WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for March 6, 2011
SET ONE
Barry Truax: The Shaman Ascending
Tranx_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
vocal samples: Derrick Christian, bass; realized at the composer's studio, mixed at the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 2004-2005
Jorge Reyes: Arbol Sagrado
The Flayed God
Staalplaat/1994
composed and performed by J. Reyes; recorded at El Cuarto de Maquinas, Mexico City, 1990
SINGLE PLAY
Johanna Beyer: Three Movements for Percussion
a. Restless
b. Endless
c. Tactless
Restless, Endless, Tactless: Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo & The Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 12/15/09
SET TWO
Luc Ferrari: Madame de Shanghai
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Scottish Flute Trio; samples: Asians on Avenue d'Ivry, Li Ping Ting: Madame de Shanghai; Orson Welles from "The Lady from Shangahi" (1947); Scottish Flute Trio recorded at The Tolbooth Arts Centre, Stirling, Scotland, August, 2006; tape realized at Ateliers UPIC/CCMIX, Paris; musical assistant: Brigitte Robindoré
The Hub: The Minister of Pitch (T. Perkis)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
computers, electronics: John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster; recorded at Mills College, 5/13/88
SET THREE
Alwin Nikolais: Revels--Dance 3 (1986)
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993
electronics: A. Nikolais
Merce Cunningham Event group: September 14, 1996, Annemasse, France
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
laptop, percussion: David Behrman; electric violin, live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; steel pan, objects: Fast Forward
David Behrman: Interspecies Smalltalk, Scene 1
Leapday Night
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
violin: Takehisa Kosugi; computers, electronics: D. Behrman; commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the dance "Pictures" (1984)
SET FOUR
John Luther Adams: Roar
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska, 2002-2003
John Luther Adams: Solitary and Time-Breaking Waves (for 4 tam-tams)
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati, November, 1998
SET FIVE
Alvin Lucier: Twonings (1st 1/2)
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2011
cello: Charles Curtis; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn; engineer: Tom Hamilton
Alvin Lucier: Fan
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
kotos: Miki Maruta, Ryuko Mizutani, Kayoko Nakagawa, Yoko Nishi; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 2/08/05, engineer: Tom Hamilton
SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Faith
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
piano: Bob Gluck; laptop: N. Rolnick; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
--FIN--
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Martian Gardens for 02/27/2011
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for February 27, 2011
SET ONE
Liana Alexandra: Hora
60 x 60 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004
Liana Alexandra: Barcarolla
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
In memoriam Liana Alexandra May 27, 1947 -- January 10, 2011
SET TWO
George Crumb: Bringing in the Sheaves* (Shaw/Minor)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
mezzo-soprano: Jamie Van Eyck; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swathmore College, October, 2008
*from Voices from a Forgotten World: A Cycle of American Songs from North and South, East and West (American Songbook V)
Roland Auzet: Themen (C.R. Alsina)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Musique Aujord'hui; conductor: Jean-Marie Adrien; percussion: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville
SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
The Composer in the Computer Age: Mara Helmuth Sound Collaboration
Centaur Records/2007
created and recorded at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati
Phillip Bimstein: Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa
Larkin Gifford's Harmonica
Starkland/2006
oboe: Stephen Caplan; sounds recorded at Zion National Park, Utah
SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp: Beneath the Forest Floor
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
sounds recorded in British Columbia by Norbert Ruebsaat and H. Westerkamp,1991, produced at CBC's Advanced Audio Production Facility, Toronto
SET FOUR
Michael Pugliese: Peace Talks (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
sitar, percussion: Takehisa Kosugi; percussion: Michael Pugliese; recorded 11/13/90, Bangalore, India, for the dance "August Pace," (1989), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Fritz Hauser: Deep Time (version 2) (excerpt)
Deep Time
Deep Listening Institute/2005
percussion, tape: F. Hauser; accordion, Expanded Instrument System: Pauline Oliveros; EIS, electronics, small instruments: David Gamper; soprano and tenor saxophones: Urs Leimgruber; improvised 10/26/94
SET FIVE
Luc Ferrari: Visage 2
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Musique Nouvelle, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at l'Auditorium Abel Dubois, Mons, Belgium, 4/21/06
Lukas Foss: Echoi IV
Echoi/The Fragments of Archilochos/Non-Improvisation
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
piano: L. Foss; percussion: Jan Williams; cello: Douglas Davis; clarinet: Edward Yadzinski; recorded at the Buffalo and Erie County Library, 11/20/68
SET SIX
Nicole Grutter: What If? (from the collection Out of House and Home)
Deep Wireless 7 Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010
Fereshteh Toosi: If it Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Deep Wireless 6 Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009
Danielle Palardy Roger: Quien sabe (La Niña)
a. Prologue
b. Todos los bienes del mundo
c. El mar es bello
d. Pero agitato
e. ¡Coraje!
