Host: Max Shea
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EST
Webcast/Broadcast date: November 11, 2016
Length: Two hours
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EST
Webcast date: November 11, 2016
Length: Two hours
WMNB-LP 107.1 FM
North Adams, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EST
Webcast/Broadcast date: November 10, 2016
Length: Three hours
RADIO4ALL
Podcast: Download at your convenience!
Latest upload: November 9, 2016
Length: Three hours
PLAYLIST
Hour I
SINGLE PLAY
György Ligeti: Continuum für Cembalo
(Six Works by Ligeti)
Wergo/1988
harpsichord: Antoinette Vischer; composition year: 1968; time: 3:26
SINGLE PLAY
Gérard Grisey: Talea
MP3
Ensemble Dal Niente (flutes: Emma Hospelhorn; clarinets: Katie Schoepfin; violin: Ming Huan Xu; cello: Chris Wild; piano: Winston Choi); recorded at Western Michigan University, March 18, 2015; composition year: 1986; time: 18:12
SET ONE
Joel Gressel: Is it Serious?
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial (various composers)
Open Space/2012
computer music: Joel Gressel; composition year: 2010; time: 9:58
Robert Morris: Odds and Ends (I & II)
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial (various composers)
Open Space/2012
piano: Ashlee Mack; composition year: 1996; time: 3:30
J.C. Combs: The De-evolution of Adam & Eve
Bats in the Belfry -- 18 Bagatelles
NetNewMusic/2009
electric piano roll: J.C. Combs; composition year: 2009; time: 3:22
Noah Creshevsky: Talea
Man & Superman
Centaur Records/1992
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 1991; time: 8:15
SINGLE PLAY
Roland Auzet: Mecano 1 (P. Jodlowski)
Percussion (s) (various composers)
Mode Records/2008
percussion, machines: Roland Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, Paris; composer: Pierre Jodlowski; composition year: 2004; time: 6:37
Hour II
SET TWO
Carey Nutman: Colour Variations 1
Rivers Run Through It
MPS Music & Video/2016
electroacoustic music: Carey Nutman; composition year: 2016; time: 3:30
Matthew Burtner: Anemoi
MICE World Tour
EcoSono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble created by Matthew Burtner; cello: Zoe Kinney; soprano saxophone: M. Burtner; voice: W. Aniseh Khan Burtner; texts: Anaximenes of Miletus, Democritus, Aristotle, Theophrastus of Eresus, Titus Lucretius; real-time wind performance in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean; composition year: 2009; time: 5:11
Laurie Anderson: The Bardo
Heart of a Dog
Nonesuch/2015
voice, words, music: Laurie Anderson; recorded in New York City, 2015; time: 8:24
Triple Point: Several Other Notions
Phase/Transitions
Pogus Productions/2014
instruments, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Noort; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 3:18
SET THREE
Michael Vincent Waller: Anthems
The South Shore
XI Records/2015
cello: Christine Kim; piano: Yael Manor; recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers; composition year: 2014; time: 2:31
Meredith Monk: Water/Sky Rant
On Behalf of Nature
ECM/2016
voice: Meredith Monk; E-flat clarinet, Macauan bird calls, Burmese whistles, sallow flute: Bohdan Hilash; prepared vibraphone, cuica drum: John Hollenbeck; keyboard, violin: Allison Sniffin; harp: Laura Sherman; composition year: 2013; recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, June 2015; time: 5:48
Karen Gottlieb: In a Landscape (J. Cage)
Music for Harp
Innova Recordings/2015
harp: Karen Gottlieb; recorded 2014; composer: John Cage; composition year: 1949; time: 7:23
Musicians of Burma: Chauk Lon Bat Let Swan Bya
Improvisation on Chauk Lon Bat Drums
White Elephants and Golden Ducks
Shanachie/1997
chauk lon bat, siwa, cymbals; recorded at Khin Sabe Oo Studios, Rangoon, Burma, November 1996; time: 5:01
SINGLE PLAY
DuoJalal: Lamentatio (G. Sollima)
Shadow & Light -- The Rumi Experience
Bridge Records/2016
viola: Kathryn Lockwood; percussion: Yousif Sheronick; composer: Giovanni Sollima; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, New Jersey, composition year: 1998; time: 8:43
Hour III
SET FOUR
John Gibson: Day Trip
Traces
Innova Recordings/2016
electroacoustic music: John Gibson (source materials: field recordings of Chinatown, New York City); composition year: 2000; time: 8:52
Jon Gibson: Return (Return)
Relative Calm
New World Records/2016
saxophone: Jon Gibson; keyboards: Joseph Kubera; percussion: David Van Tieghem; recorded at Big Apple Recording Studio, New York City, 1980-1981; composition years: 1980, 1981; time: 16:54
SET FIVE
George Todd: Romance
Green Ideas Furiously Asleep
EMF/1996
Synclavier: George Todd; composition year: 1987; time: 8:29
Philip Glass: Spaceship
Einstein on the Beach
Elektra-Nonesuch/1993
solo voice: Kristin Norderval; flute: Jon Gibson; tenor saxophone: Richard Peck; bass clarinet: Andrew Sterman; violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; chorus; recorded at Looking Glass Studios, New York City, 1993; time: 12:51
SET SIX
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
The Minimalists (various composers)
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; composition year: 1986; time: 4:07
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Decertified Highway of Dreams II
Go, Blue
O.O. Discs/2000
Digital Music Ensemble of the University of Michigan; (soloists -- electric bassoon: Steve Newton, electric flute: Jessica Johnson), conductor: Stephen Rush; recorded at Ann Arbor, 2000; composer: BGT; composition year: 2000; time: 3:43
-- FIN --
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Martian Gardens Episode 863 (November 2016)
Host: Max Shea
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: November 4, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: November 4, 2016
WMNB-LP 107.1 FM
North Adams, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: November 3, 2016
RADIO4ALL
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Latest upload: October 31, 2016
Length: Three hours
PLAYLIST
hour one
SET ONE
William Duckworth: Prelude II
The Time Curve Preludes
Lovely Music, Ltd./1990
piano: Neely Bruce; composition year: 1983; time: 2:40
George Crumb: Makrokosmos Volume 1, Part One
a. Primeval Sounds (4:07)
b. Proteus (1:16)
c. Pastorale (from the Kingdom of Atlantis c. 10,000 B.C.) (1:56)
d. Crucifix [Symbol] (2:55)
Makrokosmos I & II
24 pieces after the Zodiac for amplified piano
Mode Records/2004
piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July 2003; composition years: 1972-1973; total time: 10:16
J.C. Combs: Drifting Lanterns
Bats in the Belfry -- 18 Bagatelles
NetNewMusic/2009
electric piano roll: J.C. Combs; time: 2:12
Ben Johnston: Special Plates
from The Tavern
Ruminations
MicroFest Records/2014
microtonal guitar, voice: John Schneider; text: Rumi; recorded at Studio 34, Los Angeles, 2010; composition year: 1998; time: 3:09
SET TWO
Stephen Dickman: Dissolver of Sugar
from Four for Tom
Who Says Words
New World Records/1999
baritone: Thomas Buckner; piano: Joseph Kubera; text: Rumi; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, composition year: 1997; time: 4:41
DuoJalal: Honey from Alast (E. Ziporyn)
a. Part I (4:20)
b. Part II (6:54)
Shadow & Light -- The Rumi Experience
Bridge Records/2016
viola: Kathryn Lockwood; percussion: Yousif Sheronick; composer: Evan Ziporyn; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, New Jersey, composition year: 2016; total time: 11:16
Mari Kimura: Mièle (H. Lash)
Harmonic Constellations (various composers)
Works for Violin & Electronics
New World Records/2016
