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Monday, September 13th, 2004
10:19 pm	Take back the morning! I'm determined to fall asleep at midnight tonight. I need to establish a sane sleep schedule. Clonipin 1/2 tablet makes me drowsy enough. I just have to resist falling asleep too early. If I do, I'll wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to fall asleep again. I was up all night again last night. I watched George McGovern "Booknotes" rerun at 5:00. That didn't put me to sleep! I caught one of those old Godzilla movies on Sci-Fi. I came in the middle of a battle between Godzilla and son, and a three-headed dragon with pteradactyl wings. The dragon looked really cool. I see the cult appeal. The Godzilla movies have an accidental aesthetic all of their own. The robotic monster animation, the stiff dubbing of Japanese actors who themselves barely move, and the campy special effects metamorphose into surreal universe beyond the B-movie! Tomorrow I want to complete the second 1/2 of the reports ond module I of disc 2, and start module II. I'll feel like chump if I don't get this stuff done. I want to take back the morning. That's the time when I have the least distractions. John Kerry needs to stop pulling his punches. John O'Neill must die (so to speak). At least the liberals are acknowledging the need to build their own analogue to the right-wing propaganda machine. The good news is, unlike the Right, we don't have to lie to the folks. Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Stanislav Kreitchi: Ansiana (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 12th, 2004
3:53 am	And I needed cheering up.... I was sick starting the Friday before last. Somehow I got all stopped up. It was nasty. I'm not used to that condition. I had terrible abdominal cramps, lack of appetite, and weakness. It didn't clear up. Over the counter remedies didn't work. Then I got neurotic like Woody Allen. Is it...cancer? Yeah, right. Well, Thursday around 22:00, I'd had enough. I drove to my old haunt, the Coooley-Dick ER. I knew what I was in for, waiting around for hours, which I did. The rent-a-cop said, "Hey, there's a great movie on!, 'Misery'!" "Oh, fine," said I, as he changed the channel. Yeah, great flick for the ER waiting room! Anyway, they took their blood and their dozen x-rays. I sat there in an exam rooming wearing one of those horrible jonnies, and read Reader's Digest" story about the arsenic poisonings in New Sweden, Maine, a while back. More great amusement for the ER! As usual, there was an anti-social providing additional entertainment. This guy was in casts and pins and rattling on with some paranoia. He was refusing bloodwork, and saying he knew "what you guys are all about." The nurses were trying to get him to sign the form saying he was leaving against medical advice. "I'm not signing that 'til I get my ride outta here!" And so, and so on. FINALLY, the doc came back in. Yep, it was the big C, nothing more. He gave me some industrial strength medicine which I downed gladly. He also offered me a do-it-yourself enema, as it would helpt to "break things up a little quicker." I said, "No thanks." Current Mood: embarrassed Current Music: Jorge Antunes: Three Chromophonic Studies (Comment on this)
3:12 am	Drums and Bugles Sherry called me just in time. I almost missed a great faculty recital at Bezanson... DRUMS and BUGLES Eric Berlin, trumpet Eduardo Leandro, percussion with Lynn Klock, saxophone Pieces performed: Glock Birthday Fanfare (1978) Elliott Carter for three trumpets and percussion Matthew Misener and Matthew Repucci, add'l trumpets Elegy for Trumpet, Saxophone and Percussion (1994) Michael Ellison Lynn Klock, Saxophone The End of the Matter (2004) Salvatore Macchia for trumpet and percussion Premiere performance Concerto Piccolo for Trumpet and Electronics (2004) Charles Bestor In a Landscape (1960) John Cage trans. for marimba/vibes by Eduardo Leandro Diversion for Two (Other than Sex)(1966) Donald Erb for trumpet and percussion When I saw "Glock" on the program, I took did a double take! "Glockenspiel," my friend Sherry assured me. I was thinking maybe Carter took some inspiration from George Anthill! I loved the syncopated trumpets and the controlled ringing. The piece was so short, they played it twice. The "Elegy" was the least interesting piece on the program. Ellison was a classmate of Berlin's at the Boston Conservatory. The piece was written for a percussion and brass trio Berlin formed in the early '90s. Ellison, Berlin says, is now teaching at a university in Istanbul. Smoke 'em if you got 'em! (just thought that phrase sounded good there, I don't know why!) I loved Macchia's "Matter," which he introduced himself. I was thinking of Frank Zappa on the marimba part, not sure which piece, maybe "The Girl in the Magnesium Dress." Macchia scored bowed xylophone into the piece, which I've never seen before. Leandro was playing on the edge of the xylophone keys with a violin bow, cool resonance there. I first heard Bestor's "Concerto Piccolo" at the "Bestorfest" last