Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Version, April 7, 2016


Host: Max Shea 
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: April 7, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Spring
The Four Seasons
Tzadik Records/2013
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; ingredients may include -- clarinets: Sherman Friedland, Al Margolis; clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontoravich; tenor and alto saxes: Audrey Betsy Welber; tenor sax: Tedross Avery; trumpet: Ben Holmes; trumpet voice: Susan Watts; trombone: Monique Buzzarte; drums: Ray Marchica, Gregg Mervine; voice: Tomomi Adachi, Jeremiah Crawly, Amy Denio, Beth Griffith, Kathy Hanson, Chris Mann, Maria Mannisto; guitars, voice: Gary Heidt; guitars, Rodney Jones, Marco Oppedisano; banjo: Rich Gross; violins: Maria Kimura, Amy Zakar; basses: Orin Buck, Lonnie Plaxico, Heather Chriscaden Versace; composition years: 1992--2013; master composition year: 2013; total time: 10:54


SET ONE
Paul Lansky: Wayfaring Stranger (trad.)
Folk Images
Bridge Records/1995
computer music: Paul Lansky; Princeton University, 1991, time: 4:42

Moondog: selections from The Madrigals --
a. All is Loneliness (2:48)
b. Why Spend a Dark Night with Me? (0:59)
c. Coffee Beans (2:31)
d. Be a Hobo (1:18)
Round the World of Sound
performed by Dedalus & Muzzix, directors: Didier Aschour, Christian Pruvost; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville, France, November 2015; music and lyrics: Louis T. Hardin (Moondog); composition years: a. 1950, b. 1950, c. 1968, d. 1951; total selections time: 7:36

Philip Glass & Allen Ginsberg: Nagasaki Days (Everybody's Fantasy)
Hydrogen Jukebox
Elektra-Nonesuch/1993
The Philip Glass Vocal Ensemble; flute: Carol Winenc; reeds: Andrew Sterman; percussion: Frank Cassara, James Pugliese; keyboards, conductor: Martin Goldray; text: Allen Ginsberg; recorded at The Looking Glass Studios, New York City, 1992-1993; time: 4:56

Phil Kline: Wondrous Love (trad.)
John The Revelator -- A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
Lionheart vocal group; Ethel string quartet; recorded at the Church of St. Luke's in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August 2007; 
music, lyrics: traditional, arr. Kline; time: 2:42 

Paul Lansky: Ash Grove (trad.)
Folk Images
Bridge Records/1995
computer music; computerized voice: Paul Lansky; Princeton University, 1991, time: 2:50

SET TWO
Steve Reich: Sextet, Movement I - Fast
Third Coast Percussion/Steve Reich
Çedille Records/2016
percussion, keyboards (three marimbas, two bass drums, two vibraphones, crotales, sticks, tam-tams, piano, synthesizer): Third Coast Percussion; recorded at the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, December 15-19, 2014; composition years: 1984, 1985; total time: 11:17

Andrew Byrne: Desert Terrain, part 1, section 1
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
processed piano: Stephen Gosling; percussion: David Shivley; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, New York, October 2006; time: 5:30

Tim Patterson: Three Pieces for the Winter Solstice (J. Bergamo)
I. 2:26
II. 0:23
III. 2:52
Like Style, Dig? The Music of John Bergamo
Innova Recordings/2015
marimba: Tim Patterson, composer: John Bergamo, arr. Tim Patterson; recorded at Blast House Studios, Madison, Wisconsin; composition year: 1968; time: 2:31

SET THREE
John Cage:
a. Our Spring Will Come (4:30)
b. And the Earth Shall Bear Again (3:25)
The Works for Piano 8 -- The Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at the Hessischer Rundfunk Sendesall, Frankfurt, 2001-2002; composition years: a. 1943, b. 1942

Bill Alves: Spectral Motion
The Terrain of Possibilities
EMF/1988
Synclavier II music system: Bill Alves; composition year: 1988; time: 5:47

Bill Alves: Tingklik Toccata
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2008
electronics: Bill Alves; Balinese tingklik: Linda Michelou; electronics and gong: Jean-Pierre Michelou; shakuhachi: Bill Shozan Schultz; recorded at Harvey Mudd College; composition year: 1996; time: 4:47

The New Music Consort: Double Music (J. Cage, L. Harrison)
Pulse
New World Records/1990
percussion: Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman, Claire Heldrich, William Trigg; recorded at Studio A, BMG, New York City; composers: John Cage and Lou Harrison; composition year: 1941; time: 6:52

