenek (from Twelve Short Piano Pieces, Op. 83); piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1938; time:2:43

SET ONE
Xenia Pestova: X (J. Young)
Shadow Piano -- Music for Piano/Toy Piano & Electronics
Innova Recordings/2013
(for piano and electroacoustic sounds) composer: John Young; piano: Xenia Pestova; recorded at Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham, UK, composition year: 2010; time: 12:21

John Young: Interlude I
Arrivederci/Ricordiamo Forli
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
(electroacoustic music from Recordiamo Forli); realized at Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; premiered on Radio New Zealand’s ConcertFM program, July 25, 2006; time: 1:52

Benjamin Boretz and Mary Lee Roberts: I Say (piano tape from Dialogue)*
Open Space 6 (Boretz/Roberts/Hopkins/Bard Composers' Ensemble)
Open Space/1994
(from The Purposes and Politics of  Engaging Strangers); recorded at Willamette University, December 6, 1991; time: 4:30

Benjamin Boretz: Inhabit (excerpt)*
Open Space 6 (Boretz/Roberts/Hopkins/Bard Composers Ensemble)
Open Space/1994
(from Three for composers' ensemble) The Bard Composers' Ensemble (Tildy Bayar, Benjamin Boretz, Sebastian Collett, John Hopkins, Mary Lee Roberts, Catherine Schieve, Chuck Stein, Paul Winkler) composition year: 1992; recorded April 27, 1992; excerpt time: 3:25
*Reverse order on WMUA live version

SET TWO
Concert Imaginaire:
a. IntroOverture (1:20)
b. The Massacre of Suns (2:22)
Fortune's Wheel
Fin Records/2014
electric guitar: David Hahn; electric bass, upright bass: Nick David; violin, electric violin: Ruthie Dornfeld; drums, percussion: Becca Baggenstoss, keyboards, tambura, percussion; speaking voices (on a.): Juliette and Alain; voice (on b.): Maria Mannisto; text (b.): Emily Dickinson; recorded at Jupiter Studios, Seattle, March 2012; total time: 3:42

Charlie Morrow: Marilyn Monroe Collage
Toot!
XI Records/2011
sound collage: Charlie Morrow, composed for the Homage to Marilyn Monroe exhibit, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, December 1967; time: 17:35

HOUR TWO

SET THREE
Henry Gwiazda: thefLuteintheworLdthefLuteistheworLd
noTnoTesnoTrhyThms
Innova Recordings/1996
electronic flute: Anne La Berge; sound effects: Henry Gwiazda; composition year: 1995; time: 4:22

Anne La Berge: ur_DU
Speak
New World Records/2011
flute, voice, electronics: Anne La Berge; vocals: Stephie Büttrich; text: Marie Curie (letter) recorded at Studio VOLSAP and Studio 150, Amsterdam, summer 2009; time: 14:15

SET FOUR
Joseph Klein: Prime Set
Improbable Encounters
Innova Recordings/2014
percussion: Bruce Hamilton; recorded in Bloomington, Indiana, November 1989; composition year: 1985; time: 3:36

Michael Lipsey: King of Denmark (M. Feldman)
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2008
composer: Morton Feldman; percussion: Michael Lipsey; recorded at David Cossin's apartment, New York City; composition year: 1964; time: 6:55

John Cage: The Ten Thousand Things (excerpt)
The Ten Thousand Things
Microfest Records/2013
narrator: John Cage; prepared piano: Vicki Ray; prepared piano: Aron Kallay; double bass: Tom Peters; percussion: William Winant; Cage's narration recorded at UCLA, 1962; other instruments for The Ten Thousand Things recorded at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles, Mills College in Oakland, Second Story Studios in Venice, CA, and Private Island Trax, Hollywood, CA; engineer: John Schneider (except Matt Snyder at Private Island Trax); recorded 2008-2012; composition years: 1954, 1955, 1956; excerpt time: 10:20

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Axioms (from Fads and Fancies at the Academy)*
a. The pupil is eager to learn (3:11)
b. The pupil is constitutionally lazy (2:21)
c. We deal with the total child (2:46)
The Lost Works
Mode Records/1997
Essential Music (piano, handclaps: Judith Gordon; snare drum, handclaps, whistling: John Kennedy;  tom toms, washtub, string piano, handclaps, whistling, voice: Charles Wood; recorded at SUNY Purchase, January 1994; composition year: 1940; time: 8:10
*WMUA Live version only


HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only
(Updated February 25, 2014)

SET FIVE
Mary Jane Leach: Ariadne's Lament
Ariadne's Lament
New World Records/1998
New York Treble Singers, conductor: Virginia Davidson; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, composition year: 1993; time: 8:12

Arvo Pärt: Beatus Patronius
Adam's Lament
ECM/2012
(for two choirs, eight woodwinds, tubular bells, and string orchestra) Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga, conductor: Tõnu Kaljuste; recorded at Niguliste Church, Tallinn, Estonia, November 2011; composition years: 1990, 2011; time: 5:16

SET SIX
Giacinto Scelsi: selections from Uaxuctum --
The Legend of the Mayan City which they themselves
destroyed for religious reasons --
a. 1st Movement (6:13)
b. 2nd Movement (3:59)
The Orchestral Works 2 
Mode Records/2007
(for ondes Martenot, seven percussionists, timpanist, chorus, and 23 musicians) Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Peter Rundel; recorded at the Festival Wien Modern, Konzerthaus Vienna, November 4, 2005; composition year: 1966; total excerpt time: 12:12

Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes-Gradual Requiem-Gambuh I
New Albion Records/1988 (orig. 1984)
(for brass sextet, fog horns, and ambient sounds) trumpets: Jim Miller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kenelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty; conductor: John Adams; recorded in and around San Francisco; composition years: 1979-1982; time: 9:50

SET SEVEN
Meredith Monk: Passage
Impermanence
ECM Records/2008
The Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble (Silvie Jensen, Allison Sniffin, Katie Geissinger, Ellen Fisher, Ching Gonzalez, The Bleckmann, Sasha Bogdanowitsch); recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, January 2007; time: 1:51

David Lang: Depart
Death Speaks
Cantaloupe Music/2013
vocals: Elizabeth Farnum, Katie Geissinger, Alexandra Montano, Alex Sweeton; cellos: Maya Beiser; composition year: 2002; time: 18:13

SINGLE PLAY
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: selections from La rupture inéluctable 
a. Memento mori (3:15)
b. Timor mortis conturbat me (2:00)
La marée
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(for bass clarinet, processing, interactive system, and multitrack tape) bass clarinet: Heather Roche; realized at the composer's studio and the University of Huddersfield, UK, 2010-2011; premiered at McGill University, Montreal, November 3, 2011; total excerpts time: 5:15

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for February 16 & 19, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 16, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 19, 2014
Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

HOUR ONE

SINGLE PLAY
Yvar Mikhashoff: Opening (P. Glass)
Panorama of American Piano Music [various artists]
from Antheil to Zappa 1911-1991 
Mode Records/2013
composer: Philip Glass; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1981; time: 5:21

SET ONE
Joseph Klein: from Nine Character Studies after Elias Canetti
a. Der Ohrenzeuge (The Earwitness) (4:53)
b. Die Sternklare (The Starry Woman) (5:50)
Improbable Encounters -- Works by Joseph Klein
Innova Recordings/2014
a. bass flute: Helen Bledsoe; composition year: 2001; recorded at the University of North Texas Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, Denton, March 28, 2001; b. percussion: Christopher Deane; composition year: 2006; recorded at UNT CEMI, Denton, August 4, 2010; total excerpts time: 10:43

Joseph Klein: Die Brücke  (The Bridge) (from Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 39 [various artists]
Music from the University of North Texas Center for 
Experimental Music and Intermedia
Centaur Records/2012
(for narrator, mixed choir, and computer music); narrator: Jeffrey Snider; text: Franz Kafka; soloists: Heidi Dietrich Klein, Patrick Grange, Jonathan Greer, Henry Gibbons, conductor: Joseph Klein; composition year: 2006; time: 5:26

Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records--Smith Publications/2008
(for solo flute) composer: Robert Erickson; flute: Carrie Rose; recorded at University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2008; composition year: 1969; time: 5:50

SET TWO
Herbert Brün: Futility 1964
Language, Message, Drummage
Composition for Tape and for Instruments
EMF -- Smith Publications/1998
(for tape and speaker); speaker: Marianne Brün; text: Herbert Brün; recorded at the University of Illinois Electronic Music Studios; composition year: 1964; time: 7:47