spring. Three movements, Praeludium, Fantasia, and Ostinato for trumpet and electronic accompaniment. It's not the most dazzling use of electronics I've heard, but it is Bestor, and is in the same generation as Babbitt and among the composers who pioneered the electronic genre. Just knowing that enhances my enjoyment... "In a Landscape" was the piece most familiar to me. I have heard it for piano, and for gamelan, so it was lovely to hear it for marimba and vibes. Sherry commented it sounded more like Debussy than Cage, but who can nail down what Cage really sounds like...other than Cage. The second and last set came to a comical ending with Erb's "Diversions for Two." That is the title it is now published under, but Berlin knows better. Berlin inherited an original score from his predecessor, Walter Chestnut. The original title really is "Diversion for Two (Other than Sex)." The piece featurs very loud percussion, and funny whistles! There was a pause while Leandro walked from the drum kit to the timpanis. Berlin amused us by taking the large trumpet mute off the stand and wearing it like a bowler hat. Overall, it was an uplifting evening, and an uplifting evening is what I needed. Current Mood: exanimate Current Music: Dan Moses Schreier: Exotic (from Sonic Circuits IV) (Comment on this)
2:54 am	Still alive, edging along at snail's pace.... I thought I had kissed LJ goodbye, but I'm back. I haven't succeeded in maintaining a journal 4ME since I was 17, LJ is the closest I've come. We keep journals for others to read. We want others to read what we write. That's why I post as MaxwellSmart on inthe00s.com, and Cage Fanatic on Radio Mute. I found it more rewarding than LJ. Something draws me back to LJ.... (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 3rd, 2004
12:53 am	I guess I'm back to Live Journal now. I saw Tom for the first time in a month today. Discussed this disproportionate anxiety about utter rejection and scorn from a rocknrollgidget mental midget. I was trying to explain what it is about this first relationship that made it so painful. I said it was symbolic of subsequent failures, deceptions, and crushed hopes in life. He used the term "emblematic," which about nails it down. I got to the appointment a bit late. The clinic building didn't get under my skin so much this time. Last time the musty air, the threadbare carpets, the dog-eared furniture, and the sad sacks of damaged humanity really got my nerves. I decided checking in a few minutes late may help me eschew a waiting period. I gave Frank an impromptu lecture on the difference between Al Quaeda, the Taliban, Saddam, Osoma, and why Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, though the Bush Administration is desperate to make it appear so. He found a CBS link that had summarized info about each of the Presidential candidates. He took a poll (a dated one I gather) regarding which serves his interests. He was surprised when the answer came out "Kucinich." I told him the majority of Americans, when asked about the issues, come out on the Liberal side. I then stumbled through definitions of Right, Left, Liberal, and Conservative. I think it's cool that he wants to get informed. I hope he registers to votes. Dave G. is filling in on 4th for me. Great! I'm filling in for Java Jazz on Wednesday. I'll be able to play some more of that Waddada Leo Smith & Henry Kaiser, the new Matthew Burtner saxophone electroacoustic CD, and some more Mubable jazz. Looking forward to it. I might as well admit my pathos say I will have my retribution on Kelly M. in time. Her life has turned out the way I would have predicted in 1989. Quite safe and secure financially, although she never attained the mental age of 18. What about my life from 1989's perspective. Totally different. For one thing, I'm still alive! Current Mood: drained Current Music: Roscoe Mitchell & Thomas Buckner: 8 O'Clock Improvisations (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 1st, 2004
10:34 pm	BLOCKED Oh well, Kelly M. made her journal "friends only" and it's 'coz of me. She's hysterical. She thinks I'm trying to "get at" her or something. I don't want much with a rocknrollgidget world. Hope she doesn't resort to drastic measures. Guffaw! I get a few responses from my rejuvenated AFF personal, but I won't get get my hopes up. I STILL haven't finished updating my Masslive blog. I'm not doing Martian Gardens on the 4th, so that gives me som extra time. Well, it looks like we're polishing off this case of Mike's Lemonade pretty fast. Damnable summer alcoholics! I'd better go back to my email and send Maria L. those reports before I forget. Current Mood: devious Current Music: George Crumb: Echoes of Time and the River (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
