Martian Gardens for 12/28/2008

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PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 28-29, 2008
extended edition

SET 1
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
Dawn of the Cycads
Cuneiform Records/2008

Bernard Falaise: Clic
Clic
Actuellecd/2008

Little Bang Theory: Tumbleweed
Elimentary
Acdisoxx Recordings2008

Frank Pahl:
a. Creatures, Real and Mythical, Part 1
b. Creatures, Part 2
The Romantic Side of Schizophrenia
FOT Records/1994
featuring the Blue Sun Quintent

SET 2
David Lee Myers & Marco Oppedisano: Throttle Body Lifter
Tesla At Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America/2008

John Oswald: Massive
Plexure
Disk Union/1993

David Shea: Trio for Samplers
Shock Corridor
Disk Union/1992

SELECTIONS FROM: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Concert 2003 first 6 of 60:
1. Douglas Cohen: Welcome 2004
2. Allen Strange: Shadowboxer
3. Judith Shatin: Glimmerings
4. Noah Creshevsky: Try
5. Gene Pritsker: Junk Fragment
6. Daniel Eichenbaum: Car Accident

Coil: Disco Hospital
Love's Secret Domain
Wax Trax!/1991

David Hahn: Don't Fuck Giraffes
David Hahn E.P.
davidhahnonline/2005

SET 3
Ingram Marshall: The Emporer's Birthday
IKON--And Other Early Works
New World Records/2000

Chris Cutler and Thomas DiMuzio: Percolation/Floating Plates
Quake
ReR Megacorp/1999

Thomas DiMuzio: Cold Fusion Off Broadway
Mono-Poly
Asphodel/Gench/2003

SET 4
Henry Brant: Altitude 8750
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2008
The Telluride Glacial Spatial Ensemble, conductor: H. Brant; vocal ensemble conducted by Bruce Neely; text: John Lifton; recorded at Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO, 7/15/90

Lejaren Hiller: Computer Cantata--Strophe V; Epilog to Strophe V
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
soprano: Helen Hamm; Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players,
conductor: Jack McKenzie

SET 5
Sylvia Smith: A Flower (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith

John Cage/Joan La Barbara: A Flower
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; closed piano: William Winant

Sylvia Smith: Forever and Sunsmell (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; Chinese tom-toms: Sylvia Smith; Ayano Kataoka: Chinese cymbal; text: e.e. cummings

John Cage/Joan La Barbara: Forever and Sunsmell
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; percussion: William Winant, suspended cymbal: Scott Evans; text: e.e. cummings

Jacqueline Humbert: Via Dolorita, Street of Sorrows, Street of Sighs (J. La Barbara)
Chanteuse--Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004

SET 6
Michael Hamman: Discourse/current
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records
text, voice: Chris Mann

Larry Polansky: #10--Four Boys Mannin'
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
text, voice: Chris Mann

Pamela Z: Geekspeak
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Alice Shields: Shenandoah
Shenandoah--Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Quatuor Bozzini: Koan for String Quartet
Arbor Vitae (Music of James Tenney)
Actuellecd/2008

SET 7
Philip Glass: Pruit Igoe
Koyaanisqatsi
Island--Antilles/1983
Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Michael Riesman; chorus: Western Wind Ensemble

Kronos Quartet: Arioso [from Quasi una Fantasia] (H.M. Gorecki)
Released/Unreleased 1985-1995
Nonesuch Records/1995

Martin Boykan: Movement IV from String Quartet No. 2
City of Gold
CRI/1999
Pro Arte Quartet

SET 8
James Tenney: Ergodos I
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007

Quatuor Bozzini: Clouds for Iannis Xenakis
Arbor Vitae (Music of James Tenney)
Actuellecd/2008

Iannis Xenakis: Mists
Works for Piano
Mode Records/2006 (orig. 1999)
piano: Aki Takahashi

Matthew Burtner: Mists
Portals of Distortion
Innova Recordings/2002

SET 9
Andrew Imbrie: Dandelion Wine
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
Collage Music Ensemble; conductor: David Hoose

Roger Sessions: Two Tableaux and Malinche's Aria from Montezuma
ibid.
soprano: Susan Narucki; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Fred Sherry; flute:
Tara Helen O'Connor; clarinet: Charles Neidich; percussion: Daniel Druckman,
James Baker; piano: Donald Berman; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky;
arr. Richard Aldag

Jack Beeson: Prescription for Living*
ibid.
soprano: Susan Narucki; baritone: Chris Pedro Trakas; piano: Donald Berman
*from Beeson's opera "Doctor Heidegger's Fountain of Youth," and included in
"An American Academy in Rome Songbook"

SET 10
New Millennium Ensemble: Percussion Duo (C. Wuorinen)
H.C.E. -- Here Comes Everybody
CRI/1998
percussion: John Ferrari; piano: Margaret Kampmeier

Charles Wuorinen: Time's Encomium Part 2 (excerpt)
Time's Encomium--For Synthesized Sound & Processed Synthesized Sound
Nonesuch Records/1969

SINGLE PLAY
Edgard Varese: Ameriques
Xenakis/Varese
Mode Records/1997
Carnegie-Mellon Philharmonic, Conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo
Recorded in Pittsburgh, 4/95

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Martian Gardens for 12/21/2008

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PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 21-22, 2008
extended edition

SET 1
Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008

Robert Erickson: Pacific Sirens
Pacific Sirens
New World Records/2003
Cleveland Chamber Symphony; conductor: Edwin London

SET 2
Charles Ives: December
The Light That is Felt
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman; text: Folgóre da San Gimignano

Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings

Bernadette Speach: Angels in the Snow
Reflections
Mode Records/2002

Antoine Berthiaume/Quentin Sirjacq/Norman Teale: Leaves and Snows
Leaves and Snows
Actuellecd/2005

Joelle Leandre/Quentin Sirjacq: Moon Journey
Out of Nowhere
Actuellecd/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: Music of Nights without Moon or Pearl
Music of Nights without Moon or Pearl
Cold Blue Music/2000
CalArts new Century Players; Conductor: David Rosenboom

SET 2
Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 2
b. Chinook Whispers
Facing North
ECM New Series/1992
M. Monk, Robert Een: pitch pipe, voice

Madelyne Byrne: Winter
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
sampled bowed crotales: Lisa Frisari; sampled voice: Malin Serner

Stanislav Kreitchi: Winter (from Four Fantasies)
Voices and Movement
Electroshock Records/2002

SET 3
Stuart Saunders Smith: Family Portraits--Embden Pond
At Sixty--Selections
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
alto flute: Lisa Cella; vibraphones: Amber Mace, Bobby Parker

Sylvia Smith: The Year Begins to be Ripe (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; text: Henry David Thoreau

John Cage The Year Begins to be Ripe
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002 (orig. 1998)
voice: Paul Hillier; closed piano: Alan Bennett; text: Henry David Thoreau

Sylvia Smith: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; text: James Joyce

Anthony De Mare: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (works by J. Cage/M. Monk)
Koch/1992
text: James Joyce

SET 4
Laetitia Sonami: Overture on Ice
Messiah Remix #
Cantaloupe Music/2004
source material: G.F. Handel, Messiah

Helmut Lachenmann: excerpts from Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern
a. In dieser Kalte
b. Trio und Reprise (Frier-Arie, 2. Teil)
c. Die Weihnachtslieder stiegen hoher
d. Abendsegen (Wenn ein Stern Fallt)
Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern (The Little Matchgirl)
ECM New Series/2004
SWR Synphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg/SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, concertmaster: Matthias Hermann; leader: Sylvain Cambreling; soprano: Eiko Morikawa, Nicole Tibbels; piano: Yukiko Sugawara, Tomoko Hemmi; sho: Mayumi Miyata; narrator: H. Lachenmann; text: Hans Christian Anderson; electronic realization: SWR experimental studio Freiburg; recorded 7/02, Konzerthaus Freiburg; conductor: Helmut Hanusch

Eve Beglarian: Be/Hold
Messiah Remix #
Cantaloupe Music/2004
source material: G.F. Handel, Messiah

SET 5
James Mobberley: Beams!
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome #
Bridge Records/2008
trombone plus tape: John Leisenring

James Mobberley: TNT
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33--
Music from iMPACT, UMKC #
Centaur Records/2002
double bass and tape: Robert Black

SET 6
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2003

Alexei Borisov: Dense Drift
Polished Surface of a Table
Electroshock Records/2004

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Polytope de Cluny
Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
see also: Xenakis Electronic Works 2

SELECTIONS FROM: Vox Novus 60 x 60 Series 2003--2007 first 6 of 60:

60 x 60--2003--random 6 of 61*

16. Scott Brickman: Signiture Piece
36. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: The Warbler Garden
51. Robert Voisey: Ripples in the Sand
61. Christopher Ward: Dance Truman, Dance
25. Mary Jane Leach: Dido Remembered
19. Michael Kinney: Forrob--One Minute of Listening Pleasure

*I intended to program the first 6 selections, but CD player
malfunction gave me these 6 instead!