David Rosenboom: Section II (symmetrical harmonies in chaotic orbits)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims (1967-71)
New World Records/2009
electronics, computer: David Rosenboom; recorded at Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Studio, Disney Recital Hall Recording Studio, The Herb Alpert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, and the composer's studio, 2008-2009; time: 13:03

HOUR TWO

SET THREE
Arthur Levering: Furies
Parallel Universe 
New World Records/2014
(for 11 players); Sequitur (flute: Erin Lesser, oboe: Jacqueline LeClair, clarinet: Jo-Ann Sternberg, bass clarinet: Philip Everall, piano: Peggy Kampmeier, percussion: Matthew Gold, violins: Andrea Schulz, Miranda Cukson, viola: Daniel Panner, cello: Greg Hesselink, bass: Jeremy McCoy; conductor: Paul Hostetter); recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 6, 2009; composition year: 2006; time: 10:13

Eric Chasalow: The Furies
a. The Fury of Beautiful Bones (4:03)
b. The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos (3:31)
c. The Fury of Cooks (1:29)
d. The Fury of Hating Eyes (3:58)
Over the Edge
New World Records/1993
(for soprano and computer music); soprano: Christine Schadeberg; realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; texts: Anne Sexton; composition year: 1984; total time: 13:00

SET FOUR
Andrew Lewis: Time and Fire
Au-delà
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic music); realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the University of Birmingham (UK), 1987-1990; premiered at the International Computer Music Conference, Stevenson Hall of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, September 12, 1990; time: 13:45

Tim Hodgkinson: Fighting/Breathing
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
(for bass clarinet and percussion on tape); bass clarinet: Tim Hodgkinson; recorded in concert at Sala de Concerte a Filarmonicii Paul Constantinescu, Ploiești, Romania, October 2003; composition year: 2001; time: 7:40

SET FIVE
Marco Oppedisano: Monks in Dazzling Lead Cloaks
(from Scenes from Dante's Inferno)
Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar
OKS Recordings of North America/2007
electric guitar, treatments: Marco Oppedisano; composition year: 1999; total excerpts time: 1:40

Marco Oppedisano: Tainted Trees (R. Voisey)
Guitars in Brooklyn -- Live 5.21.03
Marco Oppedisano/2005
composer: Robert Voisey; electric guitar: Marco Oppedisano; tenor: Robert Voisey; recorded at A.R.T./South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, New York, May 21, 2003; composition year: 2003; time: 4:50

HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only
Updated February 17, 2014

Brian Eno: Little Fishes
Another Green World
E.G.-Jem/1987 (org. Island Records LP/1975)
prepared piano, Farfisa organ: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Studios, London, summer 1975; time: 1:30

Meredith Monk: Cow Song
Our Lady of Late
Wergo/1988
voice: Meredith Monk; glass: Collin Wolcott; recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York City, 1973; time: 2:17

Henry Cow: Groningen
Henry Cow Concerts
East Side Digital/1995
(composers: Tim Hodgkinson/Henry Cow); organ, clarinet, alto saxophone: Tim Hodgkinson; bassoon, flute, oboe: Lindsay Cooper; drums: Chris Cutler; voice: Dagmar Krause; guitar, piano: Fred Frith; bass, voice, celeste: John Greaves; recorded at the Vera Club, Groningen, The Netherlands, September 26, 1974; time: 8:49

SET SIX
Claire Chase: Almost New York (A. Lucier)
Density
Claire Chase/2013
(composer: Alvin Lucier, for 5 flutes -- piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute, contrabass, flute -- and pure wave oscillators); flutes: Claire Chase; recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, New York; composition year: 2002; time: 24:19

Alvin Lucier: 947
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
(for solo flute and playback) flute: Jacqueline Martelle; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, April 29, 2002, composition year: 2001; time: 16:36

Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music (Randall/Vercoe/Dodge)
Nonesuch/1974
computer music: Barry Vercoe; realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; composition year: 1969; time: 4:35

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for February 9 & 12, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 9, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 12, 2014
Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

HOUR ONE

SET ONE
John Cage: A Valentine Out of Season I-III
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 2001-2002; composition year: 1944; time: 3:47