10:39 pm	This journal is still alive Here I am again. I've been spending the past couple of months on my weblog at Masslive. http://wwww.masslive/weblogs/martian. I'm still behind on my updates. I've also spent way too much time over at inthe00s, which is a cool messageboard. http://www.inthe00s.com I pontificate quite a bit. I was partially responsible for getting politics and religion their own sub-board, as discussion got too heated for some members' comfort! The Masslive weblog is great for my radio program and my passion for diffusing information on obscure music. It seemed between the outlet provided by inthe00s and Masslive Martian Gardens, LJ's role was obviated, but I think I'd rather keep my LJ account. One caveat. I just wrote to another LJ user, and revealed I'd been reading her journal. I know she hates the thought of me doing that. Along with the fact that I've used her full name several times in my LJ entries, I might be in Dutch with the LJ abuse team if this person complains! I have a prior complaint to them, the time I used Dia S.'s full name, and referred to her lesbian propensities. I did not know LJ frowned upon the use of people's full names. It didn't cross my mind. Full names were never a problem when my journal was bound with a spiral! Anyway, if I'm forced to close this account, I'll open another journal elsewhere. I'm not going to do any more work to satisfy the LJ "abuse" team. Ain't I stinker? So, why am I anxious? Well, I just wrote the following to Kelly M. after I told her a couple of years ago I would not be contacting her again. ___________________________________________________________________ I stumbled across your site here accidentally, I was looking for information about Love & Rockets in Boston, 1988, you know. Amusing little page you've got here. I can't help thinking of the repulsion with which you have reacted to me the few time I've contacted you. According to your content, your memories play an important role in your life. So, wouldn't you rather not remember me as a vile abberration, and object of loathing, a mistake? I've no interest in "friendship." For me, a shortpants romance sixteen years past is not basis enough. To be clear, the internet makes it quite easy to find people. I'm and LJ user myself, you know. When the I hit a stony silence, I got curious, that's all. The things you said struck me as out of proportion even, perhaps, a bit irrational. Rather than try and blot out my memory with venom and contempt, I think a more understanding revision is in order...I was a bright boy with psychiatric issues, and the most self-hatingest boy you ever met. I was bottomless well of pain. I must have created some horrific impression for you to react with cross and garlic decades hence. But I think you've got the wrong idea. Please don't go off in frustration. Answer me, how can I get you to reconcile yourself with a boy mistake? M ___________________________________________________________________ As I've said in previous entries. This "shortpants romance" as I call it still has the ability to rent newly asunder the stab wounds of old traumas. Well, before I launch into a psychoanalytic rant, I'll punctuate this entry! Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Edward Ka Spel: Khataclimici China Doll (Comment on this)
Monday, April 19th, 2004
2:00 am	Martian Gardens for 4/18/04 WMUA 91.1 FM Amherst MA 01003 http://www.wmua.org MARTIAN GARDENS Sundays 21:00--24:00 Host: Max Shea http://www.mg@wmua.org Program for April 18, 2004 SET 1 Beth Anderson: March Swale (performance Rubio String Quartet) Swales & Angels New World Records/2004 Joseph Waters: Quiet Music--Early Morning (string trio R.Blessinger/B.Quincy/P.Hansen) s/t North Pacific Music/2000 SET 2 Beth Anderson: Torero Piece Peachy Keen-O Pogus Productions/2003 Meredith Monk: Walking Song Volcano Songs ECM New Series/1997 Jon Rose: Introduction by One Bored Baths Guide (Bagni de Dolabella) The Fence ReR Megacorp/1998 Pedro Rebelo: 1st of 3 Shorts about Noise and Rhythm Sonic Circuits VI # Innova Recordings/1998 Scott Smallwood: Door 1 (Variations on a Door--No Sigh) Desert Winds Deep Listening/2002 Roderik De Man: Wait a Minute Electrified Music Electroshock/2004 SET 3 Morton Subotnick: Sidewinder (Side One) Volume 2: Electronic Works Mode/2004 Eric Moe: Songs and Dances of the Automobile-- a. Mambo b. Nocturne On the Tip of My Tongue Centaur/1996 SET 4 Phil Kline: a. We Came Because b. My Dead Ass c. You've Never Lived Zippo Songs Cantaloupe/2004 Christian Wolff: a. Peace March 1 (Stop Using Uranium) b. Peace March 2 (performance The Barton Workshop) (Re): Making Music--Works 1962-1999 Mode/2004 SET 5 Jaqueline Humbert: Peace Piece (Gustavo Matamoros) Chanteuse Lovely Music, Ltd./2004 Elizabeth Panzer: Re Elizabeth (G. Matamoros) Dancing in Place O.O. Discs/1999 Sofia Ascuncion Claro: Worlds Apart (excerpt) (I. Froundberg) Sofia Ascuncion Claro, Harp Centaur/1996 SINGLE PLAY Anatoly Pereslegin: Model 5--Thomas pASSION mODELS Electroshock/2004 SET 6 Phill Niblock: Disseminate Q-O2 (the Q-02 Ensemble) Disseminate Mode/2004 Paul Dolden: Veils--Section A L'ivresse de la Vitesse 2 empreintes DIGITALes/2003 SET 7 Noah Creshevsky: Novella Hyperrealism Mutable Music/2003 Tom Hamilton: excerpt 4 (excerpt) London Fix Muse--eek/2004 (Comment on this)
