Saturday, July 16, 2011

Martian Gardens for 07/17/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for July 17, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Todd Reynolds: Icy Sleeves of Green v.2.0
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
violin, electric bass, octave violin: T. Reynolds

SET ONE
Judy Dunaway: Rubber Patchwork Quilt
Balloon Music
CRI/1998
balloons: J. Dunaway

Philip Corner: The Gold Stone
Pieces from the Past - By Philip Corner for the Violin of Malcolm Goldstein
Pogus Productions/2011
violin: M. Goldstein; recorded at Bregman Electro-Acoustic Studios, Dartmouth College, July 1991

SET TWO
Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
solo flute: C. Rose; recorded at the University of Maryland Baltimore County

Lei Liang: Lake
Milou
New World Records/2011
flutes: John Fonville, Jane Rigler; recorded at Warren Music Studio, University of California, San Diego, 1/23/11

Larry Polansky: V'leem'shol (And to rule ...) (Cantillation Study #2)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 11
The Virtuoso in the Computer Age II
Centaur Records/1992
five flutes: Ann La Berge; HMSL program: L. Polansky

SET THREE
Laurie Spiegel: Immersion
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
realized on McLeyvier computer-controlled analog synthesis music system, 1983

Artemiy Artemiev & Phillip B. Klingler: Broken Sleep in the Fracture Zone
A Moment of Infinity
Electroshock Records/2002
synthesizers: Artemiev, Klingler; recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, 2001

SET FOUR
Charlie Morrow: Marilyn Monroe Collage
Toot!
XI Records/2011
string trio (anon.), sound bites; performed at Sidney Janis Gallery, 1967

Michèle Bokanowski: Phone Variations (excerpt)
Michèle Bokanowski
Trace Label/2009
musique concrète realized 1986 and 1988 at the composer's studio, Paris

SET FIVE
Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux: Zones
Impulsion
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
realized at the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 1971

Carter Scholz: Jet
8 Pieces
Frog Peak Muisc/2000
realized at Frog Peak Music, Lebanon, NH

Scott Smallwood:
a. Electreat
b. Ropiquet

Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
sounds sourced from antique electrotherapy devices

SET SIX
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

John Luther Adams: Thunder
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2002-2003

The New Music Consort: Pulse (H. Cowell)
Pulse
New World Records/1990
percussion: Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman, Michael Pugliese, Mark Renodn, William Trigg; Terri Weber; conductor: Claire Heldrich; recorded at BMG studios, NYC

SINGLE PLAY
Luciano Berio: Sequenza II (for harp)
The Complete Sequenzas, Alternate Sequenzas, & Works for Solo Instruments
Mode Records/2006
harp: Susan Jolles; recorded at Shephard Hall, CUNY, 7/07/95

--FIN--

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Martian Gardens for 07/10/2011

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 July 10, 2011

SET ONE
Malcolm Goldstein: Eight Whiskus (J. Cage)
Sounding the New Violin
What Next?/1997
recorded at Bregman Electro-Acoustic Studios, Dartmouth College, July, 1991

Philip Corner: Gamelan Maya
Pieces from the Past: By Philip Corner for the Violin of Malcolm Goldstein
Pogus Productions/2011
recorded at the Experimental Music Foundation, New York City, 12/11/84

SET TWO
Quatuor Bozzini: from 1st Movement
a. La relais
b. Demi-vérité A
c. Demi-vérité B
d. La nouvelle -- Joane
e. Identité 1
f. ADN-Spirales
g. Identité 2
h. La nouvelle -- Jean 1
i. Demi-vérité C

Le mensonge et l’identité
Actuellecd/2011
violin, voice: Charles-Étienne, Clemens Merkel; viola, voice: Stephanie Bozzini; cello, voice: Isabelle Bozzini; recorded at Studo 270, Montreal, 12/15/10

Mari Kimura: Six Caprices for Subharmonics
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
violin: M. Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks and Systems Two, New York City