SET FOUR
Quatuor Bozzini: selections from Aldo Clementi: Momento
a. Canone Version 1 (1:09)
b. Tribute (4:43)
c. Canone Version 2 (1:10)
Aldo Clementi -- Memento
Ambiances Magnetiques/2016
violins: Clemens Merkel, Erik Carlson; viola: Stephanie Bozzini; cello: Isabelle Bozzini; recorded at Sendesaal, Bremen, fall 2014; composer: Aldo Clementi; composition years: a.,c. 1997; b. 1988; total selections time: 7:02

Aldo Clementi: Ouverture
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
for 12 flutes (4 piccolos, 4 flutes in C, 4 alto flutes); flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; recorded at Laboratorio d Acustica e Architettonica, Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venazia, Italy, April 2005; composition year: 1984; time: 7:07

Bruno Maderna: Musica su due demensioni 
Music in Two Dimensions -- Works for Flute
Mode Records/2013
(for flute and tape); flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; sound direction: Alvise Vidolin; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2010; composition year: 1958; time: 13:17

SET FIVE
Luciano Berio: Perspectives
(MP3)
tape music realized at Studio di Fonologia della RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana di Milano), 1957; time: 6:41

Pierre Schaeffer: Selections from Symphonie pour un homme seul
a. Prosopopée I (2:58)
b. Partita (1:11)
c. Valse (0:57)
d. Erotic (1:21)
L'oeuvre Musicale
EMF/1998
musique concrete realized at Studio d' Essai (ORTF), 1949-1950, premiered at Ecole Auditorium of the Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris, March 18, 1950; total selections time: 6:28

Peter Van Zandt Lane: Scene V -- The Jester
Hakcpolitic -- An Electroacoustic Ballet
Innova Recordings/2014
(for electroacoustic music and ensemble); Juventas New Music Ensemble; recorded at Fraser Studio, WGBH, Boston, 2014; time: 3:16

Steven Ricks: Young American Inventions REMIX
Young American Inventions
New Focus Recordings/2015
for solo piano and electronics; piano: Scott Holden; recorded at Madsen Recital Hall, Brigham Young University, April 26, 2007; remixed 2014; time: 3:13

Péter Eötvös: selections from Electrochronicle Sessions
a. June 6, 1974 (0:39)
b. June 12, 1974 (2:32)
Electrochronicles
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
stereo tape: Péter Eötvös, electric organ: Mesias Maiguashica; recorded live at WDR, Cologne, 1974; total selections time: 3:11

SET SIX
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
cricket song and environmental sounds recorded in the "Zone of Silence" in the desert of Northern Mexico; completed at Westerkamp's Studio, Vancouver, BC, 1987; composition year: 1987; time: 10:55

Happy 70th Birthday, Hildegard Westerkamp (b. Osnabrück, Germany, April 8, 1946)

Robert Morris/David Mott: Rapport (excerpt)
Rapport
Open Space/2011
synthesizer: Robert Morris; tape delay system; David Mott; recorded at the Yale Electronic Music Studios, November 18, 1973; excerpt time: 5:15  

-- FIN --

Monday, March 28, 2016

Martian Gardens, Valley Free Radio Version, April 1, 2016


TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast date: April 1, 2016
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
electroacoustic processing: Noah Creshevsky; vocals, trumpet: Susan Watts, clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontorovich; violin, vocals: Amy Zakar; ; ass, vocals: Heather Chriscaden Versace; tenor sax, alto sax: Audrey Betsy Welber; trumpet: Ben Holmes; piano: Adrian Banner; drums: Gregg Mervine; samples: The Klez Dispensers; composition year: 2009; time: 4:04

SET ONE
Muzsikás: selections from the Bartók Album
a. Dunántúli Ugrósok (Transdanubian "Ugrós") (3:36)
b. Pásztornóták Hosszúfurulyán (Shepard's Flute Song) (2:45)
c. Forgácskúti Legényes (Forgácskúti Lad's Dance) ((2:46)
d. Pejparipám Rézpatkója (My Horse's Shoes) (1:10)
e. Bartók Béla: 44. Hegeduduó Erdélyi Tánc (Transylvanian Dance) 1:47
The Bartók Album -- featuring Márta Sebestyén and Alexander Balenscu
Hannibal Records/1998
violin: Alexander Balenscu; tambura: János Kovócs; long flute: Zoltán Juhás; cello: Márton Éri; cimbalom; Zoltán Portoleki; gardon, drum, dance: Zoltán Farkás; dance: Ildico Tóth; additional phonographic material provided by the Ethnographic Museum of Hungary, Budapest; recorded in Budapest and London, 1998; all titles traditional, arranged by Muzsikás, except e. "Violin Duo No. 44," by Bela Bartók, composition year: 1931; total time: 12:05

