Martian Gardens for 11/07/2010

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for November 07, 2010

SET ONE
Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
piano, banjo, vocal, lyrics: T. Waits; accordion: Greg Cohen; saw: Don Neely

Howard Skempton: Resister
Bolt From the Blue
Mode Records/2010
piano: Daniel Becker; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07

Bruce Haack: Electric To Me Turn
Farad-The Electric Voice
Stones Throw Records/2007

Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music/2003
J. La Barbara: voice, Buchla Synthesizer; premiered 10/22/78,
Metamusic Festival, Berlin

SET TWO
Arlene Zallman: East, West of the Sun
I. Town Life
II. Pan
III. Three Strophes with Negligible Variations
IV. Epitaph of the a Sailor
V. Epithalamium
VI. The Game Keeper: Model Conservation or it Lacks Point
VII. Nahuatl: Aztec Song
Sei La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
Wellesley College Chamber Singers and Instrumental Ensemble, conductor Brian Hulse; accompanist: Jenny Tang; V -- soprano: Bess Conners, flute: Kathy Boyd; texts: I, III, V, VI -- Classic Anthology by Confucius (translated by Ezra Pound); II -- Plate inscription for a statue of Pan (from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dudley Fitts); IV -- (from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dudley Fitts); VII -- Magic World American Indian Songs (edited by William Brandon); recorded at Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College, 1998

ETHEL
a. Lighthouse (C. Dufallo)
b. Also Sprach Einstein (M. Rowell)
Light
Cantaloupe Music/2006
ETHEL string quartet; (b) vocals: Erin Grey, Einstein the African Gray Parrot, whistle: Randy Crafton; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ, March, 2006; (b) also recorded at Knoxville Zoo, Knoxville, TN

SET THREE
Philip Glass/Robert Wilson:
a. Trial 1 -- "All Men Are Equal"
b. Knee 2
Einstein On The Beach
Elektra Nonesuch/1993
music, lyrics: P. Glass; design, direction: R. Wilson; Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman; (a) spoken voice: Jasper McGruder, (b) spoken voice: Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton texts: (a) Samuel M. Johnson, Christopher Knowles (b) C. Knowles; recorded at Looking Glass Studios, NYC, winter-spring 1993

Eurythmics: Doubleplusgood
1984 (For The Love of Big Big Brother)
RCA/1984
chanted lyrics inspired by George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," (1948), sampled words from the film "1984," based on Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," (written and directed by William Radford, 1984)

Laurie Anderson: Dark Time In The Revolution
Homeland
Nonesuch/2010
vocals, percussion, keyboards, radio: L. Anderson; drums: Joey Baron; viola: Eyvind Kang; bass: Skúli Sverrison; accordion, keyboards: Rob Burger; recorded in New York City

SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Fantasie for Horns II
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
French horn: Brian G'Froerer; electroacoustics: H. Westerkamp; realized at Sonic Research Studio, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, 1978

Amy Horvey: Marionette-Lazarus
Catchement
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A Horvey; organ: Valerie Hall recorded in a pedestrian underpass, Saskatoon, SK

SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Sub Terra Cycle: Kongsberg Silver Mines
Bouteilles de Klein (Installations) DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
recorded on the miner's train in the disused silver mines of Kongsberg Silver Mines, Buskerud County, Norway

Alejandro José: Todo Es Uno
Desde El Otro Lado -- Electroacoustic Music from Latin America #
O.O. Discs/1998
sound sources: pulsar signals 175 light years from Earth registered by the Arecibo Radio Telescope, Puerto Rico; human amino acids registered as sound

Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: Makemake
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
vocalizations: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton, Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

SET SIX
If, Bwana: Ringing the Bell
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
Trio Scardaturo -- viola: Elisabeth Smalt, voice: Alfrun Schmid, keyboard: Bob Gilmore; assembled from recordings of Interpretations concert at Roulette, NYC, 3/18/08

Frank Denyer: Woman, Viola, and Crow
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted viola, voice, percussion sounds: Elizabeth Smalt; recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, 3/20/06

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Curran: The Works II
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
A. Curran: all instruments, sounds, tapes; performed, mixed at Sound 80 Studios, Minneapolis, 2/24/80

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