Martian Gardens for 02/07/2010

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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 February 7, 2010

SET ONE
Laurie Spiegel: Strand of Life (Viroid)
Unseen Worlds
Scarlet Records/1991

Maggi Payne: :60 Fizz
60 x 60 2004-2005 -- A Circle of Sound
Vox Novus/2007

Jason Bolte: Descent
ibid.

David Mooney: Exotic Fruits
ibid.

Dean Rosenthal: Kansas Has This About It
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/cd-r compiled 2009
cello, voice: Frances-Marie Uitti; sampled noises made by John Cage

David Gunn: West of Topeka
60 x 60 2004-2005 -- A Circle of Sound
Vox Novus/2007

Greg Bartholomew: No! George! No!
ibid.

Ivan Elozovic: Green
ibid.

Alice Shields: Vegetable Karma (excerpt)
Shenandoah -- Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004

SET TWO
David Rosenboom: Section II (symmetrical harmonies in chaotic orbits)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims
New World Records/2009
computer: D. Rosenboom; excerpts of historical recordings 1969 (Electric Circus, NYC), 1970 (George Washington University), and 1973 (Maple, Ontario); master studio recording: 1/10/09, California Institute of the Arts

Zack Browning: Pure Sweat
Funktasia--Music by Zack Browning and Sever Tipei
Centaur Records/2006
bass clarinet: Eric Mandat; GACSS software; recorded at the University of Illinois

SET THREE
Arie Shapira: The Sacrifice of Isaac
Akeda
Arie Shapira/cd-r 2009
choir soloists -- soprano: Tehila Nini-Goldstein; mezzo-soprano: Ayelet Amotz; Orchestra -- Ensemble Meitar, conductor: Karin Ben-Yossef; text: Genesis 22:1-19

Noah Creshevsky: Omaggio
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Tetras
Complete String Quartets
Mode Records/2009
The JACK Quartet; recorded at WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Köln, Germany, November, 2008

SET FOUR

In memoriam Eleanor Hovda, born Duluth, Minnesota, March 29, 1940, died November 12, 2009, Springdale, Arkansas.

Eleanor Hovda: Onyx
Ariadne Music
O.O. Discs/1998
Prism Players; conductor: Jeannine Wagar; recorded at University of Minnesota-Duluth, 1997

The Relâche Ensemble: Borealis Music (E. Hovda)
Outcome Inevitable
O.O. Discs/1995
recorded at Acoustical Concepts, Inc., Eddystone, PA, 1994

SET FIVE
J.B. Floyd: from In Crossing the Busy Street
a. The Mountain Had Never Before Experienced Such Elation
b. He's Round Faced Like the Moon
c. There Are So Many Places We've Been That We'd Like to Revisit
d. He's the Echo Inside The Echo
e. He Stepped Off The Curb And Stepped Back Onto It Again
In Crossing The Busy Street
Mutable Music/2009
piano: J.B. Floyd; baritone: Tom Buckner; text: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore; recorded at Clarke Recital Hall, University of Miami

Roger Reynolds: from Last Things, I Think, To Think About
a. Text 1
b. I Had Thought
c. Text 2
d. The Painter
Last Things, I Think, To Think About
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
piano: Aleck Karis; baritone: Philip Larson; text: John Ashbery; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego

SET SIX
Eve Beglarian: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Tell The Birds
New World Records/2006
voice: Lisa Bielwa, MATA Ensemble, text: William Blake; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, September, 2001

Bernadette Speach: Moto
Without Borders
Mode Records/1988
The Bowery Ensemble; premiered by the Bowery Ensemble, April, 1983

--fin--