Saturday, February 18, 2012

Martian Gardens for 02/19/2012

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for February 19, 2012

SET ONE
Harry Partch: Wimbledon, London, March 1935
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2011
narrator: John Schneider; recorded at Second Story Studios, Venice, California, 2010

Harry Partch: selections from King Oedipus
a. Creon scene
b. Jocasta scene

Enclosure Five
Innova Recordings/1998
recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King

SET TWO
Giacinto Scelsi: from Three Latin Prayers
a. Ave Maria
b. Alleluja

Natura Renovatur
ECM Records/2006
cello: Frances-Marie Uitti; recorded at Himmelfahrtskirche, München, June 2005

Giacinto Scelsi: Three Latin Prayers
a. Ave Maria
b. Pater Noster
c. Alleluja

Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2002
clarinet: Carol Robinson; recorded in Chatillon, France

Giacinto Scelsi: Hô I-IV
Incantations
New Albion Records/2005
voice: Marianne Schuppe; recorded at Kirche Tüllingen, December 2004

SET THREE
Noah Creshevsky: Lisa Barnard Redux
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2012
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley

Al Margolis: Issue
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; electronics, processing: Al Margolis

SET FOUR
Leo Kupper: Aviformes
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
soprano: Barbara Zanichelli; recorded at Studios Recherches, Brussels

Dr. Ox: Axial Budding
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM (Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and Art), Oslo

SET FIVE
John Bischoff: Local Color
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
recorded in Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 2010-2011

John Bischoff: Quarter Turn (excerpt)
Earth Music - Ten Years of Meridian Music: Composers in Performance
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at The Music Room, Meridian Art Gallery, San Francisco


The Hub: Hub x 6
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2006
The Hub computer networking group: John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Time Perkis, Mark Trayle, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster; recorded Albany, California, 1986

SET SIX
James Correa: Colors and Sounds Reply to One Another
Portfolio
James Correa/2011
piano: Catarina Leite Domenici; electronics: J. Correa; recorded in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2006

Morton Subotnick: Butterfly No. 2
Electronic Works Vol. 3
Mode Records/2011
4-channel tape, original mix 1973, new mix 2010

Elsa Justel: Du libe tu?
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized at the composer's studio in Paris; premiered in 1996 during the Tombeau de Pierre Schaeffer concert at the Synthèse Festival in Bourges

SINGLE PLAY
Kim Cascone: ResidueBondage (DJ4'33" anagram mix)
Dust Theories
Cycling '74/2001
Max/MSP patch, Digital Performer 3.0: DJ4'33"

James Tenney: Analog #1 (Noise Study)
Selected Works 1961-1969
New World Records/2003

-- FIN --

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Martian Gardens for 02/12/2012

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for February 12, 2012

SET ONE
Sylvia Smith: A Flower (John Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: S. Smith

Morton Feldman: Only
Only -- Works for Voice and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
voice: Joan La Barbara; text: Rainer Maria Rilke

Morton Feldman: Voice, Violin and Piano
Only -- Works for Voice and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
voice: Joan La Barbara; piano: Ralph Grierson; violin: Roy Malan

Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (excerpt)
Piano and String Quartet
Bridge Records/2011
piano: Vicki Ray; Eclipse Quartet; recorded at Firehouse Recording Studio, Pasadena, 2/08/11

Morton Feldman: Four Songs to e.e. cummings
a. !blac
b. air
c. (sitting in a tree-)
d. moan

Voices and Instruments
Mode Records/2002
The Barton Workshop -- soprano: Claron McFadden; piano: Frank Denyer; cello: John Addison; texts: e.e. cummings; recorded in the Netherlands 1998-2000

Earle Brown: Music for Violin, Cello and Piano
Selected Works 1952-1965
New World Records/2006
violin: Matthew Raimondi; cello: David Soyer; piano: David Tudor

SET TWO
Bang on a Can All-Stars: from Four Player Piano Studies -- Study 2a
(Conlon Nancarrow; arranged for BoaCA-S by Evan Ziporyn)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2011
recorded at the James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio at New York University, 2010; guitar portion recorded at Omni Parker House, Boston