f. Los recites
g. El paso
h. Hacia l'America
Pinata, Niña, and Maria
Actuellecd.com/2008
Ensemble SuperMusique, director: Jean René; (b.)text: Juan del Encina c. 1490; recorded for Une Constellation de Mutants concert, Montreal, 4/02/08
SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith/Bob Ostertag: Voice of America, Part 1
Voice of America (Frith/Ostertag/Minton)
Rift Records/1982
guitar, tape, electronics, radio: F. Frith; synthesizers, electronics, radio: B. Ostertag; recorded at P.A.S.S., New York City, January, 1981
John Cage: Bird Cage, Part 6 (excerpt)
Bird Cage
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
realized by William Blakeney at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario, December, 1998; original source material recorded at SUNY Albany, 9/09/73
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for February 27, 2011
SET ONE
Liana Alexandra: Hora
60 x 60 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004
Liana Alexandra: Barcarolla
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
In memoriam Liana Alexandra May 27, 1947 -- January 10, 2011
SET TWO
George Crumb: Bringing in the Sheaves* (Shaw/Minor)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
mezzo-soprano: Jamie Van Eyck; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swathmore College, October, 2008
*from Voices from a Forgotten World: A Cycle of American Songs from North and South, East and West (American Songbook V)
Roland Auzet: Themen (C.R. Alsina)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Musique Aujord'hui; conductor: Jean-Marie Adrien; percussion: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville
SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
The Composer in the Computer Age: Mara Helmuth Sound Collaboration
Centaur Records/2007
created and recorded at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati
Phillip Bimstein: Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa
Larkin Gifford's Harmonica
Starkland/2006
oboe: Stephen Caplan; sounds recorded at Zion National Park, Utah
SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp: Beneath the Forest Floor
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
sounds recorded in British Columbia by Norbert Ruebsaat and H. Westerkamp,1991, produced at CBC's Advanced Audio Production Facility, Toronto
SET FOUR
Michael Pugliese: Peace Talks (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
sitar, percussion: Takehisa Kosugi; percussion: Michael Pugliese; recorded 11/13/90, Bangalore, India, for the dance "August Pace," (1989), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Fritz Hauser: Deep Time (version 2) (excerpt)
Deep Time
Deep Listening Institute/2005
percussion, tape: F. Hauser; accordion, Expanded Instrument System: Pauline Oliveros; EIS, electronics, small instruments: David Gamper; soprano and tenor saxophones: Urs Leimgruber; improvised 10/26/94
SET FIVE
Luc Ferrari: Visage 2
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Musique Nouvelle, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at l'Auditorium Abel Dubois, Mons, Belgium, 4/21/06
Lukas Foss: Echoi IV
Echoi/The Fragments of Archilochos/Non-Improvisation
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
piano: L. Foss; percussion: Jan Williams; cello: Douglas Davis; clarinet: Edward Yadzinski; recorded at the Buffalo and Erie County Library, 11/20/68
SET SIX
Nicole Grutter: What If? (from the collection Out of House and Home)
Deep Wireless 7 Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010
Fereshteh Toosi: If it Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Deep Wireless 6 Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2009
Danielle Palardy Roger: Quien sabe (La Niña)
a. Prologue
b. Todos los bienes del mundo
c. El mar es bello
d. Pero agitato
e. ¡Coraje!