Yvar Mikhashoff: Valse pour les petits lecteurs du Figaro (Stravinsky)
Panorama of American Piano Music (various artists)
from Antheil to Zappa 1911-1991
Mode Records/2013
composer: Igor Stravinsky; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, 1991-1992; composition year: 1917; time: 1:04

SINGLE PLAY
Quartetski: L'Adoration de la Terre (Stravinsky)
a. Introduction
b. Les augures printaniers: Danses des adolescentes
c. Jeu du rapt
d. Rondes printanieres
e. Jeux des cités rivales
f. Cortage du sage
g. Le sage
h. Danse de la terre
Quartetski does Stravinsky
Le Sacre du Printemps ballet
Ambiances Magnétiques/2013
percussion: Isiah Ceccarelli; electric guitar: Bernard Falaise; bass clarinet, soprano saxophone: Philippe Lauzier; viola da gamba, various objects: Pierre-Yves Martel; violin: Joshua Zubot; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, March 2013; composition years: 1911-1912; time: 23:00

SET TWO
Bernard Rands: Memo 5
Piano Music (1960-2010)
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 2013; composition year: 1975; time: 10:48

Chris Campbell: Water Mirror
Things You Already Know
Innova Recordings/2014
(for strings and percussion, musicians unspecified) recorded in Minneapolis, 2013; time: 4:43

SET THREE
David Felder: Rare Air -- Blews
Extreme Measures -- Music for Clarinet and Piano
Albany Records/2010
(for bass clarinet, vocalizations, and electronics) bass clarinet, bilabial fricative: Jean Kopperud; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, February, 2009; composition year: 2008-2009; time: 1:30

HOUR TWO

Heiner Goebbels: The Sirens
Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten
ECM/2007
Ensemble Modern with Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; text: Gertrude Stein (speaker unspecified); composition year: 2002; time: 2:17

Morris Palter: Broken Drum (M. Burtner)
Remedy -- Morris Palter, solo percussion
Centaur Records/2006
composer: Matthew Burtner; recorded at Warren Music Facility, University of California, San Diego, 2003-2004; composition year: 2003; time: 5:43

Fishers O'Wufmen: Spiritum Lupus
Fishers O'Wufmen
Frank Pahl/2013
instruments: Frank Pahl, Dennis Palmer; recorded in Wyandotte, Michigan, April 2012; time: 2:47

Amy Denio: I'm Glad Today is Monday
Prodigal Light
Spoot Music/2013
sound mash-up by friends of Amy Denio (story, transcription, narration: David Greenberger; horn, guitar, kick drum, bamboo flute, whistling, door bell: Frank Pahl; telephone messages: Jim McAdams (2 moments in musical museum ), Eli McBett (~ gli Egiziani: Lasciatemi caricare!), Francisco Lopez (~ tomatoes in a tub ); dog bark: Mary Grace Lawrence the Dog; theremin, sound sculpture: Jim McAdams; science set: Nick Ripley; electronic cello: Derek Johnson; tape squish sounds, gajangle: Bob Phillips; mouth sounds: Detonator Beth Lawrence; unspecified: Don Campau, Robin O'Brien) composition and mix: Amy Denio; recorded at Spoot Studios and Soli Sound Studios, West Seattle; time: 2:44

Viv Corringham: Slack Tide
Walking
Innova Recordings/2013
vocals, interviews, and field recordings: Viv Corringham; recorded in Little Venice and East London by the Thames; time: 5:32

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Thirst
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
(for interview, soprano, sounds on tape) narrator: Simone Fattal; soprano: Kristin Norderval; bowed gong and piano resonances (on tape): Gustovao Aguilar, Joseph Kubera, and William Winant; other sounds in other places recorded by Annea Lockwood; composition year: 2008; time: 20:00

SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: Something Else*
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
electronic music (Layfette tone generators, noise source, tape delay): Pauline Oliveros; recorded at Electronic Music Studio of the University of Toronto, summer 1966; time: 13:51
*TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only

Maggi Payne: Solar Wind
Crystal
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
flute, synthesizers, electronics: Maggi Payne; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland; time: 9:46

HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only
(updated February 10, 2014)

SINGLE PLAY
Amy Horvey: Cranberry Flats Mobile (radio edit)
Catchment
Paved Arts/2010
trumpet, field recordings: Amy Horvey; recorded at the Cranberry Flats Conservation Area, South Saskatchewan River, Saskatchewan; time 12:15

