Martian Gardens for 07/11/2010

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for July 11, 2010
(extended edition)

SINGLE PLAY
PowerBooks_unPlugged: globophagia no. 1
Why Record? -- Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Curated by Click Nilson
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
recorded at Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest, September, 2007

SET ONE
Pax Alpha: Dark Waters, Part 1
Echoes on a Landscape
MPS Music and Video/2010
electronics: Geoff Nossiter

Chris Brown & Pauline Oliveros: Troposphere (excerpt)
Music In the Air
Deep Listening/2010
piano, live computer signal processing (SuperCollider): C. Brown; accordion, conch, percussion, EIS (Expanded Instrument System); recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08

SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Three Summers Heat--
a. Just Now the Sea-Green Banners Fly
b. Just Now the Early Peach is Red
c. It's Midsummer and Too Hot to Walk
d. Summer Earth is Windless. Heat Still Presses
e. Light Clothes! Few Clothes!
f. I Remember Desire like White Light
g. I Raise my Head to Look at T'ung Trees
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29#
Music from VCCM: Virginia Center for Computer Music--
University of Virginia
Centaur Records/1999
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Tzu Yeh; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, August, 1998

SET TWO
Larry Polansky: Psaltery (for Lou Harrison)
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
recorded at Experimental Music Studios, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1978

Darsha Hewitt: Experiment (Excerpt)
MusicWorks 107 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2010

SET THREE
Elliott Carter: Sound Fields
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 8 (16 Compositions, 2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Oliver Knussen

Charles Dodge: Violin Variations (I-IV)
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
violin: Baird Dodge; recorded at WFMT, Chicago, 6/14/09

John Allemeier: Surge
60 x 60 -- 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

HyeKyung Lee: Crawl
ibid.

Tilmann Dehnhard: Rohrschach (sic.)
ibid.

Alphonse Izzo: Ground
ibid.

Melissa Grey: Aspect
ibid.

Marcel Gherman: Obsidian
ibid.

Leslie de Melcher: Salvation
ibid.

SET FOUR
Christian McLeer: Black Lung
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008

J.C. Combs: Trinity 666 - The Last Train to Hell
Safe Passage -- ImprovFriday Event Sessions
Electroshock Records/2010

Tod Machover: Famine
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
four amplified voices: Electric Phoenix vocal ensemble -- soprano: Judith Rees, mezzo-soprano: Mary King, tenor: Daryl Runswick, bass: Terry Edwards; computer-generated tape: T. Machover; text: Rose Moss; recorded at October Sound, London, January, 1987

SET FIVE
Gerard Pape: Weaveworld Prologue
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
Atelier de Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles; bass: Nicholas Isherwood; text G. Pape, inspired by Clive Barker; conductor: Lionel Arnaud

Tim Hodgkinson: Vers Kongsu II
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
bass clarinet: Vinny Golia; percussion: Gustavo Aguilar; clarinet solo: T. Hodgkinson; Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Iancu Dumitrescu; recorded in Ploieşti, Romania, October, 2003

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: Empire
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Robert Ashley, Jacqueline Humbert; text: R. Ashley; electronic orchestra: R. Ashley, Tom Hamilton; recorded in Rome, 1985

SINGLE PLAY
Denis Smalley: Tides
a. Pools and Currents
b. Sea Flight
Sources/Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2000
sound materials sources from studios at the University of Toronto Computer Systems Research Group, Experimental Studio of Finnish Radio, Helsinki, and the Ina-GRM, Paris; mixed at the University of East Anglia, Norowich, completed in 1984

SINGLE PLAY
Laurie Spiegel: Drums
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
recorded using the GROOVE Hybrid Systm, Bell Labs, 1975

--FIN--