Martian Gardens

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Martian Gardens for June 15 & 18, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 8, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: June 11, 2014
Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SINGLE PLAY
Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Books of Flutes
Smith Publications/2008
composer: Robert Erickson; solo flute: Carrie Rose; composition year: 1969; time: 5:50

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Erickson: String Quartet No. 1
I. (5:38)
II. (4:11)
III. (5:36)
Complete String Quartets
New World Records/2014
Del Sol Quartet (violins: Kate Stenberg, Rick Shinozaki; viola: Charlton Lee; cello: Kathryn Bates); recorded at Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California, December 2013; composition year: 1950; total time: 16:10

SET ONE
Namaste Duo: Sulle Ali Delle Ombre (G. Bruni)
Different Visions
MPS Music & Video/2008
(composer: Giuseppe Bruni, for 2 clarinets and tape); Namaste Duo (clarinets: Guido Arbonelli, Paolo Gallipoli); time: 9:39

Esther Lamneck: Trio for Clarinet and Two Computers (Lippe/Lamneck)
I. 4:35
II. 2:42
III. 5:11
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2007
composers: Esther Lamneck, Corte Lippe; clarinet: Esther Lamneck; recorded at Vecchio Mulino Produzione; Lucca, Italy; 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 12:29

SET TWO
Morton Feldman: Piano Piece (to Philip Guston)
Aki Takahashi Plays Morton Feldman
Mode Records/1996
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at SUNY Purchase, December 1995; composition year: 1963; time: 3:54

Yvar Mikhashoff: Vertical Thoughts (M. Feldman)
Panorama of American Piano Music [various artists]
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: Morton Feldman); piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition year: 1963; time: 3:36

John Cage: Spontaneous Earth
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 2002; composition year: 1944; time: 2:49

John Cage: Five
The Number Pieces 6
Mode Records/2012
(for unspecified instruments or voices); blown bottles: Essential Music (Judith Gordon, Maya Guniji, John Kennedy, Eric Kivnick; Charles Wood); recorded at SUNY Purchase, 1993-1994; composition year: 1988; time: 5:00

George Crumb: Softly and Tenderly
from American Songbook VII
A cycle of Hymns, Spirituals, Folk songs, and American Indian Chants
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 16
Bridge Records/2014
soprano: Ann Crumb; Orchestra 2001 (amplified piano: Marcantonio Barone; percussion: Brenda Weckerly, Greg Giannascoli, David Nelson, William Kerrigan), conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swarthmore College, October 2012; composition year: 2010 (lyrics: "Softly and Tenderly," Will L. Thompson, published 1880); time: 8:28

George Crumb: Firefly Song
from American Songbook V: Voices from a Forgotten World
A cycle of American songs from north and south, east and west
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 15
Bridge Records/2011
mezzo-soprano: Jamie Van Eyck; Orchestra 2001 (amplified piano: Marcantonio Barone; percussion:
William Kerrigan, Susan Jones, David Nelson, Angela Nelson), conductor: James Freeman; recorded at Swarthmore College, October 2008; time: composition year: 2006 (lyrics: "Firefly, Oijibwe origins, American Primitive Music (1909); time: 1:31

SET THREE
Mary Jane Leach: Song of Sorrows
Ariadne's Lament
New World Records/1998
(composer: M.J. Leach, under the influence of Monteverdi); The Booke Chapel Choir of Bucknell University, conductor: William Payn, Bucknell; lyrics: Ottavio Rinuccini, Mary Jane Leach; composition year: 1995; time: 8:00

Oöphoi: Dissolving in the Void
Electroacoustic Music Vol. VII (various artists)
Electroshock Records/2002
(composer: Gianluigi Gasparetti [Oöphoi], electroacoustic); composition year: 2000; time: 9:26

SET FOUR
Jukka Ruohomäki: June Sessions Remix
Compendium International -- Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2012
(electroacoustic); improvised electric guitar, MIDI-guitar: Mikko Räisänen; recorded and remixed at IMEB, Bourges, France; composition years: 2001, 2007; time: 12:44

The Legendary Pink Dots:
a. Prague Spring [instrumental] (3:26)
b. Leper Colony (6:26)
Shadow Weaver
Play It Again Sam/1992
synthesizers, keyboards, vocals, lyrics: Edward Ka-Spel; synthesizers, keyboards: Silverman; wind instruments: Neils Van Hoornblower; electric guitar: Martijn Van Kleer; bass guitar: Ryan Moore; violin: Patrick Q. Wright; recorded in The Netherlands; time: 9:52

