Saturday, August 22, 2009

Martian Gardens video supplement for 8/23/09

David Rosenboom's rock bands:

PLOTZ!



DR. MiNT


Trailer for "Revenge of the Dead Indians," another DVD on John Cage from Mode Records:


Matthew Burtner's "Mists" as a modern dance score for Nancy Sandercock's "Waltz."



Samples from Robert Voisey's 60 x 60 Choreography project from Vox Novus:





Pop music and animation from Brazilian composer Didier Guigue:

Friday, August 21, 2009

Martian Gardens for 8/23/2009

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

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

Program for August 23, 2009

SET ONE
Robert Ashley: Friends II
Dust
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
voice, text: R. Ashley; electronics, orchestration: Tom Hamilton, "Blue" Gene Tyranny

Robert Ashley: O Mesopotamia
Concrete
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
voices: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert; Joan La Barbara; electronics, orchestration:
R. Ashley, Tom Hamilton; text: R. Ashley


Laurie Anderson:
a. Night in Baghdad
b. Speak My Language
Bright Red/Tight Rope
Warner Bros./1994
accordion: Guy Klucevsek; percussion: Cyro Baptista; guitar: Gary Leonard, Jamie West-Oram; keyboards: Peter Scherer; bass: Greg Cohen, drums: Greg Cohen; keyboards, treatments: Brian Eno; lyrics, vocals, violin, keyboards: L. Anderson

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Overpopulation and Art & Royanji
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (1995)
text, voice: J. Cage; soprano: Isabelle Ganz; percussion: Michael Pugliese;
lecture delivered at Stanford University, January 1992


SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: Section VI (Culture) -- PLOTZ! and Dr. MiNT
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims
New World Records/2009
for Double Rock Bands (PLOTZ! and Dr. MiNT)
electric basses: Tony DiGennaro, Sam Minaie; electric guitars: Alex Noice, Jake Vossler, trumpet and arrangement: Daniel Rosenboom; piano: David Rosenboom; alto saxophone: Gavin Templeton; electric guitar: Jake Vossler; drums: Caleb Dolister, Austin Wrinkle; baritone saxophone: Brian Walsh; live performance: 10/26/08, CalArts


SET TWO
Jonty Harrison: Rock 'n' Roll (from ReCycle)
Environs (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

Sarah Peebles: 10 Below
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Matthew Burtner: Mists
Portals of Distortion
Innova Recordings/1999

Matthew Burtner: Spectral for 0
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Innova Recordings/2006

SET THREE
Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2005

The Hub: Peyote
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
computers: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Mark Trayle

Peter V. Swendsen: Field
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Amy Knoles: Bird Scream
2x10x10x10+1
Echograph Records/2001
text: Michael Tobias

Karl Korte: Birds of Aotearoa
Extensions -- A retrospective of electro-acoustic compositions
Centaur Records/1998

SET FOUR
Ellen Band: Closet Bird (excerpt)
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2000

David Dunn: Mimus Polyglottos
Music, Language and Environment
Innova Recordings/1996

Ricardo Dal Farra: ...Due Giorni Dopo
Travels of the Spider -- Electroacoustic Music from Argentina #
Pogus Productions/1998

Didier Guigue: Loupe-enfermoir
Electroacoustic Music of Brazil Vol. III #
Brazilian Society of Electroacoustic Music/2004
contrabassoon: Flavio Lopes de Figueiredo, Jr.

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Memory Pages
More Than Idle Chatter
Bridge Records/1994
voice, text: Hannah McKay

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