1:56 am	Martian Gardens 4/11/04 WMUA 91.1 FM Amherst MA 01003 http://www.wmua.org MARTIAN GARDENS Sundays 21:00--24:00 Host: Max Shea http://www.mg@wmua.org Program for April 11, 2004 SINGLE PLAY Beth Anderson: Piano Concerto (piano Joseph Kubera; Rubio String Quartet) Swales and Angels New World Records/2004 SET 1 Eyeless In Gaza: Lights of April Drumming the Beating Heart/Pale Hands I Loved So Well Cherry Red/1996 (orig. 1981/1982) Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co: Easter (excerpt) MMPMC 1970-1973 Cuneiform/1999 TUU: Migration Mesh Fathom--Hearts of Space/1997 SINGLE PLAY Trios: Track Three s/t Pogus Productions/2004 SET 2 Mount Washington: track 4 (harp Anne LeBaron) s/t Reify Recordings/2004 Anne LeBaron: Planxty Bowerbird Rana, Ritual & Revelations Mode/1992 Meredith Monk: Memory Song Do You Be ECM New Series/1987 John Cage: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (text J.Joyce/Contralto Arline Carmen) The 25 Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage (1958) Wergo/1994 SET 3 Stuart Saunders Smith: Here and There (excerpt) (flute J.Fonville/shortwave radio: D.Savage/piano interior D.Yoken) Crux O.O. Discs/1993 Stephane Roy: Appartenances--Theme Latin Migrations empreintes DIGITALes/2003 SET 4 Antanas Jasenka: Electric Sutartines (1st 1/2) An Artist and a Plane Electroshock/2004 Artemiy Artemiev: Mysticism of Sound Part II--Live (excerpt) Time, Desert and a Sound Electroshock/2004 Gilles Gobeil + Rene Lussier: Les Bijoux/La Caverne Le Contrat empreintes DIGITALes/2003 SET 5 Morton Subotnik: Jacob's Room, Part II (soprano Joan La Barbara/violin Erika Duke) Music With Computers Wergo/1989 Luciano Berio: Visage (excerpt) (voice Cathy Berberian) Electronic Music # Turnabout/c. 1970 SET 6 Tim Brady: Sauchiehall Street Twenty Quarter Inch Jacks Ambiance Magnetiques/2004 Alistair MacDonald: FInal Times Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield, and Newcastle # MPS Music & Video/2000 (Comment on this)
1:55 am	just a thought I posted on another journal As I watch rigt-wing blowhards bawl on the Joe Scarborough show, I decided to Google search "Dumb Conservatives" your entry from from the Duke philosophy chair came up. a. He's right. b. I wish he'd kept his mouth shut. I'm surprised the comment did not stir more right-wing animosity. I am a liberal. We are the most villified political entities in America today. The charges against us are weak and silly. The reason they stick is because they are repeated so often and so vehemently. Tell a big enough lie often enough, and it becomes "truth." The problem liberals have today is they let the freakish jacobins who call themselves conservatives define them. The RNC, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News get to define the debate. The Dems get to respond. There's John Kerry out there trying to sell himself as a "Centrist." What a coward. My main man Dennis Kucinich presented a message of hope, reason, and possibility. The corporate-sponsored media ridiculed and marginalized him. Kucinich stands his ground. His vision is quite different from the requirements of the corporations and the military-industrial complex. These two powers that be have all the money in the world to influence national discourse. But why should I call a doctrine moral or correct just because it is constant and ubiquitous? In totalitarian states such as Nazi Germany and Red China, the government hammered out its decrees from morning until night. Were these governments truthful, were they moral, were they right? Fox News, talk radio, and the tabloid press have developed an Orwellian propaganda complete with a strawman they call "the main stream press," and the "liberal media." I have found self-defining conservatives constantly fail to question the media that feeds them their ideas. When I talk with my liberal friends, we don't regurgitate the New York Times editorial page, we don't even assume the Times is liberal! Thus, I cannot deny John Stuart Mill's statement: "Not all conservatives are stupid, but most stupid people are conservative." (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 1st, 2004
12:03 am	Al K. correspondance Here are Al K.'s answers to my questions about C. 1. Quote "max shea": >I don't know if Cherene told you anything about me, or what transpired in >early '93. I'm wary about going into much detail just yet. She didn't; you needn't. ======== >I broke off all contact with Cherene in about March '93. I broke up with >her in January of that year. She wanted me to commit to her, but I didn't >want to. I met someone else in late '92, and decided to pursue this other >woman. I didn't know when I had it good, it turns out. Cherene was very >special, but you know that. My situation was similar, only she broke it up. I was 30 years older, and she felt her parents wouldn't approve, and it wasn't going anywhere. We stayed close afterwards, though. ========= >As you also know, Cherene was afflicted with some serious problems. I don't >know for sure, but I believe she had bipolar disorder. When we broke up, >she was living in Boston and trying to make a go of grad school. She