Sunday, October 24, 2010

Martian Gardens for 10/24/2010

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 24, 2010

SET ONE
Howard Skempton: Five Poems of Mary Webb
a. To Life
b. Reflections
c. The Spirit of Earth
d. Safe
e. To the World

Bolt from the Blue -- Music for Piano and Voices
Mode Records/2010
EXAUDI, director: James Weeks; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07

Jan Garbarek: Allting Finns
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; text: Pär Lagerkvist, "Den döde," conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009

David Mahler: from Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field
a. Chorale
b. Chorale
c. Chorale
d. Chorale
e. VIII. Distant Sounds

Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
voices: Julie Hanify, D. Mahler, Nurit Tilles; piano: N. Tilles; text: J.M Neale, "The Teams Are Waiting in the Field," to the melody of Chevy Chase; recorded at The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November, 2009

Iva Bittová and Bang On A Can: Nejsi
Elida
Cantaloupe Music/2005
Bang On A Can; violin, voice: I. Bittová; Systems Two, Brooklyn, December, 2004

SET TWO
David First: Thought You Said Sherbet
The Alternative Schubertiade #
CRI/1999
sampler, computer synthesizer, electric guitar: D. First; motif:
first nine measures of "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Schubert, arr. Liszt)


David First: Aw!-Drawline Spout-Holi Spank (excerpts)
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
guitars, computers, computerized guitar: D. First

SET THREE
Alvin Lucier: Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (marimba)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Quiet Design/2010
marimba: Nick Hennies; recorded at University of Texas-Austin Percussion Studio

John Cage: from Sculptures Musicale
I. soprano sax, sax-mouthpiece, accordion, e-bow guitar, percussion, radio, no input mixer, sine tone
II. tenor and baritone saxes, percussion, piano, cello
III. alto sax, bass-cl a rinet, launeddas, bamboo flute, melodica

The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4 -- A CAGE of Saxophones
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded (mainly) at the π-Farm, Germany, 2004

SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith: The Previous Evening Part I (Homage to John Cage)
The Previous Evening
ReR Megacorp/1998
clarinets: Christian Kaya, percussion: Heike Liss, voice: Bernd Weber, F. Frith: voice, instruments, processing; recorded at Studio Gordon, Munich, spring, 1993

Fred Frith to perform a the University of Massachusetts for the Magic Triangle Jazz Series presented in conjunction with WMUA, Thursday, 10/28/10, at Bezanson Recital Hall

SET FOUR
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes-Gradual Requiem-Gambuh I
New Albion Records/1988
trumpets: Jim Miller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kenelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty; conductor: John Adams; recorded at Tres Virgos Studio, San Rafael, California; tape material: fog horns in San Francisco Bay

Pauline Oliveros: Sound Patterns and Tropes
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
University of Wisconsin-River Falls Concert Choir and Percussion Quartet; recorded at UW-RF Abbott Concert Hall, River Falls, Wisconsin

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Bédé
a. The Realm of Childhood
b. The Valley of Phantoms
c. In Search of the Voice

Tangram
empreintes DIGITALes/1994
electroacoustics: R. Normandeau; voice: Marie-Hélène Blain; produced at Normandeau's studio, Montreal, and GRM Paris, 1990

Lori Freedman: Bridge One: Firth of Forth
Bridge
Actuellecd/2009
clarinet: L. Freedman; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, June, 2009

Lawrence Moss: Into the Woods
Unseen Leaves
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: William Montgomery; recorded in Gildenhorn Recial Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland

Bang On A Can: 1/2 (B. Eno)
Music for Airports (Live)
Cantaloupe Records/2007
Bang On A Can All-Stars -- cello: May Beiser, clarinets: Evan Ziporyn, guitar: Mark Stewart, percussion: Steven Schick, piano/keyboards: Lisa Moore, bass: Robert Black; recorded live, spring, 1998

SET SIX
David Congo: Fusions I. The Art of Movement
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2009
recorded at the composer's studio, West Springfield, Massachusetts, June, 2009

Edward Artemiev: Peregrini
Mood-Pictures
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: T. Kuindji; electronics: E. Artemiev; recorded in Moscow

--FIN--

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Martian Gardens for 10/17/2010

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 17, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Johnson:
a. The 78 two-note chords
b. The 266 three-note chords
c. The 715 four-note chords

