Martian Gardens for 12/20/2009

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

Program for December 20, 2009
(extended edition)

SINGLE PLAY
William S. Burroughs: The Junky's Christmas
Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (Burroughs/The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy)
Island Records/1993
voice, text: W.S. Burroughs; music: DHH; Hammond Organ, Synclavier: Pete Scaturro

SET ONE
George Crumb: A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979
a. The Visitation
b. Berceuse for the Infant Jesu
c. The Shepherd's Noël
d. Adoration of the Magi
e. Nativity Dance
f. Canticle of the Holy Night
g. Carol of the Bells
George Crumb Edition 1
Bridge Records/1991
piano: Lambert Orkis; recorded at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, MD, August, 1982

John Cage: Winter Music (for 20 pianos)
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music
Mode Records/2007 (orig. 1986)
The Callithumpian Consort; pianos: Alanna Battat, Johanna Kovitz, Guy Livingston, Mina Yang; director: Stephen Drury

SET TWO
Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
soprano: S. Botti; piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings; recorded 12/04/97, American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC

Diane Thome: Ringing Stillness, Pearl Light
Palaces of Memory -- Electro-Acoustic Music
Centaur Records/1995
piano: D. Thome; recorded at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest, WA

SINGLE PLAY:
Michael Byron: Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl
Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl
Cold Blue Music/2000
CalArts New Century Players; conductor: David Rosenboom; Recorded at Dizzy Gillespie Recording Studio, California Institute of the Arts, 2000

SET THREE
Scott Locke: Celestial Dreamscape (D. Kavasch)
a. Stillness of Moondrift
b. Sparkle of Starlight
Celestial Dreamscape -- A Century of Music for Clarinet
Everglade Records/2008
recorded at Weeks Center, University of Miami

Benjamin Broening: Arioso/Doubles
Third Practice -- Commissions and Premieres #
Centaur Records/2004
Bb clarinet: Arthur Campbell; recorded 11/03/02, Camp Concert Hall, University of Richmond

Daniel Koppelman: Nocturn/Doubles (B. Broening)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
recorded 2/27/08 at Ball State University Center for Music Engineering Technology

SINGLE PLAY
Eric Moe: Strange Exclaiming Music
a. Rhyme Does Not Pay
b. Cut Time
c. The Sorbet of Regret
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos Records/2009
violin: Curtis Macomber; piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded 5/24/05, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC

SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Peaceable Kingdom
September Canons
New World Records/2009
members of the Yale Philharmonia with tape accompaniment, conductor: Julian Pellicano; recorded 12/18/08, Sprague Hall, Yale University

SET FOUR
Meredith Monk: Epic I
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
recorded at Schaubuhne am Hallesches Ufer, Berlin, July, 1980

Shelley Hirsch:
a. Electric Menorrah
b. The Jewish People
c. Chant
O Little Town of East New York
Tzadik/1995
voice, text: S. Hirsch; music: S. Hirsch, David Weinstein; recorded at Harmonic Ranch and Harvestworks/Studio PASS, NYC

Larry Polansky and John Bischoff: Cocks Crow, dogs bark, this all men know...
The Time is Now. Words of Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, text: M.S. Carnahan; music: L. Polansky and J. Bischoff; recorded at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 1989; edited at La Trobe University Computer Music Studios, Melbourne, 1996

Thomas Buckner/Tom Hamilton: Segment H
Jump the Circle, Jump the Line
Mutable Music/2001
voice: T. Buckner, electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded live 12/01/00, EMF Engine 27, NYC

Robert Ashley: In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt)
10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces #
Other Minds, Inc./2003 (orig. 1975)
electronics: Paul DeMarinis; voice: R. Ashley; text: John Barton Wolgamot; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1973

Brenda Hutchinson: EEYAH! (excerpt -- nomenclature to ending)
The Aerial no. 4 #
Nonsequitur/1989
voice, text, drum, bell: B. Hutchinson

SET FIVE
Hans Fjellestad: Free Throw Prophet
Red Sauce Baby
Accretions/2000
woodwinds: Jason Robinson, Ellen Weller; church organ: H. Fjellestad; percussion: Marcos Fernandes, Kristen Cheadle; bagpipes ("Scotland the Brave," 1844): "The Wizard";basketball game recorded at the Zion Building, San Diego, 1999

Charles Amirkhanian:
a. Gold and Spirit
b. Walking Tune [A Room Music for Percy Grainger] (excerpt)
Walking Tune
Starkland/1998
(a.) sounds, electronics, chants, voices: C. Amirkhaninan, written for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics; (b.) violin, voice: Elizabeth Baker; Synclavier: Henry Kaiser; recorded at 1750 Arch Studios, Berkeley

SET SIX
Joane Hétu: Joyeux Temps (1-4)
Nouvelle Le Musique D'Hiver
Actuellecd/2007
Ensemble SuperMusique, narrator: Gilles Derome; recorded March, 2003, at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Ensemble SuperMusique: 8 Moments Brefs
Y'a du bruit dans ma cabane
Actuellecd/2008
recorded live in Montreal, 10/09/07

SET SEVEN
Natasha Barrett: Red Snow
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
realized in 1998 at Norwegian Network for Technology, Acoustics, and Music (NoTAM), University of Oslo

Natasha Barrett: Microclimate III -- Glacial Loop
MusicWorks 99 CD compendium
MusicWorks magazine/2007
recorded in western Norway, 2007

SET EIGHT
Artemiy Artemiev: Waiting for the Winter
Cold
Electroshock Records/1995
electronics: A. Artemiev, recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, December, 1994

Richard Pinhas: Wintermusic (excerpt)
Iceland
Cuneiform Records/1992
recorded live at Heldon Stduios, Paris,1983

SET NINE
Forrest Fang: Ebb in Winter
Phantoms
Projekt Records/2009
electronics, instruments: F. Fang; recorded at the Hangar, Berkeley

Robert Scott Thompson: Stellar
Improbable Pianos
Aucourant Records/2007
pianos, electronics: RST, recorded in the Digital Domain, La Jolla, UCSD, 1988

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon
Still Lives
Lovely Music, Ltd./2001
koto: Ryuko Mizutani; pure wave oscillator: A. Lucier; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn

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