Quartetski: Six mélodies á l'unisson #1
(from Mikrokosmos Sz 107)
a. Notes pointées #7/Mains alterneés #10/Mouvement parallèle #11 (3:44)
b. Mélodie pentatonique #61 (0:50)
c. Gamme pentatonique #78 (1:22)
d. Mouvement parallèle avec changement de position #16/--
    Mélodie avec accompagnement #41  (4:52)
e. Quatre mélodies à l’unisson (IV) #21 (0:18)
f. Imitation et inversion (II) #25 (1:47)
Quartetski Does Bartók
Ambiances Magnétiques/2016
Quartetski (electric guitar, melodica: Bernard Falaise; bass clarinette, soprano saxophone, melodica; electric bass, synthesizer: Pierre-Yves Martel; violin: Joshua Zubot; drums: Isaiah Ceccarelli), director: Pierre-Yves Martel; recorded at Studio Resther; Montreal, March 2015; composer: Bela Bartók, "Mikrokosmos"; composition years: 1926-1939; total excerpts time: 12:52

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Tetras
Complete String Quartets
Mode Records/2009
The JACK Quartet; recorded at WDR studios, Köln, November, 2008; composition year: 1983; time: 17:33

SINGLE PLAY
Lei Liang: selections from Bamboo Lights
Movement 1: Howling Bamboo (2:45)
Movement 2: Fragility (1:00)
Bamboo Lights
Bridge Records/2014
(for chamber orchestra); The Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, October 1, 2013; composition year: 2013; time: 3:45

SET TWO
Lei Liang: Serashi Fragments
Bamboo Lights
Bridge Records/2014
The JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); composition year: 2005; time: 7:28

Peter Van Zandt Lane: Laurelei emerges
Hakcpolitic -- An Electroacoustic Ballet
Innova Recordings/2014
(for electroacoustic music and ensemble); Juventas New Music Ensemble; recorded at Fraser Studio, WGBH, Boston, 2014; time: 7:55

SET THREE
Robert Scott Thompson: Three Faces
Motets for Michelangelo
Aucourant Records/2009
electroacoustic music: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at RST's studio, Roswell, Georgia, 2009; time: 5:59

John Eaton: Thoughts on Rilke
First Performances
Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizers in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; Syn-Kets: John Eaton, Jane Schoonover Smith; vibration plate, sound mixing: Paolo Ketoff; text: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnets to Orpheus, Part II, Sonnet 10," composition year: 1966; time: 10:57

Mel Powell: Events for Tape Recorder
Music for Electronic and Older Instruments
(Luening/Ussachevsky/Powell)
CRI/1968 (CD transfer via New World Records/2011)
(for magnetic tape and voices) voices: Mildred Dummock, Lee Bowman, Martha Scott; composition year: 1963; time: 6:56

SET FOUR
Robert Morris/David Mott: Rapport (excerpt)
Rapport
Open Space/2011
synthesizer: Robert Morris; tape delay system; David Mott; recorded at the Yale Electronic Music Studios, November 18, 1973; excerpt time: 6:00

If, Bwana: Lisa, Fluteless
Thirty
Pogus Productions/2014
voice: Lisa Barnard-Kelley; processing: Al Margolis; time: 8:03

Robert Morris/David Mott: Rapport (reprise)
Rapport
Open Space/2011
synthesizer: Robert Morris; tape delay system; David Mott; recorded at the Yale Electronic Music Studios, November 18, 1973; excerpt time: 2:00

-- FIN --

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Version, March 31, 2016


Host: Max Shea 
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: March 31, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Structures
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at the Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, January 2009, composition years: 1960-1962; time: 7:30

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Pisaro: A Mist is a Collection of Points, Part I
A Mist is a Collection of Points
New World Records/2015
piano: Philip Bush; percussion: Greg Stuart; sine tones: Michael Pisaro; recorded at the University of South Carolina School of Music, Columbia, South Carolina, February 21, 2015; composition year: 2014; time: 18:08

SET ONE
Tara Helen O'Connor & Margaret Kampmeier:
All Sensation is Already Memory (E. Moe)
I. The Ungraspable Advance of the Past (7:17)
II. Devouring the Future 3:32)
The Way Things Go
Bridge Records/2015
flute: Tara Helen O'Oconnor; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; recorded at New Rochelle Studios, New Rochelle, New York, 2013; composer: Eric Moe; composition year: 2006; total time: 10:49

Luciano Berio: O King
The Great Works for Voice
Mode Records/1995
Musician's Accord -- soprano: Christine Schadeberg; flute: Katherine Flanders Mukerji; clarinet: Sheldon Berkowitz; violin: Marshall Coid; cello: Ted Mook; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; conductor: Hayes Biggs; recorded at Sheppard Hall, City College of New York, April 3, 1995; composition year: 1968; time: 5:13

James Moore and Andie Springer: In Abstentia (P. Matthusen)
Gertrudes -- Music for Violin and Resonator Guitar
New World Records/2015
resonator guitar: James Moore; violin, voice: Andie Springer; wineglasses: Lainie Fefferman, Jascha Narveson; recorded at Future-Past Studios, Hudson, New York, January 31 -- February 2, 2015; composition year: 2008; time: 4:19