The Chord Catalogue -- all the 8178 chords possible in one octave
XI Records/1999
piano: T. Johnson; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Paris, March, 1998

SET ONE
Arthur Jarvinen: The Vulture's Garden
a. The Vulture's Garden
b. The War of Time
c. The Last Dim Weird Battle of the West
d. Not with a Bang but a Whimper

Edible Black Ink
O.O. Discs/1996
California Ear Unit -- featuring Dorothy Stone, flutes; recorded at Mad Hatter, Los Angeles, June, 1996

Dorothy Stone: Indigenous Music II -- Flute (S. L. Mosko)
None But The Lonely Flute
New World Records/1994

In memory of three composers/performers, and affiliates of The California Institute of the Arts and The California Ear Unit --
Stephen Lucky Mosko: 1947 - 2005
Dorothy Stone (wife of Mosko): 1958 - 2008
Arthur Jarvinen: 1956 - 2010


SET TWO
Kitty Brazelton: Motet
Ecclesiastes: A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band -- conductor, laptop soundtrack: K. Brazelton; text: Book of Ecclesiastes; recorded at 2nd Story Sound, NYC

Jan Garbarek: Ov zarmanali -- Hymn of the baptism of Christ (Komitas)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009

Arvo Pärt: Ode VII
Kanon Pakajanen
ECM New Series/1998
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor: Teije van Geest; text from "Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ" by St. Andrew of Crete, recorded at Niguliste Church, Tallinn, June, 1997

SET THREE
Anatoly Pereslegin: Isiah No. 2
Download the God
Electroshock Records/2000
performed and recorded by A. Pereslegin, Jerusalem, 1994-1995; final mix by A. Pereslegin, Moscow, 1999-2000

Cesare Rosa Calamaro: Ludus
Electroacoustic Music from Sicily #
Electronic Music Foundation/2003

SET FOUR
Barton McLean: Magic at Xanadu (MAX)
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
B. McLean: keyboards in Composer's Playpen (in MAX computer language)

Mike Swinchoski: Alternative Song
60 x 60 -- 2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2006

André Cormier: 380
ibid.

Jonty Harrison: Unsound Objects
Articles indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
composed at Harrison's studio at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK

SET FIVE
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2009

Nicola Cisternino: Xöömij
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum #
Mode Records/2001
bass: Nicholas Isherwood; realized at the Ateliers UPIC (CCMIX), Paris, April, 1997

SET SIX
Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe:
a. Opening Slide Lecture
b. Where is that Boy

The Carbon Copy Building -- A comic-strip opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
performed by Bang On A Can All-Stars -- singers: Theo Bleckmann, Tony Boutté, Katie Geissinger, Toby Twining; musicians: electric guitar: John Benthal, percussion: David Cossin; keyboards: Martin Goldray; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; text, illustrations: Ben Katchor; recorded at Avatar Studios, NYC, August, 2000

Joëlle Léandre and Quentin Sirjacq: Moon Journey
Out of Nowhere
Actuelle/2008
contrabass: J. Léandre; piano: Q. Sirjacq; recorded at Studio Lu Hullette, Paris, 1/13/08

Fred Frith: Trocosi
Prints
ReR Megacorp/2003
acoustic bass: Sebastian Grimms; other instruments and voice: F. Frith; text: International Herald Tribune edition 1/28/97, "Enslavement of Women in Ghana"; sample: Kahil El'Zabar, "Where Do You Want to Go"

SINGLE PLAY
Olly Wilson: Piano Piece
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 #
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
piano: Thomas Fosnocht

--FIN--

Friday, October 8, 2010

Martian Gardens for 10/10/2010

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 10, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith: Glass c/w Steel
Guitar Solos
RēR Megacorp/2003 (orig. Caroline/1974)

SET ONE
Evan Ziporyn: The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
soprano: Anne Harley; Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Wind Ensemble, conductor: Gil Rose; texts: Li Shangyin ("The Ornate Zither"), W.S. Merwin ("The Nomad Flute"); recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 11/05/05

Benjamin Chadabe: Hell and Humdrums
The Metaphysician's Hammer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
percussion: B. Chadabe; text, recitation: Benjamin Hartlage; recorded at Murmur Studio, NYC, and Bennington College 1998-2000