Freight Elevator Quartet: Mediate
State of the Union 2001 [various artists]
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

Drew Krause: Drain
Ding
Capstone Records/2007
McCormick Percussion Ensemble with computer-generated sounds, conductor: Robert McCormick; recorded at the University of South Florida, Tampa, 3/07/02

SET THREE
Luigi Nono: …sofferte onde serene… […suffering quiet waves…]
Como una ola de fuerza y luz
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
piano with prerecorded piano sounds: Maurizio Pollini; recorded at Rai S.p.A. (Italian state radio), Rome, 1977

…sofferte onde serene… is among the Nono pieces scheduled for the Luigi Nono Concert Series in New York City, February 26-28, 2012

JB Floyd: Waves -- The Ebb and Flow
Another Time and Place
Mutable Music/2011
Yamaha Disklavier: JB Floyd

SINGLE PLAY
Eduarda Reck Miranda: Requiem Per Una Veu Perduda
[Requiem for a Lost Voice in Catalan]
a. Kyrie
b. Gloria
c. Sanctus Benedictus
d. Agnus Dei

Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
for computer and voice; mezzo-soprano: Simone Sahyouni; recorded at The University of Glasgow Electronic Music Studio, 1997

SET FOUR
Natasha Barrett: Sub Terra Cycle -- Sub Terra
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
electroacoustic work for installation recorded at the composer's studio, Oslo, premiered during the Nurrmusic Festival, Stavanger, Norway, 9/04/08

Kim Cascone:
a. The Bourbaki Conjecture
b. The Gamma Reader

Works 2000-2003 CD-R
Kim Cascone/2003
recorded with Csound, 1997

SET FIVE
Salvatore Martirano: Electronic Dance No. 1
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22 [various artists]
The Composer in the Computer Age V:
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective 1962-92

Centaur Records/1995
recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1962

Raul Lafuret Pereyra: Song for Cave
Anillo en Abril
Goethe Institute of Córdoba/2003
electroacoustic music recorded in Córdoba, Argentina, 2001

Jonty Harrison: Hot Air (excerpt)
Articles Indefinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
recorded at Salle Olivier Messiaen — Maison de Radio France, 5/22/95
This excerpt is from the compilation "A Storm of Drones," (Asphodel/1996), now out of print.


Ellen Band/David Lee Myers: Ualen Lagoon (part 3)
Two Ships
Pogus Productions/2005

Artemiy Artemiev & Karda Estra: Equilibrium
Equilibrium
Electroshock Records/2002
recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, 2001

SET SIX
Kronos Quartet: Adagio (Samuel Barber)
Released/Unreleased 1985-1995
Nonesuch Records/1995
recorded at Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen Massachusetts, 1987

Somei Satoh: Toward the Night
Toward the Night
New Albion Records/1993
Endless String Ensemble, conductor: Toshiyuki Uzuka; recorded in Yamato City, Japan, 3/31/92

-- FIN --

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Martian Gardens for 02/05/2012

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for February 5, 2012

Happy 75th birthday Philip Glass! (January 31, 2012)

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach
a. Knee 1
b. Knee 3
c. Knee 5

Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch/1993
Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman; a. keyboard: M. Riesman; spoken texts: Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton; b. chorus; c. violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: M. Riesman; women's chorus; spoken text: Jasper McGruder, "Two Lovers"; direction: Robert Wilson; texts: Christopher Knowlton, Lucinda Childs, Samuel M. Johnson; recorded 1993

SET ONE
Philip Glass: Song #7 from Howl Part II
Hydrogen Jukebox
Nonesuch/1993
Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Martin Goldray; narrator: Allen Ginsberg; baritone: Nathaniel Watson; tenor saxophone: Richard Peck; text: A. Ginsberg; recorded at the Looking Glass Studios, New York City

John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest de Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; percussion: Tatiana Koleva; bass clarinet: Fie Schouten; clarinet: Dominique Zwartelé; arr. Anthony Fiumara; recorded at MCO Studios in Hilversum, The Netherlands, April 2009