60 x 60--2004--first 6 of 60:

1. Justin Breme: Counting Time
2. Robert Gluck: Stazmin
3. Christian Banasik: Glass Cutter
4. John Allemeir: Just a Minute...
5. Mark Henry: Hacked Metal
6. Killick: Submersion/subversion/heart

60 x 60--2005--first 6 of 60:

1. Adam Sovkoplas: Train Racer
2. Mike McFerron: Minute Distance
3. Paul Clouvel: Pianobsession
4. John Bilotta: A 12 Step Rag for the Totally Co-Dependent
5. Leslie de Melcher: Jerusalem
6. John Link Clarient: Clarinet Fantasy

60 x 60--2006--first 6 of 60:

1. Ivan Zavada: Neutron
2. CDZabu (collective): Tobio
3. David Hahn: America Ist Nun Erwacht
4. Balie Todd: De and Reconstruction
5. Scott Smallwood: Whitecap
6. Christopher Cook: Gamaka

60 x 60--2007--first 6 of 60:

1. Adam Caird: Going To The March
2. Alphonse Izzo: Ground
3. Doug Geers: Verbosity One
4. John Schappert: Phase Shift
5. John Maters: Double Future Container Love Music
6. Christian McLeer: Black Lung

SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: On Being Invisible, Part 1
Invisible Gold
Pogus Productions/2000
Live electronic music involving extended musical interface
with the human nervous system

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Martian Gardens for 12/14/2008

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PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 14, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Esprit Rude, Esprit Doux II (for Pierre Boulez)
Homages & Dedications
Naive Classique/2003
clarinet: Harmen de Boer; flute: Harrie Starreveld marimba: Herman Halewijn;
In honor of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday this Thursday, December 11, 2008

SET 1
Charles Ives: The Housatonic at Stockbridge
The Light That is Felt
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman;
text: Robert Underwood Johnson

Michael Byron: A Bird Revealing the Unknown Sky
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records/2008
piano: Joseph Kubera

SET 2
Luciano Berio: Gesti
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
recorder: Lucia Mense

Carrie Rose: Gesto (H. Brun)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
piano: Thomas Moore; piccolo: C. Rose

Herbert Brun: Gesto
Language, Message, Drummage
Electronic Music Foundation/
Smith Publications/2008
piano: Kathleen Keasey; piccolo: ?

Giacinto Scelsi: Rucke di Guck (1-3)
Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2002
piccolo: Clara Novakova; oboe: Cathy Milliken

SET 3
Eleanor Hovda: Costal Traces Tidepools 2
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
bowed grand piano innards: E. Hovda

Sylvia Smith: Pacific Sirens (R. Erickson)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
timpani: S. Smith; bass flute: Lisa Cella; flute, alto flute: Carrie Rose;
voice, bowed gongs, cymbals: Lee Hinkle; additional voices: Bonnie Lander,
Lisette Abreu, Megha Jacob; tape of Pacific Ocean sounds: Robert Erickson

SET 4
Barry Schrader: Monkey King, Part II--
Monkey's Underwater Voyage-The Staff of the Milky Way
Monkey King
Innova Recordings/2008

Jon Appleton: Pacific Rimbombo
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 15 #
Centaur Records/1994
Max Mathews: Mathews Radio Drum

Artemiy Artemiev: Seaside Walk
The Warning
Electroshock Records/1993

SET 5
Paul Lansky:
a. Two by Two
b. Wordless
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007

David Behrman: Watercress Well
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
voice: Thomas Buckner; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo;
electronics: D. Behrman, Tom Hamilton; text: Siegfried Sassoon

SET 6
Ensemble SuperMusique: 8 Moments Brefs
Y'a du Bruit dans ma Cabane
Actuellecd/2008

Joane Hetu/Ensemble SuperMusique: Calcium Sloche, part 1
Nouvelle Musique D'Hiver
Actuellecd/2007

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Martian Gardens for 12/07/2008

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PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 7, 2008

SET 1
Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60 2004/2005
Vox Novus/2007

John Cage: Indeterminacy #55 (concerning "Ha-Ha, your mushrooms are gone!")
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
piano/noises: David Tudor

Cindy Cox: Nature Is
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2007

John Cage Indeterminacy #86 (concerning Deception Pass, Puget Sound)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
piano/noises: David Tudor

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: selections from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
I. Improvisation
III. Moto Perpertuo
V. Canto
VIII. Canaries
The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Four
Bridge Records2001
timpani: Daniel Druckman
In honor of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday this Thursday, December 11, 2008

SET 2
Barbara Benary: Downtown Steel I
Sun on Snow
New World Records/2006
piano: Joseph Kubera; clarinet: Daniel Goode; soprano sax: Jon Gibson;
marimba: Bill Ruyle; drum set: Chris Nappi; trombone: Peter Zummo;
tuba: Marcus Rojas; percussion: Nick Didkovsky; vibraphone: B. Benary

Evan Ziporyn: Ngaben (for Sari Club)
Typical Music
New Albion Records/2005
Gamelan Galak Tika; New England Conservatory Philharmonic,
conductor: Dante Azolini

SET 3
Douglas Ovens: Improvisation #4B (Music Box)
Seven Improvisations
North/South Recordings/2004

Eric Moe: Songs and Dances of the Automobile
I. Mambo
II. Nocturne
III. Rubber Riff
IV. Lullaby with Variations
V. Piston Fling
On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Great Masters of Melody (P. DeMarinis)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)

SET 4
Sylvia Smith: Poems I, II, III (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
brake drums: Sylvia Smith; voice, text: Stuart Saunders Smith

Harry Partch: Pray for Me
Delusion of the Fury
Innova Recordings/1999 (orig. Sony/1971)
Ensemble conducted by Danlee Mitchell, supervised by H. Partch, Recorded at
UCLA, 1969

New Circle Five: Ghost Women
Dreaming Wide Awake
Deep Listening/2003

SET 5
Morton Feldman: Durations part 5
Indeterminate Music
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble; directors: Philipp Vandre, Thaddeus Watson

Christian Wolff: For Morty
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop, conductor: James Fulkerson

Mark Applebaum: Entre Funerailles II
Disciplines
Innova Recordings/2004
vibraphone: Terry Longshore

SET 6
Stuart Saunders Smith: In Bingham
At Sixty
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
Recorded March 8, 2008, Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron
S.S. Smith: Maine English, Regular English

Alvin Curran Curran: From Center of Rainbow, Sounding (M. Goldstein)
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
violin sounding: Malcolm Goldstein; maritime sounds and lobstermen recorded in
Maine

Malcolm Goldstein: Autumn (exerpt)
The Seasons--Vermont
XI Records/1998
Ensemble recorded 2/26/83 at Real Art Ways, Hartford; autumnal
sounds recorded in Vermont

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Martian Gardens for 11/30/2008

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PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 30, 2008

SET 1
Elliott Carter: Asko Concerto
What Next?/Asko Concerto
ECM New Series/2003
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Peter Eotvos

Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (excerpt)
Kraanerg
Mode Records/2008
Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury

SET 2
Sylvia Smith: In Hours Like These (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
orchestra bells: Syliva Smith, speaking voice; singing voice: Christie Finn
text: Vladimir Mayokovsky

Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
ibd.
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; voice: Sylvia Smith

Stuart Saunders Smith: Rose
At Sixty--Selections
11 West Records/2008
flute; voice: Carrie Rose; text: Anne Sexton

