Martian Gardens

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Martian Gardens for September 14 & 17, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 14, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 17, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY
Darren Copeland: They're Trying to Save Themselves
Perdu et Retrouve
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
commissioned by CBC Radio One for the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks; all sounds sourced from CNN immediately following the bombings of the World Trad Center towers, September 11, 2001; realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered on CBC Radio One, 9/11/02; time: 3:53

SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: September Canons
September Canons
New World Records/2009
violin, electronic processing: Todd Reynolds; a lamentation on the events of September 11, 2001; composition year: 2002; time: 13:19

ETHEL: Uh...It all happened so fast (T. Reynolds)
ETHEL
Cantaloupe Music/2003
composer: Todd Reynolds; ETHEL (violins: Todd Reynolds, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Mary Lawson; recorded at LOHO Studios, New York City, 2003; composition year: 2000; time: 5:54

SET TWO
Julia Wolfe: The States
Steel Hammer
Cantaloupe Music/2014
vocals: Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum); ensemble: Bang On A Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate; bass: Robert Black; piano, melodica: Vicky Chow; drums, percussion, bones: David Cossin; electric guitar, banjo, mountain dulcimer, jaw harp, harmonica, clogging, humming: Mark Stewart; clarinets, harmonica, whistling, humming: Evan Ziporyn; All: sand sticks, body percussion); recorded at the James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, November 2011, February 2012; composition year: 2009; text: selected from numerous versions of the John Henry ballad; time: 9:48

Steve Reich: It's been a honeymoon -- can't take no mo'
from City Life
The Minimalists (various composers)
Mode Records/2009
performed by Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; percussion: Tatiana Koleva; clarinet: Fie Schouten; piano: Sepp Grotenhuis; samplers: Anthony Fiumara; recorded at MCO Studios, Hilversum, The Netherlands, April 28-30, 2009; composition year: 1995; time: 5:00

Paul Dolden: The Village Choir asks the important questions of the day
Who Has the Biggest Sound?
Starkland/2014
instruments, electroacoustics, processing: Paul Dolden; recorded at the composer's studio, Val-Morin, Québec, 2005-2008; total excerpts time: 2:58

Paulo Chagas: Tarazed
Possible Worlds Vol. 3 (various artists)
Microtonal/Xenharmonic music and sound art from around the world
Spectropol/2014
woodwinds: Paulo Chagras; time: 2:27

SET THREE
Eric Chasalow: Trois Espaces du Son
I. Dramatic, deliberate (3:21)
II. Driven, with energy (2:52)
III. Meditative and resonant (4:51)
Feather, Breath, Mirror
Suspicious Motives Records/2014
(for piano, percussion, and fixed media); piano: Ancuza Aprodu; percussion: Thierry Miroglio; recorded at Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, March 2009; composition year: 2004; total time: 11:04

Luciano Berio: Sequenza II
New Music Series Volume 2 (various artists)
Neuma Records/1988
(for harp); harp: Emily Laurence; composition year: 1963; time: 8:05

SET FOUR
Gabriel Valverde: El Silencio ya no es el Silencio
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
(for harp); harp: Sofia Asunción Claro; recorded at DIEM Studio, Copenhagen, 1997; composition year: 1996; time: 6:33

Huck Hodge: Out of a Dark Sea
Life is Endless Like Our Field of Vision
New World Records/2014
Talea Ensemble (harp: Nuiko Wadden; flute, piccolo: Barry Crawford; clarinet, bass clarinet: Rane Moore; horn: John Glattis; piano: Steve Beck; percussion: Alex Lipowski; violin: Miranda Cuckson; cello: Chris Gross); conductor: Jim Baker; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, November 21, 2014; composition years: 2006, revised 2007; time: 15:26

SET FIVE
Linda Dusman: Dindirindin
Electro Acoustic Music III (various artists)
Neuma Records/1994
(for computer-generated tape and soprano); soprano: Maria Tegzes; composition year: 1990; time: 8:31

Sten Hanson: Suite Brasiliera
a. Apito (1:25)
b. Iemanjá (2:44)
c. Piranha (2:40)
d. Guerra (1:35)
e. Jogo de bicho (2:55)
f. Samba (2:29)
Sten Hanson -- Chrysopée Electronique series
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2001
electroacoustic music realized at IMEB, Bourges, 1993; total time: 13:35

SET SIX
Leo Kupper: Sabatrana
from Rezas Populares do Brazil
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/2002
(for bass baritone, mezzo soprano, and digital processing); mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; bass: Eduardo Janho-Abumrad; electronics: Leo Kupper; recorded in Brussels; time: 5:47; composition year: 1998