SET TWO
Ursula Mamlok: Stray Birds
I. In a sustained mood (3:31)
II. Majestic (2:37)
III. Very airy (0:53)
IV. In a melancholy mood (2:27)
V. Still, with utmost simplicity (5:02)
Ursula Mamlok Volume Three
Bridge Records/2011
soprano: Phyllis Bryn-Julson; flute: Harvey Sollberger; cello: Fred Sherry; text: Rabindranath Tagore; composition year: 1963; time: 14:29

Elizabeth Panzer: Play Nice (E. Beglarian)
Dancing in Place
O.O. Discs/1999
harp: Elizabeth Panzer; composer: Eve Beglarian: composition year: 1997; time: 6:02

SET THREE
Robert Scott Thompson: Passagio
Tre Passagio -- Homage to Ingmar Bergman
Aucourant Records/2007
electroacoustic music: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at RST's studio, Roswell, Georgia, composition year: 2007; time: 13:42

John Oliver: selections from Time's Wheel
a. C-A-N-A-D-A: In the after time, always there is also the before...(4:36)
b. Exhibit: Where visitations occur (2:29)
c. Evening: N's Raga (2:56)
d. from the archive, the weight (2) (4:38)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renee Sarojini Saklikar; computer, processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total time: 14:40

SET FOUR
Sarah Boothroyd: Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain
Deep Wireless 4 -- Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2007
sound collage, interview: Sarah Boothroyd; composition year: 2006; time: 5:55

Robert Ashley Act III (Years 29-42)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

SET FIVE
Ensemble Supermusique: Jeux de cartes (M. Goldstein)
Les Accords Intuitifs
Ambiances Magnetiques/2016
Ensemble Supermusique, directors: Joan Hétu, Danielle Palardy Roger; recorded at Studio 215, Montreal; composer: Malcolm Goldstein; composition year: 2014; time: 10:08

Neil Rolnick: Fiddle Faddle
Shadow Quartet
Innova Recordings/2005
computer interactive violin: Todd Reynolds; recorded at Elff Productions, Brooklyn; composition year: 2003 time: 7:28

SET SIX
Rick Cox: Long Distance
Maria Falling Away
Cold Blue Music/2001
electric guitars, saxophones, clarinets, processing, sampler: Rick Cox; trumpet: John Hassell; recorded at Rock River Sound, Venice, California, 2001; time: 8:11

John Luther Adams: Dark Wind
Adams, Cox, Fink, Fox
Cold Blue Music/2002
bass clarinet: Marty Walker; marimba: Amy Knoles; piano: Bryan Pezzone; recorded at Architectura Studios, Los Angeles, November 2001; composition year: 2001; time: 13:20

Tod Dockstader & David Lee Myers: Slow Marsh
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005
ecological sound recordings, electronics, processing: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers; time:3:26

-- FIN --

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Martian Gardens, Valley Free Radio Version, March 25, 2015


Host: Max Shea 
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast date: March 25, 2015
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST

SINGLE PLAY
Joseph Waters: The Populist Manifesto
Music of Joseph Waters
North Pacific Music/2000
(for soprano and mixed chamber ensemble); soprano: Brenda Baker; accordion: Gernot Blume; saxophone: Tom Bergeron;cello: John Hubbard; percussion: Julie Spencer; text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "The Populist Manifesto" (1976); composition years: 1984, 1999; time: 15:43

For the 97th birthday of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. March 24, 1919) 

SET ONE
Robert Ashley Act II (Years 15-28)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

Sumner Carnahan/Out of Context: Transmission
1" = 25 Mi.
Burning Books/2005
texts, voice: Sumner Carnahan; music: J.A. Deane; Out of Context (drums, percussion: Jefferson Voorhees, viola: Alicia Ultan; vocals: Molly Sturges; bassoon: Sam Rhodes; cello: Katie Harlow; acting, voice: John Flax; oud, electronics: Stefan Dill; sampler, live electronics: C.K. Barlow; cornet: Jon Baldwin; conductor, sampler, uniflute: J.A. Deane); recorded at Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque; December 10, 2004; total excerpts time: 11:10

SET TWO
John Oliver: Trope 1 -- Mourning
a. Exhibit No. 1: She boards the plane (7:40)
b. Exhibit No. 2: He runs down the hallway (1:35)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renee Sarojini Saklikar; computer, processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total time: 8:15

Polly Moller: Three-Quarters (Nabanusit and Contoocook)
Diogenes
Northwestern Music/2003
flute, voice, guitar, percussion, programming, various instruments: Polly Moller; recorded at Lucky Dog Studios, Eugene, Oregon; time: 4:07

