Martian Gardens for 08/29/2010

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for August 29, 2010
(extended edition)

SET ONE
Errollyn Wallen: Remember, Marimba
Intermediate Masterworks of Marimba
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: Thomas Burritt; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory, Appleton, Wis., Summer, 2009

Carrie Rose: Family Portraits--Embden Pond (Stuart Saunders Smith)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
vibraphones: Sylvia Smith, Ayano Kataoka; alto flute: C. Rose

SET TWO
John Cage: Fontana Mix/Sextet for Low Woodwinds
A Cage of Saxophones -- Music for Saxophones 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
Intersax: bass flute, contrabass flute: Klaus Schöpp; bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet: Andreas Schmucker, bass saxophone, contrabass saxophone, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at RBB, Berlin, June, 2004

Alvin Curran: Coastline (S. Lacy)
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
soprano saxophone: Steve Lacy; 1985 tape--East Coast U.S. foghorns, U.S. Coast Guard personnel in Maine and Maryland

SINGLE PLAY
Chaya Czernowin: Maim zarim maim Gnuvim (strange water stolen water)
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
soloists--saxophone, tubax (recorded and live): Rico Gubler; piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn: Peter Veale; Konzerthausorchester Berlin; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; live electronics: EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR; recorded at Konzerthaus Berlin, 3/17/07

SET THREE
Tina Davidson: Bleached Thread, Sister Thread
I Hear the Mermaids Singing
New World Records/1996
Mendelssohn String Quartet; recorded at Baby Monster, NYC

Iva Bittová/Bang On A Can: Samota (Loneliness)
Elida
Cantaloupe Music/2005
piano: Lisa Moore; voice: I. Bittová; text: Richard Müller; recorded at Systems Two Studio, Brooklyn, December, 2004

SINGLE PLAY
Martin Bresnick: String Quartet #2, "Bucephalus"
I. Bucephalus
II. Around To The Sun
III. Alexandrine
IV. At Jhelum
V. The New Advocate
The Essential Martin Bresnick
Cantaloupe Music/2010
Flux Quartet; recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 5/16/05

SET FOUR
Mary Jane Leach: Night Blossoms
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
Kiitos -- soprano: Eileen Clark; mezzo-soprano: Karen Goldfeder; tenor: Gregory Davidson; baritone: Jared Stamm; text: Yofu (translated by Lucien Stryk) recorded live at Church of the Ascension, NYC

Eve Beglarian: We Two
ibid.
vocals, guitars: E. Beglarian, Corey Dargel; additional guitars: Cristian Amigo; text: Walt Whitman

David Lang:
a. Press Release
b. I'm Still Shaking
Music from the Film (Untitled)
Cantaloupe Music/2009

Eve Beglarian: My Heart is Trembling
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007
electronics, voice: E. Beglarian; text: Charles Wesley
Anne LeBaron: Rippling with Leroy
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
violin: Leroy Jenkins; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Disney Hall, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2002

Leroy Jenkins' Driftwood: To Run
The Art of Improvisation
Mutable Music/2005
pipa: Min Xiao-Fen; piano: Denman Maroney; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; violin: L. Jenkins; recorded live at AACM Concert, Chicago, 10/08/04

SET FIVE
Anthony Braxton/Gerry Hemingway: Invention 8107AM (excerpt)
Old Dogs (2007)
Mode Records--Avant series/2010
saxophones: A. Braxton; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded at the Daltry Room, Wesleyan University, 08/01/07

Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Rain Dance
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: J.H. Kim; drums, percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, MA, 08/18/09

Samul nori: P'u Sal
Record of Changes
CMP Records/1990
changgo, choong ching, chorus: Kim Duk Soo; k'kwaengwari, changgo, ching, vocal: Lee Kwang Soo; ching, buk, changgo, chorus: Choi Jong Sil; ching, bara, changgo, chorus: Kang Min Seok; recorded at Power Station, NYC, February, 1988

SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: Und so weiter, Parts 1-3
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
piano: Gérard Frémy; realized in 1966

SET SIX
Karlheinz Stockhausen: from Mantra
a. Takt 324-444
b. Takt 445-487
Mantra
Wergo/1995
pianos: Andreas Grau, Götz Schumacher; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk/Aufnehem, October, 1993

Monique Jean: 13'13 pour voix défigurée
L'adieu au S.O.S.
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
realized at PRIM Studios,PRIM Media Arts Centre, Montreal, 1997; processed voices: Sylvo Archambault, Emmanuel Madan, Pascale Malaterre, Marie-France Marcotte, Alain Pelletier; text: Hélène Cixous,"Beethoven a jamais ou I'existence de Dieu"

SET SEVEN
Gordon Mumma: Music from the Venezia Space Theatre
Studio Retrospect
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
recorded at the 27th Venezia Biennale performances of Teatro dello Spacio, at Teatro La Fenice opera house, the ONCE group ensemble, directed by Milton Cohen, September, 1964

Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV): SpaceCraft (excerpt)
MEV 40
New World Records/2008
performers -- Allen Bryant, Alvin Curran, Carol Plantamura, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum, Ivan Vandor: various electronic/acoustic instruments, voices, and objects; recorded at Academie der Künste, Berlin, 10/05/67

--FIN--