violin, resonator patch: Mari Kimura; composer: Hannah Lash; recorded at Harvestworks Media Arts Center, New York City, June 2015, composition year: 2014; time: 4:24
SINGLE PLAY
Dieter Kaufmann: Le ciel et la terre
IMEB Opus 30 Ans Musiques Compositeurs (various artists)
Volume Two (1984--1999)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2003
electroacoustic music realized at GMEB (IMEB -- Bourges International Institute of Electroacoustic Music), Bourges, France, 1985; time: 11:00
hour two
SET THREE
Carey Nutman: 61st Parallel
Rivers Run Through It
MPS Music and Video/2016
electroacoustic music: Carey Nutman; time: 4:25
Tod Dockstader & James Reichert: Movement 3
Omniphony I
ReR Megacorp/2001
(musique concrete for chamber ensemble, processed ensemble, magnetic tape, and loudspeakers); instrumentalists: bassoon: Elias Carmen; cello: Harvey Shapiro; b-flat clarinet: Stanley Drucker; flute: Harvey Estrin; French horn: Joseph Singer; baritone horn: Abraham Pearlstein; oboe: Harry Shulman; percussion: Walter Rosenberger, Herbert Harris; piano, celesta: John Carter; timpani: Morris Lang; bass trombone: Richard Hixon; trumpet: Raymond Crisara. conductor: James Reichert; composed and recorded in 1966; time: 2:30
SET FOUR
Francis Dhomont: Drôles d’oiseaux
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
electroacoustic music: Francis Dhomont; realized at GMEB (IMEB), Bourges, Cher, France, and at the composer's studio, Avignon, France, 1985-1986; first version premiered at Festival Synthèse, Bourges, June 2, 1985; composition years: 1985, 1986, revised 2001; time: 14:51
(Happy 90th birthday, Francis Dhomont! b. November 2, 1926)
Gen Ken Montgomery: Birds & Machines (Bird Suite)
Birds + Machines (1980--1989)
Pogus Productions/2010
electronics, processors, noises: Gen Ken Montgomery; recorded in New York City, 1989; time: 8:05
SET FIVE
Steve Reich: Octet
Steve Reich -- The ECM Recordings
ECM/2016
pianos: Nuritt Tilles, Edmund Niemann; clarinets, bass clarinets, flutes, piccolos: Virgil Blackwell, Mort Silver; violins: Shem Guibbory, Robert Chausow; viola: Ruth Siegler; cello: Chris Finckel; recorded at Columbia Recordings Studios, New York City, February 1980; composition year: 1979 time: 17:29
Daniel Goode: Six Fractal Fingers
Clarinet Songs
XI Records/1993
clarinet: Daniel Goode; composition year: 1979; time: 3:14
hour three
SET FIVE
Steven Ricks: Geometria Situs
Young American Inventions
New Focus Recordings/2015
Hexnut band (mezzo-soprano: Michaela Riener; flutes: Ned McGowan; recorders: Susanna Borsch; trumpet: Anton Weeren; piano: Ere Lievonen); text: Stephen Tuttle; recorded at de Jong Concert Hall, Brigham Young University; September 25, 2013; time: 8:43
Patti Monson: Under the Rainbow (M. Rosenblum)
High Art
Albany Records/2003
(for flute, bass flute, piccolo, and computer-processed sound); flutes: Patti Monson; recorded at Joseph Patrych Sound Studios; composer: Mathew Rosenblum; composition year: 2002; time: 13:37
SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Dynamic RAM & Concert Grand
Ex Machina
Innova Recordings/2016
piano: Kathleen Supové; laptop: Neil Rolnick; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers; composition year: 2014; time: 30:13
SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: selections from ElecrtiCity
a. Connecticut Power & Light (4:11)
b. Central Vermont Public Service (2:35)
c. Boston Edison (2:00)
ElectriCity
O.O. Discs/1992
(for ensemble with digital processing); New York New Music Ensemble (flute: Jayn Rosenfeld; clarinet: Jean Kopperud; violin: Linda Quan; cello: Chris Finckel; synthesizers: James Winn, Daniel Druckman; digital processing: Neil Rolnick; conductor: Linda Bouchard); composition year: 1991; recorded at the iEAR Studios, Troy, New York, December 17, 1991; total selections time: 8:46
-- FIN --
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: November 4, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: November 4, 2016
WMNB-LP 107.1 FM
North Adams, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: November 3, 2016
RADIO4ALL
Podcast: Download at your convenience!
Latest upload: October 31, 2016
Length: Three hours
PLAYLIST
hour one
SET ONE
William Duckworth: Prelude II
The Time Curve Preludes
Lovely Music, Ltd./1990
piano: Neely Bruce; composition year: 1983; time: 2:40
George Crumb: Makrokosmos Volume 1, Part One
a. Primeval Sounds (4:07)
b. Proteus (1:16)
c. Pastorale (from the Kingdom of Atlantis c. 10,000 B.C.) (1:56)
d. Crucifix [Symbol] (2:55)
Makrokosmos I & II
24 pieces after the Zodiac for amplified piano
Mode Records/2004
piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July 2003; composition years: 1972-1973; total time: 10:16
J.C. Combs: Drifting Lanterns
Bats in the Belfry -- 18 Bagatelles
NetNewMusic/2009
electric piano roll: J.C. Combs; time: 2:12
Ben Johnston: Special Plates
from The Tavern
Ruminations
MicroFest Records/2014
microtonal guitar, voice: John Schneider; text: Rumi; recorded at Studio 34, Los Angeles, 2010; composition year: 1998; time: 3:09
SET TWO
Stephen Dickman: Dissolver of Sugar
from Four for Tom
Who Says Words
New World Records/1999
baritone: Thomas Buckner; piano: Joseph Kubera; text: Rumi; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, composition year: 1997; time: 4:41
DuoJalal: Honey from Alast (E. Ziporyn)
a. Part I (4:20)
b. Part II (6:54)
Shadow & Light -- The Rumi Experience
Bridge Records/2016
viola: Kathryn Lockwood; percussion: Yousif Sheronick; composer: Evan Ziporyn; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, New Jersey, composition year: 2016; total time: 11:16
Mari Kimura: Mièle (H. Lash)
Harmonic Constellations (various composers)
Works for Violin & Electronics
New World Records/2016
violin, resonator patch: Mari Kimura; composer: Hannah Lash; recorded at Harvestworks Media Arts Center, New York City, June 2015, composition year: 2014; time: 4:24
SINGLE PLAY
Dieter Kaufmann: Le ciel et la terre
IMEB Opus 30 Ans Musiques Compositeurs (various artists)
Volume Two (1984--1999)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2003
electroacoustic music realized at GMEB (IMEB -- Bourges International Institute of Electroacoustic Music), Bourges, France, 1985; time: 11:00
hour two
SET THREE
Carey Nutman: 61st Parallel
Rivers Run Through It
MPS Music and Video/2016
electroacoustic music: Carey Nutman; time: 4:25
Tod Dockstader & James Reichert: Movement 3
Omniphony I
ReR Megacorp/2001
(musique concrete for chamber ensemble, processed ensemble, magnetic tape, and loudspeakers); instrumentalists: bassoon: Elias Carmen; cello: Harvey Shapiro; b-flat clarinet: Stanley Drucker; flute: Harvey Estrin; French horn: Joseph Singer; baritone horn: Abraham Pearlstein; oboe: Harry Shulman; percussion: Walter Rosenberger, Herbert Harris; piano, celesta: John Carter; timpani: Morris Lang; bass trombone: Richard Hixon; trumpet: Raymond Crisara. conductor: James Reichert; composed and recorded in 1966; time: 2:30
SET FOUR
Francis Dhomont: Drôles d’oiseaux
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
electroacoustic music: Francis Dhomont; realized at GMEB (IMEB), Bourges, Cher, France, and at the composer's studio, Avignon, France, 1985-1986; first version premiered at Festival Synthèse, Bourges, June 2, 1985; composition years: 1985, 1986, revised 2001; time: 14:51
(Happy 90th birthday, Francis Dhomont! b. November 2, 1926)
Gen Ken Montgomery: Birds & Machines (Bird Suite)
Birds + Machines (1980--1989)
Pogus Productions/2010