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Cruising Speed (P. Lansky)
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; recorded in Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010

SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (excerpt)
Piano and String Quartet
Bridge Records/2011
piano: Vicki Ray; The Eclipse Quartet; recorded at Firhouse Recording Studio, Pasadena, California, 2/08/11

Bang on a Can All-Stars: For Madeline (M. Gordon)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2011
recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Seven
The Number Pieces 6
Mode Records/2012
Essential Music -- flute: Janet Axelrod; clarinet: Mark Lieb; violin: Greg Klitzis; viola: Tina Pelikan; cello: Ted Mook; piano: Judith Gordon; percussion: V.J. Gunhuk; directors: John Kennedy and Charles Wood; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 1993-1994

SET THREE
Jin Hi Kim: Dancing in the Deep Blue Sea
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
komungo: JHK; doxophone: Hans Reichel; accordion: Rudiger Carl; recorded in Germany, 1999

Sarah Peebles: Insect Groove
Insect Groove
Cycling '74/2002
electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; altered electric guitar, Boomerang, Whammy 2, processors; Max software, Sample Cell 1 & 2 editing; Unity DS-1 sampler, shō: S. Peebles

Roxanne Turcotte: Aurore boréale (from Attractions)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at Productions RTM 2003-2004; presented for François Doyon's "Attractions" installation at the Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005

SET FOUR
Adolfo Nuñez: Ja Epitafio a John Cage
Electroacoustic Music
Adolfo Nuñez/2004
premiered at Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, February 2003

John Melby: Two Stevens Songs
I. A Postcard from the Volcano
II. Domination of Black

International Electroacoustic Music [various artists]
CRI/1976
soprano: Phyllis Bryn-Julson; texts: Wallace Stevens; computer music realized at the Digital Computing Laboratory, University of Illinois and converted at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton

John Melby: Chor der Waisen
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 3 [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios and Computer Music Project at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Centaur Records/1989
composed in 1985 on IBM 4341 computer with MUSIC 360 language for digital sound synthesis

SET FIVE
Stuart Saunders Smith: Wind in the Channel
Wind in the Channel
O.O. Discs/1997
tenor recorder, voice, percussion: Julia Whybron

Eleanor Hovda: Boundaries (for four flutes and four double basses)
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2011
Janis Weller, Irene Pruzan, Holly Clemans, Susan Morrissey: flutes; Nancy Bjork, Michael Smith, Noel Chelberg, Greg Hippen: double basses; performed at Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, March 1989

James Correa: The Italo Calvino Cities I -- The Cities and the Memory
Portfolio
James Correa/2012
live electronics: J. Correa

SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Postlude -- The Bay
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1991
synthesizers: I. Marshall

-- FIN --

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Martian Gardens for 01/29/2012

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 29, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Virgil Thomson: Three Parisian Portraits
a. Poltergeist -- A Portrait of Hans Arp
b. Aria -- A Portrait of Germaine Hugnet
c. Swiss Waltz -- A Portrait of Sophia Tauber-Arp

Early and as Remembered
New Albion Records/1991
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Trackmaster Studios, Buffalo, January 1989

SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Sparkler
...but not simpler...
Bridge Records/2011
Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Paul Mann; recorded at Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark, May 2009

SET ONE
John Cage: Five
The Number Pieces 6
Mode Records/2012
Essential Music -- blown bottles: Judith Gordon, Maya Gunji, John Kennedy, Eric Kivnick, Charles Wood; recorded at SUNY Purchase, May 1993

John Cage: Four6 (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set [various artists]
New World Records/2010
laptop: Paul DeMarinis; percussion, contact microphone, tape, live electronics, voice: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded 4/04/98 for the dance "Rondo," The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Morton Subotnick: 4 Butterflies -- Butterfly No. 1
Electronic Works Vol. 3
Mode Records/2011
for 4-track tape with two films (original mix 1973, new mix 2011)
SET THREE
James Correa: Spells
Portfolio
James Correa/2012
recorders: Luciane Cuervo; electronics: James Correa; recorded at Porto Alegre, Brazil

