Martian Gardens for 03/13/2011

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for March 13, 2011

SET ONE
Doris Humphrey: Dance Rhythms
Restless, Endless, Tactless: Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo & The Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2/10/10

Ursula Mamlok: Sculpture I
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Garrick Ohlsson; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October, 2007

SET TWO
Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Creshevsky/Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2008
violin samples: M. Kimura

Mari Kimura: Vitessimo for Augmented Violin
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
IRCAM Augmented Violin: M. Kimura; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, engineer: Tom Hamilton

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Roaratorio -- An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
a. Part Three (to Line 594)
b. Part Four (To End)
Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002 (orig. 1992)
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier; voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; text: James Joyce; premiered 10/22/79, West German Radio, Cologne

SINGLE PLAY
Yasunao Tone: Geography and Music
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
voice: John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi; piano: David Tudor; qin (guqin): Martin Kalve; Chinese text reader: Yoshiharu Suenobu; texts extracted from geography sections ancient Chinese encyclopedias; recorded in Lueven, Belgium, 10/20/83 for the dance "Roadrunners" (1979), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET THREE
Larry Austin: Tárogató!
Octo Mixes -- Octophonic Computer Music: 1996-2001
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
soprano saxophone: Stephen Duke: recorded/processed tárogató: Esther Lamneck; computer music composed at gaLarry, Denton, Texas, 1998; tárogató recorded at NYU, 4/29/97; saxophone recorded at DRM, Dallas, 9/07/01

Esther Lamneck/Roberto Fabbriciani: Winds of the Heart, parts 8-11
Winds of the Heart
Innova Recordings/2010
tárogató: E. Lamneck; HyperBass flute: R. Fabbriciani; recorded at Studio Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy, 2008

SET FOUR
David Rosenboom: Prologue
Systems of Judgment--CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 4
CCM: Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, Oakland
Centaur Records/1989
recorded at CCM, 1987-1988

David Rosenboom: Music from--On Being Invisible II
(Hypatia Speaks to Jefferson in a Dream)
a. In the Beginning...Reasoned Mind
b. Evolution with Singular Events
c. Political Assertions
d. The Mathematics of Miscegenation
e. Logan's Speech
f. Philosophical Musings with a Sense of Reminiscing
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30
Music from the Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology,
California Institute of the Arts
Centaur Records/2000
narrator: Sam Ashley; dream voices of Hypatia and TJ: Teri DeSario and Roxanne Merryfield; brainwaves and computer performance: D. Rosenboom; texts: Thomas Jefferson, Cherokee Chief Logan, D. Rosenboom, and material attributed to contemporaries of Hypatia of Alexandria; recorded at CEAIT, October, 1999

SET FIVE
Amy Horvey: Apparatus Inconcinnus (R. Purchase)
Interview
Actullecd.com/2010
trumpet, voice: A. Horvey; text based on an anecdote by Daniil Kharms; recorded at St. Philip's Church and Studio 270, Montreal

Mark Applebaum:
a. Entre Funérailles I
b. Theme in Search of Variations III
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
a. trumpet: Brian McWhorter; recorded at PINK, 2/22/08; b. performed by Beta Collide; recorded at PINK, 3/02/08

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Akea
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
piano: Aki Takahashi; The Jack Quartet; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 6/23/08

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