was >under a great deal of stress. My break-up with her--and some rather >insensitive behavior on my part--was more than she could bear. She became >manicky and self-destructive. I thought she might have been hurting herself >as either plea or spite toward me, so I reasoned that if we had no contact, >she would better off. I was aware of her bipolarity, but when I met her she didn't seem as desperate as you describe. People recover. Or they hide things well. She was hyper-sensitive to perceived slights by others when we met, though over time she seemed to get over that and acquire a genuinely sunny disposition. ========= > I don't know who this "boyfriend" was. Might be a Don Mills (see http://but I don't know. She left me for a guy named Mike, and followed him into computer consulting in NY and LA. I thought she had married him but I guess she didn't. What happened to them, or how she got to Seattle, I don't know. ========== >To me, the most likely scenario was that she had a break-up or falling out >with her boyfriend, and took her own life in a fit of compulsion. >Do you know anything more? What was your experience like with Cherene? >What is your take on the circumstances surrounding her death? Try not to make scenarios in the absence of hard data. The odds favor yours, but they're not 100%. I've attached a photo I took back when we were dating. Al K. 2. Quote "max shea": >I know shortly after we split up, she was doing transcription work for a >wine dealer who traveled back and forth to Quebec. Was that you? Or did >you meet her later in '93? She was doing the work for him (Henry something) while we were dating. He was a jerk. >I saw your link. What area of the music business are you in? My girlfriend Kimberly is trying to set up a jazz-promotion business here in Miami. I'm retired from tecahing chemistry. >I couldn't open the pdf file, but I did see the name Don Mills with hers on >a newsletter for some ecological concern. Same outfit. PDF files open with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download.) K. 2. Message text written by "max shea" Did you meet Cherene through the Boston Phoenix? You see, when I brought her up to her parents, I was extricating her from a situation she got herself into via a Boston Phoenix ad. She had been assaulted by a man who was then stalking her. She later revealed she met this wine dealer through the same ad. She was translating, but she revealed there was more going on than that, more going on than she really seemed to want. I was aware of those guys and how she got into the mess. I didn't know that you were the one who spoke to her parents; I always wondered how they found out. No matter. We fixed those problems (the stalker and the wine dealer). We fixed them by becoming a genuine item in which clowns like that simply did not figure; life became simpler and better. By 1994 or so they were both ancient history. I'm not saying she wasn't affected by them, only that they were no longer active presences in her life. Neither was the Phoenix. The pain you saw and the sunny disposition I saw (later) were at two different times. When we parted in '95 it was on good terms and she was headed down a decent path with Mike, or so I thought. Whatever problems she had she was dealing with by that time. As for trustworthiness, there has never been anyone more honest. I was not manipulated at any time. One learns to spot these things. Frankly I felt we could have continued the relationship indefinitely, and I'm sorry it didn't work out that way. K. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
6:46 pm	Another quick entry I think I'm a bit stressed, and up to avoidance again. I drove around in the rain today. My original destination was Cambridge. I was going to go to my barber and browse around Harvard Square. Why can't I get a local barber? I guess I like having an excuse to go to Cambridge. Anyway, I got to Worcester and changed my mind. It was raining. My driver's side wiper is disintegrating. I decided to pack it in and head back. I made two stupid Pike mistakes. I went through FastLane by accident. I'll probably get a damn citation in the mail! On my way back, I used a Rte. 20 exit and got on the Pike going east. I had to drive ten miles before I could exit and turn around. I didn't let myself get bent out of shape. I tried to enjoy the rain, and ignore my dilapidated wiper and my blown speaker. Feh, who am I kidding? At least I'm making another Journal entry. I'd like to be regular with these. I suspect this Al K. is a guy C. met through her "escort" ad, the one she took out after I broke up with her and she went manic. He's 30 years her senior, he says. C. was not one for bars or other social activities were a young woman meets an older man. I think I know what's up with this guy. I asked him if he met her through the Phoenix. He said he knew of the wine dealer, "Henry somebody," and that "he was a jerk." I dunno if Al K. is being straight with me, but I let him know in so many words, that I know what was going on. Eleven years ago seems like yesterday. Poor C., if only I... oh, to hell with it! Oh yeah, I got a complementary nug from Paul B. last Sunday. Potent, but not enough to drive me into the stratosphere. Maybe I'll spring for a bit more. Yawn, Anil's home. I can smell that wood smoke! I rescued the fire just in time. It's a nice rainy evening to sit in front of the fire and read, which is what I'll end up doing. I really should practice and study, but I figure as long as I don't feed my TV addiction, I've made some progress! Current Mood: stressed Current Music: Seth Josel: Long Distance (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