Robert Scott Thompson: Flora of Fynbos
Flora of Fynbos (single)
Aucourant Records/2014
computer/electroacoustic music: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2014; time: 14:43

SET SEVEN
Robert Scott Thompson: Star Map
Folio Volume One
Aucorant Records/2011
synthesizers, electronics: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia, composition year: 2011; time: 3:13

Marco Marinoni: To Walk the Night
IMEB -- Cultures Électroniques 16 (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2002
(for violin, flute, piano, percussion, and tape); realized at IMEB, Bourges, composition year: 2002; time: 7:16

Douglas Doherty: On the Toon In the Toon On the Tyne
On the Edge of Chaos
MPS Music & Video/2011
(for electronics and tape); composition year: 1997; time: 3:00

Wendy Carlos: Incantation*
Beauty in the Beast
East Side Digital/2000 (orig. Audion LP/1986)
synthesizers, vocoder: Wendy Carlos; composition year: 1986; time: 6:47

Wendy Carlos:
a. Yusae Aisae (3:12)**
b. Poem for Bali (17:56 **
Beauty in the Beast
East Side Digital/2000 (orig. Audion LP/1986)
synthesizers, vocoder: Wendy Carlos; composition year: 1986; total time: 21:08

*WMUA version only
**TAINT Radio version only

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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Martian Gardens for September 7 & 10, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 24, 2014
(extended edition 9:00 p.m. -- 12:30 a.m. EDT)

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: August 27, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY
Béla Bartók: Hungarian Song
from 44 Duos for Two Violins, Book 1
The Complete Violin Duos
Nuema Records/1993
violins: János Négyesy, Päivikki Nykter; composition year: 1931; time: 0:43

SET ONE
János Négyesy: Bittersweet Music II (Bun-Ching Lam)
Solo Violin Recital
Acourant Records/2006
composer: Bun-Ching Lam; violin: János Négyesy; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego, June 2005; composition year: 1981; time: 12:32

Bun-Ching Lam: Run
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
pipa: Min Xiao Fen; recorded in Heidelberg, Germany, 2009; composition year: 1993; time: 7:25

SET TWO
Chris Newman: Symphony
Ghosts
Mode Records/2014
Ensemble KNM Berlin (flute: Rebecca Lenton; clarinet: Winfried Rager; xylophone: Thomas Meixner; piano: Holger Groschopp; trumpet: Markus Schwind; trombone: Andrew Digby; double bass: Arnuff Ballhorn); conductor: Steffen Tast; recorded at the Studio für elektroakustische Musik; Berlin, January 2004; composition year: 1981; time: 12:00

Iannis Xenakis: Xas
Ensemble Music 2
Mode Records/1996
(for saxophone quartet); members of ST-X Ensemble Xenakis USA; soprano saxophone: Susan Cook; alto saxophone: John Engerbretson; tenor saxophone: Shawn Tracy; baritone saxophone: Mathew Cashman; recorded at Streeterville Studio, Chicago, September 15, 1996; composition year: 1987; time: 8:56

SET THREE
Steven Schick: Watershed I (1st 1/4) (R. Reynolds)
Drumming in the Dark
Neuma Records/2000
composer: Roger Reynolds; percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego; composition year: 1995; excerpt time: 7:10

Meehan/Perkins Duo & the Baylor Percussion Group:
Percussion Music (G. Strang)
I. Alla marcia (2:39)
II. Moderato (2:47)
III. Rondino (1:44)
Restless, Endless, Tactless
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
composer: Gerald Strang; percussion: Meehan/Perkins Duo, Baylor Percussion Group, recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, February 9, 2010; composition year: 1936; total time: 7:10

Wendy Mae Chambers: Fire-Breathing Serpent
12²
New World Records/1998
percussion: Michael Pugliese, Randy Crafton, Jason Cirker, Charles Kiger, Andy Bowman, Kory Grossman, Mark Belair, Dan McMillan, Frank Cassara, David Cossin, Jimmy Musto, Dominic Donato, conductor: Howard Van Hyning; recorded at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, July 21, 1994; time: 4:56

SET FOUR
Otto Laske: Furies and Voices
a. Prelude
b. Scherzo
c. Song
Electro Acoustic Music VI (various artists)
Neuma Records/1999
(electroacoustic music); composition year: 1990; time: 10:27

Robert Scott Thompson: Unwoven
Arcana
Relaxed Machinery/2014
electronics, synthesizers: Robert Scott Thompson; composition year: 2014; time: 9:09