Carrie Rose: Legacy Variations #1 (Stuart Saunders Smith)
Book of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
flutes: Lisa Cella, Kathie Trahan, C. Rose

SET 3
Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera
a. Simbolo
b. Accenti
c. Contrapunctus Primus
d. Linee
e. Contrapunctus Secondus (Canon Contrario Motu)
f. Fregi
g. Andantino Amoroso e Contrapunctus Tertius (Canon Cancrizans)
h. Ritmi
i. Coloro
j. Ombre
k. Quartina
Musica da Camera (Dallapiccola/Petrassi)
Mode Records/2006
piano: Ciro Longobardi

Arthur Levering: Tesserae
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
piano: Donald Berman
viola: Jonathan Bagg

SINGLE PLAY
Lejaren Hiller: A Portfolio for Diverse Performers and Tape
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
Gregg Smith Singers, conductor: Gregg Smith; electronics realized
at the Experimental Studio, Polish National Radio, Warsaw

SET 4
Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37,
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
text: Lewis Carroll

Douglas Ovens: Improvisation #6 for Electronic Percussion and Tape
Seven Improvisations
North/South Recordings/2004

Noah Creshevsky: Independence Day
To Know and Not To Know
/Tzadik/2007

SET 5
Fred Frith + Danielle Palardy Roger: Sala Nera
Pas de Deux
Actuellecd/2008

Hans Fjellestad: Dual Resonance I
Dual Resonance
/Circumvention Music/2003
tenor saxophone: Jason Robinson
contrabass: Peter Kowald
Dana Reason: Piano
H. Fjellestad: piano, synthesizer

Alan Sondheim: 778
Ritual-All-7-78
ESP Disk/2008
trumpet: Robert Poholek; bass drums: JP;
vocals: Ruth Ann Hutchinson; xylophone: A. Sondheim
Recorded 1/67, Povidence, RI

Meredith Monk: Totentanz
Impermanence
ECM New Series/2003
piano, violin: Allison Sniffin; percussion: John Hollenbeck;
reeds: Bohdan Hilash; voices: Meredith Monk, Theo Blackmann

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Martian Gardens for 11/23/2008

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PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 23, 2008

SET 1
Elliott Carter: Scrivo in Vento
Eight Compositions (1948-1993)
Bridge Records/1994
flute: Harvey Sollberger

Gabriel Valverde: El Silencio ya no es el Silencio
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
harp: Sofia Ascuncion Claro

Christian Wolff: Untitled (1-3)
Look She Said--The Complete Works for Bass
Mode Records/2002
electric bass: Robert Black

Elliott Carter: Hiyoku
The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five--
Nine Compositions (1994-2002)
Bridge Records/2003
clarinets: Charles Neidich, Ayoko Oshima

SET 2
David First: Key Lights in a Palace Balloon
Resolver
O.O. Discs/1991
piano: Joseph Kubera

Michael Byron: It is the Night and Dawn of Constellations Irradiated (1st 1/2)
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records/2008
piano: Joseph Kubera

SET 3
Jody Redhage: Paint Box (A. Clyne)
MusicWorks 102 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2008

Craig Hultgren: The Artist and his Model (C. N. Mason)
Music of the NEXT Moment
Innova Recordings/1995

Charles Norman Mason: The Starling Clock Wound
60 X 60 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Les Poules: Serpents Luisants
Phenix
Actuellecd/2008

Shelley Hirsch: Burst
States
Tellus-Harvestworks/1997

SET 4
Peter Gordon: I'm Dreaming in the Sun and Dreaming in the Moon
Star Jaws
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1978)
guitars: Steve Bartek; drums: Tony Johnson; backup vocals: Lynne Morrow,
Jane Sharp; flute: Maggi Payne; bassoon: Arthur Stidfole; electric piano:
"Blue" Gene Tyranny; Karl Young: clarinet, tenor sax;
B. Gordon: vocals, alto sax, piano; lyrics: Kathy Acker;
recorded at CCM, Mills College, 1977

Coil: Restless Day
Scatology
Force & Form/1984 (CD version 1988)

Coil: The Last Rites of Spring
Gold is the Metal
Some Bizzare/1987
sample: I. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Part II--
"The Glorification of the Chosen One"

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: (Excerpts from) The Rite of Spring
Dawn of the Cycads--The Complete Ace of Heart Recordings (1983-1987)
Cuneiform Records/2008
I. Stravinsky, arr. BSOTM

SET 5
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Rendezvous (J. Bischoff)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)

The Hub: Perry Mason in East Germany (J. Bischoff)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008

Nicolas Chausseau: James Bond vs. the Venominator
60 X 60 2006/2007 #
Vox Novus 60 x 60/2008

XEX: SNGA (Soviet Nerve Gas Attack)
Group: XEX
smackshire.com/2004
This website appears to be defunct

William C. Harrington: We All Marched Together
Nuclear Menace
Tanatone Records/2007

SET 6
Jon Christopher Nelson: Dhoormages
I. Variations on a Door, Not a Sigh
II. I Am Sitting in a...
III. Waterrun
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2003

Alice Shields: Dance Piece No. 3
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998

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Martian Gardens for 11/16/2008

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PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 16, 2008

SET 1
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Cuban Lawyer, Juan Blanco
Electroacoustic Music Volume IX #
Electroshock Records/2004
voice: Juan Blanco
In memoriam Juan Blanco 1919-2008

David Rosenboom: Station Oaxaca
Future Travel
New World Records/2007 (orig. 1978/1981)
voice: Jacqueline Humbert

Twisted Tutu: God B's Lullaby (A. Jarvinen)
Play Nice
O.O. Discs/1999
text: James Merrill

Pauline Olveros: Bye Bye Butterfly
Women in Electronic Music 1977 #
New World Records/2007 (orig. 1977)

SET 2
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: The Intermediary, A
The Intermediary
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1982)

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Now Plus One
The Somwhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner
violins: Conrad Harris/Pauline Kim
viola: Lev Zhurbin
cello: Ariane Lallemand
bass: Jay Elfinbein
piano, text: BGT

SET 3
Elliott Carter: 90+
The Complete Music for Piano
Bridge Records/1997
piano: Charles Rosen

Elliott Carter: Retrouvailles
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
piano: Ursula Oppens

Iannis Xenakis: Palimpsest
Works for Piano
Mode Records/2006 (orig. 1999)
piano: Aki Takahashi
The Society for New Music; conductor: Charles Peltz

SET 4
George Crumb: Black Angels--Thirteen Images from the Dark Land
a. Night of the Electric Insects
b. Sounds of Bones and Flutes
c. Lost Bells
d. Devil Music
e. Danse Macabre
f. Pavana Lachrymae (Der Tod und das Madchen)
g. Black Angels
h. Sarabanda de la Muerte Oscura
i. Lost Bells (echo)
j. God-music
k. Ancient Voices
l. Ancient Voices (echo)
m. Night of the Electric Insects
Black Angels/Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
Cuarteto Latnioamercano; members of the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic,
conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo

Tod Dockstader/David Lee Myers: Pterygota
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005

SET 5
Fred Frith: Selluloid Restaurant/The Old Man Puts Out the Fire
Step Across the Border
ReR Megacorp/2003

Fred Frith/Danielle Palardy Roger: L'Auberge des Quatra Vents 1+2
Pas De Deux
Actuellecd/2008

Danielle Palardy Roger: Le Glas
Bruiducoeur--Prieres des Infideles
Actuellecd/2006

SET 6
David Morneau: Sunrise
Selected Works
5of4/2008

Eldad Tsabary: Julia
Demo
Yaeldad/2006

Diego Luzuriaga: excerpts from Viento en el Viento
Southern Cones--Music out of Africa and South America #
Electronic Music Foundation/2000


--fin--

Martian Gardens for 11/09/2008

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PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 9, 2008

SET 1
David Morneau: Soft Shoe (for November 9)
60 x 365
60 x 365

Random selections from the Vox Novus 60 x 60 series: 2003--2007
David Mooney: Ducks in Motion (2003)
John Schappert: A Minute of Madness (2004)
Piotr Szewczyk: Cosmic Insects (2005)
Xiting Yang: My Visiting Card (2006)
Christian McLeer: Black Lung (2007)

SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Sonata (R. Ashley)
a. Sonata I
b. Sonata II
c. Sonata III
d. Sonata I+II+II (trio)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)

SET 2
Mark Applebaum: On the Nature of the Modern Age
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings2008
Duo Runedako

Neil Rolnick: Gate Beats
Shadow Quartet
Innova Recordings2005

SET 3
Carlos Delgado: Polemics
Exchange--Latin America
CRI/1999
piano: Max Midroit

Carlos Delgado: Fugaz
Society of Composers, Inc. -- Chamber Works
Capstone Records/1998
tenor saxophone: Rene Morgensen

Roger Heaton/Corrado Canonici: Night Scenes (C. Delgado)
Cassandra
Capstone Records/1998

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)
a. Vocalise (...for the Beginning of Time); Variations on Sea-Time
b. Sea Theme
c. Archezoic (Var.I)
d. Proterozoic (Var. II)
e. Paleozoic (Var. III)
f. Mesozoic (Var. IV)
g. Cenozoic (Var. V)
h. Sea Nocturne (...for the End of Time)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
The International Contemporary Ensemble

SET 4
Stuart Saunders Smith: Wind in the Channel
Wind in the Channel
O.O. Discs/1997
tenor recorder, voice, percussion: Julia Whybron

Alvin Lucier: Ever Present
Ever Present
Mode Records/2007
Drescher-Okabe-Armbruster Trio

SINGLE PLAY
Gordon Mumma: Synfonia for 12 Instruments and Magnetic Tape
Music from the ONCE Festival--1961-1966
New World Records/2003
ONCE Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Wayne Dunlap

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 11/02/2008

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PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 2,2008

FUND DRIVE WEEK--NO REGULAR SET LIST

Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island/1993

NewBand: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
NewBand Plays Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994

John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Phillip Vandre

Robert Voisey: Hunger
Vox Novus E.P.
Vox Novus/2004

Robert Asheley: I Aged I Didn't Grow Up
Concrete--An Opera
Lovely Music, Ltd/2008
vocals: Jacqueline Humbert; Joan La Barbara, Thomas Buckner,
Sam Ashley; sound design: Tom Hamilton

Jacqueline Humbert: Profile
Chanteuse--Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
piano accompaniment, additional vocals: Lindsay Claire Rosenboom

Mike Silverton/Tom Hamilton/Al Margolis:
The Clouds, To Whom do They Belong?
Analoque Smoque
Pogus Productions/2003

Noah Creshevesky: Variations
Man & Superman
Centaur Records/1992

David Congo: MIDI Variations
Voyage
Capstone Records/2006

David First: Thought You Said Sherbet*
The Alternative Schubertiade #
CRI/1999
*based on the first nine measures of Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade

Gyorgy Ligeti: Musica Ricercata parts I-VII
I. Sostenuto-Misurato-Prestissimo
II. Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale
III. Allegro con spirito
IV. Tempo de Valse (poco vivace--a l'orgue de Barbarie)
V. Rubato Lamentoso
Edition 5--Mechanical Music
Sony/1997
barrel organ: Pierre Charial

Gordon Mumma: 11 Sushi Horizontals
1. For Jackson Mac Low
2. For Alexis at 22
3. For Agnes Martin
4. For James Klosty
5. For Jonathan at 12
6. Erdos number...for Paul Erdos
7. For Christopher at 15 (time flies like two arrows)
8. For Carolyn Brown
9. For Bun-Ching Lam
10. For Anatole Leikin
11. For Charles Shere
Music for Solo Piano (1960--2001)
New World Records/2008
piano: Daan Vanewalle

--fin--

Martian Gardens 10/26/2008

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PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER 26, 2008

SET 1
John Cage: What You Say (on Jasper Johns)
The Text Pieces I
Mode Records/1999

Alvin Curran/John Cage: Ice, Dew, Food, Crew, Ape
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
voice: J. Cage

SET 2
Noah Creshevsky: Intrada
Favororite Encores (Creshevsky/Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2008
voice: Chris Mann

Steve Mackey: 'Lude
Speak Like the People, Write Like the King
Bridge Records/2008
Brentano String Quartet

Kenneth Gaburo: String Quartet in One Movement
Five Works for Voices, Instruments, and Electronics
New World Records/2002
Walden String Quartet

SET 3
Random selections from the 60 x 60 series:
2003--
Tom Lopez: Moth
Stan Link: Cavatina from an Imaginary Opera
Eric Lyon: Molten Statues
2004--
Daniel Goode: V-I
Charles Norman Mason: Into the Woods
Eldad Tsabary: Decay Date 14 April 1966
2005--
Polly Moller: Cold Blood
Jonathan Stone: From Mr. Knight
Peter V. Swendsen: Field
2006--
Maggi Payne: 60x3
Rodney Oakes: Iberian Aria
Margaret Schedel: Whirlitzer
2007--
Chris Mann: Told You So
Rodney Waschka II: Reminded of Dickens
Monique Buzzarte: On the Outside Looking In...

SET 4
Eve Beglarian: Wolf Chaser
Lesbian American Composers
CRI/1997
violin/Inuit "wolf chaser" tool: Robin Lorentz
percussion/electronics: E. Beglarian

Tom Lopez: Dirge for Deja Vu
Frist Wave Music/2008

SET 5
Frances White: Centre Bridge
Centre Bridge--Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown

Paul Lansky: Quakerbridge
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992

SET 6
Joel Chadabe: Follow Me Softly
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 24
Centaur Records/1997
percussion: Jan Williams
Synclavier Digital Music System: J. Chadabe

Gary Lee Nelson: To the Edge
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37--
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
marimba: Deborah Sunya Moore

SINGLE PLAY
Little Bang Theory: Tumbleweed
Elementary
Acidsoxx Musicks/2008

Martian Gardens for 10/19/2008

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PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER 19/20, 2008 (extended broadcast 21:30-03:00)

SET 1
Michael Byron: Enchanting the Stars
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records/2008
piano: Joseph Kubera

Harold Budd/Ruben Garcia/Daniel Lentz: Somos Tres
Music for 3 Pianos
All Saints--Caroline/1992

SET 2
Arthur Levering: Twenty Ways Upon the Bells
School of Velocity
CRI/1999
Dinosaur Annex Music Enemble, conductor: Scott Wheeler

Arthur Levering: Echoi
a. Movement 1
b. Movement 2
c. Movement 3
Still Raining, Still Dreaming
New World Records/2008
violin: Nicholas Kitchen; piano: Donald Berman


SET 3
Robert Voisey: Deep Longings
Once there Was...Troy
Vox Novus/2004
Rishon String Quartet

Robert Xavier Rodriguez: Les Niais Amoureux
a. Larghetto Amoroso
b. Allegro Cantabile
c. Larghissimo Tranquillo
Voces Americanas
CRI/1998
Voices of Change Ensemble

SET 4
Noah Creshevsky: Jacob's Ladder (Dedicated to Marco Oppedisano)
Hyperrealism
Mutable Music/2003

Marco Oppedisano: Imaginary Portal
The Ominous Corner
OKS Recordings of North America/2008

Nick Didkovsky: Flykiller
New York Guitars #
CRI/1995

John Cage: Totem Ancestor
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandre

SET 5
Joan La Barbara: October Music--Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003

Tom Hamilton: 42nd St./Times Square
Off-Hour Wait State--Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
voice: Thomas Buckner; trombone: Peter Zummo; percussion: Jonathan Haas

Mark Applebaum: Theme In Search of Variations III
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings2008
Beta Collide

SET 6
Tom Lopez: The Death of the Moth
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37--
Music from the Oberlin Coservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, conductor: Tim Weiss

Michael Vogt: Tombeau
Argonautika
ReR Megacorp/2004

SET 7
James Tenney: String Complement (With Erogodos II)
Molody, Ergodicity, and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
The Barton Workshop

Jerry Hunt: Transform (Stream): Monopole
Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams
O.O. Discs/1992

SET 8
Paul Reller: Carcass
Bang On A Can Vol.3
CRI/1994

Tim Hodgkinson: Vers Kongsu II
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
bass clarinet: Vinny Golia; percussion: Gustavo Aguilar,
clarintet solo: T. Hodgkinson; Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Iancu Dumitrescu