SET FIVE
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Still, Again
A short chamber opera
La marée
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic); soprano: Peyee Chen; text, processing, interactive system, and multitrack tape: P.A. Tremblay; realized and recorded at the composer's studio and the studios of the University of Huddersfield, UK; composition years: 2012, 2013; time: 14:07

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh: Amanem
MusicWorks #119 -- Summer 2014 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2014
vocals, buzuq (Middle Eastern long-necked lute), electronics, processing: R.G. Moumneh; recorded at Hotel2Tango, Montreal; released under the AKA Jerusalem In My Heart, album title, "Mo7it Al-Mo7it," (Constellation Records), 2013; time: 8:54

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Cohen:
a. Homage to Cage (8:43)
b. Symphony 6 (for Noah Creshevsky) (9:33)
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
sampled instruments, MIDI keyboard: Lou Cohen; total time: 18:13

-- FIN --

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Bells & Whistles for June 12, 2014

BELLS AND WHISTLES
A survey of world music and its derivatives

WMUA .ORG
Thursdays, Summer 2014 live broadcast/webcast
12:00 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 12, 2014

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SELECTIONS PLAYED
Ben Johnston: The Tavern
a. Prelude (0:45)
b. Who Says Words With My Mouth (3:41)
c. A Community of Spirits
d. A Children's Game (6:43)
e. The Many Wines (3:09)
f. Burnt Kabob (3:13)
Ruminations
Settings of Rumi & Billie Holiday in Just Intonation
MicroFest Records/2014
voice and microtonal guitar: John Schneider; texts: Rumi; composition year: 1998; total time: 25:52

Gamelan of Central Java: Gendhing Bonang Danaraja
Gamelan of Central Java, Vol. VI. Kraton Surakarta
Felmay Records/2006
pathet: slendro sanga; recorded May 11, 2004, at the Sasono Sewoko house of Kraton, Surakarta Indonesia; time: 16:50

Bill Alves: Concerto for Violin and Gamelan
a. 3:02
b. 9:21
c. 6:28
d. 5:15
e. 10:13
Mystic Canyon
MicroFest Records/2013
The Harvey Mudd College American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; violin: Susan Jensen; composition year: 2008; total time: 35:00

Pamela Sklar: Hatshepsut
Silver Pharaoh
An Original Tribute to Ancient Egypt
MSR Music/2013
bass flute: Pamela Sklar; percussion: John Arrucci; recorded at Sliding Door Studio, New Rochelle, New York, 2012-2013; time: 3:45

Sadreddin Özçimi, et al: Perde Kaldirma
Trance 1
Sufi Dervish Rite/Tibetan Overtone Chant/Indian Dhrupad
Ellipsis Arts/1995
neyzen (reed flute): Sadreddin Özçimi; oud (lute): Necati Çelik; ney (flute): Arif Erdebil; percussion: Kemal Karaöz; recorded in Istanbul, May, 1994; time: 27:23

Steve Roach: Palace of Nectar
Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
Projekt Records/2003
instruments and production: Steve Roach; recorded at Timeroom, Tucson, time: 14:45

Jorge Reyes: El Custombre
a. Medicine Song
b. La Barrida
El Custumbre
Extreme Records/1993
synthesizer, drum machine, drums: Steve Roach; voice, whistle, Aztec wind whistle, ocarina, distant percussion, floating Tarahumara percussion, Aztec chicahuaztli rattle, turtle shells, sugarcane flute, tree branches, percussive vocalizations: Jorge Reyes; distant guitar: Mick Franke; water percussion: Juan Carlos López; recorded at Jorge Reyes' studio, Mexico City and Harderber Studio, Germany; total time: 8:00

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Martian Gardens for June 8 & 11, 2014

Horacio Vaggione: TILL

Musiques pour Piano et Electroacoustique

Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995

(for piano and electroacoustic music); piano: Philip Mead; realized at the IMEB, Bourges, France; composition year: 1991; time: 12:45

SET FIVE

Elodie Lauten: Cat Counterpoint

Piano Works

Unseen Worlds/2010

piano, sequencer, sound loops: Elodie Lauten; composed and recorded in New York City, 1983; time: 3:23

