Martian Gardens 6/01/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
expanded edition
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: http://martiangardens.blogspot.com/
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SET 1
George Crumb: The Sleeper
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 11
Bridge Records/2008
mezzo-soprano: Jan DeGatani
piano: Gilbert Kalish
text: Edgar Allen Poe
Recorded in concert 2/25/87

George Crumb:
a. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
b. Music of the Starry Night
Black Angels; Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
from Makrokosmos II: Music for a Summer Evening
amplified pianos: Luz Manriquez, Walter Morales
percussion: Brian Spurgeon, Michael Passaris, Mark Shope
voices, whistles, recorder: Andres Cladera
conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo

SET 2
Roland Auzet: Oroc.pat
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2007

Steven Ricks: Dividing Time
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
Talujon Percussion Quartet

SET 3
The Hub: Lou Drift
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
Dedicated to Lou Harrison

Lou Harrison: Fugue
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group

Ron George: Gupta Sloka Chand
The Floating Bubble
Innova Recordings/2008
composed/conducted by John Bergamo
percussion: R. George, Amy Knowles, David Johnson
Three movements: Peshkar; Khyal; Jhala

SET 4
Giacinto Scelsi: Kshara
Works for Double Bass
Mode Records/2007
double basses: Robert Black, John Eckhardt
Three movements, untitled

Iannis Xenakis: Theraps
Music for Strings
Mode Records/2005
double bass: John Eckhardt

SET 5
Johanna Beyer: Ballad of the Star-Eater
Sticky Melodies
New World Records/2008
soprano: Merlyn Quaife
clarinet: Craig Hill
text: Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet

Johanna Beyer: Music of the Spheres
Women in Electronic Music--1977 #
New World Records/1997 (orig. 1750 Arch/1977)
The Electric Weasel Ensemble

Jorge Antunes: Three Chromophonic Studies
I. Study for Green and Red Circles
II. Study for Blue and Orange Spirals
III. Study for Yellow and Violet Points
Savage Songs (1961--1970)
Pogus Productions/2003

SET 6
Meredith Monk: Scared Song
Do You Be
ECM Records/1987
piano: Nurit Tilles; voice, synthesizer: M. Monk

Joan La Barbara: Circular Song
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
Recorded in concert at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, 2/26/76

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

SINGLE PLAY
Randall Smith: Convergence
Sondes--Multiple Soundings
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
concert accordion: Joseph Petric