SET TWO
Jin Hi Kim and Gerry Hemingway: Windtails
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: JHK; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, MA,8/18/09

Lou Harrison: Untitled (from Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Recordes/2010
piano: Adrienne Verner; Gamelan Pacifica, conductor: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010

SINGLE PLAY
Lois V. Vierk/Anita Feldman: Hexa
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music
Innova Recordings/2010
three tap dancers on Tap Dance Instrument: David Parker, Rhonda Price, A. Feldman; percussion: Gary Schall; live electronics, Lexicon PCM 42: L. Vierk; recorded at Pyramid Studios, NYC, 1989-1990

SET THREE
Luciano Berio: Gesti
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
recorder: Lucia Mense; recorded at Sandessal, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 7/11/95

Margaret Lancaster: Io (L. Vierk)
Io
New World Records/2009
electric guitar: Larry Polansky; marimba: Matthew Gold; flute: M. Lancaster; recorded at 2nd Story Sound, NYC, 2/06/09

Aldo Clementi: luCiAno BErio
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
recorded at Laboratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica-Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, April, 2005

SET FOUR
Margaret Leng Tan: from Old MacDonald's Yellow Submarine (E. Griswold)
a. On that Farm
b. e-i-e-i-o
c. Pink Memories

She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, prepared piano, music box: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, January, 2010

Mendi + Keith Obadike: The Pink of Stealth
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2009
vocals: M. Obadike; K. Obadike: guitar, bass, drums, ubo aka, synthesizers, treatments

Edward Artemiev:
a. Fox Hunting
b. Dialog with a Computer

Mood-Pictures
Electroshock Records/2010
a. performed by E. Artemiev, from the motion picture "Fox Hunting"; b. performed by E. Artemiev, from the motion picture "By the Eyes of the Wolf"

Bruce Haack: Program Me
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
electric voice: Farad vocoder & Ed Harvey (orig. 1981)

SET FIVE
Kitty Brazelton:
a. Time to go, Time to remain
b. Bells

Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band, conductor: K. Brazelton; laptop drones, electronics: K. Brazelton; text: Book of Ecclesiastes; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, NY

Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice Is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
premiered at the American Center for Students and Artists, Paris, October, 1980

SET SIX
David First: A Bet on Transcendence Favors the House
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
ebow guitar: D. First

Marco Oppedisano: Nocturne
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars: M. Oppedisano; voice samples: Kimberly Fiedelman

SINGLE PLAY
Jonty Harrison: Splintering (excerpt)
Evidence Matérielle
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
composed at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, 1999

--FIN--

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Martian Gardens for 10/03/2010

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 3, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Florent Ghys: Coma Carus
Baroque Tardif--Soli
Cantaloupe Music/2009
pianino: F. Ghys

SET ONE
Robert Dick: Eyewitness
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
Flute Force; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 1998-2000

Frances White: Centre Bridge
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown: Loons (from Isle Royale Shakuhachi Duets)
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded by E. Brown, Brooklyn, 7/09/05

SET TWO
Patti Monson: High Art (M. Bresnick)
High Art
Albany Records/2003
piccolo: P. Monson; toy piano: Martin Bresnick

Martin Bresnick: The Bucket Rider
The Essential Martin Bresnick
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Bang On A Can; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 11/08/05

SET THREE
John Cage: Party Pieces (1-20) (J. Cage, H. Cowell, L. Harrison, V. Thomson)
The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at RBB/SFB, Berlin, 5/23/03

Lou Harrison: Isna's Song (from A Soedjiatmoko Set)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
Gamelan Pacifica, director: Jarrad Powell; Gamelan Pacifica Chorus, director: Jessika Kenney; text: The Rāmāyana, book VII, adapted by L. Harrison; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010

SET FOUR
Bob Gluck: Doina
Electric Songs--Live Performances 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
saz (bağlama), electronics: B. Gluck

Anne LeBaron: Submerged Cavern
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
shakuhachi: Kiku Day; koto: Konoko Nishi; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Mills College, Oakland, 2005

Ellen Fullman: Nocnoca Progression
Change of Direction
New Albion Records/1998
Elise Gould, Nigel Jacobs, E. Fullman: Long String Instrument

