Martian Gardens for 1/25/2009

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
Intern: Stephanie Lawrence
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR JANUARY 25, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Mark Applebaum: Variations on Variations on a Theme by Mozart
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
for 18 prepared pianos, based on W.A. Mozart's "12 piano variations 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman'" KV1 265

SET ONE
Sylvia Smith:
a. Family Portraits: Delbert (Stuart Saunders Smith)
b. Xylophone Poems No. 1: Went Forth (ibid.)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008

Stuart Saunders Smith: ...And Points North...
a. Scene I
b. Scene II
c. Scene III
Breath: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2008
percussion: Steven Schick

Xylophone Poems - The Sylvia Smith Percussion Duo performs Jan. 30, 8 p.m., Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Fine Arts Center, Amherst.

SET TWO
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (disk 1, track 1, 2nd 1/2)
Treatise
Mode Records/2009
QUaX Ensemble, director: Petr Kotik; Recorded live, Prague, 10/15/67

Marcel Duchamp:
La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même.* Erratum Musical (1st 1/2)
Music by Marcel Duchamp
Edition Block/Paula Cooper Gallery/1991
Realized by Petr Kotik for the S.E.M. Ensemble
*The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even

SET THREE
Selections from 60 x 60 2005:
Polly Moller: Cold Blood
Douglas Cohen: Unwelcome 2005
Don Malone: RezGliss
The Norman Conquest: FAFM8
Vox Novus/2007

Alvin Lucier: Clocker (excerpt)
Clocker
Lovely Music, Ltd./1994

Diane Labrosse: Ticking Alarm Clocks
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
actuellecd.com/2007

Mendi + Keith Obadike: The Pink of Stealth
Crosstalk #
Bridge Reocrds/2008

Laurie Anderson: Poison
Bright Red/Tightrope
Warner Bros./1994

SET FOUR
Patti Monson: Under the Rainbow (M. Rosenblum)
High Art
Albany Records/2003

Al Margolis/If, Bwana: An Innocent, Abroad (track 3)
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
vocals: Lisa Barnard; flutes: Jacqueline Martelle, Jane Rigler;
electronics, processing: Al Margolis

SET FIVE
Elsa Justel: Midi de sable
Mats
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

Elsa Justel: Chi-pa-boo
Miniatures Concretes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Polansky: Simple Actions/Rules of Compossibility
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
voice, text: Chris Mann; live computers: L. Polansky

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Polytope de Cluny (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008

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