Joseph Waters: Electronic Interlude II (from Piano Trio)
Desert Island Pieces
Joseph Waters/2003
electronics: Joseph Waters; composition year: 2003; time: 0:32

Rapoon
a. Bodhran and Ran (1:27)
b. Banjo Arabiata (2:41)
Cultural Forgeries
Alrealon Music/2014
bodhran, banjo, other instruments: Robin Storey; total time: 4:08

Musci - Venosta: Dusty Zebra
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
electric guitar: Luciano Margorani; composition, Japanese percussion tape loops, Congolese field recordings: Roberto Musci, Giovanni Venosta; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, time: 3:40

Jin Hi Kim: & Gerry Hemingway: Saturn's Ring
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
composition, electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; percussion, drums: Gerry Hemingway; recorded Shutesbury, Massachusetts, August 18, 2010; time: 3:37

SET THREE
Mathew Rosenblum: Two Harmonies
a. Gymnopedie for Art Jarvinen (3:52)
b. Fantasy for Roberta Liss (3:00)
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
viola: Wendy Richman; percussion: Timothy Feeney; piano: Shirly Yoo; recorded at SUNY Fredonia, New York, February 5, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 6:52

Anna Rubin: Remembering
Electric Music
Capstone Records/2004
(for soprano, piano, and tape) soprano: Judith Kellock; piano: Karl Paulnack; recorded March 6, 1993 (location unspecified); composition years: 1989; revised: 1993; time: 14:40

SET FOUR
Philip Mantione: Fabrics (excerpt)
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
computer music: Philip Mantione; composition year: 2010; excerpt time: 5:00 (of 8:42)

Elainie Lillios: Threads
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music realized at the electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the 19th EuCuE concert series at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University, Montreal, November 13, 1998; composition year: 1998; time: 4:50

Eduardo Kusnir: La Panderia (The Bakery)
Lily
Mnemosyne Musique Media/1996
electroacoustic music realized at the Instituto di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1970, composition year: 1970; time: 9:20

-- FIN --

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Version, March 24, 2016


Host: Max Shea 
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: March 24, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST

SINGLE PLAY
The Space Negros: Martians Have Landed
Dig Archeology 1975-1986
Arf Arf/1992
instruments, vocals: Erik Lindgren; recorded at 93 St. Josephine Street, Somerville, Massachusetts, Fall 1975; time: 1:32

SINGLE PLAY
Anne La Berge: Drive
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, texts, flute, MAX/MSP computer program: Anne La Berge (text performed as Mary Anderson, inventor of the windshield wiper; texts discussing the diesel engine; texts discussing the human uterus); additional voices: Amy Walker, Josh Griffin, Misha Mayers; recorded at Studio VOLSAP and Studio 150, Amsterdam, 2009; composition years: 2003-2006; time 25:13

SET ONE
Robert Ashley Act II (Years 15-28)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

Sumner Carnahan/Out of Context: Transmission
1" = 25 Mi.
Burning Books/2005
texts, voice: Sumner Carnahan; music: J.A. Deane; Out of Context (drums, percussion: Jefferson Voorhees, viola: Alicia Ultan; vocals: Molly Sturges; bassoon: Sam Rhodes; cello: Katie Harlow; acting, voice: John Flax; oud, electronics: Stefan Dill; sampler, live electronics: C.K. Barlow; cornet: Jon Baldwin; conductor, sampler, uniflute: J.A. Deane); recorded at Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque; December 10, 2004; total excerpts time: 11:10

SET TWO
John Oliver: selections from Time's Wheel
a. un/authorized invocation (3:37)
b. Exhibit: the censor that is Time inserts this sutra (2:47)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renée Sarojini Saklikar; computer processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total excerpts time: 6:23

Maggi Payne: Flaptics (M. Trayle)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
flute, vocalizations: Maggi Payne; interactive electronics: Mark Trayle; realized at CCM (Center for Contemporary Music), Mills College, Oakland California; composer: Mark Trayle; composition year: 1997; time: 6:47

Jacqueline Humbert: Mosquitolove (S. Ashley)
Chanteuse -- Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
voice: Jacqueline Humbert; soundscape, electronics realized by David Rosenboom at his studio at the California Institute of the Arts, composition, lyrics: Sam Ashley; time: 5:46

Sarah Peebles: Spring
from Tomoe (Revolving life) (version 4)
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
shō, mouth organ: Hiromi Yoshida; perucussion, Midi Katcontroller, noise-makers: Ikuo Kakehashi; MIDI keyboard, sampled sound, electronics, shō, noise-makers: Sarah Peebles; recorded at Shukoji, Kawasaki , Main Hall, September 25, 1993; time: 5:00

SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Mélanges (Pléïades movement I)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
percussion: red fish blue fish -- Gustavo Aguillar, Rob Esler, Ross Karre, Don Nichols, Morris Palter, Lisa Tolentino, director: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego; composition year: 1978; time: 8:52

Luc Ferrari: Etudes -- aux accidents
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
musique concrète: Luc Ferrari, realized at GRM, Paris,1958, time: 2:19

Steven Ricks: Sounded along dove dōve
Young American Inventions
New Focus Recordings/2015
electroacoustic music: Steven Ricks; composition year: 1999; time;  2:38

Larry Polansky: Baa Baa Birthday, Have You Any Star?
from Three Anna Studies
Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
voices: Anna Polansky, Eleanor Wilson; computer: Larry Polansky: composition year: 1995; time: 1:46

Eldad Tsabary: Creatures of the Ice
Demo
Eldad Tsabary/2006
multi-channel electronics: Eldad Tsabary (sound source: ice shards in Nunavut); composition year: 2006; time: 4:45

Triple Point: Pivot Point
Phase/Transitions
Pogus Productions/2014
instruments, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Noort; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 3:28

SET FOUR
Michael Vincent Waller: Profondo Rosso
The South Shore
XI Records/2015
Project SiS (piano: Charity Wicks; violin: Pauline Kim-Harris; cello: Christine: Kim); recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, New York; composition year: 2013; time: 4:42

Peter Garland: selections from String Quartet No. 1,
"In Praise of Poor Scholars"
a. Rondeau "Nouveau" (4:12)
b. Like an elegant slow dance...(3:41)
String Quartets
Cold Blue Music/2009
performed by Apartment House; recorded at the School of Music at the University of East Anglia, U.K., September 14, 2008; composition year: 1986; excerpts time: 7:53

Luigi Dallapicolla: selections from Tartiniana Seconda
(Divertimenta for Violin & Piano)
I. Pastorale (2:18)
II. Tempo di Bourée (1:34)
III. Presto; Leggerissimo (1:43)
Musica da Camera (Dallapiccola/Petrassi)
Mode Records/2006
violin: Daniele Colombo; piano: Ciro Longobardi (of Ensemble Dissonanzen); recorded at Teatro delle Palme, Naples; February 21-23, 2005; composition year: 1956; excerpts time: 4:35

Otto Luening: Dramatic Scene
(Movement II from Sonata for Piano -- In Memoriam Ferruccio Busoni)
Music of Otto Luening
New World Records/2010 (orig. CRI LP/1975)
piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded November 5, 1974 (location unspecified); composition year: 1966; time: 4:59

SET FIVE
Mari Kimura: ComeCryWithMe (M. Paranosic)
Polytopia -- Music for Violin and Electronics
Bridge Records/2007
violin, electronics: Mari Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, Fall, 2004; composer: Milica Paranosic; composition year: 2005; time: 8:09

Allen Strange: Goddess
Music by Allen Strange
Permanent Press/2005
(for amplified violin and digital media); violin: Pat Strange; composition year: 2002; time: 15:26

SINGLE PLAY
Quartetski: selections from Quartetski Does Bartók
a. Répétition #26 (1:07)
b. Accompagnment en accords brisés #12 (2:42)
c. Méditiation #45 (206)
d. Rhythme syncopé #27 (0:33)
e. L'extrême-orient #58 (1:54)
f. Sixtes et accords #73 (0:35)
g. En augmentent - en diminuant #46
h. En mode Mixolydian #48
Quartetski Does Bartók
Ambiances Magnétiques/2016
Quartetski (electric guitar, melodica: Bernard Falaise; bass clarinette, soprano saxophone, melodica; electric bass, synthesizer: Pierre-Yves Martel; violin: Joshua Zubot; drums: Isaiah Ceccarelli), director: Pierre-Yves Martel; recorded at Studio Resther; Montreal, March 2015; composer: Bela Bartók, "Mikrokosmos"; composition years: 1926-1939; total excerpts time: 13:52

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Martian Gardens, Valley Free Radio Version, March 18, 2016


Host: Max Shea 
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: March 10, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST

SINGLE PLAY
Dorothy Hindman: Drift
Tapping the Furnace
Innova Recordings/2013
(for saxophone quartet); Atlas Saxophone Quartet (Carey Polacek; Susan Cook; Shawn Tracy; Bryan Polacek); composition year: 2002; time: 5:13

SET TWO
Robert Ashley Act I (Years 1-14)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now (various artists)
Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1998
voice, percussion, synthesizer, electronics: Joan La Barbara; bowed pianos: Gaylord Mowfrey; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan, "One Pink Mask," recorded 1996; time: 3:23

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot
XI Records/2011
ambient arctic sounds: Charlie Morrow; composition year: 1997; time: 3:28