Roland Auzet: Omega (I. Xenakis)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2007

SET 9
The League of Automatic Music Composers: Martian Folk Music
TLOAMC 1978-1983
New World Records/2007

The Hub: Hot Pig
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008

John Bischoff/Chris Brown/Tom Erbe/Maggi Payne: CCM Flotsam (tracks 16,17,18)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994

Chris Brown:
a. Cremation Procession, Bali
b. Cremation Flame, Bali
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005

SINGLE PLAY
Felix Werder: Banker
The Tempest
Pogus Productions/2007
piano: Dennis Henning; percussion: John Seal; guitar;
Jochen Schubert; synthesizers: Keith Humble/F. Werder;
realization: Peter Mumme

SINGLE PLAY
Stephane Roy: Masques et Parades
a. Exultation
b. Burlesque
c. Noir Silence
Migrations
empreintes DIGITALes/2003

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Fog Index
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

SET 10
Jeff Greinke: Moving Through Fog
Cities in Fog
Projekt: Archive/1997

Paul Schutze: The Black Lake
The Driftworks Boxed Set
Big Cat Records/1997

Robert Scott Thompson: Submerged
Frontier
Mirage--Oasis/1998

SINGLE PLAY
Brian Eno: Events in Dense Fog
Music for Films I
EG/1978

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 10/12/2008

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PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER 12, 2008

SET 1
Mark Applebaum:
a. Martian Anthropology 1
b. Martian Anthropology 2
Martian Anthropology
Innova Recordings2004
Stanford Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Jindong Cai
M. Applebaum: Mouseketier sound-sculpture,live electronics

Mark Applebaum:
a. Martian Anthropology 7
b. Martian Anthropology 8
c. Martian Anthropology 9
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings2008
Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band

SET 2
Meredith Monk:
a. Sweep 1
b. Disequelibrium
Impermanence
ECM New Series/2008
paddle drums(a.); bicycle wheel (b.): John Hollenbeck; voices (b.):
Theo Bleckman, Katie Geissinger, Allison Sniffin, Sylvie Jensen,
Ellen Fisher, M. Monk

George Crumb: Dream Sequence (Images II)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
The International Contemporary Ensemble


SET 3
Iannis Xenakis: Orient-Occident
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997

Ingram Marshall: Cortez
Ikon--and Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
voice/text: Snee McCaig

SET 4
If, Bwana: Xyloxings
Favororite Encores (Creshevsky/Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2008
voice: Lisa Barnard

Eric Chasalow: Crossing Boundaries
Left To His Own Devices
New World Records/2003

SET 5
Random selections from the 60 x 60 series:
David Hahn: Goo Mee
James Hegerty: MHLR4
Mike Swinchoski: Alternative Song
Balie Todd: De and Reconstruction
Alphonse Izzo: Ground
Annea Lockwood: The Danube at Batina, Croatia, Underwater, 2003
Stephen Ricks: A Glimpse Beyond Zero
Straiph Wilson: Skp A Beat
Heike Schmidt: morningsong
arita Bolles: Hallelujah
Jay Batzner: Bad Villager
voxnovus.com/2003-2007

SET 6
Morton Subotnick: Gestures--It Begins With Colors
The Electronic Works I
Mode Records/2001
voice: Joan La Barbara/Text: Melody Sumner Carnahan

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now #
Frog Peak Music/1996
text: Melody Sumner Carnahan

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: Trembling
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol.14 #
Centaur Records/1993
voice: Joan La Barbara; violin: Robert Davidovici; piano: Adam Wodnicki; "ghost" electronics: Larry Austin

Martian Gardens for 9/28/2008

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PROGRAM FOR SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Mauricio Kagel: Variete (1-5)
a. Con Moto
b. Grave
c. Giusto
d. Largo
e. Presto
Mauricio Kagel 4--Variete
Discques Montaigne/1992
Ensemble Modern, conductor: M. Kagel
Recorded in Berlin, 1/92

SET 1
Frank Denyer: Two Beacons
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
The Barton Workshop & Co., directors: F. Denyer, James Fulkerson

Morton Feldman: The Straits of Magellan
Indeterminate Music
Mode Records/2001
The Turfan Ensemble; directors: Phillipp Vandre, Thaddeus Watson

SET 2
Henry Brant: Inside Track
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2008
solo piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; soprano: Barbara Hannigan;
with two percussionists, string septet, woodwind quartet, and
"street band"; conductors: H. Brant,Robert Aitken;
recorded Toronto 9/09/90

Meri von KleinSmid: Monorail
60 x 60 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Greg Carr: Soul Train Rodeo
Technological Retreat Mixes Vol. 1
Innova Recordings/2003

SET 3
Ann Southam: In Retrospect
MusicWorks 101
MusicWorks Magazine/2008
piano: Eve Egoyan

Gordon Mumma: Graftings
a. Scion
b. Recitative
c. Scion
d. Scion
e. Grafting & Slipwaltz
f. Scion
Music for Solo Piano (1960--2001)
New World Records/2008
piano: Daan Vandewalle

SET 4
Gordon Mumma: Cirqualz
Electronic Music of Theatre and Public Activity
New World Records/2005

Noah Creshevsky: Great Performances
Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971--1992
EM Records/2004

Noah Creshevsky: Favorite Encores
Favorite Encoures (Creshevsky/If, Bwana)
Pogus Productions/2008

SET 5
Jon Hassell/Brian Eno: Chemistry
Fourth World Vol. 1--Possible Musics
E.G--Jem Records/1980
trumpet: J. Hassell; bass: Percy Jones; ghatam:
Nana Vasconcelos, Ayibe Dieng

Brad Garton: Approximate Rhythms
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 5 #
Centaur Records/1990

Mark Applebaum: Garden of Memory
The Bible Without God
Innova Recordings/2005

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Austin: The Nth Realization*
Octo Mixes
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
*Octophonic computer remix of John Cage's "Williams Mix"

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 9/21/2008

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PROGRAM FOR SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

SET 1
Cosmologic: Mr. Hubbard's Shock Installation
Syntaxis
Circumvention Music/2003

Cosmologic: 17th and Capp (Revisited)
Trummerflora--Rubble 1
Circumvention Music/2004

Michael Lipsey: Rezo
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2007

SET 2
Pauline Oliveros/Miya Masaoka: Daybreak (Akegarasu--Sound of a Crow)
Accordion/Koto
Deep Listening/2008

Maybe Monday: Beyond the Hard Darkness
Saturn's Finger
Buzz Records/1999
featuring Miya Masaoka, koto

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965
a. Eco 1. Fantastico
b. Eco 2. Languidamente, quasi lontano ("Hauntingly")
c. Eco 3. Prestissimo
d. Eco 4. Con bravura
e. Eco 5. Dark, Intense
f. Eco 6. Dark, Intense
g. Eco 7. Dark, Intense
h. Eco 8. Forece, violento
i. Eco 9. Serenamente, quasi lontano ("Hauntingly")
j. Eco 10. Senza musura ("gently undulating")
k. Eco 11. Adagio; ("Like a Prayer")
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
The International Contemporary Ensemble;
text: Federico Garcia Lorca

SET 3
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
text: Emmett Williams

Larry Austin: La Barbara--The Music
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 13
Centaur Records/1993
from "La Barbara: The Name, The Sounds, The Music--
voice: L. Austin; soprano: J. La Barbara

SET 4
Lydia Kavina: Exercise 28 (C. Wolff)
Spellbound! Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Sospeso

Christian Wolff:
a. Exercise 8
b. Exercise 11
Ten Exercises
New World Records/2006
piano: Frederic Rzewski; vibraphone: Robyn Schulkowsky; electric
guitar: Larry Polansky; soprano saxophone: Chiyoko Szlavnics;
melodica: C. Wolff; recorded 9/2005, Umbria, Italy

SINGLE PLAY
Mauricio Kagel: Phonophonie
Transcion II/Phonophonie
Mode Records/2005
bass: Nicholas Isherwood; tapes, sound direction:
Stefano Bassanese; offstage voice: Tim Greacon;
prerecorded percussion: Dimitri Fiorin; prerecorded voices:
Piera Acone, Elena Barbalich, Daniel Del Giudice; Xavier Tabet,
N. Isherwood; recorded in Venice and Paris 1999--2001

