Martian Gardens for 03/21/2010

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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 March 21, 2010

SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Estancia
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010

Marco Cappelli: Amygdala (E. Sharp)
EGP -- Extreme Guitar Project
Mode Records/2006

SET TWO
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8
16 Compositions, 2002-2009
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded 2/12/09, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory

Stuart Saunders Smith: ...And Points North...
a. Scene I
b. Scene II
c. Scene III
Breath: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2008
percussion: Steven Schick, voice, objects; recorded at Studio 508, UMBC

SINGLE PLAY
Glenn Gould: The Idea of North (excerpt)
The Solitude Trilogy (1967-1977)
CBC/1992
for five speaking voices

SET THREE
Larry Austin: Canadian Coastlines -- Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 19 -- The Composer in the Computer Age IV
A Larry Austin Retrospective 1967-1994
Centaur Records/1994
CBC Radio Ensemble, recorded live for "Two New Hours," 5/01/81, CBC Radio

Lawrence Moss: Into the Woods
Unseen Leaves -- Music for Electronics and Instruments
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
flute: William Montgomery; recorded at Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, 2000

SET FOUR
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A political prisoner's dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
female voice source material: Poppy Holden, Pippa Pierce; male voice source material: T. Wishart, Hugh Bernays; interrogator's voice source material: Graham Treacher; organic and mechanical sounds: T. Wishart; recorded at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May 1973 -- May 1977

KIVA: Two Poems of the Absurd & Two Poems on the Absurd
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
Tape collage by John Silber of KIVA performances -- DX7 synthesizer, voice, electronics: Keith Humble; percussion, voice, electronics: Jean-Charles François; violin: Mary Oliver; trombone, violin: John Silber; sampled voice: Antonin Artraud ("To Have Done With the Judgment of God," 1947); computer vocoder manipulation of J. Silber's sounds: Eric Lyon; original recordings 1987-1990, UC San Diego

SET FIVE
Felix Werder: Banker (2nd 1/2)
The Tempest
Pogus Productions/2007
synthesizers: F. Werder, Keith Humble; percussion: John Seale; guitar: Jochen Schubert; piano: Dennis Henning; realized by Peter Mumme (orig. release 1973)

Robert Ashley and Paul De Marinis: In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt)
In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women
Lovely Music, Ltd./2002
text: John Barton Wolgamot; voice: R. Ashley, electronics: P. De Marinis; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1973

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies XI-XIV
Rational Melodies
New World Records/2009
Dedalus ensemble; director: Didier Aschour; recorded at the Muse en Circuit studio,
Paris, 10/06/08

--FIN--