Martian Gardens for 04/03/2011

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for April 3, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Luciano Berio: O King
The Great Works for Voice
Mode Records/1995
soprano: Christine Schadeberg; flute: Katherine Flanders Mukherji; clarinet: Sheldon Berkowitz; violin: Marshall Coid; cello: Ted Mook; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; conductor: Hayes Biggs; recorded 4/03/95, Sheppard Hall, CCNY

In commemoration of the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee

SET ONE
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring ("Side One")
Volume 2 -- Electronic Works
Mode Records/2004
electronics: M. Subotnick (orig. 1975); digital remastering: Steve Puntilillo, Sonicraft, NJ

Joel Chadabe: Spring
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
electronics: J. Chadabe; percussion: Jan Williams

SET TWO
Michael Thompson: Derailed
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
electronics M. Thompson; recorded at MACCM, 2002

Natasha Barrett: Mobilis in Mobili (from Tradewinds)
Bouteilles de Klein DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
field recordings from oceans, harbors, and the 100-year-old ship The Anne Christina realized at the composer's studio, Oslo, 2006, samples: Storm Weather Shanty Choir; narration: Capt. Jon Varhus of the Anne Christina; title Mobilis in Mobili inspired by Jule's Verne's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

Djalma Farias: Telas Sonoras No. 3
Música Eletroacústica Brasileira, Vol. III #
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica/2004
realized at the composer's studio, Brasilia, cello: Ocello Mendonça

SET THREE
Robert Morris: Rapport -- December 16, 1975, 8 pm (excerpt)
Rapport
The Open Space/2010
synthesizer: R. Morris; tape delay system: David Mott; recorded at Yale Electronic Studio, New Haven, 12/16/75

Jerry Hunt: Transform (Stream): Monopole
Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams
O.O. Discs/1992
voice, device arrays: J. Hunt

SET FOUR
Judy Dunaway: Etude No. 1 for Balloon and Violin
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006
balloon: J. Dunaway; violin: Tom Chiu; recorded at Harsh House, Jersey City, NJ

Aaron Drake: Number 4 from 10 Etudes for Balloon
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

John Cage/David Tudor: Story No. 76 (Henry Cowell's Oriental Music Class)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
voice, text, music: J. Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; recorded at Columbia Teachers College, 1959, by Mel Kaiser

Monks of the Drukpa Order: Nyule Drelwa
Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan, Volume 3
Temple Rituals & Public Ceremonies
Lyrichord/1994 (orig. 1971)
recorded by John Levy at the Nyingmapa Monastery, Kyichu Lhakhang, Paro Valley, Bhutan, 1971

SET FIVE
Laurie Anderson:
a. Cunningham Stories (At the age of twelve...)
b. Cunningham Stories (Every Morning...)
c. Cunningham Stories (The Cunningham Company...)
A Chance Operation -- The John Cage Tribute #
Koch International Classics/1993
music: L. Anderson; texts: J. Cage

John King: longtermparking
Music for Merce boxed set #
New World Records/2010
laptop: J. King; recorded in London, 9/10/02, for the dance "Fluid Canvas" (2002), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SINGLE PLAY
Annie Gosfield: Lightheaded and Heavyhearted
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Tzadik/2004
Flux Quartet; recorded at Avatar Studios, 6/07/04

SINGLE PLAY
Ellen Band/David Lee Myers: Ualen Lagoon (1-3)
Two Ships
Pogus Productions/2005

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