Martian Gardens for 01/02/2011

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Program for January 2, 2011

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

Arlene Zallman: Nightsongs
Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
soprano: Karol Bennett; flute: Leone Buyse; clarinet: Michael Webster; texts: Wendell Berry, Joseph Freiherr von Echendorff; recorded at Duncan Hall, The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, February, 2007

Tod Machover: Flora
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
voice samples: Karol Bennett; recorded at the MIT Media Lab, 1989

SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes II
Kingdom Come
Nonesuch Records/2001
Kronos Quartet; fog horns recorded in San Francisco Bay; recorded at Skywalker Sound, August, 1996

Arvo Pärt: Movement III
Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles"
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, January, 2009

SET THREE
John Cage:
a. Our Spring Will Come
b. And the Earth Shall Bear Again
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at the Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 2001-2002

Martin Bresnick: For the Sexes -- The Gates of Paradise (1 & 2)
The Essential Martin Bresnick [DVD supplement]
Cantaloupe Music/2006
piano and voice: Lisa Moore; text and images: William Blake; computer animation: Puppetsweat Theater

Steve Reich: Double Sextet, Movement I -- Fast
Double Sextet -- 2 x 5
Nonesuch Records/2010
Eighth Blackbird; recorded at WFMT Studio, Chicago, August 27-28, 2009

SET FOUR
Mark Applebaum:
a. Martian Anthropology 7
b. Martian Anthropology 8
c. Martian Anthropology 9
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
The Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band; recorded at Theater Artaud, San Francisco, March 31 & April 1, 2006

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: La Rage (Raging Rabies)
a. Renard Fou
b. Techno-Sexe: vol d'aeroport
c. Entrevue Avec le Proprio
d. Prendre le Contrôle de la Tour
e. Epilogue: pas d'avenir
La Rage
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
recorded at the Electroacoustic Music Studios at the University of Huddersfield, UK, 2004-2005

SET FIVE
Pierre Schaeffer: Cinq études de bruits (Five Studies of Noises)
a. Railroad Study
b. Whirligig Study
c. Study in Purple
d. Study in Black
e. Study in Pathos
L' Oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Musique Concrete recorded in France, 1948

César Bolaños: Intesidad y Altura
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
premiered in the hall of the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 11/21/64

SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp: Für Dich -- For You
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)#
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
electroacoustic recordings: H. Westerkamp; text: Rainer Maria Rilke "Liebes-Lied," translated by Norbert Ruebsaat; readers: Wendelin Bartley, Susan Benson, Anne Bourne, Loui Ettling, Peter Grant, Andra McCartney, Norbert Ruebsaat, R. Murray Schafer, Agnes Westerkamp, H. Westerkamp; realized at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 2005

SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Rainforest (1968)
David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Teatro Novo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7/30/68

Gordon Mumma: Song Without Words (In Memoriam David Tudor)
ibid.
solo piano: G. Mumma

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/19/2010

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Program for December 19, 2010
Extended Edition

SINGLE PLAY
William S. Burroughs: The Junky's Christmas
Spare Ass Annie & Other Tales
Island Records/1993
narration, text: W.S. Burroughs; music: Michael Franti, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

SET ONE
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: Uncle Bernie's Farm
Absolutely Free
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1967)

Shelley Hirsch/Jon Rose/Chris Cutler:
After Hours/The Colour of BLOOD
The ReR Quarterly Vol. 4/No.2 #
ReR Megacorp/1997
voice: S. Hirsch; violin, keyboard, voice: J. Rose; electronics, percussion: C. Cutler; recorded at Radio Student, Ljublana, Slovenia, 11/15/93

Laurie Anderson: New York Social Life
Women in Electronic Music 1977 #
New World Records/2006
voice, telephone: L. Anderson; tambura: Scott Johnson

If, Bwana: DTTO Lisa
"Assemble.age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley

Shelley Hirsch: Blanche Dubois (Hirsch/Weinstein)
States
Tellus--Harvestworks/1997
text, vocals: S. Hirsch; keyboards, vocals: David Weinstein; recorded at Roulette, New York City

SET TWO
Linda Dusman: Magnificat 4 -- Ida Ida
Singing Out! [DVD] #
Everglade Records/2010
voice: L. Dusman, text: Gertrude Stein

Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records/2001
tape: L. Dusman; readers: Susan McCully, readers: Phil Maki; text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at W.I.N.C. Studio, West Newton, Massachusetts

SET THREE
Eric Chasalow
a. Fast Forward
b. Over the Edge
Over The Edge
New World Records/1993
(a) percussion: Amy Knoles, Arthur Jarvinen, tape: E. Chasalow (b) flute: Patricia Spencer, tape: E. Chasalow; realized at BEAM, Brandeis, University

Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: In The Land of Perfect Days
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
vocalizations: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

So Percussion:
a. Recitative (track 5)
b. Chorus (track 6)
Threads (Music by Paul Lansky)
Cantaloupe Music/2010
Eric Beach, Jason Treuting, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski: percussion; recorded at Avatar Studios, 2008

SET FOUR
Arvo Pärt: Movement I -- Con Sublimità
Symphony No. 4, "Los Angeles"
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, January, 2009

Martin Bresnick: I. Semplice, Inesorabile (from Trio for piano, violin, and cello)
The Essential Martin Bresnick
Cantaloupe Music/2006
performed by the Jupiter Trio; recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University, 12/16/05

SINGLE PLAY
Giacinto Scelsi: Uaxuctum--The Legend of the Mayan City
(which they themselves destroyed for religious reasons) I-V
The Orchestral Works 2
Mode Records/2006
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Peter Rundel; Concentus Vocalis, director: Herbert Böck; recorded at the Festival 'Wien Modern,' Vienna Concert House 11/04/05

SET FIVE
Judith Shatin: Penelope's Song
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electronics: J. Shatin; violin: Hasse Borup

Stuart Saunders Smith: Books of Flutes
Double Image
11 West Records/2005
flute: Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer

SET SIX
Alvin Curran: For MG
Lost Marbles
Tzadik Records/2004
piano, tape: A. Curran; recorded for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, 1992

Ingrid Drese: Papillon, abîme, nuit (Butterfly, Abyss, Night)
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized at Drese's studio, Belgium, 1999

SET SEVEN
Frances White: Like the Lily
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen Ting; double bass: Troy Rinker, Jr., electronics: F. White

Natasha Barrett: Sub Terra Cycle -- Sand Island
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
realized at Barrett's studio, Oslo, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Dimitri Voudouris: 1:ΘΦ4
ΑΛΘ=Φ/UVIVI/1:ΘΦ4/ΟΝΤΑ
Pogus Productions/2010

--FIN--

Barrett and Pärt

Oslo-based sound artist Natasha Barrett (b. 1972 Norwich, UK) performs section from her "Sub Terra Cycle" for German radio:



Performance from Arvo Pärt's Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles"
(Mvt. III - Deciso) (Arvo Pärt, b. 1935 Estonia)



Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen - conductor

Royal Albert Hall
Friday 20 August 2010 - UK Premiere

Martian Gardens for 12/12/2010

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Program for December 12, 2010
Extended Edition

SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Luimen
The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Four
Bridge Records/2002
Speculum Musicae -- trumpet: Raymond Mase, trombone: Michael Powell, harp: June Han, mandolin: William Anderson, guitar: David Starobin, vibraphone: Pablo Rieppi, conductor: William Purvis; recorded at Mastersound, NYC September, 2000

In honor of Elliott Carter's 102nd Birthday, December 11th, 2010

Ursula Mamlok: String Quartet No. 1
I. With Intensity
II. Very Rhythmic
III. Still, as if suspended
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume One
Bridge Records/2009
Daedalus Quartet -- first violin: Kyu-Young Kim, second violin: Min-Young Kim, viola: Jessica Thompson, cello: Raman Ramakrishnan; recorded at the Performing Arts Center, Theater C, Purchase, NY, 10/09/07

SET TWO
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Most Holy Mother of God (A. Pärt)
Officium Novum
ECM Records/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold; baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; text: Akathist hymn (trad.); recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Austria, June, 2009

Kitty Brazelton: Bells and Words
Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band, conductor: K. Brazelton; laptop, electronics, voice: K. Brazelton; text: Ecclesiastes 3:9-15; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, New York

Anne LeBaron: Lagniappe -- Hourglass of Stars
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
electronics: Earl Howard, amplified violin: Leroy Jenkins, amplified harp, live electronics: A. LeBaron; recorded at Joe's Pub, NYC, 2004

Alexander Knaifel: In Air Clear and Unseen (IACaU III)
Svete Tikhiy
ECM Records/2003
piano: Oleg Malov; Keller Quartet -- violin: András Keller, violin: János Pilz, viola: Zoltán Gál, cello: Judit Szabó; text: Fyodor Tyutchev

SET THREE
Roger Reynolds: last things, I think, to think about (excerpts)
a. text 8
b. Myrtle
c. Text 9
d. Illustration I
e. Text 10
f. Illustration II
g. Text 11
last things, I think, to think about
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
baritone: Philip Larson; text: John Ashbery; piano: Aleck Karis; music: R. Reynolds; recorded at Warren Studios, Department of Music, UC San Diego

Revolutionary Ensemble: Improvisation I
Beyond the Boundary of Time
Mutable Music/2008
violin: Leroy Jenkins, bass: Sirone, percussion, reeds, electronics: Jerome Cooper; recorded in concert, Warsaw, Poland, 5/25/05

Bob Gluck: Interlude
Electric Songs--Live Performances 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
saz, electronics, B. Gluck

Robert Ashley:
a. The Old Man Lives in Concrete
b. O Mesopotamia
Concrete
Lovely Music/2008
voices: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara; electronics, processing: Tom Hamilton

SET FOUR
Anna Rubin: Shards of Sappho
Sounding Out! #
Everglade Records/2010

Linda Montano: Portrait of Sappho
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
voice, electronics, piano, text: L. Montano; recorded in Austin, November, 1997

Eve Beglarian: My Heart is Trembling
60 x 60 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Eve Beglarian: Robin Redbreast
Tell The Birds
New World Records/2006
voice: Corey Dargel, piccolo: Margaret Lancaster; text: Stanley Kunitz; recorded at Brooklyn Recording, July, 2005

SET FIVE
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformation
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
cricket song and environmental sounds recorded in the "Zone of Silence" in the desert of Northern Mexico; completed at Westerkamp's Studio, Vancouver, BC, 1987

slub: Phone_Mr_Biskov
Why Record? Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 18, curated by Click Nilson
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
computers, electronics: Dave Griffiths, Alex McLean

Christian Marclay: His Master's Voice (excerpt)
Records
Atavistic Records/1997
recorded at The Kitchen, NYC, 1982

Dean Rosenthal: Life Is What Happens
recorded by D. Rosenthal, Florence, MA, 2010

Colin Newman: Blue Jay Way (G. Harrison)
provisionally entitled the singing fish/not to
4AD-Restless/1992 (orig. 1981-1982)

SET SIX
Margaret Leng Tan: An American in Buenos Aires (A Blues Tango)(T. Twining)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY, January, 2010

Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe: Cherry Cheesecake
The Carbon Copy Building -- A Comic-Strip Opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
text: Ben Katchor; music director: Martin Goldray; vocals: Toby Twining, Katie Geissinger ; electric guitar: John Benthal; percussion: David Cossin; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; keyboards: Martin Goldray

Phil Kline: Angels of Avenue A
Unsilent Night
Cantaloupe Music/2002
recorded by Bradford Reed, various locations in New York City, May 2001

Phil Kline: Wondrous Love (W. Walker)
John the Revelator -- A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
preformed by ETHEL and Lionheart; recorded at the Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August, 2007

Severed Heads: Wonder of All the World
Cuisine with Piscatorial
Nettwork-Volition/1991
recorded at dB Productions, Australia, 1988

SET SEVEN
Amy Horvey: This one and that one side by side
Catchment
Amy Horvey/2010
recorded at Paved Arts, Saskatoon

David Behrman: View Finder
Unforeseen Events
XI Records/1991
mutantrumpet: Ben Neill

Daniel Toussaint: La Chasse au Pougablunk Boumeu
Miniatures Concrètes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

SET EIGHT
Richard Maxfield: Bacchanale
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
narration, text: Edward Fields; violin: Fahrad Machkat, Robert Block: prepared violin: saxophone: Terry Jennings; underwater clarinet: Nicholas Roussakis; original music recorded at the Five Spot, Manhattan, circa 1962

James Tenney: Instrumental Responses (with Ergodos II)
Melody, Ergodicity, and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
The Barton Workshop; recorded in Amsterdam, winter, 2007

Dimitri Voudoris: ΑΛΘ=Φ (excerpt)
ΑΛΘ=Φ/UVIVI/1:ΘΦ4/ΟΝΤΑ
Pogus Productions/2010
computer music for live performance

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/05/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
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Program for December 5, 2010

SET ONE
Ingrid Drese: Horloge à feu
a. Source(Intérieur/Points)
b. Danse 1
c. Ligne/Points
d. Point
e. Envol 1
f. Danse 2
g. Envol 2
h. Étirement/Extérieur
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
realized at GMEM, Marseille, and Métamorphoses d'Orphée, Ohain, Belgium

David First: The Softening Door (excerpt)
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
computer, Yamaha PC 1600 MIDI controller: D. First

SET TWO
Natasha Barrett: from Microclimates III-VI
a. Waterfall (Microclimate V)
b. Remote Gale (Microclimate VI)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
environmental sound sources recorded in Western Norway

Alvin Curran: Canti Illuminati I (excerpt)
Solo Works -- The '70s
New World Records/2010
recorded in Rome, 1974

