Martian Gardens for 05/22/2010

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for May 22, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
NOW Ensemble: Awake (P. Burke)
Awake
New Amsterdam Records/2011
recorded at the Church of the Immaculate Conception; Montclair, NJ, August 2010

SET ONE
Okkyung Lee: Danji
Noisy Love Songs
Tzadik/2011
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; trumpet: Peter Evans; piano: Craig Taborn; percussion, electronics: Satoshi Takeishi; bass: Christopher Tordini; cello: O. Lee; recorded at Eastside Sound, NYC

Jenny Q Chai: from New York Love Songs (V. Jordanova)
a. Prayer
b. Bite
New York Love Songs
ArpaViva Foundation, Inc./2010
piano, amplified piano,jingle bells, vocals: J. Q. Chai; lyrics: Victoria Jordanova

Meredith Monk:
a. Shift
b. Fathom
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
(a) Todd Reynolds Quartet, bass clarinet: Bohdan Hilash, percussion: John Hollenbeck; (b) voice, shruti box: M. Monk; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009

SET TWO
Noah Creshevsky: Drummer
The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971-1992
EM Records/2004

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 2, "March No. I" (for Percussion Quintet)
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Robert J Werner Concert Hall, Cincinnati; 11/06/07

Lou Harrison: Simfony #13
Drums Along the Pacific -- Music by Lou Harrison
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group; recorded at Fantasy Records, Berkeley, August 2002

SET THREE
George Cacioppo: Dream Concert for Organ and Small Percussion Orchestra
Perspectives of New Music/Open Space (François/Cacioppo)
The Open Space/2009
organ: William Albright; percussion: unknown; recorded at "Final Concert" of the International Symposium of Contemporary Organ Music, South Church, New Britain, CT, 6/15/76

George Cacioppo: Bestiary I: Eingang
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
soprano: Janet Pape; Atelier de Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles, conductor: Lionel Arnaud; recorded 3/26/04

SET FOUR
Mike Vernusky: Dallas
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011
Cody Kirk as Clint Hill, Michael Kranes as Arlen Specter, narrator: T. Lynn Mikeska; playwright: Greg Romero

Mike Vernusky: Under (3)
Music for Film and Electro-Theatre
Quiet Design/2009

Vertical Squirrels: Nomads, Sparrows, & Machines
Hold True (Accroche-toi)
Actuellcd.com/2010

SET FIVE
Yves Daoust: About Time
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011

Yves Daoust: Ouverture
Bruits
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
voices: Philippe Lavelette as Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Simon Finn as Lord Durham, Pierre Mollet as Mgr. Joseph-Octave Plessis, Louis Verdy as Robert Nelson, interviewer: Catherine Perrin; realized at the composer's studio, Montreal, 1989

SET SIX
Quartet for the End of Space: Snow Drifts (J. Braasch)
Quartet for the End of Space
Pogus Productions/2011
recorded at the Arts Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., Kingston, NY, 2010

Mary Lee Roberts: Winter Cranes
6 Compositions
The Open Space/1997

Gordon Mumma: Mesa
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
bandoneón: David Tudor; live-electronic cybersonic processing: G. Mumma; recorded in Paris, 11/09/1966

--FIN--