Martian Gardens for 06/26/2011

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for June 26, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Meredith Monk: Summer Variation
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: Katie Geissinger, Bruce Rameker; violin: Todd Reynolds; violin: Courtney Orlando; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; bass clarinet: Bodhan Hilash; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, November, 2009

SET ONE
Todd Reynolds: and the sky was still there (D. T. Little)
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
violin: T. Reynolds; Ableton live programming, production: David T. Little; conversation: Amber Ferenz, D.T. Little; sample: Utah Phillips

Robert Ashley: Ingrid
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd/2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert, R. Ashley; text: J. Humbert; electronics: Tom Hamilton, R. Ashley; recorded in Rome, 1985

Katie McMurran: You and I
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures In Sound Art/2011

Pamela Z: Pop Titles 'You'
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2005

Trevor Wishart: Globalalia (excerpt)
Musicworks 98
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
premiered in Berlin, 2004

SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: The Emperor's Birthday
Ikon and Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
realized at Marshall's studio, Berkeley, 1974-1975

Kurt Schwitters: dritter teil -- scherzo-trio-scherzo
Ursonate
Wergo/1993
poetry written by K. Schwitters 1922-1932; recorded c. 1932

Jackson Mac Low: 38th and 39th Merzgedichte (in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters)
Open Secrets
XI Records/1993
recorded at Kursalon Hübner, Vienna, April 4, 1992

Charles Dodge: He Destroyed Her Image
OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music: 1948-1980
Ellipsis Arts/2000
realized at Bell Labs, 1972

Marcelo Radulovich: Evolution
Mercurio
Titicacaman/2008

SET THREE
Hervé Zénouda: Reflets Fauves
Demain, des l'aube
Trace Label/2002
electric guitar: Thomas Petit; drums, programming: H. Zénouda

Gen Ken Montgomery: Friedhof
Birds+Machines
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at Conrad Schnitzler's studio, Berlin, 1986

Charlie Morrow: Central Park 1850
Toot!
XI Records/2011
sound source: Cornell Ornithological Lab; engineered by C. Morrow in Barton, VT

Charlie Morrow: Feather
Toot!
XI Records/2011
MIDI, samples: C. Morrow; recorded in Barton, VT

Eno/Moebius/Rodelius: Old Land
After the Heat
Caroline Records/1996 (orig. Sky Records/1977)

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: selections from Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer Evening
a. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
b. Wanderer-Fantasy
c. The Advent
d. Myth
Black Angels/Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
pianos: Luz Monriquez, Walter Morales; percussion: Nena Lorenz, Brian Spurgeon, Michael Passaris, Mark Shope; whistles, recorder: Andrés Cladera; conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded at Alumni Concert Hall and Recording Studio, Carnegie Mellon School of Music, autumn 2002

SET FOUR
Maggi Payne: Glassy Metals
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electroacoustic music: M. Payne; Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College

Christine Groult: Pierres cantabiles
La Condition Captive
Trace Label/2007
electroacoustic music: C. Groult; Le Chazel, Paris

SET FIVE
Noah Creshevsky: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
samples: Ellen Band

Hubert Howe: Computer Variations (1967-68)
J K R Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his Friends
The Open Space/2007
realized at Queen's College and Bell Labs

SET SIX
J.C. Combs: The Giant Eye of the 5th Dimension
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded for ImprovFriday

Natasha Barrett:
Avoid Being Eaten by Mimicking Other Less Palatable Species (ABEMOLPAS)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
recorded a the composer's studio, Oslo, 2003-2004

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