MARTIAN GARDENS
WMUA .ORG
Sundays live broadcast/webcast
21:00–24:00 EDT
WMUA 91.1 FM
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 16, 2013
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webcast: Mondays 9:00 — Noon EDT
June 17, 2013 Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
PLAYLIST
(updated June 16, 21:25)
SINGLE PLAY
Nadia Sirota: From the Invisible to the Visible (S. Worden)
Baroque
New Amsterdam Records/2013
composer: Shara Worden; viola, keyboards: Nadia Sirota; organ, keyboards: James McVinnie; synthesizers, programming: Valgeir Sigurdsson; percussion: Frank Aarink; keyboards, synthesizers, percussion: Daniel Bjarneson; recorded at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 4:01
SINGLE PLAY
Eclipse Quartet with William Winant: s:c:a:t:t:e:r:i:n:g (Z. Parkins)
Zeena Parkins-Frederic Rzewski-James Tenney
New World Records/2013
composer: Zeena Parkins; Eclipse Quartet (violins: Sarah Parkins, Sarah Thornblade; viola: Alma Lisa Fernandez; cello: Maggie Parkins); marimba, tom toms, snare, Lou Harrison bell instrument, chimes, various metal percussion, spinning samples: William Winant; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 25:22
SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Allegro
Rhymes with Silver
New Albion Records/2000
piano: Julie Steinberg; percussion: William Winant; recorded at Fantasy Records, Berkeley, June 2000; time: 4:57
NewBand: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994
composer: Harry Partch; NewBand — Partch Instruments (boo, spoils of war, kithara II, pre-recorded boo: Dominic Donato; harmonic canons, kithara II, spoils of war, pre-recorded kithara: Dean Drummond; kithara II, harmonic canon, surrogate kithara: Nina Kellman; cloud-chamber bowls; Michael Lipsey; cello gourd tree, cone gongs: Ted Mook; diamond marimba, pre-recorded diamond marimba: James Pugliese; chromelodeon, harmonic canon: Elizabeth Rodgers; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, Queens, 1991-1993; composition year: 1958, revised 1967; time: 18:24
SET TWO
Maddalena Fagandini: Ideal Home Exhibition
BBC Radiophonic Workshop [A Retrospective] (various artists)
BBC Music/2000
electronic music: Maddalena Fagandini; recorded at the BBC Radiophonic Workship, London, for the “People Make Programmes” exhibit at the BBC stand of the Ideal Homes Exhibition, 1962; time: 1:02
R. Weis: Narinya (Bomana Dream)
Web of Illusion
R.Weis/1998
samples, electronics: R. Weis; recorded in New York City, 1998; time: 3:04
Wendy Carlos: Yusae-Aisae
Beauty in the Beast
East Side Digital/2000 (orig. Audion LP 1986)
digital synthesizers: Wendy Carlos; composition year: 1986; time: 3:12
Tracie Morris: Africa(n)
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009
electronic music, text: Tracie Morris; recorded in New York City, 2007; time: 3:28
Kristoff K. Roll: Récit de rêve (Le concept d’arrosage)
À L’Ombre Des Ondes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music: Carole Rieussec, J-Kristoff Camps; dream narrative: Francis Vadillo; realized at at the studio Les ombres d’ondes (L2O) in Frontigna, France, 2011
SET THREE
Jorge Antunes: Toccata Irisée
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for percussion and electronic sounds) marimba, cuica: Thierry Miroglio;recorded at Salle Olivier Messiaen, Radio France, Paris, April 24, 2004; composition year: 2003; time: 16:12
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 4 (Monk)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
composer: S.S. Smith with quotes from Thelonious Monk; vibraphone: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studio A, University of California San Diego, August 2008; composition year: 1982; time: 8:07
SET FOUR
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary
Mode Records/2011
