Martian Gardens for 06/20/2010

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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for June 20, 2010
Extended edition

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening
a. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
b. Wanderer-Fantasy
c. The Advent
d. Myth
e. Music of the Starry Night
Black Angels; Music for a Summer Evening
Mode Records/2006
pianos: Luz Manriquez, Walter Morales; percussion: Nena Lorenz,
Brian Spurgeon, Michel Passaris, Mark Shope; voice, whistles:
Andres Cladera, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded at
Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Fall 2002

SET ONE
Judith Shatin: Penelope's Song
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
violin: Hasse Borup; tape: J. Shatin

Chinary Ung: Luminous Spirals
Luminous Spirals -- Chamber Music of Chinary Ung
Bridge Records/2010
Da Capo Chamber Players; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 5/28/07

SET TWO
David Mahler: La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles
COLD BLUE Night @ REDCAT
Cold Blue Music/2006 (CD-R)
piano: Sarah Cahill; recorded at REDCAT, Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, 2/18/06

David Mahler: selections from Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field (for Steve Mitchell)--
a. Chorale (track 6)
b. Chorale (track 9)
c. Cascades
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; voices: Julie Hanify, D. Mahler, N. Tilles; a. and b: melody: "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" (trad.), lyrics: J.M. Neale; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November, 2009

SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Mélanges (from Pléïdes)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
red fish blue fish; recorded at Warren Studios, UC San Diego

Alvin Lucier: Music for Solo Performer (excerpt)
Sferics/Music for Solo Performer
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
alpha waves transmission: A. Lucier; production supervised by Ron Kuivila with the assistance of graduate students Ivan Naranjo, Phillip Schulze, and Forrest Leslie at the Wesleyan University Experimental Music Studio, December, 2007.

SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus (continued from MG 6/13/10)
a. Second Chorus
b. Creon Scene
c. Jocasta Scene
d. Incidental Music
e. Third Chorus
f. Messenger Scene
Enclosure Five--Harry Partch...on an ancient Greek theme
Innova Recordings/1998
recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Cast: Oedipus, King of Thebes: Allan Louw; Priest: Ian Zellick; Chorus Spokesman: William Derrell Bond; Creon, Brother-in-law of Oedipus: Robert Hood; Tiresias, A Seer: Bruce Cook; Jocasta, Wife of Oedipus: Rudolphine Radil; Messenger: Gregory Millar; Herdsman: Bruce Cook; Second Messenger: Ian Zellick; Antigone: Elvena Green; Ismene: Margaret Calhoun; Attendants: Ian Zellick, Allison Berry, James Allen Leland, Flora Lynn Kirschner; Singing Chorus: Ann Arness, Gina Brown, Gertrude Feather, Peggy Parlour, B.J. Ross, Jean Sundstrom, Berniece Fredrickson; Dance Chorus: Joan Dubrow, Judith Hodge, Patricia Cooper, Emily Platt, Patricia Hagglund; Suppliants: Jeanne White, Pat Christopher, Natalie Samper. -- Instruments: Marimba Eroica: Jane Van Rysselberghe; Bass Marimba: Darlene Mahnke; Kithara: Barbara Browning; Harmonic Canon: Ute Miessner; Chromelodeon Sub-bass: Patricia Carey; Chromelodeon: Angela Thorpe, Nancy Wiebenson; Diamond Marimba: Sheila Bates; Cloud-Chamber Bowls: Elizabeth Brunswick, Jackie Fox; Microtonal String Bass: Dante Zaro; Microtonal Cello: Ellen Ohdner; Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone: George Probert; Adapted Guitars: Marjorie Sweazey, H. Partch.
(Oedipus in June to be concluded 6/27/10)

SET FOUR
Dmitry Mazurov: Sisters of Gloom
Creature on a Lavatory Pan
Electroshock Records/2010
violin: Oleg Huhua; electric guitar: Jury Starosotnikov; recorded at Electroshock Records studio, 2009

David Jaggard: Mary & Ann
Sonic Circuits VIII #
Innova Recordings/2000
voice, sounds: D. Jaggard; text: Samuel Beckett, "Watt"

SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: Cascando -- Realization of Samuel Beckett's Radio Play
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
Opener: John Nesci; Voice: computer synthesis based on a reading by Steven Gilborn; Music: computer synthesis based on Voice; all text by S. Beckett; realized at Columbia University and CUNY computer music centers, and the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College

SET FIVE
Minus: 91
103
Barnzstuff/2009
reyong: Steve Coxe; cowbells: David Barnes; recorded at Barnzstuff Studio

Gen Ken Montgomery: Nylon Glasses 3am
Birds + Machines 1980-1989
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at Nylon Vinyl's studio, Berlin, 1986

David Campbell: The Sputnik Diary
60 x 60 2003 #
Capstone Records/2004

Eldad Tsabary: Decay Date 14 April, 1966
60 x 60 2004 - 2005 #
Vox Novus/2006

Lynn Job: Lily
ibid.

Ivan Zavada: Neutron
60 x 60 2006 - 2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Stephen B. Rothman: Follow the Triangle
ibid.

Jane Wang: Numero Uno
ibid.

Viv Corringham: Where is Home?
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2010

Martin Williams: No Place Like Home
ibid.

Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Negativland: Sycamore
Escape From Noise
SST/1987

David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees (excerpt)
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006

SET SIX
Anatoly Pereslegin: Heteroemergency (excerpt)
Xenophobia
Electroshock Records/2010

Stanley Lunetta: moosack machine
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde, Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971 #
Pogus Productions/2009
original issue: July, 1970

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: The Etchings (from "Max")
Atalanta (Acts of God) Vol. II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert; R. Ashley; electronics: Tom Hamilton; text: R. Ashley, after Max Ernst's graphic novel "Une semaine de bonté"

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