electronics, processors, noises: Gen Ken Montgomery; recorded in New York City, 1989; time: 8:05
SET FIVE
Steve Reich: Octet
Steve Reich -- The ECM Recordings
ECM/2016
pianos: Nuritt Tilles, Edmund Niemann; clarinets, bass clarinets, flutes, piccolos: Virgil Blackwell, Mort Silver; violins: Shem Guibbory, Robert Chausow; viola: Ruth Siegler; cello: Chris Finckel; recorded at Columbia Recordings Studios, New York City, February 1980; composition year: 1979 time: 17:29
Daniel Goode: Six Fractal Fingers
Clarinet Songs
XI Records/1993
clarinet: Daniel Goode; composition year: 1979; time: 3:14
hour three
SET FIVE
Steven Ricks: Geometria Situs
Young American Inventions
New Focus Recordings/2015
Hexnut band (mezzo-soprano: Michaela Riener; flutes: Ned McGowan; recorders: Susanna Borsch; trumpet: Anton Weeren; piano: Ere Lievonen); text: Stephen Tuttle; recorded at de Jong Concert Hall, Brigham Young University; September 25, 2013; time: 8:43
Patti Monson: Under the Rainbow (M. Rosenblum)
High Art
Albany Records/2003
(for flute, bass flute, piccolo, and computer-processed sound); flutes: Patti Monson; recorded at Joseph Patrych Sound Studios; composer: Mathew Rosenblum; composition year: 2002; time: 13:37
SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Dynamic RAM & Concert Grand
Ex Machina
Innova Recordings/2016
piano: Kathleen Supové; laptop: Neil Rolnick; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers; composition year: 2014; time: 30:13
SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: selections from ElecrtiCity
a. Connecticut Power & Light (4:11)
b. Central Vermont Public Service (2:35)
c. Boston Edison (2:00)
ElectriCity
O.O. Discs/1992
(for ensemble with digital processing); New York New Music Ensemble (flute: Jayn Rosenfeld; clarinet: Jean Kopperud; violin: Linda Quan; cello: Chris Finckel; synthesizers: James Winn, Daniel Druckman; digital processing: Neil Rolnick; conductor: Linda Bouchard); composition year: 1991; recorded at the iEAR Studios, Troy, New York, December 17, 1991; total selections time: 8:46
-- FIN --
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Martian Gardens Episode 862 (October 2016)
Host: Max Shea
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: October 28, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 28, 2016
WMNB-LP 107.1 FM
North Adams, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: October 27, 2016
RADIO4ALL
Podcast: Download at your convenience!
Latest upload: October 22, 2016
Length: Three hours
hour one
SINGLE PLAY
Otto Luening: Fantasy in Space
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
created at the home of Henry Cowell, Woodstock, NY, 1952; time: 2:51
SET ONE
Beatriz Ferreyra: Les chemins du vent des glaces (Path of the icy wind)
Les Saisons (GMEB 1972 -- IMEB 2002) [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2002
electroacoustic music realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 2002; time: 11:00
Jon Christopher Nelson: Flights of Fancy
Electroacoustic Works
CD-R/2005
for tape and fireworks; composition year: 1999; premiered at the Murcheson Performing Arts Complex, University of North Texast, Denton, February 20, 1999; time: 6:46
Leopoldo La Rosa: Andes No. 1 (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
SET TWO
Roxanne Turcotte: Poussière d’étoiles (Stardust)
a. Regard étoilé [Starry Look] (3:25)
b. Regard intérieur [Inner Look] (3:51)
c. Regard en voyage [Travelling Look] (2:09)
Libellune
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music on stereo tape; realized at the composer’s studio (Productions RTM), Montreal, 2002, with the help of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. It was premiered on the composer’s website, June 2002; total time: 9:23
Triple Point: Morphotropic
Phase/Transistions
Pogus Productions/2014
instruments, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Noort; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 3:28
Joane Hétu: La Territoire
La Femme territoire ou 21 fragments d’humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
conductor, voice, objects, melodica: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; accordion, voice: Alice Tougas St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussions, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; text (b): Joane Hétu; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012
Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975; time: 7:23
hour two
SET THREE
Carey Nutman: Slow Flight Over the Aletsch Glacier
Rivers Run Through It
MPS Music & Video/2016
electroacoustic music: Carey Nutman; time: 14:23
Phil Kline: The Housatonic at Henry Street
Around the World in a Daze
Starkland/2009
electronica + boombox orchestra: Phil Kline; time: 4:46
SET FOUR
Shartse College of Ganden Monastery: Kabsumpa --
The Three Occasions, Tribute to Buddha by Tsongkhapa
Tibetan Buddhism
Bridge Records/1989
Shartse College of Ganden Monastery, chant master: Ven. Lobsang Tenzin; recorded at Shartse Dratsang, Ganden Monastery, Mundgod, Karnataka, South India, February 1987; time: 9:02
Miya Masaoka: The Long Road
Triangle of Resistance
Innova Recordings/2016
violins: Jennifer Choi, Esther Nah; viola: David Wallace; cello: Alex Waterman; percussion, Buddhist prayer singing bowls, gongs, taiko, changgu: Satoshi Takeishi; koto: Miya Masaoka; analog modular synthesizer: Ben Vida; conductor: Richard Carrick; recorded at the Roulette, Brooklyn, New York, November 17, 2013; time: 12:23
SET FIVE
John Cage:
a. Souvenir (6:50)
b. Chester L.M. (1:09)
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at the Nederluleå Church, Gammelstad, Luleå, Sweden, 2007; a. composition year: 1983; b. from "Some of 'The Harmony of Maine,'" composer: Supply Belcher, arr. John Cage (1978); total selections time: 8:00
hour three
Walter Zimmermann: 10 Fränkische Tänze
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012
(sublimated for string quartet); string quartet/drone quartet: Sonar Quartett (violins: Suanne Zapf, Kirsten Harms; viola: Nikolaus Schlierf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt); recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin-Lankowitz, Germany, February 2011; composition year: 1977; time: 12:56
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Carl: The Geography of Loss
a. Anxiety Overture (1:49)
b. Chorale 1 (1:32)
c. Portrait 1/Chorale 2a/Portrait 2/Chorale 2b (3:53)
d. Fear No (5:27)
e. Last Words (3:51)
f. Chorale 3 (1:35)
g. Double Portrait (1:41)
h. Going Solo (6:02)
The Geography of Loss
New World Records/2016
KHORIKOS ensemble, conductor: Jesse Mark Peckham; recorded at the Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua, New York City, March 9, 2013; composition year: 2010; texts: Robert A. Carl; William Shakespeare, "Cymbeline," Act IV, Scne II; total time: 25:51
SINGLE PLAY
Gunther Schuller: Concerto No. 2 (for contrabass tuba and orchestra)
I. Adagio (4:04)
II. Allegro moderato (3:33)
III. Adagio (Arioso) (4:02)
IV. Molto moderato; Allegro energico (7:24)
Transformations (various composers)
Bridge Records/2016
tuba: Aaron Tindall; Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Jeffrey Meyer; recorded at Ford Hall, Ithaca College, New York, November 2014; composition year: 2008; total time: 19:04
-- FIN --
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: October 28, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 28, 2016
WMNB-LP 107.1 FM
North Adams, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: October 27, 2016
RADIO4ALL
Podcast: Download at your convenience!