percussion: red fish blue fish, directed by Steven Schick; recorded at the National Art Gallery, Washington D.C., with live electronics, recorded in 2007, additional processing at the University of California San Diego, 2008-2009; excerpt time: 13:35
Annea Lockwood: selections from The Glass World
a.Water Jars (1:32)
b. Rod Roll (1:03)
c. Micro Glass on Goblet (1:05)
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
SET FIVE
Martin Bédard: Métal fatigue
Topographies
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, and during trips to Havre-Aubert, Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, and Saint-Eugène, L’Islet, Québec; composition year: 2012; time: 12:43
Fortner Anderson and Ned Bouhalassa: 3 Out of Every 10
Annunciations
electrocd.com/2013
voice, text: Fortner Anderson; recorded at Pines Studio, Montreal; electroacoustic music recorded at Ned Bouhalassa’s studio, Montreal, composition year: 2012; time: 7:22
SET SIX
Shelley Hirsch:
a. Burst (0:48)
b. War of Dreams (8:07)
States
Tellus-Harvestworks/1997
a. multitracked vocals: Shelley Hirsch; recorded at Crosstown Studios; composition year: 1981; b. vocals, live electronics: Shelley Hirsch; text: Angela Carter, arr. Shelley Hirsch; sampling keyboards: David Weinstein; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, 1991
Dorota Czerner: 2 Poems
a. St. Andrew’s Night (6:13)*
b. Fireflies
Open Space 29 (Barkin, Czerner, Boretz)
Open Space/2012
voice, texts: Dorota Czerner; sound: Benjamin Boretz
*WMUA version only
Jon Rose: hopeless @ hardsell.con
shopping live @ victo
ReR Megacorp/1999
violin, store guide: Jon Rose; contrabass, voice: Joell Leandre; sampler, guitar: Otomo Yoshihide; noises, drums: Chris Cutler; recorded at the 11th Festival International De Musique Actuel de Victoriaville, Canada, May 22, 1994
Musci/Cutler/Rose/Gabbiano: Part One*
Steel-Water-Light
ReR Megacorp/2002
music for the silent films of Joris Ivens; sampler: Roberto Musci; electrified percussion, sampler: Chris Cutler; tenor violin, processing: Jon Rose; acoustic and electric guitars: Claudio Gabbiani; recorded at the SenzaParole Festival, Milan, December 10, 1999
*WMUA version only
SINGLE PLAY
Dorothy Hindman: Drift*
Tapping the Furnace
Innova Recordings/2013
Atlas Saxophone Quartet (Corey Polacek, Susan Cook, Shawn Tracy, Bryan Polacek); composition year: 2002; time: 5:13
*WMUA version only
— FIN —
8PM Friday and noon next Tuesday, Brooklyn Bridge Time—I distributed four tracks from it across the two-hour span and filled the gaps with things like Benjamin Britten’s Missa Brevis, four songs from Buika’s hot new album, some William Byrd played on a harpsichord that doesn’t sound like two skeletons doin’ the thing . . . The show skews British for some reason, and the serious piece at the end is Britten’s Cello Symphony as conducted by him and played by Rostropovich, which is about as unbeatable as you’d expect, but it’s two hours without a thesis or a theme, as far as I can, unless it has to do with the quality of the music and what I heard this week. Redman takes it out with a Last Glimpse of Gotham, and you can decide.
Mulgrew Miller dead by a stroke at the age of 57? That seems desperately unfair. It’s by musicians like Mulgrew Miller—no journeyman but a master of all the materials of the medium, not to mention his instrument—that jazz stays alive and breathing. And as a sideman? If you’re a soloist he’s the guy you want comping behind you, if you’re a bassist or a drummer he’s who you want in the rhythm section with you. Put Mulgrew in the band and everything will be all right. So this week’s Updoc—Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, Pissed-Off Brooklyn time—starts off with an hour of his music in a number of formats, then tries to cool itself off with Copland’s Clarinet Concerto and Hovhannes’ Fourth Symphony and such. Mulgrew Miller from Greenwood Mississippi? Damn will he be missed.