Martian Gardens for 11/22/2009

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Program for November 22, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: In C (excerpt)
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; recorded April, 2009, MCO Studos, Hilversum, The Netherlands

SET ONE
Heather O'Donnell: The Celestial Potato Fields (In Memoriam Charles Ives) (S. Corbett)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, January, 2008

George Crumb: Gamma Draconis (Celestial Mechanics III*)
The Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
first piano: Haewon Song; second piano: Robert Shannon; recorded at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, June, 2001

SET TWO
Tim Brady: Traces (Hommage a Charlie Christian)
My 20th Century
Actuellecd/2009
Bradyworks and Quatuor Mollinari; recorded at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, May, 2008

Martin Bresnick: Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon
My Twentieth Century
New World Records/2005
Povera Players; recorded live at Izumi Hall, Osaka, 9/24/03

SET THREE
Mara Helmuth: Abandoned Lake in Maine
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
Sound Collaborations
Centaur Records/2007
Maine loons recorded by William Barklow, included on his CD "Voices of the Loon" on
Swallowtail Records

Mara Helmuth/Allen Otte: Loonspace
Implements of Actuation
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
percussion: A. Otte; recordings of Maine loons, ibid.

SET FOUR
Luc Ferrari: Etudes -- aux accidents (1958)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

Iannis Xenakis: Concrete PH (1958)
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997

Sawako Kato: Crab
Sonic Circuits X #
Innova Recordings/2001

Erik Santos: Himotku Niwa (Garden of Turning Pages)
KUU -- Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007

Noah Creshevsky: Breathless (opening)
Hyperrealism in Music 1992-2005
Noah Creshevsky/CD-R compiled 2005

SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: Psalmus XXIII
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik/2007
vocal samples: Beth Griffith; baritone: Zach Kurth-Nelson

Timeless Pulse: Light**
Quintet
Mutable Music/2007
baritone: Thomas Buckner; percussion: George Marsh; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; live electronics: David Wessel; percussion: Jennifer Wilsey

Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: William Smith; psaltery, organ, electronic processor: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard University electronic music studio, fall, 1981

Raul LaFuret Pereyra: Song for Cave
Anillo en Abril
Goethe Institute of Cordoba/2003

Luiz Eduardo Casteloes: Mobile das letras
Musica Eletroacustica Brasileira, Vol. III #
Electroacoustic Music Society of Brazil/2004
contrabass: Andre Satos; electric guitar: Gabriel Santiago; percussion: Rodrigo Foti

SET SIX
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII #
Nuema Records/2006

Åke Parmerud: Renaissance
Jeu D'Ombres
empreintes DIGITALes/2003

John Cage: Quick, a Word of Truth!
From Zero
Mode Records/2004
voice, text, stopwatch: J. Cage

SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Koppelman: Unnatural Selection (C. Dobrian)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008

*from George Crumb's Makrokosmos book Four
**Unsure of title as the CD times and titles are out of sync.

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