f. Los recites
g. El paso
h. Hacia l'America
Pinata, Niña, and Maria
Actuellecd.com/2008
Ensemble SuperMusique, director: Jean René; (b.)text: Juan del Encina c. 1490; recorded for Une Constellation de Mutants concert, Montreal, 4/02/08
SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith/Bob Ostertag: Voice of America, Part 1
Voice of America (Frith/Ostertag/Minton)
Rift Records/1982
guitar, tape, electronics, radio: F. Frith; synthesizers, electronics, radio: B. Ostertag; recorded at P.A.S.S., New York City, January, 1981
John Cage: Bird Cage, Part 6 (excerpt)
Bird Cage
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
realized by William Blakeney at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario, December, 1998; original source material recorded at SUNY Albany, 9/09/73
--FIN--
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Martian Gardens for 02/20/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for February 20, 2011
SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Sintra
I. With Intensity
II. Very Fast
III. Calmly
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2011
alto flute: Claire Chase; cello: David Eggar; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October, 2007
Elliott Carter: Enchanted Preludes
Eight Compositions (1948-1993)
Bridge Records/1994
flute: Harvey Sollberger; cello: Fred Sherry; recorded at Astoria Sound, NYC, 5/20/93
Carrie Rose: Legacy Variations #99 (S. S. Smith)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
flutes: Lisa Cella, Carrie Rose, Kathie Trahan
SINGLE PLAY
Bunita Marcus: Adam & Eve
Bang On A Can Vol. 3 -- "Live"
CRI/1994
Bang On A Can--flute: Susan Stenger, violin: Marilyn Gibson, cello: Joshua Gordon, percussion: Yiu Kwong Chung and Tom Goldstein, piano: Sheri Bauer; conductor: Bunita Marcus
SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry (Region 3)
Crippled Symmetry
Bridge Records/1999
The California EAR Unit--flute and bass flute: Dorothy Stone, vibraphone and glockenspiel: Arthur Jarvinen; piano and celeste: Vicki Ray
Alvin Lucier: Broken Line
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2010
flute: Robert Dick; vibraphone: Danny Tunick; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn
SET THREE
Newspeak: Brennschluß (P. Muchmore)
Sweet Light Crude
New Amsterdam Records/2010
lyrics: Brian Phillips; recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, NYC
Zeitgeist:
a. Mutagenesis (D. Wolff)
b. Stück (P. Blackburn)
Here and Now -- Celebrating Thirty Years of Zeitgeist
Innova Recordings/2011
Alvin Curran: Romulus and Remus Make a Ruckus
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
for sound installation and projection by Kristin Jones; sound by Domenico Sciajno, University of Rome, June, 2003
SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: Après presque rien
a. Le lever du jour au bord de la mer
b. Le désir de vivre
c. Ainsi continue la nuit dans ma tête multiple
d. Avec filles
e. Le remontée du village
f. Presque rien (aka. Exploitation des Concepts no. 5)
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
ensembles -- Art Zoyd and Musique Nouvelles, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at Auditorium Abel Dubois, Mons, Belgium, 4/21/06; electronics -- recorded at CCMIX, Paris, directed by Gérard Pape, assistant: Patricia Dallio; samplers, keyboards: Nathalie Négro, P. Dallio
SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: Jamais Froid
a. Neige
b. Flakes
c. Jamais Froid
d. Paysages
Récits de Neige
Actuellecd.com/2010
Ensemble SuperMusique; text: Gilles Derome; recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, winter, 2008
SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Neural Network Plus (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi; recorded in Lisbon, 6/05/94, for the dance "Enter" (1992), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for February 20, 2011
SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Sintra
I. With Intensity
II. Very Fast
III. Calmly
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2011
alto flute: Claire Chase; cello: David Eggar; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October, 2007
Elliott Carter: Enchanted Preludes
Eight Compositions (1948-1993)
Bridge Records/1994
flute: Harvey Sollberger; cello: Fred Sherry; recorded at Astoria Sound, NYC, 5/20/93
Carrie Rose: Legacy Variations #99 (S. S. Smith)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
flutes: Lisa Cella, Carrie Rose, Kathie Trahan
SINGLE PLAY
Bunita Marcus: Adam & Eve
Bang On A Can Vol. 3 -- "Live"
CRI/1994
Bang On A Can--flute: Susan Stenger, violin: Marilyn Gibson, cello: Joshua Gordon, percussion: Yiu Kwong Chung and Tom Goldstein, piano: Sheri Bauer; conductor: Bunita Marcus
SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry (Region 3)
Crippled Symmetry
Bridge Records/1999
The California EAR Unit--flute and bass flute: Dorothy Stone, vibraphone and glockenspiel: Arthur Jarvinen; piano and celeste: Vicki Ray
Alvin Lucier: Broken Line
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2010
flute: Robert Dick; vibraphone: Danny Tunick; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn
SET THREE
Newspeak: Brennschluß (P. Muchmore)
Sweet Light Crude
New Amsterdam Records/2010
lyrics: Brian Phillips; recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, NYC
Zeitgeist:
a. Mutagenesis (D. Wolff)
b. Stück (P. Blackburn)
Here and Now -- Celebrating Thirty Years of Zeitgeist
Innova Recordings/2011
Alvin Curran: Romulus and Remus Make a Ruckus
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
for sound installation and projection by Kristin Jones; sound by Domenico Sciajno, University of Rome, June, 2003
SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: Après presque rien
a. Le lever du jour au bord de la mer
b. Le désir de vivre
c. Ainsi continue la nuit dans ma tête multiple
d. Avec filles
e. Le remontée du village
f. Presque rien (aka. Exploitation des Concepts no. 5)
Visage 2/Après presque rien/Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
ensembles -- Art Zoyd and Musique Nouvelles, conductor: Jean-Paul Dessy; recorded at Auditorium Abel Dubois, Mons, Belgium, 4/21/06; electronics -- recorded at CCMIX, Paris, directed by Gérard Pape, assistant: Patricia Dallio; samplers, keyboards: Nathalie Négro, P. Dallio
SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: Jamais Froid
a. Neige
b. Flakes
c. Jamais Froid
d. Paysages
Récits de Neige
Actuellecd.com/2010
Ensemble SuperMusique; text: Gilles Derome; recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, winter, 2008
SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Neural Network Plus (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi; recorded in Lisbon, 6/05/94, for the dance "Enter" (1992), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
--FIN--
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Martian Gardens for 02/13/2011
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for February 13, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass/Robert Wilson: Knee 5
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch Records/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; women's chorus; voice: Jasper McGruder; text: Samuel M. Johnson, "Two Lovers"; recorded 1993
SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: The Ghosts of Alhambra (Spanish Songbook I)