Latest upload: October 22, 2016
Length: Three hours
hour one
SINGLE PLAY
Otto Luening: Fantasy in Space
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
created at the home of Henry Cowell, Woodstock, NY, 1952; time: 2:51
SET ONE
Beatriz Ferreyra: Les chemins du vent des glaces (Path of the icy wind)
Les Saisons (GMEB 1972 -- IMEB 2002) [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2002
electroacoustic music realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 2002; time: 11:00
Jon Christopher Nelson: Flights of Fancy
Electroacoustic Works
CD-R/2005
for tape and fireworks; composition year: 1999; premiered at the Murcheson Performing Arts Complex, University of North Texast, Denton, February 20, 1999; time: 6:46
Leopoldo La Rosa: Andes No. 1 (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
SET TWO
Roxanne Turcotte: Poussière d’étoiles (Stardust)
a. Regard étoilé [Starry Look] (3:25)
b. Regard intérieur [Inner Look] (3:51)
c. Regard en voyage [Travelling Look] (2:09)
Libellune
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music on stereo tape; realized at the composer’s studio (Productions RTM), Montreal, 2002, with the help of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. It was premiered on the composer’s website, June 2002; total time: 9:23
Triple Point: Morphotropic
Phase/Transistions
Pogus Productions/2014
instruments, electronics: Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Noort; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 3:28
Joane Hétu: La Territoire
La Femme territoire ou 21 fragments d’humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
conductor, voice, objects, melodica: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; accordion, voice: Alice Tougas St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussions, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; text (b): Joane Hétu; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012
Tom Hamilton: Girnar
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Professional Artist Recordings, St. Louis, 1975; time: 7:23
hour two
SET THREE
Carey Nutman: Slow Flight Over the Aletsch Glacier
Rivers Run Through It
MPS Music & Video/2016
electroacoustic music: Carey Nutman; time: 14:23
Phil Kline: The Housatonic at Henry Street
Around the World in a Daze
Starkland/2009
electronica + boombox orchestra: Phil Kline; time: 4:46
SET FOUR
Shartse College of Ganden Monastery: Kabsumpa --
The Three Occasions, Tribute to Buddha by Tsongkhapa
Tibetan Buddhism
Bridge Records/1989
Shartse College of Ganden Monastery, chant master: Ven. Lobsang Tenzin; recorded at Shartse Dratsang, Ganden Monastery, Mundgod, Karnataka, South India, February 1987; time: 9:02
Miya Masaoka: The Long Road
Triangle of Resistance
Innova Recordings/2016
violins: Jennifer Choi, Esther Nah; viola: David Wallace; cello: Alex Waterman; percussion, Buddhist prayer singing bowls, gongs, taiko, changgu: Satoshi Takeishi; koto: Miya Masaoka; analog modular synthesizer: Ben Vida; conductor: Richard Carrick; recorded at the Roulette, Brooklyn, New York, November 17, 2013; time: 12:23
SET FIVE
John Cage:
a. Souvenir (6:50)
b. Chester L.M. (1:09)
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at the Nederluleå Church, Gammelstad, Luleå, Sweden, 2007; a. composition year: 1983; b. from "Some of 'The Harmony of Maine,'" composer: Supply Belcher, arr. John Cage (1978); total selections time: 8:00
hour three
Walter Zimmermann: 10 Fränkische Tänze
Songs of Innocence & Experience
Mode Records/2012
(sublimated for string quartet); string quartet/drone quartet: Sonar Quartett (violins: Suanne Zapf, Kirsten Harms; viola: Nikolaus Schlierf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt); recorded at Siemens-Villa Berlin-Lankowitz, Germany, February 2011; composition year: 1977; time: 12:56
SINGLE PLAY
Robert Carl: The Geography of Loss
a. Anxiety Overture (1:49)
b. Chorale 1 (1:32)
c. Portrait 1/Chorale 2a/Portrait 2/Chorale 2b (3:53)
d. Fear No (5:27)
e. Last Words (3:51)
f. Chorale 3 (1:35)
g. Double Portrait (1:41)
h. Going Solo (6:02)
The Geography of Loss
New World Records/2016
KHORIKOS ensemble, conductor: Jesse Mark Peckham; recorded at the Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua, New York City, March 9, 2013; composition year: 2010; texts: Robert A. Carl; William Shakespeare, "Cymbeline," Act IV, Scne II; total time: 25:51
SINGLE PLAY
Gunther Schuller: Concerto No. 2 (for contrabass tuba and orchestra)
I. Adagio (4:04)
II. Allegro moderato (3:33)
III. Adagio (Arioso) (4:02)
IV. Molto moderato; Allegro energico (7:24)
Transformations (various composers)
Bridge Records/2016
tuba: Aaron Tindall; Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Jeffrey Meyer; recorded at Ford Hall, Ithaca College, New York, November 2014; composition year: 2008; total time: 19:04
-- FIN --
Monday, October 10, 2016
Martian Gardens, Episode 861 (October 2016)
Host: Max Shea
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: October 14, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 14, 2016
WMNB-LP 107.1 FM
North Adams, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: October 13, 2016
RADIO4ALL
Podcast: Download at your convenience!
Latest upload: October 14, 2016
Length: Three hours
hour one
SINGLE PLAY
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
SET ONE
Ralph Samuelson: Three Songs of Shide (Bun-Ching, L.)
The Universal Flute
Innova Recordings/2016
shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; kugo harp: Tomoko Sugwara; recorded at EastSide Sound, New York City, 2015; composer: Bun-Ching Lam; composition year: 2; time: 6:26
Karen Gottlieb: Suite for Cello and Harp (L. Harrison)
a. Chorale (1:43)
b. Pastorale (3:12)
c. Interlude (1:14)
d. Aria (5:30)
e. Chorale (1:50)
Music for Harp
Innova Recordings/2015
harp: Karen Gottlieb; cello: Dan Reiter; composer: Lou Harrison; composition year: 1949; recorded in 2014; time: 13:34
SET TWO
Elizabeth Brown: Piranesi
Mirage
New World Records/2013
(for theremin and string quartet); theremin: Elizabeth Brown; The Momenta Quartet (violins: Annaliessa Place; Sharon Roffman; viola: Stephanie Griffin; cello: Joanne Lin; recorded March 27, 2008, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn; composition year: 2007; time: 13:50
Christopher Shultis: Gesturing Hands
An Illusion of Desire
Neuma Records/2016
theremin: Christopher Shultis; composition year: 1992; time: 7:35
SET THREE
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
Daniel Eichenbaum: Car Accident
60 x 60 2004 (various artists)
Capstone Records -- Vox Novus/2004
sound collage: Daniel Eichenbaum; time: 1:00
hour two
Sarah Boothroyd: Power and Freedom
MP3
sound collage (recordings of protests, protest marches): Sarah Boothroyd; composition year: 2010; time: 5:40
Coil: Herald
Horse Rotorvator
Some Bizzare/1997 (orig. Force & Form LP/1986)
sound collage (Mexican marching band, crowd noises): John Balance, Peter Christopherson; time: 1:03
Emmanuel Madan: Freedom Highway (excerpt)
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Arts Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
sound collage (Christian radio broadcasts, American religious commentary): Emmanuel Madan; composition year: 2003; time: 6:46
Steven Ricks: Ossifying (Keeping us from...)