Daniel Koppelman: Quintuple Escapement (I-IV) (W. Kleinsasser)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
computer and MIDI controller: D. Koppelman; recorded at Ball State University's Center for Music Engineering Technology, Muncie, Indiana

SET THREE
Derek Bermel: Theme and Absurdities
Soul Garden -- Chamber Works
CRI/2002
clarinet: D. Bermel; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 2001

Anthony De Mare: Fetch (D. Bermel)
Speak! The Speaking-Singing Pianist
Innova Recordings/2010
piano, voice: A. De Mare; text: Will Eno; recorded at Rolston Recital Hall, Banff Centre, Alberta, November, 2008

John Cage: Art and Overpopulation/Royanji (excerpt)
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
lecture delivered by John Cage at Stanford University, January, 1992; Royanji -- soprano: Isabelle Ganz; percussion: Michael Pugliese

SET FOUR
John Cage: Indeterminacy # 76
(concerning Henry Cowell's Oriental music class)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
voice, text, music: J. Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; recorded by Mel Kaiser

The New Music Consort: Pulse (H. Cowell)
Pulse
New World Records/1990
Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman, Michael Pugliese, Mark Rendon, William Trigg, Terri Weber: Percussion, conductor: Claire Heldrich; recorded at Studio A, BMG Studios, NYC

Carlos Chávez: Xochipilli, An Imaginary Aztec Music (I-III)
Complete Chamber Works, Volume 3
Cambria Music/2005
peformed by the Southwest Chamber Music and Tambuco Percussion Ensemble, director: Jeff von der Schmidt; recorded at Herbert Zipper Concert Hall, Colburn School of Performing Arts, Los Angeles, 10/24/04

Harry Partch: from Water! Water! -- An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
a. We Really Love Each Other: In 43 Whines to the Octave (Alderman, Ladies' Auxiliary, Jazzmen, Witches)
b. Water Criers. The baseball game is called on account of Rain!
c. To Hell With the Game! Rain! Rain! The Highest Goodness is Like Water (Whole Ensemble)
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3
New World Records/2004 (orig. 1997)
recorded at University of Illinois, 1962, performed by the Gate 5 Ensemble, directed by John Garvey

SET FIVE
Olivier Messiaen: Amen des étoiles, de la planète a l'anneau
(Amen of the Stars and the Ringed Planet)
Visions de l'Amen
Bridge Records/2010
piano I: Marilyn Nonken; piano II: Sarah Rothenberg; recorded at Strude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, Texas, May, 2009

Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Saturn's Ring
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungo, electric komungo: JHK; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, 8/18/09

Muhal Richard Abrams/Roscoe Mitchell: Non-Cognitive I
(from Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City)
Spectrum
Mutable Music/2010
baritone: Thomas Buckner; poem: Joseph Jarman; Janáček Philharmonic, conductor: Petr Kotik; recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Petr Kotik: In completing what loving was needing
Many Many Women
Dog w/a Bone/2000
S.E.M. Ensemble, director: P. Kotik, text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at Vanguard Studio, 3/17/80

SET SIX
Phil Kline:
a. Northport
b. Gloria
John the Revelator -- A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
preformed by ETHEL and Lionheart; recorded at the Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August, 2007; a. text: John Cennick, 1743, music: R.R. Osbourne, 1850; b. trad.

Ingram Marshall: Low Dutch(from Harmonic Delays)
Kingdom Come
Nonesuch Records/2001
Theatre of Voices, directed by Paul Hillier; music: Bay Psalm Book of 1698, text: Psalm 23; recorded at the United Church, Warren Village, Vermont, October, 2000

Philip Glass/Robert Wilson: Knee 4
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch Records/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman

SINGLE PLAY
Luciano Berio: Naturale
Voci
ECM Records/2002
viola: Kim Kashkashian; Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, conductor: Dennis Russell Davies; recorded at Teldec Studio, Berlin, May, 2000

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 11/28/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
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Program for November 28, 2010

SET ONE
Roland Auzet: Convergence (Y. Taïra)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
marimba: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, France

John Luther Adams: Shimmer
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2002-2003

SET TWO
Steven Ricks: Haiku
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
Tibetan prayer bowls, tam-tams: Dominic Donato; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 2006

Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 10 (Who are we? Where are we?)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Studio 508, University of Maryland Baltimore County, May, 2008

SET THREE
The New Music Consort: Double Music (J. Cage/L. Harrison)
Pulse -- The New Music Consort
New World Records/1990
percussion: Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman,Claire Heldrich, William Trigg; recorded at Studio A, BMG Studios, NYC

Noah Creshevsky: Brother Tom
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
vocal samples: Thomas Buckner

Mari Kimura: Bucknerian for voice, violin and computer
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
violin: M. Kimura; vocal samples: Thomas Buckner; recorded at Harvestworks and Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY

SET FOUR
Amy Horvey: People Deserving Something (A. Horvey/J. Morton)
Catchment
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A. Horvey; organ: Jeff Morton; recorded at Paved Arts & New Media, Inc., Saskatoon

Al Margolis: Deck for Chair, Too
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

If, Bwana: Six Minus 6
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté

SET FIVE
David Behrman: My Father's Grocery Store
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
vocalists: T. Buckner, Eric Barsness, Maria Ludovici; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trumbone: Peter Zummo; keyboard and electronics: D. Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton; text: S.N. Behrman, "The Worcester Account"; recorded in New York City, 2003

Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe:
a. Panel Review
b. I Blame the Tenants
The Carbon Copy Building -- A Comic-Strip Opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
text: Ben Katchor; music director: Martin Goldray; vocal (a): Tony Boutte, (b) Toby Twining ; electric guitar: John Benthal; percussion: David Cossin; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; keyboards: Martin Goldray

SET SIX
Hildegard Westerkamp: A Walk Through the City
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig.1996)
realized at the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 1981, text: Norbert Ruebsaat

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now -- Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, percussion, synthesis, electronics, recording: J. La Barbara; bowed pianos: Gaylord Mowfrey; text: M.S. Carnahan, "One Pink Mask"

SET SEVEN
Anne LeBaron, Wadada Leo Smith, Peter van Bergen: An Even Loan
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
harp: A. LeBaron; trumpet: W.L. Smith; woodwinds: P. van Bergen

John Cage: One-7 (1st 1/2)
a CAGE of saxophones volumes 3 & 4 -- Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2010
performed by Ulrich Krieger; recorded at the π Farm, Germany, 2004

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 11/21/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
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Program for November 21, 2010

SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come
Nonesuch Records/2001
The American Composers Orchestra, conductor: Paul Lustig Dunkel; recorded at SUNY Purchase Concert Hall, The Performing Arts Center, recorded April, 2000

Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Svjete tihij (Byzantine Chant)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009

SET TWO
Lou Harrison: Belle's Bull (from Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
piano: Adrienne Varner; Gamelan Pacifica, Cornish College of Arts, director: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010

Ezra Sims: Flight
The Microtonal Music of Ezra Sims
CRI/1993
flute: Hanneke Provily; electronic tape: E. Sims; recorded at Studio van Schuppen, Veenendaal, NL, 6/10/90