SET TWO
Anne La Berge: Away
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, electronics: A. La Berge; recorded at studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, 2009

Todd Reynolds: Outerborough
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
violin, electronics: T. Reynolds

SET THREE
José Mataloni: Magma
Magical Realism of Sound/2003

Tim Hodgkinson: Vers Kongsu II
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
clarinet: T. Hodgkinson; bass clarinet: Vinny Golia; percussion: Gustavo Aguilar; Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Iancu Dumitrescu; recorded in Ploiești, October, 2003

Yan Jun: Kitchen Performance 2
Post-Minimalism
Trace Label/2007

SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: Apparent Horizon
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010

Mario Verandi: Evil Fruit
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

SET FIVE
Arie Shapira: Birds' Shop
Electronics Plus/2000

Charlie Morrow: A Future Harvest
Toot!
XI Records/2011
recorded for Studio of Acoustic Art, WDR, Cologne

Martin Supper: Fragment
Music Around Benjamin Boretz--Open Spaces 2005
Open Space/2005
two-channel tape; voice: Hans Zischler

Daniel Blinkhorn: Toy Bagatelle
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2011

Barnwave: Prancing
Why Record? Life in the Age of Digital Performance
Electronic Music Foundation/2008

David Mooney: The Llama Strut
Rhythmic Sections
Arizona University Recordings/2002

Gilles Gobeil: La Nuit (from Ombres, espaces, silences...)
Trois Songes DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Famine
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
electronics: T. Machover; Electric Phoenix (soprano: Judith Rees, mezzo-soprano: Mary King, tenor: Daryl Brunswick, bass: Terry Edwards); text: Rose Moss; recorded at October Sound, London, January, 1987

--FIN--

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Martian Gardens for 07/03/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

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

Program for July 03, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Corner: Piece for String Instrument #5
Pieces from the Past--By Philip Corner for the Violin of Malcolm Goldstein
Pogus Productions/2011
violin: M. Goldstein; recorded at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, 12/11/84

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Apartment House 1776
Orchestral Works I
Mode Records/1994
New England Conservatory Philharmonia
Voices--
Protestant: Walter Buckingham
Native American: Darrell Dunn
African American: Semenya McCord
Sephardi: Chiam Parchi
New England Conservatory Orchestra, conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, March, 1991


SET ONE
Philip Glass: Prematurely Air-Conditioned Supermarket (from Trial 2/Prison)
Einstein on the Beach
Electra/Nonesuch/1993
The Philip Glass Ensemble and Chorus, conductor: Michael Riesman; spoken voice: Lucinda Childs; Sheryl Sutton; texts: L. Childs; Christopher Knowles

Tom Hamilton: Jamaica Center
Off-Hour Wait State -- Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
voice: Thomas Buckner; percussion: Jonathan Haas; alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; electronic environment: T. Hamilton

SET TWO
Laurie Anderson: Another Day in America
Homeland
Nonesuch-Elektra/2010
drums, percussion: Ben Witman, bass guitar: Skúli Sverrisson, viola: Eyvind Kang, background vocals: Antony Hegarty; vocals, percussion, violin: L. Anderson; recorded in New York City

Laurie Anderson: Statue of Liberty
Live in New York, September 19-20, 2001
Electra/Nonesuch/2002
vocals, violin, keyboards: L. Anderson; bass: Skúli Sverrisson; percussion: Jim Black; electronics: Peter Scherer; recorded at Town Hall, NYC, 2001

Paul Lansky: Ride
Ride
Bridge Records/2000

Paul Lansky: Wordless
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Three Summers Heat--
a. Just Now the Sea-Green Banners Fly
b. Just Now the Early Peach is Red
c. It's Midsummer and Too Hot to Walk
d. Summer Earth is Windless. Heat Still Presses
e. Light Clothes! Few Clothes!
f. I Remember Desire like White Light
g. I Raise my Head to Look at T'ung Trees
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29#
Music from VCCM: Virginia Center for Computer Music--
University of Virginia

