Martian Gardens for 8/02/2009

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

Program for August 2, 2009
Extended edition 21:00--01:45

Part I

In Memoriam Merce Cunningham
(April 16, 1919--July 26, 2009)

SET ONE
Laurie Anderson: Cunningham Stories (At the age of twelve...)
A Chance Operation -- The John Cage Tribute #
Koch International Classics/1996
text: J. Cage; music: L. Anderson

John Cage/David Tudor: Story # 14
Indeterminacy -- New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music
Smithsonian/ Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)

Laurie Anderson:
a. Cunningham Stories (Merce Cunningham Phoned his Mother...)
b. Cunningham Stories (Every Morning...)
A Chance Operation -- The John Cage Tribute #
Koch International Classics/1996
text: J. Cage; music: L. Anderson

John Cage/David Tudor: Story # 50
Indeterminacy -- New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and
Electronic Music
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)

Laurie Anderson: Cunningham Stories (The Cunningham Company...)
A Chance Operation -- The John Cage Tribute
Koch International Classics/1996
text: J. Cage; music: L. Anderson

Sigur Ros: Di Do
Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
Geffen Records/2004
For the Merce Cunningham dance "Split Sides" (2003)

SET TWO
John Cage: Cartridge Music (excerpt)
Music for Merce Cunningham -- Five Stone Wind/Cartridge Music
Mode Records/1991
phonograph cartridges and amplified small objects: Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese, David Tudor; realization: D. Tudor, September 1988, Paris, for the dance "Changing Steps"

John Cage: Five Stone Wind (excerpt)
ibid.
amplified violin, live electronics, bamboo flute: T. Kosugi; clay pots, tapes: M. Pugliese;
live electronics: D. Tudor; recorded May, 1989, Washington D.C. for the dance
"Five Stone Wind" (1988)

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Four (3) (excerpt)
Mode Records/1995
violin and rainsticks: Ami Flammer; piano and rainsticks: Martine Joste; piano and rainsticks: Dominique Alchourroun; rainsticks: Jean Michaut; recorded at Radio France, Paris, January, 1994, for Merce Cunningham's dance "Beach Birds" (1991)

SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Rainforest
David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
Live electronics by D. Tudor and G. Mumma performed 7/30/1968 with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Teatro Novo, Rio di Janeiro

SINGLE PLAY
Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta: Short Waves 1985
Digital Music
Mode Records/1990
For Merce Cunningham's dance "Fabrications" (composed 1985, dance premiered in
Minneapolis, 2/21/1987)

SINGLE PLAY
Mark Applebaum: The Bible Without God (tracks 8 -13)
a. Keys, Strings, and Pencils
b. Circulation
c. Wristwatch: Geology
Innova Recordings/2006
Mousketier, live electronics: M. Applebaum, additional performers: Applebaum's Stanford John Cage seminar students, performed 3/12/05, White Plaza, Stanford University, with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in residence

Part II

SET THREE
Hsiao-Lan Wang: Star Gazer
Electroacoustic Works
Hsiao-Lan Wang/2005
flute: Cecilia Hamilton

Margaret Lancaster: Io (L.V. Vierk)
Io
New World Records/2009
electric guitar: Larry Polansky; marimba: Matthew Gold; flute: M. Lancaster;
recorded 2/06/09, 2nd Story Sound, NYC

Polly Moller: Io
Summerland
Silver Wheel Music/1999

SET FOUR
Drew Krause: Drain
Ding
Capstone Records/2007
McCormick Percussion Ensemble; conductor: Robert McCormick; recorded 03/07/02, University of South Florida, Tampa

Herbert Brun: Trio for flute, double bass, and percussion
Language, Message, Drummage
Electronic Music Foundation/Smith Publications/1998
flute: Thomas Howell; double bass: Jon Deak; percussion: Michael Udow

SET FIVE
Peter Gordon/Lawrence Weiner:
The Society Architect Ponders the Golden Gate Bridge
Mendi+Keith Obadike Present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2008
vocal soloists: Joan La Barbara and Jeffrey Reynolds, Choir of Orchester Generation Berlin, director: Christian Borries; live keyboards: Kevin Zoering; electronics: P. Gordon; libretto: L. Weiner, remixed from recordings made in Berlin, 2000

Christian Nicolay: Taking the Bridge
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
sound sourced from Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver, BC

SET SIX
Louis Dufort: Transit
Connexion
empreintes DIGITALes/2000

Carey Nutman: Harder Kulm
Resurrection?
MPS Music and Video/2009

SET SEVEN
Beltone Suicide: Untitled No. 415
If It Rattles, It's a Bomb
Gilded Throne/2009

Richard Pinhas: A Piece for Duncan
Rizhosphere/Live, Paris, 1982
Cuneiform Records/1994

Forrest Fang: Tiger Balm
Gongland
Projekt Records/2001

Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde
Pogus Productions/2008
Recorded 1970 at Tangent Studio, London, and the electronic music studio at Goldsmith College, originally released on Source Records in 1971

SINGLE PLAY
Janek Schaefer: All Bombing is Terrorism
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Innova Recordings/2006

--fin--