In Memoriam Mauricio Kagel, December 24, 1931--September 18, 2008

Martian Gardens for 9/14/2008

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PROGRAM FOR SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

SET 1
Meredith Monk: Last Song
Impermanence
ECM Records/2008

Meredith Monk: Memory Song
Do You Be
ECM Records/1987
voices: Andrea Goodman, Naaz Hosseini, M. Monk
keyboards: Wayne Hankin, Nurit Tilles

Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms--The Nerve Events Project #
Cuneiform Records/1993

Arie Shapira: Saxo Quartet & Playback
Arie Shapira/2008
Israeli Saxo Quartet

SET 2
Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Noa Creshevsky/If, Bwana)
Pogus Productions/2008
violin samples: Mari Kimura

Mari Kimura: Submarine (R. Rowe)
Polytopia--Music for Violin & Electronics
Bridge Records/2007

Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60--2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim

Rodney Waschka II: Xuan Men (Dark Gate)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 16 #
Centaur Records/1994
violin: Bruce Berg

SET 3
David Starobin: Two Practical Cats (H. Searle)
a. Macavity--The Mystery Cat
b. Growltiger's Last Stand
Music With Guitar, Volume 4
Bridge Records/1990
narrator: Patrick Mason; flute/piccolo: Susan Palma;
cello: Timothy Eddy; guitar: D. Starobin; texts: T.S. Eliot

Harry Partch: Ring Around the Moon--
A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now*
a. Phase One--Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!)
b. Phase Two--One, Two, Three Four--X,Y,Zee
c. Phase Three--Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the
bell come out fighting!
d. Phase Four--Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy,
acey ducey, hoochey koochey (Look out! He's got a gun!)
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1
New World Records/2004 (orig. CRI 1997)
*from Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater
Gate 5 Ensemble; recorded 1953 Sausalito, California

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: Ditone Set
a. Usul
b. Plaint
c. Variations on Walter von der Voglweide's 'Song of Palestine'
d. Estampie
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
guitars: John Schneider

SET 4
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere Inside the Red Circle
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner; "Leading a Double Life"
performed by The Ned Sublette Group

Little Bang Theory: AutoZither no.1
Elementary
Acidsoxx Musicks/2008

Jennifer Griffith: Calling G.B.
60 x 60--2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

George Brunner: Art in Heaven
The Electroacoustic Music Ensemble Brooklyn College 1999
The Electro-Acoustic Ensemble/1999/2008
voices: Bruce MacIntyre, Jerald Miller, Safiya Ama Samms,
Joshua Samms, G. Brunner; texts: Pater Noster, Psalm 23,
11th Century Solemn Easter Mass

Robert Voisey: Lullaby
ibid.
voice: Joyce Tannian

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Dow: Burnt Umber
Selected Works
Robert Dow/2008

Martian Gardens for 9/07/08

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PROGRAM FOR SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Arie Shapira: Foot Notes
Arie Shapira/2008
piano: Dessy Staykova; viola: David Lopez Pena;
flute: Maria Bornuevo; oboe: Irma Kort;
clarinet: Jorge Lopez Garcia; conductor: Ezequiel Menallad
recorded at Korzo Theatre, Den Haag, 12/03/06

SET 2
Little Bang Theory: Visionary Cheapskates
Elementary
Acidsoxx Musicks/2008

Jay Batzner: Bad Villager
60 x 60--2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

David Lee Myers/Marco Oppedisano: Storm and Drain
Tesla at Coney Island
OKS Records of North America/2008

Philip Mantione: Melt
Drainage Music
Scattered Music/2004

Thomas Dimuzio: Detach
Headlock
ReR Megacorp/2001 (rec. 1989)

SET 3
If, Bwana: Cicada #4--Version Barnard
Favorite Encores (Noa Creshevsky/If, Bwana)
Pogus Productions/2008
voice: Lisa Barnard

Meredith Monk: Understreet
Key--Ivisible Theater by Meredith Monk
Lovely Music, Ltd./1995 (orig. 1977)
voice, electric organ: M. Monk

Meredith Monk:
a. Disequilibrium
b. Slow Dissolve
c. Sweep 2
Impermanence
ECM Records/2008
voices: M. Monk, Katie Gessinger,
Theo Bleckmann, Allison Sniffin, Silvie Jensen, Ellen Fisher,
Sasha Bagdonowitsch; piano: A. Sniffin; bass clarinet, ocean drum:
Bohdan Hilash; elephant Bells, Chinese temple bells, percfussion,
magnets: John Hollenbeck; recorded 1/07 Avatar Studios, NYC

SET 4
John Luther Adams: Triadic Iteration Lattices (for 4 air raid sirens)
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005 (rec. 1997)
Percussion Group Cincinatti

Edgard Varese: Ionisation
The Varese Album
Sony--Wounded Bird Records/2007 (orig. 1960, 1962)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Robert Craft

Charles Amirkhanian: Vers Les Anges
Walking Tune
Starkland/1997

SET 4
Larry Austin: Threnos*
Ottuplo! Larry Austin--The Eighth Decade
Centaur Records/2006
bass clarinets: Michael Lowenstern
*In memory of the victims of September 11, 2001

Darren Copeland: They're Trying to Save Themselves
Perdu et Retrouve DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
All sounds of eyewitness accounts of 9/11 broadcast on CNN

David Hahn: America ist nun Erwackt
60 x 60--2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
voice samples: GW Bush/A. Hitler

Trevor Wishart: Stentor (from Two Women)
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
voice samples: Ian Paisley (on Margaret Thatcher)

Jacqueline Humbert: Lullaby (A. Lucier)
Chanteuse--Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004

Laurie Spiegel: A Legend (from Three Modal Pieces)
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

Laurie Spiegel: Remembering Home
60 x 60--2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Natasha Barrett: Racing through, Racing Unseen
Miniatures Concretes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

Otto Luening: Moonflight
Pioneers of Electronic Music #
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI 1991)

SET 5
Alvin Lucier: North American Time Capsule
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
members of the Brandeis University Chamber Chorus; conductor: A. Lucier/encoded by the Sylvania Electronic Systems Vocoder,
Brandeis 5/67

Robert Scott Thompson: Remnant
Amorphia
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 2005)

SINGLE PLAY
Frances White: Walk Through "Resonant Landscape" No.2
Centre Bridge--Electroacustic Music
Mode Records/2007

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 8/31/08

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PROGRAM FOR AUGUST 31, 2008

SET 1
Robert Dow: Precipitation within Sight
Selected Works (2008)
Robert Dow/2008

Douglas Doherty: On the Toon in the Toon on the Tyne
Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield, and Newcastle
MPS Music & Video/2001

Andra McCartney: Moving Water
60 x 60-2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Eldad Tsabary: Creatures of the Ice
Demo
Eldad Tsabary/2006

SINGLE PLAY
Lejaren Hiller: A Portfolio for Diverse Performers and Tape
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
The Gregg Smith Singers, conductor: Gregg Smith

SET 2
Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (excerpt)
Kraanerg
Mode Records/2008
Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury

Judy Dunaway: For Balloon and String Quartet (Second Movement)
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006
Flux Quartet

Eric Moe: On the Tip of My Tongue (IV-Alternate Take)
On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996
bass clarinet: Tim Smith; keyboards: E. Moe

Michael Lipsey: Teeth of the Sea (E. Moe)
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2007

SET 3
Frank Denyer: Tentative Thoughts, Silenced Voices
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted violin, voice: Marieke Keser; muted viola, voice:
Elisabeth Smalt; Indian Santur: Jose Garcia Rodriguez;
percussion: Tobias Liebezeit, Juan Martinez Cortes;
voice/whistling tube: Christopher Best; voice/six reeds:
Trevor Wiggins; voice/eunuch flute: Patrick Ozzard-Low;
trumpet: Gertjan Loot

John Cage: Five
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002
Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices

SET 4
Al Margolis/If, Bwana: Issue
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
vocals: Lisa Barnard

Noah Creshevsky: Psalmus XXIII
To Know and Not to Know
Tzadik/2007
baritone: Zach Kurth-Nelson; vocal samples: Beth Griffith