Eleanor Hovda: Borealis Music
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
Relâche Ensemble; recorded at Acoustical Concepts, Inc., Eddystone, Pennsylvania, 1991

SET FOUR
Philip Blackburn: Duluth Harbor Serenade
Ghostly Psalms
Innova Recordings/2012
sounds and instruments recorded at the DS Pride celebration, Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, Minnesota, Labor Day Weekend 2011

The Legendary Pink Dots: Oasis Malade
9 Lives to Wonder
Soleilmoon Recordings/1995

Sarah Peebles: White Powder/The Spider
Insect Groove
Cycling '74 Music Label/2002
voice: David Toop; sounds: Sarah Peebles; composed by Toop/Peebles

David Toop: Blind Eel Priestess
The Black Chamber
Sub Rosa/2003

SET FIVE
Paul Rudy: Degrees of Separation (Grandchild of Tree)
Toys in the Attic
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33 -- Electroacoustic Music
from the UMKC iMPACT Center [various artists]

Centaur Records/2002
amplified cactus: Nathan Davis; digital effects, tape, engineering: Paul Rudy

Paul Rudy: Tikkun Olam
Possible Worlds [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2011
electronics: Paul Rudy

Philip Mantione: HFone
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
samples, MAX/Msp "Headfuck" software: P. Mantione

SET SIX
Jonty Harrison: Unsound Objects
Articles Indefinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
composed at the composer's studio and the Electroacoustic Music Studios of The University of Birmingham; premiered in Banff, Alberta, 9/07/95

Victoria Fenner: Folded and Broken
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Arts Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
sounds recorded at Hogs Back Falls, Rideau River, Ottawa

Dan Stearns: Walking Woods
Golden Town
Spectropol Records/2011

SET SEVEN
Jerry Hunt: Transphalba
Lattice
CRI/1979

Jin Hi Kim and Joseph Celli: Types of Asia
No World Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1990
changgo: JHK drums; English horn (without reeds): Joseph Celli

-- FIN --

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Martian Gardens for 01/22/2012

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Program for January 22, 2012

With special guest: Craig Shepard
Also featuring: Dean Rosenthal, Jack Callahan, and Jeremy Starpoli

SINGLE PLAY
Trios with Christian Wolff: Track One
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, texts: Chris Mann, fretted and fretless electric guitars: Larry Polansky; recording, editing, processing: Tom Erbe; computer, electronics, recording: Douglas Repetto; piano, bass, percussion, melodics: C. Wolff; recorded in Hanover, NH, 1998

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Shepard: Grottes de L'Orbe, le 22 Juillet, 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser Records/2011
clarinet: Katie Porter

LIVE IN STUDIO
Craig Shepard: St. Cergue
pocket trumpet: Craig Shepard

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Shepard: Vallorbe, le 23 Juillet, 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser Records/2011
flute: Antoine Beuger; clarinet: Jürg Frey; cello: Marcus Kaiser; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit

LIVE IN STUDIO
Jack Callahan: Table Canons from Substantia Absolute Infinita
trombones: Craig Shepard, Jeremy Starpoli

SINGLE PLAY
Jürg Frey: from Chorals and vague canons
a. Choral 1
b. Choral 2
c. Canon 2
d. Canon 7

performed by the Peckinpah Trio --
electric guitar: Beat Keller, Christian Kobi: Saxophone; Craig Shepard: Trombone;
recorded at Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, 4/15/11


LIVE IN STUDIO
Larry Polansky: Christian Music
trombones: Craig Shepard, Jeremy Starpoli; melodica: Jack Callahan; electric guitar: Dean Rosenthal

SINGLE PLAY
Dean Rosenthal: I Think So Too
MIDI-programmed chapel organ; recorded in concert at Wesleyan University, 9/23/11

SINGLE PLAY
Jack Callahan: Toward (excerpt)
clarinet: Jürg Frey; cello: Stefan Thut; percussion: Jack Callahan; recorded at Boiler, Aarau, Switzerland, 6/07/11 6/07/2011