SET FIVE
Victoria Jordanova: Outer Circles, part 6
Outer Circles
Innova Recordings/2004
ham radio signal collage: Victoria Jordanova; recorded in Rome, Italy; composition year: 2004; time: 8:03

Odeya Nini: There are so many things that I have to tell you
Vougheauxyice (Voice)
pfMENTUM/2014
text, voice, processing: Odeya Nini; recorded at California Institute of the Arts, June 2012; time: 9:52

Biosphere: The things I tell you
Substrata
All Saints/1997
electronics, voice, text: Geir Jenssen; recorded at Aurora Lydstudio, Tromsdalen, Norway; time: 6:17

SET SIX
Françoise Barrière: Musique pour le Temps de Noël (Yuletide Music)
Series Chrysopée Electronique - Bourges
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1992
(for viola, cello, saxophone, percussion, and tape); members of Ensemble 2e2m (viola: Alain Dubois; cello: Marcus Jenny; saxophone: Kemicho Muto; percussion: Jean-Pierre Drouet); conductor: Alain Savouret; recorded at the 9th International Festival of Experimental Music, Bourges, court of the Jacques Cœur Palace, 1979; composition year: 1979; time: 16:16

Gonzalo Biffarella: Mestizaje
Mestizaje
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1997
(musique concrete); recorded at LIPM (Research and Musical Production Laboratory - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983-1984; time: 8:11

SET SEVEN
John Luther Adams: At a Still Point
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
(musique concrete); composed in Fairbanks, Alaska, and Los Angeles, 2008, time: 12:32

John Luther Adams: Inuksuit, part 4
Inuksuit
Cantaloupe Music/2013
(for percussion, air raid sirens, and environmental sounds) percussion ensemble directed by Doug Perkins; recorded in the woods of Guilford, Vermont, 2012; composition year: 2009; time: 9:33

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Table of Contents (D. Lang)*
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
(composer: David Lang); percussion: The Meehan/Perkins Duo; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco Texas, January 2010; composition year: 2008; time: 8:57

Lou Harrison: Fugue*
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
performed by the William Winant Percussion Group; recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, California, August, 1993; composition year: 1942; time: 3:55

*TAINT Radio version only

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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Martian Gardens for Aug. 31 & Oct. 29, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 31, 2014

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 29, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY
Frances White: Rose Pogonia
Music by Frances White
CD-R/2004
(for flutes and electronics); flute: Elizabeth Brown; composition year: 2002; time: 4:31

SET ONE
Barry Lewis: Agglutination
Curves and Jars
MPS Music & Video/1994
computer music: Barry Lewis; recorded at Projects UK Studio, Newcastle, UK; time: 2:22

Bruce Bennett & Vance Galloway: Evaporation
Desolation
Spectropol/2014
electronics, keyboards: Bruce Bennet; guitar: Vance Galloway; time: 6:32

Shriekback: Evaporation
The Y Records Years
Castle Music/2000
synthesizers, keyboards: Barry Andrews; vocals, guitar: Carl Marsh; bass guitar: Dave Allen; recorded at KPM Studios, Denmark; originally released on Care LP (Y Records/1983); time: 3:21

Kyong Mee Choi: Sublimation
Sori
Acourant Records/2013
(for marimba and electronics); marimba: Sean Darby; composition year: 2004; time: 7:00

Dr. Ox: Meiotic Recombination
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM, Oslo, Norway; time: 3:30

SET TWO
Dorota Czerner: A Poem for Bob Morris at 70
Robert Morris at 70 (various artists)
Compositions and Performances in Celebration
Open Space/2014
voice, text: Dorota Czerner; time: 4:04

J.K. Randall: Cleophila
Cleophila/The Fish/Svejk/Some Old Troubadour Songs
Open Space/1999
voice: Martha Elliott; text: Sir Philip Sidney ("The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia); composition year: 1997; time: 7:27

John Cage & Joan La Barbara: A Flower
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
(for voice and closed piano); vocalized phonemes: Joan La Barbara; percussed piano lid: William Winant; recorded at Skywalker Music, Lucas Valley, California, July 1990; composition year: 1950; time: 3:30

Odeya Nini: Cyclicality
Vougheauxyice (voice)
pfMENTUM/2014
improvised voice: Odeya Nini; recorded in Los Angeles, 2012; time: 6:36

SET THREE
Elsa Justel: Débris
Compendium International - Bourges 2003 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2003
electroacoustic music: Elsa Justel; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, composition year: 2003; time: 9:35

