Martian Gardens for 02/28/2010

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for February 28, 2010

SET ONE
PARTCH:
a. Castor (excerpt)
b. Pollux (excerpt)
c. Allegro Paranoia (Live at Mills College)
John Schneider/cd-r 2008

Harry Partch: Ulysses Departs from the Edge of the World*
Enclosure 5 -- Harry Partch
Innova Recordings/1998 (*orig. Orion Records/1972)
trumpet: Jack Logan; diamond marimba: Danlee Mitchell; bamboo marimba, cloud chamber bowls: John Grimes; bass marimba, cloud chamber bowls: Linda Schell Pluth; baritone saxophone, narrator: Larry Livingston; text: H. Partch; recorded at Custom Fidelity Company, Pasadena, 1971

Kenneth Gaburo: Mouth-Piece -- Sextet for Solo Trumpet
Five Works for Voices, Instruments, and Electronics
New World Records/2002
trumpet, vocalizations: Jack Logan; recorded at SoundByte Recordings, NYC

SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: The Fragility Cycles ("Gambuh")
September Canons
New World Records/2009
gambuh (Balinese flute), Serge synthesizer, live electronics: I. Marshall

Gamelan Son of Lion: Traffic (L. Liben)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2008
recorded at Rockland Recording, Orangeburg, NY

SET THREE
Evan Ziporyn & Gamelan Galak Tika: Ngaben (for Sari Club)
Typical Music
New Albion Records/2005
recorded with the New England Conservatory Philharmonia, conducted: Dante Anzolini; Jordan Hall, Boston, 3/12/03

Ziporyn and Gamelan Galak Tika to perform at UMass, Friday, March 5, 2009

Evan Ziporyn with I Wayan Wija: Tabuh Gari
ShadowBang
Cantaloupe Music/2003
recorded with the Bang On A Can All-Stars at Kresge Little Theater, MIT, Cambridge, 10/14/01

SET FOUR
Pete Stollery: Peel
Un Son Peut en Cacher un Autre
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
recorded in Birmingham and Aberdeen, UK, 1997

Pete Stollery: Squirt
Florida Electronic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
alto saxophone: Griffin Campbell

SET FIVE
John Eaton: Blind Man's Cry
First Performances
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; Moog synthesizer: Jaye Williams; tapes, mixing: Wilson Allen; Syn-Ket: J. Eaton; text: Tristan Corbiere; recorded 1968, American Academy in Rome

Michael Matthews: In Emptiness, Over Emptiness
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 25 #
Centaur Records/1997
soprano: Therese Costes; recorded at St. John's College Chapel, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, January, 1997; texts: Tekkan Yosano, Ted Hughes

SET SIX
John Cage: from Freeman Etude, Book Four
a. Etude 25
b. Etude 26
Freeman Etudes, Books 3 & 4
Mode Records/1994
violin: Irvine Arditti; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, Stundio I, Frankfurt, September, 1993

John Cage: Thirty Pieces for String Quartet
The Complete String Quartets Vol. I
Mode Records/1988
The Arditti Quartet; recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2/27/88

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Primitive
The Works for Piano 8 -- Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded c. 2002, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt

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