SET THREE
John Oliver: selections from The Archives
a. -- and her redactions (0:56)
b. Exhibit: When I dance a morning raga (1:41)
c. Exhibit: His brother excels (1:29)
d. Exhibit: Bombay girl (1:58)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renée Sarojini Saklikar; computer processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total excerpts time: 6:04

Laurie Anderson: Strange Perfumes
Homeland
Nonesuch Records/2010
vocals, percussion, keyboards: Laurie Anderson; vocal: Antony; marxophone, accordion, keyboards: Rob Burger; viola: Eyvind Kang; keyboards: Peter Scherer, percussion: Shahzad Ismaily; recorded in New York City, 2010; time: 7:25

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; composition year: 2004; time: 4:46

Larry Polansky: #14 Kid Canon
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
voices: Anna Diamond Polansky, Eliza Polli, Meghan Gallagher, Hester Godfrey, Nick Sinnott-Armstrong, Saskia Nislow, Kathie Lenhart; mixing, processing: Larry Polansky, Miriam Kolar; recorded at Brittrax, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and Los Angeles, summer 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 1:37

Larry Polansky: #13 DIY Canon/Java 2 (Goode Version)
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
tape, narration: Daniel Goode (source: Java 2, Midtown Manhattan Restaurant) processed by Daniel Goode and Larry Polansky, New York City, and Hanover, NH, March 2002; composition year: 2001; time: 3:15

Fred Frith: Levity
Prints -- Snapshots, Postcards, Messages, and Miniatures 1987-2001
ReR Megacorp/2003
electric guitar, electric guitar samples, other samples, electric guitar improv: Fred Frith; recorded at WDR Radio, January 1997; time: 2:36

Marco Oppedisano: Breathe
Resolute
Spectropol Records/2015
electroacoutistic electric guitar, electric guitar samples: Marco Oppedisano; time: 2:34

SET FOUR
Luigi Nono: 
Selections from Como Una Ola Fuerza y Luz (Like a Wave of Strength and Light)
II. Piano Entry (6:55)
III. Dolcessimo Sereno (2:12)
Como una olo fuerza y luz, etc.
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
(for soprano, piano, orchestra, and tape; text: Julio Huasi, paen to Luciano Cruz); soprano: Slavka Taskova; piano: Maurizio Pollini; Symphony Orchestra of Bayerischen Radio, conductor: Claudio Abbado; composition years: 1971-1972; excerpts time: 9:07

Robert Normandeau: Jeu de langues
Palimpsestes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, premiered at the Musica Viva 2009 festival of the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal; September 19, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 11:50

Annea Lockwood: Buoyant
Ground of Being
Recital Records/2014
field recordings (water sounds, Flathead Lake, Montana; boat sounds, Hoboken Ferry Terminal, New Jersey and Lake Como, Italy); composition year: 2013; time: 6:18

SET FIVE
Ulrich Krieger: before/QUAKE
[Urban Dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for cello, piano, and percussion) California E.A.R. Unit (cello: Erika Duke-KirkPatric; piano: Vicky Ray; percussion: Amy Knoles); recorded at RBB Berlin, Kleiner Sendesaal, Germany, 2006; composition year: 2005; time: 5:35

Mary Lee Roberts: White Writing
I. Bird (1:52)
II. Night Foxes (4:00)
Open Space 9: Computer Works by Mary Lee Roberts
Open Space/1997
computer music: Mary Lee Roberts, mastered at Sonic Solutions, New York University; time: 5:52

Bischoff/Brown/Erbe/Payne: selections from CCM Flotsam
a. #20 (0:17)
b. #16 (0:10)
c. #8 (0:14
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artists)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
computer music: John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Tom Erbe, Maggi Payne; recorded at CCM, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1993; total time: 0:41

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Martian Gardens, Taint Radio Version, March 17, 2016


Host: Max Shea 
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com

TAINTRADIO.ORG
Webcast: Thursdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: March 10, 2016

WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Kleier: Dark Matter
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
electric guitars, computers, processing: Roger Kleier; recorded at Master Element Studios, New York City; time: 5:28

SET ONE
Codona: Que Faser
Codona 2
ECM Records/1981
berimgau, talking drum, percussion, voice: Naná  Vasconcelos; sitar, tabla, mbira, timpani, voice: Collin Wolcott; melodica, flute, voice: Don Cherry; composer: Naná  Vasconcelos; recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany; time: 7:12

Dedicated to Naná Vasconcelos, August, 2, 1944 -- March 9, 2016

Don Cherry: Brown Rice
Brown Rice
A&M/1975
trumpet, electric piano, voice: Don Cherry; acoustic bass: Charlie Haden; drums: Billy Higgins; tenor saxophone: Frank Lowe; electric piano: Ricky Cherry; electric bongos: Bunchie Fox; voice: Vema Gillis; composer: Don Cherry; recorded at The Basement Recording Studio, New York City; time: 5:14