8:44 pm	A quick entry Sherry and I put together a solid lecture and participation for her "Lively Arts" class, we're scheduled for April 8th. Looking forward to it. Betsy was up from DC to visit the Grandparents over the weekend. We all had lunch in NoHo at the Vermont Country Deli. The kids are maturing some, so their behavior isn't as irritating. Mia's still pretty shy of me, so she relates by cute insults. "You're ugly, you're the worst guy ever," and so forth. It doesn't bother me, but Nao won't tolerate it. Things got stressed later after at Nao's. The kids started raising hell, and Za felt like Nao was faulting Ava for the whole thing--which she was. I wish they wouldn't resent eachother's parenting like that. Bugs me. I didn't get any questions about money from Betsy. I did talk to her about my xcription course. More about that in another entry. I left a message in response to an inquiry about Cherene on her family's thread on an ancestry board. As diplomatically as possible, I posted the sad *news.* The fellow inquiring, Al K., it turns out, was a former BF of hers from '93-'95. He said "She was a peach, a favorite, I miss her terribly." I invited him to email me. He left his email for me on the board. I don't know how much he knows about Cherene prior. Oh God, I hope he's not that wine dealer... Anyway, I don't know what will transpire when I email him, but I hope to find out more. Current Mood: curious Current Music: Pieter Nooten/Michael Brook: Sleeps with Fishes (Comment on this)
8:36 pm	Martian Gardens for 3/28/04 WMUA 91.1 FM Amherst MA 01003 http://www.wmua.org MARTIAN GARDENS Sundays 21:00--24:00 Host: Max Shea http://www.mg@wmua.org Program for March 28, 2004 SET 1 Conlon Nancarrow: Studies 3A,3B,3C Complete Studies for Player Piano Vol. I 1750 Arch/1977 Dr. Harry F. Olson: Nola (F. Arndt) The Sounds and Music of the RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer RCA/1955 Hugh Le Caine: The Sackbut Synthesizer A. 1948 Sackbut Demonstration Tapes (1953) i. Rhapsody in Blue (G.Gershwin)/ ii. Sugar Blues (C. McCoy)/ iii. Sackbut String Quartet(C.W. Gluck)/ iv. The Sackbut Blues B. Coded Music Apparatus--Patterns on the Pitch Graph (Automated Sackbut)(1955) C. Improved Timbre Controls (1956) D. Artificial Larynx, driven by Sackbut (1957) Compositions/Demonstrations 1946-1974 Electronic Music Foundation/1999 SET 2 Frank Garvey and DeusMachina: Tweedledee-dee House of the Deafman Innova Recordings/2000 Stephen Vitiello: Crossing her Eyes and Sneezing (performance David Tronzo, Danny Tunick) Bright and Dusty Things New Albion/2001 Roscoe Mitchell: A Surface Covered with Cracks Solo (3) Mutable Music/2004 Joan La Barbara: Calligraphy II/Shadows (2nd 1/2) Shamansong New World Records/1998 SET 3 Morton Subotnick: Jacob's Room, Part 1 (soprano J.La Barbara/cello Erika Duke) Music with Computers Wergo--Teldec/1989 Curtis Roads: Purity/Sonal Atoms CCMIX Paris # Mode/2001 SET 4 Larry Polansky: Four Boys Mannin' (voice Chris Mann) Four-Voice Cannons Cold Blue Music/2002 Trios: track One (voice Chris Mann) s/t Pogus Productions/2004 Joseph Celli & Jin Hi Kim: April One (voice Shelley Hirsch) No World (Trio) Improvisations O.O. Discs/1992 SINGLE PLAY Anatoloy Pereslegin: model 4--John (parts I and II) pASSION mODELS Eelectroshock/2004 SET 5 Jaqueline Humbert: A Pregnant Pause (L. Polansky) Chanteuse Lovely Music, Ltd./2004 Jonty Harrison: ...Et Ainsi de Suite a. Souffle d'Insects (parenthese 3) b. Resonance (Parenthese 4) c. Resume d. Parenthese 5 e. Coommentaire Articles Indefinis empreintes DIGITALes/1996 Artemiy Artemiev: Mysticism of Sound, Part II--Live (excerpt) Time, Desert, and a Sound Electroshock/2004 SET 6 Jack Gabel: Rail Ride Dog Star North Pacific Music/2003 Tim Brady: Music Box Bell Curves ("Hello Paris!") Twenty Quarter Inch Jacks Ambiance Magnetiques/2002 SINGLE PLAY Jon Rose: a. Choral Prelude b. Hammer Horror The Hyperstring Project ReR Megacorp/2000 (Comment on this)