Francisco Kröpfl: Winds
Opous 30 ans musiques compositeurs, Vol. 2 (1984 - 1999) (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2003
electroacoustic music: Francisco Kröpfl; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, composition year: 1996; time: 10:53

SET FOUR
Robert Scott Thompson: Liminality (Homage to Iannis Xenakis)
Folio Volume Two
Aucourant Records/2011
percussion: Stuart Gerber; electronics, processing: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2011; time: 11:10

Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (section 5)
Kraanerg
Mode Records/2008
(for 23 instruments and 4-channel tape); Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, March 7, 2006; composition years: 1967 - 1969; section time: 3:45

Musicians for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Event -- Oslo
Music for Merce 1953-2009 [various artists] (boxed set)
New World Records/2010
live electronics, percussion, voice: Takehisa Kosugi; electric guitar, live electronics: James Woodrow; recorded September 29, 2002, Oslo, Norway; time: 4:12

SET FIVE
David Rosenboom: Zones of Influence, Part II
Closed Attracting Trajectories (Melody Set 2)
Zones of Influence
Pogus Productions/2014
electronics: David Rosenboom; percussion: William Winant; recorded at the Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Complex, California Institute of the Arts, and the composer's studio, Valencia, California, composition years: 1984, 1985; revised for this recording 2013; time: 13:44

David Rosenboom: In The Beginning Etude II (Keyboard-Plucked Strings)
In The Beginning (1978-1981)
New World Records/2012
harp: Jane Grothe; piano and computer: David Rosenboom; guitar, lute, banjo: Jerónimo "Jxel" Rajchenberg; recorded at the Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Complex, California Institute of the Arts, 2008; composition year: 1980; time: 8:00

SET SIX
John Cage: Branches
The Works for Percussion 3
Mode Records/2014
amplified plant materials: D'Arcy Philip Gray; recorded at Sutton United Church, Sutton, Quebec, July 2008; composition year: 1976; time: 16:12

Stuart Saunders Smith: ...And Points North...Scene III
Breath: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2004
percussion, hand claps, rustling tree leaves, stones, bird calls: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 1990; time: 3:56

SET SEVEN
George Crumb: Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (A Little Midnight Music)
Ruminations on 'Round Midnight by Thelonius Monk
I. Nocturnal Theme (1:28)
II. Charade (1:22)
III. Premonition (1:29)
IV. Cobweb and Peaseblossom (Scherzo) (2:05)
V. Incantation (3:18)
VI. Golliwog Revisited (2:09)
VII. Blues in the Night (3:27)
VIII. Cadenza with Tolling Bells (2:20)
IX. Midnight Transformation (2:57)
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Nine
Bridge Records/2005
piano: Emanuele Arciuli; composition year: 2001 (orig. Thelonius Monk, published 1944); total time: 20:42

NewBand: 'Round Midnight (T. Monk)*
NewBand Play Microtonal Works (various composers)
Mode Records/1994
cello: Ted Mook; zoomoozphone: Dominic Donato, Frank Cassara; recorded at The Magic Shop, New York City, January 31, 1993; composition year: 1944 (Thelonius Monk, published); arr. Dean Drummond, 1990, revised 1993); time: 5:36

*TAINT Radio version only

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Bells & Whistles for August 28, 2014

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Martian Gardens for August 24 & 27, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 24, 2014
(extended edition 9:00 p.m. -- 12:30 a.m. EDT)

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: August 27, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY
Fifth House Ensemble: Perpetual Spark (A. Shapiro)
Excelsior
Cedille Records/2014
composer: Alex Shapiro; Fifth House Ensemble (flute: Melissa Snoza; violin: Andrew Williams; viola: Clark Carruth; cello: Herine Coetzee; bass: Eric Snoza; piano: Jani Parsons); recorded at the Chicago Recording Company, 2013; composition year: 2011; time: 6:53

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Erickson: Corfu
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: 1986; time: 22:28

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Morris: Arc for String Quartet
Robert Morris at 70 (various artists)
Compositions and Performances in Celebration
Open Space/2014
The JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); recorded at Baird Hall, SUNY Buffalo, October 13, 2009; composition year: 1988; time: 15:28

SET ONE
Harry Partch: Harry Partch introduces the 1953 premiere (excerpt)
Plectra and Percussion Dances
An Evening of Dance Theater
Bridge Records/2014
recorded at KPFA FM, Berkeley, 1953; total excerpt time: 2:55