Young American Inventions
New Focus Recordings/2015
electroacoustic music; composition year: 2012; time: 3:00
SET FOUR
Matthew Burtner and MICE: Sandprints
MICE World Tour
EcoSono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble created by Matthew Burtner; sounds on Sandprints: Microphones in the Nambian Desert, performers whistling; composition year: 2009; time: 6:59
Philip Mantione: Earthquake V2
Salvatore
Philip Mantione/2013
synthesizer, MAX/MSP programming, earthquake data: Philip Mantione; composition year: 2013
time: 10:03
Philip Perkins: Water4
It Gets the Corners
Fun Music/2016
electroacoustic music: Philip Perkins; recorded at the composer's studio, San Francisco; composition years: 2014-2015; time: 2:17
SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Ear-Walking Woman
Ground of Being
Recital Records/2014
prepared piano with amplification: Lois Svard; composition year: 1996; time: 16:56
hour three
SINGLE PLAY
Ulrich Krieger: V.
[urban dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for church organ with mechanical registers); organ: Johannes Uhle; recorded at Evangelische Stadtkirche Böblingen, Germany, 2001; composition year: 2001; time: 21:00
SET FIVE
Sten Hanson: La Ultima Palabra De Amor
Electroacoustic Music by Sten Hanson
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2001
electroacoustic music, tango samples: Sten Hanson; realized at IMEB, Bourges; composition year: 1994; time: 7:40
Robert Scott Thompson: Radiance
Lachrymose
In Memoriam János Négyesy
Aucourant Records/2014
electroacoustic music: Robert Scott Thompson; composition year: 2013; time: 16:00
SET SIX
Barney Childs: Any Five
Heaven to Clear when Day did Close
New World Records/2016
flute, piccolo: Nancy Turetzky; bass clarinet, bassoon: Philip Rehfeldt; contrabass: Bertram Turetzky; percussion: Ron George; piano: David Ward-Steinman; recorded at the University of California Redlands, January 2001; composition year: 1965; time: 7:58
George Crumb: The Sleeper
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 17
Bridge Records/2016
mezzo-soprano: Ann Crumb; amplified piano: Marcantonio Barone; recorded at Swarthmore College, July 28, 2013; composition year: 1984; time: 4:50
-- FIN --
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: October 14, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 14, 2016
WMNB-LP 107.1 FM
North Adams, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast/Broadcast date: October 13, 2016
RADIO4ALL
Podcast: Download at your convenience!
Latest upload: October 14, 2016
Length: Three hours
hour one
SINGLE PLAY
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
SET ONE
Ralph Samuelson: Three Songs of Shide (Bun-Ching, L.)
The Universal Flute
Innova Recordings/2016
shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; kugo harp: Tomoko Sugwara; recorded at EastSide Sound, New York City, 2015; composer: Bun-Ching Lam; composition year: 2; time: 6:26
Karen Gottlieb: Suite for Cello and Harp (L. Harrison)
a. Chorale (1:43)
b. Pastorale (3:12)
c. Interlude (1:14)
d. Aria (5:30)
e. Chorale (1:50)
Music for Harp
Innova Recordings/2015
harp: Karen Gottlieb; cello: Dan Reiter; composer: Lou Harrison; composition year: 1949; recorded in 2014; time: 13:34
SET TWO
Elizabeth Brown: Piranesi
Mirage
New World Records/2013
(for theremin and string quartet); theremin: Elizabeth Brown; The Momenta Quartet (violins: Annaliessa Place; Sharon Roffman; viola: Stephanie Griffin; cello: Joanne Lin; recorded March 27, 2008, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn; composition year: 2007; time: 13:50
Christopher Shultis: Gesturing Hands
An Illusion of Desire
Neuma Records/2016
theremin: Christopher Shultis; composition year: 1992; time: 7:35
SET THREE
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
Daniel Eichenbaum: Car Accident
60 x 60 2004 (various artists)
Capstone Records -- Vox Novus/2004
sound collage: Daniel Eichenbaum; time: 1:00
hour two
Sarah Boothroyd: Power and Freedom
MP3
sound collage (recordings of protests, protest marches): Sarah Boothroyd; composition year: 2010; time: 5:40
Coil: Herald
Horse Rotorvator
Some Bizzare/1997 (orig. Force & Form LP/1986)
sound collage (Mexican marching band, crowd noises): John Balance, Peter Christopherson; time: 1:03
Emmanuel Madan: Freedom Highway (excerpt)
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Arts Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
sound collage (Christian radio broadcasts, American religious commentary): Emmanuel Madan; composition year: 2003; time: 6:46
Steven Ricks: Ossifying (Keeping us from...)
Young American Inventions
New Focus Recordings/2015
electroacoustic music; composition year: 2012; time: 3:00
SET FOUR
Matthew Burtner and MICE: Sandprints
MICE World Tour
EcoSono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble created by Matthew Burtner; sounds on Sandprints: Microphones in the Nambian Desert, performers whistling; composition year: 2009; time: 6:59
Philip Mantione: Earthquake V2
Salvatore
Philip Mantione/2013
synthesizer, MAX/MSP programming, earthquake data: Philip Mantione; composition year: 2013
time: 10:03
Philip Perkins: Water4
It Gets the Corners
Fun Music/2016
electroacoustic music: Philip Perkins; recorded at the composer's studio, San Francisco; composition years: 2014-2015; time: 2:17
SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Ear-Walking Woman
Ground of Being
Recital Records/2014
prepared piano with amplification: Lois Svard; composition year: 1996; time: 16:56
hour three
SINGLE PLAY
Ulrich Krieger: V.
[urban dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for church organ with mechanical registers); organ: Johannes Uhle; recorded at Evangelische Stadtkirche Böblingen, Germany, 2001; composition year: 2001; time: 21:00
SET FIVE
Sten Hanson: La Ultima Palabra De Amor
Electroacoustic Music by Sten Hanson
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2001
electroacoustic music, tango samples: Sten Hanson; realized at IMEB, Bourges; composition year: 1994; time: 7:40
Robert Scott Thompson: Radiance
Lachrymose
In Memoriam János Négyesy
Aucourant Records/2014
electroacoustic music: Robert Scott Thompson; composition year: 2013; time: 16:00
SET SIX
Barney Childs: Any Five
Heaven to Clear when Day did Close
New World Records/2016
flute, piccolo: Nancy Turetzky; bass clarinet, bassoon: Philip Rehfeldt; contrabass: Bertram Turetzky; percussion: Ron George; piano: David Ward-Steinman; recorded at the University of California Redlands, January 2001; composition year: 1965; time: 7:58
George Crumb: The Sleeper
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 17
Bridge Records/2016
mezzo-soprano: Ann Crumb; amplified piano: Marcantonio Barone; recorded at Swarthmore College, July 28, 2013; composition year: 1984; time: 4:50
-- FIN --
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Martian Gardens, October 7, 2016
Host: Max Shea
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 7, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 7, 2016
WMNB-LP
North Adams, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EDT
RADIO4ALL
Podcast: Download at your convenience!
