Martian Gardens for 06/27/2010

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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Program for June 27, 2010

SET ONE
Gamelan Son of Lion: Descarga Elizabeth (D. Demnitz)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
recorded at Hungry Hollow Studio, Georgetown, Ontario

Charles Dodge: Fades, Dissolves, Fizzles
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010

SET TWO
Pauline Oliveros: Lion's Tale
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 7 #
iEAR Studios at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1990
digital sampler: Carter Scholz

Bill Alves: Angel's Crest
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2010
The HMC American Gamelan; recorded at Harvey Mudd College

SET THREE
Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII #
Neuma Records/2006

Maggi Payne: 60 Spin
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004

Maggi Payne: 60 Fizz
60 x 60 -- 2004 - 2005 #
Vox Novus/2006

Eve Beglarian: My Heart is Trembling
ibid.

Cheryl Leonard: Ashi
60 x 60 -- 2006 - 2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

SINGLE PLAY
Jin Hi Kim: Garden of Venus
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
Chinese pipa: Min Xiao-Fen; Japanese yokubue: Michiko Akao; Indonesian gender, sling, voice: I Ketut Suryatini; JHK: Korean komungo, janggo; performed at the Asia Society, NYC, for Asian Women in Music Today

SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: excerpts from King Oedipus (Oedipus in June concluded)
a. Fourth Chorus
b. Herdsman Scene
c. Fifth Chorus
d. Instrumental Commentary
e. Antiphony
f. Exit Oedipus -- Pantomime
g. Final Chorus and Coda
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.

SET FOUR
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.

Hugh Le Caine:
a. Dripsody Demonstration
b. Dripsody: An Étude for Variable Speed Recorder (Stereo Version)
Compositions & Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundations/1999

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

Eric Chasalow: In A Manner of Speaking
Left to His Own Devices
New World Records/2003
bass clarinet: Guido Arbonelli; tape: E. Chasalow; recorded in Rome, Italy, February, 2001

Esther Lamneck: Event Horizon III
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2009
clarinet: Orlando Legname; tape: E. Lamneck recorded in Balbano-Lucca, Italy

Frank London: Laundry Dance -- Agitato
The Debt
Tzadik/2000
from the Ivye Project --
violin: Mark Feldman; clarinet: David Krakauer; trumpet: F. London; cello: Boris Rayskin; director: Tamar Rogoff (1994)

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Variations III
Variations I-III
Mode Records/2003
The Motion Ensemble; recorded at Memorial Hall, Fredrickton, New Brunswick, 6/19/01; electronics: John D.S. Adams, D'Arcy Philip Gray, Andrew R. Miller

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