I. Alba (Dawn)
II. Las Seis Cuerdas (The Six Strings)
III. Danza (Dance)
IV. Paisaje (Landscape)
V. ¡AY!
VI. Malagueña
VII. Memento
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
baritone: Patrick Mason; guitar: David Starobin; percussion: Daniel Druckman; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca;
recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, June, 2010
SET ONE
J.K. Randall: through Lapland
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba #
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Jean Geoffroy; recorded at Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, July 3, 2009
J.K. Randall:
a. Quartets in Paris
b. Quartersines
Computer Music #
Nonesuch/1974
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Paul Lansky: The Joy of F# Minor
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007
Steve Mackey: Wish It Were
Lost & Found
Bridge Records/2007
SET TWO
Ursula Mamok: Sonar Trajectory
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
realized at the Columba-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966
Daria Semegen: Electronic Composition No. 1
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
realized at the C-PEMC, 1971
Brad Garton: Dan's Toys
Go Go Go - Music from the Computer Music Center, Columbia University #
Columbia University Computer Music Center/2000
SET THREE
So Percussion ~ Trollstilt: Martin's Garden
Five (and-a-half) Gardens
Shhh Productions/2007
Bernadette Speach: Chosen Voices
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
prepared guitar: Jeffrey Schanzer; toy piano: B. Speach; recorded at LRP Studios, New York City, 2000-2001
Christian Wolff: For Morty
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (Chamber Works Vol. 2)
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop; recorded at the Hilversum Conservatorium, Hilversum, The Netherlands, 1994-1998
Morton Feldman: For Violin, Cello, and Vibraphone (from Durations)
Intermediate Music
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble, recorded at HR-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Ixion
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
pianos: John Cage, David Tudor; recorded in rehearsal for the dance "Summerspace" (1958)
SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Brief an den Vater
Études pour Kafka
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
vocalizations: Hans Tutschku; narration: Martin Engler; text: Franz Kafka; realized in 2006 at Dhomont's studio, Avignon
SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Almost New York
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2010
flutes: Robert Dick; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for February 13, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass/Robert Wilson: Knee 5
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch Records/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; women's chorus; voice: Jasper McGruder; text: Samuel M. Johnson, "Two Lovers"; recorded 1993
SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: The Ghosts of Alhambra (Spanish Songbook I)
I. Alba (Dawn)
II. Las Seis Cuerdas (The Six Strings)
III. Danza (Dance)
IV. Paisaje (Landscape)
V. ¡AY!
VI. Malagueña
VII. Memento
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
baritone: Patrick Mason; guitar: David Starobin; percussion: Daniel Druckman; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca;
recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, June, 2010
SET ONE
J.K. Randall: through Lapland
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba #
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Jean Geoffroy; recorded at Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, July 3, 2009
J.K. Randall:
a. Quartets in Paris
b. Quartersines
Computer Music #
Nonesuch/1974
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Paul Lansky: The Joy of F# Minor
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007
Steve Mackey: Wish It Were
Lost & Found
Bridge Records/2007
SET TWO
Ursula Mamok: Sonar Trajectory
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
realized at the Columba-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966
Daria Semegen: Electronic Composition No. 1
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
realized at the C-PEMC, 1971
Brad Garton: Dan's Toys
Go Go Go - Music from the Computer Music Center, Columbia University #
Columbia University Computer Music Center/2000
SET THREE
So Percussion ~ Trollstilt: Martin's Garden
Five (and-a-half) Gardens
Shhh Productions/2007
Bernadette Speach: Chosen Voices
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
prepared guitar: Jeffrey Schanzer; toy piano: B. Speach; recorded at LRP Studios, New York City, 2000-2001
Christian Wolff: For Morty
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (Chamber Works Vol. 2)
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop; recorded at the Hilversum Conservatorium, Hilversum, The Netherlands, 1994-1998
Morton Feldman: For Violin, Cello, and Vibraphone (from Durations)
Intermediate Music
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble, recorded at HR-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Ixion
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
pianos: John Cage, David Tudor; recorded in rehearsal for the dance "Summerspace" (1958)
SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Brief an den Vater
Études pour Kafka
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
vocalizations: Hans Tutschku; narration: Martin Engler; text: Franz Kafka; realized in 2006 at Dhomont's studio, Avignon
SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Almost New York
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2010
flutes: Robert Dick; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn
--FIN--
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Martian Gardens for 02/06/2010
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for February 6, 2010
HOMAGE TO MILTON BABBITT
May 10, 1916 -- January 29, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
David Starobin: Danci (M. Babbitt)
Newdance
Bridge Records/1998
guitar: D. Starobin; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, NY
SET ONE
Milton Babbitt: String Quartet No. 2
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2004
The Composer's Quartet -- violin: Matthew Raimondi, violin: Anahid Ajemian, viola: Jean Dupouy, cello: Michael Rudiakov
Milton Babbitt: All Set, for Jazz Ensemble
Spectrum -- New American Music, Volume V
Nonesuch Records/1974
The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, conductor: Arthur Weisberg
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
Mark II RCA Synthesizer: M. Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: Dylan Thomas; created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1961
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: John Hollander (based on Ovid's "Philomena"), created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964
SET TWO
Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer
New Electronic Music from Leaders of the Avant-Garde
Columbia/1968
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt, created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964
Milton Babbitt: Occasional Variations
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2004
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt, created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968-1971
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: An Elizabethan Sextette
I. When I Was Fair and Young
II. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
III. Your Face, Your Tongue, Your Wit
IV. Can Doleful Notes to Measured Accents Set
V. First Love
VI. Neopolitan
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
voices: Susan Jacquemot, Janet Steele, Johanna Arnold, Nancy Bergman, Barbara Ann Martin, Martha Rafferty-Page, conductor: Harvey Sollberger; texts: I. attributed to Elizabeth I; II. Barnabe Googe; III. attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh; IV. Samuel Daniel; V. Thomas Campion; VI. Michael East; recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York, 12/19/84
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Groupwise
ibid.
The Group for Contemporary Music, conductor: Daniel Shulman; recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York, 12/23/84
SET THREE
William Anderson: Sheer Pluck (M. Babbitt)
Diary of a Seducer
CRI/2000
guitar: W. Anderson
Dorothy Stone: None But the Lonely Flute (M. Babbitt)
None But the Lonely Flute
New World Records/2000
flute: D. Stone
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Swan Song No.1
The Music of Milton Babbitt
Bridge Records/2003
Cygnus Ensemble; conductor: Jeffrey Millarsky; recorded at Eonta Sound, Bronxville, 2003
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for February 6, 2010
HOMAGE TO MILTON BABBITT
May 10, 1916 -- January 29, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
David Starobin: Danci (M. Babbitt)
Newdance
Bridge Records/1998
guitar: D. Starobin; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, NY
SET ONE
Milton Babbitt: String Quartet No. 2
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2004
The Composer's Quartet -- violin: Matthew Raimondi, violin: Anahid Ajemian, viola: Jean Dupouy, cello: Michael Rudiakov
Milton Babbitt: All Set, for Jazz Ensemble
Spectrum -- New American Music, Volume V
Nonesuch Records/1974
The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, conductor: Arthur Weisberg
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
Mark II RCA Synthesizer: M. Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: Dylan Thomas; created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1961
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: John Hollander (based on Ovid's "Philomena"), created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964
SET TWO
Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer
New Electronic Music from Leaders of the Avant-Garde
Columbia/1968
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt, created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964
Milton Babbitt: Occasional Variations
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2004
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt, created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968-1971
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: An Elizabethan Sextette
I. When I Was Fair and Young
II. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
III. Your Face, Your Tongue, Your Wit
IV. Can Doleful Notes to Measured Accents Set
V. First Love
VI. Neopolitan
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
voices: Susan Jacquemot, Janet Steele, Johanna Arnold, Nancy Bergman, Barbara Ann Martin, Martha Rafferty-Page, conductor: Harvey Sollberger; texts: I. attributed to Elizabeth I; II. Barnabe Googe; III. attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh; IV. Samuel Daniel; V. Thomas Campion; VI. Michael East; recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York, 12/19/84
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Groupwise
ibid.