Elodie Lauten: Heaven

Tronik Involutions

O.O. Discs/1996

(improvised/composed electronic music); time: 6:18

In memory of Elodie Lauten 1950 -- 2014

David Borden: The Continuing Story of Counterpoint, Part Twelve A

The Continuing Story of Counterpoint Parts 9-12

Cuneiform Records/1988

Performed by Mother Mallard (composer, synthesizers: David Borden; wind instruments: Les Thimming; voice: Ellen Hargis); recorded at Calf Audio, Ithaca, New York, composition year: 1987; time: 7:21

Laurie Spiegel: Folk Study

The Expanding Universe

Unseen Worlds/2012 (orig. LP Philo/1980)

synthesizer: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, February 1975; time: 2:03

SET SIX

Yver Mickhashoff: two pieces by La Monte Young

a. Study No. 2 (0:46)

b. Sarabande (3:14)

Panorama of American Piano Music [various artists]
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
(composer: La Monte Young) piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composition years: a. 1959; b. 1959, revised 1989; total time: 4:00

Bernard Rands: selections from Preludes for piano
a. Ricercare (3:28)
b. Ostinato (2:49)
c. Bordone (1:44)
Piano Music (1960 -- 2010)
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Robert Levin; recorded at SUNY Purchase, March -- October, 2013; composition year: 2007; time: 8:00

Lions Gate Trio: Nocturne (from Angel Chant) (A. R. Thomas)
Piano Trios
Centaur Records/1999
composer: Augusta Read Thomas; Lions Gate Trio (piano: Florence Millet; violin: Katie Landsdale; cello: Scott Kluksdahl; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, New York City, November, 1997; composition year: 1991, revised: 1994; time: 7:28

SINGLE PLAY
Ken Thomson: Perpetual
a. Underlying (6:21)
b. Bad Idea (4:18)
c. Don Pullen says it's OK (4:42)
Thaw
Cantaloupe Music/2013
(string quartet); the JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); bass clarinet: Ken Thomson; recorded at Flux Studios, New York City, August 2012; composition year: 2010; total time: 16:22

SINGLE PLAY*
Peter Zummo:
a. Fresh Batteries (6:57)
b. Rocket Scientist (9:45)
Experimenting with Household Chemicals
XI Records/1995
trombone, voice: Peter Zummo; amplified cello, keyboard bass, voice: Arthur Russell; marimba, voice: Bill Ruyle; recorded at various locations 1987-1991; total time: 16:43

*TAINT RADIO version only

-- FIN --

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Bells and Whistles for June 5, 2014

NOT BROADCAST

BELLS AND WHISTLES
A survey of world music and its derivatives

WMUA .ORG
Thursdays, Summer 2014 live broadcast/webcast
12:00 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 5, 2014

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SELECTIONS PLAYED
Ben Johnston: The Tavern
a. Prelude (0:45)
b. Who Says Words With My Mouth (3:41)
c. A Community of Spirits
d. A Children's Game (6:43)
e. The Many Wines (3:09)
f. Burnt Kabob (3:13)
Ruminations
Settings of Rumi & Billie Holiday in Just Intonation
MicroFest Records/2014
voice and microtonal guitar: John Schneider; texts: Rumi; composition year: 1998; total time: 25:52

Gamelan of Central Java: Gendhing Bonang Danaraja
Gamelan of Central Java, Vol. VI. Kraton Surakarta
Felmay Records/2006
pathet: slendro sanga; recorded May 11, 2004, at the Sasono Sewoko house of Kraton, Surakarta Indonesia; time: 16:50

Bill Alves: Concerto for Violin and Gamelan
a. 3:02
b. 9:21
c. 6:28
d. 5:15
e. 10:13
Mystic Canyon
MicroFest Records/2013
The Harvey Mudd College American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; violin: Susan Jensen; composition year: 2008; total time: 35:00

Pamela Sklar: Hatshepsut
Silver Pharaoh
MSR Music/2013
bass flute: Pamela Sklar; percussion: John Arrucci; recorded at Sliding Door Studio, New Rochelle, New York, 2012-2013; time: 3:45

