Martian Gardens for 12/12/2010

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Program for December 12, 2010
Extended Edition

SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Luimen
The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Four
Bridge Records/2002
Speculum Musicae -- trumpet: Raymond Mase, trombone: Michael Powell, harp: June Han, mandolin: William Anderson, guitar: David Starobin, vibraphone: Pablo Rieppi, conductor: William Purvis; recorded at Mastersound, NYC September, 2000

In honor of Elliott Carter's 102nd Birthday, December 11th, 2010

Ursula Mamlok: String Quartet No. 1
I. With Intensity
II. Very Rhythmic
III. Still, as if suspended
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume One
Bridge Records/2009
Daedalus Quartet -- first violin: Kyu-Young Kim, second violin: Min-Young Kim, viola: Jessica Thompson, cello: Raman Ramakrishnan; recorded at the Performing Arts Center, Theater C, Purchase, NY, 10/09/07

SET TWO
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Most Holy Mother of God (A. Pärt)
Officium Novum
ECM Records/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold; baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; text: Akathist hymn (trad.); recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Austria, June, 2009

Kitty Brazelton: Bells and Words
Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band, conductor: K. Brazelton; laptop, electronics, voice: K. Brazelton; text: Ecclesiastes 3:9-15; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, New York

Anne LeBaron: Lagniappe -- Hourglass of Stars
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
electronics: Earl Howard, amplified violin: Leroy Jenkins, amplified harp, live electronics: A. LeBaron; recorded at Joe's Pub, NYC, 2004

Alexander Knaifel: In Air Clear and Unseen (IACaU III)
Svete Tikhiy
ECM Records/2003
piano: Oleg Malov; Keller Quartet -- violin: András Keller, violin: János Pilz, viola: Zoltán Gál, cello: Judit Szabó; text: Fyodor Tyutchev

SET THREE
Roger Reynolds: last things, I think, to think about (excerpts)
a. text 8
b. Myrtle
c. Text 9
d. Illustration I
e. Text 10
f. Illustration II
g. Text 11
last things, I think, to think about
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
baritone: Philip Larson; text: John Ashbery; piano: Aleck Karis; music: R. Reynolds; recorded at Warren Studios, Department of Music, UC San Diego

Revolutionary Ensemble: Improvisation I
Beyond the Boundary of Time
Mutable Music/2008
violin: Leroy Jenkins, bass: Sirone, percussion, reeds, electronics: Jerome Cooper; recorded in concert, Warsaw, Poland, 5/25/05

Bob Gluck: Interlude
Electric Songs--Live Performances 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
saz, electronics, B. Gluck

Robert Ashley:
a. The Old Man Lives in Concrete
b. O Mesopotamia
Concrete
Lovely Music/2008
voices: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara; electronics, processing: Tom Hamilton

SET FOUR
Anna Rubin: Shards of Sappho
Sounding Out! #
Everglade Records/2010

Linda Montano: Portrait of Sappho
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
voice, electronics, piano, text: L. Montano; recorded in Austin, November, 1997

Eve Beglarian: My Heart is Trembling
60 x 60 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Eve Beglarian: Robin Redbreast
Tell The Birds
New World Records/2006
voice: Corey Dargel, piccolo: Margaret Lancaster; text: Stanley Kunitz; recorded at Brooklyn Recording, July, 2005

SET FIVE
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformation
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
cricket song and environmental sounds recorded in the "Zone of Silence" in the desert of Northern Mexico; completed at Westerkamp's Studio, Vancouver, BC, 1987

slub: Phone_Mr_Biskov
Why Record? Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 18, curated by Click Nilson
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
computers, electronics: Dave Griffiths, Alex McLean

Christian Marclay: His Master's Voice (excerpt)
Records
Atavistic Records/1997
recorded at The Kitchen, NYC, 1982

Dean Rosenthal: Life Is What Happens
recorded by D. Rosenthal, Florence, MA, 2010

Colin Newman: Blue Jay Way (G. Harrison)
provisionally entitled the singing fish/not to
4AD-Restless/1992 (orig. 1981-1982)

SET SIX
Margaret Leng Tan: An American in Buenos Aires (A Blues Tango)(T. Twining)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY, January, 2010

Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe: Cherry Cheesecake
The Carbon Copy Building -- A Comic-Strip Opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
text: Ben Katchor; music director: Martin Goldray; vocals: Toby Twining, Katie Geissinger ; electric guitar: John Benthal; percussion: David Cossin; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; keyboards: Martin Goldray

Phil Kline: Angels of Avenue A
Unsilent Night
Cantaloupe Music/2002
recorded by Bradford Reed, various locations in New York City, May 2001

Phil Kline: Wondrous Love (W. Walker)
John the Revelator -- A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
preformed by ETHEL and Lionheart; recorded at the Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August, 2007

Severed Heads: Wonder of All the World
Cuisine with Piscatorial
Nettwork-Volition/1991
recorded at dB Productions, Australia, 1988

SET SEVEN
Amy Horvey: This one and that one side by side
Catchment
Amy Horvey/2010
recorded at Paved Arts, Saskatoon

David Behrman: View Finder
Unforeseen Events
XI Records/1991
mutantrumpet: Ben Neill

Daniel Toussaint: La Chasse au Pougablunk Boumeu
Miniatures Concrètes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

SET EIGHT
Richard Maxfield: Bacchanale
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
narration, text: Edward Fields; violin: Fahrad Machkat, Robert Block: prepared violin: saxophone: Terry Jennings; underwater clarinet: Nicholas Roussakis; original music recorded at the Five Spot, Manhattan, circa 1962

James Tenney: Instrumental Responses (with Ergodos II)
Melody, Ergodicity, and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
The Barton Workshop; recorded in Amsterdam, winter, 2007

Dimitri Voudoris: ΑΛΘ=Φ (excerpt)
ΑΛΘ=Φ/UVIVI/1:ΘΦ4/ΟΝΤΑ
Pogus Productions/2010
computer music for live performance

--FIN--