Esther Lamneck & Roberto Fabbriciani: Winds of the Heart (parts 10,11)
Winds of the Heart
Innova Recordings/2010
tárogató: E. Lamneck; hyperbass flute: R. Fabbriciani; recorded at Studio Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy, 2008

John Cage: Sculptures Musicale VI
a CAGE of saxophones, vols. 3 & 4 - Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at the π Farm, Germany, 6/24/04

SET THREE
Ingrid Drese: Amaryllis
a. Verticalité — horizontalité — densité
b. Émergence — complémentarité — suspendu
c. Balancement
d. Vide — strette
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
composed in the Métamorphoses d'Orphée studio, Ohain, Belgium

Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa for contrabass & 8 channel tape
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2009

SET FOUR
David Felder: November Sky
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute, piccolo, alto flute, bass flute: Rachel Rudich; electronic tape: D. Felder; recorded at University of California, San Diego

John Melby: Concerto No. 1 for Flute and Computer-Synthesized Tape (excerpt)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 10 #
The Virtuosos in the Computer Age I
Centaur Records/1991
flute: Rachel Rudich; electronic tape: J. Melby; recorded at the Experimental Music Studios, University of Illinois

SET FIVE
Coil: Disco Hospital
Love's Secret Domain
Wax Trax-Threshold House/1991

Coil/Derek Jarman: Impatient Youths of the Sun...(edit)*
Blue -- A Film by Derek Jarman
Elektra-Nonsuch/1994
music: Coil, Simon Fisher Turner; narration (edited): D. Jarman; recorded at Brian Eno's Wilderness Studio; Suffolk, UK; *aka. "Disco Hospital"

Dean Rosenthal: Do it!(The Dialectic of the Mode of Utterance)
Dean Rosenthal/2010
sound sources: Van McCoy, "The Hustle," Steve Reich: "The Desert Music, Mvt.1"

Steve Reich: The Desert Music I (Fast)
Theillim/The Desert Music
Cantaloupe Music/2002
Alarm Will Sound and Ossia, conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded at the Kresege Recordings Studios, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, May, 2001; text: William Carlos Williams

Alarm Will Sound: Logon Rock Witch (R. James)
Acoustica -- Aphex Twin performed by Alarm Will Sound
Cantaloupe Music/2005
Alarm Will Sound; conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2005

Bruce Haack: Epilogue
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
original release: "Haackula" (1978)

SET SIX
If, Bwana: Cicada #1 -- EHG Version
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté; Nord modular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; flute: Jacqueline Martelle; computer: Al Margolis; sourced from a performance at the Emily Harvey Gallery, NYC, 9/18/08

Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A Political Prisoner's Dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
composed at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May, 1973-May, 1977

Trevor Wishart: Facets (from "Two Women")
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
voice/text source: Princess Diana commenting on press photographers

Severed Heads: Harold and Cindy Hospital
Come Visit The Big Bigot (With Dead Eyes Opened e.p.)
Nettwerk-Volition/1987 (orig. 1985/1984)
recorded at Terse Tapes, Sydney, Australia, 1984-1985

Kassen: Ill at ease at home?
Why Record? -- Life in the age of digital performance*
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
remasterd by Tom Erbe at University of California San Diego, Department of Music, La Jolla
*Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 18: Curated by Click Nilson

Simon Wickham-Smith: Unsafeday (from "Justkidding")
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Helen Kidd; mastered at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, February, 2010

SET SEVEN
Noah Creshevsky: Hoodlum Priest
Hyperrealism -- Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Mutable Music/2003
voice samples: Thomas Buckner

Noah Creshevsky: Breathless
Who -- Electoacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Centaur Records/2000
Dedicated to Ruth Anderson and Annea Lockwood

Annea Lockwood & Ruth Anderson: World Rhythms (1997 Version) (excerpt)
Sinopah
XI Records/1998

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 11/14/2010

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Program for November 14, 2010

SET ONE
Henryk Górecki: Amen (Opus 35)
Miserere
Elektra-Nonesuch/1994
Chicago Symphony Chorus, director: Margaret Hillis; recorded April, 1994, at St. Mary of the Angels Church, Chicago

In memoriam Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: December 6, 1933 -- November 12, 2010

Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Alleluia. Nativitas (Pérotin)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009

Howard Skempton:
a. Music, when soft voices die
b. He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Bolt From The Blue
Mode Records/2010
Exaudi -- sopranos: Juliet Fraser, Katie Trethewey, Julie Doyle; mezzo soprano: Ruth Massey; countertenor: Tom Williams; tenors: Stephen Jeffes, Jonathan Bungard; bass-baritone: Jonathan Saunders; bass: Jimmy Holliday, director: James Weeks (Doyle, Bungard on b. only); texts: a. Percy Bysshe Shelley, b. William Butler Yeats; a. recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07, b. St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, 1/17/07

Giacinto Scelsi: Lento -- Misterioso, soprannaturale (from Cinque Incantesimi)
The Piano Works 3
Mode Records/2006
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, March, 2005

SET TWO
Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: The Bird on the Scene Says Yes
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
flute with glissando headjoint: R. Dick; vocals: T. Buckner; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

Mari Kimura: Gemini for solo violin
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
recorded by Tom Hamilton at Harvestworks and Systems Two, NYC

Mari Kimura: Axon (T. León)
Polytopia
Bridge Records/2007
recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, June 2005

SET THREE
Mrs. Frances Perry: Cranberry Song
Folk Music from Wisconsin -- The Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture
Rounder Records - Library of Congress/2001 (orig. 1960)
recorded by Helene Stratman-Thomas and Aubrey Snyder at Black River Falls, 1946

Amy Horvey: Cranberry Flats Mobile
Catchment
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A. Horvey; recorded at Cranberry Flats Conservation Area, South Saskatchewan River, August, 2001

SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Kits Beach Soundwalk
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
narration: H. Westerkamp; realized at the composer's studio, 1989, sounds recorded at Kitsilano Beach (aka "Kits Beach"), Vancouver featuring sounds sampled from Xenakis' "Concrete PH"

Iannis Xenakis: Concrete PH
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
sound source: smoldering charcoal; composed and recorded at GRM, Paris, for the Phillips Pavilion at the World's Fair, Brussels, 1958

Iannix Xenakis: Polytope De Cluny (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2009
premiered at the Festiveal d'Automne, Paris, 1972

SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Gentle Sediments (Barely: part-3)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
realized at the composer's studio, Oslo; premiered at the 38th Synthèse festival, Bourges, 6/04/08

Luigi Nono: Omaggio a Vedova
Omaggio a Vedova
WERGO/1993 (orig. 1972)
recorded at Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rome, 1960

Flutronix: Run-On
Flutronix
Flutronix Music/2010
flutes, electronics: Nathalie Joachim, Allison Logggins-Hull; recorded at Total Sonic Media, Brooklyn

SET SIX
Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde, Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971
Pogus Productions/2008
recorded at Tangent Studio, London, and The Electronic Music Studio, Goldsmith College, 1970

Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm (purring reprise)
ibid.