Centaur Records/1999
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Tzu Yeh; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, August, 1998

SET THREE
William Price: Let Freedom Ring
Electroacoustic Works (2004)
created at the Electro-Acoustic Music Studios, Louisiana State University

Trever Wishart: Fireworks (from Tongues of Fire)
MusicWorks 98
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
premiered at Synthese Festival, Bourges, France, 1994

Trevor Wishart: American Triptych
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
premiered at Groupe de Recherches Musicales' Cycle Acousmatique series, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Radio France, Paris,01/08/00

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: The Fourth of July
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961--1966 #
New World Records/2003
premiered at the ONCE Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 02/25/61

SET FOUR
Mary Lee Roberts: White Writing
a. Bird
b. Night Foxes

6 Compositions
Open Space/1997
mastered at New York University, 1997

Mara Helmuth: Meeting the Free Dreamer
Open Space 16 (Barkin/Carlé/Exley/Helmuth)
Open Space/2004
computerized piano sequences: M. Helmuth

--FIN--

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Martian Gardens for 06/26/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for June 26, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Meredith Monk: Summer Variation
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: Katie Geissinger, Bruce Rameker; violin: Todd Reynolds; violin: Courtney Orlando; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; bass clarinet: Bodhan Hilash; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, November, 2009

SET ONE
Todd Reynolds: and the sky was still there (D. T. Little)
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
violin: T. Reynolds; Ableton live programming, production: David T. Little; conversation: Amber Ferenz, D.T. Little; sample: Utah Phillips

Robert Ashley: Ingrid
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd/2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert, R. Ashley; text: J. Humbert; electronics: Tom Hamilton, R. Ashley; recorded in Rome, 1985

Katie McMurran: You and I
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2011

Pamela Z: Pop Titles 'You'
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2005

Trevor Wishart: Globalalia (excerpt)
Musicworks 98
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
premiered in Berlin, 2004

SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: The Emperor's Birthday
Ikon and Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
realized at Marshall's studio, Berkeley, 1974-1975

Kurt Schwitters: dritter teil -- scherzo-trio-scherzo
Ursonate
Wergo/1993
poetry written by K. Schwitters 1922-1932; recorded c. 1932

Jackson Mac Low: 38th and 39th Merzgedichte (in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters)
Open Secrets
XI Records/1993
recorded at Kursalon Hübner, Vienna, April 4, 1992

Charles Dodge: He Destroyed Her Image
OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music: 1948-1980
Ellipsis Arts/2000
realized at Bell Labs, 1972

Marcelo Radulovich: Evolution
Mercurio
Titicacaman/2008

SET THREE
Hervé Zénouda: Reflets Fauves
Demain, des l'aube
Trace Label/2002
electric guitar: Thomas Petit; drums, programming: H. Zénouda

Gen Ken Montgomery: Friedhof
Birds+Machines
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at Conrad Schnitzler's studio, Berlin, 1986

Charlie Morrow: Central Park 1850
Toot!
XI Records/2011
sound source: Cornell Ornithological Lab; engineered by C. Morrow in Barton, VT

Charlie Morrow: Feather
Toot!
XI Records/2011
MIDI, samples: C. Morrow; recorded in Barton, VT

Eno/Moebius/Rodelius: Old Land
After the Heat
Caroline Records/1996 (orig. Sky Records/1977)

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: selections from Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer Evening
a. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
b. Wanderer-Fantasy
c. The Advent
d. Myth

Black Angels/Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
pianos: Luz Monriquez, Walter Morales; percussion: Nena Lorenz, Brian Spurgeon, Michael Passaris, Mark Shope; whistles, recorder: Andrés Cladera; conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded at Alumni Concert Hall and Recording Studio, Carnegie Mellon School of Music, autumn 2002

SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: Glassy Metals
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electroacoustic music: M. Payne; Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College

Christine Groult: Pierres cantabiles
La Condition Captive
Trace Label/2007
electroacoustic music: C. Groult; Le Chazel, Paris

SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
samples: Ellen Band

Hubert Howe: Computer Variations (1967-68)
J K R Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his Friends
The Open Space/2007
realized at Queen's College and Bell Labs

SET SIX
J.C. Combs: The Giant Eye of the 5th Dimension
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded for ImprovFriday

Natasha Barrett:
Avoid Being Eaten by Mimicking Other Less Palatable Species (ABEMOLPAS)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
recorded a the composer's studio, Oslo, 2003-2004

--FIN--

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Martian Gardens for 06/19/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

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

Program for June 19, 2011

SET ONE
Dorota Czerner: Caves
Open Space 24 (Czerner/Barkin)
The Open Space/2009
voice, poem: D. Czerner; sound: Benjamin Boretz; recorded by B. Boretz, 2009

John Cage: Solo for Voice 52 (Aria No. 2) (Relevant)
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002
voice: Paul Hillier; text: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"; electronics: Shabda Owens; recorded in Germany, 1996

SET TWO
John Oswald: Track Two (excerpt)
Timefields & Maritides
MusicWorks Magazine/2006
field recordings: Peter Huse (from "P.E.I. Foghorn And Islanders," recorded on Prince Edward Island, 1974)
Charlie Morrow: TOOT N BLINK Chicago
Toot!
XI Records/2011
boat horns recorded on Lake Michigan in 1982; disc jockeys: Ed Herrmann and Chris Merrick

Jorge Antunes: Sinfonia Das Diretas (Direct Elections Symphony) (excerpt)
Sinfonia Das Diratas
Sistrum Edições Musicais Ltda/1995
for choir, ensemble, electronic effects and car horns; composed for Diretas Já, 1984

SET THREE
Chantal Dumas: The Piano Tuning
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011
electroacoustic music, voice: C. Dumas; text: Fortner Anderson

Anne La Berge: 800 Speakers
Speak
New World Records/2011
flute, computer, voice: A. La Berge; text from "Resonant Dendrites" lecture, 2006; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, 2009
Marcelle Deschênes: Big Bang III
petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music: M.Deschênes; realized at Bruit Blanc studio, Montreal, 1992
SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: FIZZ
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electroacoustic music: M. Payne; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College

Michèle Bokanowski: Trois Chambres D'Inquiétude (part 2)
Michèle Bokanowski
Trace Label/2009
Musique concrète realized at Bokanowski's studio, Paris, 1975-1976, final mix at Studios du GMEB, Bourges, France

SET FIVE
Frank Denyer: Out of the Shattered Shadows I
Faint Traces -- Chamber Works 1973-2001
Mode Records/2005
The Barton Workshop -- flutes: Jos Zwaanenburg; spinet & harmonium: Catherine Laws; banjo: Alan Thomas; percussion: Damien Harron; recorded at Dartington Hall, UK, 7/07/2000

James Tenney: Percussion Response (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, 2007

SET SIX
Ray Green: Three Inventories of Casey Jones (One, Two, and Three)
Restless, Endless, Tactless -- Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo and the Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Waco, Texas

Ziya Tabassian: Varashan
Tombak
Actuellecd.com/2007
percussion: Z. Tabassian; recorded at DeTour Sound Studio, Montreal, 2005

Hervé Zénouda: Homothétie
Vies Secondes
Trace Label/1999
percussion samples: H. Zénouda; recorded at Le Culte du Cargo studio, Paris


Guillermo E. Brown: Electroprayer 5.0
Mendi+Keith Obadike present Crosstalk
Bridge Records/2008
voice and electronics: G. E. Brown; recorded at Brown Sound Studio, Brooklyn

SET SEVEN
J.K. Randall: Intimacy (A Polemic)(excerpts)
Open Space 10 (Randall/Boretz)
The Open Space/1999
text, voice: J.K. Randall

J.K. Randall: Mudgett -- Monologues by a mass murderer
a. Electronic Prelude
b. Toronto