Fred Frith: Hit and Run
Accidental
RēR Megacorp/2001
recorded at Studio Jankowski, Stuttgart, 1995-1996

Roberto Musci/Chris Cutler/Jon Rose/Claudio Gabbiano: track 3
Steel Water Light
RēR Megacorp/2001
sampler: R. Musci; electrified percussion, processing: C. Cutler; tenor violin, processing: J. Rose; guitars: C. Gabbiani

Christopher Campbell: Sunface Streams Moonface
Sound the All-Clear
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Fur Seal Studio, Minneapolis

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
premiered at Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, BC, 10/09/03

Stéphane Roy: Ruptures (from Trois petites histoires concrètes)
Migrations
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
realized at Roy's studio, St. Louis, Missouri, 1998

Douglas Geers: Verbosity Ore
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

David First: Tell Tale 2.1
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
transistor radios: D. First

Simon Wickham-Smith: from Justkidding
d. The Machine Says It
b. Unsafeday

Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Helen Kidd

David First: Happy Beatday
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
slide whistle: D. First

SET SIX
Holger Czukay: Boat-Woman Song (excerpt)
OHM--The Early Gurus of Electronic Music--1948-1980 #
Ellipsis Arts/2000
samples from Adam de la Halle; Vietnamese women singing folk song

Kraig Grady: Eve Without Apples
The Lab -- 20th Anniversary CD #
The Lab/2004
pump organ, prepared dulcimer: K. Grady, performed at The Lab, San Francisco, 1987

Eve Beglarian: Preciosilla
Overstepping
OODiscs/1998
flute: Margaret Lancaster; voice: E. Beglarian; text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at Noise Production, NYC

SET SEVEN
Robert Ashley: She Was A Visitor
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, conductor: Alvin Lucier; written in 1967 as part the electronic opera "That Morning Thing"

Alvin Lucier: Chambers
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
Chambers (1968) recorded at The Coffeehouse, Middletown, Connecticut, 2002

--FIN--

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Martian Gardens for 09/26/2010

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 26, 2010

SET ONE
Robert Ashley: Empire (excerpt)
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert, R.Ashley; electronic orchestra: Tom Hamilton, R. Ashley; recorded in Rome, 1985

Debashis Sinha: Kailash
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010

Elsa Justel: Bastet
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at GRM, Paris, 1999

SET TWO
Alexander Tcherepnin: Shadow Play (from Five Concert Etudes, Op. 52)
Piano Works
CRI/2002 (orig. Sony/1991)
piano: Martha Braden; recorded at BMG Studios, NYC, 1999

Ivan Tcherepnin: The Army and the Chase (from Santur Live!)
Flores Musicales--Five Songs--Santur Live!
CRI/1995
Serge* modular electronics, santur: I. Tcherepnin
*Serge synthesizer named after its developer, Serge Tcherepnin, brother of Ivan.


Stefan Tcherepnin: Ouvretorture
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizer: Stefan Tcherepnin, recorded in NYC, 2004

Matmos: Les Folies Françoises (F. Couperin)
Supreme Balloon
Matador Records/2008

So Percussion and Matmos: Needles
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010
recorded at Snowghost, Whitefish, Montana, and The David Smith Room, Studio C, Clinton Recording Studio, NYC

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: Scenes from Cavafy
a. Gending Cavafy
b. Gending Bill/Lancaran Jody
c. Gending Ptolemy

Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
voice: John Duykers; texts: Constantine P. Cavafy; Gamelan Pacifica Chorus and Orchestra, director: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010

SET THREE
Jody Diamond: In That Bright World
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta; voice: J. Diamond; text: "The Wayfaring Stranger" (trad.); recorded in Central Java, July, 2001

Miguel del Aguila: Tango to Dream (Salon Buenos Aires, movement II)
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio; recorded at the First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas, 2008

SET FOUR
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2001; tape revised by S. Scodanibbio, 2001-2009

Stefano Scodanibbio: Humboldt
Six Duos
New Albion Records/2001
viola: Dov Scheindlin; contrabass: S. Scondanibbio; recorded at Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken, June, 2000

SET FIVE
Chaya Czernowin: The Memory of Water
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
saxophone, tubax: Rico Gubler; piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn: Peter Veale; live-electronics: EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR; recorded live at the Konzerthaus Berlin, 3/17/07, MaerzMusik Festival of Contemporary Music by Berliner Festspiele