The Group for Contemporary Music, conductor: Daniel Shulman; recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York, 12/23/84
SET THREE
William Anderson: Sheer Pluck (M. Babbitt)
Diary of a Seducer
CRI/2000
guitar: W. Anderson
Dorothy Stone: None But the Lonely Flute (M. Babbitt)
None But the Lonely Flute
New World Records/2000
flute: D. Stone
SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Swan Song No.1
The Music of Milton Babbitt
Bridge Records/2003
Cygnus Ensemble; conductor: Jeffrey Millarsky; recorded at Eonta Sound, Bronxville, 2003
--FIN--
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Milton Babbitt -- May 10, 1916 -- January 29, 2011
The total serialist composer and electronic music pioneer Milton Babbitt died Saturday at the age of 94.
Milton Babbitt: Portrait of a Serial Composer
A film by Robert Hilferty and Laura Karpman on NPR Music. The filmmaker Robert Hilferty passed away before he could complete this documentary. Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman, one of Babbitt's students at the Julliard School, completed the film. It provides a wonderful introduction to the composer, his music, and his life -- and no mention of "Who Cares If You Listen"!
Sylvia Babbitt predeceased Milton in 2005. They are survived by their daughter Betty Ann Duggan and two grandchildren.
Here the late Dr. Babbitt discusses his work for which he is most famous, his time at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Video courtesy of Dr. Eric Chasalow of Brandeis University:
Milton Babbitt: Portrait of a Serial Composer
A film by Robert Hilferty and Laura Karpman on NPR Music. The filmmaker Robert Hilferty passed away before he could complete this documentary. Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman, one of Babbitt's students at the Julliard School, completed the film. It provides a wonderful introduction to the composer, his music, and his life -- and no mention of "Who Cares If You Listen"!
Sylvia Babbitt predeceased Milton in 2005. They are survived by their daughter Betty Ann Duggan and two grandchildren.
Here the late Dr. Babbitt discusses his work for which he is most famous, his time at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Video courtesy of Dr. Eric Chasalow of Brandeis University:
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Martian Gardens for 01/30/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for January 30, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
David Starobin: Solo e Duettini (M. Babbitt)
New Music With Guitar, Vol. 5
Bridge Records/1993
In memory of Milton Babbitt who died January 29th, 2011, at age 94
SINGLE PLAY
Ted Hearne:
a. Bridge to Gretna
b. Anderson Cooper and Mary Landrieu
c. Brownie, You're doing a Heck of a Job
Katrina Ballads
New Amsterdam Records/2010
b. soprano: Allison Semmes; c. baritone: Anthony Turner; c. tenor: T. Hearne; recorded with large ensemble at Avatar Studios, Manhattan March, 2008
Phil Kline: Three Rumsfeld Songs
a. As We Know
b. That Many Vases
c. Near-Perfect Clarity
Zippo Songs
Cantaloupe Music/2004
The Zippo Band--vocals: Theo Bleckmann; violin: Todd Reynolds; guitars: Phil Kline; percussion: David Cossin; texts: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from Pentagon briefings; recorded at Ft/Lb Studio, Brooklyn, 2003
SET TWO
Ben Johnston: String Quartet No. 5
String Quartets Nos. 1,5, & 10
New World Records/2011
The Kepler Quartet; recorded at the Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church, Milwaukee, 7/21/2010
Arlene Zallman: Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
cello: Hekun Wu; piano: Elise Yun; recorded at The Sonic Temple, Roslindale, Mass., July, 2001
SET THREE
Arvo Pärt: Affannoso (mvt. II Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles")
Symphony No. 4
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic; conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, January, 2009
Ingram Marshall: Rave, Parts I & II
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2002
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve
SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: In Memoriam: Nikola Tesla, Cosmic Engineer (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
voices, live electronics, acoustical-space sound activators: John Cage, Gordon Mumma, Jean Rigg, David Tudor; dance: Canfield (1969); recorded on tour, 1972, Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Henry Brant: Revenge Before Breakfast