Alvin Curran: Light Flowers Dark Flowers I
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
performed and recorded in Rome, 1974

SINGLE PLAY
Zack Browning: Venus Notorious
Venus Notorious
Innova Recordings/2010
pianos: Julie Gunn, Edward Rath; xylophone: William Moersch; drum set: Ricardo Flores; recorded at the University of Illinois

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 11/07/2010

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Program for November 07, 2010

SET ONE
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely

Howard Skempton: Resister
Bolt From the Blue
Mode Records/2010
piano: Daniel Becker; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07

Bruce Haack: Electric To Me Turn
Farad-The Electric Voice
Stones Throw Records/2007

Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music/2003
J. La Barbara: voice, Buchla Synthesizer; premiered 10/22/78,
Metamusic Festival, Berlin

SET TWO
Arlene Zallman: East, West of the Sun
I. Town Life
II. Pan
III. Three Strophes with Negligible Variations
IV. Epitaph of the a Sailor
V. Epithalamium
VI. The Game Keeper: Model Conservation or it Lacks Point
VII. Nahuatl: Aztec Song
Sei La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
Wellesley College Chamber Singers and Instrumental Ensemble, conductor Brian Hulse; accompanist: Jenny Tang; V -- soprano: Bess Conners, flute: Kathy Boyd; texts: I, III, V, VI -- Classic Anthology by Confucius (translated by Ezra Pound); II -- Plate inscription for a statue of Pan (from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dudley Fitts); IV -- (from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dudley Fitts); VII -- Magic World American Indian Songs (edited by William Brandon); recorded at Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College, 1998

ETHEL
a. Lighthouse (C. Dufallo)
b. Also Sprach Einstein (M. Rowell)
Light
Cantaloupe Music/2006
ETHEL string quartet; (b) vocals: Erin Grey, Einstein the African Gray Parrot, whistle: Randy Crafton; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ, March, 2006; (b) also recorded at Knoxville Zoo, Knoxville, TN

SET THREE
Philip Glass/Robert Wilson:
a. Trial 1 -- "All Men Are Equal"
b. Knee 2
Einstein On The Beach
Elektra Nonesuch/1993
music, lyrics: P. Glass; design, direction: R. Wilson; Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman; (a) spoken voice: Jasper McGruder, (b) spoken voice: Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton texts: (a) Samuel M. Johnson, Christopher Knowles (b) C. Knowles; recorded at Looking Glass Studios, NYC, winter-spring 1993

Eurythmics: Doubleplusgood
1984 (For The Love of Big Big Brother)
RCA/1984
chanted lyrics inspired by George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," (1948), sampled words from the film "1984," based on Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," (written and directed by William Radford, 1984)

Laurie Anderson: Dark Time In The Revolution
Homeland
Nonesuch/2010
vocals, percussion, keyboards, radio: L. Anderson; drums: Joey Baron; viola: Eyvind Kang; bass: Skúli Sverrison; accordion, keyboards: Rob Burger; recorded in New York City

SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Fantasie for Horns II
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
French horn: Brian G'Froerer; electroacoustics: H. Westerkamp; realized at Sonic Research Studio, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, 1978

Amy Horvey: Marionette-Lazarus
Catchement
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A Horvey; organ: Valerie Hall recorded in a pedestrian underpass, Saskatoon, SK

SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Sub Terra Cycle: Kongsberg Silver Mines
Bouteilles de Klein (Installations) DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
recorded on the miner's train in the disused silver mines of Kongsberg Silver Mines, Buskerud County, Norway

Alejandro José: Todo Es Uno
Desde El Otro Lado -- Electroacoustic Music from Latin America #
O.O. Discs/1998
sound sources: pulsar signals 175 light years from Earth registered by the Arecibo Radio Telescope, Puerto Rico; human amino acids registered as sound

Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: Makemake
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
vocalizations: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton, Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

SET SIX
If, Bwana: Ringing the Bell
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
Trio Scardaturo -- viola: Elisabeth Smalt, voice: Alfrun Schmid, keyboard: Bob Gilmore; assembled from recordings of Interpretations concert at Roulette, NYC, 3/18/08

Frank Denyer: Woman, Viola, and Crow
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted viola, voice, percussion sounds: Elizabeth Smalt; recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, 3/20/06

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Curran: The Works II
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
A. Curran: all instruments, sounds, tapes; performed, mixed at Sound 80 Studios, Minneapolis, 2/24/80

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/31/2010

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Program for October 31, 2010

WMUA fund drive week: 10/30/10 -- 11/05/10

Selections broadcast between obligatory
exhortations for donations. Grin and bear it.

Alvin Curran: Songs and Views from the Magnetic Garden, part I
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
Performed, recorded, and mixed by A. Curran at Via dell'Orso 28, Rome, 1974

Chaya Czernowin: Mei mecha'a (Water of Dissent)
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; saxophone, tubax: Rico Gubler: piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn; live electronics recorded at EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO of SWR, Freiburg, sound direction: Michael Acker, Rinhold Braig, Thomas Hummel; recorded at the Konzerthaus Berlin, 3/17/07

David Monacchi: Stati d'Acqua
Eco-Acoustic Compositions
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
sound sources: course of the Tiber River from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea; sound scan of a human fetus

Matthew Burtner and MICE: Sandprints
MICE World Tour
EcoSono/2009
Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble created by Matthew Burtner
sounds on Sandprints: Microphones in the Nambian Desert, performers whistling

John Cage: Song Books I-II/Empty Words III (continued)
Edition John Cage -- Sonata XIII-Music for Marcel Duchamp-
Song Books I-II-Empty Words III
Wergo/1992
Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, conductor: Clytus Gottwald; spoken words, electronics: J. Cage; recorded live, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Stuttgart, 6/22/75

Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Litany
a. Litany (N. Kedrov)
b. Otche nash (Lipovan Old Believers Tradition)
c. Dostoino est (anonymous)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009

Kitty Brazelton: the beginning and ending of all things
Ecclesiastes--A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band, conductor: K. Brazelton; laptop drones, soundtracks: K. Brazelton; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, New York

Julia Wolfe: my lips from speaking I-III (for six pianos)
Dark Full Rides -- Music in Multiples
Cantaloupe Music/2009
pianos: Lisa Moore; recorded by Michael Riesman at Look Glass Studios, NYC

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/24/2010

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Program for October 24, 2010

SET ONE
Howard Skempton: Five Poems of Mary Webb
a. To Life
b. Reflections
c. The Spirit of Earth
d. Safe
e. To the World
Bolt from the Blue -- Music for Piano and Voices
Mode Records/2010
EXAUDI, director: James Weeks; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07

Jan Garbarek: Allting Finns
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; text: Pär Lagerkvist, "Den döde," conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009