SET FIVE
Juan Blanco: Ella (Pastoral Erótica)
Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings/2013
electroacoustic music: Juan Blanco; recorded at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of Cuba, Havana, 1987; time: 15:40

Mari Kimura: Bucknerian for voice, violin and computer
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
voice samples: Thomas Buckner; violin, computer, processing: Mari Kimura; recorded in New York City; composition year: 2002; time: 8:52

SINGLE PLAY
J.K. Randall: Intimacy (a polemic) part 3
Open Space 10 (Randall/Boretz)
Open Space/1999
voice: Jim Randall; recorded in New York City for a meeting of the Society for Music Theory (dates unspecified); time: 4:05

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens for February 2 & 5, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 2, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: February 5, 2014
Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com


HOUR ONE

SET ONE
Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
electronic installation: Robert Carl; source material recorded throughout Japan, 2007; composition years: 2008-2009; excerpt time: 8:00

David Berezan: Nijō
Allusions Sonores
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
sounds from nightingale floors recorded at temples and palaces throughout Japan, 2007; 8-track tape realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios at the University of Manchester, UK, 2009; premiered at the MANTIS Festival, Rodewald Concert Hall, Manchester, October 30, 2009; time: 12:57 

SINGLE PLAY
John Luther Adams: Inuksuit 5
Inuksuit
Cantaloupe Music/2013
(for percussion and environmental sounds) percussion ensemble directed by Doug Perkins; recorded in the woods of Guilford, Vermont, 2012; composition year: 2009; time:18:34

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: 
a. Jubilate (6:23)
b. Born Again (5:10)
Hyperrealism -- Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Mutable Music/2003
a. vocal samples: Thomas Buckner; composition years: a. 2001, b. 2003

HOUR TWO

SET TWO
Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60 -- 2006/2007 (various artists)
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim; composition year: 2006; time: 0:45

Eleanor Hovda: Jo Ha Kyu
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
oboe: Libby Van Cleve; composition year: 1990; time: 3:45

Danielle Palardy Roger: Le Caillou #13
Le Caillou 1998-2013
Ambiances Magnétiques/2013
Ensemble SuperMusique (piano: Charity Chan; contrabass: Nicolas Caloia; percussion: Isaiah Ceccarelli; flutes, saxophones, objects: Jean Derome; electric guitar: Bernard Falaise; cello: Emilie Garard-Charest; alto saxophone, voice: Joan Hétu; clarinet: Lori Freedman; sampler, piano: Diane Labrosse; violin: Pierre-Yves Martel; violin: Clemens Merkel; viola: Jean René); recorded in Montreal, 2013; time: 4:40

Iannis Xenakis: Zythos
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
(for trombone and 6 marimbas); trombone: Benny Sluchin; marimbas: red fish blue fish; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, January 2010; composition year: 1997; time: 7:44

John Oliver: Marimba Dismembered
Time is Dust (DVD)
Earsay Productions/2012
(electroacoustic music) composition year: 1999; time: 3:00

SET THREE
Paul Lansky: Line and Shadow
Notes to Self
Bridge Records/2013
Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Justin Brown; recorded at the Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark, June 2009; composition year: 2008; time: 7:22

Daniel Goode: Ländler Land
Annbling
New World Records/2014
cellos: Michael Finckel, Pitnarry Shin, Alexandra MacKenzie; pianos: Joseph Kubera, Sarah Cahill; recorded at René Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School, New York City, November 10, 2000; composition years: 1999-2000; time: 7:19

Cindy McTee: Circuits
Symphony No. 1: Ballet for Orchestra and other works
Naxos Records/2013
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin; recorded at the Fisher Music Center Concert Hall, February 2012; composition year: 1990; time: 5:24

SINGLE PLAY
Cindy McTee: selections from Metal Music
a. Bins and Bells (2:59)
b. Kettles and Cans (1:24)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 9 (various artists)
...musics, metaphors, machines...
CEMI: Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
University of North Texas, Denton
Centaur Records/1991
computer music: Cindy McTee; recorded 1990, composition year: 1989; total excerpts time: 4:23

HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only

SET FOUR
Xenia Pestova: Fuga Interna (begin) (K. Norman)
Shadow Piano -- Music for Piano/Toy Piano & Electronics
Innova Recordings/2013
(for piano, voice, and digital media) composer, text: Katharine Norman; piano, voice: Xenia Pestova; recorded at Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham, UK; composition year: 2012; time: 10:20

Katharine Norman: Losing It (excerpt)
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
(for voice and environmental sounds) field recordings, voice, text: Katharine Norman; composition year: 2003; excerpt time: 4:15

Ruth Anderson: SUM (State of the Union Message)
Lesbian American Composers (various artists)
CRI/1998
(for sound collage) composition year: 1973, revised 1997; time: 7:37

SET FIVE
Hans Fjellestad: Free Throw Prophet
Red Sauce Baby
Accretions/2001

woodwinds: Jason Robinson, Ellen Weller; church organ: H. Fjellestad; percussion: Marcos Fernandes, Kristen Cheadle; bagpipes ("Scotland the Brave," 1844): "The Wizard";basketball game recorded at the Zion Building, San Diego, 1999; time: 10:16

Charles Amirkhanian: Gold and Spirit
Walking Tune
Starkland/1997

sports noises, electronics, chants, voices: C. Amirkhaninan, written for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics; time: 10:15

SINGLE PLAY

Tim Hodgkinson: Aici Schiteaza pe Acum

Sketch of Now

Mode Records/2006

(for ensemble and tape) Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Tim Hodgkinson, with: flute: Lisa Cella; tenor saxophone: Robert Reigle; percussion: Morris Palter; recorded at the Acousmania Festival, Mihail Jora Concert Hall, Bucharest, Romania, May 2004; composition year: 2004; time: 8:58

-- FIN --

 

Martian Gardens for January 26 and 29, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 26, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: January 29, 2014
Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com


PLAYLIST HOUR ONE

SET ONE
Elaine Barkin: Xtet -- Last Dance for Milton
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
(for MIDI pianos, celesta, harpsichord, organ, drum set) MIDI operations: Elaine Barkin;  composition year: 2011; time: 6:08

Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
(for soprano and Mark II RCA synthesizer; originally for soprano and piano) soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: Dylan Thomas (1945);  recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1961; composition year: 1954, revised 1961; time: 14:31

In memory of Milton Babbitt (May 10, 1916 -- January 29, 2011)

SET TWO
Cindy McTee: Einstein's Dream
a. Warps and Curves in the Fabric of Space and Time
b. Music of all the Spheres
c. Chasing After Quanta
d. Pondering the Behavior of Light
e. The Frantic Dance of Subatomic Particles
f. Celestial Bells
g. Wondering at all Secretes
Symphony No. 1: Ballet for Orchestra (and other works)
Naxos Records/2013
(for string orchestra, percussion, and computer) The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Leonard Slatkin; recorded at the Fisher Center Orchestra Hall, Detroit, June 2010; composition year: 2004; time: 14:18

Jon Christopher Nelson: Waves of Refraction
Electroacoustic Works
CD-R/2005
(for guitar and tape) guitar: William Buonocore; electroacoustic music: Jon Christopher Nelson; recorded at the Florida International University Electronic Music Studio; composition year: 1992; time: 7:56

SINGLE THREE
Daniel Goode: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano I
Annbling
New World Records/2014
clarinet: Daniel Goode; piano: Douglas Martin; recorded in New York City, 2012; composition years: 1959-1960, time: 2:39

Gordon Mumma: à Diane Carlson*
from Eleven Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia 
Music for Solo Piano (1960-2001)
New World Records/2008
piano: Daan Vandewalle; recorded at German Radio, Frankfurt, May 2007; composition year: 1978; time: 0:30
*TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only  

PLAYLIST HOUR TWO

SET FOUR
Daniel Goode: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano II & III
Annbling
New World Records/2014
clarinet: Daniel Goode; piano: Douglas Martin; recorded in New York City, 2012; composition years: 1959-1960, time: 7:42

Daniel Goode:
a. Six New Fractal Fingers (4:55)*
b. Six Fractal Fingers (3:16)
Clarinet Songs
XI Records/1993
clarinet: Daniel Goode; total time:  8:11
*WMUA live version only

SINGLE PLAY
Keeril Makin: Afterglow
Afterglow
Mode Records/2013
piano: Cory Smythe (ICE); recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, May 2011; composition year: 2007; time: 13:43