Harry Partch: Castor & Pollux
A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini
Castor
a. Leda & the Swan (Insemination) [1:53]
b. Conception [1:51]
c. Incubation [1:51]
d. Chorus of Delivery from the Egg [1:53]
Pollux
e. Leda & the Swan (Insemination) [1:50]
f. Conception [1:51]
g. Incubation [1:52]
h. Chorus of Delivery from the Egg [2:00]
Plectra and Percussion Dances
An Evening of Dance Theater
Bridge Records/2014
PARTCH ensemble (ingredients may include -- diamond marimba, Eroica, cymbal: Erin Barnes; voice: Paul Berkoids; kithara: Alison Bjorkedahl; canon, surrogate kiethara, Eroica: Matt Cook; cloud chamber bowls, chromelodeon: David Johnson; saxophone: Ulrich Krieger; percussion: Yumi Lee; canon: Tom Peters; guitars, canons: John Schneider; adapted viola: Derek Stein; bowls, bass marimba, Eroica, fight bell: Nick Terry; bass marimba, voice: T.J. Roy; guitar, canons: Alex Wand); recorded at Disney Hall/Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, June 9, 2013; composition year: 1952; total time: 14:58

Lou Harrison: Short Set from "Lazarus Laughed"
a. Caligula's Dream (1:34)
b. Miriam (1:36)
c. Round Dance (2:02)
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
flute, alto flute: Leta Miller; cello: Karen Andrie; celesta: Michael McGushin; recorded at the recital hall at the University of Santa Cruz, 2001; composition year: 1999; total time: 5:12

SET TWO
Henry Cowell: Sound Form No. 1
Dancing with Henry
Mode Records/2001
flute: Leta Miller; clarinet: Mark Brandenburg; bassoon: Jane Orzel; percussion: Russell Greenberg, Michael Strunk; recorded at the recital hall of the University of California Santa Cruz, January 2000; composition year: 1937; time: 4:51

Philip Glass & Allen Ginsberg: Nagasaki Days (Everybody's Fantasy)
Hydrogen Jukebox
Elektra-Nonesuch/1993
The Philip Glass Vocal Ensemble; flute: Carol Winenc; reeds: Andrew Sterman; percussion: Frank Cassara, James Pugliese; keyboards, conductor: Martin Goldray; recorded at The Looking Glass Studios, New York City, 1992-1993; time: 4:56

Phil Kline: Wondrous Love
John The Revelator
A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
Lionheart vocal group; Ethel string quartet; recorded at the Church of St. Luke's in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August 2007; music, lyrics: traditional, arr. Kline; time: 2:42

Phil Kline: selections from Zippo Songs
a. Ours is Not (4:36)
b. Been to Hell (2:30)
Zippo Songs
Airs of War and Lunacy
Cantaloupe Music/2004
vocals: Theo Bleckmann; violin: Todd Reynolds; guitar: Phil Kline; percussion: David Cossin; recorded in New York City, September 2003; music, lyrics: Phil Kline; total excerpts time: 7:06

SET THREE
Jon Hassell: Chor Moiré
Dream Theory in Malaya
EG Records/1981
electronically filtered trumpet: Jon Hassell; recorded at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario, 1981; time: 2:15

Ilia Belorukou: Gnat
I Did What Was Possible to Quiet Us
Spectropol/2014
electronics, processed saxophone:Ilia Belorukou; recorded in Saint-Petersburg, Russia; time: 5:53

Robert Scott Thompson: Waters and the Wild
Gold Flowers Bloom Mercury Petals
Aucourant Records/2009
electronics, synthesizers: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; time: 6:47

Robert Scott Thompson: Monk Gazes at Moon
Poesis Athesis
Lens Records/2008
electronics, synthesizers: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer's studio, Roswell, Georgia; time: 5:29

Paul Rubenstein: The Garden Still Sleeps
Soundtrack to Travels with H
A series of short films by Raeshma Razvi
Spectropol/2013
instruments, composition: Paul Rubenstein; recorded in Seattle, time: 3:45

SET FOUR
Rapoon: Cello Yellow
Cultural Forgeries
Alrealon Musique/2014
cello, percussion, processing: Robin Storey; time: 4:05

Erdem Helvacioğlu: An Unmeasured Loss of Acumen
Esther's Memory
Aucourant Records/2013
instruments, processing: Erdem Helvacioğlu; percussion: Stuart Gerber; recorded at the CARA studios, Georgia State University, Atlanta; November, 2010; time: 4:45

Erdem Helvacioğlu: Shattered Snow Globe
Eleven Short Stories
Innova Recordings/2012
prepared piano, processing: Erdem Helvacioğlu; recorded at Robert College Suna Koçak Theater Hall, Istanbul, Turkey; time: 5:08