SET 5
Sam Pluta: Jonty's Acousmatic Tube Ride
60 x 60-2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Jonty Harrison: Splintering
Evidence Materiale
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

Robert Scott Thompson: Fog Index (excerpt)
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

Martian Gardens for 8/24/08

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PROGRAM FOR AUGUST 24, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Andrew Cole: Moog of Destruction
60 x 60--2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

SET 1
Little Bang Theory: Toy Suite #3
Elementary
Acidsoxx Musicks/2008

Lydia Kavina: Suite from "Ed Wood" part 1 (H. Shore)
Spellbound! Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Sospeso
conductor: Charles Peltz

Gina Biver: Skating Still
60 x 60--2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Monique Buzzarte: On the Outside, Looking In...
60 x 60--2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Ganesh Anandan/John Gzowski: I am Inside Looking Out
Shanti Project
Actuelle CD/2008

John Biggs: March of the Krumherhorns
60 x 60--2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Harry Parth: Dark Brother
Enclosure-2
Innova Recordings/1995
baritone: William Wendlandt; kithara: Lee Hoiby;
viola: H. Partch; Indian drum: Fralia Hancock;
text: Thomas Wolfe
Recorded 1945

SET 2
James Dashow: First Tangent to the Given Curve (part 1)
DeLio/Dashow
Capstone Records/1997
piano: Daniele Roi

Pamela Z: Obsession, Addiction, and the Aristotelian Curve
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2005
harp: Barbara Imhoff

Jon Christopher Nelson: the rain has a slap and a curve
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 27 #
Centaur Records1998
text: Robert Gregory


SET 3
Meredith Monk: Walking Song
Volcano Songs
ECM Records/1997
voices: M. Monk, Katie Geissinger

Lutz Glandien:
a. The Empty Lot
b. And the Snow
Lost in Rooms
ReR Megacorp/2003

Stan Link: [-(snow)]
In Amber Shadows
Alban Records/2006

Francoise Doherty: Windowsill
Deep Wireless 5 #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Agnes Szelag: Who Are You?
60 x 60--2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Mary Keily: Nightmare
Deep Wireless 5 #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Robert Iolini:
a. Mum Beats Son
b. Mum Dad Strangle
Songs from Hurt
ReR Megacorp/2005
guitar, production: R. Iolini; drums: Hamish Stewart
Interviews recorded for the Philip Crawford film "Hurt"

Arie Shapira: Thus Spake
Different Compositions 1967--2003
Arie Shapira/2004
voice: "abused child"
(electroacoustically processed voice of Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu)
text: Exodus XX

SET 4
Frank Denyer: Ghosts Again
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted violin: Marieke Keser (Barton Workshop)
flute: Jos Zwaanenburg (BW)
clarinet: John Anderson (BW)
female voice: Yula Andrews
percussion: Juan Martinez Cortes, Jose Garcia Rodriguez
male voices and percussion staves: Christopher Best,
Richard Gonski,Patrick Ozzard-Low, Michael Bassett,
Ian Wellens, Trever Wiggins
Recorded in Amsterdam 3/03/06

Steven Mackey: from Ars Moriendi
a. Don't Trouble Trouble
b. Everything in Moderation Including Moderation
Speak Like the People, Write Like the King
Bridge Records/2008
Borromeo String Quartet
Recorded at Princeton U., March 2007

SET 5
Michael Lowenstern: Joint Session (A. Kreiger)
Spasm--Works for Bass Clarinet
New World Records/1996

Michael Lipsey: Joining Hands (A. Kreiger)
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2007

SET 7
Lajaren Hiller: from Computer Cantata
a. Stroph IV; Epilog to Strophe IV
b. Stroph V; Epilog to Strophe V
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
University of Illinois Chamber Players
conductor: Jack McKenzie
soprano: Helen Hamm

Mark Trayle: 28
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008

Martian Gardens for 8/17/2008

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PROGRAM FOR AUGUST 17, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage/Lejaren Hiller: HPSCHD
Musicworks 98 #
Musicworks Magazine/2007
harpsichord: Robert Conant
electronics: Joel Chadabe

SINGLE PLAY
Lejaren Hiller: from Computer Cantata
a. Prolog to Strophe I; Strophe I
b. Prolog to Strophe II; Strophe II
c. Prolog to Strophe III; Strophe III
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008 (orig. Heliodor Records/1965)
University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players
conductor: Jack McKenzie
soprano: Helen Hamm

Salvatore Martirano: Underworld
CDCM Computer Music Volume 22-
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective 1962-92
Centaur Records/1995 (orig. Heliodor Records/1967)
University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players
Conductor: David Gilbert

SET 1
Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (excerpt)
Kraanerg
Mode Records/2008
Callithumpian Consort
conductor: Stephen Drury

Helmut Lachenmann: Mouvement--Vor Der Erstarrung (excerpt)
Schwankungen am Rand
ECM New Series/2002
Ensemble Modern
Director: Peter Eotvos

Gloria Coates: from The Force for Peace in War
a. Recitative--Telegramm von Dachau
b. Aria--All These Dyings
Indian Sounds
New World Records/2002
Musica-viva-ensemble Dresden
Conductor: Jurgen Wirrmann
soprano: Sigune von Osten

SET 2
Frank Denyer: Woman, Viola, and Crow
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted viola, voice, percussive sounds: Elizabeth Smalt

Chaya Czernowin: Six Miniatures and a Simultaneous Song
Shu Hai Practices Javelin
Mode Records/2002
ELISION Ensemble
conductor: Simon Hewett
text: Zohar Eitan

SET 3
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere in Search of Heaven A.D. 999
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner

Eve Beglarian: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Tell the Birds
New World Records/2006
MATA Ensemble
voice: Lisa Bielawa
text: William Blake

SET 4
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Weeping Rocker
I Didn't Want to Say Goodbye
Vivian Adelburg Rudow/2004

Vivian Adelberg Rudo: Lavender
ibid.

*******
Selections from 60 x 60--2006/2007 at random during this program, consecutively:
Dorothy Hindman: Bathtime
Serban Nichifor: Animal Farm
Brad Decker: Lo siento
Thomas Bailey: Separation Anxiety
Ken Steen: forty-nine
Zachary Kurth-Nelson: Ives in Space

Martian Gardens 8/10/2008

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PROGRAM FOR AUGUST 10, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Music for Jackson Pollock
First Recordings: 1950s
Mode Records/1999
cellos: Daniel Stern

SET 1
Morton Feldman: Music for Jackson Pollock
I. Signature
II. Jackson Pollock Speaks
III. Shadow
IV. Glass
V. Glass (Second Sequence)
First Recordings: 1950s
Mode Records/1999
cellos: Daniel Stern
speaker: Jackson Pollock
Original soundtrack to a film by Hans Namuth


Michael Lipsey: King of Denmark (M. Feldman)
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2007

Stuart Saunders Smith: Polka in Treblinka
Breath--The Perucssion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2004
xylophone: Dale Speicher
bass drum: Matt Apanius
snaredrum, high-hat: Chris Leonard

Nils Bultmann: The Madness
Terminally Unique
Mutable Music/2008
djembe: Paddy Cassidy
tenor saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell
Parry Karp: Cello
N. Bultmann: Viola

SET 2
Arie Shapira: Achtung Rapunzel
Arie Shapira/2007
Meitar Ensemble
mezzo soprano: Ayelet Amotz
text: Brothers Grimm

Elizabeth Austin: An die Nachgeborenen (To Those Born Later)
I. Truly, I Live in Dark Times
II. I Came to the Cities in a Time of Disorder
III. You Who will Emerge from the Flood
Reflected Light
Capstone Records/1995
Chamber Choir of the Staatliche Hochschule for Musik,
Heidelberg--Mannheim
conductor: Gerald Kegelmann
piano: Sibylle Dotzauer
soloists: Vernika Winter, Kristen Grunenpult, Alex Bassermann
text: Bertolt Brecht

SET 3
The Dale Warland Singers: Bright Faces (M.E. Childs)
Choral Currents
Innova Recordings/1991
text: Sappho

