Martian Gardens for 08/16/09

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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 16, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Three Summers Heat--

a. Just Now the Sea-Green Banners Fly
b. Just Now the Early Peach is Red
c. It's Midsummer and Too Hot to Walk
d. Summer Earth is Windless. Heat Still Presses
e. Light Clothes! Few Clothes!
f. I Remember Desire like White Light
g. I Raise my Head to Look at T'ung Trees

CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29#
Music from VCCM: Virginia Center for Computer Music--
University of Virginia
Centaur Records/1999
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Tzu Yeh; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, August, 1998

SET ONE
Morton Subotnick: A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur -- Opening
Volume 1: Electronic Works
Mode Records/2001

Pierre Schaeffer: Le triedre fertile
a. Impromptu
b. Strette
L'oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
performance: L'Ancien Conservatoire, Paris, 12/17/76

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: 23 Seconds on John Cage (from 19 Questions)
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage

SET TWO
Le Tuan Hung: Journey into the Light
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Eldad Tsabary: One Minute Under God
ibid.

Lynn Job: Lake House Letter
ibid.

Richard Desilets: Telegram from Space
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Robert Voisey: Sagittarius
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Colby Leider: Veni Creator Spiritus
Sonic Circuits V #
Innova Recordings/1997

Alain Thibault: from OUT
a. God's Greatest Gift
b. OUT-Realite
Volt
empreintes DIGITALes/1990
voice sample: Ronald Reagan; realized 1985 at the Fairlight Studio, University of Montreal

SINGLE PLAY
Marcelle Deschenes: Lux
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

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: 24 Seconds on Ronald Reagan (from 19 Questions)
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage

SINGLE PLAY
Arie Shapira: We are heading, Hiroshima, Towards the Rising Sun
Selected Compositions 1971-1995
Arie Shapira/1996
Ensemble Neue Pegnitzschaefer of Nuremberg, conductor: Jeffrey Burns; narrator/singer: Gil Alon; text: "New Dawn" by Robert Penn Warren, Hebrew translation: Moshe Dor; recorded at the Akademie Der Kunst, Berlin, November, 1993

SET THREE
Somei Satoh: Burning Meditation
From the Depth of Silence
Mode Records/2004
The Janacek Philharmonic; conductor: Petr Kotik; baritone: Thomas Buckner; text: Kazuko Shiraishi; recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 7/07/2003

Halim El Dabh: Meditation in White Sound
Crossing Into the Electric Magnetic
Without Fear/2001

SET FOUR
Jody Diamond: Sabbath Bride
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
Musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta, voice: J. Diamond; text: traditional Shabbat hymn

Barbara Benary: Sun on Snow III
Sun on Snow
New World Records/2006
soprano, percussion: Phyllis Clark; violin: B. Benary; clarinet: Daniel Goode; soprano saxophone:
Jon Gibson; concertina: Jody Kruskal; marimba: Chris Nappi; electric guitar: Nick Didkovsky; recorded November, 2005, at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City

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