Brian Eno: Little Fishes
Another Green World
E.G.-Jem/1987 (org. Island Records LP/1975)
prepared piano, Farfisa organ: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Studios, London, summer 1975; time: 1:30

Brian Eno with Rick Holland: Fierce Aisles of Light
Drums Between the Bells
Warp Records/2011
electronics, voice: Brian Eno; poem, voice: Rick Holland,voices: Nick Robertson, Anastasia Afomina; recorded in London, 2011; time: 2:32

Odeya Nini: Dalai
Vougheauxyice (Voice)
pfMENTUM/2014
voice, whistling, vocalizations, noises, processing: Odeya Nini; recorded at Joshua Tree, California, September 25, 2012; time: 6:16

SET FIVE
Alain Savouret: 1st Book of Illusions
Alain Savouret
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2004
electroacoustic music realized at GMEB (IMEB), Bourges, France, 1987; time: 19:40

Gilles Gobeil: La Nuit*
from Ombres, espaces, silences...
Trois Songes
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
electroacoustic music realized at the studios of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM) in Germany, winter 2005, premiered at trans_canada, ZKM, February 12, 2005; time: 2:58
* WMUA version only

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Bells & Whistles for August 21, 2014

Bells & 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
August 21, 2014
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SET ONE
Sheila Chandra: Quiet (2-4)
Quiet
Indipop Records/1996 (orig. LP/1984)
composers: Martin Smith, Steve Coe, Sheila Chandra; vocals, spoken bols and jathis, sargam, bells, water wok: Sheila Chandra; sitar, tamboura, dilruba: dharambir sing; gamelan, whispered hi-hat, water wok, bells, santoor, cabassa, shaker, wind chimes, cymbal gong: Preston Heyman; madhal: Dinesh; bass guitar, synthesizer, suramandel, sitar, bells, santoor, tamboura: Martin Smith; piano, eqtara, synthesizer, bells: Steve Coe; recorded at Indipop Studios, May 1984; total excerpts time: 14:00

Amarnath Mishra: Dhun in Dadra Tal
from Holi Duhn in Raga Mishra Khama
Raga Vachaspati
India Archive Music/2001
sitar: Amarnath Mishra; tabla: J. Massey; recorded at Matridham Ashram, Varanasi, India, February 9, 1994; time: 8:49

SET TWO
Pandit Kamalesh Maitra: Raag Bilaskhani Todi
Tabla Tarang -- Melody on Drums
Smithsonian Folkways/1996
tabla tarang: Pandit Kamalesh Maitra; tabla: Trilok Gurtu; tanpura: Laura Patchen; recorded at CMP Studio, Zerkall, Germany, February 1994; time: 12:13

Thao Vong and Thao Som:
a. Melodies for two khenes 1 (1:23)
b. Melodies for two khenes 2 (1:35)
c. Melodies for two khenes 3 (3:03)
The Music of Laos (various artists)
Rounder Anthology of World Music
Rounder Records/1999
khene pipes: Thao Vong, Thao Som; recorded in Ban Sikhai, Vientiane, Laos; time: 6:01

The Petch Phin Thong Band: Bump Lan Plearn
The Sound of Siam Volume 2 (various artists)
Molum & Luk Thung from Northeast Thailand 1970-1982
Soundway Records/2014
no credits specified; time: 3:00

SET THREE
The Piphat Mai Khaeng Ensemble: Sounds of the Surf Overture
(Pleng Homrong Kleun Kratob Fang)
Royal Court Music of Thailand
Smithsonian Folkways/1994
composer: His Majesty King Prajadhipok, Rama VII; the Piphat Mai Khaeng percussion ensemble [pi (oboe): Jakrayut Laisakul; ronad ek (treble xylophone): Dussadee Meerpom; khang wong yai (treble gongs): Songyot Kaewdee; khong wong lek (soprano gongs): Lumyong Sovat; klong (drums): Sahawat Pluempreecha, Tirapol Nointh; ching (cymbals): Surapong Bualuang; chab (large cymbals): Weerachat Sangkhaman; krab (clappers): Rattanprakorn Yanavaree]; recorded in Bangkok, 1994; time: 11:41

Gamelan Sangburni: The Way of Life
Smoking Cloves -- The Bamboo Gamelan of Sangburni
Interra Records/1996
Gamelan Sanburni recorded in Banjar Sanburni, Bali, Indonesia, August 1994; time: 10:15

SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: Even Wild Horses
Dance Music for Absent Drama
ACT I (9:02)
a. Scene 1 (A Decent and Honorable Mistake) [Samba] 3:06
b. Scene 2 (Rhythm of the Womb, Melody of the Grave) [Heartbeat Rhythm] 3:02
c. Scene 3 (Happy Birthday To You!) [Afro-Chinese Minuet] 2:53
ACT II (9:26)
a. Scene 1 (Nor These Lips Upon Your Eyes) [Rumba] 3:25
b. Scene 2 (Hunger, Thirst, Shout Dance!) [Naniga] (2:26)
c. Scene 3 (Land of Darkness and of Whirlwinds) [Slow, Fast, Wild!] 3:36
ACT III (5:31)
a. Scene 1 (Had I Not Once a Lovely Youth?) [Conga] 3:00
b. Scene 2 (Let Us Contemplate Undazed the Endless Reaches of My Innocence) [Tahitian Dance] 2:30
Plectra and Percussion Dances
Bridge Records/2014
PARTCH ensemble (ingredients may include -- diamond marimba, Eroica, cymbal: Erin Barnes; voice: Paul Berkoids; kithara: Alison Bjorkedahl; canon, surrogate kiethara, Eroica: Matt Cook; cloud chamber bowls, chromelodeon: David Johnson; saxophone: Ulrich Krieger; percussion: Yumi Lee; canon: Tom Peters; guitars, canons: John Schneider; adapted viola: Derek Stein; bowls, bass marimba, Eroica, fight bell: Nick Terry; bass marimba, voice: T.J. Roy; guitar, canons: Alex Wand); recorded at Disney Hall/Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, June 9, 2013; composition year: 1952; total time: 24:03

SET FOUR
Gong Ensemble of Desa Aur Sampuh:
Kanayatn
a. Kamang Siado (excerpt) [gong ensemble] 1:15
b. Tingkakok (demonstration) [gong row] 2:28
c. Baramutn (demonstration) [gong row] 1:20
Music of Indonesia Volume 17
Kalimantan -- Dayak Ritual and Festival Music
Smithsonian Folkways/1998
musicians of Senggar Amboo Bukit Talaga, directed by Manimas Miden; recorded in Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, 1995-1996 in collaborations with the Indonesian Society for the Performing Arts (MSPI); total excerpts time: 5:03

Abilum Lum: The Way of the Annual Fruits (The Longsat Tree)
Dream Songs and Healing Sounds in the Rainforests of Malaysia
Smithsonian Folkways/1995
recorded at the Kelantan River, Malaysia, September 9, 1982; time: 4:37

Jack Body: Musik Anak Anak (Children's Music)
Opus 30 Ans Musiques Compositeurs Vol. 1 (1970 - 1983) (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2002
(electroacoustic music, sourced from the sounds of Indonesian children singing, toys, found objects, and discarded materials); realized at GMEB (IMEB), Bourges, France, 1978; time: 13:15

Annea Lockwood: In Full Bloom (Part 1)
Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World
Pogus Productions/2007
conch shell, trombone, didjeridu: Art Baron; oboe, English horn: Libby Van Cleve; didjeridu: Jon Gibson; voice: Annea Lockwood; clarinet, contrabass clarinet: J.D. Parran; tam-tam, clapping sticks: Michael Pugliese; conch shell, frame drums, pod rattle, tam-tam: N. Scott Robinson; didjeridu, waterphone: John Snyder; tam-tam, stones: Charles Wood; trombone, didjeridu: Peter Zummo; composition year: 1990; time: 10:10

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Friday, August 15, 2014

Martian Gardens for August 17 & 20, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS

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Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 10, 2014
(extended edition 9:00 p.m. -- 12:11 a.m. EDT)

TAINTRADIO.ORG
webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: August 13, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY
Peter Van Zandt Lane: Hackpolitic, Act One, Scene II
Blackhat/whitehat
a. Topiary's contemplation (2:30)
b. Kayla and Sabu (3:41)
c. Anonymous Ensembles (3:04)
Hakcpolitic -- An Electroacoustic Ballet
Innova Recordings/2014
(for electroacoustic music and ensemble); Juventas New Music Ensemble; recorded at Fraser Studio, WGBH, Boston, 2014; time: 9:15

SET ONE
Burr Van Nostrand: Voyage in a White Building I
a. Whisper exquisitely, Cadenza (7:07)
b. Light and Edgy, Placid (3:35)
Voyage in a White Building I
New World Records/2013
vocalizations: Lautaro Mantilla; text: Hart Crane; New England Conservatory Ensemble, conductor: Anthony Coleman; recorded October 8, 2012; composition year: 1969; time: 10:42