Latest upload: October 6, 2016
Length: Two hours
hour one
SINGLE PLAY
Lee Noyes & J.C. Combs: Girl in the Wave
Confessions of a Deviant Machine
Con-V Edition/2011
percussion, prepared piano, electronics, processing: Lee Noyes; electronics, piano, processing: J.C. Combs; recorded in Dunedin, Arizona, and Seattle, Washington, 2009-2011; time: 3:16
SET ONE
Philip Perkins: Egg3
It Gets the Corners
Fun Music/2016
electroacoustic music; composition years: 2014-2016; time: 1:31
Philip Corner: At Cambridge, MA
Metal Meditations
Alga Marghen/1997
percussion, objects, noises: Philip Corner; recorded at the Avant Garde Festival, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 20, 1978; time 4:23
Adrian Moore: Junky
Traces
empreintes DIGITALes/2000
electroacoustic music on stereo tape; realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, April - June, 1996; premiered at Darlington International Summer School, 1996; time: 12:13
SET TWO
Josef Tal: Piano Concerto No. 6
Israeli Electroacoustic Music (various artists)
Folkways/1981
(for piano and electronic sounds); piano: Jonathan Zak; recorded at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; produced by Robin Julian Heifetz; composition year: 1962; time: 14:11
Mario Davidovsky: Synchronism No. 6
MP3
(for piano and electronic sounds) piano: Chen-Hui Jen; recorded at the FIU Music Hall, Florida International University, Miami, February 20, 2014; composition year: 1970; time: 7:14
SET THREE
Orlando Jacinto Garcia: El sonido dulce de tu voz
Exchange Latin America (various artists)
CRI/2000
The Florida International University Concert Choir, conductor: John Augenblick; recorded at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Miami, March 9, 1999; composition year: 1991; time: 6:45
Philip Blackburn: Habanera, part 11 (excerpt)
Habanera -- A Sound Walk Through Old Havana
Innova Recordings/2004
field recordings: Philip Blackburn; excerpt time: 0:46
hour two
Tania León: Horizon
Singin' Sepia
Bridge Records/2008
NDR Sinfonie Orchester; conductor: Peter Ruzicka; recorded in Hamburg, Germany, July 2, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 8:56
SET FOUR
David Mahler:
selections from Day Creek Piano Music and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field
a. Chorale (Godspeed the Plough!, verse 2) (0:25)
b. Cascades (Day Creek Piano Music V) (14:35)
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
voices: Julie Hanify; David Mahler, Nurit Tilles; piano: Nurit Tilles; chorale excerpted from "Songs and Ballads for People, VIII. God Speed the Plough!," Rev. John Mason Neale, published 1843, arr. David Mahler; Day Creek Piano Music, composition year: 1995; total time: 15:00
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; composition year: 1978; time: 8:52
SET FIVE
Henry Brant: October 10, 1780, The Great Hurricane
The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 5 -- Autumn Hurricanes
Innova Recordings/2007
from Autumn Hurricanes: A special cantata for widely separated vocal and instrumental groups performed by musicians and vocalists of Stetson University, chief conductor: Henry Brant; performed at Stetson University, Deland, Florida, April 26, 1986; composition year: 1986; time: 7:28
Luigi Nono: Lemuria (after Ovid)
from Gua si gelidi mostri (Woe betide cold monsters)
Luigi Nono 3
Montaigne/1995
(for flute, clarinet, tuba, two contralto voices, viola, cello, double bass, and live electronic processing); directors: Roberto Cecconi, Luigi Nono; recorded at the West German Radio Studios, Cologne, October 23, 1983; text: Massimo Cacciari; inspired by the works of Emilio Vedova, Ovid, Ezra Pound, Nietzsche, Rainer Rilke, Gottfried Benn,Carlo Michelstaedter, Lucretius, and Franz Rosenzweig; composition year: 1983; excerpt time: 8:01
Heiner Goebbels: In the Country of Last Things
Surrogate Cities
ECM Records/2000
(for vocals and orchestra) vocals: Jocelyn B. Smith ; narrator: David Moss; text: Paul Auster (Le Voyage D'Anna Blume); Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, conductor: Peter Rundel; recorded at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, 1996; composition year: 1994; time: 5:14
-- FIN--
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 7, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: October 7, 2016
WMNB-LP
North Adams, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EDT
RADIO4ALL
Podcast: Download at your convenience!
Latest upload: October 6, 2016
Length: Two hours
hour one
SINGLE PLAY
Lee Noyes & J.C. Combs: Girl in the Wave
Confessions of a Deviant Machine
Con-V Edition/2011
percussion, prepared piano, electronics, processing: Lee Noyes; electronics, piano, processing: J.C. Combs; recorded in Dunedin, Arizona, and Seattle, Washington, 2009-2011; time: 3:16
SET ONE
Philip Perkins: Egg3
It Gets the Corners
Fun Music/2016
electroacoustic music; composition years: 2014-2016; time: 1:31
Philip Corner: At Cambridge, MA
Metal Meditations
Alga Marghen/1997
percussion, objects, noises: Philip Corner; recorded at the Avant Garde Festival, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 20, 1978; time 4:23
Adrian Moore: Junky
Traces
empreintes DIGITALes/2000
electroacoustic music on stereo tape; realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, April - June, 1996; premiered at Darlington International Summer School, 1996; time: 12:13
SET TWO
Josef Tal: Piano Concerto No. 6
Israeli Electroacoustic Music (various artists)
Folkways/1981
(for piano and electronic sounds); piano: Jonathan Zak; recorded at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; produced by Robin Julian Heifetz; composition year: 1962; time: 14:11
Mario Davidovsky: Synchronism No. 6
MP3
(for piano and electronic sounds) piano: Chen-Hui Jen; recorded at the FIU Music Hall, Florida International University, Miami, February 20, 2014; composition year: 1970; time: 7:14
SET THREE
Orlando Jacinto Garcia: El sonido dulce de tu voz
Exchange Latin America (various artists)
CRI/2000
The Florida International University Concert Choir, conductor: John Augenblick; recorded at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Miami, March 9, 1999; composition year: 1991; time: 6:45
Philip Blackburn: Habanera, part 11 (excerpt)
Habanera -- A Sound Walk Through Old Havana
Innova Recordings/2004
field recordings: Philip Blackburn; excerpt time: 0:46
hour two
Tania León: Horizon
Singin' Sepia
Bridge Records/2008
NDR Sinfonie Orchester; conductor: Peter Ruzicka; recorded in Hamburg, Germany, July 2, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 8:56
SET FOUR
David Mahler:
selections from Day Creek Piano Music and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field
a. Chorale (Godspeed the Plough!, verse 2) (0:25)
b. Cascades (Day Creek Piano Music V) (14:35)
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
voices: Julie Hanify; David Mahler, Nurit Tilles; piano: Nurit Tilles; chorale excerpted from "Songs and Ballads for People, VIII. God Speed the Plough!," Rev. John Mason Neale, published 1843, arr. David Mahler; Day Creek Piano Music, composition year: 1995; total time: 15:00
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; composition year: 1978; time: 8:52
SET FIVE
Henry Brant: October 10, 1780, The Great Hurricane