8:34 pm	Martian Gardens for 3/21/04 WMUA 91.1 FM Amherst MA 01003 http://www.wmua.org MARTIAN GARDENS Sundays 21:00--24:00 Host: Max Shea http://www.mg@wmua.org Program for March 21, 2004 SET 1 James Tenney: Maximusic (percussion Tatiana Koleva) Postal Pieces New World Records/2004 Luciano Berio N(o)w (text e.e. cummings) (performance Musician's Accord) The Great Works for Voice Mode/1995 Jaqueline Humbert: Lullaby (A.Lucier) Chanteuse Lovely Music, Ltd./2004 SET 2 Jin Hi Kim: Piri Quartet (2nd 1/2) (performance Chung Jae-Guk/Park Jong-Sol/Yang Myung Sok/Joseph Celli) Living Tones O.O. Discs/1995 Sun Ra and his Solar Orchestra: Adventure-Equation Cosmic Tones for Mental Therap + Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow Evidence/1992 (orig.1961-1963) African Head Charge: Over the Sky (trad.) Off the Beaten Track On-U-Sound/1983 SET 3 Gilles Gobeil + Rene Lussier: Rats et Contrat Le Contrat empreintes DIGITALes/2003 Team Up: A Certain Distance Between Individuals s/t Reify Recordings/2004 Helmut Lachenmann: Fluctuations at the Edge (excerpt) (performance Ensemble Modern) Schwankungen am Rand ECM New Series/2003 SET 4 Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer (soprano Bethany Beardslee) Music of Milton Babbitt CRI/1988 Joseph Waters: Interlude/Aloihoi,Pakuikui--The Fast Shallows Desert Island Pieces joseph waters/2004 SET 5 Francis Dhomont: En Cuerdas Jalons empreintes DIGITALes/2001 Artemiy Artemiev: Mysticism of Sound, part II--live version (excerpt) Time, Desert and a Sound Electroshock/2004 SET 6 Philip Mantione: White, Pink, Regular and Unknown Equal Form Scattered Music/2002 Carl Stone: Kreutz Nake Won Sonore/2004 SET 7 Roger Eno & Peter Hamill: In Love The Appointed Hour Tone Casualties/2003 Peter Frohmader: Inexorability Cycle of Eternity Cuneiform/1994 (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 14th, 2004
5:29 pm	Martian Gardens Ides of March WMUA 91.1 FM Amherst MA 01003 http://www.wmua.org MARTIAN GARDENS Sundays 21:00--24:00 Host: Max Shea http://www.mg@wmua.org Beware the Ides of Martian Gardens edition Program for March 15, 2004, 18:30--21:00 SET 1 Tim Brady: Harmonic Fields Twenty Quarter Inch Jacks Ambiance Magnetiques/2002 Einsturzende Neubauten: Boreas Perpetuum Mobile Mute Corp./2004 Mount Washington: track 1 s/t Reify Recordings/2004 SET 2 Roscoe Mitchell: 1. The Forgotten Players of the Solar System 2. The Mercurians 3. Clocks Mutable Music/2004 Herbert Brun: Anepigraphe Language, Message, Drummage Electronic Music Foundation--Smith Publications/1998 SET 3 James Tenney: Swell Piece 1/A Rose is A Rose is A Round (performance: The Barton Workshop) Postal Pieces New World Records/2004 Jaqueline Humbert: Listen...! (J. Tenney) Chanteuse Lovely Music, Ltd./2004 LaDonna Smith & Davey Williams: Green Song The Aerial no. 2 # Nonsequitur/1990 SET 4 Roderik De Man: Chordis Canam Electrified Music Electroshock/2004 Phil Kline: Briefing Zippo Songs Cantaloupe Music/2004 Robert Iolini: Secrets ReR-USA # ReR Megacorp/2004 Charlie Buel: City of Dreams Last Works CSB--Pogus Productions/1996 SET 5 Paul Dolden: The Vertigo of Ritualized Frenzy--Resonance no. 4 Seuil de Silences empreintes DIGITALes/2003 Panoptica: Auguasnegras en Dub Frontier Life soundtrack # Accretions/2002 SET 6 Alpha Wave Movement & Jim Cole: Bislama Bislama Spectral Spiral Music/2001 Dean Santomieri: part 5 The Boy Beneath the Sea The Foundry/2001 SINGLE PLAY Tom Hamilton: track 1 London Fix Muse--eek/2004 (Comment on this)
5:27 pm	Martian Gardens for 3/14/04 WMUA 91.1 FM Amherst MA 01003 http://www.wmua.org MARTIAN GARDENS Sundays 21:00--24:00 Host: Max Shea http://www.mg@wmua.org Program for March 14, 2004 SINGLE PLAY The Residents: From the Plains to Mexico Residue Deux East Side Digital/1998 (orig. 1982) SET 1 Joseph Waters: Interlude/The Lonliness of the Sun (performance The Bakken Trio) The Desert Island Pieces joseph waters/2004 Milton Babbitt: Phenemena (for soprano and tape) (soprano Lynn Webber) Philomel New World Records/1995 Patti Monson: Noa Noa (K. Saariaho) Conspirare CRI/2000 SINGLE PLAY Bernard Fort: La Paix de L'entendre Lumiere Dans La Nuit Empreintes Digitales/2003 SINGLE PLAY Joan La Barbara: October Music--Star Showers and Extraterrestrials Voice is the Original Instrument Lovely Music, Ltd./2003 SINGLE PLAY Alain Bancquart: Labyrinthe/Miroir (piano Martin Joste/text Marie-Claire Bancquart) Livre du Labyrinthe Mode/2003 SET 2 Charles Bestor: Into the Labyrinth Into the Labyrinth charles bestor/2004 Elizabeth Hoffman: Vim CDCM Music Series Volume 31 # Centaur/2001 SET 3 Gary Verkade: Tenebrae I Sonic Circuits X # Innova Recordings/2003 Philip Blackburn: P.P.S. (excerpt) (organ G. Verkade/voice Kenneth Gaburo) Winded Innova Recordings/1999 Diane Thome: Masks of Eternity III Palaces of Memory Centaur/1995 SET 4 Artemiy Artemiev: Mysticism of Sound Part II (live) (excerpt) Time, Desert, and a Sound Electroshock/2004 Victor Cerullo: Rusalki (1st/1/2) Electroacoustic Music Volume IX # Electroshock/2004 SET 5 John Luther Adams: Dark Wind Adams Cox Fink Fox Cold Blue Music/2002 Mary Ellen Childs: Whistling in the Dark (accordion Guy Klucevsek) Kilter XI/1993 (Comment on this)
Monday, March 8th, 2004