Sadreddin Özçimi, et al: Perde Kaldirma
Trance 1
Sufi Dervish Rite/Tibetan Overtone Chant/Indian Dhrupad
Ellipsis Arts/1995
neyzen (reed flute): Sadreddin Özçimi; oud (lute): Necati Çelik; ney (flute): Arif Erdebil; percussion: Kemal Karaöz; recorded in Istanbul, May, 1994; time: 27:23

Steve Roach: Palace of Nectar
Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
Projekt Records/2003
instruments and production: Steve Roach; recorded at Timeroom, Tucson, time: 14:45

-- FIN -

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Martian Gardens for June 1 & 4, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 1, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: June 4, 2014
Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
J.K. Randall: Lyric Variations
Open Space 5 (Boretz/Randall)
Open Space/1993
(for violin and computer); violin: Paul Zukofsky; composition years: 1965-1968; time: 20:00

In memory of James K. Randall (1929 - 2014)

SET ONE
Paul Lansky: Composition Project for Seniors
JKR Pass 3 (various artists)
Music for Jim Randall's 75th birthday by his friends
Open Space/2007
(for computer); composition year: 2005; time: 8:57

Mendi + Keith Obadike: The Pink of Stealth
Mendi + Keith Obadike Present Crosstalk (various artists)
Bridge Records/2008
vocals: M. Obadike; K. Obadike: guitar, bass, drums, ubo aka, synthesizers, treatments; time: 6:16

Pamela Z: Declaratives in the First Person
Mendi + Keith Obadike Present Crosstalk (various artists)
Bridge Records/2008
(for audio installation in six channels); voice: Pamela Z; composition year: 2005; time: 5:02

SET TWO
Pamela Z: Pop Titles 'You'
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2004
(for voice and electronic processing); voice: Pamela Z; composition year: 1986; time: 3:09

Charles Amirkhanian:
a. Church Car, Version 2 (2:55)
b. Hypothetical Moments (5:35)
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
a. voices: Charles Amirkhanian, Anthony J. Gnazzo; Recorded by Anthony J. Gnazzo, California State University, Hayward, 1980; composition years: 1980-1981; b. voice, ocarina, bells, harpsichord (courtesy of Dennis RussellDavies): Charles Amirkhanian; recorded in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 1980 and New Wilderness Foundation, New York City, October 1981; composition year: 1981; total time: 8:30

Newband: The Rose (H. Partch)
From Eleven Intrusions (1950)
Works of Harry Partch and Dean Drummond
Innova Recordings/2001
bass-baritone: Robert Osborne; Newband: Partch instruments, directed by Dean Drummond; text: Ella Young, "The Rose," recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letter, New York City, November 2000; compositions years: 1938, 1950; time: 2:00

Karl Korte: Birds of Aotearoa
Extensions -- A Retrospective of Electro-Acoustic Compositions
Centaur Records/1998
(electroacoustic music on tape); Kokako bird songs recorded in New Zealand, 1986; composition year: 1986; time: 6:24

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: Wood Thrush (from Songbirdsongs)
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston; recorded October 3, 2006; composition years: 1974-1979, revised 2006; time: 4:35

Ming Tsao: Not Reconciled
Pathology of Syntax
Mode Records/2014
Ensemble SurPlus (clarinet: Erich Wagner; trombone: Andrew Digby; guitar: Seth Josel; cello: Beverly Ellis; snare drums: Olaf Tizschoppe), conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer; recorded at Karl von Bismark Salle, Köln; July 16, 2010; composition years: 2002-2003; time: 14:13

SET FOUR
Peter Batchelor: Pulse (from Kaleidoscope: Cycle)
Kaleidoscope
Pogus Productions/2013
(electroacoustic music); realized at the composer's studio and the Music, Technology and Innovation research center, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; composition year: 2013; time: 8:04

Andrew Lewis: Cân
Au-delà
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic music); realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of Bangor University, Wales; premiered at the Sonic Arts Network Conference, Birmingham, UK, January 9, 1998, composition year: 1997; time: 11:51

SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Baltic Icebreaker
The Sea and the Snake
MPS Music & Video/2013
(electronic music); time: 8:22

Leopoldo La Rosa: Andes No. 1, 1969 (Fragment)
Tensions at the Edge (various artists)
New Music from Peru (1948-1979)
Pogus Productions/2012
(for orchestra); National Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Leopoldo La Rosa; premiered in Lima, 1970; composition year: 1969; time: 4:17