David Mahler: from Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field
a. Chorale
b. Chorale
c. Chorale
d. Chorale
e. VIII. Distant Sounds
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
voices: Julie Hanify, D. Mahler, Nurit Tilles; piano: N. Tilles; text: J.M Neale, "The Teams Are Waiting in the Field," to the melody of Chevy Chase; recorded at The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November, 2009

Iva Bittová and Bang On A Can: Nejsi
Elida
Cantaloupe Music/2005
Bang On A Can; violin, voice: I. Bittová; Systems Two, Brooklyn, December, 2004

SET TWO
David First: Thought You Said Sherbet
The Alternative Schubertiade #
CRI/1999
sampler, computer synthesizer, electric guitar: D. First; motif:
first nine measures of "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Schubert, arr. Liszt)

David First: Aw!-Drawline Spout-Holi Spank (excerpts)
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
guitars, computers, computerized guitar: D. First

SET THREE
Alvin Lucier: Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (marimba)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Quiet Design/2010
marimba: Nick Hennies; recorded at University of Texas-Austin Percussion Studio

John Cage: from Sculptures Musicale
I. soprano sax, sax-mouthpiece, accordion, e-bow guitar, percussion, radio, no input mixer, sine tone
II. tenor and baritone saxes, percussion, piano, cello
III. alto sax, bass-cl a rinet, launeddas, bamboo flute, melodica
The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4 -- A CAGE of Saxophones
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded (mainly) at the π-Farm, Germany, 2004

SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith: The Previous Evening Part I (Homage to John Cage)
The Previous Evening
ReR Megacorp/1998
clarinets: Christian Kaya, percussion: Heike Liss, voice: Bernd Weber, F. Frith: voice, instruments, processing; recorded at Studio Gordon, Munich, spring, 1993

Fred Frith to perform a the University of Massachusetts for the Magic Triangle Jazz Series presented in conjunction with WMUA, Thursday, 10/28/10, at Bezanson Recital Hall

SET FOUR
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes-Gradual Requiem-Gambuh I
New Albion Records/1988
trumpets: Jim Miller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kenelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty; conductor: John Adams; recorded at Tres Virgos Studio, San Rafael, California; tape material: fog horns in San Francisco Bay

Pauline Oliveros: Sound Patterns and Tropes
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
University of Wisconsin-River Falls Concert Choir and Percussion Quartet; recorded at UW-RF Abbott Concert Hall, River Falls, Wisconsin

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Bédé
a. The Realm of Childhood
b. The Valley of Phantoms
c. In Search of the Voice
Tangram
empreintes DIGITALes/1994
electroacoustics: R. Normandeau; voice: Marie-Hélène Blain; produced at Normandeau's studio, Montreal, and GRM Paris, 1990

Lori Freedman: Bridge One: Firth of Forth
Bridge
Actuellecd/2009
clarinet: L. Freedman; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, June, 2009

Lawrence Moss: Into the Woods
Unseen Leaves
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: William Montgomery; recorded in Gildenhorn Recial Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland

Bang On A Can: 1/2 (B. Eno)
Music for Airports (Live)
Cantaloupe Records/2007
Bang On A Can All-Stars -- cello: May Beiser, clarinets: Evan Ziporyn, guitar: Mark Stewart, percussion: Steven Schick, piano/keyboards: Lisa Moore, bass: Robert Black; recorded live, spring, 1998

SET SIX
David Congo: Fusions I. The Art of Movement
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2009
recorded at the composer's studio, West Springfield, Massachusetts, June, 2009

Edward Artemiev: Peregrini
Mood-Pictures
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: T. Kuindji; electronics: E. Artemiev; recorded in Moscow

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/17/2010

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Program for October 17, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Johnson:
a. The 78 two-note chords
b. The 266 three-note chords
c. The 715 four-note chords
The Chord Catalogue -- all the 8178 chords possible in one octave
XI Records/1999
piano: T. Johnson; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Paris, March, 1998

SET ONE
Arthur Jarvinen: The Vulture's Garden
a. The Vulture's Garden
b. The War of Time
c. The Last Dim Weird Battle of the West
d. Not with a Bang but a Whimper
Edible Black Ink
O.O. Discs/1996
California Ear Unit -- featuring Dorothy Stone, flutes; recorded at Mad Hatter, Los Angeles, June, 1996

Dorothy Stone: Indigenous Music II -- Flute (S. L. Mosko)
None But The Lonely Flute
New World Records/1994

In memory of three composers/performers, and affiliates of The California Institute of the Arts and The California Ear Unit --
Stephen Lucky Mosko: 1947 - 2005
Dorothy Stone (wife of Mosko): 1958 - 2008
Arthur Jarvinen: 1956 - 2010

SET TWO
Kitty Brazelton: Motet
Ecclesiastes: A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band -- conductor, laptop soundtrack: K. Brazelton; text: Book of Ecclesiastes; recorded at 2nd Story Sound, NYC

Jan Garbarek: Ov zarmanali -- Hymn of the baptism of Christ (Komitas)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009

Arvo Pärt: Ode VII
Kanon Pakajanen
ECM New Series/1998
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor: Teije van Geest; text from "Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ" by St. Andrew of Crete, recorded at Niguliste Church, Tallinn, June, 1997

SET THREE
Anatoly Pereslegin: Isiah No. 2
Download the God
Electroshock Records/2000
performed and recorded by A. Pereslegin, Jerusalem, 1994-1995; final mix by A. Pereslegin, Moscow, 1999-2000

Cesare Rosa Calamaro: Ludus
Electroacoustic Music from Sicily #
Electronic Music Foundation/2003

SET FOUR
Barton McLean: Magic at Xanadu (MAX)
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
B. McLean: keyboards in Composer's Playpen (in MAX computer language)

Mike Swinchoski: Alternative Song
60 x 60 -- 2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2006

André Cormier: 380
ibid.

Jonty Harrison: Unsound Objects
Articles indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
composed at Harrison's studio at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK

SET FIVE
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2009

Nicola Cisternino: Xöömij
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum #
Mode Records/2001
bass: Nicholas Isherwood; realized at the Ateliers UPIC (CCMIX), Paris, April, 1997

SET SIX
Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe:
a. Opening Slide Lecture
b. Where is that Boy
The Carbon Copy Building -- A comic-strip opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
performed by Bang On A Can All-Stars -- singers: Theo Bleckmann, Tony Boutté, Katie Geissinger, Toby Twining; musicians: electric guitar: John Benthal, percussion: David Cossin; keyboards: Martin Goldray; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; text, illustrations: Ben Katchor; recorded at Avatar Studios, NYC, August, 2000

Joëlle Léandre and Quentin Sirjacq: Moon Journey
Out of Nowhere
Actuelle/2008
contrabass: J. Léandre; piano: Q. Sirjacq; recorded at Studio Lu Hullette, Paris, 1/13/08

Fred Frith: Trocosi
Prints
ReR Megacorp/2003
acoustic bass: Sebastian Grimms; other instruments and voice: F. Frith; text: International Herald Tribune edition 1/28/97, "Enslavement of Women in Ghana"; sample: Kahil El'Zabar, "Where Do You Want to Go"