Meredith Monk: Dungeon
Key
Lovely Music, Ltd./1995 (orig. Increase LP/1971)
extended vocals: Meredith Monk; mrdingam drum: Collin Wolcott; time: 6:49

Nicolas Caloia
a. L'Horizon (2:58)
b. Restent des Absents (1:09)
c. L'Allemeuse (3:14)
Les Bonnes Histoires
Ambiances Magnetiques/2016
double bass, percussion, drum machine: Nicolas Caloia; piccolo, bass flute, tenor saxophone: Jean Derome; voice: Gabriel Dharmoo; clarinets, bells: Lori Freedman; voice, texts Genevieve LeTarte; recorded in Montreal, July 2015; total time: 7:21

SET TWO
Robert Ashley Act I (Years 1-14)
Crash -- An opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
singers: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:15

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now (various artists)
Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1998
voice, percussion, synthesizer, electronics: Joan La Barbara; bowed pianos: Gaylord Mowfrey; text: Melody Sumner Carnahan, "One Pink Mask," recorded 1996; time: 3:23

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot
XI Records/2011
ambient arctic sounds: Charlie Morrow; composition year: 1997; time: 3:28

SET THREE
John Oliver: Trope 1 -- Mourning
a. Exhibit No. 1: She boards the plane (7:40)
b. Exhibit No. 2: He runs down the hallway (1:35)
Flight 182 Meditations
Earsay/2015
voice, texts: Renee Sarojini Saklikar; computer, processing: John Oliver; composition year: 2015; total time: 8:15

Polly Moller: Three-Quarters (Nabanusit and Contoocook)
Diogenes
Northwestern Music/2003
flute, voice, guitar, percussion, programming, various instruments: Polly Moller; recorded at Lucky Dog Studios, Eugene, Oregon; time: 4:07

Rapoon
a. Bodhran and Ran (1:27)
b. Banjo Arabiata (2:41)
Cultural Forgeries
Alrealon Music/2014
bodhran, banjo, other instruments: Robin Storey; total time: 4:08

Musci - Venosta: Dusty Zebra
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
electric guitar: Luciano Margorani; composition, Japanese percussion tape loops, Congolese field recordings: Roberto Musci, Giovanni Venosta; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, time: 3:40

Jin Hi Kim: & Gerry Hemingway: Saturn's Ring
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
composition, electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; percussion, drums: Gerry Hemingway; recorded Shutesbury, Massachusetts, August 18, 2010; time: 3:37

SET FOUR
Philip Mantione: Fabrics
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
computer music: Philip Mantione; composition year: 2010; time: 8:42

Elainie Lillios: Threads
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music realized at the electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the 19th EuCuE concert series at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University, Montreal, November 13, 1998; composition year: 1998; time: 4:50

Eduardo Kusnir: La Panderia (The Bakery)
Lily
Mnemosyne Musique Media/1996
electroacoustic music realized at the Instituto di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1970, composition year: 1970; time: 9:20

SET FIVE
Mathew Rosenblum: Two Harmonies
a. Gymnopedie for Art Jarvinen (3:52)
b. Fantasy for Roberta Liss (3:00)
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
viola: Wendy Richman; percussion: Timothy Feeney; piano: Shirly Yoo; recorded at SUNY Fredonia, New York, February 5, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 6:52

Anna Rubin: Remembering
Electric Music
Capstone Records/2004
(for soprano, piano, and tape) soprano: Judith Kellock; piano: Karl Paulnack; recorded March 6, 1993 (location unspecified); composition years: 1989; revised: 1993; time: 14:40

SET SIX
Roger Reynolds: Colombi Daydream
Complete Cello Works
Mode Records/2014
cello: Alexis Descharmes; recorded at Salle Cortot, Paris, July 2014, composition year: 2010; time: 7:48

Ulrich Krieger: before/QUAKE
[Urban Dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for cello, piano, and percussion) California E.A.R. Unit (cello: Erika Duke-KirkPatric; piano: Vicky Ray; percussion: Amy Knoles); recorded at RBB Berlin, Kleiner Sendesaal, Germany, 2006; composition year: 2005; time: 5:35

Mary Lee Roberts: Things Fall Apart
Open Space 9: Computer Works by Mary Lee Roberts
Open Space/1997
computer music: Mary Lee Roberts, mastered at Sonic Solutions, New York University; time: 7:40

Robert Scott Thompson: Cloud Fragments
Frontier
Mirage/1998
synthesizers, electronics: Robert Scott Thompson; time: 5:38

Laurie Spiegel: Hurricane's Eye
from Two Archetypes
Unseen Worlds
Scarlet Records/1991
computer music: Laurie Spiegel; composition year: 1990; time: 3:36

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