Martian Gardens for 2/08/2009

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 8, 2009

SET ONE
John Cage: A Valentine Out of Season I,II,III
Complete Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
piano: Philipp Vandre

Gamelan Son of Lion: Naked We Stand (D. Simons)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2008

Barbara Benary: Smudging (from Aural Shoehorning)
Sun on Snow
New World Records/2006
piano: Joseph Kubera; clarinets: Steven Silverstein; vibraphone: Chris Nappi; marimba: Bill Ruyle; Gamelan Son of Lion: B. Benary, David Demnitz, Daniel Goode, Patrick Grant, Lisa Karrer, Jody Kruskal, Laura Liben, David Simons

Lou Harrison: Solo to Anthony Cirone
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
tenor bells: William Winant

Stuart Saunders Smith: Good Night
At Sixty, Selections
11 West Records/2008
marimba: Mark Halaiko

SET TWO
No World (Trio): Valentine Ashes
No World (Trio) Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1992
violin: Malcolm Goldstein; komungo: Jin Hi Kim; oboe: Joseph Celli

Malcolm Goldstein: Configurations in Darkness
A Sounding of Sources
New World Records/2008

SET THREE
Harry Partch: excerpts from Bitter Music--
a. November 16-Ojai
b. November 17
c. November 23-Los Angeles
d. November 23
e. December 4
f. December, 1935
Enclosures 2--Harry Partch
Innova Recordings/1995
voice: Warren Burt; piano: Sheila Guymer; broadcast ABC Melbourne 1/23/92

David Baker: excerpts from Through This Vale of Tears--
a. Parades to Hell
b. Now That he is Safely Dead
VIDEMUS--Works by Anderson, Baker, Fox, Wilson
New World Records/1992
tenor: William Brown; violins: Lynn Chang, Marylou Speaker Churchill; viola: Marcus Thompson; cello: Mark Churchill; piano, director: Vivian Taylor; texts: Solomon Edwards (a), Carl Hines (b)

Philip Glass: from Einstein on the Beach--Knee Play 5
Philip Glass Introduced by Philip Glass (promotional release)
Nonsuch Records/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; women's chorus;
reciter: Jasper McGruder; text: Samuel M. Johnson

SET FOUR
Susan Botti: from Cosmosis--
a. Overboard (Prologue)
b. the 1st Night
Brooklyn Bridge #
Equilibrium/2005
University of Michigan Symphony Band, conductor: Michael Haithcock;
Women of the University of Michigan Chamber Choir,
director: Jerry Blackstone; soprano: S. Botti; text: Mary Swenson

Steven Stucky: Threnos
Music for Wind Ensemble
Albany Records/1997
Baylor University Wind Ensemble; conductor: Michael Haithcock

SET FIVE
Lee Hyla:
a. Pre-Amnesia
b. Mythic Birds of Saugerties
Americans in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
alto sax, bass clarinet: Tim Smith

Tim Hodgkinson: Aici Schiteaza pe Acum (Here as a Sketch of Now)
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2007
Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: T. Hodgkinson; tenor saxophone:
Robert Reigle, percussion: Morris Palter; tape

The Skein: Backroom/No Introduction
Cities and Eyes
Henceforth Records/2009
Andrea Parkins, Jessica Constable

Greg Bartholomew: No! George! No!
60 x 60--2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

George E. Lewis: Morning Blues for Yvan
Mendi + Keith Obadike--Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2008

SINGLE PLAY
David Hahn: Big Donut
David Hahn Online/2007
guitar, voice: D. Hahn; text: unnamed child at unnamed Seattle donut shop

SET FIVE
Elsa Justel: Fy Mor
Desde El Otro Lado--Electroacoustic Music from Latin America #
O.O. Discs/1998

Elsa Justel: Alba Sud
Mats
empreintes DIGITALes/2004

SET SIX
Diane Labrosse: Manual Coffee Mill
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
actuellecd.com/2007

J. Ryan Garber: Kettle Music
60 x 60--2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

David Gamper: Conch Call Evolution
ibid.

Bernard Hughes: Full Fathom Five
ibid.

Daniel Goode: V-I
ibid.

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