Martian Gardens for 01/31/2010

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 31, 2010

SET ONE
James Tenney: Spectrum 4
Spectrum Pieces
New World Records/2009
The Barton Workshop; directors: James Fulkerson, Frank Denyer; recorded 2008-2009, Het Bethianklooster, the Netherlands

James Tenney: Ergodos II (1964)
Melody, Ergodicity, and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007

SET TWO
César Bolaños: Intensidad 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; text: César Vallejo

Jorge Antunes: Canto do Pedeiro (Mason's Song)
Savage Songs -- Early Brazilian Electronic Music (1961-1970)
Pogus Productions/2003
Chromo-Musical Research Studio in the Villa-Lobos Institute, Rio de Janeiro, 1968

Stanislav Kreitchi: Ellipsiada Part 2
Ansiana
Electroshock Records/2000
ANS synthesizer: S. Kreitchi; ovaloid: Viatcheslav Kolleychouk; recorded at the Electronic Music Studio, Moscow, 1960s.

Salvatore Martirano: Electronic Dance No. 1
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22 -- A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective
Centaur Records/1995
recorded at the Taylor Street San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1962

Iannis Xenakis: Analogique A+B (1959)
Music for Strings
Mode Records/2005
Ensemble Resonanz, conductor: Joannes Kalitzke; with tape, recorded at Hamburg Musikhall, Frankfurt Feste Burg Kirche, Köln, WDR Saal 2

SINGLE PLAY
Luigi Nono: Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (for voices and tape, 1968)
I. The Pleasant Modern Crime -- Malcolm
II. Masquerade of the Little Old Men -- Interlude of the Breath-Sellers
III. The Scatterbrains sing a madrigal
IV. Uncle Sam tells a story
Como Una Ola de Fuerza y Luz
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
soprano: Liliana Poli; Coro de camera della RAI, director: Nino Antonellini; texts: I. Sonia Sanchez, II./III. Nanni Balestrini, IV. pamphlet by the Harlem Progressive Labor Club, 1968

SET THREE
Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
samples courtesy of The Klez Dispensers

Emanuele Casale: Studio no. 1
Electroacoustic Music from Cicily #
Electronic Music Foundations/2003
horn: Angelo Pollino

Henry Brant: Meteor Farm, parts 1,2,5
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 4
Innova Recordings/2006
solo soprano: Phyllis Bruce; Wesleyan University Orchestra, conductor: Roger Solie; Wesleyan Singers: Neely Bruce; Wesleyan Gamelan, music directors: Sumarsam with Sukanto Sastrodarsono; principal conductor: H. Brant, guest conductors: N. Bruce, Richard Winslow; recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, 3/06/82

Ganesh Anandan / Hans Reichel: Bird Talk
Self Made
Actuellecd.com/2009
shruti stick, metallophone: G. Anandan; daxophone: H. Reichel; recorded March 2008, Montreal

SET FOUR
Ganesh Anandan / Hans Reichel: Drunkenness
Self Made
Actuellecd.com/2009
shruti stick, metallophone: G. Anandan; daxophone: H. Reichel; recorded March 2008, Montreal

Hans Reichel: Mr. and Mrs. Alcohol
Lower Lurum -- A Guitar and Daxophone Operetta
Rastascan Records/1995
recorded December 1993, Wuppertal, Germany

Jin Hi Kim: Dancing in the Deep Blue Sea
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
komungo: JHK; daxophone: Hans Reichel; accordion: Carl Rudiger; performed for Hans Reichel's Stadtsparkasse Award Ceremony in Wuppertal, Germany, March 1999

Pauline Oliveros:
a. In the Houses of my Families
b. Reverberations
Ghostdance
Deep Listening Institute/1998
accordion, Expanded Instrument System: P. Oliveros; djembe, EIS: David Gamper; voice, EIS: Julie Lyon Rose

SET FIVE
Steven Stucky: Dust Devil
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba #
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: William Moersch; recorded at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, July, 2009

Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 9 (Mosque)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Justin DeHart; recorded at Warren Studio A, UCSD, February 2009

David Starobin: Crooked Courante (P. Lansky)
Newdance -- 18 Dances (1996-97)
Bridge Records/1998
guitar: D. Starobin; recorded at Master Sound, Astoria, 1997-1998

Miguel del Aguila: Presto II
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
performed by Camerata San Antonio; recorded June-August, 2008, First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas

SET SIX
Jonty Harrison: Résonance (parenthèse 4)(from...et ainsi de suite...)
Articles indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
Sound source: rough-textured wine glasses recorded/processed at GRM (Groupe de recharches musicales), Paris, "Birmingham Version" broadcast premiered 2/27/92 from Pebble Mill studios, Birmingham via BEAST (Bermingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre)for "Sounds Like Birmingham -- UK City of Music 1992 Festival."

Rajmil Fischman: Suite a 'et ainsi de suite' v2
...a 'wonderful' world
Electronic Music Foundations/2007
sourced from J. Harrison

Mark Applebaum: Narcissus ReMix
The Janus ReMixes -- Exercises in auto-plundering
Innova Recordings/1999
sourced from Narcissus: Strata/Panacea for solo marimba

Daniel Koppelman: On the Nature of the Modern Age (M. Applebaum)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2009
piano, live electronics: duo runedako

SINGLE PLAY
Selections from 60 x 60 2007:
1. Dennis Báthory-Kitsz: Future Remembrance
2. Henri Algadafe and Philippe Vernier: La vie aménagée-le quart d'heure
3. Andrew Eckel: 1.9
4. Thomas Bailey: Separation Anxiety
5. Gintas Kraptavicius: Godot in hurry
6. Mike McFerron: Dinadanvlti
7. Sophie Lacaze: Fenouillet I
8. David McIntire: Was Er Sagte, Was Er Bedeutete
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008

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