Computer Music (Randall/Vercoe/Dodge)
Nonesuch Records/1974
computer music, text compilation: J.K. Randall; soprano: Melinda Kessler; created at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1965 (subject: Herman Webster Mudgett alias H.H. Holmes)

--FIN--

Friday, June 10, 2011

Martian Gardens for 6/12/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

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

Program for June 12, 2011

SET ONE
Burton Beerman: Dayscapes
I. Sighs and Deep Breaths
II. Farmer's Dance
III. Left Over Moonlight

CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music

Centaur Records/2010
clarinet, live electroacustics: B. Beerman

Prism Quartet: Inkling (R. Etezady)
Dedication
Innova Recordings/2011
recorded at Solid Sound, Ann Arbor, September 2009

Cornelius Dufalo: from Suite for Electric Violin
a. Carillon
b. Allamande
c. Interlude

Dream Streets
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at BiCoastal Recordings, New York City

SET TWO
Steven Mackey: A Matter of Life and Death (parts III & IV)
Open Space 4 (Mackey/Randall)
Open Space/1993
amplified piano: S. Mackey;recorded at Princeton University, May 1987

Steven Mackey: Fusion Tune
Banana/Dump Truck
Albany Records/2005
cello: Fred Sherry, guitar: S. Mackey; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, October 2001

Marco Capelli Acoustic Trio: Le Policier Désarmé
Les Nuages en France
Mode Records/Avant series/2011
double bass: Ken Filiano; percussion: Satoshi Takeishi; guitar: M. Capelli;
recorded at Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, 3/27/10


Wadada Leo Smith's Organic: The Dhikr of Radiant Hearts, Part II
Heart's Reflections
Cuneiform Records/2011
recorded at Firehouse 12 Studios, New Haven, CT

SET THREE
Dean Rosenthal: Underpinnings
Post-Minimalism -- 4 Countries/19 Composers
Trace Label/2007
Calarts New Millennium Players

Maggi Payne: HUM
The Extended Flute
New World Records/1999
flutes, electronics: M. Payne

Ben Thigpen: h
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
composed at Les Ateliers UPIC, Paris

SET FOUR
Hervé Zénouda: Tout ou Rien
Demain, dès l'aube...
Trace Label/2002
alto saxophone: Cathy Heyden; electric guitar: Thomas Petit; percussion, computer music: H. Zénouda; recorded at Campus Studio, University Paris 13

Vertical Squirrels: Danse des araignées mécaniques
Hold True (Accroche-toi)
Actullecd/2010
recorded in Guelph, 2009

Carey Nutman: Log-a-Rhythm
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music and Video/2009
computer music: C. Nutman

Hugh Le Caine: A Noisome Postilence
Compositions/Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999
tape music: H. Le Caine; recorded 1958, courtesy of the Music Division of the National Library of Canada, Ottawa

Alvin Lucier: Sferics
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
recording supervised by Prof. Ron Kuivila, produced at the Wesleyan University Experimental Music Studio, December 2007

SET FIVE
Daniel Leduc: Trasverser les Grandes Eaux
Le Voyage d'Hiver
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
electroacoustic music> D. Leduc; recorded at SODEC, Montreal

Christine Groult: La Condition Captive
La Condition Captive
Trace Label/2007
commissioned by Ministère de la culture & Caen soirs d’été Festival, composed in 2003

Elaine Barkin: Out Back (from Five Collages)
Open Space 3 (Barkin/Boretz)
Open Space/1991
for dancer-choreographer Peggy Cicerska; tape sources and participants: Cynthia Woll, Warren Burt, Paul Humphreys, E. Barkin; created in 1986

SINGLE PLAY
Anne La Berge: Brokenheart
Speak
New World Records/2011
piano insides: Cor Fuhler; pre-recorded instruments built by Wessel Westerweld; computer music, voice, text: A. La Berge; recorded at VOLSAP, Amsterdam, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
John Luther Adams: Four Thousand Holes (1st 1/2)
Four Thousand Holes
Cold Blue Music/2011
piano: Stephen Drury; vibraphone, orchestra bells: Scott Deal; electronics: J.L. Adams; recorded in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston

