Martian Gardens for 01/03/2010

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 3, 2010
(extended edition 21:00 -- 01:45)

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Amorphia
Amorphia
Aucourant Records/2007

SET ONE
Christopher De Laurenti: Let Me Tell You About Tiger
Electroacoustic Music Vol. 5 #
Electroshock Records/2000

Diane Thome: Unseen Buds
Bright Air/Brilliant Fire
Centaur Records/2001
recorded c. 1998 at the University of Washington School of Music; University Chorale, conductor: Geoffrey Boers; electronics created at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest Park, Washington; text: Walt Whitman

SET TWO
Larry Polansky: Choir/Empi's Solo
Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
voice/co-composer: Marie Pauline-Esguerra; computer processing: L. Polansky; realized at the Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College

Mary Jane Leach: Green Mountain Madrigal
Celestial Fires
XI Records/1993
The New York Treble Singers

SET THREE
Arie Shapira: Todesfuge
Arie Shapira2009
Ensemble Meitar; performed in Wannsee 1/20/09; text: Paul Celan

Jocy De Oliveira: Women Dreams
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000
soprano: Gabriela Di Geanx, actress: Marilena Bibas; clarinet: Paulo Passos; percussion: Paraguassu Abrahão; J. De Oliveira: synthesizers, electronics; recorded at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt," Berlin, March 1995

Meredith Monk: Quarry Weave
Beginnings
Tzadik/2009
voices: Andrea Goodman, Susan Kampe, Monica Solem, M. Monk; recorded at the WBAI Free Music Store, NYC, 5/10/1976

Johanna Beyer: The Main Deep (from "Three Pieces for Choir," 1937)
Sticky Melodies
New World Records/2008
The Astra Choir; conductor: John McCaughey; recorded in Melbourne, Australia, November, 2007

John Cage: ear for EAR (Antiphonies)
The Choral Works I
Mode Records/1998
Ars Nova, director: Tamas Veto; recorded at Vestkirken, Copenhagen, March 1997

SET FOUR
Jin Hi Kim: Saturn's Moons
Komungo
O.O. Discs
electric komungo: JHK; recorded at The Kitchen, NYC, 2000, for the Dong Dong Touching the Moon multi-media series

Jin Hi Kim: Garden of Venus
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
Chinese pipa: Min Xiao-Fen; Japanese yokubue: Michiko Akao; Indonesian gender, sling, voice: I Ketut Suryatini; JHK: Korean komungo, janggo; performed at the Asia Society, NYC, for Asian Women in Music Today

SET FIVE
Joel Chadabe: Many Times Benjamin
Many Times...
Electronic Music Foundation/2004
bowed cymbals, gongs: Benjamin Chadabe; recorded at Cotton Hill Studios, Albany, April 2002

Benjamin Chadabe:
a. Solo 4
b. Exodus of the Sun
The Metaphysician's Hammer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
drums, percussion: B. Chadabe; text, voice: Benjamin Hartlage; recorded at Murmur Music, NYC, October, 1998 and Bennington College, January 1999

Eric Moe: The Teeth of the Sea
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
percussion: Michael Lipsey; recorded 4/22/07 at The Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC

Anthony De Mare:
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
b. Nowth Upon Nacht (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (works of Meredith Monk and John Cage)
Koch Classics/1992
closed piano, voice: A. De Mare; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"

Sylvia Smith:
a. Nowth Upon Nacht (J. Cage)
b. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe (J. Cage)
11 West Records/2008
closed piano, voice: S. Smith; voice: Christie Finn; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"

SET SIX
Harry Partch: Prologue -- The Lost Musicians Mix Magic
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 4 -- The Bewitched: A Dance Satire
New World Records/2005 (orig. CRI/1997)
The University of Illinois Musical Ensemble, conductor: John Garvey; recorded at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, 1957

Frank Garvey and DeusMachina: More-a-the-Same
House of the Deafman
Innova Recordings/2000
Music from the OmniCircus

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César Bolaños: Nacahuasu
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
Radio Bremen Orchestra, director: Klaus Bembacher; premiered 5/27/70 for the Festival Pro Musica Nova; text: excerpts from Che Guevera's diary of the guerrilla campaign in Bolivia

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Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki Hana Ma
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2008
premiered in 1970 at the Osaka World's Fair for the Federation of Iron and Steel Companies' pavilion

SET SEVEN
Erik Santos: Shinjuku Moon
KUU--Journey to the Jar
Centaur Records/2007

Steven Ricks: Haiku
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
Tibetan prayer bowls, tam tams: Dominic Donato; electronics: S. Ricks; premiered at SUNY Purchase, September 2006

SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Woodstone
September Canons
New World Records/2009
The Berkeley Gamelan, director: Daniel Schmidt; recorded in Berkeley, 1981

SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Gradual Siciliano (for Gus)
Cold Blue #
Cold Blue Music/2002 (orig. 1984)
mandolin: Fausto; piano, electronics: I. Marshall; recorded at New Albion Studios, San Francisco, 1983

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