SINGLE PLAY
Olly Wilson: Piano Piece
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 #
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
piano: Thomas Fosnocht

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/10/2010

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Program for October 10, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Fred Frith: Glass c/w Steel
Guitar Solos
RēR Megacorp/2003 (orig. Caroline/1974)

SET ONE
Evan Ziporyn: The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
soprano: Anne Harley; Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Wind Ensemble, conductor: Gil Rose; texts: Li Shangyin ("The Ornate Zither"), W.S. Merwin ("The Nomad Flute"); recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 11/05/05

Benjamin Chadabe: Hell and Humdrums
The Metaphysician's Hammer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
percussion: B. Chadabe; text, recitation: Benjamin Hartlage; recorded at Murmur Studio, NYC, and Bennington College 1998-2000

SET TWO
Jin Hi Kim and Gerry Hemingway: Windtails
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: JHK; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, MA,8/18/09

Lou Harrison: Untitled (from Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Recordes/2010
piano: Adrienne Verner; Gamelan Pacifica, conductor: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010

SINGLE PLAY
Lois V. Vierk/Anita Feldman: Hexa
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music
Innova Recordings/2010
three tap dancers on Tap Dance Instrument: David Parker, Rhonda Price, A. Feldman; percussion: Gary Schall; live electronics, Lexicon PCM 42: L. Vierk; recorded at Pyramid Studios, NYC, 1989-1990

SET THREE
Luciano Berio: Gesti
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
recorder: Lucia Mense; recorded at Sandessal, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 7/11/95

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

Aldo Clementi: luCiAno BErio
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
recorded at Laboratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica-Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, April, 2005

SET FOUR
Margaret Leng Tan: from Old MacDonald's Yellow Submarine (E. Griswold)
a. On that Farm
b. e-i-e-i-o
c. Pink Memories
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, prepared piano, music box: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, January, 2010

Mendi + Keith Obadike: The Pink of Stealth
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2009
vocals: M. Obadike; K. Obadike: guitar, bass, drums, ubo aka, synthesizers, treatments

Edward Artemiev:
a. Fox Hunting
b. Dialog with a Computer
Mood-Pictures
Electroshock Records/2010
a. performed by E. Artemiev, from the motion picture "Fox Hunting"; b. performed by E. Artemiev, from the motion picture "By the Eyes of the Wolf"

Bruce Haack: Program Me
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
electric voice: Farad vocoder & Ed Harvey (orig. 1981)

SET FIVE
Kitty Brazelton:
a. Time to go, Time to remain
b. Bells
Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band, conductor: K. Brazelton; laptop drones, electronics: K. Brazelton; text: Book of Ecclesiastes; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, NY

Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice Is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
premiered at the American Center for Students and Artists, Paris, October, 1980

SET SIX
David First: A Bet on Transcendence Favors the House
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
ebow guitar: D. First

Marco Oppedisano: Nocturne
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars: M. Oppedisano; voice samples: Kimberly Fiedelman

SINGLE PLAY
Jonty Harrison: Splintering (excerpt)
Evidence Matérielle
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
composed at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, 1999

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 10/03/2010

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 October 3, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Florent Ghys: Coma Carus
Baroque Tardif--Soli
Cantaloupe Music/2009
pianino: F. Ghys

SET ONE
Robert Dick: Eyewitness
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
Flute Force; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 1998-2000

Frances White: Centre Bridge
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown: Loons (from Isle Royale Shakuhachi Duets)
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded by E. Brown, Brooklyn, 7/09/05

SET TWO
Patti Monson: High Art (M. Bresnick)
High Art
Albany Records/2003
piccolo: P. Monson; toy piano: Martin Bresnick

Martin Bresnick: The Bucket Rider
The Essential Martin Bresnick
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Bang On A Can; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 11/08/05

SET THREE
John Cage: Party Pieces (1-20) (J. Cage, H. Cowell, L. Harrison, V. Thomson)
The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at RBB/SFB, Berlin, 5/23/03

Lou Harrison: Isna's Song (from A Soedjiatmoko Set)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
Gamelan Pacifica, director: Jarrad Powell; Gamelan Pacifica Chorus, director: Jessika Kenney; text: The Rāmāyana, book VII, adapted by L. Harrison; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010

SET FOUR
Bob Gluck: Doina
Electric Songs--Live Performances 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
saz (bağlama), electronics: B. Gluck

Anne LeBaron: Submerged Cavern
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
shakuhachi: Kiku Day; koto: Konoko Nishi; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Mills College, Oakland, 2005

Ellen Fullman: Nocnoca Progression
Change of Direction
New Albion Records/1998
Elise Gould, Nigel Jacobs, E. Fullman: Long String Instrument

Fred Frith: Hit and Run
Accidental
RēR Megacorp/2001
recorded at Studio Jankowski, Stuttgart, 1995-1996

Roberto Musci/Chris Cutler/Jon Rose/Claudio Gabbiano: track 3
Steel Water Light
RēR Megacorp/2001
sampler: R. Musci; electrified percussion, processing: C. Cutler; tenor violin, processing: J. Rose; guitars: C. Gabbiani

Christopher Campbell: Sunface Streams Moonface
Sound the All-Clear
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Fur Seal Studio, Minneapolis

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
premiered at Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, BC, 10/09/03

Stéphane Roy: Ruptures (from Trois petites histoires concrètes)
Migrations
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
realized at Roy's studio, St. Louis, Missouri, 1998

Douglas Geers: Verbosity Ore
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

David First: Tell Tale 2.1
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
transistor radios: D. First

Simon Wickham-Smith: from Justkidding
d. The Machine Says It
b. Unsafeday
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Helen Kidd

David First: Happy Beatday
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
slide whistle: D. First

SET SIX
Holger Czukay: Boat-Woman Song (excerpt)
OHM--The Early Gurus of Electronic Music--1948-1980 #
Ellipsis Arts/2000
samples from Adam de la Halle; Vietnamese women singing folk song

Kraig Grady: Eve Without Apples
The Lab -- 20th Anniversary CD #
The Lab/2004
pump organ, prepared dulcimer: K. Grady, performed at The Lab, San Francisco, 1987

Eve Beglarian: Preciosilla
Overstepping
OODiscs/1998
flute: Margaret Lancaster; voice: E. Beglarian; text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at Noise Production, NYC

SET SEVEN
Robert Ashley: She Was A Visitor
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, conductor: Alvin Lucier; written in 1967 as part the electronic opera "That Morning Thing"

Alvin Lucier: Chambers
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
Chambers (1968) recorded at The Coffeehouse, Middletown, Connecticut, 2002

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/26/2010

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 September 26, 2010

SET ONE
Robert Ashley: Empire (excerpt)
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert, R.Ashley; electronic orchestra: Tom Hamilton, R. Ashley; recorded in Rome, 1985

Debashis Sinha: Kailash
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010

Elsa Justel: Bastet
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at GRM, Paris, 1999

SET TWO
Alexander Tcherepnin: Shadow Play (from Five Concert Etudes, Op. 52)
Piano Works
CRI/2002 (orig. Sony/1991)
piano: Martha Braden; recorded at BMG Studios, NYC, 1999

Ivan Tcherepnin: The Army and the Chase (from Santur Live!)
Flores Musicales--Five Songs--Santur Live!
CRI/1995
Serge* modular electronics, santur: I. Tcherepnin
*Serge synthesizer named after its developer, Serge Tcherepnin, brother of Ivan.