SET FIVE
Bruno Maderna:  Serenata für Claudia
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
(for violin and harpsichord; arr. for flute and piano by Roberto Fabbriciani); flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; piano: Massimillano Damerini; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1968; time: 1:10

Chris Campbell: Things You Already Know
Things You Already Know
Innova Recordings/2014
keyboards: Chris Campbell; recorded in Minneapolis; time: 2:05

Paul Lansky: Things She Remembered
Things She Carried
Bridge Records/1997
computer music: Paul Lansky; reader: Hannah McKay; text: Paul Lansky, Hannah McKay; recorded at Princeton, 1995-1996; time: 8:15

Viv Corringham: Broken Land
Walking
Innova Recordings/2013
(for field recordings, interviews, vocals) vocals: Viv Corringham; field recordings: Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn; composed as part of the Shadow-walks project, 2003-2013; time: 4:46

Yusef Lateef: Blues in the Adaji
In Nigeria
Yal Records/1995
tenor saxophone, flutes: Yusef Lateef; West AFrican drumming: musician unspecified; recorded at EMI Studios, Lagos, Nigeria, July 19, 1983, additional recording and mix at Regent Sound Studios, New York City; final mastering: Lateef's studio, Shutesbury, Massachusetts, June 19, 1995; time: 5:45

SET SIX
David Lang: Death Speaks 1 -- You Will Return
Death Speaks
Cantaloupe Music/2013
voice, bass drum: Shara Worden; guitar: Bryce Dessner; piano: Nico Muhly; vocals, violin: Owen Pallett; composition year: 2012; time: 4:30

Gordon Mumma: à Durand Begault*
from Eleven Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia 
Music for Solo Piano (1960-2001)
New World Records/2008
piano: Daan Vandewalle; recorded at German Radio, Frankfurt, May 2007; composition year: 1978; time: 0:17
*TAINT Radio and WMUA automation versions only


PLAYLIST HOUR THREE
TAINT Radio and WMUA automation version only

SET SEVEN
Malcolm Goldstein: Winter (excerpt)
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;  excerpt time: 12:00

Derome/Goldstein/Wiens: L'idée de Nature
6 Improvisations
Ambiances Magnétiques/2013
alto saxophone, objects, flute: Jean Derome; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; electric guitar, kalimba: Rainer Wiens; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, April 13, 2013; time: 7:54

SET EIGHT
Andrew Lewis: Cân (Song)
Au-delà  
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic music) realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of Bangor University, Wales, 1997; premiered at the Sonic Arts Network Conference, Birmingham, UK, January 9, 1998; time: 11:51

Mary Lee Roberts: Winter Cranes
6 Compositions
Open Space/1997
(computer music) composition year: 1997; time: 7:51

SINGLE PLAY
Artemiy Artemiev: Waiting for the Winter
Cold
Electroshock Records/1995
synthesizers, electronics: Artemiy Artemiev; recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, Russia, 1994-1995; time: 13:20

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Martian Gardens for January 19 and 22, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 19, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: January 22, 2014
Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com


FYI: The WMUA version of Martian Gardens for the UMass Spring 2014 semester (Sunday, January 26 -- Sunday, May 11) will be shortened to two hours and run 10:00 to Midnight.  This is the unfortunate result of an unusually tight programming schedule at WMUA.  I regret the abridgement and hope to have the three hour program restored for the summer session and thereafter.


Thanks to Bob Rogers of TAINT Radio for accommodating my request for an evening slot for Martian Gardens.  Starting this week, MG will move from Monday mornings 9:00 -- Noon to Wednesday evenings 6:00 -- 9:00 on taintradio.org.


Finally, we are prepared to podcast Martian Gardens programs on the WMUA website (wmua.org) so listeners can hear MG at their convenience.  The WMUA technical director and I will be ready to debut the podcasts, I hope, by the end of January, 2014.  I will let you know what I know when I know it.  Stay tuned!

PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Goode: Annbling
Annbling
New  World Records/2014
The Flexible Orchestra, Tara Simoncic, conductor; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, May 22, 2013; composition years: 2006, revised 2007; time: 22:53

SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Suite No. 1
a. Avalokiteshvara (2:20)
b. Music for Bill & Me (3:48)
c. Sonata in Am (3:07)
d. Tandy's Tango (3:19)
e. Sonata in Ishartum (1:31)
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
guitars, National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; percussion: J.T. Troy, Gene Sterling (Just Strings group); recorded at Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California, July 5, 2004; composition years: 1972, 1992;  total time: 13:05

Lou Harrison: Song of Quetzalcoatl
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group (5 glasses, 5 woodblocks, 5 dragon's mouths, sistrums: William Winant; 5 cowbells, 5 suspended and muted brake drums, wooden rattle: Todd Manley; snare drum, guiro, windglass, triangle, gong, tam-tam: David Rosenthal; 5 tom-toms, contrabass drum: Daniel Kennedy); recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, California, August 1993; composition year: 1941; time: 6:32

SET TWO
Harry Partch: Ring Around the Moon -- A Dance for Here and Now
a. Phase One: Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!) (2:48)
b. Phase Two: One, two, three, four -- X,Y, Zee (2:12)
c. Phase Three: Shake hands now, boys, 
and at the sound of the bell come out fighting! (2:55)
d. Phase Four: Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoit toity...(Look out! He's Got a gun!) (1:26)
[Movement II from Plectra and Percussion Dances -- 
Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater]
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 1
New World Records/2004 (orig. CRI/1997)
Gate Five Ensemble (Sausalito), conductor: Horace Schwartz; recorded in Sausalito, California, 1953 (Instrumentation for Ring Around the Moon: Intoned speaking voice, Adapted Guitar II, Kithara, Harmonic Canon, Chromelodeon I, Chromelodeon Sub-bass, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Marimba Eroica, Diamond Marimba, Bass Marimba), composition year: 1952; time: 9:21

Harry Partch: June 15 -- Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
narration: John Schneider; recorded at Second Story Studios, Venice, California, summer 2010; Bitter Music, Harry Partch's hobo diary, written in 1935; excerpt time: 9:46

SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Palimpsest
Ensemble Music 3
Mode Records/2013
(for piano & ensemble) International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), conductor: Steven Schick; piano: Cory Smythe (ICE); recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, January 2010;  composition year: 1979; time: 12:11

Yvar Mikhashoff: Suicide in an Airplane (L. Ornstein)
Panorama of American Piano Music
from Antheil to Zappa 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
composer: Leo Ornstein; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff;  recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, 1991-1992; composition year: 1916; time: 4:42

Mary Ellen Childs: from Wreck
a. First Wave (part 1) (2:04)
b. First Wave (part 2) (3:26)
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2013
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin: Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ultan; percussion: Peter O'Gorman; recorded at Wild Sound Studio, Minneapolis, 2011; composition year: 2011; total time: 5:30

SET FOUR
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Le tombeau des fondeurs
La marée
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(for piano Baschet-Malbos, processing, interactive system, and tape) piano Baschet-Malbos: Sarah Nicholls, electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio and the studios of the University of Huddersfield, UK, 2008; piano Beschet-Malbos recorded at Studio 4'33", Paris, November 24 and 25, 2012; time: 17:02

Dead Voices On Air: Castered Carts
Piss Frond
Invisible Records/1999
electronic music: Mark Spybey, Darryl Neduorf; vocals: Tracy "Sugarpill" Pillsworth; recorded at Miller Block studio, Vancouver, BC, 1998; time: 3:53

SET FIVE
Åke Parmerud: Substring Bridge
Cultures électroniques 18 -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnemosyne Musique Media/2005
(for interactive guitar and computer) guitar: Mats Bergström; realized at the Swedish Institute for National Concerts (IRK), Stockholm, 2002; time: 8:53

Juan Blanco: Espacios V
Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings/2013
electronic music: Juan Blanco; saxophones: Neil Leonard; recorded at the Laboratorio Nacional de Música Electroacústica, Havana, 1993; composition year: 1993; time: 11:41

SINGLE PLAY
Ken Thomson: Perpetual
a. Underlying (6:21)
b. Bad Idea (4:18)*
c. Don Pullen says it's OK (4:42)*
Thaw
Cantaloupe Music/2013
The JACK Quartet; bass clarinet: Ken Thomson; recorded at Flux Studios, New York City, August 2012; composition year: 2010; time: 6:21
* TAINT Radio version only

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