Iannis Xenakis: Dämmerschein
Xenakis & Varèse
Mode Records/1997
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded in Pittsburgh, April, 1996

SINGLE PLAY
Zack Browning: Thunder Roll
a. Night Attack
b. Day Attack

Venus Notorious
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Jee-Ean Kim; percussion: Mark Eichenberger; percussion: James Press; timpani: Samuel Carroll; conductor: Mei-Fang Lin; recorded at the University of Illinois

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Gordon/Alarm Will Sound: Arles
Van Gogh
Cantaloupe Music/2007
Alarm Will Sound, conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded in New York City, 2006-2007

--FIN--

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Martian Gardens for 09/19/2010

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 19, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Saunders Smith: Polka in Treblinka
At Sixty -- Selections
11 West Records/2008
Xylophone: Dale Speicher; snare drum and hi-hat: Chris Leonard; bass drum: Bill Sallak; recorded at Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron, March, 2008

SET ONE
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 142
Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988
Les Disques VICTO/1992
saxophones: A. Braxton; tenor saxophone: Evan Parker; vibraphone: Bobby Naughton; contrabass: Joëlle Léandre; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; trumpet: Paul Smoker; trombone: George Lewis; recorded live at the Sixth International Festival of Contemporary Music at Victoriaville, Québec, October 8, 1988

Anthony Braxton and Gerry Hemingway: Invention 8107PM (excerpt)
Old Dogs (2007)
Mode Records/Avant series/2010
saxophones: A. Braxton; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded at Wesleyan University, Daltry Room, 8/01/07

Stephen Haynes and Taylor Ho Bynum: Miscellaneous
The Double Trio -- Live at the Festival of New Trumpet Music
Engine Studios/2009
cornet: Taylor Ho Bynum; trumpet, cornet: Stephen Haynes; electric guitar: Alan Jaffe; electric guitar: Mayr Halvorson; drums: Warren Smith; drums: Tomas Fujiwara; recorded live at The Jazz Standard, NYC, 9/20/06

Anthony Braxton and Taylor Ho Bynum to perform at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, Bezanson Recital Hall, Tuesday, September 22, 8:00 p.m., as part of the season's Magic Triangle Jazz Series.

SET TWO
Bang On A Can and Don Byron: Basquiat
A Ballad for the Many
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Bang On A Can All-Stars -- bass: Robert Black, percussion: David Cossin, piano: Lisa Moore, electric guitars: Mark Stewart, cello: Wendy Sutter, clarinet/bass clarinet: Evan Ziporyn; clarinet, composition: Don Byron; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 2004-2006

Evan Ziporyn: Frog's Eye
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 5/24/04

SET THREE
Priscilla McLean: Night Images
The McLean Mix & The Golden Age of Electronic Music
CRI/1997
synthesizers, electronics: P. McLean; recorded at the McLean's home studio, 1973

Barton McLean: Demons of the Night
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizers, electronics: B. McLean; saxophone samples: Albert Regni; recorded at the Electronic Music Center, UT, Austin

Robert Scott Thompson: The Widening Gyre
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
electronics: R. S. Thompson; clarinet samples: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at the Resonance Observatory, Atlanta

SET FOUR
Aldo Clementi: Passacaglia
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; realized at Centro Tempo Reale, Florence, recorded at Labratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica -- Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, April 2005

Sorrel Hays: On the Wind
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
flutes: Andrew Bolowsky; recorded at Nola Studios, NYC, 2002

Sorrel Hays: Song for the Dying
Dreaming the World
New World Records/1996
baritone: Thomas Buckner; piano: Joseph Kubera; percussion: John Kennedy, Charles Wood, Maya Gunji, Eric Kivnick; text: Brian Swann's translation of Seminole song; recoded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC

SET FIVE
Annie Gosfield: Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds Back
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
sampler, electronics: A. Gosfield; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, 1998

Annie Gosfield: The Harmony of the Body-Machine
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Tzadik/2004
cello: Joan Jeanrenaud; recorded at Different Fur Recording, San Francisco, December, 2003

SET SIX
Cathy Berberian: A Flower (J. Cage)
magnifiCathy
Wergo/1988 (orig. 1971)
voice: C. Berberian; percussion: Bruno Canino