J.K. Randall: BOBFEST -- Exs. D 4 & 5
I. Silent as a mirror is believed/Realities plunge in silence by (6:01)
II. It is to be learned - /This leaving and this burning (4:07)
III. Until the bright logic is won/Unwhistering as a Mirror/Is believed (2:59)
Robert Morris at 70 (various artists)
Compositions and Performances in Celebration
Open Space/2014
MIDI electronics: J.K. Randall; title texts: Hart Crane; time: 13:07

SET TWO
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII (various artsits)
Neuma Records/2006
electroacoustic music on tape: Robert Erickson (sound source: objects percussed with rods); composition year: 1966; time: 6:58

Annea Lockwood: selections from The Glass World
a. Rod Roll (1:03)
b. Micro Glass on Goblet (1:05)
c. Cullet: Two Glass Rocks (1:31)
d. Medium Mobile (2:31)
The Glass World

¿What Next? Recordings/1997 (original Tangent LP 1970)
glass objects played by Annea Lockwood from The Glass World concert series 1966-1973; total excerpts time: 6:10

Djalma Farias: Telas Sonoras No. 3
Música Eletroacústica Brasileira, Vol. III (various artists0
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/2004
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Brasilia, cello: Ocello Mendonça; composition year: 2002; time: 4:58

Madeleine Shapiro: Synchronisms No. 3 (M. Davidovsky)
Electricity - Works for Cello and Electronics
Albany Records/2004
(for cello and electronic sounds); composer: Mario Davidovsky; cello: Madeleine Shapiro; composition year: 1964; time: 5:19

SET THREE
Robert Scott Thompson: Gossamer
Lachrymose -- In Memoriam János Négyesy
Auccourant Records/2014
violin: János Négyesy; electronics: Robert Scott Thompson; composition years: 1989-2013; time: 11:31

Robert Scott Thompson: Liminal Worlds
Arcana
Relaxed Machinery/2014
electronics, synthesizers: Robert Scott Thompson; composition year: 2014; time: 5:32

Rapoon: The Summer Lies Heavy
Cultural Forgeries
Alrealon Musique/2014
cello, instruments: Robin Storey; time: 5:00

SET FOUR
Rapoon: Waters Reaching
Easterly 6 or 7
Staalplaat/1997
synthesizers, instruments: Robin Storey; time: 8:49

Erdem Helvacioğlu: Below the Cold Ocean
Wounded Breath
Aucourant Records/2008
(electroacoustic music); mastered at ITU MIAM Studios, Istanbul; composition year: 2007; time: 11:51

SET FIVE
Pierre Boeswillwald: Au fond, la mer est belle
Pierre Boeswillwald
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2006
(electroacoustic music); realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 15:51

Sten Hanson: Promenade dans la forêt
from the Peckos suite
Sten Hanson
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2001
(electroacoustic music); realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 1995; composition year: 1995; time: 4:04

SET SIX
John Cage: One⁴
The Works for Percussion 3
Mode Records/2014
(for solo percussion); drummer: D'Arcy Philip Gray; recorded at Sutton United Church, Sutton, Quebec, July 2008; composition year: 1990; time: 6:56

Tim Hodgkinson: Attaot
Onsets
Mode Records/2014
(for ensemble & electronic sound); percussion: Gustavo Aguilar, Petru Teodorescu, Alexander Lipowski; Hyperion Ensemble with members of Talea, clarinet, conducting: Tim Hodgkinson; recorded at Spectrum XXI Festival, October 13, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 8:53

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, France; composition year: 1996; time: 2:14

Joane Hétu: Fragment Territoire
La Femme territoire ou 21 fragments d'humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
objects, noises: Joane Hétu; flute: Jean Derome; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2011: time: 1:15

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Wireless Fantasy
Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-1972
New World Records/2007
(electronic music on tape, primary source: wireless code signals); realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1960; composition year: 1960; time: 4:36

SET SEVEN
Fritz Hauser: Deep Time (excerpt)
Deep Time
Deep Listening/2005
accordion, extended instrument system: Pauline Oliveros; extended instrument system, electronics, miscellaneous instruments: David Gamper; saxophones: Urs Leimgruber; percussion: Fritz Hauser; recorded in Basel, Switzerland, May 1991; style: experimental, improvisational; excerpt time: 6:00

Ursula Mamlok: Sonar Trajectory
Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
electronic music on magnetic tape: Ursula Mamlok; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966; composition year: 1966; time: 4:07

Pauline Oliveros: Something Else
No Mo
Pogus Productions/2002
electronic music (Layfette tone generators, noise source, tape delay): Pauline Oliveros; recorded at Electronic Music Studio of the University of Toronto, summer 1966; time: 13:51

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