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2007
piccolo: Paul Taub; clarinet: Gregg Miller; violin: Ella Marie Gray; cello: Walter Gray; percussion: Matthew Kocmieroski, Thomas Eckert; accordion: Laurie Andres, conductor: Henry Brant; recorded in Poncho Hall, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, 2/12/85
SINGLE PLAY
New Band: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994
New Band performed on original PARTCH INSTRUMENTS; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, Queens, 1991-1993
SET FIVE
Danielle Palardy Roger: Qui connaît (La Pinta)
a. Tout le monde en place
b. Nuit sombre
c. Réveil brutal
d. Ah l'aventure
e. Gloire, fortune, renommée et chance
f. Tous les biens de ce monde
Pinta, Niña, & Maria
Actuellecd/2010
performed by the ensemble GGRIL; recorded 8/12/2007
Tim Hodgkinson: Fragor
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
SINGLE PLAY
Takehisa Kosugi: Spacings
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: T. Kosugi; dance: Doubles (1984), recorded in New York City, 3/20/1988, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast
MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for January 30, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
David Starobin: Solo e Duettini (M. Babbitt)
New Music With Guitar, Vol. 5
Bridge Records/1993
In memory of Milton Babbitt who died January 29th, 2011, at age 94
SINGLE PLAY
Ted Hearne:
a. Bridge to Gretna
b. Anderson Cooper and Mary Landrieu
c. Brownie, You're doing a Heck of a Job
Katrina Ballads
New Amsterdam Records/2010
b. soprano: Allison Semmes; c. baritone: Anthony Turner; c. tenor: T. Hearne; recorded with large ensemble at Avatar Studios, Manhattan March, 2008
Phil Kline: Three Rumsfeld Songs
a. As We Know
b. That Many Vases
c. Near-Perfect Clarity
Zippo Songs
Cantaloupe Music/2004
The Zippo Band--vocals: Theo Bleckmann; violin: Todd Reynolds; guitars: Phil Kline; percussion: David Cossin; texts: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from Pentagon briefings; recorded at Ft/Lb Studio, Brooklyn, 2003
SET TWO
Ben Johnston: String Quartet No. 5
String Quartets Nos. 1,5, & 10
New World Records/2011
The Kepler Quartet; recorded at the Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church, Milwaukee, 7/21/2010
Arlene Zallman: Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
cello: Hekun Wu; piano: Elise Yun; recorded at The Sonic Temple, Roslindale, Mass., July, 2001
SET THREE
Arvo Pärt: Affannoso (mvt. II Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles")
Symphony No. 4
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic; conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, January, 2009
Ingram Marshall: Rave, Parts I & II
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2002
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve
SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: In Memoriam: Nikola Tesla, Cosmic Engineer (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
voices, live electronics, acoustical-space sound activators: John Cage, Gordon Mumma, Jean Rigg, David Tudor; dance: Canfield (1969); recorded on tour, 1972, Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Henry Brant: Revenge Before Breakfast
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2007
piccolo: Paul Taub; clarinet: Gregg Miller; violin: Ella Marie Gray; cello: Walter Gray; percussion: Matthew Kocmieroski, Thomas Eckert; accordion: Laurie Andres, conductor: Henry Brant; recorded in Poncho Hall, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, 2/12/85
SINGLE PLAY
New Band: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994
New Band performed on original PARTCH INSTRUMENTS; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, Queens, 1991-1993
SET FIVE
Danielle Palardy Roger: Qui connaît (La Pinta)
a. Tout le monde en place
b. Nuit sombre
c. Réveil brutal
d. Ah l'aventure
e. Gloire, fortune, renommée et chance
f. Tous les biens de ce monde
Pinta, Niña, & Maria
Actuellecd/2010
performed by the ensemble GGRIL; recorded 8/12/2007
Tim Hodgkinson: Fragor
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
SINGLE PLAY
Takehisa Kosugi: Spacings
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: T. Kosugi; dance: Doubles (1984), recorded in New York City, 3/20/1988, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
--FIN--
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