--FIN--

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Martian Gardens for 06/05/2011

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 June 5, 2011

SET ONE
Pierre Boulez: Tombeau À La Mémoire Du Prince Max Egon Zu Fürstenberg
Boulez -- Orchestral Works & Chamber Music
Col Legno/2000
soprano: Eva-Maria Rogner; Ensemble Domaine Musical Paris, conductor: P. Boulez; recorded at Donaueschinger Musiktage, October, 1959

Ostravská banda: Dispersion (P. Załubska)
On Tour
Mutable Music/2011
Ostravská banda, conductor: Petr Kotík; recorded at La Fabrika, Prague, Contempuls Festival, 11/05/10

Victoria Jordanova: In a Landscape (J. Cage)
In a Landscape
ArpaViva Foundation, Inc./2007

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Credo in US (Second Version)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
The Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Robert J Werner Concert Hall, College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, May 2006, radio transmissions, 78-rpm recordings: Beethoven, Symphony No. 3; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4; Wagner, Lohengrin - Prelude to Act III; von Suppe, Light Cavalry Overture

SET TWO
Paul Lansky:
a. Say That Again
b. As Things Were

Alphabet Book
Bridge Records/2002
readers: P. Lansky; Hannah McKay

J.K. Randall: notebook A
1. rock&roll
2. symphonies
3. choir
4. hardscrabble

ars antiqua/a garland of midi
Open Space/2008

J.K. Randall: contrapunktus XI.2 (in memoriam David Lewin)
ibid.

SET THREE
John Rahn: The New Mother - 2 Excerpts
a. overture
b. Not Bad Enough

J K R pass 3 -- music for jim randall's 75th birthday by his friends
Open Space/2007
for five female voices, ten instruments, and electronic sound; libretto: Suzanne Rahn (adapted from Lucy Clifford)

John Rahn: Kali
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 12
Composers in the Computer Age -- 1
Centaur Records/1992
composed and recorded in at the University of Washington, Seattle, February 1986

SET FOUR
Anne La Berge: ur_DU
Speak
New World Records/2011
vocals: Stephie Büttrich; texts: A. Le Berge, Marie Curie; computer music: A. La Berge; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, summer 2009

Diane Labrosse: Black & white TV sets
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd/2007
violin: Marie-Soleil Bélanger; flute, fake trumpet: Jean Derome; electric guitar: Bernard Falaise; clarinet: Lori Freedman; accordion: D. Labrosse; viola: Jean René; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; with eight television sets; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal

Hugh Le Caine: Ninety-Nine Generators
Compositions/Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999
touch-sensitive organ: H. Le Caine (1956)

SET FIVE
Richard Pinhas:
a. Toward Belfast
b. Polywaves Intermed

Rhizosphere/Live, Paris 1982
Cuneiform Records/1994 (orig. 1977/1982)
drums, percussion: Clement Bailly; Minimoogs: Patrick Gauthier; bass: Bernard Paganotti; synthesizers, electronics, guitars: R. Pinhas; recorded at Bobino, Paris, 1982

Amon Tobin: Journeyman
ISAM
Ninja Tune/2011

Daniel Blinkhorn: relatively loud tones (from terra subfronica)
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011

Ivan Zavada: Neutron
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008

Tilmann Dehnard: Rohrschach
ibid.

SET SIX
Evidence: Bridge
Iris
Deep Listening/2007

Darren Copeland: Let Me Out (excerpt)
Trans_Canada -- ZKM/Karlsruhe DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2009

Matthew Burtner: Prismic Generation
Signal Ruins DVD
EcoSono/2009

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Tauriphanie
Aïs/Gendy3/Taurhiphanie/Thalleïn
Neuma Records/1994
for 2 channels magnetic tape, 4 loudspeakers, realized on the UPIC system at CEMAMu (CCMIX), Paris, 1987-1988

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