Joseph Waters: Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos
Joseph Waters
North Pacific Music/2000
texts: traditional songs of Australia's Yolngu people
voices--soprano: LeaAnne Denbeste; mezzo: Sue Hale; tenor:
Scott Thomi; bass: Craig Kingsbury; wind sextet--flute: Nancy Teskey;
english horn: Allen Juza; clarinet: Betsy Hornick; bassoon: David Becker;
horn: Kevin Calvert; trumpet: Jim O'Banion

SET 4
Carrier Band: Video Voice
Voice Coil
Deep Listening/2008

Joseph Celli: Video Sax
Video Ears Music Eyes
O.O. Discs/1995
saxophones: Ulrich Krieger

SET 5
Robert Scott Thompson: Stochos I
Amorphia
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 1995)

Cindy McTee: from "M" Music -- Baroque Bypass
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 18
Centaur Records/1994
alto saxophone: Debra Richtmeyer

Wendy Carlos: Sonata in G Major (Scarlatti)
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
East Side Digital/2001 (orig. 1969)

Earle Brown: from Folio
a. November 1952
b. December 1952
Selected Workds 1952-1965
New World Records/2006

SET 6
Noah Creshevsky: Free Speech
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008
voice: Chris Mann

Al Margolis: Deck for Chair, Too
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008

Noah Creshevsky: Sonota
The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971--1992
EM Records/2004

Al Margolis/If,Bwana: Natraj
Rex Xhu Ping
Pogus Productions/2004

Martian Gardens for 8/03/2008

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SET 1
Severed Heads: Saturday Night + Man Dat Hip
Clifford Darling Please Don't Live in the Past
sevcom.com/1986

Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000

Un Drame Musical Intantane: French Resistance
Dry Lungs II
Placebo Records/1986

Charles Dodge: In Celebration
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 18
Centaur Records/1994
text: Mark Strand

SET 2
Henry Gwiazda:
a. wM out take (1992)
b. Claudia and Paul 2:13 a.m. (2008)
Henry Gwiazda

Stan Link: Terra Alta
In Amber Shadows
Albany Records/2006

Stan Link: Endless Song
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

SET 3
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere in Arizona 1970
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner

Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim

Robert Ashley: Another Classic Moonshot
Concrete--An Opera
Lovely Music, Ltd.2008
voices: Sam Ashley,T. Buckner, J. La Barbara, Jacqueline Humbert
sound design: R. Ashley, Tom Hamilton

SET 4
John Cage: Cartridge Music (excerpts)
Music for Merce Cunningham
Mode Records/1991
realization: David Tudor;
phonograph cartridges, objects: Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese; D. Tudor

Mark Trayle: 3
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008

SET 5
Frederico Richter: Metamorfoses
Musica Eletroacustica Brasileira Volume II #
Sociedade Brasileira de Musica Eletroacustica/1999

Arie Shapira: Schneewittchen und die vier Boren* (2008)
Arie Shapira
*Snow White and the Four Bears

SET 6
Robert Scott Thompson: Light is a Liquid
The Wind at Beni Midar
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 2000)

Thomas DeLio: ...a different liquid
Music of Thomas DeLio and James Dashow
Capstone Records/1997
voice/text: Peter Inman

Martian Grdens 7/27/2008

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SINGLE PLAY
The Carrier Band: Frozen Speaker
Voice Coil
Deep Listening Institute, Ltd./2008

SET 1
Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II
Capstone Records/2001
Text: Gertrude Stein; Readers: Susan McCully, Phil Maki

Frank Zappa & The Mothers: It Can't Happen Here
Freak Out!
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1965)

Shelley Hirsch/Jon Rose/Chris Cutler: After Hours/The Colour of Blood
The ReR Quarterly Vol. 4, No.2 #
ReR Megacorp/1997

SET 2
Robert Voisey: Sagittarius
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Arie Shapira: Ilabi-Ilabi
Electronics Plus
Arie Shapira/2000
soprano: Narda Moria; violin: Ron Porat; text: S. Tcherrnochowsky

Shelley Hirsch: Now I Am Yours
a. Landscape
b. Silencio
c. Algarabia: Lenguaje Ininteligible
States
Tellus/Harvestworks/1997
music for the film Nina Danino film "I Am Yours," text: N. Danino

Judy Dunaway: The Rubber Forest
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006

LaDonna Smith: Erogenous Journey
Dice 2: [She Says]
Ishtar Records-Tellus/1997

SET 3
Ivan Elezovic: Monologue*
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008
*on Giacinto Scelsi's "Quattro Pezzi"

Giacinto Scelsi: from Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola)
a. 1st Movement
b. 2nd Movement
The Orchestral Works 2
Mode Records/2007
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Peter Rundel
Recorded in Vienna 11/04/2005

Anne LeBaron: Transfiguration--Deconstruction
Pope Joan/Deconstruction
New World Records/2007
soprano: Lucy Shelton; flute: Camilla Hoitenga; harp: June Han;
percussion: William Trigg; conductor: Rand Steiger; text: Djuna Barnes
Recorded 5/13/06, Recital Hall of the Performing Arts, SUNY Purchase

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Oneiromancy
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation, Ltd./2001

SET 4
Frank Felice: Separation Anxiety*
Sidewalk Music
Capstone Records/2001
From "Psychotica (Six Etudes for the Very Nervous)"

Polly Moller: Kissing a Woman
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Thomas Bailey: Separation Anxiety
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2008

Darren Copeland: Always Becoming Somebody Else
Perdu et Retrouve DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

Martian Gardens 7/20/2008

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THE 60 x 60 SPECIAL
Featuring Robert Voisey

William Pfaff "The Color of Snow"
Gene Pritsker "A CaSamppella"
William Price "Ignorant Bliss No. 4"
Cherilyn Young "Celtic X Chromosome"
Les Scott "Sublight"
Russell D. Cannon "Musical Mechanics"
Nivedita Shivraj "Rain Dance," "Day Break"
Lynn Job "Carraige Baine"
Cory Kasprzyk "Crunch Time"
Brian Kershner "Improviso"
Eleonor Sandresky "The Turquiose Teacup"
Richard Arnest "My Radiance Indwelling"
Jane Wang "I Hate"
Sean Francis Conway "How to Say Goodbye" Cellular Counterpoint" "Three Two One"
Richard Campanelli "CROWS (corvus brachyrynchos)
John Akins "You've Got...60 Seconds"
Adam Basanta "Shiva Creates, Destroys"
Richard Biting "Coyote Faucet" "Entrances and Exits" "It's Not Real" "Needles" Shells"
Daniel Blinkhorn "Wash"
Belin Castro "Beauty Love," "Excess"
James Brody "ZAZON60"
Mike Moser-Booth "Refragment [bang(
Anthony Catalano "Worried for Nothing"
Massimo Fragala "Akatastasia"
Elaine Lillios "Stargazing"
Laurie Spiegel "Multiscale Sweeps"
David Congo "Invention 59.3"
Robert Rocco "Synthesia 2008"
Lynn Job "Blue Sand"
Heather Frasch "Ice Texture '59"
Emmanuelle Gibello "to remember"
David Gunn "fourmis dans mon panatalon"
Todd Harrop "Calypso"
Matthew Hetz "Violin Concerto"
Joel Hickman "Tone Poem for Electric Guitars, Violins and Violas"
Marie Incontrera "You Will Become Whole"
Bob Siebert "Loops for Science"
Rodney Waschka "Strange Moon"
Jordan McLean "Inside the Hadronron Collider"
Chris Mann "Proof"
Garry Wickliffe "The Z Relationship"
Jeremy Bible and Jason Henry "sxt"
Katja and Martin Krusche "Spruhen"
Logan Kevin "Surbiton Road"
Frank Levin "Lunch Break" "Mc Coppin Square"
Dale Perkins "Sodom and Gommorrah"
Susan Matthews "60x60 Cartography"
David Morneau "Tonight on 60x60" "60x60 Redux"
Tim Mukherjee "Kronecker Delta"
Michelangelo Pepe "Playing with Clocks"
Jose Luis Marie Montero ?
(canadian) Aaron Acosta
(canadian) "Lost Voices"
(canadian) Atkinson Lester "Touch of Evil"
(canadian) Yoganathan
(canadian) Gintas K
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
David Hahn "Big Donut"

Sequence approximate.