Martian Gardens for 01/17/2010

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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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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 January 17, 2010
(extended edition 21:00--02:00. This program was slated for 1/10/10, but I was preempted by UMass hockey. A sports preemption this late on a Sunday is extremely rare. The last time it happened to Martian Gardens was about ten years ago. There are no further preemptions scheduled for Martian Gardens through the end of the spring semester. I have postponed the date-sensitive material from Varese and Xenakis (with the accompanying musique concrete piece by Ferrari) which I programmed anticipating the Poème électronique event at Judson Church, January 15, in favor of the Berio and Baker pieces (set two) in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the federal MLK Day observed 1/18/10. EMF will be collaborating with The Drawing Center through March, 2010, thus I will broadcast Varèse, Xenakis, and related materials in the coming weeks. -- Max)

SINGLE PLAY
Drew Krause: Lounge Hell
Powder
Innova Recordings/2007
computer music realized 2003

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Dean Rosenthal: Ear Training
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
recorded Fall, 1995, McGill University, Montreal

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John Oswald: Track Two - K7 24, Side A
Timefields & Maritides
Musicworks Magazine/2006
recorded 1979-1983, at various locations in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick

SET ONE
Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies I-VI
Rational Melodies
New World Records/2010
Dedalus ensemble, director: Didier Aschour; recorded at Muse en Circuit studio, Paris, 10/06/08

Daniel Kientzy: Infinite Melodies No. III (T. Johnson)
Kientzy Plays Johnson
Pogus Productions/2004
saxophones: D. Kientzy; recorded at Nova Musica, Paris, January, 2004

SET TWO
Luciano Berio O King
The Great Works for Voice
Mode Records/1995
soprano: Christine Schadeberg; flute: Katherine Flanders Mukherji; clarinet: Sheldon Berkowitz; violin: Marshall Coid; cello: Ted Mook; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; conductor: Hayes Biggs; recorded 4/03/95, Sheppard Hall, CCNY

David Baker: Through This Vale of Tears
I. Thou Dost Lay Me in the Dust of Death
II. If There Be Sorrow
III. My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
IV. Parades to Hell
V. Deliver My Soul
VI. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
VII. Now That He Is Safely Dead
VIDEMUS
New World Records/1992
tenor: William Brown; violins: Lynn Chang, Marylou Speaker Churchill, viola: Marcus Thompson; cello: Mark Churchill; piano, artist director: Vivian Taylor; recorded at The African American Meeting House, Boston, 1991; texts: I., III., V. Psalm 22; II. Mari Evans; IV. Solomon Edwards; VI. traditional; VII. Carl Hines

SET THREE
César Bolaños: Interpolaciones
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
electric guitar: Julio Martin Viera; premiered at V Contemporary Music Festival at the Institute Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 9/16/66

Tim Brady: Impossible Pizzicato Machine
My 20th Century
Actuellecd/2009
recorded May, 2008, at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, as part of the multimedia presentation "Double Quartet (Homage to Dmitri Shostakovich); music performers--electric guitar: T. Brady with Bradyworks ensemble, Quatuor Molinari

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: To Know and Not to Know
To Know and Not To Know
Tzadik/2007
originally produced in 2005 for the World Music Institute,New York City

Jon Rose: Odd People
The People's Music
ReR Megacorp/2001
performers: "The People's String Orchestra" (members of the West Australian Youth Orchestra and the University of Western Australia String orchestra), conductor: Lindsay Vickery; "Industrial Percussion Ensemble": Hannah Clemen, Rachael Dease, Chris Cobilis; recorded at The Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia, Perth, 4/07/01 and The Hospital Studios, Amsterdam, September, 2001

Annie Gosfield: Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery (excerpt)
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
Flux Quartet; Talujon Percussion Quartet; recorded at Avatar, NYC, 1/27/01

SET FIVE
Paul Lansky: Things She Noticed
Things She Carried
Bridge Records/1997
music: P. Lansky; voice: Hannah MacKay; text: P. Lansky, H. McKay; recorded 1995-1996, Princeton

So Percussion: White
Amid the Noise
Cantaloupe Music/2006
recorded at Good Child Studios, Brooklyn, 2002-2006

Mendi + Keith Obadike:
a. Blue Jasper
b. Trouble (A Yellow Marble)
The Sour Thunder -- An Internet Opera
Bridge Records/2004
composed and performed by Mendi + Keith Obadike at Yale University, 1997-2002

Mendi + Keith Obadike: The Pink of Stealth
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2008
vocals: M. Obadike; guitar, bass, drums, ubo-aka, electronics: K. Obadike; created 2003

SET SIX
Phillip Bimstein:Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa
Larkin Gifford's Harmonica
Starkland/2006
oboe: Stephen Caplan; environmental sounds recorded by P. Bimstein at Zion National Park, Utah

George Cacioppo: Two Worlds
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
soprano: Sevan Manoukian; Ensemble 2e2m, conductor: Paul Méfano; recorded at the Atrium Theater, Chaville, France, edited by Gerard Pape at CCMIX, Paris

Joan Tower: Petroushskates
The Composer-Performer--Forty Years of Discovery (1954-1994) #
CRI/1994
Da Capo Chamber Players; the title is a portmanteau of Petroushka, in homage to Stravinsky's ballet, and skates, in reference to the composer's interest in figure skating; premiered by Da Capo 1980 at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

SET SEVEN
Lori Freedman: Itou (P. Dusapin)
Bridge
Actuellecd/2009
bass clarinet: L. Freedman; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, June, 2009

Katherine Kemler: Janus (P. Hayden)
a. Janua Coeli
b. Janua Inferni
Lipstick
Centaur Records/2008
flute: K. Kemler; alto saxophone: Griffin Campbell; recorded at the LSU Recital Hall, Baton Rouge, June, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Projections
a. for cello solo
b. for flute, trumpet, violin, & piano
c. for 2 pianos
d. for violin & piano
e. for 3 flutes, 3 cellos, trumpet & 2 pianos
Indeterminate Music -- Feldman Edition 4
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble, directors: Philipp Vandré, Thaddeus Watson; recorded at HR-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, November, 1996, and June, 1997

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Instruments II
Music of David Felder and Morton Feldman
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra, conductor: Jan Williams; recorded June, 2000, at Slee Hall, Amherst, NY

SINGLE PLAY
Christopher Roberts: Last Cicada Singing
Last Cicada Singing
Cold Blue Music/2009
qin: C. Roberts; Recorded at Jack Straw, Seattle, 2008-2009

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