Martian Gardens for 9/27/2009

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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for September 27, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: Barabas
The Book of Abbeyozzud
New Albion Records/1999
guitar: David Tanenbaum

SET ONE
John Cage:
a. Triple-Paced (first version)
b. Triple-Paced (second version)
The Works for Piano 4
Mode Records/2002
piano,prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan

Charity Chan:
a. Penny for your Thoughts
b. Spinning Too Fast to Doubt
Somewhere the Sea and Salt
Actuellecd/2009
piano: C. Chan

Andrew Byrne: from Fata Morgana--Mirages on the Horizon
a. Third Mirage
b. Fourth Mirage
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
prepared piano: Stephen Gosling

John Cage: Spontaneous Earth
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano (The Works for Piano 8)
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandre

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 10 (Who are we? Where are we?)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka

Stuart Saunders Smith: Tunnels
Crux
O.O. Discs/1992
percussion, noises: Thomas Goldstein; voice, text: S.S. Smith

Elizabeth Panzer: Re: Elizabeth (G. Matamoros)
Dancing in Place
O.O. Discs/1999
harp: E. Panzer; tapes: Gustavo Matamoros

SET THREE
John Young: from Ricordiamo Forli (Let's Remember Forli)
a. Winter
b. Pippo
c. The Garden
d. A Little Italian Farm
e. Interlude 2 -- Florence
Lieu-temps (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
environmental recordings from Forli, Emilia-Romagni, Italy; narrator: Franco Bianchini; realized at De Montfort University, 2005

Robert Iolini:
a. Secrets
b. Breaking the Seal
Electroacoustic, Chamber Ensemble, Soundscapes, and Works for Radio
ReR Megacorp/2001
excerpts from the radiphonic opera "Vanunu"; mezzo-soprano: Yolanda Podalski; bass baritone: Clive Birch; libretto: David Nerlich; composition, samples, performance, production: R. Iolini; recorded for The Listening Room, ABC Studios Ultimo, Sydney, 1994

SET FOUR
Steve Fisk: Terrible Weapons
Over and Thru the Night
K Records/1993
Bellzouki, tapes: Ben Fisk; tapes, sampler, optagon, Arp 2600: S. Fisk; voice samples: Ronald Reagan

Rodney Waschka: Help Me Remember -- Dancing
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 14 #
Centaur Records/1993

David R. Mooney: WMD: Naming Names
Facts About Air -- Heavy Mental Music
Opaque Melodies/2009

Marcelle Deschenes: Lux (excerpt)
petits Big Bangs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
voice: Gael Andrews; texts: Robert Oppenheimer; Ernest Rutherford;George Bernard Shaw; Immanuel Kant; Renee Bourassa; sound samples: A. Thibault -- "OUT," "Quarks' Muzik," M. Deschenes -- "deUS irae"; realized 1985 at Bruit Blanc Studio, Montreal

Alice Shields:
a. Someone, I Say, Will Remember Us
b. The Dawn Wind
Apocalypse -- An Electronic Opera
CRI/1993

SET FIVE
Mary Jane Leach: Feu de Joie
Celestial Fires
XI Records
bassoon: Shannon Peet

Alex Shapiro: Deep
Notes from the Kelp
Innova Recordings/2007
contrabassoon: Leslie Lashinsky; percussion: Dan Morris; electronics: A. Shapiro

Frank Felice: "...and so the hole was dug"
Sidewalk Music
Capstone Records/2002
bassoon: Doug Spaniol; so-called tape: F. Felice

SET SIX
Joseph Klein: Dog (after W.S. Merwin)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 27
bassoon: Kristin Wolfe Jensen; soprano: Heidi Dietrich Klein; dog: Poppy; text: W.S. Merwin, "Dog"; recorded at CEMI, Denton, TX, September 1997

Paul Koonce: The Flywheel Dream
Walkabout and Back
Mode Records/2000

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