Musicians of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company:
a. Event -- September 29, 2002, Oslo (4:12)
b. Event -- December 14, 2004, New York City (3:54)
Music for Merce 1952--2009 (boxed set)
New World Records/2010
a. live electronics, percussion, voice: Takehisa Kosugi; electric guitar, live electronics: James Woodrow; b. laptop, violin, psalter: David Behrman; electric guitar, live electronics: John King; trombone, laptop: George Lewis; total time: 8:05

SINGLE PLAY
Particle Ensemble: Frond (E. Howard)
Particle Ensemble
Mutable Music/2012
baritone voice: Thomas Buckner; bass saxophone: J.D. Parran;; violin: Mari Kimura; electronics: Earl Howard; time: 24:00 (truncated)

-- FIN --

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Bells and Whistles for May 29, 2014

BELLS AND WHISTLES
A survey of world music and its derivatives

WMUA .ORG
Thursdays, Summer 2014 live broadcast/webcast
12:00 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 29, 2014

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SELECTIONS PLAYED
Gamelan Semar Pegulingan Saih Pitu: Gending Lasem, saih selsir
The Heavenly Orchestra of Bali
CMP Records/1991
Gamelan Semar Pegulingan Saih Pitu of Kamasan, director: I Wayan Sumendra; recorded at Pura Bole Batur, Kamasan, Bali, September 1991; time 23:28

Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro
a. Kunsonoro kaj Gloro (2:27)
b. Strofo 1 (4:42)
c. Strofo 2 (3:45)
d. Strofo 3 (1:24)
e. Strofo 4 (4:08)
f. Strofo 5 (4:27)
g. Strofo 6 (2:27)
h. Strofo 7 -- Mantro kaj Kunsonoro (5:08)
La Koro Sutro
New Albion Records/1988
(for 100-voice chorus and gamelan); The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of The University of California at Berkeley, conductor: Philip Brett; harp: Karen Gottlieb; organist: Agnes Saurbeck; American Gaemelan (Don R. Baker, Scott Evans, Gino Robair Forlin, Todd Manley, Peter Thielen, William Winant); director: William Winant; gamelan builder: William Colvig; technician: Ron Engel; recorded at Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, November 7-8, 1987; total time: 28:50

Tarun Bhattacharya: Vilambit Bandish in Tintal
Raga Basant Mukhari/Raga Mishra Todi
India Archive Music/2002
santur: Tarun Bhattacharya; tabla: Bikram Ghosh; recorded at Master Sound Studios, New York City, September 28, 1997; style: Carnatic raga; time: 19:58

Ardavan Kamkar: Memory of Friends
Over the Wind
Traditional Crossroads/2001
santoor: Ardavan Kamkar; recorded at Pejvak Studio, Tehran, 1998; style: modern Persian santoor; time: 12:23

Leo Kupper: Electro-Acoustic Santur
a. Part I (3:54)
b. Part II (2:56)
c. Part III (6:09)
Electro-Acoustic
Pogus Productions/1996
(for 2 santurs, 4 microprocessors, and electronic sounds); santurs, electronics: Leo Kupper, Kyomars Peregalou; composition year: 1989; style: electronically processed Persian santur; total time: 14:00

Ivan Tcherepnin: Santur Live!
Scenes from Santur Opera:
a. Overture: The Situation in the Land (3:58)
b. Tenatives II (2:09)
c. The Call of the Lunar Feline (2:26)
d. Night Idyll (6:47)
e. Dream Filterings I (1:32)
f. Dream Filterings II (1:22)
g. The Army and the Chase (3:29)
h. Heralder of Good Tidings (3:21)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
Composers Recordings, Inc./2001 (orig. 1982, 1985)
(for santur and Serge modular electronics); composed and performed by Ivan Tcherepnin, 1977-1995; style: electronically processed Persian santur; total time: 27:28

Janna Aivazian: Tgha-tgha (Boy, boy) (trad.)
The Music of Armenia Volume Six
Nagorno-Karabakh
Celestial Harmonies/1997
solo vocal: Janna Aivazian; recorded in the Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia; time: 2:00

-- FIN --

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Martian Gardens for May 25 & 28, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 25, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
~~webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT~~
~~Webcast date: May 28, 2014~~
Host: Max Shea
No webcast this week