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Polansky
a. Study: Anna, the long and the short of it (from Three Anna Studies)
b. 51 Melodies

Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
a. voice: Anna Diamond Polansky; computer: L. Polansky; realized at the Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College; b. rock band -- electric guitars: L. Polansky, Nick Didkovsky; electric bass: Greg Anderson; drums: Leo Ciesa

SINGLE PLAY
Eleanor Hovda:
a. Shenai Sky
b. Recordings of an Ocean Cliff

The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
shenai, oboe: Libby Van Cleve; electric guitar: Jack Vees; recorded at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bower, New York City

SINGLE PLAY
Somei Satoh: Sanyou
Sun Moon
New Albion Records/1994
shakuhachi: Akikazu Nakamura; jyunana-gen (seventeen string koto): Masako Kawamura; recorded at the Joyce Theater, New York City, January 1993

-- FIN --

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Martian Gardens for 01/15/2012

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

Program for January 15, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Novella
Hyperrealism
Mutable Music/2003

SET ONE
Bang On A Can All-Stars: Sunray (D. Lang)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2011
cello: Ashley Bathgate; bass: Robert Black; piano: Vicky Chow; percussion: David Cossin; guitar: Mark Stewart; reeds: Evan Ziporyn; recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010

Marco Oppedisano: Kickstart
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars: M. Oppedisano

David Hahn: Charon Crosses the Styx
Your Time Is Up
David Hahn/2007
guitars: D. Hahn

SET TWO
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, 4/03/95

David Baker: Now That He is Safely Dead
Videmus -- Works by Anderson, Baker, Fox Wilson
New World Records/1992
Videmus chamber group; tenor: Willie Brown; director: Vivian Taylor; song from "Through This Vale of Tears" cycle; text: Carl Hines, "Now That He is Safely Dead"; recorded at the African American Meeting House, Boston, November 1991

Lou Harrison: Threnody
Rhymes with Silver
New Albion Records/2000
cello: Joan Jeanrenaud; violin: David Abel; viola: Benjamin Simon; piano: Julie Steinberg; percussion, vibraphone: William Winant; recorded at Fantasy Recordings; Berkeley, June 2000

Ingram Marshall: Entrada (At the River)
Evensongs
New Albion Records/1996
amplified strings: The Maia Quartet; recorded at SUNY Purchase, February 1996

SET THREE
James Corrêa: When I drift into my thoughts
Plural (Miranda/Corrêa)
Fumproarte/2002
recorded at the composer's studio in Rochester, New York, 1999, using Eduardo Reck Miranda's Chaosynth software

Brian Eno: Julie with...
Before and After Science
EG/1987 (orig. 1977)

Brian Eno: Emerald and Stone
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Warp Records/2010

Ned Bouhalassa: from mOrpheus
a. Orpheus' First Dream
b. Orpheus Wakes Up

Gratte-cité
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
sounds recorded in Québec and Berlin, realized at the composer's studio in Montréal, premiered at Elektra, Usine C, Montréal, 11/15/03

SET FOUR
Philip Mantione: Depth of Field
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
based on field recordings of "hoot" owls, Riverside, California, 3:00 a.m. 11/21/11

Alvin Lucier: Vespers (excerpt)
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
recorded in 1969 with the Environ-Ears Recording System designed by Listening Incorporated, Arlington, Mass.

David Dunn: Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond (edit)
Earth Ear Radio Volume 2 -- Winter 2002 [various artists]
EarthEar/2002

Gen Ken Montgomery: Bath Drain
Pondfloorsample
XI Records/2002

Rain Forest Pygmies: Honey-Gathering Song (field recording)
Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies of the North East Congo
Lyrichord/1992
recorded in the Ituri rainforest by Colin M. Turnbull, 1961

SET FIVE
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A Political Prisoner's Dream IV (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
recorded at York University, 1970s

Morton Subotnick: Until Spring -- Revisited
Electronic Works Vol. 3
Mode Records/2011
live electronics: M. Subotnick; live electronics, glass harp: Miguel Frasconi; recorded live at Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco, 4/06/07; original composition: 1975