Sylvia Smith: Forever and Sunsmell (J. Cage)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christie Finn; Chinese tom-toms: Sylvia Smith; Chinese cymbal: Ayano Kataoka; text. e.e. cummings

John Cage and Joan La Barbara: Music for Two (by One)
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; recorded at Skywalker Music, Lucas Valley, California, July, 1990

Margaret Leng Tan: Suite for Toy Piano (I-V) (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano
Mode Records/2010
toy piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Marc Tremblay: ...Ceci est un Message Enregistré...
Bruit-Graffiti
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
composed/recorded at Yves Daoust's studio, Montreal, 1994

--FIN--

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Martian Gardens for 09/12/2010

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 12, 2010

SET ONE
Meredith Monk: Urban March (Shadow)
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
piano, voice, arrangement: Anthony De Mare; recorded at Ralston Recital Hall, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 11/02/08

Anthony De Mare: Paris (M. Monk)
Pianos and Voices
Koch Classics/1992

Anne LeBaron: Intermezzo
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
bass clarinet: Wolfgang Fuchs; violin: Ronit Kirchman; bass: Torsten Müller; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Polestar New Music Festival, Seattle, 2004

Larry Polansky: tooaytood(s)
a. tooaytood 1: ≤too
b. tooaytood 2: ≤too<-
c. tooaytood 3: 2
d. tooaytood 5: boo k (lullaby for anna)
e. tooaytood 6
f. tooaytood 7: iiviinii
g. tooaytood 9: loopitood
h. tooaytood 11: onceaii

The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
ZWERM--electric guitar quartet: Toon Callier, Matthias Koole, Joannes Westendorp, Kobe Van Cauwenbergh; arr. T. Callier; recorded at Studio Champ d'Action, Antwerp, December, 2008

Thomas DeLio: as though
Thomas DeLio/James Dashow
Capstone Records/1997
percussion solo: Tom Goldstein; recorded at UMBC Studio, 1997

SET TWO
John Luther Adams: Triadic Iteration Lattices (for four air-raid sirens)
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati; November, 1998

John Luther Adams: Wail
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music
percussion (with air-raid siren): Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2002/2003)

J.C. Combs:
a. Cross Station
b. Dispatch

Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
created for ImprovFriday

SET THREE
John Cage: Cartridge Music/11 Instruments
a CAGE of saxophones -- The Works For Saxophones Volumes 3&4
Mode Records/2010
intersax -- soprano saxophone, artistic director: Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone: Martin Losert, tenor saxophone: Tobias Rüger, baritone saxophone: Reimar Volker; guests -- violin: Burkhard Schlothauer; viola: Johannes Platz; cello: Ulrich Maiß; contrabass: Alexander Frangenheim; piano: Michael Iber; accordion: Gerhard Scherer; percussion: Andreas Peters; recorded at several locations, mastered at the π-Farm, 2004

Julia Wolfe: LAD, part 1 (for nine bagpipes)
Dark Full Ride -- Music in Multiples
Cantaloupe Music/2009
bagpipes: Matthew Welch; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC

SET FOUR
Javier Garavaglia: Arte Poética (I. Stanza)
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
text: Jorge Luis Borges; produced at ICEM, Folkwang Hochschule Essen

Gilles Gobeil: Le Miroir Triste
Trois Songes DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
realized at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, summer, 2007

SET FIVE
Milica Paranosic:
a. Venus Song
b. Bojano

Give To Grow
Electroshock Records/2010
text, voice (a): Roger Bonair-Agard

David Mahler: Only Music Can Save Me Now
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November, 2009

SET SIX
Iannis Xenakis: Paille in the Wind
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
piano: Aki Takahashi; cello: Rohan de Saram; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, 10/27/07

Daniel Goode: Tuba Thrush
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
The Flexible Orchestra, conductor: Tara Simoncic; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC, 10/16/09

SET SEVEN
Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
texts: Federico Garcia Lorca from "Bodas de Sangre" (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK

Jocy De Oliveira: Women Dreams
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000
soprano: Gabriela di Geanx; actress: Marilena Bibas; clarinet: Paulo Passos; percussion: Paraguassú Abrahão; synthesizers, electronics, libretto: J. De Oliveira; recorded live at the Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, March, 1995

--FIN--