5:44 pm	Martian Gardens for March 7, 2004 WMUA 91.1 FM Amherst MA 01003 http://www.wmua.org MARTIAN GARDENS Sundays 21:00--24:00 Host: Max Shea http://www.mg@wmua.org Program for March 7, 2004 SET 1 Roscoe Mitchell: "1999/2002" Solo 3 Mutable Music/2004 Roscoe Mitchell: Clear Pictures Ibid. Stuart Saunders Smith: Blue Too (percussion: John Bartlit) Breath--The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith Smith Publications/2004 SINGLE PLAY Tim Brady: Double Helix Unison Rituals Ambiances Magnetiques--ActuellCD/2003 SET 2 Tim Brady: Opening/Waves Twenty Quarter Inch Jacks Ambiances Magnetiques--ActuellCD/2002 Forsyth--Heenan: I Listen More s/t Reify Recordings/2004 Alexei Borisov: My Voices Polished Surface of a Table Electroshock/2004 SET 3 David First: Key Lights in a Palace Balloon (piano Joseph Kubera) Resolver O.O. Discs/1991 Joseph Waters: Drum Ride (piano Susan DeWitt) s/t North Pacific Music/2004 SET 4 Gilles Gobeil + Rene Lussier: La Nuit la Plus Longue Le Contrat empreintes DIGITALes/2004 Alexander Volodin: Deep/Monologue Reflections of Time Electroshock/2004 SET 5 Jaqueline Humbert: Don't Get Your Hopes Up (R. Ashley) Chanteuse Lovely Music, Ltd./2004 Robert Ashley: Theosophy (voice J. Humbert) Dust--An Opera by Robert Ashley Lovely Music, Ltd./2000 Jaqueline Humbert: Profile Chanteuse Lovely Music, Ltd./2004 SET 6 Hans Fjellestad: Zoonomia I Red Sauce Baby Accretions/2001 Kwisp: Ether Bunny's Music for the Massless Teriyaki Vest Odyssey Pinephone Recordings/2003 Jon Rose: Odd People ReR-USA # ReR Megacorp/2004 Jon Rose: Meet the Rosenbergs (2)... Brainweather--The Story of the Rosenbergs ReR Megacorp/1992 SET 7 Rod Stasick: Q++ Sonic Circuits X # Innova Recordings/2003 Philip Mantione: Ambience Crowd Scattered Music/2003 Alp: Centrum (excerpt) Experiments With Truth # Soleilmoon/2002 (Comment on this)
Monday, March 1st, 2004
8:03 pm	MG went well last night. I was a little hesitant about sacrificing variety for length, but the Lansky and Choi pieces worked great together. I got completed the three Brady pieces by empreintes DIGITALes artists with Dolden's "Physics of Seduction." Just in time (no pun intended) too. The two new Brady CDs came in today, thanks to Clement up at eD. "Twenty Quarter-Inch Jacks" and "Unison Rituals" are on another Montreal label, Ambiances Magnetiques. I sampled them both, and liked what I heard. I also got the two new Mutable Music releases today. There's a three-CD release from Roscoe Mitchell, "Solo 3," and a reissue from The Revolutionary Ensemble (not to be confused with Ken Field's Revolutionary SNAKE Ensemble)featuring Jerome Cooper, "The Physic." Originally, released in 1975. OK, Jazz people, these CDs better not disappear! Sherry says Jenkins is very enthusiastic about having me do a guest lecture of Sherry's section of "Lively Arts." She's working up a proposal for it right now! She can probably get the other sections involved, too. I'll know more when I talk to her tomorrow. I copied four Bob Marley CDs for Frank as a thank you to him for sharing his herb with me! I'll slip some other kinds of reggae his way soon and see if he likes it. He's a tough sell on music, so I proceed with caution! Mixed metaphor of the day: "The bloom will wear off the rose, and they'll start to peel him apart like picking pieces off an onion." --fmr. Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY), in re Kerry Well, I'm always on the verge of getting back to work, but never quite getting there. Jeez! I am committed to retiring the old anxious self. Fritz Perls says anxiety IS not living in the here and now. Not so far from my empirical discovery that I'm not living here and now when I'm anxious. It looks like the right wing is gearing up to blame the violence and hell of Haiti on "voodoo." O'Reilly is doing a segment on it right now. Feh! Current Mood: calm Current Music: The O'Reilly Factor (sheesh!) (Comment on this)
8:02 pm	Martian Gardens for 2/29/04 WMUA 91.1 FM Amherst MA 01003 http://www.wmua.org MARTIAN GARDENS Sundays 21:00--24:00 Host: Max Shea http://www.mg@wmua.org Program for 2/29/04 SET 1 Phil Kline: a. Away From You b. If I Had a Farm c. We Came Because Zippo Songs Cantaloupe/2004 Art Bears: a. The Song of Investment Overseas b. Truth c. Freedom Winter Songs/The World As it is Today ReR Megacorp/1993 Heiner Goebbels: Four Lullabies for Working Mothers I-IV (H. Eisler) (countertenor Josef Bierbichler/text Bertolt Brecht) Eislermaterial ECM New Series/2001 SET 2 Sonic Youth & Co: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (J. Tenney) Goodbye 20th Century Smells Like Records/1999 New Circle Five: a. Wake Up Remembering b. No Telling Yet c. In Vain Dreaming Wide Awake Deep Listening/2003 SINGLE PLAY Joseph Waters: The Populist Manifesto (soprano Brenda Baker/text Lawrence Ferlinghetti) S/T North Pacific Music/2000 SET 3 Anatoly Pereslegin: model 4--John pASSION mODELS Electroshock/2004 Eternal Wanderers: Sufferer's Dreams Electroacoustic Music Volume IX # Electroshock/2004 SINGLE PLAY Tim Brady: The Physics of Seduction no. 1 (P. Dolden) Imaginary Guitars Justin Time/1995 SINGLE PLAY Paul Dolden: In the Natural Doorway I Crouch Seuil de Silences empreintes DIGITALes/2003 SINGLE PLAY Paul Lansky: Table's Clear Homebrew Bridge/1992 SINGLE PLAY Insook Choi: Lit CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 23 # Centaur/1996 SET 4 Barry Schrader: 816 Sonic Circuits X # Innova Recordings/2003 Barry Schrader: Ground EAM Innova Recordings/2002 (Comment on this)