Maggi Payne: Glassy Metals
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010

SET SIX
Bun-Ching Lam: ...Like Water (1st 1/2)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
violin: Jeanne-Marie Conquer; piano: Dimitri Vassilakis; percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg, Germany

Tod Machover: ...but not simpler...
...but not simpler...
Bridge Records/2011
iO Quartet; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 12/23/09

SINGLE PLAY
Bun-Ching Lam: ...Like Water (further excerpt)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
violin: Jeanne-Marie Conquer; piano: Dimitri Vassilakis; percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg, Germany

--FIN--

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Martian Gardens for 01/08/2012

WMUA FM 91.1
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Program for January 8, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Deep Listening Band: Invocation
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
DLB; voice: Julie Lyon Balliet; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, New York, 1993-1994

SET ONE
Charles Dodge: Folia
Music for Computers, Electronic Sound and Players
CRI/1974
ensemble conducted by Jacques-Louis Monod

Charles Dodge: Violin Variations I-IV
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
violin: Baird Dodge


SET TWO
Little Bang Theory: Toy Suite #5
Toy Suites and Themes
Tranmogrification/2011
toys, whistling, voice: F. Pahl; toys, voice: Terri Sarris; toys, drums, voice: Doug Shimmin

Ge Gan-Ru: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Lost Style
New Albion Records/2006
voice, toy orchestra: Margaret Leng Tan; text: Lu You; recorded at Classic Sound, New York City, 8/10/06

SET THREE
Philip Mantione: Social Immune System
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
based on field recordings at an Occupy LA Protest, 10/15/11; premiered at Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona

Brian Eno & David Byrne:
a. Help Me Somebody
b. Come with Us

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Nonesuch/2006 (orig. 1981)
instruments, objects, samples: Byrne/Eno with(a.) congas, metals: Steve Scales; drums: John Cooksey; recorded 1979-1980 at various locations

Musci-Venosta: The Snout in the Dark
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
treated voice, percussion, gamelan, kanun, nadaswaram, clarinet, kalimba, musical tube, Japanese market field recordings: Giovanni Venosta, Roberto Musci; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, 1991-1992

SET FOUR
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Goma Arábica
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recorded in 1995 at University of Edinburgh Electroacoustic Music Studios; orchestra: The Contemporary Music Group, conductor: Steve Davismoon

Mother Tongue: The Voice and The Ear
Touch.Sampler
Touch/1997
Mother Tongue: Andrew McKenzie, Dorothea Franck, Z'ev; recorded at Suitcase Studios, London, 1987

Sarah Peebles: 10 Below
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Arthur Gottschalk: Phase 59
60 x 60 2006-2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008

Sarah Peebles: Lift
Deep Wireless 5 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Chris Watson: Lemon-Rumped Tinkerbird
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch/1998
recorded in the Cameroon rain forest, June, 1997

Hsiao-Lan Wang: A Golden Leaf Drifts Downstream
Electroacoustic Works
Hsiao-Lan Wang/2003
for two tinkliks (Indonesian xylophones), and computer

SET FIVE
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape # 1
The Percussion Works I
Mode Records/2011
for two variable-speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano, and cymbal; performed by Joey Van Hassel; recorded at Robert J Werner Concert Hall, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 6/12/08

Alexei Borisov: My Voices
Polished Surface of a Table
Electroshock Records/2004

Øystein Kapperud: Leland Wrapped in Plastic
The Wire Tapper 26 [various artists]
The Wire magazine/2011

Chris Watson: Adult Cheetah
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch/1998
recorded in Pamuzinda, Zimbabwe, June, 1994

Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde [various artists]
Pogus Productions/2009
realized at Tangent Studio, London and the Electronic Music Studio, University of London, Goldsmith College; original release: Source Record No. 6; Source Records journal Vol. 5, No. 1, 1971

SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Dempster: Standing Waves 78/87
In The Great Abbey Of Clement VI
New Albion Records/1987
trombone, tape playback: S. Dempster; recorded at Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, California, 5/21/78

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