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

hour one

SINGLE PLAY
Curtis Roads: Sonal Atoms (excerpt from Half-Life)
CCMIX Paris [various artists]
Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
electronic music on tape recorded at CCMIX Paris; premiered at the Australian National Academy of Music, May 1998; composition year: 1998; time: 3:41

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Dancetracks (Remix)
Ride
Bridge Records/2000
(for computer-synthesized drum track and electric guitar); electric guitar samples: Steve Mackey; composition years: 1994, 1997; time: 16:37

SET ONE
Rand Steiger: Elliott's Instruments
A Menacing Plume
New World Records/2014
Talea Ensemble (flute, piccolo: Tara Helen O'Connor; clarinet, bass clarinet: Rane Moore; piano: Steven Beck; percussion: Alex Lipowski; violin: Yuki Numata Resnick; cello: Chris Gross, conductor: James Baker); recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, January 2013; composition year: 2010; time: 12:11

Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
16 Compositions (2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
(for six percussionists); New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, February 12, 2009; composition year: 2008; time: 7:36

SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Elijah's Chariot
Time to Burn
Innova Recordings/2014
(for amplified string quartet & processes shofar sounds); The Cassatt String Quartet; recorded at Abeshouse Productions, New York City; shofar sounds recorded by Dr. Mel Siegel, Minneapolis; composition year: 1995; time: 19:42

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Three for Two
I. Across the Kennebec (2:19)
II. The Forks (1:16)
III. Caratunk (2:20)
A River Rose -- Music for Violin
New World Records/2014
violin: Airi Yoshioka; viola: Maria Labros; recorded at the Recital Hall of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2013; composition year: 1972; time: 5:55

Frank Denyer: Ghosts Again
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
The Barton Workshop (muted violin: Marieke Keser; voice: Yula Andrews; flute: Jos Zwaanburg; clarinet: John Anderson; percussion: Juan Martinez Cortés, Jose Garcia Rodrigues; voices & percussion staves: Christopher Best, Richard Gonski, Patrick Ozzard-Low, Michael Basset, Ian Wellens, Trevor Wiggns; recorded at Bethanienklooser, Amsterdam, March 3, 2006 and Darlington College of Arts, U.K, March 3, April 4, 2006; composition years: 2004, 2005; time: 12:54

SINGLE PLAY
Nick Didkovsky: What Sheep Herd
Tube Mouth Bow String
Pogus Productions/2006
(for string quartet & computer); Sirius String Quartet (violins: Gregor Huebner, Meg Okura; viola: Ron Lawrence; cello: Dave Eggar); recorded at the Steinhardt School, New York University, time: 21:07

SET THREE
Orlando Jacinto Garcia: #3 from Three Pieces for Double Bass and Tape
Fragmentos del Pasado [Fragments of the Past]
New Albion Records/2004
double bass: Robert Black; recorded at WLRN Studios, Miami, Florida, November, 1990; composition year: 1990; time: 12:39

Annie Gosfield: Impulse Turbine: Inlet, Exaust - Combustion Chamber
from EWA7
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
keyboard sampler: Annie Gosfield, electronics: Ikue Mori; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; drums, percussion: Jim Pugliese, Sim Cain; recorded at EWA7 industrial complex, Nuremberg, Germany; composition year: 1999; time: 12:10

SET FOUR
Roger Kleier: What is the Price of Iron?
I. (4:56)
II. (3:24)
III. (4:00)
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2009
(for cello & electronics); cello: Joan Jeanrenaud; recorded at Master Element Studios, New York City; total time: 12:20

Jorge Antunes: Valsa Sideral (Sideral Waltz)
Savage Songs (1961-1970)
Early Brazilian Electronic Music
Pogus Productions/2003
electronic music composed and recorded in the composer's studio, Rio De Janeiro, 1962; time: 3:12

Elizabeth Hoffman: Water Spirits
Intérieurs Harmoniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(electroacoustic music); composed and recorded at the composer's studio, New York City, 2007-2011; premiered at the SEAMUS 2006 Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, March 30, 2006; time: 10:41

SINGLE PLAY*
Elizabeth Hoffman: Alchemy
Miniatures concrètes (various artists)
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
(electroacoustic music); time: 3:00

*WMUA live version only

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