The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 5 -- Autumn Hurricanes
Innova Recordings/2007
from Autumn Hurricanes: A special cantata for widely separated vocal and instrumental groups performed by musicians and vocalists of Stetson University, chief conductor: Henry Brant; performed at Stetson University, Deland, Florida, April 26, 1986; composition year: 1986; time: 7:28
Luigi Nono: Lemuria (after Ovid)
from Gua si gelidi mostri (Woe betide cold monsters)
Luigi Nono 3
Montaigne/1995
(for flute, clarinet, tuba, two contralto voices, viola, cello, double bass, and live electronic processing); directors: Roberto Cecconi, Luigi Nono; recorded at the West German Radio Studios, Cologne, October 23, 1983; text: Massimo Cacciari; inspired by the works of Emilio Vedova, Ovid, Ezra Pound, Nietzsche, Rainer Rilke, Gottfried Benn,Carlo Michelstaedter, Lucretius, and Franz Rosenzweig; composition year: 1983; excerpt time: 8:01
Heiner Goebbels: In the Country of Last Things
Surrogate Cities
ECM Records/2000
(for vocals and orchestra) vocals: Jocelyn B. Smith ; narrator: David Moss; text: Paul Auster (Le Voyage D'Anna Blume); Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, conductor: Peter Rundel; recorded at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, 1996; composition year: 1994; time: 5:14
-- FIN--
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Martian Gardens, September 30, 2016
Host: Max Shea
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 30, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 30, 2016
Coming soon: Downloadable Martian Gardens podcast
hour one
First four selections in memoriam Don Buchla,
April 18, 1937 -- September 16, 2016
SET ONE
Arthur Kreiger: Voyage
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
Buchla Synthesizers, electronics: Arthur Kreiger; premiered at the WBAI Free Music Store, New York City, October 10, 1976; time: 5:00
David Rosenboom:
a. Nazca Liftoff (2:20)
b. Desert Night Touchdown (5:10)
Future Travel
New World Records/2007 (orig. Street LP 1981)
voice: Jacqueline Humbert; keyboards, computers, text: David Rosenboom; recorded at Zoetrope Studios, San Francisco, 1981; composition year: 1981; time: 7:30
SINGLE PLAY
Suzanne Ciani: Concert at Phil Niblock's Loft
Buchla Concerts 1975
Finders Keepers Records/2016
Buchla synthesizers: Suzanne Ciani: time: 20:00
SET TWO
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works 1974 - 1980
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
extended vocals, electroacoustic vocals, respirations, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusic Festival, Berlin, October 22, 1978; time: 13:18
David Behrman: ...for nearly an hour... (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set (various artists)
New World Records/2010
voices: Valda Setterfeld, Carolyn Brown, Barbara Dilley Lloyd, Beverly Emmons; recorded at SUNY Buffalo, March 10, 1968, for the dance Walkaround Time, choreographer: Merce Cunningham; excerpt time: 3:23
Meredith Monk: Chinook Whispers
Facing North
ECM/1992
vocalizations: Meredith Monk; time: 0:32
hour two
SET FOUR
Eric Chasalow: Variations 5 (from Seven Variations on Three Spaces)
Are You Radioactive, Pal?
Suspicious Motives Records/2015
electroacoustic music; composition year: 1999; time: 0:57
Noah Creshevsky: Independence Day
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik Records/2007
electroacoustic music; composition year: 1997; time: 6:29
Philip Perkins: Q6153
It Gets the Corners
Philip Perkins/2016
electroacoustic music; composition years: 2014-2016; time: 2:36
Philip Mantione: Climatology
Random 26
Scattered Music/1999
samples, sound collage, recorder: Philip Mantione; composition year: 1999; time: 6:01
R. Weis: Dog Choir
Dog Choir CD-R
R. Weis/2003
dog noises recorded by Robert Weis; processing: Robert Weis; premiered at the Pour L'Amour des Chiens," Mona Bismarck Foundations, Paris, summer 2003; time: 3:00
George Hurd: All Falling Apart
Navigation Without Numbers
Innova Recordings/2016
prepared pianos: George Hurd; recorded in San Francisco; time: 2:12
SET FIVE
Manuella Blackburn: Kitchen Alchemy
Formes Audibles
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music (sound sources: kitchen utensils and devices); realized at the electroacoustic music studios of the University of Manchester; premiered at the MANTIS South-North Festival, March 11, 2007; composition year: 2007; time: 11:31
Andrew Cyrille Quartet: Sanctuary
The Declaration of Musical Independence
ECM/2016
guitar: Bill Frissell; double bass: Ben Street; drums, percussion: Andrew Cyrille; synthesizer, piano: Richard Teitelbaum; recorded at Brooklyn Recording, July 2014; time: 4:16
Adam Rudolph/Go: Organic Orchestra: Dance Drama Part 3 (Green)
Can You Imagine...The Sound of a Dream
Meta Records/2011
Go: Organic Orchestra, conductor: Adam Rudolph; recorded live at Roulette Intermedium, New York City, 2010; time: 6:06
SET SIX
Marc Chan: My Wounded Head 3
a. mm. 36-49 (2:44)
b. mm. 50-70 (3:57)
My Wounded Head 3
Mode Records/2016
piano: Robert Haskins; recorded at System II, Brooklyn, November 2011; composition year: 2009; time: 5:11
George Crumb: Charade
from Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (A Little Midnight Music) (I-IX)
Ruminations on 'Round Midnight by Thelonius Monk
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Nine
Bridge Records/2005
piano: Emanuele Arciuli; composition year: 2001 (orig. Thelonius Monk, published 1944); time: 1:22
-- FIN --
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 30, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 30, 2016
Coming soon: Downloadable Martian Gardens podcast
hour one
First four selections in memoriam Don Buchla,
April 18, 1937 -- September 16, 2016
SET ONE
Arthur Kreiger: Voyage
Meeting Places
Albany Records/2003
Buchla Synthesizers, electronics: Arthur Kreiger; premiered at the WBAI Free Music Store, New York City, October 10, 1976; time: 5:00
David Rosenboom:
a. Nazca Liftoff (2:20)
b. Desert Night Touchdown (5:10)
Future Travel
New World Records/2007 (orig. Street LP 1981)
voice: Jacqueline Humbert; keyboards, computers, text: David Rosenboom; recorded at Zoetrope Studios, San Francisco, 1981; composition year: 1981; time: 7:30
SINGLE PLAY
Suzanne Ciani: Concert at Phil Niblock's Loft
Buchla Concerts 1975
Finders Keepers Records/2016
Buchla synthesizers: Suzanne Ciani: time: 20:00
SET TWO
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works 1974 - 1980
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
extended vocals, electroacoustic vocals, respirations, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusic Festival, Berlin, October 22, 1978; time: 13:18
David Behrman: ...for nearly an hour... (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set (various artists)
New World Records/2010
voices: Valda Setterfeld, Carolyn Brown, Barbara Dilley Lloyd, Beverly Emmons; recorded at SUNY Buffalo, March 10, 1968, for the dance Walkaround Time, choreographer: Merce Cunningham; excerpt time: 3:23
Meredith Monk: Chinook Whispers
Facing North
ECM/1992
vocalizations: Meredith Monk; time: 0:32
hour two
SET FOUR
Eric Chasalow: Variations 5 (from Seven Variations on Three Spaces)
Are You Radioactive, Pal?