Stefan Tcherepnin: Ouvretorture
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizer: Stefan Tcherepnin, recorded in NYC, 2004

Matmos: Les Folies Françoises (F. Couperin)
Supreme Balloon
Matador Records/2008

So Percussion and Matmos: Needles
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010
recorded at Snowghost, Whitefish, Montana, and The David Smith Room, Studio C, Clinton Recording Studio, NYC

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: Scenes from Cavafy
a. Gending Cavafy
b. Gending Bill/Lancaran Jody
c. Gending Ptolemy
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
voice: John Duykers; texts: Constantine P. Cavafy; Gamelan Pacifica Chorus and Orchestra, director: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010

SET THREE
Jody Diamond: In That Bright World
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta; voice: J. Diamond; text: "The Wayfaring Stranger" (trad.); recorded in Central Java, July, 2001

Miguel del Aguila: Tango to Dream (Salon Buenos Aires, movement II)
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio; recorded at the First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas, 2008

SET FOUR
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2001; tape revised by S. Scodanibbio, 2001-2009

Stefano Scodanibbio: Humboldt
Six Duos
New Albion Records/2001
viola: Dov Scheindlin; contrabass: S. Scondanibbio; recorded at Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken, June, 2000

SET FIVE
Chaya Czernowin: The Memory of Water
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
saxophone, tubax: Rico Gubler; piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn: Peter Veale; live-electronics: EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR; recorded live at the Konzerthaus Berlin, 3/17/07, MaerzMusik Festival of Contemporary Music by Berliner Festspiele

Iannis Xenakis: Dämmerschein
Xenakis & Varèse
Mode Records/1997
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded in Pittsburgh, April, 1996

SINGLE PLAY
Zack Browning: Thunder Roll
a. Night Attack
b. Day Attack
Venus Notorious
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Jee-Ean Kim; percussion: Mark Eichenberger; percussion: James Press; timpani: Samuel Carroll; conductor: Mei-Fang Lin; recorded at the University of Illinois

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Gordon/Alarm Will Sound: Arles
Van Gogh
Cantaloupe Music/2007
Alarm Will Sound, conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded in New York City, 2006-2007

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/19/2010

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 September 19, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Saunders Smith: Polka in Treblinka
At Sixty -- Selections
11 West Records/2008
Xylophone: Dale Speicher; snare drum and hi-hat: Chris Leonard; bass drum: Bill Sallak; recorded at Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron, March, 2008

SET ONE
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 142
Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988
Les Disques VICTO/1992
saxophones: A. Braxton; tenor saxophone: Evan Parker; vibraphone: Bobby Naughton; contrabass: Joëlle Léandre; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; trumpet: Paul Smoker; trombone: George Lewis; recorded live at the Sixth International Festival of Contemporary Music at Victoriaville, Québec, October 8, 1988

Anthony Braxton and Gerry Hemingway: Invention 8107PM (excerpt)
Old Dogs (2007)
Mode Records/Avant series/2010
saxophones: A. Braxton; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded at Wesleyan University, Daltry Room, 8/01/07

Stephen Haynes and Taylor Ho Bynum: Miscellaneous
The Double Trio -- Live at the Festival of New Trumpet Music
Engine Studios/2009
cornet: Taylor Ho Bynum; trumpet, cornet: Stephen Haynes; electric guitar: Alan Jaffe; electric guitar: Mayr Halvorson; drums: Warren Smith; drums: Tomas Fujiwara; recorded live at The Jazz Standard, NYC, 9/20/06

Anthony Braxton and Taylor Ho Bynum to perform at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, Bezanson Recital Hall, Tuesday, September 22, 8:00 p.m., as part of the season's Magic Triangle Jazz Series.

SET TWO
Bang On A Can and Don Byron: Basquiat
A Ballad for the Many
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Bang On A Can All-Stars -- bass: Robert Black, percussion: David Cossin, piano: Lisa Moore, electric guitars: Mark Stewart, cello: Wendy Sutter, clarinet/bass clarinet: Evan Ziporyn; clarinet, composition: Don Byron; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 2004-2006

Evan Ziporyn: Frog's Eye
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 5/24/04

SET THREE
Priscilla McLean: Night Images
The McLean Mix & The Golden Age of Electronic Music
CRI/1997
synthesizers, electronics: P. McLean; recorded at the McLean's home studio, 1973

Barton McLean: Demons of the Night
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizers, electronics: B. McLean; saxophone samples: Albert Regni; recorded at the Electronic Music Center, UT, Austin

Robert Scott Thompson: The Widening Gyre
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
electronics: R. S. Thompson; clarinet samples: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at the Resonance Observatory, Atlanta

SET FOUR
Aldo Clementi: Passacaglia
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; realized at Centro Tempo Reale, Florence, recorded at Labratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica -- Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, April 2005

Sorrel Hays: On the Wind
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
flutes: Andrew Bolowsky; recorded at Nola Studios, NYC, 2002

Sorrel Hays: Song for the Dying
Dreaming the World
New World Records/1996
baritone: Thomas Buckner; piano: Joseph Kubera; percussion: John Kennedy, Charles Wood, Maya Gunji, Eric Kivnick; text: Brian Swann's translation of Seminole song; recoded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC

SET FIVE
Annie Gosfield: Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds Back
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
sampler, electronics: A. Gosfield; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, 1998

Annie Gosfield: The Harmony of the Body-Machine
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Tzadik/2004
cello: Joan Jeanrenaud; recorded at Different Fur Recording, San Francisco, December, 2003

SET SIX
Cathy Berberian: A Flower (J. Cage)
magnifiCathy
Wergo/1988 (orig. 1971)
voice: C. Berberian; percussion: Bruno Canino

Sylvia Smith: Forever and Sunsmell (J. Cage)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christie Finn; Chinese tom-toms: Sylvia Smith; Chinese cymbal: Ayano Kataoka; text. e.e. cummings

John Cage and Joan La Barbara: Music for Two (by One)
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; recorded at Skywalker Music, Lucas Valley, California, July, 1990

Margaret Leng Tan: Suite for Toy Piano (I-V) (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano
Mode Records/2010
toy piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Marc Tremblay: ...Ceci est un Message Enregistré...
Bruit-Graffiti
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
composed/recorded at Yves Daoust's studio, Montreal, 1994

--FIN--