Suspicious Motives Records/2015
electroacoustic music; composition year: 1999; time: 0:57
Noah Creshevsky: Independence Day
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik Records/2007
electroacoustic music; composition year: 1997; time: 6:29
Philip Perkins: Q6153
It Gets the Corners
Philip Perkins/2016
electroacoustic music; composition years: 2014-2016; time: 2:36
Philip Mantione: Climatology
Random 26
Scattered Music/1999
samples, sound collage, recorder: Philip Mantione; composition year: 1999; time: 6:01
R. Weis: Dog Choir
Dog Choir CD-R
R. Weis/2003
dog noises recorded by Robert Weis; processing: Robert Weis; premiered at the Pour L'Amour des Chiens," Mona Bismarck Foundations, Paris, summer 2003; time: 3:00
George Hurd: All Falling Apart
Navigation Without Numbers
Innova Recordings/2016
prepared pianos: George Hurd; recorded in San Francisco; time: 2:12
SET FIVE
Manuella Blackburn: Kitchen Alchemy
Formes Audibles
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music (sound sources: kitchen utensils and devices); realized at the electroacoustic music studios of the University of Manchester; premiered at the MANTIS South-North Festival, March 11, 2007; composition year: 2007; time: 11:31
Andrew Cyrille Quartet: Sanctuary
The Declaration of Musical Independence
ECM/2016
guitar: Bill Frissell; double bass: Ben Street; drums, percussion: Andrew Cyrille; synthesizer, piano: Richard Teitelbaum; recorded at Brooklyn Recording, July 2014; time: 4:16
Adam Rudolph/Go: Organic Orchestra: Dance Drama Part 3 (Green)
Can You Imagine...The Sound of a Dream
Meta Records/2011
Go: Organic Orchestra, conductor: Adam Rudolph; recorded live at Roulette Intermedium, New York City, 2010; time: 6:06
SET SIX
Marc Chan: My Wounded Head 3
a. mm. 36-49 (2:44)
b. mm. 50-70 (3:57)
My Wounded Head 3
Mode Records/2016
piano: Robert Haskins; recorded at System II, Brooklyn, November 2011; composition year: 2009; time: 5:11
George Crumb: Charade
from Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (A Little Midnight Music) (I-IX)
Ruminations on 'Round Midnight by Thelonius Monk
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Nine
Bridge Records/2005
piano: Emanuele Arciuli; composition year: 2001 (orig. Thelonius Monk, published 1944); time: 1:22
-- FIN --
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Martian Gardens, September 23, 2016
Host: Max Shea
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 16, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 16, 2016
Coming soon: Downloadable Martian Gardens podcast
hour one
SET ONE
Marc Chan: My Wounded Head 3, mm. 1-35
My Wounded Head 3
Mode Records/2016
piano: Robert Haskins; recorded at System II, Brooklyn, November 2011; composition year: 2009; time: 9:27
Olly Wilson: Piano Piece
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 (various artists)
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
(for prepared piano and stereo tape); prepared piano: Thomas Fosnocht; electronic score realized at the Electronic Music Studio of the Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio; composition year: 1969; time: 11:50
SET TWO
David Lang: selections from Are You Experienced?
a. Adagio (4:04)
b. Adagio Moderato (3:03)
Transformations (various composers)
Bridge Records/2016
(for electric tuba, narrator, and chamber orchestra); tuba: Aaron Tindall; narrator: Steven Stucky; Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Jeffery Meyer; recorded at Ford Hall, Ithaca School of Music, Ithaca, New York, December 13, 2014; total selections time: 7:07
James Mobberley: selections from Icarus Wept
a. Eleven Feet from the Sun (6:29)
b. Climbing the Blue Staircase (3:51)
Music of James Mobberley
CD-R/2009
trumpet: Keith Benjamin; fixed media: James Mobberley; composition years: 1995-1997; total selections time: 9:20
Philip Mantione: Track 3
Fourteen
Scattered Music/2003
field recordings from New York City, computer-generated noise, samples: Philip Mantione; total time: 4:24
Chris Cutler: Atlanta
Solo
ReR Megacorp/2002
electrified drum kit: Chris Cutler; recorded at PLACE, April 10, 2001; time: 3:55
Joseph Bertolozzi: Glass Floor Rhythms
Tower Music
Bertolozzi Plays the Eiffel Tower
Innova Recordings/2015
percussion, samples: Joseph Bertolozzi (samples from The Audio Library of the Eiffel Tower, Paris), composition year: 2014; time: 2:45
hour two
In memoriam Don Buchla, April 18, 1937 -- September 16, 2016
SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: In the Beginning I: (Electronic)
In The Beginning [1978-1981]
New World Records/2012
David Rosenboom: Buchla & Associates 300 Series Electric Music Box; recorded at the Music Gallery, Toronto, January 19, 1979; composition year: 1978; time: 23:48
SINGLE PLAY
Pauline Oliveros: Beautiful Soop
Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop
Pogus Productions/1997
recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, Mills College, 1966, using the Buchla Box 100 synthesizer and tape delay system; time: 27:49
-- FIN --
online playlists:
Martian Gardens blog
email: martiangardens@gmail.com
WXOJ-LP 103.3
Valley Free Radio
Northampton, Mass.
Webcast/Broadcast
Fridays Noon -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 16, 2016
GLOBAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Webcast: Fridays 3:00 a.m. -- 5: a.m. EDT
Webcast date: September 16, 2016
Coming soon: Downloadable Martian Gardens podcast
hour one
SET ONE
Marc Chan: My Wounded Head 3, mm. 1-35
My Wounded Head 3
Mode Records/2016
piano: Robert Haskins; recorded at System II, Brooklyn, November 2011; composition year: 2009; time: 9:27
Olly Wilson: Piano Piece
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 (various artists)
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
(for prepared piano and stereo tape); prepared piano: Thomas Fosnocht; electronic score realized at the Electronic Music Studio of the Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio; composition year: 1969; time: 11:50
SET TWO
David Lang: selections from Are You Experienced?
a. Adagio (4:04)
b. Adagio Moderato (3:03)
Transformations (various composers)
Bridge Records/2016
(for electric tuba, narrator, and chamber orchestra); tuba: Aaron Tindall; narrator: Steven Stucky; Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Jeffery Meyer; recorded at Ford Hall, Ithaca School of Music, Ithaca, New York, December 13, 2014; total selections time: 7:07
James Mobberley: selections from Icarus Wept
a. Eleven Feet from the Sun (6:29)
b. Climbing the Blue Staircase (3:51)
Music of James Mobberley
CD-R/2009
trumpet: Keith Benjamin; fixed media: James Mobberley; composition years: 1995-1997; total selections time: 9:20
Philip Mantione: Track 3
Fourteen
Scattered Music/2003
field recordings from New York City, computer-generated noise, samples: Philip Mantione; total time: 4:24
Chris Cutler: Atlanta
Solo
ReR Megacorp/2002
electrified drum kit: Chris Cutler; recorded at PLACE, April 10, 2001; time: 3:55
Joseph Bertolozzi: Glass Floor Rhythms
Tower Music
Bertolozzi Plays the Eiffel Tower
Innova Recordings/2015
percussion, samples: Joseph Bertolozzi (samples from The Audio Library of the Eiffel Tower, Paris), composition year: 2014; time: 2:45
hour two
In memoriam Don Buchla, April 18, 1937 -- September 16, 2016
SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: In the Beginning I: (Electronic)
In The Beginning [1978-1981]
New World Records/2012
David Rosenboom: Buchla & Associates 300 Series Electric Music Box; recorded at the Music Gallery, Toronto, January 19, 1979; composition year: 1978; time: 23:48
SINGLE PLAY
Pauline Oliveros: Beautiful Soop
Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop
Pogus Productions/1997
recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, Mills College, 1966, using the Buchla Box 100 synthesizer and tape delay system; time: 27:49
-- FIN --
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